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I'm looking forward to the third-person view. Stuff like MDK/MDK2 is new and a refreshing take on how they handle the third-person perspective. I am really looking forward to Oni and Halo as fast paced 3rd person shooters. Games like Tomb Raider didn't quite do justice to the third person thing, but whatever. If it feels like a 1st person shooter and is in 3rd person -that = cool.

Dopeman
(MDK2 R0x my world)

But the sniper rifle! But the little jeep! How will we? How will players? Fairness! Auto-aiming! Budget! Panic!

Dear God. These people may be developing the game, but it is NOT their place to decide which perspective is more "enjoyable" in whatever situation and to force it down the player's throat. This sort of visionless micromanagement of the experiece is what gave us Omikron.

Can you imagine how arrogant it would be of Dynamix to introduce forced perspective into the next Tribes version? "Well, sorry, but we decided that it is MORE ENJOYABLE to fly the vehicles in third person perspective, so you will be doing that from now on." We would not tolerate it. Yet here you people are embracing the exact same control-freak attitude from Bungie and hiding behind vague, evasive implications that for the first time in the history of the world one perspective or the other might be impossible to implement, or could be totally incompatible with the gameplay and yet chosen by players anyway.

It's a cop-out. The simple fact of the matter is that Bungie will implement both modes and make the use of either mode entirely voluntary, or they will suffer the consequences by properly losing a great number of customers.

Frankly, after killing Oni's multiplayer mode entirely in favor of a fall PS2 release, they deserve to lose those customers.

einexile

"basic issues (such as the perspective) are rearing their heads."

This is a major issue. Didn't you just read the RUNE dev. diary about what a pain in the ass it was to switch between first and third perspective?

Multiplayer first and then single? That's an odd approach for game design.. not engine design of course, (you claim the year and a half engine work is 'done') Don't expect this game to be out by Dec. 2001.-- I'd say middle 2002.

I'll wait to see what they are doing with GAMEPLAY before I get all hot and bothered by the game. It doesn't even look like gameplay has factored in to the game yet.

More reasons the future looks bright:
Neverwinter Nights
Warcraft 3 (if you're a war/star craft player i guess, although i might check it out)
Dark Reign 2

Ground Control.... oh wait! it's already out! Go buy it, this game OWNS! :)

I'll wait until I've played a demo before I comment on anything other than the fact that it sure looks nice...

BH

There's no smoke and mirrors. Their effort over the last year and a half has been the engine. Period. They're into the multiplayer game now where basic issues (such as the perspective) are rearing their heads. Once the multiplayer game is solid, then they'll go onto the single player game. They've got lots of time, its not like we're going to see this game before March of 2001.

hahaha that made me laugh for a while....good one =)

spoo

Make players have the option for first person perspective, but...

... in 3rd person you have to have some sort of auto-aiming to make the game fun, IE MDK2. Make the 1st person users aim without the auto-aim.

It's not so hard folks.

Boogieman

GIVE ME THE GOD DAMN HL 1.1 TFC 1.5 AND CS 6.5 NOW!

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Poo.

My point is: in game design, you generally think these things out in the beginning.

Don't let 'awesome graphics' dazzle you just yet. People are quickly becoming sold just by a couple videos.

So, let me get this straight.. They have been hyping the game for this long, showing movies etc, and they still do not have basic gameplay decided?

Smoke and mirrors, people.

Why dont they just make it optional like tribes?

HoWSeR

Moo.

ya, 1st person for running around, 3rd for driving/flying

easy

See, and if I hadn't mentioned this no one would have remembered.

Boogieman

I'm wondering where the ****ing patch is too...