• qevlarr@lemmy.world
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Have the repost bots arrived on Lemmy? I’m sure I’ve seen this question on Reddit before and also on Lemmy.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    If first person shooter is when you shoot the second guy, and 3rd person shooter is when you look at the shooter shooting the second guy, then 2nd person shooter would be you getting shot by the first guy. So uhh maybe you control the first guy but see through the second guy.

    Actually i remember some short indie game based on this.

    • Curiousfur@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      ScreenCheat. Someone else posted a link above, bit I used to play it with friends. You play by viewing other players screens.

    • Pechente@feddit.org
      4·
      2 days ago

      Actually i remember some short indie game based on this.

      Sounds like a fun idea for a game jam or something

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I think it might be a result of a gamejam? I can’t remember but i remember how unique that sound, but i can’t find that one i saw though. I googled a bit and it seems a lot of indie dev attempt on this idea.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Can’t seems to find it now, but there’s a lot of attempt on this idea though, so we might actually saw a different game. I remember seeing it in early or mid 2010s.

        • Zerot@fedia.io
          1·
          2 days ago

          I also remember something like it around that time. There were definitely a few YouTubers playing it against eachother. Iirc you could see all the other player viewpoints, but not your own.

      • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Screencheat on steam 4 players everyone’s invisible and the only way to see what’s happening is look at other players screen

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      11·
      2 days ago

      2nd person is watching your character from the viewpoint of someone else.

      3rd person is when you see your character from the viewpoint of someone who doesn’t exist.

      Mario 64 is played through the viewpoint of a guy in a cloud with a camera. Which makes it 2nd person.

      If the character wasn’t there it would be third person (like the side scrolling Mario games)

  • paultimate14@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    I don’t know if any whole games, but a lot of games have boss battles or segments that are in 2nd person. Where the perspective is from the target, and you can see the character you are controlling through their eyes.

    Off the top of my head, this boss fight from Ratchet and Clank 3 comes to mind.

    It’s hard to do this for extended periods for a few reasons. Part of why this is reduced to boss fights so that if you have sections with dozens of enemies, whose perspective do you take? What happens when that enemy dies, or if that enemy needs to suck under cover or go down a stairwell or look down at their weapon to reload?

    Even for boss fights, it only works if the boss’s behavior is controlled pretty strictly, like in that Ratchet and Clank example.

    You could kind of make an argument about sections where you view your character through some sort of diagetic device, like a security camera. Technically you could count Lakitu from several Mario games in that sense.

    Talking about this is giving me ideas though, especially for stealth games. Something that lets you see through the enemy’s eyes and make sure that you do NOT appear in their line of site could be really neat. Maybe.

  • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    There’s that Shredder fight in TMNT Turtles in Time where you’re throwing foot soldiers at the screen. Also that first boss in Battletoads.

  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    Screencheaters on steam. It’s 4 player split screen but you’re supposed to watch other players screen while playing because you’re invisible or something like tha