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Aeszarck11 votes

Now show me a second person shooter.

Glory ln Death21 votes

That would be you controlling your character while viewing the world through the eyes of your victims. It would be difficult to play. And potentially a bit disturbing.

Tormentula22 votes

Its shit like this that could've saved the wii u.

Somebody get on it.

Beas7ie6 votes

It wouldn't have to be the victims. It could be any other party, like a bystander or even an ally.

New COD concept. 2nd person shooter. You have first person view, but it's from the view of a squadmate and the story is him telling about the adventures of him and his buddy.

Glory ln Death1 votes

It would be so hard to control the main character, though. Really interesting concept, but super hard to make it work well.

Dr Poro1 votes

A bystander makes it 3rd person though. What we call third person is basically a floating bystander or drone following you. 2nd person litterally has to be your opponent. In a fight, it's me vs you and then there's him/her/them.

Beas7ie1 votes

I'm not sure. I'm just basing this off of other media like books or stories here so maybe this is off. But the way I remember it is that first person is through the eyes or in stories words of the main character. In games it would be like FPS or in books it would be the main character tell about his or her adventures and you also see only his or her private thoughts. Good example is Uhtred of Bebbanburg in the Saxon Chronicles(awesome series you need to go and read it all like right now).

Third person is in games like the "drone view" or in some cases the "over the shoulder". But you can see your character and have actual peripheral vision. In most books it's just telling about the adventures of the main characters and usually includes their private thoughts as well.

To the best of my knowledge, in stories and books, second person is someone telling about the adventures of the main character like maybe someone telling about the adventures of his buddy who's the mighty hero adventurer and all the dragons he slew.

In games it would be controlling a character through the eyes of another character. An enemy is certainly a good example but it could also possibly be any other bystander, squadmate, or ally.

Not entirely sure though, as we would need some kind of "person view" or whatever expert to come and clear things up.

Anyways, this is all probably moot as I don't really see anyone trying to go all out in making a "second person" game.

And now I feel kind of like a dumbass for taking the time to think through this and type it all out.

Glory ln Death1 votes

Oh, gosh...

How would you aim?!? What would you do if you were in a super tense fight, and your buddy suddenly looked somewhere else?!? What if you got stuck on some debris and he wouldn't look at you?!?

This is starting to sound really funny, but also really infuriating...

Golden Tager X2 votes

Actually a game like that would instead be first person peripheral.

SpecterVonBaren2 votes

There is actually kinda a game like that already that's called Siren.

Glory ln Death2 votes

Hmmm. Is it any good? It seems like a hard mechanic to pull off well.

Itsbeghdev1 votes

According to Wikipedia at least, the second-person mechanic isn't permanent and also stops you from moving while you use it, plus it's more of a stealth game than a shooter.

SpecterVonBaren2 votes

Yes, that's why I said it's kinda a game like that. It's the closest to what he described that I've seen at least. Might be an interesting idea for a game, having it so you have no access to a camera directly on your character, though it would likely need to be more puzzle and/or stealth based.

Dr Poro2 votes

On PS2 / Xbox when you play split screen and watch the screen of your friend as he zooms in on you. Hilarious moments when you'd suddenly see the other player do random moves, run into walls because he's using your screen to dodge.

Glory ln Death1 votes

That'd be a pretty interesting "game mode" for those kinds of games. You and your friend sit on the wrong sides of the screen and put up a divider so you can't see your character's perspective and see who wins. It would have to be a small, open map, though.

TyrekGoldenspear6 votes

A second person shooter would be to watch somebody else shooting up people.

Basically an action film.

SpecterVonBaren1 votes

Technically I think ALL video-games count as 2nd person since every game involves you dictating to whatever you are controlling in game how it will proceed with its actions.

Tattersall1 votes

Wouldn't it be a first person shooter, but the main character is actually you? Like, everyone calls you by your name instead of some character's name.

Catastrophic2 votes

Actually, whenever you die in COD and it shows you how the scrub killed you, that's a 2nd person shooter :D

50000000000000001 votes

http://www.kongregate.com/games/himojii/second-person-shooter-zato I don't know if I'd call it a good game, but it's a good proof-of-concept.

Hoox0rz1 votes

JFK

Velzard of Koz9 votes

This joke gave me avian flu. I think it flew over my head. I mean, I don't think the flu flew over my head, the joke did. Have a nice travels and don't forget to peck in with us from time to time.

Heretic Lunari2 votes

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This joke gave me avian flu. I think it flew over my head. I mean, I don't think the flu flew over my head, the joke did.

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Have a nice travels and don't forget to peck in with us from time to time.

Thanks! Hopefully I will

Skins Project2 votes

dud..

peck in

Heretic Lunari1 votes

What? Am I misunderstanding something?

Skins Project2 votes

peck

TyrekGoldenspear8 votes

Azir Approves

TheSequelsRBad1 votes

I honestly don't know why I laughed at this...

Heretic Lunari2 votes

[slayer-jinx-wink]

Glory ln Death1 votes

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Me shooting a bird person?

Heretic Lunari1 votes

You could always shoot those birds in the jungle.

Fancyanceypants4 votes

Nonsense. Azir is autoing Kat, so the caption SHOULD read "Bird person shoot her"

Shahamut1 votes

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Rikari2 votes

actually its like first person view of shooter third person view of shooter so bird person view of shooter since the bird person is shooting,its right

Glory ln Death1 votes

Come on, man! I just want to see Azir get shot!

rtbf2256182411 votes

You're not LF.

PS:I don't think it counts as stealing if people haven't seen it before.

Bârd1 votes

If they made a Battlecast Azir skin, would it be a Pheonix-Person shooter?

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