Originally posted by Lee23:

i haven't tried 1st person but I'd assume would change the experience quite a bit. might even make it scarier, since you're seeing through the eyes of the player and not a camera

Yes this is the point. Immersion in a game is the most important aspect to me, alongside the basic mechanics.

Originally posted by Lee23:

. as a game designer myself i've read into entire lessons about when to choose 1st person vs 3rd person, the difference is more than you'd think. for games where you have to see your own movement, 3rd person is very much preferred.

I strongly disagree with this. Games like Mirrors Edge and Dying Light have complex environments and movement mechanics and work great in 1st person. Doom Eternal also.. even has a dodge move and wouldn't be half as good in 3rd person. Mordhau and Chivalry
have complex 1st person melee combat that works brilliantly. Basically there has never been a fully 3D 3rd person game that I wouldn't have preferred if it was in 1st person and I have avoided many games because of this.

Originally posted by Lee23:

the 3rd person camera works and controls near perfectly, I don't really see why they'd consider changing it

I am not asking them to change it. I would like an additional option to play in 1st person. Before I made this thread I searched this forum for threads including "first person" and found many requests from people asking for it to be added. The largest thread had overwhelming support for the idea, and so I wondered if the Devs had made any response to this request. So the reason they might consider adding it would be to please a large section of their playerbase and to not alienate players like myself who wouldn't even consider a purchase without being able to play in 1st person.

But thanks for being the only reply to address the topic.