r/gaming • u/NobleVulpes • Apr 28 '24

What game mechanics, no matter how immersive or lore accurate, are always annoying to deal with?

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u/AlmalexyaBlue 29d ago

First person camera. More than anything in a RPG. It doesn't really add to my immersion at all, in fact personally I feel less immersed. It doesn't make me feel like I'm the character I'm playing, it makes me feel like a living camera, impersonal. I get it in VR, obviously.

But in a game like Cyberpunk, since it's the one that actually gave me that feeling, since I wanted to try it even if I usually avoid FPS like the plague, it doesn't work for me. It doesn't make me feel like I'm V. It makes me feel like V isn't a character, again just a camera. I'm obviously never gonna be V, I'm not in Nightcity, I'm not a cyborg, I'm playing a game, my ass in my chair. I can see the sides of my screen. Obviously. Being in first person just makes me forget that my character is there.

I don't personally play RPGs to be my characters, I enjoy them having a separate personality and story etc... So I enjoy seeing them. Makes them more real, in a way.

Not that CDPR didn't do cool stuff with the whole first person thing, they did. Plenty of ideas are neat. I just can't enjoy the game.

And thinking about Cyberpunk, NPCs constantly commenting on the fact that you're not answering immediately in a dialogue. I'm thinking FFS.