First or Third person? Options

[Renee]

Which do you prefer, First or Third person? I am mostly a 3rd person gamer for Bethesda titles. I'll switch to 1st occasionally, I'll do this while decorating or looking for something which is lost, for instance.

But here's the real reason I started this thread. I have this whacked-out theory, I wonder if there's any truth to it. For those who have played table games, especially long ago. There were two basic ways to approach table games.

-- 1). play-act everything, essentially you'd 'voice' your character.
-- 2). use lead figurines, such as these.

We used figurines around our table, back in the '80s. We'd see our characters at all times, just like seeing pieces on a Monopoly board. I think this has something to do with my preference for 3rd person. I wonder if anybody here was more of a play-acting type, and prefers 1st. Probably not, but I had to wonder aloud.

Thank you

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

I have to say, it's a relief to to post as myself, not as a representative of Bethesda Softworks LLC. I was reprimanded a few times early on in my moderating career for a few of the things I posted. After 15 years of posting on Beth's forums as "just some guy on the internet" it was a difficult transition to remember that I was now one of the public faces of an organization. But eventually it became second nature to consider everything I wrote very carefully to ensure that Bethesda would not object. hen I post here I feel like an athlete who has taken off his training weights and can now run unimpeded.

I also have to say that is a great relief not to receive PMs, posts, and even whole threads attacking me. Some people go ballistic when you move a thread, or edit a post or thread. They mistakenly believe that they "own" that content and that you have no business tampering with it. I have been called just about every name in the book over these past five years. I have been called a fascist, a clown, an idiot. I have been called a drone, a shill, a tool of corporate power. I have had my ancestry, my intelligence and my sexual orientation repeatedly called into question. So far, that has not happened either here or at AFK Mods, thank the gods.

Too bad you're not moderating anymore. You could be steering this thread back to the topic it is supposed to be on.

It's astoundingly pathetic how incredibly sensitive capital-G gamers are. I don't know how they can have any social interactions with the way they behave on forums, and it is funny how often their insults that are hurled at you are perfect descriptions of them. It is simultaneously hilarious and infuriating. These are the kinds of people that gamers as a whole get painted as by ignorant people outside of the hobby. They should be ashamed of their behavior, but "shame" or "responsibility" or "self-awareness" are in their vocabulary.

I am real surprised people attacked you @Pseron Wyrd. As I felt you were the best perfectly lenient and tastefully strict moderator I ever seen !

Lol, you should never be surprised. This is the Internet, and gamers on the Internet in particular. People who attack others for anything and everything. These are the same kinds of people who truly believe they are a superior person because of their gaming preferences, people whose whole identities are tied up in video games to the point that they actually feel threatened even by people who are only expressing different tastes instead of being elitists on the Internet themselves (though there are certainly elitists among them). They're almost as bad--sometimes even WORSE--than armchair political scientists babbling on social media and perpetuating their echo chamber's point of view.

This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: May 28 2021, 10:56 PM