Guild Wars 2

I actually believe a first person camera would help alleviate my biggest gripe with the game – dungeon grave yard zerging. It’s somewhat of a trickle effect, so it might seem like a slight leap in logic, but I’ll try to make sense here.

My biggest gripe is that in several dungeons you can and often will be one shot and killed. Not one shot and near death and limping, not one shot and downed, but straight one shot head to the nearest rezz point.
But Nuki, you can avoid that if you’re paying attention to <whatever boss your fighting> animations and evade when he goes to do his super one shot move.

True, I wont deny that I’m getting older, my reflexes just a tad slower and many of them comes from not evading in a timely manner. However just as many comes from the fact that I’m playing in a third person camera that likes to do whatever the heck it wants to. If for any reason, my camera turns and bumps a wall, I’m scrambling to get my perspective right again so that I can pay attention to that uber power shot, in the hopes I might dodge in time.

The answer, a first person camera. We’re all used to mouse look by now, and are capable of keeping our “eyes” trained on where we want to see. Much easier to keep Mr. Man in sight, so you can see when he twitches his right right finger along with raising his eyebrow to signal his about to suck you in and kill you.

Now, another option would be to take a NWN approach, and have the walls drop when they interfere with the camera, rather than treating them as hard surfaces that the camera cant breach.

Of course, this post kind of kills two birds with one stone, but we’re not here to discuss how horrible a design flaw it is, that your very first dungeon, and most afterwards end up being a war attrition when fighting bosses.