SirAndy wrote: »

1st person + nVidia 3D glasses = AWESOME

Seriously, the game looks awesome in 3D but it really shines when you run in 3D and 1st person.
Some of the dungeons are spectacular!


PS: I do run a mod that allows me to disable the cross-hair as it is rendered in the 2D UI plane and looks completely out of place in 3D.

Do they actually work? Always wondered what it would be like, especially now that I got a new ultrawide high quality monitor.

Danikat wrote: »

98% of the time I'm in 3rd person.

I'll occasionally go into 1st person if I'm trying to do something where my character is in the way, like loot containers inside one of those small tents or place small decorations in a house, but other than that I stick to 3rd person.

Which is odd because in other TES games I usually go into 1st person in any enclosed space (especially caves) or for combat because I find it easier.

Used to be an exclusive 3rd person player until a few years ago, switching more and more to 1st since. It fews closer and more dangerous.

Sometimes the screaming and the look of some imps sends chills through the spine.

This feeling increases with enclosed locations i.e. catacombs, Ayleid temples and dungeons. Not so much with caves, they don't look very good IMO. Now while walking outside, looking around as much as you can, hearing your footsteps, the birds and the rivers, distant roars of waves, imagining the loneliness of really walking the beaches of Khenarti's Roost at that given moment, or the cold of Wayrest walls... there are astonishing towns and groves to take a walk. You'll probably go crazy with those VR sets. Works great with scenery screenshots.

3rd person is the way to give a more cinematic feeling to the character, like a big journey you're following or a moment of dramatic exploration with emotes and more freedom to the camera. The impersonation of the character builds a feeling like a movie being directed by the player and are better for theatrical screenshots.

First person when I need a better view while furnishing my house, for anything else, third person.

Stop ruining my imershion

First persion for immersion, quests and such
Third person for PvP and combat and overall it has been made better than I expected. Still, first person fighting sometimes feels so amazing.

If we didn't have 3rd person I wouldn't be playing ESO at all ...... why would anyone play in 1st person mode? you can't see what's going on around you to stay alive for very long LOL

when I want to play immersively and zone out I go into first person, gives you a better prespective of the game world too. Not in terms of clarity but visual quality.

Ive also been known to occasionally tank certain vTrial bosses in first person.

But I mostly play in third because it just gives you a better view of your surroundings. I will never go in first person into VMA and do it like that, its just insane.

does anyone actually do end-game content (PvP, Trials, vet dungeons, vMA) in 1st person? You gimp yourself SOOOOOOO much by not being able to see your surroundings that I can not see anyone that is competitive playing in 1st person.

Zuboko wrote: »

I was curious to see the split and maybe hear your reasons why?

Almost always 3rd person for questing and pvp, but there are times I like to do 1st person.

Well here are 3 reasons I use first person:
1. Houses Decorations- Use V to go first person, B I rebinded (robound? lol) to switch to walk/run, and then ctrl to sneak and go even slower when decorating, so I don't fall off ledges so often!
2. Screenshots! I have PgDown binded to hide UI so I can screenshot and sometimes I like to do this in first person for the scenery or to look at something funny or interesting.
3. Sometimes while question I use first person- I started this recently for the DLC I just recently resumed the dark brotherhood. Before when I played I would rush through everything skipping most dialogues, but more recently been taking time to enjoy each moment, and experience scenery, dialogue, and even tried a bit of combat like this.

Because I don't spend ages creating a character to then not see them.

In TES games I usually switch to first person for combat, so I can see what I'm fighting, but I don't do that in ESO due to the over-the-shoulder camera position.

I tend to stay in 1st person when I've overworld. When I'm in dungeons / trials on my main, which is a tank, I'm mostly in 3rd person so that I get better field of view and can see the floor (to know when to dodge-roll out of the red, of course), but often flip back to 1st person when I'm face-tanking a boss. I find that that gives me a better view of what I'm doing when I'm six inches from the boss's belly.

I have a hard time of keeping track of mops during combat in 1st person

Third person, but I occasionally switch to first if I'm trying to target an object.

I play in first person probably 90% of the time, I play in 3rd person the following situations:
PvP
Group Dungeons / world bosses
Farming Nodes - so I can see if anyone is nearby going for the same nodes or not.

I don't do any of these activities regularly though.