First Person vs Third person (POV)

Being someone who have been playing games for so long, I’ve played first person view or third person view, Each of them have their own advantages over the other.

In which First Person granting a more immersive game-play and makes the player feel more like they are the character in the game. But as far as a First person game could immerse the player into role-playing it, the player isn’t actually role-playing as a character in the game, but they are more engaged with everything else in the game world. From this perspective, we can’t say that the character exist in the first place, but it’s being used just a vessel for the player to do what they want in the game. So in other word the player is just playing as himself, not as the character in the game.

But Third Person on the other hand gives the player the ability to look at the character when playing the game, hence a constant reminder that the player is playing as someone else not as himself, and give the player a role-play experience of being someone else, a marine, spy, etc.

“The first-person character is never you but merely a make-believe character you are improvising as you go. In third-person games, that character is deeper for a number of reasons in a number of ways, which makes inhabiting their lives a more compelling experience for me.” - Adam Ruch