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Have you increased the FOV/disabled the motion blur? Those are usually the two biggest factors affecting me. Read more

I didn’t ‘buy’ the consumables in the sense that I used the cash shop, they were included with my original purchase of the game. Read more

True, but I figured I’d just avoid that problem entirely. Read more

Because second person is not physically possible through cameras. Read more

no, sicenc has spoken, everything is best in first person Read more

Yeah, and all of that is great gameplay, which is why the Pokemon games are better than the Digimon games. Digimon just has the better story. My entire point was that Digimon games kinda suck because of that story element. Read more

Okay, most of my comments are jokes, but for you: Read more

If I were the President of Earth, I would order that all games be made exclusively in first person. Read more

I think people are more aware of what Overwatch’s characters can do, so it’s easier to understand an enemy AI that uses that same moveset than it is for me to bring up a pre-existing enemy AI that players might have faced without knowing that enemy’s moveset. Read more

Thief is the best stealth game ever because it has the best sense of place in games. It has wonderful spatial awareness. If you are struggling to place yourself in space, that’s your problem, not the genre’s. You should be able to position yourself in space based entirely on visual cues in a first-person game. Read more

More appropriately, I think, some people think that horror is the only part that matter, so they create horror (which includes jump scares) without proper buildup. Kinda like stuff that uses gore (also horror) without having any good terror to build it up. Read more

Okay, so, if this wasn’t a joke post (see the tags), the real answer here would be that I play games for immersion—to escape my broken body so I can be someone else. The fewer barriers to my ability to immerse myself within the role, the better. I just connect better with first-person video games. Read more