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| rdfs:label | - First Person Perspective
- First person perspective
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| rdfs:comment | - When the player zooms in all the way, the character itself is no longer visible; it is as if the camera was located inside the characters head, giving the in-game perspective of that character. In literature, a story told from a character's point of view is called first-person narrative (after the grammatical first person, the word "I" employed in such a narrative); the first person perspective in games has been named as an analogy. It is most commonly identified with shooting games (fps=first person shooter) because these were the first types of games to use a 3D model of the game world that made this perspective possible.
- When the action is viewed through the eyes of one character, this trope applies. It's most commonly used in literature as a narrative technique and in video games a genre. It is noticeable and notable when it appears outside of those two areas, especially in movie and film where it's relatively rare to see anything directly from a characters perspective, rarer still for it to be maintained throughout. It was a major breakthrough in art when this was subverted and perspectives that no human could reasonably have started to be used in painting, such as a birds eye view. Example Tropes: Examples:
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| abstract | - When the action is viewed through the eyes of one character, this trope applies. It's most commonly used in literature as a narrative technique and in video games a genre. It is noticeable and notable when it appears outside of those two areas, especially in movie and film where it's relatively rare to see anything directly from a characters perspective, rarer still for it to be maintained throughout. It was a major breakthrough in art when this was subverted and perspectives that no human could reasonably have started to be used in painting, such as a birds eye view. First Person POV, especially when accompanied by first person narration unintentionally functions as a Spoiler Opening. Subconciously, the reader assumes with good reason, that no matter what happens during the story, the viewpoint character must survive the events in order to be in a position to tell the tale. Sibling trope of Second Person Narration. Example Tropes:
* The All-Concealing "I"
* All First Person Narrators Write Like Novelists
* Captain's Log
* Diary
* First-Person Shooter
* First Person Ghost
* Freelook Button
* First-Person Peripheral Narrator
* First-Person Smartass
* Point of View
* Private Eye Monologue Examples:
* In the Doom movie there's a sequence shot in first person meant to reflect its First-Person Shooter roots.
* In later seasons Numb3rs used gun barrel perspective as the FBI agents performed operations intercut with more regular footage.
- When the player zooms in all the way, the character itself is no longer visible; it is as if the camera was located inside the characters head, giving the in-game perspective of that character. In literature, a story told from a character's point of view is called first-person narrative (after the grammatical first person, the word "I" employed in such a narrative); the first person perspective in games has been named as an analogy. It is most commonly identified with shooting games (fps=first person shooter) because these were the first types of games to use a 3D model of the game world that made this perspective possible. Tactically, the first person perspective is often inferior because it does not allow the player to see the surroundings of his character in all directions, but there is no better perspective to admire the beauty of the scenery. Tip: use Ctrl-H to turn the interface off and on.
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