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    Third Person DX8, First DX9, Which DX10?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Romanian, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. Romanian

    Romanian Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey all, this is just an observation I made.

    Most of the DX8 [shooting] games (Alice, The Suffering: TDB, Freedom Fighters) are in third-person mode. A lot which require DX9 are in first person (F.E.A.R., Doom III, Far Cry). I've noticed that there's Extreme Planet (third person) and also Crysis (first person) out for DX10.

    Is my observation about DX8/9 correct, or is it so because I've only had a small sampling of games? And what do you think the majority of DX10 will be?
     
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  2. Joga

    Joga Notebook Evangelist

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    Naw, it's just coincidence. Whether a game is third person or first person is totally up to the developer's preference for the gameplay.
     
    Joga, Jul 17, 2007
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  3. StormEffect

    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    It was more of an atmosphere shift I think. Developers decided to get back to what they started back with Doom and the original Half-Life. Technology had jumped just far enough that cinema style experiences could be pulled off. I think the third person thing in DX8 was more of a shift in creativity for a period.
     
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  4. HavoK

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    That's a bad observation, your own one but definitely not a correct one. There are loads of fantastic DX8 FPS titles....Castle Wolfenstein and Soldier of Fortune 2 just to name 2 of the best...DirectX is a continuous progression, and not something that any release is more suited to any one genre...you'll find tons of both games in any particular timeframe.
     
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  5. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    right now you have games coming out like gears of war and rainbow six vegas that are hybrid first person / third person, and it works surprisingly well.

    splinter cell games are third person. they rock. they require not only dx9, but pixel shader model 3.0

    dx 10 games like crysis and ut3 are going to be first person affairs.

    future tom clancy line games are likely to continue to develop the first/third person idea (which works surpringly well in practice, i thought it would be weird) although they are almost certainly going to pick up dx 10 shader paths.

    in conclusion, first vs third person is entirely up to the developer of the game, unrelated to recent dx shader path support.
     
    masterchef341, Jul 17, 2007
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