Tell me how you play computer games

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1826802]

Today's poll suggestion is courtesy of bracknellexile who will no doubt be mining the data to see if his thesis is correct.

Edit: Please take a look at bracknellexile's comment further down, as he'd really appreciate your replies!

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have a favorite POV, but if I did, it might not fit neatly into any of the categories you suggest. Lemmings, for instance, is arguably 'third person' except that you are not following any of the particular lemming-creatures, you're deploying them. So is that really first person? Only, there's not really anything in the game to indicate that you, as a player, are 'in' the game. Sim City doesn't have characters at all except in aggregates, though I guess you would call it top down. I think your categories particularly fall apart with what you're calling "abstract" because lots of games aren't abstract at all, they are clearly representational of something: tiles, cards, tumbling solids, et cetera, they just don't have any anthropomorphic *characters* in them at all.