What's your favorite 3rd person games (no 1st person)?

Dick Justice@lemmy.world to PC Gaming@kbin.social – 32 points –

3rd person perspective is my favorite way to play. what are some of your favorite third person games?

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The Witcher 3

I second this, greatest rendition of a fantasy story ever told in a video game IMO. Everything just comes together so well and creates a wonderfully integrated world.

Monster Hunter

Same. Need to go back and finish Monster Hunter World, then the expansion pack. Going through Fallout New Vegas one more time to finish Lonesome Road, which is the one piece of content I didn't finish back when it first came out.

If you like Nintendo games:
Splatoon 3
Botw/totk
Mario odyssey

All of which are stellar games and all are in third person (mostly)

I just stated another play though of Shadow of Mordor.

It's a very uncreative answer, but Elden Ring is the biggest thing in my mind right now. A friend and I just finished a Seamless Co-op playthrough, I've got a couple different builds I'm also playing. I've hit a couple hundred hours. I just love the exploration, the setting, the art design, the way items contribute to build ideas, the boss design, the feeling of growth against adversity.

The method of story delivery is also something that appeals to me. It's carefully crafted, rich in lore and meaning, but it doesn't care if you see it. It's prompting you to pay attention and explore, you don't just play between cut-scenes.

Also Grim Dawn. Almost 1500 hours. I need help.

Dark Souls 3 is my favourite third person game thanks to fashion souls.

The best freedom was realizing the armor wasn't doing that much to help me and it was just more fun to figure out the silliest outfit to kill bosses in.

Well Sleeping Dog definitely ranks up there, since after playing GTA games in American cities all the time getting to play in Hong Kong was refreshing. Getting to see vendors to buy pork buns from, driving on the left side of the road, and the melee combat was fun compared to always just shooting my way out of things.

Factorio. I love this game. Land on a planet all alone as the lone survivor, harvest raw materials, kill endless hordes of bugs and built a mega factory that pollutes the land to accomplish your one goal. To build a rocket and send it to outer space.

I work in green energy and this game is so cathartic for me. Sometimes you just wanna have fun burning an entire world down. You can do that too, they have flamethrowers and the trees are ignitable.

Came here with the intention of mentioning Factorio as well. What really makes it next level, though, is the modding community and support for it. IMO the vanilla endgame is pretty quick, you can actually burn through the game with very limited resources and using very little space -- and then you have modpacks like SeaBlock, which make complex machinery an absolute must, and make even basic stuff like power generation a proper challenge, to the point that a single playthrough will ultimately be at least a hundred hours.

What Wube have created with that game is nothing short of marvellous.

To be honest, I've never modded the game. I've always just played vanilla. When I beat the map I just up the difficulty. I'm doing a Deathworld Marathon and it's going... well let's call it okay...

Once I wrap this up I'll look into SeaBlock. That sounds like a lot of fun.

Ah, honestly, I wouldn't recommend starting with SeaBlock. Krastorio 2 is a better overhaul-ish mod to get into modded gameplay.

Best of luck with the Deathworld Marathon run, that sounds pretty damn difficult.

Thank you friend. I tried setting up my main bus but I started playing with my flamethrower and set a forest on fire. Then it got over ran and I had to retreat into my “hidey hole” until the pollution died down a bit. Thankfully I set up a base near a lot of cliffs so I was pretty well setup for this screw up.

I’ll check out Krastorio 2 when I’m ready. I always like getting these kind of recommendations directly from someone instead of looking it up for myself. At least with mods it hasn’t steered me wrong.

Oh man 3rd person is my favorite, so boy do I have a list for you. It's so hard to keep this short lol

  • Control Ultimate Edition
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Any of the Zelda games (but really the classics, so using an emulator)
  • Star Wars Fallen Order + Jedi Survivor
  • Splinter Cell games
  • Warframe
  • Vindictus
  • Black Desert Online
  • Assassin's Creed games (I enjoy both the "og" games and the "new")
  • Risk of Rain 2
  • Valheim
  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
  • Outriders - got a lot of hate, but our group of 3 had a lot of fun in 155 hours for the cost
  • Tomb Raider games
  • Star Wars Battlefront 2 Classic

I had a lot of fun with Outrider too. Was my first looter shooter.

Sky: Children of the Light and Let It Die are the two main ones rn
I love the Elder Scrolls games too but I play those in first person mainly

Edit: sorry, just saw that I'm in PCGaming. Let It Die is on PS4, and SCOTL is on PS4, Switch, and mobile. They're both still great games though, and both free on their respective platforms!

If you're looking for a military shooter with a good story in the veins of Black Hawk Down, I emphatically recommend Spec Ops: The Line. It got a lot of flak back when it was first released for being another brown-colored military shooter, and admittedly the gameplay is a serviceable cover-based shooter at best - but man, the story and the writing carries the game pretty well and keeps it a bit more fresh to this day. The main character is voiced by Nolan North and he does some of, if not, his best work in this game and truly sells his character imo. The game is great at telling a good military story and making you feel like a hero, it's probably in my top 10 games of all time ever since I played it almost a decade ago.

God of War 2018. Picked it up on PC recently after trying it a couple times on PS4 a few years ago, but really got sucked in. Probably me being far more comfortable on KB+M. Absolutely incredible game, can't wait for Ragnarök to come to PC as well.

As much as I disliked the gacha system, Soulworker is/was a great 3rd person game.
It had a satisfying but quick combat that you can rush through.

Horizon Zero Dawn, AC Odyssey, or maybe Maneater. Depends on the mood.

Horizon Zero Dawn and Ghost Recon Wildlands immediately come to mind. Plus with Ghost Recon Wildlands has an awesome First Person Mod on PC so you switch between them which is nice.

+1 for Horizon. Related to third person perspective, Horizon Forbidden West has the best dialogue acting I've ever seen in a video game. The voices and animation are both so, so smooth and natural. A lot of games have poor quality dialogue animation, with mouth movements that don't quite match the audio, not enough body language, poor facial expression, etc.

On that note and another solid one for this thread, Mass Effect is another of my all time favourite games that is third person and also does dialogue animations pretty well, especially for its time.

It honestly depends on my mood. But my very first thought was Divinity: Original Sin 2. Haven't played it in a hot minute.... might go reinstall.

Thats such a broad question I could list tons of games here but I will say my favorite game of all time is Diablo 2 which is 3rd person.

mass effect trilogy, witcher 3, horizon zero dawn, dragon age trilogy, red dead redemption 2...i like 3rd person AND stories 🙂

I play No Man's Sky regularly in between other games. I love shooters like Outlanders, The Division 2, and Sniper Elite. I still play GTA online with a buddy of mine from time to time.

But my current obsession is Warframe. I don't know what took me so long to play that game. I wish I'd started earlier.