That bothers me less. Viewing angles/ease of looking to spot further locations*, lack of indicators of the run coming to an end (or the indicator being the sole thing the screen has which makes everything else hard, assuming it is not infinite run which is a different style of things). Indeed I almost kind of like a bit of wireframe or transparent character model during such sequences as having your character's fat arse obstruct the direction of travel and likely/potential landing spot is probably one of the bigger downsides of third person (some try to get around that by shifting the camera slightly above such that landing position is still seen).
I wonder at times how much of it would be alleviated by actually useful VR, though I would probably then complain about lack of proprioception/kinaesthesia (the sense that tells you where your various body parts are and what is happening to them, or more simply close your eyes and touch your nose).
*if I am going to put my hand on a railing in real life and jump a set of stairs, climb over a wall or similar then that tends to involve a series of rapid head or eye movements to spot everything needed. Given I can probably still count the number of first person games that properly divorce the gun direction from the look direction on one hand then I hold little hope of that. If someone does crack that though then please may I have a skateboarding game.
SOURCE: GBAtemp Inbox
