Yep, I'd also love a third person mode for this game. Not even for motion sickness, it just feels wasteful to put so much effort into character creation and then basically never see your character during gameplay.

I disagree. I personally prefer first person in games, and first person only games. My steam library is almost completely dominated by first person games... but some games clearly have been built for a certain perspective, wether that is first or third, and I consider cyberpunk to be one of them made for first person. Especially when it comes to multiplayer, thirdperson is so often abused as a mechanic, and there are other issues I could cite, that my main criticism of this comment is why should devs change their entire design just to suit someone who has an edge case issue?

That said, I never really thought about first person causing sickness for some people, so my condolences for the vast swath of amazing games you must miss out on.

Thanks, and yes, it is totally annoying. There's tons of games I'd love to actually play but just can't.

By the way, I agree with your assessment that some games are simply better suited for a first person perspective. I don't know if I perhaps created a wrong impression before, but I have never said that game devs should change their designs just so folks like myself can play all games under the sun (although jumping through hoops to tailor to small minorities is very much en vogue these days in other fields).

For Cyberpunk 2077 specifically, it's just a bit disappointing for me personally because I am a huge fan of The Witcher, and I'm sure a sci-fi RPG story could have been told using a similar mechanic. But, yes, it would have been a different game -- sadly, one that I could have actually played.

I also liked the old Resident Evil titles, and that series has now turned to first person too. O tempora, o mores!

Maybe mods will make it a reality in cyberpunk soon enough. I know that I,ve been planning on trying a witcher 3 playthrough with the first person mod.

I know it's unrealistic because it probably adds a lot to development time, but I really wish more games would allow both 1st and 3rd person perspectives (i.e. Skyrim).

There are two highly acclaimed AAA titles in my library not being played (fortunately bought on sale) that I just can't get into because I have the opposite problem-- they are only in 3rd person, and it totally kills immersion for me.

Getting motion sickness from FPS is an interesting issue I don't see mentioned very often.

I have this problem when I play an FPS after a long time of not touching any, but it goes away after a few sessions.

I suspect input to reaction latency might play a huge role, as it does with VR.

Interesting, I know quite a number of people who have motion sickness issues. I find in general they just don't tend to play games, or at least 3D games, so much, so I guess it doesn't come up all that often.

I suppose my parent post got downvoted because it is strictly speaking OT. Fair enough, but thanks anyway to the folks who took the time to write interesting replies.