So one thing that I've kind of felt is a constant across first person shooters is that the more time you actually spend in first person, the more immersive the gameplay feels. While there are games that take this to both extremes, such as even delivering cutscenes in first person or allowing the player to spend the entire game in third person, I've found that I prefer the former end of the spectrum when it comes to games that are first and foremost first-person shooters.
The place where this usually falls out most often is in vehicles. Even the modern console shooters of today tend to follow Halo 1's rule of third person vehicle sections. While in some ways this is good (it makes driving and shooting significantly easier), in other ways it takes some of the balance, immersion, and excitement away from the experience. For instance, the excitement resulting from your vehicle spiraling through the air in flames is undermined by the camera maintaining its origin through the whole flight. On the balance end of it, you have things like the Revenant passenger-seat sniping in Reach, where it was actually easier to quickscope from a moving vehicle than on foot thanks to the stability of the camera.
So far in Destiny, it appears that whenever activating a class power or operating the vehicle, the camera pulls back to third person. While there are certainly some who may prefer this, I think it would be cool if we could at least have the option to keep everything in first person.
I'll end this by leaving a video of the final run in Halo 1 from the passenger seat. I was driving in this scenario, and I can honestly say it's a way more epic view from the passenger seat than what I saw.
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Edited by user_043: 2/26/2014 7:57:09 PMYa the only way I can see them justifying this is the fact that you don't have explicit control over your head and eyes. Trying to accomplish the situational awareness you would otherwise possess in your own body, they figure 3rd person solves that part of the problem. It would be neat though if they made an effort to make everything first person. [i]Edit: NOSTALGIA LEVEL MAXIMUM[/i]