They fit where they fit. Each distinguishable style of view (top down, etc.) and each distinguishable style of play (hack&slash, etc.) is made for the sake of organization, not logic.
Equinox, your argument is flawed... top down is third person... There you go... Now you can understand that... There's three categories... then there's sub categories... Top down is third person, you are not seeing it through the character itself... You not viewing through another characters eyes... Unless you say it's a bird's eye view... Then it would be 2nd person... I never would have thought of SM64 being 2nd person if you didn't mention it XD...
The game is presented in third-person format very similar to Fallout, Baldur's Gate, or Planescape Torment. Not my favorite format, being a die-hard first-person person myself.
None of them are certified. Both are users just like you, if I cared for what random people say I wouldn't argue with you here because then it becomes a matter of opinion.
But I have never seen an official site which people go to and to which companies go label Diablo, Nox, as third-person.
I don't even want to start listing the hundreds of people that disagree with you. Ranging from programmers and economists to enginners and biologists... They all have their own illogical terms back there. Because logical is not always useful.
But I was pretty sure that "top down" fit into the category of Third Person.
Top Down if for 2D games because 2D games have no fulcrum, therefore, they are drawn in layers, so there is no way they can be any person from the graphics programming perspective.
If you want to categorize games by human natural logic, it is 3rd person. Except that won't help anybody.
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And they all have to fit there somewhere. Haven't you noticed that RPG, FPS, Platformer etc. are all just organisation for the sake of it?
"Diablo/Nox/Sacred/Titan Quest is a third-person..."
You are talking realistically. I'm talking game wise.
Or you can as well say: "Saving = savings" to an economist.
http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Diablo/Diablo.shtm
Apart from the fact it says it's a D&D style game, it does say 3rd person:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25988794
But I have never seen an official site which people go to and to which companies go label Diablo, Nox, as third-person.
The end.
Vote:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17929
Vote:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17929
There are a few exceptions to that, but this is not one of them.
I agree with Goodguy.
Logically, Diablo is third person. What else could it be? It has to have some sort of view. So if it's not third person, what is it?
And I think this is one of the "exceptions", tho, they are not exceptions at all, each field has their own illogical vocabulary for naming things.
Vote:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17929
If you want to categorize games by human natural logic, it is 3rd person. Except that won't help anybody.
so yeh seems like LOD and GOW seem to be winners