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So basically you are spectating someone seeing you while you control the person that the person that you are spectating is seeing you That would be weird.
Game like a found footage, You're investigating the main character's disappearance. Through the found footage you control the main character, and only the main character not the investigator.
I wouldn’t consider that 2nd person, since the investigator isn’t actually present in the same world. There’s a distance with found footage. You as the player can’t clearly see you’re looking through the investigator’s perspective, if that makes any sense. It’s more like you’re merging into the main character’s perspective, either through first or third
So just 1st person? or when you look at the VHS player, the screen doesn't take up the whole screen. Rather, you see it through the investigators eyes?
@@Radio_ink114 You'd see it through the investigators eyes, but you're only in control of the Character on the VHS screen. But the investigator might have agency of some kind. Like he changes types or takes note of what the player is actually doing.
i feel like a truly 2nd person game would involve you witnessing your actions through other people’s eyes and then also seeing how your actions effect them
look for a game called ai dungeon. At first glance it might seem a bit confusing, however if you pay attention to how this game is "narrated" to the player, you will understand the concept closer from a 2 person perspective.
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy does something alike to that: You play two characters: The first an alleged criminal escaping an investigator by clearing clues and evidence he might leave, the second one... the investigator picking up on what you left or how you botched cleaning up.
I watched a game called No One Lives Under the Lighthouse and there is a chase segment in which the perspective is from the monster chasing you, the character. It works very well with the surreal setting.
I can imagine a whole “second person” game based on this concept of playing as a person from the view of another person, you could be a person being stalked, trying to kill your stalker, all from the view of your stalker
Xuan Boone Well not really. For it to be a third person perspective the “third person” needs to be completely detached from anything that is going on in the game. The third person does not exist in the game’s universe, but watches everything from outside. With a second person stalking game, the camera follows the perspective of an actual person that exists around the protagonist without being the protagonist itself.
I remember how in "spider man shattered dimensions" there was a mission in which you had to dodge bullets, and the camera was from the eye of a sniper, but you still controlled the spiderman
@@drdnd5078 siren was so underrated. And siren blood curse was fucking amazing. I remember doing the haunted house on Playstation home was my favorite cause it was so hard and scary
@happyspaceinvader508 it would be a third person POV to us, sure. But, by definition, wouldn't it be a 2nd person POV if you are the one controlling the drone and see yourself walking live?
Some dev out there needs to make an entire game about stalker- you play the character being stalked but the view is from the perspective of the stalker the entire time
Imagine you dont actually know this until the game ends. Maybe you can see your camera stalker from specific angles in mirrors and windows but you dont know who it is until you reach the end and its revealed that you’ve been looking through the eyes of the horror you’ve been trying to escape
Lol I use to love doing that as a kid. When me and my brother would play HALO Co-op I would always look at his screen and control myself from that perspective whenever possible
My little sister always says something like "haha I'm cheating cuz I can see your screen" whenever we play split screen together. It's really funny and cute.
Like, you see yourself but at the same time you have to find a way of hiding from the character whose perspective you are watching. Where can I play something like this???
There is a game that goes very close this idea, siren blood curse. In it you have an ability that lets you “sight jack”, aka you can see the enemies perspective. Yet you still control your character with third person camera
We non-gamers are very familiar with "second person" games... we've watched our siblings, relatives, friends, and SOs carry out many a mission while sitting next to them on the couch!
Before you even said anything about driver San Francisco I literally thought of this game and my god the memories it brought back. I remember when it came out and me and brother obsessed over finishing it. Great video ❤
1st person: Through the character's eyes 2nd person: Seeing your character through another character's eyes 3rd person: Seeing your character through your eyes
1st person is your view is where your character is. 3rd person your view is pointed at your character but at a distance. The only dfference i see here is that your view is also a character instead of a disembodied camera. An argument could be made this is still 3rd person.
I don't know if you've played the driver games, but it'd be a seriously odd direction for the series. It's heavily inspired by american car films and as such is mostly based in America (though the studio who develop the series is British). That said it would be an interesting turn but I don't see it happening. Also i sadly doubt we'll see a new driver game any time soon :(
if there is a narrator in a game, that's second person I think and speaking of 2nd person games, I think undertale and deltarune are 2nd person games "you are filled with determination"
@@Makochips No, second person is the other person. 1'st Person. You see through eyes of the character. 2'd Person. Character is seen through someone else eyes. 3'd Person. Is when we see action from detached "flying bird" point of view.
basically 1st person. the perspective of yourself 2nd person. the perspective of the other person that you are interacting with 3rd person. a person watching the interaction
@@cooperperkins1847 not sure about that game but I Live Dead by Daylight where you can play either as one of four survivors with their pov as third person or play as a killer with pov of first person.
He made finding a game glitch sound like he found alternate realities and upset the universe and now spends his days dodging the universe's attacks on him as an attempt to quiet him but he's become too powerful
Honestly that's exactly how I feel when I find glitches in games, specially clipping through walls and floor. GTA San Andreas was probably the best game ever to find glitches...
Lol. I recently played around with the level and got the car to turn over without crashing the mission. It just kinda sat there. Would recommend giving it a try, it's not a very long game, though I'm not sure if I share the idea that it's a really great game, it's unique.
@@whiterabbit75 that's essentially literally what happens when you drive the tanner's driving at the car Orlen's driving. The game doesn't know what to do so crazy shit happens. Somehow it doesn't crash the game.
So much mumbo jumbo about changing the camera position, I salute you for your ability of making a whole 16 minute video about something that could’ve been a sentence or two.
@@darrenjimenezreyes2798 but in life we can become the maniac if we chose to as well....? haha i'm just saying life is already crazy and to go around having a game where you have that happen would be real life like paranoia.
Because when things are picked a part and appreciated on the level Nick is doing it makes everyone have a high level of love for it even if they've never played it
This is now my 4th time watching this video. Everyone I see it, I watch it again. I just love that mission and your breakdown. Q&A : ARE YOU A SOULS FAN? WHAT TYPE OF GAMES DO YOU LOVE THE MOST?
This is so much in tune with the original spirit of Driver. Everyone who played the first two games in the PS1 era knows what I'm talking about. Crashes were spectacular and there were a lot of glitches just like the one analyzed here. Also, we could actually make little movies by watching the replays and adjusting the camera angles, using slow motion and everything.
I didn't, this video couldve been 5 minutes long instead it was Here's what second person would be Then ten minute sof describing a game level till you meet the standard 15 - 17 minute preferred youtube algorithm video length. These kind of videos can get in the sea quite frankly.
@@MembersOfHistory the distinction between 2nd and third person is in 3rd the narrator or observation point is not involved in the action or story at all.
So you would be running away from... yourself? Also would be it galaxy brain to say that second person is when you see yourself through a recording your friend did of you?
First time I seen this was GTA III when you change camera angles while having wanted stars. At a certain angle it is from the police dashboard and you see you chasing you while fleeing from the police. Though it is not the main point of the game it does open the question of 2nd person games. This video is awesome and definitely earned a sub from this one
It means you controlling a character through the eyes of another character Ps. Mario 64 has a confusing story behind the perspective, which makes it seem like it falls into this category, but please note there’s more to it than just the one sentence you see above. Mario 64 is third person. First and foremost, Lakitu is supposedly a cameraman, what would mean you’re looking through the camera, not Lakitu’s eyes. Besides that, it’s all about the perspective. The perspective you see while playing the game is third person, with or without Lakitu... Pps. English is my second language, so I would be really proud of myself if everything said above is correct and coherent. I have an (Dutch) essay coming up, so this is a good practice... i think.
The part in Obscure The Aftermath (2nd game of that franchise) where you have mei guide her sister (You're controlling said sister) in a basement as Mei watches from the security cams ( so it's kinda like The fixed angles of resident evil games on the Playstation 1 and Gamecube. I think that's a good 2nd player segment of a game from the Playstation 2 Era haha
Thrasher: Skate and Destroy was a skating game that used this concept in the end of their levels I believe. Once you hit a certain score or spent enough time in the level you'd get chased by a cop, and the game would flip to the cop's perspective while still having you in control of your skater running away. Fun game.
Exactly what I was thinking! And it was time based, by the way. The cop chases you after 2 minutes elapse and then you must either skate to the exit of the level or keep away long enough for the cop to give up. If I recall, you also get a bonus multiplier for landing tricks while being chased as it's hard to pull off and keep your speed.
Interesting idea and for game mechanic i suggest: 1. Not being able to control the people movement 2. Add some kind of mental illness element like you take over someone that is suffering hallucinations
“Bright Lights, Big City” was an iconic ‘80s novel and it was written in second person. In the same era text based games were written in second person: “You are in a dark room.” For all practical purposes first and second are the same.
@@swiftripper7557 I think if you say that the camera is a character instead, the concept is better understood. You play the game, and a camera is watching you, but if that camera is actually someone you can interact with, THEN it's second person instead of third.
This would be like watching yourself play through someone else’s eyes. This might actually be pretty cool, because your actions would be described from someone else’s perspective, possibly displaying the consequences of your actions more clearly.
But watching through someone else's eyes would be just a first person game would it not? You play a character in a 1st person game you see it through someone else's eyes...edit. I'm pretty high rn so please forgive me if I have missed some obvious detail lol
The Siren series has a mechanic called sight jacking, where you can see the world through the eyes of NPCs/enemies. This is probably the best example of second person gameplay.
*Nick sitting on the edge of his bed at 3 am on a Tuesday* "I wonder how many times I can mention Driver: San Francisco in an unrelated video before its too much"
@ another example is when in a certain level in Spider Man Shattered Dimensions when the camera switch’s to the prospective of a sniper trying to snipe Spider Man even though Spider Man is the one you’re actually controlling.
The Final level of the Spongbob Squarepants Movie video game is another example when you’re trying to get King Neptune who is being mind controlled by Plankton to fire his sniper laser thing at frozen Mr Krabs.
The best way to experience this in real life, Is driving beside a semi and seeing your car in their blind spot mirror. Seeing yourself drive past in the mirror or being beside it where you can see your car is the weirdest feeling.
This is quite possibly one of my favorite videos on all of RUclips... Your narration skills, the editing, the timing and music choice... All just chefs kiss. This video always gives me chills like no other.
Edwin Contreras but then a person has to play it so it becomes 1st or 3rd view which could be classified as 2nd person but then since it’s a let’s play it becomes 1st or 3rd.
@@masonsaccount Yes! That would be really creepily weird, I'm gonna have nightmares now of me glitching through my bedroom ceiling to the 32 bit integer limit and my brain will crash... @(
GTA 3 had this camera Angel it's called cematic camera If a police is chasing you You see from the perspective of police car Which drives automatically
saw something actually like this! its not for the full game but in "It's just a prank, bro" there's a small part where the perspective switches to someone following you home, but you control your own character and the person following you controls themselves. it's pretty cool, it would be nice to see an entire game like this
Text games and RPGs are the perfect example of second person gameplay. With every decision you take, a feedback describing your actions pops up, “you picked up the axe.” “You ran away.” “You cried out for help, but nobody came.”
@Draaygons I agree with you, since there’s always presence of a first or third person POV in video games it’s hard to accurately point out true second person experiences; but In that matter I still think I’m speaking facts when I exemplify second person with text games and RPGs because, as I said before, games of those sorts will use second person to give the player direct participation in the story without having to animate it explicitly.
That isn't second person (just because of looking at their screen). It would be second person if you were playing the game, as your own character, by looking through the other-person's character's eyes. Including navigating, using objects, and fighting; all while only watching your character's actions through that other-person's character's eyes. Boom, screenjack gaming. Thanks for brainstorming the idea though; sounds like a kick ass game.
Has anyone noticed that videogames is actually another context in which second person is used a lot? In this very same video, when the narrator describes his experiences and feelings he had when playing the game, he uses "I" and "me", but when he's telling us the normal development of the game and missions, or even its technicalities (like being able to replay missions), he uses "you". And I think we all have done that when telling a friend the story of a game. You don't say "Alan Wake" or "Geralt of Rivia" goes there and does that, you always say "and then you enter the tavern and three bandits attack you..."
Beginning of the video: "What's it like to play a 2nd person video game? " End of video: "Everyone needs to play Driver San Francisco" Classic Nick. Love it
well ngl have one of best concept of a game. story is similar to psp games the 3rd bitrhday by square enix but if only they focused developt more to the story instead the action.
It’s simple. 1st person: I watch through my eyes. 3rd person: I watch through his eyes. 2nd person: I watch through your eyes. As you can see 3rd person is picked slightly at random to describe watching yourself through a camera that follows you everwhere. May as well refer to the camera as ‘you’, making it 2nd person. It’s about an external view on yourself. The language theory application is arbitrary.
I could actually see this being a very interesting horror kind of game. You seeing things from the perspective of that which is hunting you. It would be disorienting and disturbing. Difficult to make work though as controlling yourself at the time would be major pain when out of view.
Imagine a horror found-footage game where your perspective is from the camera with a cameraman but you are controlling the person that the camera is recording. It would be a pretty cool horror game.
Slender : The Arrival has the HUD of a camera (Recording, battery life, record length, zoom and enhance) and I think the end cutscene has your character be dragged away off camera, while the battery life slowly dies out on the floor. However, it could've been a better implementation where you hold it around corners or do the "selfie" thing to look behind you.
There’s a game called Michigan: Report From Hell that’s kind of like that. You control a cameraman in first person while you indirectly control the reporter you’re recording by giving her commands or suggestions. You “tag” objects you’re looking at and the reporter will interact with it, but you’re never sure what that action is going to be
David Lynch Dog Days 2 I think does that sort of, the camera following you gets peaked audio, shakes, is splattered by your blood actually ruining the visuals like it is a documentory on a cheap camera. it's an ugly game.
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That's cool! Thank you!
@Nick Robinson You know what this is, right? This is kind of like "Inception"
basically 2nd person is MC with replay mod, but you can control the charecter in the video
@@TheVortexAMV I never saw the replay mod, thank you very much for pointing that out! awesome
2nd person is when you’re watching your big brother finish the hard level for you
You clearly hold the crown here
@@NagatoOPRESSORTHUGLIFE Brah you have no room to talk.....
in the case im the big brother
yes!!
👌
So second person is whenever I'm with a friend and try to play while looking at the other side of the split screen
fucking this. when I'm really far with a sniper and I'm trying to see how I should adjust my shot so I see where they're landing on his screen
@@shrilleth Absoloutely Fantastic!
There we go! I do this all the time.
You can also playing Call of Duty, but only killcam allowed. So no first person for you.
NessFinesse yes
So 2nd person is basically:
You control Person 1, but your view is from the perspective of Person 2, who is watching Person 1.
correct!
I think Trevor saves the Universe is the perfect example
So like Moss vr
It’s basically a third person game or first person I guess where the player you control is you
So basically you are spectating someone seeing you while you control the person that the person that you are spectating is seeing
you
That would be weird.
Game like a found footage, You're investigating the main character's disappearance. Through the found footage you control the main character, and only the main character not the investigator.
So, like those VHS tapes in Resident Evil 7?
@@ElijahW2003 Exactly. Only you don't control Ethan at all.
I wouldn’t consider that 2nd person, since the investigator isn’t actually present in the same world. There’s a distance with found footage. You as the player can’t clearly see you’re looking through the investigator’s perspective, if that makes any sense. It’s more like you’re merging into the main character’s perspective, either through first or third
So just 1st person? or when you look at the VHS player, the screen doesn't take up the whole screen. Rather, you see it through the investigators eyes?
@@Radio_ink114 You'd see it through the investigators eyes, but you're only in control of the Character on the VHS screen. But the investigator might have agency of some kind. Like he changes types or takes note of what the player is actually doing.
The “you’re chasing yourself” perspective is incredibly unique and one that strangely terrifies me.
ok
@@samotr7713 Are you still upset that no one joined your stream # #?
@@toxicastigator yes 😔
Nailed it
@sacr3d g6om9try you don’t believe in individuality? Like as in:
everyone around me is similar to me in many ways but only I am myself?
i feel like a truly 2nd person game would involve you witnessing your actions through other people’s eyes and then also seeing how your actions effect them
look for a game called ai dungeon. At first glance it might seem a bit confusing, however if you pay attention to how this game is "narrated" to the player, you will understand the concept closer from a 2 person perspective.
I wonder if the older resident evil games would make sense for 2nd person
@@grimreaper894 I agree, good point 👉
The walking dead games
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy does something alike to that: You play two characters: The first an alleged criminal escaping an investigator by clearing clues and evidence he might leave, the second one... the investigator picking up on what you left or how you botched cleaning up.
It’s crazy how well he can describe a simple video game clip like it’s an ancient work of art.
its not that simple
He makes it sound like its a real car crash
I’ve only seen the game on neilogical’s channel and thought cool game
But then I watched this and was taken to a deeper level
🤙 Determinism is Freedom 🤙 Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙
Welp, this is what the whole channel is about
I watched a game called No One Lives Under the Lighthouse and there is a chase segment in which the perspective is from the monster chasing you, the character. It works very well with the surreal setting.
I can imagine a whole “second person” game based on this concept of playing as a person from the view of another person, you could be a person being stalked, trying to kill your stalker, all from the view of your stalker
Xuan Boone Well not really. For it to be a third person perspective the “third person” needs to be completely detached from anything that is going on in the game. The third person does not exist in the game’s universe, but watches everything from outside. With a second person stalking game, the camera follows the perspective of an actual person that exists around the protagonist without being the protagonist itself.
I just remembered screencheat exists!
Isnt there a game where everyone is invisible, however you can see others screens, and every place is difrent.
@@beleques Like the cameras in watchdogs, and you can move your guy while swapping perspective between mounted cameras
Meh Meh cameras make it 3rd person.
I remember how in "spider man shattered dimensions" there was a mission in which you had to dodge bullets, and the camera was from the eye of a sniper, but you still controlled the spiderman
That game is so underrated
shattered dimensions brought me so much joy
Ah yes I remember that
Spider Man 64 had a level where you control Spidey while the POV was a sniper chasing him, too
Oh yeah
Imagine a horror game uses this concept. You control yourself in the monster's perspective as you are chased by it.
Tomb raider legend does this... for a bit lol
you genius
But how would that work? The monster can only move when you do, right!
@@yekna459 nope you would run away from an A.I. controlled monster
@@drdnd5078 siren was so underrated. And siren blood curse was fucking amazing. I remember doing the haunted house on Playstation home was my favorite cause it was so hard and scary
This is like the first time you fly a drone and look down and see yourself
Drive a car but have to watch from a camera mounted high looking the car you're in.
That’s a 3rd person view of yourself though.
@happyspaceinvader508 it would be a third person POV to us, sure. But, by definition, wouldn't it be a 2nd person POV if you are the one controlling the drone and see yourself walking live?
That's called bird's-eye view
That would be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person at once
Some dev out there needs to make an entire game about stalker- you play the character being stalked but the view is from the perspective of the stalker the entire time
early resident evil?
Imagine you dont actually know this until the game ends. Maybe you can see your camera stalker from specific angles in mirrors and windows but you dont know who it is until you reach the end and its revealed that you’ve been looking through the eyes of the horror you’ve been trying to escape
@@eldritchcupcakes3195dude. Yes!
@@eldritchcupcakes3195I LOVE THIS IDEA SO MUCH
Braid has a concept like that.
I’ve never seen a game bug that was described this much cinematically
babblebabble I know right?
Its like cinefix describing best movie moments of all time
@@truxtonton lmao he acts like this was life changing experience that forever rocked him to his core
Xax lmao yeah,love it though
@@XAX-v true lulw
4th person: your character reads a newspaper about the events of the game
5th person: your character’s cousin tells you his roommate told him about reading the news paper about the events of the game
Rockstar has already done that
4th person would be like Super Smash. "Us" everybody shares the same screen.
Funnily enough, in this game the character is in a coma and the events of the game are actually what he's hearing on the news subconsiously
lol that doesnt work like that
2nd person is the unplugged/disconnected controller your little sibling uses to “play” when it’s actually just you. 😂
@@christianseibold3369 have you ever heard of this little thing called a joke?
The way he described the car flying through the air was so emotionally investing I couldn’t stop listening
For real tho
Time?
Rewound that part over and over again
Yes!!!
I played it back twice
this has the same energy as when you're playing mariokart with someone and they're behind you and you watch yourself on their half of the screen
Lol I use to love doing that as a kid. When me and my brother would play HALO Co-op I would always look at his screen and control myself from that perspective whenever possible
That’s possible in any split screen game
😂😂😂
My little sister always says something like "haha I'm cheating cuz I can see your screen" whenever we play split screen together. It's really funny and cute.
Wow I used to do this all the time with COD too
Just saying this might be a really need way to make a horror game. Like the person is being stalked or something
Like, you see yourself but at the same time you have to find a way of hiding from the character whose perspective you are watching.
Where can I play something like this???
@@JustKrin That sounds like it would make the game easier
@@hexyko4850 No it probably wouldn't.
There is a game that goes very close this idea, siren blood curse. In it you have an ability that lets you “sight jack”, aka you can see the enemies perspective. Yet you still control your character with third person camera
And the stalker is us, cool!
Super Mario 64. "You" are Mario, watching yourself play from Lakitu's perspective.
Now listen here...
“And drove directly at myself” welcome to the fourth level of inception.
You mean the 2nd perception of inception
Don’t you hate it when you meet yourself in second person and then accidentally destroy reality?
Yeah it's so annoying
Truly an "oops" moment
Ugh happens all the time
Don't you just hate it when you no clip out of reality and end up in * T H E B A C K R O O M S*
Mondays am I right?
We non-gamers are very familiar with "second person" games... we've watched our siblings, relatives, friends, and SOs carry out many a mission while sitting next to them on the couch!
Dude my brother would play racing games and we would pretend i was in the backseat lol
Ive been both people lol
@@Faithheartglr that’s so sweet for no reason 🥺🤣
anyone who says “SO” needs to get on testosterone replacement therapy lmao
Siblings? Relatives?
Before you even said anything about driver San Francisco I literally thought of this game and my god the memories it brought back. I remember when it came out and me and brother obsessed over finishing it. Great video ❤
1st person: Through the character's eyes
2nd person: Seeing your character through another character's eyes
3rd person: Seeing your character through your eyes
4th person: Seeing another character through your eyes, while looking at your character.
Woah confusion reborn
@@ImAfemaleNoob2 so ummm a mirror?
26th person: we don’t fucking know anymore
0th person: seeing through your own eyes
There are two things in Nick's life:
- Japan
- Driver San Francisco
You forgot Hatsune Miku pizza app
Maybe we need Driver Japan...
There's also hyper-realistic features on cartoony characters (Mario's hair, Pokemon: Detective Pikachu)
_Friggin' Car-Weeb..._
-not checking what time it is
I've never heard anyone make a glitch sound so dramatic
he seems like to solve a damn mystery
No shit.
Seriously. It made me stop watching.
@@Razielbergamini lmao, made me keep watching
@@coreyc9432 same. I was all in
1st person is your view is where your character is.
3rd person your view is pointed at your character but at a distance.
The only dfference i see here is that your view is also a character instead of a disembodied camera. An argument could be made this is still 3rd person.
I don't want to know what will happen to this channel if Ubisoft makes Driver: Tokyo
Likely a video series.
I don't know if you've played the driver games, but it'd be a seriously odd direction for the series. It's heavily inspired by american car films and as such is mostly based in America (though the studio who develop the series is British).
That said it would be an interesting turn but I don't see it happening. Also i sadly doubt we'll see a new driver game any time soon :(
Well whatever happens, I can guarantee you that it will happen in Japan.
I needed to get this game .1 microseconds early. So I boarded a flight to Japan.
"... so I boarded a plane to San Francisco"
Local man does literally whatever it takes to talk about Driver
well its a good game
And Japan
@@gugfitufi4862 im surprised that in the clip at the end he wasnt in japan
@@geekjokes8458 How do you know?
@Suffer No Fools he just likes long hair bro
first person: Me
third person: He
second person: *DRIVER SAN FRANCISCO*
I went second person one time
Yes that game is so good
@@riddlemethisriddlemethat2947 I go second person whenever I slip on ice in winter.
if there is a narrator in a game, that's second person I think
and speaking of 2nd person games, I think undertale and deltarune are 2nd person games
"you are filled with determination"
@@Makochips No, second person is the other person.
1'st Person. You see through eyes of the character.
2'd Person. Character is seen through someone else eyes.
3'd Person. Is when we see action from detached "flying bird" point of view.
basically
1st person. the perspective of yourself
2nd person. the perspective of the other person that you are interacting with
3rd person. a person watching the interaction
When you were talking about the mission it sounded like you were explaining a creepypasta
Ikr.. and I'm just from listening to those
Seriously.... Straight up sounds like a fuckin creepypasta
I know right especially when he said "You have been assigned to kill you"
Tbh I was a little scared
Fuck it's kinda scary
I played multiplayer Minecraft with a friend of mine but only looked through their screen. I think that’s close enough
Imagine if dream and george did tha
@@rocky-zx6kq that'd be so cool.
@@rocky-zx6kq It would take them 10 hours to achieve iron.
Are you Logan this happen to us when I was young and I miss you
@@arfyness It would.
“Without arousing suspicion”
“THaTs mY CaR”
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Ayy 666
Why did I laugh
12:48 It’s great how good the animations for people jumping out of the way are, I don’t think GTA 5 even really has that.
This concept in horror games would be insane
I don't remember what it's called, but there is a horror game in which you have the ability to see out of the monster's eyes.
@@cooperperkins1847 not sure about that game but I Live Dead by Daylight where you can play either as one of four survivors with their pov as third person or play as a killer with pov of first person.
@@cooperperkins1847 the game name was 'eyes' i guess
@@YavuzTurgut the name of the game is Forbidden Siren,
its director, keichiro toyama, was the creator of the first silent hill.
Its a masterpiece.
@@antonchigurr2722 I will check out then, thanks! :)
He made finding a game glitch sound like he found alternate realities and upset the universe and now spends his days dodging the universe's attacks on him as an attempt to quiet him but he's become too powerful
Hmmmm 🤔
Element Seal he’s like the Bob Lazar of video games😭😭😭
Lmao
Honestly that's exactly how I feel when I find glitches in games, specially clipping through walls and floor.
GTA San Andreas was probably the best game ever to find glitches...
@@akaaformentioned2yearoldfi910 Except I don't think this channel is a complete fraud.
"Now I'm not the first person to wonder about this"
Does that make you the *second person?*
Shall I leave you out?
@Ultimo Destruct-O for you - 1 like, 1 reply in 7 hours
Budum tsh
SOMEONE GETS IT
@C J *A L L P E R S O N*
10:09 this sequence reminds me of what we believe happened to the Titan submersible, for some reason I can’t explain
Local man creates black hole: "He just wanted to talk about Driver San Francisco again" , local witness says
@@KINGJERMARCUS That's exactly why your parents don't love you.
@@rxincandy_V fact
@@rxincandy_V LMAO
DSF is hella good tho
KING JERMARCUS we won't
I used to play Minecraft with my brother, and sometimes I would look at his screen while controlling my character.
straight up! this made me think of goldeneye for the n64.
same
Oh yeah, I've done that with some games with my bro (and my father).
@@mightnotlive Good days, Good Time.
is Resident Evil on Playstation 1 included 2nd person ?
"I turned around and drove the car in the second person directly at myself"
*Breaking the universe, I guess*
With the most tragic music and voice.
There were no surviving cars
Lol. I recently played around with the level and got the car to turn over without crashing the mission. It just kinda sat there. Would recommend giving it a try, it's not a very long game, though I'm not sure if I share the idea that it's a really great game, it's unique.
Like pushing the repel ends of two magnets together.
For his next trick, he'll divide by zero.
@@whiterabbit75 that's essentially literally what happens when you drive the tanner's driving at the car Orlen's driving. The game doesn't know what to do so crazy shit happens. Somehow it doesn't crash the game.
So much mumbo jumbo about changing the camera position, I salute you for your ability of making a whole 16 minute video about something that could’ve been a sentence or two.
Imagine GTA V but you're the civilian and you have to hide from a maniac who goes around the city
That will be a first person game where the civilian is the main character. So, it's not second person.
Ok, you watch everything through the eyes of a civillian but you still control the maniac
sodas so basically real life?
@@DanielRiossuper1rios yeah but we are controlling the maniac
@@darrenjimenezreyes2798 but in life we can become the maniac if we chose to as well....? haha i'm just saying life is already crazy and to go around having a game where you have that happen would be real life like paranoia.
"What's a second person video game?"
> just looking for an excuse to talk about Driver San Francisco again
totally accurate battle sim
@@KINGJERMARCUS Ok, I won't.
KING JERMARCUS we weren’t going to anyway, dropkick
@@KINGJERMARCUS Ok
That’s what it looked like at the 13:25 mark. Honestly should’ve just ended it there.
Holy shit why does driver San Francisco seem like the most genius game ever wtf
Ikr wtf?????
It’s not just genius, it’s also insanely fun.
Because it is
You find yourself in a room
Because when things are picked a part and appreciated on the level Nick is doing it makes everyone have a high level of love for it even if they've never played it
This is now my 4th time watching this video. Everyone I see it, I watch it again. I just love that mission and your breakdown.
Q&A : ARE YOU A SOULS FAN? WHAT TYPE OF GAMES DO YOU LOVE THE MOST?
I love how you analyzed the glitch/crash like a piece of art.
a lot more going on than in a lot of actual pieces of art
marasmusine Hey guys I would appreciate if u guys would watch one of my videos and give feed back on it thank you👏‼️‼️
This is so much in tune with the original spirit of Driver. Everyone who played the first two games in the PS1 era knows what I'm talking about. Crashes were spectacular and there were a lot of glitches just like the one analyzed here. Also, we could actually make little movies by watching the replays and adjusting the camera angles, using slow motion and everything.
Every English teacher ever
I didn't, this video couldve been 5 minutes long instead it was
Here's what second person would be
Then ten minute sof describing a game level till you meet the standard 15 - 17 minute preferred youtube algorithm video length. These kind of videos can get in the sea quite frankly.
Imagine: A second person stalker game. We’re you’re being stalked by someone but the player sees through the eyes of the stalker.
thats third person isnt it?
Jake The Dog No. Its literally the same thing in the video you just watched lol
@@MembersOfHistory the distinction between 2nd and third person is in 3rd the narrator or observation point is not involved in the action or story at all.
Literally a video game of the show you. But you are the girl he is after.
So you would be running away from... yourself? Also would be it galaxy brain to say that second person is when you see yourself through a recording your friend did of you?
Who knew “second person” was an out of body experience.
you did.
Wassup banditø
Speed _ |-/
Kenny Warren you, you sly bastard
So third-preson
First time I seen this was GTA III when you change camera angles while having wanted stars. At a certain angle it is from the police dashboard and you see you chasing you while fleeing from the police. Though it is not the main point of the game it does open the question of 2nd person games. This video is awesome and definitely earned a sub from this one
It means you controlling a character through the eyes of another character
Ps. Mario 64 has a confusing story behind the perspective, which makes it seem like it falls into this category, but please note there’s more to it than just the one sentence you see above. Mario 64 is third person.
First and foremost, Lakitu is supposedly a cameraman, what would mean you’re looking through the camera, not Lakitu’s eyes. Besides that, it’s all about the perspective. The perspective you see while playing the game is third person, with or without Lakitu...
Pps. English is my second language, so I would be really proud of myself if everything said above is correct and coherent. I have an (Dutch) essay coming up, so this is a good practice... i think.
The whole of Mario 64 is a second person game, whoah.
Darrark what? How?
@@alyxisalyx Lakitu is the cameraman
@@gbainite there's a mario cam option
Pannekoekツ no thats 3rd , 2nd person is the eye to eye view
That was the most poetic description of a glitch I've ever seen. You should write a book
Which glitch,
@@no.ordinary.angelyt watch the video and your question will be answered
@@ccristi08 I don't see any glitch. Just a whole philosophical experience.
I was about to say the same thing!
You need to watch car boys
imagine the pure terror of playing a horror game in 2nd person like this
I would die
2nd person shooter game
Resident evil
"No one lives under the lighthouse" has segments like that
The part in Obscure The Aftermath (2nd game of that franchise) where you have mei guide her sister (You're controlling said sister) in a basement as Mei watches from the security cams ( so it's kinda like The fixed angles of resident evil games on the Playstation 1 and Gamecube. I think that's a good 2nd player segment of a game from the Playstation 2 Era haha
Thrasher: Skate and Destroy was a skating game that used this concept in the end of their levels I believe. Once you hit a certain score or spent enough time in the level you'd get chased by a cop, and the game would flip to the cop's perspective while still having you in control of your skater running away. Fun game.
Exactly what I was thinking! And it was time based, by the way. The cop chases you after 2 minutes elapse and then you must either skate to the exit of the level or keep away long enough for the cop to give up. If I recall, you also get a bonus multiplier for landing tricks while being chased as it's hard to pull off and keep your speed.
I would love a game with a blind main character who have the ability to enter other people's eyes to see himself and do things he had to do
That sounds like a great gimmick.
I think siren has that feature
Interesting idea and for game mechanic i suggest:
1. Not being able to control the people movement
2. Add some kind of mental illness element like you take over someone that is suffering hallucinations
That would be amazing
You are on to something
This is the beyond at bed bath and beyond
Beyond the golden arches
Hi
We need to go to the beyond and while we are there, let's grab a remote control
@Clint Sandlin that's right, you can only get it from Christopher Walken though
Beyond Walmart And Beyond
This weirdly sounds like a creepypasta
Indeed it does!
That's maybe why I jumped at mark 10:42 xD
God dammit, I'm used to those bugs, but some of them just gets me off guard
definitely gave me spooks for some reason lol
Lol yup
this game is a creepypasta
Maybe because we weren’t supposed to know about this?
“Bright Lights, Big City” was an iconic ‘80s novel and it was written in second person. In the same era text based games were written in second person: “You are in a dark room.” For all practical purposes first and second are the same.
Basically,
2nd person: third person but a character is a camera
What
Now that you mention it, in Super Mario 64, Lakitu is controlling the camera. So technically, it was a second person game all along.
Supaserrin oh shit
*Character is a camera
@@swiftripper7557 I think if you say that the camera is a character instead, the concept is better understood. You play the game, and a camera is watching you, but if that camera is actually someone you can interact with, THEN it's second person instead of third.
2nd person: playing as your character through the eyes of the enemy
FF5615 perfect... all he had to say
Basically, Siren the game?
Thank you for saving me 15 minutes
Ratchet and Clank 3 Tyrranoid boss
That's what I was thinking before watching the video!
This would be like watching yourself play through someone else’s eyes.
This might actually be pretty cool, because your actions would be described from someone else’s perspective, possibly displaying the consequences of your actions more clearly.
Yea that’s rlly cool
But watching through someone else's eyes would be just a first person game would it not? You play a character in a 1st person game you see it through someone else's eyes...edit. I'm pretty high rn so please forgive me if I have missed some obvious detail lol
A lot of psvr platformers are like this check out moss and Astrobot
AI simulator 2021
I would love a murder game like this. you are a serial killer and you need to sneak around after and during murders
The Siren series has a mechanic called sight jacking, where you can see the world through the eyes of NPCs/enemies. This is probably the best example of second person gameplay.
*Nick sitting on the edge of his bed at 3 am on a Tuesday*
"I wonder how many times I can mention Driver: San Francisco in an unrelated video before its too much"
When he spun his car around and tried to drive into the other car... I felt the game say:
"YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO DO THAT"
"No, this isn't how you're supposed to play the game!"
You missed the perfect chance to say..."wait.... That's illegal".
Bro, u turned this game into a creepypasta.
Lmao
you are kinda right
@ another example is when in a certain level in Spider Man Shattered Dimensions when the camera switch’s to the prospective of a sniper trying to snipe Spider Man even though Spider Man is the one you’re actually controlling.
The Final level of the Spongbob Squarepants Movie video game is another example when you’re trying to get King Neptune who is being mind controlled by Plankton to fire his sniper laser thing at frozen Mr Krabs.
Ikr I watched this at night and it gave me the chills
The best way to experience this in real life, Is driving beside a semi and seeing your car in their blind spot mirror. Seeing yourself drive past in the mirror or being beside it where you can see your car is the weirdest feeling.
Second person is like when you look at a camera monitor to see yourself in a gas station
Super mario 64 is second person technically
Minh Trần Việt Nam :))))
@@MrTrombonebandgeek No.
@@azaeru8914 Well yeah because it's all from the perspective of Lakittu.
@@fabianblom2458 No.
He’s talking about a videogame yet the way he talks makes it feel like some sort of real life story that changed him forever
That’s actually pretty hilarious 😂😂
hahahah true !! but it shows up his narrative skills
This video is somewhat hauntingly beautiful
@@kaan_bey hauntingly?
It’s mostly the music in the background
"second person writing is much more uncommon" *flashbacks to self insert fanfiction on wattpad resurface*
Mean like the y/n things?
y/n books kill me no joke
pls y/n books drain the literal life out of me
me: agrees in unexplainable chapters
that's immediately what I thought of
*i need to stop reading fanfiction*
This is quite possibly one of my favorite videos on all of RUclips... Your narration skills, the editing, the timing and music choice... All just chefs kiss. This video always gives me chills like no other.
second person: watching a let's play
Duh
Holy fuck
Edwin Contreras but then a person has to play it so it becomes 1st or 3rd view which could be classified as 2nd person but then since it’s a let’s play it becomes 1st or 3rd.
Second person- watching your own let's play
@@masonsaccount Yes! That would be really creepily weird, I'm gonna have nightmares now of me glitching through my bedroom ceiling to the 32 bit integer limit and my brain will crash... @(
"It's you. You've assigned to kill you."|
My mind was blown away.
Same, i went *"OOOOOHHHH.!"*
It’s kinda like suicide
Yep
The way he says it just makes it so much more dramatic
X-files theme plays
Why does this video feels more like you're talking about how Driver San Francisco is a creepypasta..?
What is creepypasta? It sounds delicious
@Mystical Luna Melody r/woooosh
@@333mirage r/ihavereddit
Man, your capabilities to tell a story and make such an interesting point out of such a simple question is wonderful ❤
I felt real fear when he turned the car around on himself.
Time stamp?
@@Abdullah.124 8:53 :D
No you didnt
@@derek7284 Yes he did.
(We used all persons)
same
8:05 So, in other words, this guy just unintentionally discovered the world's first 2nd person, open world video game
Minecraft
E
GTA:
Thanks for the timestamp now I get to see my man reach the singularity with AI.
GTA 3 had this camera Angel it's called cematic camera
If a police is chasing you
You see from the perspective of police car
Which drives automatically
The real second person was the friends we made along the way.
I love Emilia Rem is best girl fam sry🤷♂️
uibut tp difftz
Like bomb defuser simulator?
*faxx*
That’s... not deep at all
saw something actually like this! its not for the full game but in "It's just a prank, bro" there's a small part where the perspective switches to someone following you home, but you control your own character and the person following you controls themselves. it's pretty cool, it would be nice to see an entire game like this
Text games and RPGs are the perfect example of second person gameplay. With every decision you take, a feedback describing your actions pops up, “you picked up the axe.” “You ran away.” “You cried out for help, but nobody came.”
I agreed
@Draaygons I agree with you, since there’s always presence of a first or third person POV in video games it’s hard to accurately point out true second person experiences; but In that matter I still think I’m speaking facts when I exemplify second person with text games and RPGs because, as I said before, games of those sorts will use second person to give the player direct participation in the story without having to animate it explicitly.
Undertale is basically a 2nd person game (noticed the reference lol) and nice kedamono pfp :)
Deltarune?
I saw that undertale reference
The OG second person game:
"It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a Gru."
What game is that?
It sounds familiar
Despicable Me: The Video Game
@@babylonian I really hope that was a joke
@@sphrcl. Zork.
4th person: If you're ever playing a splitscreen shooter and watching your friends screen to see where the are.
there's already a game like that, is calle screencheat
@@martinpereza yeah
I know it's a joke but, isn't that also second person?
How do people still mix up the your/you're?
That isn't second person (just because of looking at their screen). It would be second person if you were playing the game, as your own character, by looking through the other-person's character's eyes. Including navigating, using objects, and fighting; all while only watching your character's actions through that other-person's character's eyes. Boom, screenjack gaming.
Thanks for brainstorming the idea though; sounds like a kick ass game.
Has anyone noticed that videogames is actually another context in which second person is used a lot? In this very same video, when the narrator describes his experiences and feelings he had when playing the game, he uses "I" and "me", but when he's telling us the normal development of the game and missions, or even its technicalities (like being able to replay missions), he uses "you".
And I think we all have done that when telling a friend the story of a game. You don't say "Alan Wake" or "Geralt of Rivia" goes there and does that, you always say "and then you enter the tavern and three bandits attack you..."
Beginning of the video: "What's it like to play a 2nd person video game?
"
End of video: "Everyone needs to play Driver San Francisco"
Classic Nick. Love it
666 likes?
L
well ngl have one of best concept of a game.
story is similar to psp games the 3rd bitrhday by square enix
but if only they focused developt more to the story instead the action.
This mans talked about a glitch like a poetry teacher in 100 years reading my shitposts
It’s simple.
1st person: I watch through my eyes.
3rd person: I watch through his eyes.
2nd person: I watch through your eyes.
As you can see 3rd person is picked slightly at random to describe watching yourself through a camera that follows you everwhere. May as well refer to the camera as ‘you’, making it 2nd person. It’s about an external view on yourself. The language theory application is arbitrary.
"I turned the car arround and drove into myself"
*seinfeld theme plays*
2000 subs with videos I mean, second person right
Vegas Vanga how many toilets do you have?
@Vegas Vanga 😮...😳-🥺 Beautiful....😧-😃
I picture Kramer saying that after stumbling into Jerry's apartment
Nick: drives backwards
The AI: **INTENSE PANICKED DRIVING**
AI: GO FASTER MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE
AI:BUT SIR WE HAVE NO WHERE TO GO!
"Fuck fuck fuck fuck jesus he's coming"
@@belinskiparadox7687 😳
“Oh god, oh fuck what do I do?? I was never trained for this!! Uh...UhHhhh- ➡️↗️🔄↖️↘️⬅️⬆️🔄⬆️↪️↩️⬆️🔁⬆️
I could actually see this being a very interesting horror kind of game. You seeing things from the perspective of that which is hunting you. It would be disorienting and disturbing. Difficult to make work though as controlling yourself at the time would be major pain when out of view.
That is real good bro and smart!! I'm excited now for something there is isn't unfortunately
That would be a terrible game
the siren games have that mechanic
Dead by Daylight xd have fun finding the generators
Theres a game called carrion in steam where you control the monster thaat has to kill all the survivor in a lab
That was surprisingly cool to watch 😁
Well done, bud!
To be honest, I think the creators of Driver: San Francisco were on something the entire design process.
Yep.
That game was my shit in my younger days
As soon as I zoomed out enough to hear the heart monitor, I fell in love with the story.
Drugs. They were on drugs.
Is the new joke that he always talks about Driver San Francisco instead of Japan?
Driver San Fransokyo would be his favorite games
@@Moncole Ok but a Big Hero 6 Driver game would be lit.
Either that or crossover with Ace Attorney.
Going to japan is expensive, he needs to obsess over something cheaper
Broke: I flew to japan to talk about driver
Woke: I drove to japan to talk about driver
I damn love that lol
-"If you're controlling Ordell, who's controlling you?"
-"Nobody!"
Gave me chills. We are that nobody.
love this observation
That makes sense but kinda breaks the 4th wall
Hi viewer
oh fu
Shit, man. that's awesome.
Ironically, the only truly 2nd-person view here is the shot inside your car at 13:33
"The second person is actually a lot less common in narrative writing"
Self insert fanfics: Am I a joke to you?
Yes. Yes you are.
😂
To be fair they are a joke
Are you a joke to me? *
are we a joke to us? 😂 fucking brilliant
Imagine a horror found-footage game where your perspective is from the camera with a cameraman but you are controlling the person that the camera is recording.
It would be a pretty cool horror game.
Slender : The Arrival has the HUD of a camera (Recording, battery life, record length, zoom and enhance) and I think the end cutscene has your character be dragged away off camera, while the battery life slowly dies out on the floor. However, it could've been a better implementation where you hold it around corners or do the "selfie" thing to look behind you.
I CALL DIBS
There’s a game called Michigan: Report From Hell that’s kind of like that. You control a cameraman in first person while you indirectly control the reporter you’re recording by giving her commands or suggestions. You “tag” objects you’re looking at and the reporter will interact with it, but you’re never sure what that action is going to be
re 7
David Lynch Dog Days 2 I think does that sort of, the camera following you gets peaked audio, shakes, is splattered by your blood actually ruining the visuals like it is a documentory on a cheap camera. it's an ugly game.
2nd person is basically a stalker's point of view
Wouldn't this put an isometric camera perspective as 2nd person? Wasn't there a game that had you moving through security cameras' point of view?
@@EricJCaraballoso no because the camera is not an actor reacting to you.
@@assasing123sleep9 who says it has to be an actor?
@@EricJCaraballoso I recall the game Republique having this mechanism
@@EricJCaraballoso the first resident evil, and dino crisis games use that point of view
That going of the course was like from Ready Player 1 🗿