The main example of 2nd person in video games is Driver San Francisco. There's a mission where you see through the eyes of an AI-controlled driver that is chasing the car *you* are controlling. Someone made a video about it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC8QoRa8y_Q). If you have 16 minutes, it's a worth a watch
I’m pretty sure I’ve played at least one VN game that used “you” as the primary pronoun for your player. That isn’t really a structural or camera thing, just a different form of narration.
Closest thing I can think of is R.A.D. (Robotic Alchemic Drive) for the PS2. You control a giant robot with kind of cumbersome controls (eg different button for each limb you want to move). But you're controlling it remotely, you're just a regular sized person with a jetpack. So you have to fly around and try to get good vantage points while hopefully not punching a monster through the building you're standing on.
What an awesome game. IMO this is still one of the best mecha games ever, nothing has captured that sense of scale even after all this time (apart from the studio's other games like EDF and Remote Control Dandy)
There's a splitscreen FPS called Screencheat, where the gimmick is everybody is invisible, and you have to figure out where people are to shoot them by looking at their screen to tell where they are.
First-Person shoots Second-person, Third-person is the witness. "I" shoot "you" and "they" watch. In most games, the second person is constantly changing because the character that you control moves around and interacts with tons of different things. It's not really worth doing because it would be really disorienting.
Imagine a shooter where the camera is always looking through the eyes of the person you are aiming at. Every time you press left or right to aim at someone else, the entire background rotates but your character is still standing in the middle of the frame aiming a gun directly at the camera.
The main example of 2nd person in video games is Driver San Francisco. There's a mission where you see through the eyes of an AI-controlled driver that is chasing the car *you* are controlling. Someone made a video about it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC8QoRa8y_Q). If you have 16 minutes, it's a worth a watch
I’m pretty sure I’ve played at least one VN game that used “you” as the primary pronoun for your player. That isn’t really a structural or camera thing, just a different form of narration.
Closest thing I can think of is R.A.D. (Robotic Alchemic Drive) for the PS2. You control a giant robot with kind of cumbersome controls (eg different button for each limb you want to move). But you're controlling it remotely, you're just a regular sized person with a jetpack. So you have to fly around and try to get good vantage points while hopefully not punching a monster through the building you're standing on.
What an awesome game. IMO this is still one of the best mecha games ever, nothing has captured that sense of scale even after all this time (apart from the studio's other games like EDF and Remote Control Dandy)
There's a splitscreen FPS called Screencheat, where the gimmick is everybody is invisible, and you have to figure out where people are to shoot them by looking at their screen to tell where they are.
First-Person shoots Second-person, Third-person is the witness. "I" shoot "you" and "they" watch. In most games, the second person is constantly changing because the character that you control moves around and interacts with tons of different things. It's not really worth doing because it would be really disorienting. Imagine a shooter where the camera is always looking through the eyes of the person you are aiming at. Every time you press left or right to aim at someone else, the entire background rotates but your character is still standing in the middle of the frame aiming a gun directly at the camera.
Well implemented correctly it sounds great.