Originally Posted by pox67
While hating respawn and indiscriminate level scaling I do like a first person view, at least as an option.
I find in 3rd person I am quite detached from my character but in first person I get more of a sense of being them. It must be the whole "seeing it through the characters eyes" thing. Also in first person you have to creep up to a corner in a dungeon and peek around it. In 3rd person you can just swing the camera around the corner and get a good look.

I agree with everything you said, but the melee system gets killed in the process. Arx wasnt very good, nor was Dark Messiah and Oblivion was pretty bad. Shield blocking was cool but thats about it.