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What is your preferred camera angle for racing games?

  • No car

    Votes: 3 3.0%
  • First-person

    Votes: 22 22.2%
  • Hood

    Votes: 21 21.2%
  • Behind

    Votes: 18 18.2%
  • A bit further behind

    Votes: 33 33.3%
  • Passenger view

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • That one level of Driver San Fran, but a whole game!

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • Total voters
    99

Dan-o

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,902
Choose your preferred racing game camera angle:

No-car, no problem, all road.
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Put yo fuckin' hands up for first-person view with your modelin' hands:
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Just the hood...
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Bring it 'round the outside. 'round the outside.
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Just a wee bit further...
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I'm your passengerrrrrr....
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Driver, San Fran style...
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Drive me backwards off a cliff if redundant.
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viotech3

Member
Jul 31, 2020
5,236
Maryland
Honestly it's moods. I'm mostly a first person driver but sometimes for seriousness I go third person, and occasionally that zooooomed out option.
 

MZZ

Member
Nov 2, 2017
4,285
Sometimes I want to see the inside of the car. Sometimes I want to see the car.

Outside If I need to be more careful. No car if I want to feel like flying.
 

TronLight

Member
Jun 17, 2018
2,463
People voting "No car" are complete psychopaths.
It's either "behind" or "a bit further". Cockpit is cool too but less.
 

Jaypah

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,866
Hood mostly in sim style racers (occasionally 1st person) and a combo of hood/behind the car for arcade style racers.
 

Starwing

One Winged Slayer
The Fallen
Oct 31, 2018
4,125
As a kid, I perferred third person. Nowadays, I use first person when I can.
 

.exe

Member
Oct 25, 2017
22,274
Usually behind, but hood cam is my racing equivalent of the gamer lean.
 

Lant_War

Classic Anus Game
Banned
Jul 14, 2018
23,601
Depends heavily on the game, but in general the camera close to the car behind is my choice. Driveclub's default is perfect imo:

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VodkaFX

Member
May 31, 2018
931
Hood if sim
Behind the car if arcade racer (e.g. Daytona USA, Wangan)


Used to be no car when I play racing games as a kid, but over time i realized that view is so bad, because the camera is so close to the ground, its very hard to see the incoming terrain / path.