Isn't "first person POV" actually in second person?

[Penis Drager]

First person is the narrator.
Second person is the reader (or player in this case I guess).
Third person is anyone else.

In the "first person POV" is it supposed to be implied that it is you, the player, doing the action. So that makes it second person, not first person. Does it not?

 

[lemme ASS you a question]

yeah, well my eye twitches when i pee, whats your point

 

[Larkin N Likin]

the person whose eyes you are viewing it through is the one living the story. you experience the world through their eyes first, making it first person, the same way that a story told in first person is explained by the narrator first and then interpreted by you. the fact that you can control them just comes with the medium of video games. the only truely second person videogames are text adventures because they're the only games that the definition of 'second person' doesn't break under. second person requires your actions to be explained to you and that doesn't work when you're in the action

 

[sasazuka]

This video makes the case that "Second-person perspective" is watching your character through the eyes of an NPC or another player and it uses as an example a car chase mission in Driver: San Francisco where the perspective is behind-the-wheel but you're actually controlling the car in front.

Spoiler: Nick Robinson - This Is What a "Second-Person" Video Game Would Look Like

 

[Penis Drager]

This video makes the case that "Second-person perspective" is watching your character through the eyes of an NPC or another player and it uses as an example a car chase mission in Driver: San Francisco where the perspective is behind-the-wheel but you're actually controlling the car in front.

Spoiler: Nick Robinson - This Is What a "Second-Person" Video Game Would Look Like

Fair argument. I'll take it.

 

[sasazuka]

Driver: San Francisco is a great game that's fairly infamous for only being downloadable via pirate sites these days probably due to Ubisoft having opted to use licensed cars for that particular installment in the series, not to mention all of the licensed music, and all those licenses have probably long-expired.

I'm glad that I have a physical copy of it for the XBox 360.