Why isn't destiny a Third Person Shooter?

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Friday, August 02, 2013, 00:21 (4347 days ago) @ Cody Miller

A couple others also said that it's because Bungie is a FPS studio or that it has to be first person to be competitive, but I don't really see those as valid points.

Are they? Then what is Oni, Myth, PiD and Minotaur?

"What are games from two decades ago, Alex?"

And PiD is an FPS.

Oni was third person, but not because of aesthetic reasons, but because I think it works best for melee focused gameplay. Some might say that the gunplay suffered a bit, but that was the ambitious vision for the game. It looks to me like melee in Destiny works pretty much like Halo's did (prior to executions).