The Witcher 3 is a whole new experience in first person

theverge.com:

As one of the most unanimously beloved video games of all time, it’s difficult to imagine The Witcher 3as anything other than what it emphatically is: a sprawling, gorgeous, third-person RPG spearheaded by a gruff old man who’s best pals with his horse. Geralt also likes collecting cards and betting on races, both of which are hobbies he practices while he’s supposed to be looking for his missing daughter. That’s not to mention his fondness for fisticuffs.

Aside from all of the above, part of what has made CD Projekt Red’s behemoth role-playing game so enduring is how reliably fans can recall its stinky swamps, snow-laden sierras, and repugnant little rotfiends, all of which we’ve come to know through a third-person lens. But ever since 2016, fan-made first-person mods for The Witcher 3 have existed — though they’ve never been on par with official support for the game and have since been hidden on Nexus, the internet’s largest modding hub. For the most part, these projects have felt like proof-of-concept experiments far more so than actionable add-ons designed to change flow, pacing, or functionality in the game.

That was until Gervant First Person, a 2021 mod that blows all previous attempts at converting The Witcher 3 into a first-person RPG out of the water. While it’s technically almost a year old, its main file was updated just last month, evidence of its continuous progress as it attempts to reimagine not just general exploration or perspective but cutscenes, combat, and everything in between.

“I just wanted to fight some nekkers in first person and didn’t find a suitable mod for that,” crthdr, the mod’s enigmatic creator, tells The Verge. “First person isn’t ‘better,’ but that’s how I prefer to play computer