@abrasion: Yep, I'm 23 and I drive all the time. The thing is this is a video game so they take liberties that are unrealistic, yet do a good job at tricking people into thinking that it is realistic. For example first person camera angles in shooters have always been unrealistic. If you think about it they either look like the camera is in the centre of the chest or the person is holding the weapon in a ridiculous manner. However if you were to make the perspective more realistic most people would find it detrimental, because even though they are looking in the distance for enemies, they like to be able to glance at their weapon and see how it looks. Also having that weapon in the characters view helps make solidify that there is a character there. Without it it's easier to think of "the player" as a floating camera and not "my guy"
Also I think part of the reason I prefer the cockpit view is that I check my speed and my mirrors frequently so while the interior of the car is not always seen it is frequently seen. Oh and when I drive I can always see the a bit of my hood, the top of the wheel and sometimes my hand, so at least for me, that drawing with the added field of view is inaccurate. So while neither view is perfect I find the "cockpit" view to feel like I am inside a car, whereas the dash cam makes me feel like I'm either looking out of a police style dash cam or I have my chin way over the wheel so all I can see is when is in front and outside. But generally I use the 3rd person view for driving because it seems the most efficient in a game.
But yeah, removing features sucks. Even if you were one of 10 people who used that view and it got focus tested out, the fact is that they remade the game and added a bunch of features, but they took out one that clearly matters to you and that sucks. They probably though that it was one too many views to cycle through, but I feel like it wouldn't be terribly hard to have an option in the menu that picks which form of first person driving your car goes to so it can toggle between the 3rd person views and the cockpit view or the 3rd person views and the dash cam.
Just because something seems pointless to me doesn't mean it's removal doesn't impact others. Being nasty about it just seems childish and it sucks that you got responses like that.
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