So, I like the strong silent type of playable character, but only when I'm inside that charact-- I mean, when I'm playing as that character. Visual and audible cues often dictate player response to characters. When players can both see and hear the character speak they create a connection between the two. However, in first-person, you can't get this sort of player reaction to the played character because the player doesn't see the character speak. I don't think player characters need to be toned down so that players can [i]become[/i] that character, I think that elements within the game should allow the player to take control of a character, make the player really feel like he/she is this person that's talking. [b]What I think would work best:[/b] We should be able to see the character's face, be able to see him/her talk, but introduce the third, and quite possibly most important factor, player input. Player input is what can turn these two things from seeing and hearing a character to becoming a character. It would be really cool to see something like an interior helmet shot in the corner of the screen that showed the character's face while he/she talked, because as the character spoke the player could be playing, shooting, using the right stick to look around, but the character would keep talking; you would be able to see him/her talk, hear him/her talk, and most importantly see his/her eyes move around in the helmet (a direct action of the player). That is reinforced player-character interaction.