First Person vs Third Person Character

One of the best parts of any good RPG such as Skyrim or The Witcher is equipping your character with the coolest looking armor and weapons. But, in the context of video game development this means the developer needs to design each armor piece and weapon in a 3D modelling software which for an inexperienced developer like me can be a very daunting and time consuming task. Moreover, a third person character requires more elaborate animations and fairly detailed character models. As my first video game development project, I decided to go with a first person character for the sake of simplicity.

Figure 1: A first person demo character in my project.