History Main / ThreeQuartersView

See also IsometricProjection, TopDownView and SideView.

** ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' primarily used a side-view for its action segments, and only used a¾ view for its overworld.

** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI The original]], at least was a very strange example that mixed top-down and 3/4 view in the same game. Walls were top-down, and trees and stumps were a squashed 3/4 view.
** ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' primarily used a side-view for its action segments, and only used a 3/4 view for its overworld.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' had quite a good 3/4 view for its sprites, though inside walls were top-down.
*** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' reuses the same 3/4 view as ''A Link to the Past'' despite having 3D graphics, though it changes into a close-up view when Link turns into a painting. [[http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss298/thatother1dude/fuckingeuclidhowdoesitwork.jpg The way the game achieves this]] is a rather hilarious demonstration of liberties this trope takes with real-life perspective.
** GameBoy titles follow the same guidelines as above for the tiles, but sprites are SideView.
* Probably every 3rd person action-adventure-RPG or RPG made solely by SSI in the early 1990s (see also ''Dark Sun'' in RPG):

* The Dark Castle, Mirage Palace and Dragon's Hole levels in ''BrutalMario'', as well as other ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' hacks using ''Seiken Densetsu 3/Secret of Mana'' graphics.

* ''{{Elona}}''

* All 3 ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' video games:

* ''VideoGame/ElementalGimmickGear'', except for {{Boss Battle}}s which are in full 3D.

* ''{{Pokemon}}''. The move to the {{DS}} with Gen 4 allowed them to use more a proper perspective, though this trope still applied when in buildings. They avert the trope in a few towns in Gen 5.

* The original ''VideoGame/SimCity'' used an inconsistent mix of 3/4 and top-down perspectives; later games switched to IsometricProjection.

* ''CommandAndConquer'' and ''Red Alert'': Tanks are not ''exactly'' viewed from above, and soldiers definitely aren't.

* ''LastAlert''

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''.

A method of portraying three dimensional space in a two-dimensional plane. Basically, it's a tilted bird's eye view perspective in which both the top and front of an object is seen at the same time, and the vertical axis indicates both height and depth.[[note]]Technically speaking, it's a very distant bird's eye view, zoomed to very high levels, with perspective not working "properly" because of high viewing distance.[[/note]] Most games that have this perspective will still have character sprites as if they've being viewed straight on, though some will have a more SuperDeformed style. Very popular during the 16-bit era for {{JRPG}}s.

* ''{{VideoGame/Adventure}}''

* ''{{VideoGame/ET The Extra Terrestrial}}''. Of course, one of the [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames problems]] with this game is something that wouldn't be as much of a problem in a side-scroller: ''[[HitboxDissonance pixel-perfect hit detection]]''. Because of the persepctive, you wouldn't ''expect'' E.T. to fall into a pit if a pixel of his ''head'' crossed it, but it does, and that can make it difficult to get out without falling right back in.
* ''Zelda'' until the debut of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. (Handheld titles still used this kind of perspective until the launch of the Ocarina of Time remake for the 3DS.)

* ''VideoGame/RaidersOfTheLostArk''

* ''{{VideoGame/Gauntlet}}'' was one of the first such games.

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* ''VideoGame/ChuckNorrisSuperkicks''

* ''TheGuardianLegend'' for the stages inside NAJU; the flying stages use TopDownView.

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* ''VideoGame/GhostManor''

* The ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series, despite being in 3D from the start.

* The ''Pack-in'' game ''Professer Layton:London Life'' uses This.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wolf}}

* ''{{VideoGame/ET The Extra Terrestrial}}''

* ''{{Gauntlet}}'' was one of the first such games.

* The ''Pack-in'' game ''Professer Layton:London Life''
Uses This.

* The 2D ''WorldOfMana'' games:
** ''ChildrenOfMana''
** ''FinalFantasyAdventure''
** ''SecretOfMana''
** ''SeikenDensetsu3''

** The original, at least was a very strange example that mixed top-down and 3/4 view in the same game. Walls were top-down, and trees and stumps were a squashed 3/4 view.

*** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' reuses the same 3/4 view as ''A Link to the Past'' despite having 3D graphics, though it changes into a close-up view when Link turns into a painting.

* ''VideoGame/UnchartedWaters 2'' had this, but only in ports.

* ''VideoGame/ElementalGimmickGear'', except for BossBattles which are in full 3D.

* ''Zelda'' until the debut of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. (Handheld titles still used this kind of perspective until the launch of the Ocarina of Time remake for the 3ds.)

* ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' (and thus, of course, ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Bowser's Inside Story]]'')

This view sometimes leads to secrets being hidden on the backs of buildings, which should logically be visible to the character but aren't to the player.