I was always very unimpressed with VR until I borrowed a headset to play Half Life Alyx. That game convinced me VR is the inevitable future of gaming. The rest of the industry may not be there yet, but it is an obviously superior experience.
As a Valve Index owner myself, I will actually disagree with VR being "THE future".
Not all games work well in VR. For example, I would not want to play World of Warcraft in VR. Your character has too many abilities that you couldn't possibly map them out on a VR controller, and even if you could, it'd be immersion breaking.
Games played from a top-down view like RTS or colony/base/city builders, or games that might involve looking at a lot of text, would probably not work well either.
> I was always very unimpressed with VR until I borrowed a headset to play Half Life Alyx.
The word "borrowed" stands out for me: I also tried a cutting edge VR headset loaned from a co-worker but did not then rush out and buy one. Because the experience felt like more of a "novelty", not a day-to-day thing that I would switch over to.
Sohcahtoa82|5 years ago
Not all games work well in VR. For example, I would not want to play World of Warcraft in VR. Your character has too many abilities that you couldn't possibly map them out on a VR controller, and even if you could, it'd be immersion breaking.
Games played from a top-down view like RTS or colony/base/city builders, or games that might involve looking at a lot of text, would probably not work well either.
lovecg|5 years ago
> you couldn't possibly map them out on a VR controller
Hand tracking + 10 fingers, possibilities are endless! Like casting spells for real.
> Games played from a top-down view like RTS or colony/base/city builders
Fly over the map like some kind of a demigod and manipulate cities directly? Sign me up.
JKCalhoun|5 years ago
The word "borrowed" stands out for me: I also tried a cutting edge VR headset loaned from a co-worker but did not then rush out and buy one. Because the experience felt like more of a "novelty", not a day-to-day thing that I would switch over to.
faeyanpiraat|5 years ago
And sitting down looking forward in a vr goggle, and turning your character around with a mouse induces wild nausea for a number* of people.
*I’m unfamiliar with the exact ratio.
hervature|5 years ago
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otabdeveloper4|5 years ago
Video games are only a way to get a quick dopanine rush, and that's the local optimum that gets you your rush quickest and easiest.
VR is not needed.