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Half-Life: Alyx Announced
- Thread starter Nzyme32
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Do we have any leaks that indicate how long the game could be? Or the the setting/timeline? I hope it's closer in gameplay to the original Half LIfe, at least as far as it being indoor and crawling through vents, solving puzzles, etc. There's nothing quite like that game and I always do a full play through of all the Half Life games at least once per year. So excited to see the Half-Life universe in VR, going to be nuts. I really really really hope this leads them into making Half-Life 3, L4D3, and Portal 3. I always felt they were holding of because they wanted VR tech to mature before going in. I hope that's the case and we start getting more news on these games.
With Nintendo on the rebound with Switch and its amazing games, Game Pass, AoEIV, Shenmue III, and now a new Half-Life game?? I feel like gaming is as its best point for me since the early 2000s. So excited for this!!!
With Nintendo on the rebound with Switch and its amazing games, Game Pass, AoEIV, Shenmue III, and now a new Half-Life game?? I feel like gaming is as its best point for me since the early 2000s. So excited for this!!!
At this point, as you will no doubt be unsurprised to hear, a Certain Sinister Figure appeared, in the form of that sneering trickster, G-Man. For once he appeared not to me, but to Alyx Vance. Alyx had not seen the cryptical schoolmaster since childhood, but she recognized him, instantly. "Come along with me now, we've places to be and things to do," said G-Man, and Alyx acquiesced.
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SteamVR is a vendor agnostic VR platform. Most PC VR headsets are supported. Modders have got support in there for all kinds of other hardware
I assumed this would be exclusive to Valve's platform, right?
Yes and no, it's coming to Steam VR, which works with a multitude of VR headsets including Oculus Rift. So you'll have to buy it on Steam, but that doesn't limit the hardware it'll run on.
Valve isn't interested in hardware-locking VR games.
As much as I love half life no way I can justify the cost of upgrading my PC and buying a headset for just one game (I have no interest in any other VR games).
Interesting.
So... For someone in Australia the Vive would be the best way to go?
I'll do anything to get closure for the end of EP2. VR or not I don't give a shit anymore. Strap that fucking headset to me and let me rest.
That'd go against much of what they've been trying to do with VR for the last several years, so - it'd be surprising if it was.
A reminder:
It may be limited by functionality of the hardware (particularly controllers), but it's unlikely to be exclusive to Valve VR hardware.
It isn't. I think I saw someone earlier in the thread say modders had even got PSVR to work with SteamVR.
That's not how valve works. They're consumer oriented. SteamVR works for most if not all PC headsets.
damn, some of yall really on this "its a tech demo" train when it's not xd
If you mean Steam? Good bet it won't be showing up anywhere else.
But the actual VR hardware support will be everything. I'd personally recommend people just buy the Oculus Quest and play that way, but to each their own.
extremely highly doubt Valve would lock anything of theirs to any one platform, that's not how they operate
To be fair non-VR mods will happen whether they allow it or not.
There were rumblings a long time ago from Valve that Portal 2 was their last normal AAA game, and that if they did another, they'd want it to push new boundaries, and they kinda hinted at VR.
So I've been expecting this.....
But yeah I'm still disappointed.
I can't believe it. There was all the smoke in the world that this was really going to be a thing, but I still really didn't believe it.
I feel like that dude that the camera pans to from Sony's E3 2015 after Shenmue 3 got announced who stands up in the audience.
I feel like that dude that the camera pans to from Sony's E3 2015 after Shenmue 3 got announced who stands up in the audience.
It's not about whether or not they will allow it to happen, they totally will. What I'm saying is that with the way this game sounds to be designed, it would a really difficult process to get that non-vr mod working properly.
you can buy any brand of VR headsets for PC, and some of them are in $200-$400 price range now. Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality. Hopefully Oculus Quest with the Oculus Link works too
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