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Half-Life: Alyx Announced
- Thread starter Nzyme32
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I really really hate VR and don't wanna play Half Life in VR but i actually really agree with this statement. I trust Valve, and i hope this is the game that changes my opinion on VR. (Or be the first VR game that doesn't make me dizzy and nauseous after 10 minutes)
the phrase "run into the ground" indicates exhaustive overuse
How do you run something into the ground without...doing anything with it?
Will you need the knuckles controllers to play this? Nobody is using the knuckles' finger tracking because Rift and Vive don't have them and the Valve Index costs a thousand dollars. The only developer that would use them is Valve.
One thousand dollars to play the next Half-Life.
One thousand dollars to play the next Half-Life.
I can't believe I woke up to Valve announced a new Half-Life game. Like it's kinda surreal. I am not excited at all.
2019: "Why are they releasing Half-Life on VR? No one has that, they are limiting their audience."
2004: "Why are they releasing Half-Life on Steam? No one has that, they are limiting their audience."
2004: "Why are they releasing Half-Life on Steam? No one has that, they are limiting their audience."
how is installing a piece of sw even comparable to buying and using a vr set..
I doubt it. The announcement for this week was leaked, and PC Gamer ran the rumor. They probably felt it was worth getting ahead of the baseless speculation.
If you've tried good VR and don't enjoy it for whatever reason, that's unfortunate, but the revolutionary possibilities of the medium have clearly inspired Valve, and I'd expect a lot more VR titles from them.
??
Call of duty
Fifa
Madden
Tekken
Street Fighter
Mario
Sonic
Final Fantasy
Are these all run into the ground too, with no hope?
$$$ and player base beg to differ
Valve's last public estimate of VR headset users on Steam was 720K in December 2018. But that was a pretty big jump from earlier in 2018, and I imagine 1.8 million is a high-end estimate of the current PC-VR landscape (which just grew via today's Oculus Link update). With that number in mind: my guess is, HL:A will have no less than 55% attach rate (I mean, I'd love to guess 99% but I'll make room), so that's roughly 1 million copies, $30-60 a pop... then add in maybe 20K Valve Index kits sold because of this game, plus those people buying more SteamVR games (and giving Valve 30% of those software sales), and it's not a bad amount of money to recoup after however many years this game's been in development.
Additionally, it'll drive whatever Oculus Rift / Rift S users who *haven't* installed SteamVR to do just that, and who knows how many thousands of SteamVR software purchases that might additionally drive?
In other words, VR doesn't have to be the mega-hugest sector for Valve to make a dime off of HLA in isolation, let alone what the game may do to bolster SteamVR adoption. Even if HL:A's lifetime revenue doesn't surpass, like, a single day of Steam skimming 30% off of other games, it's still money.
No. Knuckles will enhance the experience, but SteamVR changes inputs depending on the controllers used. Touch, Vive wands, any other motion controllers will be supported. Same with the headset, any headset that works with SteamVR (pretty much all of them) will be able to play HL:A.
I'm so sick of this pretentious nonsensical talking point that gets dredged up in every Half Life discussion. You know how you make a follow up to Half Life? By making an excellent game - that's it. There's no secret innovative paradigm shifting magical formula you have to discover to create a Half Life sequel that players will be thrilled with.
Nah, he's right. Valve always want to push the envelope, even if they could still make an excellent HL3.
This is as dumb as the anti VR posts. People are going wild for this because it's Half-Life, not because it's VR.
the user's post was that maybe the game will move SteamVR's adoption to 2%. 2% of the steam active monthly userbase of 90 million is 1.8 million.
There are already more than 1 million PCVR headsets sold, though. Oculus Quest alone has already sold over 400,000 units.
Same. I was a VR sceptical until I played SUPERHOT and realized that this was something that couldn't exist outside of VR.
I'm really curious to see what a big Valve VR game could look like.
It seems so unreal we're getting a new Half-Life. Hopefully it's not just a glorified tech demo to flex on how good they are with VR, but actually a full-blown game that would stand tall with or without virtual reality. Too many VR games only work because there's the immersion factor, taken out of context they're often very basic and unimpressive videogames. I have little faith in Valve as the last game I enjoyed from them came out almost a decade ago, but I'm ready to give this a fair shot if it's worth playing it.
There is also a think about them believing that creating a higher VR base on Steam would help kickstart a positive feedback loop (more devs making good/great VR games leading to more people buying VR kits which in turn increases the market for more devs) as well as long tail sales by the game (as most Valve games have seen huge tails).
With how much people complain about EGS on here you would think it does 😂
Um steam is a free app that takes minutes to set up.
Wooh and my Oculus Quest just got PC link. Bring on the Half Life VR madness.
Go nice with my I9 2080Ti. It sure is great when you have what it takes to not be salty.
Go nice with my I9 2080Ti. It sure is great when you have what it takes to not be salty.
Honestly, I could give a shit about Half Life.
I'm more excited about someone other than Sony taking a huge hack at VR. I'm confident that one day in the future VR will have its Myst Moment, and while I'm not optimistic this is it I'm certainly hopeful!
I'm more excited about someone other than Sony taking a huge hack at VR. I'm confident that one day in the future VR will have its Myst Moment, and while I'm not optimistic this is it I'm certainly hopeful!
a VR headset would cost me a minimum of $650
steam is free
FOH
Yup, very interested to see how the character models and lip-sync work shape up.
My thoughts exactly, hopes and dreams will get squashed (love to be proven wrong though, would totally borrow my friend's setup for this).
kind of like how it's hard to imagine they would end an episodic game on a cliffhanger and go "welp it was a good run"
it's not even HL3. It's a prequel. A well made, fun game would be received well regardless wether it's half life or not.
VR may have motivated valve more, but people acting like it's "needed" in any way to make a new HL (that, once again, isn't even HL3) is kinda eye rolling to be honest.
If they're resurfacing with HL after 10 years, that means they've actually had time to come up with a plan. Whereas after HL2, the episodic model seemed to have failed them.
Never ever saying "it's happening" again after EP2, but it's possible
If the game supports teleportation and you play it at 144Hz on an Index, sickness will be basically impossible. It may even just fine for you without teleportation.
A VR Headset, if you live in USA/Europe, can go as low as 200 dollars. Heck, Windows MR headset has been seen at 150 dollars during Black Friday.
Oh you poor soul. I appreciate the positivity, but they've proven time and time again that they couldn't care less about making new video games to their beloved franchises of the past.