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Half-Life: Alyx Announced
- Thread starter Nzyme32
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windows VR headsets were free at bestbuy black friday 2 years ago. You can buy a Dell Windows VR headset on ebay for about $130 right now.
Half Life is one of my most enjoyed video game series. Witnessing a announcement of a new Half Life game is a sight to behold. I don't have budget for a VR headset in a near future but even it still makes me happy. And focusing on Alyx is great too. One of the most well realised video game character of all time. I hope a budget and acceptable VR solution for PC hits the market.
Well, if they're choosing VR to launch flagship AAA games, maybe there's actually hope this time. Another HL game is about to be revealed.
I think this will be the largest technologically-ambitious push that we have seen in gaming for a while. Financially it would be way safer and make more short-term sense to release an iterative 2D-monitor Half-Life title. But I expect Half Life Alyx to be an ever-green VR title that will continue to sell and grow alongside the market itself over the next decade.
At what adoption level will you magically recognize that VR isn't a gimmick? I mean, clearly the merit of the games themselves isn't relevant to you, so let's just have an intelligent conversation about how sales equate to quality /s
Having slept on this... I think I'm more excited for this because it's on VR than if it was just another new non-VR HL game. I've played a metric shit ton of VR in the last month or two and there's so much potential for a big budget FPS with weird sci-fi elements. People sceptical should go check out Stormland, Vader Immortal and all of Valves smaller VR offerings such as the Lab. These games are some of my favourites in VR and you should also look up Boneworks for how awesome an FPS could/can be in VR.
It sucks that so many people don't have VR so are understandly pissed off that a new Half-Life game is VR. I wonder if we'll get mods to make it playable with M&KB down the road?
It sucks that so many people don't have VR so are understandly pissed off that a new Half-Life game is VR. I wonder if we'll get mods to make it playable with M&KB down the road?
Same way PC gamers get upset about console exclusive games. Which is more common?
People keep asking for this, but proper VR controls don't scale back down to KB&M correctly. This is akin to wondering if there would be a mod for Mario 64 that would make it 2D and let it run on the SNES. At best, you'd arrive at a fundamentally completely different game.
You can outright do things in VR, that you can't do without VR. it's not just gaming with the mouse mapped to your headset.
If some PC gamer goes into a console gaming thread to complain that it's console exclusive, they get banned for port begging.
It's funny because usually, it's the other way around. People getting litterally pissed off that their exclusive game isn't exclusive anymore. Which is far more common.
Y'know, the same people saying
"Steam needs competition" "Epic is right to buy exclusives" "Exclusives are normal thing in the industry".
Even though, I doubt HLVR will be exclusive to Valve VR headsets.
Or to complain that Naughty Dog is a bad company because their roots are in 3D platformers and they have long abandoned that audience. That's literally how insane some of these mental gymnastic warriors sound regarding Valve.
I know Erik Wolpal is back as a contractor, but as far as I can see, Marc Laidlaw and Chet Faliszek are still gone.
Ok, maybe I should have phrased it differently. I guess neglected would have been better? Ignored?
At least I don't approve how they have handled the franchise and that's surely something we can all agree on.
Not from what I see in here there is way more port begging than angst over lost exclusives. Most games went multiplatform a long time ago. Anyway my only issue with this is tying it to VR seems manipulative. I guess that is the only way they would make another one though so take what you can get I guess.
Rather than neglect, I think that they had a vision on where they wanted the franchise to go (VR was the perfect fit) and for technology to catch up to make that vision become reality.
Now more and more people have good enough rigs to run VR (thanks to the Steam Hardware Survey) that this all become viable to do now.
It won't. I'm sure you're aware, but having a one-size-fits-all SDK for VR is quite literally the entire point of OpenVR:
It may be exclusive to non-touch VR platforms in a functional sense, but it most definitely won't be Vive/Index-exclusive.
I sure hope you are right. I'd welcome it if this turns out to be a AAA VR experience. My fear is that it is just some glorified nostalgia trip to test the VR waters.
Maybe a couple of people care, I guess
Era's bubble is truly embarrassing sometimes
I do not live in USA/Europe
you realise that there are places outside of the US, right?
It's been mentioned plenty of times, but according to a leaker it's a 16+ hour single player game. They wouldn't call it a flagship game if it was anything but that.
User Warned: Trolling.
34 pages and basically no information... Half-Life enthusiasts sure are something.
Haven't followed this thread through and missed that bit. Thanks for the info. In this case, I switch my stance to cautiously optimistic
Funny thing is some people are trying to say the response has been muted or that there's a "low" amount of pages lmao
A lot of people came in to express their excitement. Now we're left with people who hate that it exists for some reason.
Marc Laidlaw is not back is he? IIRC he wrote the main story solely for HL+HL2 and got backup writers for episode 2 parts. I did know other writers came back (Wolpaw?), and I dont say they are not capable of writing good, I just questioning it.
You're not wrong. I remember trying VRChat before I got VR, years ago. And that game controls radically better in VR as it was intended.
The game will be exclusive to Steam VR! (Steam VR supports all headsets)
The project started with the intent of making a VR game.
How is that manipulative.
It wasn't some executive decision made in the middle of developement.
Maybe between work, social obligations, engaging in hobbies and sleep, not everyone has the capacity to be completely up to date with every facet of the gaming industry at all times. C'mon friend, be reasonable.
Whatever this game might be: it's just crazy to see Valve make a game called 'Half Life' again..
Very excited for this. Need to buy a Quest asap!
nice edit
You can already see how upset people are that this title is VR-only. Can you imagine the uproar when THE Half Life game everyone has wanted for over 10 years is vr-only?
Hopefully the start of many more! I still want HL3. Hell, Ep3 would be great too.
