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Half-Life: Alyx Announced
- Thread starter Nzyme32
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In US dollars, you can get a $150-200 headset and play this game.
I had a Samsung Odyssey Plus and I currently have a quest. They're really, really, not the same thing
I see your gameplay video and I'll raise you one.
This hasn't been tackled at the AAA level yet, and that makes all the difference. Valve could also redefine AI if they wanted by having some very complex and intimate AI interactions where you can use your body language to change the state of other characters. Audio is another thing. No one has ever done spatialized audio propagation in a AAA game.
Is the tracking quality seriously that big of an improvement? Sorry, I'm just fairly skeptical of camera tracking solutions from experience.
Though for some reason Acer is still selling their WMR headset for $799?! Bloody hell, what a ripoff.
I own 9 different VR headsets, including the Dell MR headset I'm recommending, a Quest, and a Rift S. You really are exaggerating the difference.
I wonder those that are such haters on this announcement, does it upset you when someone is excited? Do you just file them under fool and proceed to come in and flame on.
Im excited for something new. I get being upset but some people really love hating on valve.
Im excited for something new. I get being upset but some people really love hating on valve.
Well in my case the WMR was so bad I returned it a day after. I also had a vive and if I had to compare the quest to it I'd see the tracking is almost as good.
Not getting excited before i see what this actually is.... maybe its not a full AAA game for VR.
It is. It has been confirmed as lengthy AAA singleplayer by multiple sources.
For those who can play it, I hope it's good, but I don't think I could ever justify the cost considering I'm not particularly interested in any other VR titles.
I'd be looking at close to £1000 in order to play this game (PC would need upgrades + Headset) and that is something I simply can not afford.
I'd be looking at close to £1000 in order to play this game (PC would need upgrades + Headset) and that is something I simply can not afford.
You didn't get the memo?
VR games are only tech demos. Not REAL games
It'll be an evergreen game. This is just to get the ball rolling, get more early adopters in and increase VR ownership. Valve probably see it as a game that will make money over years, not immediately. In short, it'll be waiting for you when you're ready to jump into VR, hopefully at that time with a bunch of other amazing VR titles too.
To me it was,
I had a Vive before getting the Odyssey and the tracking was so poor I returned in the following day, the cameras were placed in a bad way and had a really bad tracking window, the Quest has 4 cameras positioned at the outer edges of the headset, I can actually draw a bow with a quest and on the Odyssey I couldn't, there was also huge amounts of jitter throughout the entire experience and it was just unpleasant to play, especially coming from a Vive.
I was sceptical as you were when I got my quest but I was pleasantly surprised, the tracking window is quite big, controllers are smooth, and with the fact it's a standalone device and now can also play PCVR, it's the most bang for the buck headset on the market, I bought it from Amazon just because I would have returned it if it turned out to be as poor as the Odyssey, I did not.
If I compare it to my old Vive, the Vive's tracking was amazing, and the Quest isn't as good, but not far at all, but it improved on pretty much every other way on the original Vive.
Oh and PSVR tracking is the worst of the bunch lol
I'm sure this has been posted before in this thread, but in case anyone missed it VNN called it weeks ago.
"Their plan is to win you over with nostalgia and graphics"
"Instead of people being mad it's on VR, people will be mad they can't get VR any sooner"
"The game is close to photo realistic, and without a doubt the single best looking VR game"
"Their plan is to win you over with nostalgia and graphics"
"Instead of people being mad it's on VR, people will be mad they can't get VR any sooner"
"The game is close to photo realistic, and without a doubt the single best looking VR game"
I'd imagine she'd have to. Way too much of a character to just become a Gordon.
That photo-realistic part I'm a bit sceptical about, we got some good looking VR games now but they're still limited by what our hardware can do, I'm sure it will look good, but doubt it's going to be photorealistic.
I can see them thinking that it would "ruin the immersion" or whatever and just finding ways around it like always, plus Im just so used to FPS characters being silent whenever playable but switching to a chatterbox once they arent and vice versa, Barney from Blue Shift being the closest example.
there are a couple, but they're all shipped from America. shipping a used VR headset from the other side of the world for $200 is still cost prohibitive and a huge shipping risk. the local used market for windows mixed reality headsets are still like $400
Yeah, there are some things with AI - shaking a character's hand and having them comment on your grip, or communicating with hand signals ('Make a fist when you want us to fire').
Hopefully whatever they show on Thursday is awesome.
On a channel called Valve News Network :D
Of course his fanboy is showing, maybe just a little!
Just wait until Nintendo announces Mother 4, Eternal Darkness 2 and an Ice Climbers reboot.
RE7 is a fantastic flat game that has a great VR mode.
VR games that take full advantage of VR which RE7 doesnt have a harder time translating.
If a new Suikoden, Tomba! (yeah I said it in a world where freaking Bubsy made a comeback I'm within my rights to expect anything), Wild Arms, Jak and Daxter or Breath of Fire are announced I'll lose my shit
I would also lose my mind at anything Alex Kidd related, whether that is Alex Kidd is Smash (he has a giant fist for christ sakes!!), a remake of Miracle World or a Brand new Alex Kidd I will throw my money at it.
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They literally opted to not be the company pumping out sequels unless it had purpose. That's the best possible outcome vs overuse. HL was always a step forward in some way. In VR, simultaneously developed along side the higher fidelity hardware - that seems undoubtably to recur
what company keeps all its devs in this industry for 20 plus years?
Valve have one of the lowest turnovers
Astro Bot already exists.
What was the last singleplayer game by Valve? Portal 2 in 2011?
Yep. That's why I'm not going to get too involved in this lazy anti-VR discussion. When Thursday comes all the haters will be holding back tears.
Lol, you know it!
Hey, they gave you two whole days to prepare your body for it!
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Astro Bot fundamentally plays of the same strengths of Super Mario 64 as a platformer with a gamepad.
HL:A will aim to define the 1:1 finger, hand control, interaction and manipulation of a virtual world and try to define a VR game in that holistic way.
Astro Bot is irrelevant.
The previous poster is comparing how Nintendo defined the analogue stick, and now Valve will attempt to define the controller of a completely different medium - simultaneously trying to show what they think makes a stellar VR game compared to the VR shooters we have to date
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