I absolutely love the sound design in the Half-Life series. It's so unique and immediately recognisable. I'm glad they're keeping them!
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Half Life: Alyx - Reveal Trailer & Interview (March 2020 for SteamVR)
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I absolutely love the sound design in the Half-Life series. It's so unique and immediately recognisable. I'm glad they're keeping them!
This comment makes no sense.
"Game designed to do 2 things will not do 1 of them properly". How are you getting to that conclusion.
It's really freaky hearing those classic HL sounds, and Dr Kleiner and Alxy and Vortigaunts talking, seeing GMan, all in a new product.
It's been so long...
It's been so long...
Is this from Half-Life Alyx or did it exist before?This graphic should be in OP......
I think it's good that they didn't just jump into Half Life 3 after so many years. I think this probably did make a good warmup for them.
Oh my... It looks so good...
Haven't been this hyped by a trailer since BOTW trailers...
And I'm not even a big Half Life 2 fan (I do really like 1 tho)
Seems indeed like a big game changer for VR.
Haven't been this hyped by a trailer since BOTW trailers...
And I'm not even a big Half Life 2 fan (I do really like 1 tho)
Seems indeed like a big game changer for VR.
Well that was pretty cool. I dig into oculus rift a little bit but was underwhelmed by VR. Maybe this will change things? Perhaps these new next gen headsets are worth it.
haha kinda. I think def at first they must of felt like that but I am not sure if they were just super nervous. Think of being the faces of Half Life Alyx after letting us wait over a decade for some kind of Half Life game.
I thought it was kind of a weak trailer personally. Not sure why they felt the need to replace the actor for Alyx. Eli.. looks and sounds off. Music, which is a massive component of HL, sounded pretty standard and not at all like it usually does in the franchise. It just.. didn't really have much of a HL feel, to me anyway. Probably just the way the trailer was cut.
That said, conceptually, it's awesome, and there's some really great artwork happening with the building of the citadel.
I'm going to need some in depth gameplay demos before even thinking about buying VR for this game.
That said, conceptually, it's awesome, and there's some really great artwork happening with the building of the citadel.
I'm going to need some in depth gameplay demos before even thinking about buying VR for this game.
What if this "you should play Episode Two first" stuff is that this is all framed as a story that Alyx is telling Gordon on the helicopter ride to the Borealis because she's reminiscing about Eli and how it all started for her.
Like you just turn to your right and you see a fully modeled modern gen Gordon Freeman sitting in the next seat.
Like you just turn to your right and you see a fully modeled modern gen Gordon Freeman sitting in the next seat.
It took screencaps from the Half-Life Alyx website released today
Happy to see a new installment but the art direction, especially with the characters lets me down a bit. HL2 is not really stylized, while this clearly goes into that direction. Something in the character stylization sticks out to me like a sore thumb.
Not hating it, but its a bit.. I dont know how to word it. The old HL2 had a bit more finesse to it in the characters and the world, this feels too crowded and over the top. I saw the next graphical step in HL to have characters photo scanned from unique looking people and a certain look to the world that I am not really seeing here.
Anyway, never thought I would see the day VALVE announcing a new HL game! cant wait to actually play the game.
Not hating it, but its a bit.. I dont know how to word it. The old HL2 had a bit more finesse to it in the characters and the world, this feels too crowded and over the top. I saw the next graphical step in HL to have characters photo scanned from unique looking people and a certain look to the world that I am not really seeing here.
Anyway, never thought I would see the day VALVE announcing a new HL game! cant wait to actually play the game.
Valve doesn't expect anyone to buy a $1000 Index and $1500 PC to play this. This is for the millions of people who already have a modern gaming PC and have been thinking about buying (or already own) one of the cheaper VR headsets like Rifts, Quest, WMR, or Vive 1.0's. Anyone who could afford a PC capable of running this and has $60 to spend on singular videogames can come up with $200 or $300 for an HMD (far less if you're willing to buy second hand).
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Holy shit, I just realizedGravity Gloves, Hour 1
Hour 15
What If they pull an end of half life 2 super gravity gun with the gloves...
PSVR 2 maybe if Sony upgrades the tech and makes the tracking more in line with PCVR.
Either a Quest/Rift S (US$399) or a WMR set when those go on sale (I've seen good sales on the Odyssey+, like 200-300 USD range).
Ah damn. I think I vaguely remember hearing this? That sucks
Valve spent the last several years making SteamVR. SteamVR is to VR headsets, what OpenGL or DirectX is to Graphics Cards. It lets VR applications run on any PCVR headset.
Buy the cheapest VR headset that explicitly connects to your PC. Those are usually the Microsoft Windows VR headsets. You can buy them on ebay for about $130.
Well, it "looks" fantastic. Seeing it all again in a modern game, City 17, the Citadel, the Combine soldiers, G-Man at the end there... it makes me want a Half-Life game that plays in a conventional manner all the more. The VR stuff looks pretty neat. I'm sure people who want that are in for an absolute treat.
I don't think I've ever felt so utterly conflicted over a game as this before. I really want to play it because it's a new Half-Life; I really don't want to play it because it's VR. :\
I don't think I've ever felt so utterly conflicted over a game as this before. I really want to play it because it's a new Half-Life; I really don't want to play it because it's VR. :\
Or you turn to your right and see a fully modeled modern gen Alyx Vance sitting in the next seat, because you are now Gordon Freeman. Roll credits.
Exactly, and that enrages me a bit.
Before anyone could talk about port-begging: this is not the case.
Had the game been announced for any traditional platform I'd have simply considered buying it, just like any other exclusive.
In this case yet they announced what is basically a new chapter for a long-neglected saga for a completely different kind of platform. One which is not useable for everyone due to specific requirements and features.
Legit, of course.
Yet, this will for sure make my stand change regarding giving money to Valve.
She now sounds quite a bit older than alyx in HL2 (she came up on the VVN stream) and this takes place before that so she would be even a few years younger. its been 15 years, would be strange to have a younger alyx have the voice of an far older woman
Thanks folks! I'll look into all this.
Well you would probably need an expensive computer as well so it would not matter if you need VR or not.
There's definilty going to be some hook or framing device that's after episode 2.
here's Alyx walking up to some shelf before grabbing ammo:
it's very likely room-scale movement, but if you scroll up, you'll see that all major forms of locomotion are supported
Actually pretty surprised about lack of lashback regarding VR here (steam forum for example is a mess). Guess it makes sense because Resetera have lot of familiarity with consoles; people are familiar with having to upgrade their device for newer games.
I have a Windows Mixed Reality headset but I'm sure it will not be the same experience.
The craziest thing about this is that the game comes out in 5 months. While there was always speculation about them working on Half-Life related VR, they managed to basically produce a full-length Half-Life game without any details or anything leaking.
The craziest thing about this is that the game comes out in 5 months. While there was always speculation about them working on Half-Life related VR, they managed to basically produce a full-length Half-Life game without any details or anything leaking.
Looks good for sure and the HL vibe is there, but it screams to me that, creatively speaking, Valve is bankrupt in terms of storytelling.
It seems we're going back to the same events, over and over again, just viewed from a different perspective (which they already did back in the days with HL Opposing Force).
Will pass until it's either not on VR, or on a VR platform that is both very cheap and ubiquitous, hopefully in a few years from now.
Shame, I think Alyx deserved to have her own full blown sequel with HL3, and not constrained by VR.
It seems we're going back to the same events, over and over again, just viewed from a different perspective (which they already did back in the days with HL Opposing Force).
Will pass until it's either not on VR, or on a VR platform that is both very cheap and ubiquitous, hopefully in a few years from now.
Shame, I think Alyx deserved to have her own full blown sequel with HL3, and not constrained by VR.
Remember to get them with controllers as well. I've seen that there are many places that sell WMR headsets without the controllers, and you'd have a hard time finding them on their own (and would end up losing whatever discount you got on the thing)
Although no game footage has leaked, there has been plenty of information for a long time.
VR is not constraining anything. It's traditional keyboard and mouse that's constraining stuff.
