Roughly the same length as HL2, maybe even a little longer.
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Half Life: Alyx - Reveal Trailer & Interview (March 2020 for SteamVR)
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Roughly the same length as HL2, maybe even a little longer.
I love that little guy! Really does remind me a lot of one of my dogs here with how he behaves.
I hadn't even thought about interacting with Dog in this but now I really hope he's in it. Maybe it shows him first being made it something.
That's it, I've cracked. I'm buying an Index for March. I have almost no room in my tiny ass Japanese apartment and I know there are cheaper alternatives but go big or go home. Just praying to God I've got the extra scratch in the summer if/when NVidia puts out the 3XXX series.
I wonder how far they'll go with hand gesture reactions with NPCs. I can certainly imagine being able to convey a lot to Dog with just a few fingers, such as holding your index finger over your mouth to indicate silence.
I did notice a moment in the trailer where you raise your hands up at gunpoint. I wonder what happens if you don't, or give them the finger instead.
Will we meet Gordon Freeman face to face in this game? I hope so, so we can ask what the hell he's been doing all these years!
Thanks I appreciate that. I Will look into details, that's exciting!
No problem. Looking forward to Valve jumping back in to AAA gaming with Source 2.
Lol yeah, seems like being out in the living room is going to be ideal for this type of gameplay.
Alyx has had dog since she was a child, Eli built him to protect her. I'm dead positive he'll be in the game, and Valve is going to totally make you fall in love with a robot dog.
Remember, Alyx said when she was young, he was much smaller. She adds to him her entire life. So he could totally be something around the size of the robo-dog in The Lab.
Man I'm excited. So, so excited. This is the game I bought a Rift S for. Well, this and Stormland. Bring on March!
Guys, Valve has spoken multiple times about the value they place on open platforms. Sony's platform is a closed one. If Sony decides to make PSVR2 fully compatible with SteamVR then you will definitely be able to connect it to a PC and play it, but the chances of it releasing on a Playstation console are zero in my opinion.
I really hope the difference between Index and other VR platforms isn't that big functionally. I still want to play this game and retain my kidney :(
Valve also made Underlords work in iOS (and planned Artifact to do so). If PSVR2 is compatible with SteamVR (and easy to connect to PC, without any bs), they would have 0 issues to support it.
Probably not, since it's being heavily implied that you need to have completed EP2 to understand some of the plot. Unless we're jumping back and forth throughout the events of HL2-EP2.
This is the most exciting part really, they're acknowledging EP2 and clearly re-did the ending with the new Eli voice actor judging by the line in the trailer. I don't believe for a second that we're not going to get to play Gordon in this game, if even just for a little bit at the end.
They've released the Orange Box and Portal 2 on consoles, though.
I'm not betting on this releasing on the PS5 but it would probably be the only way I could experience this. I'm not spending a thousand bucks on upgrading my PC and getting a PC VR headset.
The game looks great, though!
That is just straight up not true.
There are a ton of really good VR games already.
It's been said already, but for anybody sceptical about the precise interactivity demonstrated in the trailer, and the whole floating hands thing; don't worry about any of it. Realistically everything demonstrated in that trailer has already been accomplished in VR. If you've never played with a VIVE it can be hard to appreciate it, but I swear it really does just work. There's a ton of fantastic tech demos and games with high level precision, particularly the gun porn stuff, where chambering individual rounds and cocking hammers is a very real, functional process that feels fantastic to actually do with the controllers. The sequence where Alyx knocks stuff off the shelf to find, chamber, and cock a shotgun shell is absolutely VIVE VR as we now know it.
And the disembodied hands might look immersion breaking, but in practice they go a long way to visualising your presence in the game world. Without them you're fucked. Humans subconsciously track the location of their hands for obvious reasons. And while it might seem easy to render the arms, the hardware doesn't track anything other than our hands, so you're more than likely going to lead to situations where physical arm movement is not replicated appropriately in game. And I suspect that would be more jarring than disembodied hands that always 99% on point.
During play you just kinda...phase out on those things. Kind of like a crosshair and HUD in a game. You ignore them being there unrealistically, and accept them as part of the interactive 3D space and how it feeds information to you. The hands just become your avatars into the game world, and given how absurdly precise and responsive they are the visualisation surprisingly feels very, very natural. You really have to be in it to get it.
And the disembodied hands might look immersion breaking, but in practice they go a long way to visualising your presence in the game world. Without them you're fucked. Humans subconsciously track the location of their hands for obvious reasons. And while it might seem easy to render the arms, the hardware doesn't track anything other than our hands, so you're more than likely going to lead to situations where physical arm movement is not replicated appropriately in game. And I suspect that would be more jarring than disembodied hands that always 99% on point.
During play you just kinda...phase out on those things. Kind of like a crosshair and HUD in a game. You ignore them being there unrealistically, and accept them as part of the interactive 3D space and how it feeds information to you. The hands just become your avatars into the game world, and given how absurdly precise and responsive they are the visualisation surprisingly feels very, very natural. You really have to be in it to get it.
That scene with the zombie busting through the wall will give me a heart attack for sureHeadcrabs are scary.
In VR, they will be super scary.
darn those former people for wanting access to a thing!!!
*shakes fist in flaccid, half-hearted anger*
Headcrabs are scary.
In VR, they will be super scary.
Normal headcrabs are scary, but they are nothing compared to these guys:
Ok the hype has settled in and tempered a bit now.
I really wish they'd do a tech demo video soon to showcase why they chose to set this in VR, what are the actual benefits over doing another game in 'flatscreen'. I want to see how interactive and reactive the world actually is. Does the AI react accordingly? In a stealth section how does teleporting around work? Are all combat situations designed around a stationary playstyle (meaning it's more akin to a shooting gallery rather than movement and flanking)? Do characters behave differently if you try to clip into their faces? (asking the important questions here if you didn't already know lol)
I really wish they'd do a tech demo video soon to showcase why they chose to set this in VR, what are the actual benefits over doing another game in 'flatscreen'. I want to see how interactive and reactive the world actually is. Does the AI react accordingly? In a stealth section how does teleporting around work? Are all combat situations designed around a stationary playstyle (meaning it's more akin to a shooting gallery rather than movement and flanking)? Do characters behave differently if you try to clip into their faces? (asking the important questions here if you didn't already know lol)
Normal headcrabs are scary, but they are nothing compared to these guys:
These are terrifying at first, until you realise they can't ever actually kill you.
Dam i best start asking for pc ports of last of us 2 in threads or zelda threads
Plus they're actually kinda cute when you abuse their AI by walking around them in circles or jump on top of their model to have a good look on them lol
Ummm just saw it... i have a good feeling about this... it makes me remember the first time I saw Ocarina of Time...
I'd say bringing you down to 1hp is still pretty damn terrifying.
Also HLFallout unite! ;)
Alone, no. But if other enemies are around they are scary as hell since they basically put you in a 1 hit = death mode for a few seconds.
That pit in the mine where there are both these guys and normal head crabs *shudders*