lolAlyx is totally going to be the first game EVER with a 100 metacritic score. Two reasons: Valve + VR.
In fairness to Half-Life, this was one crazy month for games.
You can in Boneworks. ;)It failed.
And also a lot of people I see on Twitter seem to basically like it but they aren't truly blown away either. It looks like an excellent game but not the kind of truly boundary-breaking experience HL2 was.
The fact that you can't break wooden boards with the crowbar is the first cue it misses.
At least other 1,611 people were right
i'll give you a ride to the infirmary
It failed.
And also a lot of people I see on Twitter seem to basically like it but they aren't truly blown away either. It looks like an excellent game but not the kind of truly boundary-breaking experience HL2 was.
The fact that you can't break wooden boards with the crowbar is the first cue it misses.
I'm prepared for Alyx to review amazingly well because it's a really good video game (absolutely expect it to be top tier stuff) but, as someone who's been using VR literally since the Oculus DK1 development kit, I think you're overselling it as 'the very first AAA VR game' and 'this is the first time I'm experience this and it's fantastic beyond the game'.
Been playing a lot of highly reviewed AAA games in VR where you reload a gun with your hands and pull levers and stuff. Again, that's not aimed at being disparaging, but I think this will only be 'future stuff' if you've literally never used PCVR before. We'll see. I haven't played it yet so maybe it's full of revolutionary stuff for the genre. Hope so!
Beyond that I expect it to be a very highly rated VR game, maybe the highest rated VR game yet. But mainly because I think Valve know how to make a great Half-Life game, not because I think it's gonna be a revolutionary, 'future' game. And that's probably a good thing?
It isn't revolutionary, but it is taking all the hard work and lessons learned from other VR projects and giving them a Valve quality production to coalesce in. It's probably the most polished VR game I've played that's also this complex.