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Facebook reportedly signed a deal for Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed VR games
It’s also reportedly interested in acquiring game studios.www.theverge.com
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But Era told me VR was a fad and there was no way companies would invest money in making AAA VR games.
In my opinion with Metal Gear being dead, this is the perfect time to make a proper Splinter Cell game with great stealth mechanics and designed levels. They would even be able to push the visuals and enemy AI to crazy levels because the game shouldn't be open world.
I feel like a VR game would be too gimmicky and only appeal to a small market. They would pretty much be sending it out to die.
Can't play VR games because I become motion sick quickly. So any VR exclusive is something I'm never ever going to be able to play.
The education spin of things they do for AC would be great in VR. Exploring their beautiful historic cities in VR would be right up my alley.
A AAA stealth game in VR would be amazing too, but not settling myself up for disappointment when it's not Splinter Cell.
A AAA stealth game in VR would be amazing too, but not settling myself up for disappointment when it's not Splinter Cell.
There's literally nothing gimmicky about VR. After playing Asgard's Wrath and Boneworks, ehh.... as far as gimmicks are concerned, there's nothing worse now than pancake gaming. Splinter Cell seems like a perfect franchise to push VR along with Half-Life and Medal of Honor.
Huh? I think the entire thing is a gimmick. I very expensive one at that too. Time will tell I guess.
Haven't played Assassin's Creed but I've always been under the impression is was focused a lot on traversal. Splinter Cell is traditionally slower, methodical, so it'd be inherently more comfortable for newcomers. It's also oozing with high-tech gadgets to augment your vision, manipulate with your hands, etc, so it would have really engaging interactivity that VR does best.
I'd argue the other way around. VR makes better use of stealth than what traditional displays can allow, so if we have to label something gimmicky, it's more fair to say the non-VR versions would be gimmicky. But I wouldn't label it like that either way, I'm just making the point that VR is a perfect fit here.
If the game offered teleportation, you may be able to play just fine. No playtesters have gotten any sickness symptoms playing Alyx (including people who say exactly what you say), and I expect almost no one will when it releases, specifically because it supports teleportation and is built to be comfortable.
The entire theme of Assassin's Creed is you're in one giant VR simulation. To me that just makes it the no-brainer choice, although I do understand the thoughts with Splinter Cell. I don't see them doing a Splinter Cell VR game without a new standalone title though, otherwise players will be preeeetty salty.
Facebook reportedly signed a deal for Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed VR games
It’s also reportedly interested in acquiring game studios.
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This is a bummer.Facebook reportedly signed a deal for Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed VR games
It’s also reportedly interested in acquiring game studios.
I'm not sure how on earth VR is a gimmick. Feeling like you're literally inside a virtual world and being able to walk around and use your hands with perfect tracking is absolutely incredible. It's no more of an expensive gimmick than television, radio, or the Internet.
VR is a gimmick as much as using a controller is a gimmick.
Yeah, I will never understand the "gimmick" comments. I had the "gimmick" feeling very often during the motion controllers' craze. It boiled down to a combination of two things: (1) The feeling that I was forced to do something that would have been way easier with a press of a button and (2) The feeling that my action was artificial anyway.
(1) is true in VR, but this is hardly surprising because most actions in real life would have been easier if they could be performed with a button press. But when a VR game is designed well, you will never get (2).
Rayman would work well with the disembodied hand stuff VR is doing. Visually at least. Probably not gameplay.
Splinter Cell would be fucking lit. Give me that night vision. A good stealth game would be so tense in VR. Really wish we could get a Thief, Prey or Dishonored as well.
You know that some of the best VR games out there aren't using first person perspectives right? Rayman wouldn't have to be first person game, it could work wonderfully in VR. The world of Legends was so pretty, I would love to be inside of it while playing a new platformer game.
I was more making a joke about disembodied hands and how Rayman has them than any serious commentary on what VR can and can't be.
I wonder how a 2D art program like UbiArt could translate to 3D VR - it could be possible and it could look pretty nice - I remember early Tilt Brush painted stuff looking really nice and being in a 3D painting being cool.
From my experience, Ubisofts offerings seem a bit tone deaf when it comes to VR games, although I definitely applaud their efforts since it's such a budding technology with a lot of risk. Space Junkies, for example, had some potential, but they completely missed the price point for a VR multiplayer game with limited content/support. And they had skins as rewards and shit...like, we aren't there yet dudes. Focus on the strengths of VR: physical interaction-based possibilities, immersion/presence, etc. Don't pour resources across the same elements that are in standard games yet; keep it simple and build some groundwork to show what VR is capable of.
I'm not confident that they will realize this with a AAA franchise, they'll probably make it story heavy with VR's version of QTE's. I'm still interested in what they're doing though.
Honestly, I'd even rather them do what I think most big companies should do with VR: build a VR compatible version of non-VR games during development with proper UI. Assassins Creed for example, could still be a 3rd person game in VR, just make it so your head is the camera. They could choose to include motion controls or not; while I think the games should eventually be more geared to the strengths of VR's unique controls, I still think standard games could benefit from seeing the world from a wider FoV, full sterescopic 3D, and your head as the camera. It's been done and it works just fine.
I'm not confident that they will realize this with a AAA franchise, they'll probably make it story heavy with VR's version of QTE's. I'm still interested in what they're doing though.
Honestly, I'd even rather them do what I think most big companies should do with VR: build a VR compatible version of non-VR games during development with proper UI. Assassins Creed for example, could still be a 3rd person game in VR, just make it so your head is the camera. They could choose to include motion controls or not; while I think the games should eventually be more geared to the strengths of VR's unique controls, I still think standard games could benefit from seeing the world from a wider FoV, full sterescopic 3D, and your head as the camera. It's been done and it works just fine.
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