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Half Life: Alyx - Reveal Trailer & Interview (March 2020 for SteamVR)
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THATS who I was trying to think of. Thank you.
I'd never underestimate the mod scene around the Half Life games in what they can achieve. Never.
I just wouldn't expect a mod to release any time in the near future, looking at Black Mesa. It'll be a lot of work to retrofit the game for flat gaming, but Half Life still has the sort of dedicated modding community to get it done, eventually.
Oh yeah that's actually the actor I was thinking of.
very slim - next-gen psvr may make it technically possible, but valve seems pretty turned off at the idea of console development these days after getting burned a bunch in the 360/ps3 gen
Is VR wireless yet and i dont need to setup stupid base stations around my room? No? Well...will wait.
...till March 2020.
...till March 2020.
You have to try to guess at arm movement, and if you get it wrong it totally breaks immersion.
12 years since a release in the franchise that people have been crying out for the whole time and then they go and recast the only real character people have become attached to in the series. Disappointed to hear that but either way I cannot wait to play this!
I didn't even notice when I watched the trailer.
I think the main reason was that they wanted her to sound younger.
It actually looks rather good, man I wish this was for non VR as well. Have it release for the consoles as well, I'd buy it on Xbox in a heartbeat. I don't it at all how they have this exclusive to VR and they're definitely going to miss out on a lot of sales too. But I guess they don't mind that then.
Depends on your source comparison, did you watch the video directly in front of an old and very large SD TV or in front of a 4k tv that is a couple of arm lengths away from you?
If it's the former then yes, if it's the latter then no (there is one headset that can do it but it's not targeted at the commercial sector)
They can ruin immersion, everybodys hands are simply two points in space, no matter your arms lengths, everybody sees the same result that fit's their position of their "brain-hands". If you don't model the arms and only the hands then simply nobody cares, only people outside looking in care because their pov is different, like us watching a video of someone else playing. But we are not important if we don't look inside the headset with out our eyes/hands and brain-hands, if you model the arms and they don't match size/proportions/rotation, then they also ruin the correct position of your hands and immersion gets a wedgy.
The fact that it started as a VR game, and then they applied an IP, Half-Life to it, seems very Nintendo-esque, in how a game gets crafted.
Here's the question, which if you haven't had first-hand experience is maybe hard to imagine:
What do you think is more distracting, the fact that you can only see your hands represented in the game or that you have these virtual arms that are clearly not yours because you can visibly see them move in a way that's not matching your real arms' movement?
As it currently stands, it's impossible to derive the position of your arms accurately from just the tracking your hands and head. In order to get arms behaving accurately we'd need more tracking devices strapped to your body; a functionality that is currently possible but is incredibly niche, even by VR standards, because it requires additional hardware. Ultimately, the costs significantly outweigh the benefits.
Valve would have tested this idea far more, with far more people, than Boneworks, so if anything this trailer makes me wonder about the wisdom of Boneworks doing this.
That is not true for everybody. I play a lot of vr stuff and disconnected hands always bothers the hell out of me.
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I don't think Valve care about sales here, especially considering the game is being given out for free for those that have Index Controllers/Index itself. It's a AAA story-driven VR FPS game. The first of its kind really. I'd imagine they want to make something truly groundbreaking like the original Half-Life and its sequel. To offer a killer app that truly gets people into VR. That's probably the big motivator here as VR's big issue has always been the content.
I does make sense and the new actress does a great job in the clip; it's just never quite the same.
Never played a VR game but how does movement work? is it like a typical controller with a thumbstick? Something you have to do standing up? Im interested but dont have a ton of room and would prefer playing sitting.
This is another great game built with Index Controllers in mind. Look how bad full hands look like.
The way Valve teaches mechanics through gameplay has always seemed Nintendo-esque to me.
Rhys fricking Darby? Dammit I didn't want to be convinced. I don't want to spend the money. Damn it looks good.
Looks fantastic. Don't know if it will convince me to buy into another VR ecosystem unfortunately.
Thanks to you and others that responded. That sounds pretty good. Interesting that he already played and beat the game but it is coming out 4 months from now.
Game looks bonkers and I may need to get a PC Headset now. What is considered the best VR headset for PC?
This looked.. okay? Not much different than any other "fumble with gun and magazines" style VR game, and there's literally hundreds of them. The interactions with the environment do seem nice though. Also, they didn't show any movement at all, which is what kills every VR game for me.
They are giving it away lol. They don't care about sales.
I remember years ago how great Mario 64 looked the first time I saw it in motion.
Then I saw it was on N64 and not SNES :(
Games are playable start to finish many months ahead of release, sometimes even as long as a year ahead of release. The difference is that the game, on release date, will have fewer bugs/more polish than what Geoff has played.
If everyone is singing it's praise again I might consider getting a PC just to play this. Has to be a GTa/OOT moment of gaming though. I don't play on PC so it would literally be jus to play this game.
Why do all these VR games have disconnected hands? Why can't they create the model of your forearm/elbow? Just having floating hands totally kills it for me.
They're not doing this game because they want to make a lot of money on its sales, they're making it because they want to push VR forward.
Giving it away to people with an Index or Index controllers, which are theirs anyway. Most of the VR userbase definitely don't have those and there is a decent price attached to the game.
I do agree that most definitely they have more motivations for this game doing well other than selling the game itself.
Does the interview answer how you move through the environment while also using your hands to grab stuff? Game looks pretty standard as far as FPS games go. Nothing that tickled my Elmo.
