Half-Life: Alyx

Kithani I was one of the original Kickstarters to Oculus so three of them came from that one Kickstarter.

Looks like movement was analog as they sat to play-- perhaps room scale is- roomscale / teleport - and stationary is analog stick movement... whynotbothmeme.gif

I have definitely pooped on myself a few times when a headcrab landed on me, having to shoot the fucker off me.

Also, the shotgun Laser is fucking cool, I hope they add that to more FPS games.

Utnayan said:

This was painful to watch.

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That dude usually is

Angry Joe's schtick ran it's course about 10 years ago

If only. According to his subs and views he can still make a good living just from youtube and donations

He has just about 1500 on Patreon also. Probably $5 - $10k a month right there.

"angry" joe is pretty cringe. there are DEFINITELY moments where it's deserved, but when he tones that down and is just a couple of friends playing games together, he's not that bad. honestly, one of the reasons i don't mind watching him do a review for a game i'm interested in is he tends to be more in depth on what he likes or dislikes. as far as "angry" goes... that's culturally almost required now. people aren't interested in "moderate" reviews.

yeah his shtick is thin and he usually misses really basic ass information but i tend to notice if he doesn't like a game or movie I probably won't. His two buddies alex and other joe are much more calm and informative. In this day and age when half of the reviewers talk about whether a game is TOO or NOT ENOUGH feminist, representative, blah blah blah its nice just to see 3 guys talk about whether stuff is fun or not.

i usually just skip ahead to his final reviews, all 3 of them really liked half life alyx but said it wasn't really worth buying a VR headset just for the game, just that its the best VR game so far.

Hard to justify spending $1000 on any game period. What they really need is more developers actually putting out AAA VR games, which is presumably what Valve is hoping for

Cybsled said:

Hard to justify spending $1000 on any game period. What they really need is more developers actually putting out AAA VR games, which is presumably what Valve is hoping for

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Not worth 1k for sure, however at 350 for the RIft S it's not a bad price and there are 10+ games out there to get into aside from this and most are only 29 bucks or less.

I really like the FPS games in VR.

Played this over the last 3 days using a Rift S and this is hands down the best game for VR right now. Problem is now I'm spoiled and don't want to play any other VR games because they just wont be as good. I played on a Rift S with a RTX2060 Super on ultra settings and the game ran flawless.

From a few of the reviews I've read it seems the Rift S is the most comfortable out of all the major headsets in this game but I'm not sure why. Even Joe said that the index looked better but they all got motion sickness from it but not on the Rift S.

If you have $350 bucks I would buy the Rift S over any of the other headsets due to the fact you don't need to have 4 or 5 satellites mounted around the room. You only have 1 wire coming out of the headset that splits into a display port/USB 3 and whatever headphones you plug into it. The stock speakers on the Rift S just aren't loud enough. All the cameras are mounted on the headset. Super easy setup. Played the entire game in a computer chair sitting or standing up right in front of it. You don't need a big play space to enjoy VR.

The Jeff level is an experience. One of the most memorable levels I've ever played in a game.

Lone Echo and Asgard's Wrath are probably the only other 2 games I would highly recommend for VR and neither are quite as good as Half Life Alyx.

Also with the Rift headsets you can play 99% of the VR games on the Steam store while the Oculus store games need some work arounds to get running and not all of them work 100%.

From what I've seen, it looks like it would be pretty damn boring non-VR.