Half-Life: Alyx

I was trying to figure out what the hell you meant by the "Jeff Level" and I finally go there. Definitely some interesting concepts in there that could and probably will be used for horror games. I think I'm almost done with it now but it's very intense.

Quineloe said:

Anyone got a VOD of a good playthrough?

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that was a bad idea, just watched a friend on discord stream play for like half an hour and I not feeling well right now.

cohhcarnage played through the entire game and has VODs up on youtube/twitch, its broken up into 5 parts


He played on the Index which is the highest end commercial system (just released).

I skipped around and watched his and Lirik's playthroughs since I sold my Oculus Rift last year due to just never using it. As a half life fan its definitely worth at least skipping to the last 10-15 mins of the last part to see what happens. It was cool to watch, I don't think I'd really enjoy playing.

Prior to playing Alyx I haven't touched VR almost a year. This game is great and exactly what we needed. More like this please.

I can't figure out how to get the link to post as a video, so here's the clip link

www.twitch.tv/siractionslacks/clip/LaconicAnnoyingCheddarFeelsBadMan

Just beat the game, holy shit it was good.

Utnayan said:

Makes me want to get a VR headset for my PC. I love VR on my PSVR, but I am guessing I would love full room even more. And from everything I am hearing, this is what true VR gaming is supposed to be like. Problem is, I double my PC gaming area as my home office as well, and also it's a spare bedroom for guests. So there are many times I have tried to wonder where the hell I would place those pods you need.

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No pods needed for the Rift S, however, getting a headset at all right now is going to be tough.

I think 349.00

Utnayan said:

Makes me want to get a VR headset for my PC. I love VR on my PSVR, but I am guessing I would love full room even more. And from everything I am hearing, this is what true VR gaming is supposed to be like. Problem is, I double my PC gaming area as my home office as well, and also it's a spare bedroom for guests. So there are many times I have tried to wonder where the hell I would place those pods you need.

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I have the Vive/Index setup in a spare bedroom as well, I have the lighthouses mounted in corners near the ceiling. Don't take up much space at all (maybe 3" cubed). If you want them even less obtrusive for guests, they can be removed from the mounts in seconds (no tools needed).

They don't need to be equally spaced from your play area, you just want the area covered in the lighthouse's sweep zone. It's not even strictly necessary to have them in opposing corners although that increases the chance you lose tracking in some places (dead zoes where the headset/controller can't see either lighthouse)

I saw a video of someone doing test with a low end rig, let me see if I can find it.

i dunno how long it'll stay in stock but you can buy oculus quest right now, 64gb version is more than enough


quest imo is best PC vr solution unless you are gonna dedicate a room to VR then Index is best. Quest runs completely standalone for some (many?) Oculus games, it has a built in cpu like a phone (meh quality of course). For the rest, you can hook a single USB-C cable to it and it'll run most SteamVR/Rift/etc games. Best of really both worlds, obviously visual quality isn't as good as Index but standalone has gotta be nice.

I had a Rift from the kickstarter days for the longest time, they upgraded for free me to the launch version, but ultimately I ended up trading it and the controllers into amazon for $225. I just honestly prefer playing games without a HMD, I find them too uncomfortable to play longer than an hour or so max.

I don't think the quest runs Alyx without mods.

Finally got time to beat this. Wow.

Valve proves once again that they have balls and are one step ahead of everybody else. I'm so glad they didn't just opt to follow the tried path of a million bland sequels.

This one is a game changer for me, and I'm guessing it will be my GOTY.