Current Events > Anyone else a lil disappointed dat VR is basically dead?

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Maybe dis whole AI thing will bring it back and perfect it lol

I want to love VR but I'm not buying a $500 piece of tech to play a Half Life game.

I still play VRChat.

Sadly, VR chat was the best thing to come out of it. And you can also just play it on PC

Yeah I really.like it and im a relatively early adopter but it doesn't have much in the way of must buy outside half life alyx.

Haven't played it, but I wanted to play that Call of the Mountain game.

Its bulkyness, is really the most limiting factor. Unless they can downsize the thing and into actual glasses size it will never take off.

Also a lot of people experience tons of motion sickness playing vr games

The meta headsets destroyed peoples excitement for it.

apolloooo posted...

Its bulkyness, is really the most limiting factor. Unless they can downsize the thing and into actual glasses size it will never take off.

Also a lot of people experience tons of motion sickness playing vr games

Marques Brownlee made a nice point, where he said that VR companies are trying to get to a point that their tech is wearable and augmented glasses companies are trying to get to a point where their tech is powerful enough, and it's going to be interesting to see who gets there first.

There are 3rd party head mounts that make them feel extremely light on your head, like it's just rested there instead of painfully digging into your forehead. If you have a Quest headset at least this is a necessary purchase.

VR is cool as a gimmick, but it isnt there as a serious gaming platform. I think part of the problem is games leaned too hard into it. Rather than trying to make everything virtual, go for a milder ground where I have a first person VR view, but still use a controller to move around.

On a side note, for a while I used a VR headset with virtual monitors for my general desktop PC usage, was actually a pretty cool setup.

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I have a Quest 3. I play Blade and Sorcery on it every day its decent exercise. As for gaming I've played like one game on there that feels like a real game. Everything else feels like a demo or mini game

I was hyped but it's basically half virtual boy, half Wii. Most devs took absolutely 0 advantage of the immersion aspect and just slung out mini games.

The only game that left a modicum of impact on me was HL Alyx. Probably the most misused boring piece of tech. Doesn't help that instead of doing things like that, they focused on add on tech to make it bulkier and even more expensive.

Not at all. Legitimately not interested in VR.

Am more interested in the idea of AR, but so far have yet to see anything on the table remotely in the area I want to see it develop.

Cthulhu_Fhtagn posted...

As for gaming I've played like one game on there that feels like a real game. Everything else feels like a demo or mini game

What about Half-Life: Alyx, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Moss 1 & 2, RE4, Tetris Effect, SkyrimVR with essential VR mods, to name a few? There are plenty of solid games on VR. But yeah, it does seem like the vast majority of VR games are little demos and gimmicks and buggy trash.

I regularly use my PlayStation VR2/PS5 Pro to play GT7 lol.

Shit's so good

Is VR dead? Or just its career?

I always said it would die because it was too bulky and uncomfortable and there wasn't any point to it when a good video game doesn't need VR to be atmospheric and intense. Humans are very good at looking at a basic screen and feeling immersed without any gimmicks.

And lol at all the people who said it was amazing and revolutionary and that some amazing new VR product was just around the corner.

kind9 posted...

What about Half-Life: Alyx, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Moss 1 & 2, RE4, Tetris Effect, SkyrimVR with essential VR mods, to name a few? There are plenty of solid games on VR. But yeah, it does seem like the vast majority of VR games are little demos and gimmicks and buggy trash.

Some of those games aren't even Quest games. I had fun with Batman but its crap next to the other Arkham games. I'm not putting on a helmet to play Moss or Tetris. RE4 is great and I probably like it best on VR after thinking the Wii one was the best way to play.

I like my PSVR2 but it's not often I'm enthused enough to set it up... Haven't been interested in any recent VR games either... I think the last one I seriously got into was FNAF: Help Wanted 2... Which I did really enjoy...

Is it? Last mention I remember of it, aside from seeing the games on Steam or whatever, was someone insisting it was here to stay. I remember telling them I'd believe them if they could find me a 3DTV.

Anyway, I never had any interest in it, but it's not like it was intrusive. Sounds like a neat feature for players who like it. And I know for a fact (because I played one and it ruled) that some of these games were perfectly playable on just a traditional console/TV setup. So I'm not dancing on its grave or anything.

It's a gimmick. It always was. Like a previous gen's motion controls.

It's not. It has a casual but stable userbase. Just because it's not as frequently used as traditional gaming setups means it's dead.

Never appealed to me in any way. My entire life I just didnt ever have interest in it.

VR is like AI right now, bit of a gimmick but you aren't ready for what it holds in the future

No was sick of companies trying to shove it down our throats. Hope AI goes the same way.

I use mine for VR porn while running on the treadmill

For mass adoption, it needs to get to the point of being an easy to use $100-$300 accessory that has the form factor of fancy glasses. I don't know if that's even doable, but people aren't going to spend the money and time on what amounts to a bunch of silly timewasters, tech demos, and like a small handful of actual good games.

It'll be back once the price dam breaks and video game cost start to finally match ever increasing development costs.

BowflexPeloton posted...

I use mine for VR porn while running on the treadmill

...Weird combo of activities.

I feel like I would easily get nausea from playing. I could see VR doing some cool things for a slower paced genre like RPGs and or TTRPGs, but I couldn't see myself playing more fast paced games for long without feeling queasy.

YUNASBFGIR posted...

I feel like I would easily get nausea from playing. I could see VR doing some cool things for a slower paced genre like RPGs and or TTRPGs, but I couldn't see myself playing more fast paced games for long without feeling queasy.

Same. In games like Skyrim its the worst, basically any game that allows your character to move without requiring you to walk in real life.

But games like tennis or anything where youre actually moving I can handle

I'm just waiting on the PS VR2 to drop in price a bit more. I got on the first VR headset when it was cheaper and actually had fun with stuff like resident evil 7.

I was excited about VR until I used it and it hurt my head, and it made me feel sick over time. I have an oculus quest.

i tried to find stuff and games. everything was expensive. it was hard to find anything cool that was cheap, and it was a nightmare to get things to work that were off-platform.

it's like they wanted the thing to die.

Alien Rogue Incursion and Batman Arkham Shadow both dropped within the last half year or so and are really good. Like, damn good. I think it's doing fine. Real shame about Hitman 3 though, what a disaster.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

In games like Skyrim its the worst, basically any game that allows your character to move without requiring you to walk in real life.

I know a lot of games did like, point and click teleportation instead of walking around to solve this issue

Personally, I think the actual experience of it is really cool. Like, VR headsets do work well and they are very impressive in how realistic(?) they are. But there's just not enough worthwhile to actually do with them to make them properly worth the price and effort

I was interested, but was put off by the price, space requirements, and the fact that they wouldn't fit comfortably over my glasses.

It sucks that Song basically abandoned PSVR2 as soon as they announced it

VR when done right is so damn cool, and adds a level of immersion that really improves certain genres.

problem is the high cost barrier for entry means games wont sell much which means devs wont make full sized games so you get mini-game style stuff or half assed integration from non-VR games

Trumble posted...

VR is cool as a gimmick, but it isnt there as a serious gaming platform.

I remember back before Gamefaqs was basically dead people would actively argue that back and forth across multiple forums. In its current state it remains, as it was back then, a gimmick indeed.

Other than funny motion controls for your hands for first-person-view games the perpective is mostly limited to games where you drive or pilot something in order to give a sense of speed or presence.

I love VR, and my Quest 2 is a good headset but it's not comfortable. My Google Daydream was much nicer to wear.

The Google Daydream (maybe other phone VR sets too, though I'm not sure) is the only way to play Blade Runner: Revelations, which is AMAZING. It's a very simple game without free-movement; it's basically VR point-and-click, but the graphics, atmosphere, and story are fantastic.

My Quest 2 has been good for Resident Evil 4 VR, VR Chat, and movies, but I don't like wearing it for long periods of time and I'm not upgrading to a Quest 3. It's good but not great. I laugh so much at Zuckerberg's delusional original vision of the "metaverse" and wearing this thing for work meetings.

I love VR but PCVR was meant to die. Too expensive and bulky.

I'd love another good game for it, but there's 2 problems:

1. I can't find any
2. Ever since I moved, I don't have room to use it anymore.

RE4 VR is the absolutely best way to play it. It's a marvel of a game. And like I said if you have a quest 3 asgards wraith 2, Batman Arkham Shadow and Alien Rogue Incursion are all legitimate games, not gimmicks. Arizona Sunshine 2 is also really good

DuneMan posted...

I remember back before Gamefaqs was basically dead people would actively argue that back and forth across multiple forums. In its current state it remains, as it was back then, a gimmick indeed.

Other than funny motion controls for your hands for first-person-view games the perpective is mostly limited to games where you drive or pilot something in order to give a sense of speed or presence.

I mean, thats a problem of the games that are being made, right?

I think part of the issue is a lot of the fleshed out games for VR, things like RE7, Farpoint, Doom VFR, defaulted to having all the comfort settings turned way up so people think that VR means no smooth movement but rather warping and blinking turns

It's great technology, just lacks new titles coming out that try new things

RE7 is the only time I experienced it, and it was incredible.

I can't afford it, only reason I don't have it.

Not sure what id play tho...

Maybe beatsaber

DuneMan posted...

I remember back before Gamefaqs was basically dead people would actively argue that back and forth across multiple forums. In its current state it remains, as it was back then, a gimmick indeed.

Other than funny motion controls for your hands for first-person-view games the perpective is mostly limited to games where you drive or pilot something in order to give a sense of speed or presence.

Yeah, I remember trying a VR driving game and it was kinda fun.

But yeah, by far the more appealing aspect of it was the non gaming side of things. VR educational videos are an extra level of immersive that really helps put things into perspective. Virtual monitors for a PC is a pretty fun setup, especially if youre short on space to put multiple physical ones. And of course, certain things we may or may not get away with mentioning here, are kinda cool in VR too.