Some games from the past play a lot worse in hindsight than others. What recent, decently-liked video games do you expect to suffer this curse?
Almost every battle royal, live service games and sports games
Half life Alyx. Hey! wanna play this new and pretty triple A release from gambling addiction magnates and epic gamers of Valve? Guess what fucko, you need to spend your precious money on a big stupid headset, oh yeah you also need a room to play in so you dont trip on the cables or knock your stuff down, you also need to upgrade your puny computer so it can handle the glorious sauce 2 graphics engine with raytracing and real time vertex nipple twister simulations, breathtaking isnt it
Yeah nah turns out the only breath you’ll be taking is right before you puke your guts out since VR is physically impossible to use for a significant amount of people, oh and that shiny headset we recommend for our brand new game? Yeah you need to shell out two months of rent to get one, thats another breath you’ll take when the tidy numbers of your bank account turn into a nice fat zero.
So yeah, that game was a huge grift, and we havent heard a peep from Valve on VR ever since, comforting my opinion that VR as a whole is a stupid and wasteful grift that can’t work unless we come up with something like the matrix.
Its still the only game I want to play in VR. Some of the other like, gun building type games look fun, but I’m not getting a VR headset until I get my pc upgraded to where I want it, and even then if I do, I’m sure as shit not getting valve’s headset for like 1.5k. I considered a meta quest but then I’d be giving zuckerberg money.
I’ve considered doing this a couple times but I actually want to play it in VR.
two months of rent
My Valve Index cost $1000, which is half of what I was paying for rent at the time (and about 1/4 of what I would pay today in the same neighborhood)
What the fuck how many roommates do you have, I live in a “cheaper” city and rent with three other roomates can be 700 a month still for leaky housing
This is true for VR in general. I got caught up in a treat frenzy and splurged on an Oculus Quest 2. Some games were actually fun for a while but after a few months I just returned to playing normal ass video games and now I mostly regret buying the thing.
Maybe I could see it having some staying power in those places with laser tag and stuff like that where you can actually run around with the headset but honestly I can’t see most people justifying the upfront cost for a gimmick.
VRchat and gorilla tag are by far the most fun things on VR and are pretty accessible when it comes to processing power actually.
I find that in VRchat the mic anxiety goes away when you’re talking to a 3d model of Dr. Eggman or a Skibidi toilet. Something about the presence I dunno.
Seated VR stuff like racing or flying games seems to be the real niche for it.
My buddy got a deal on a full sim racing setup on Craigslist and holy shit the difference between tv and vr headset is night and day. It’s very immersive.
The one time I tried it for war thunder sim sucked because the resolution was too low to identify friend from foe and made it unplayable.
I don’t own a vr headset, just borrowed them a few times because otherwise its totally not worth it.
For sim applications, it is game changing though.
imagine they finally release Half-Life 3 for real and it’s a fucking VR game
All the games that the person reading this loves and cherish
real answer i think the “rotting” of previously well-regarded games is actually driven by degrading pleasure capacity in the median gamer. if we try to imagine what kinds of experiences the gamer of the future will soon be unable to derive any joy from, i expect that any story driven game in which a woman has a speaking role outside of dating mechanics will be dustbinned as unrealistic and grating.
Does anyone even remember the hype around Diablo 4? That was barely 7 months ago lol
I didn’t even realize it was being made at all and that there was an entire ad campaign for it until I went to KFC one day (which is rare) and saw it. Was pretty mind blown because I remembered when Diablo 3 came out. Haven’t played it tho lmfao.
I played 3 with some buddies on couch co-op and its the only reason it was any fun at all. Never even considered playing 4.
They took the worst parts of Diablo 3 and decided to maximize the amount of MTX.
They can’t even allow you to purchase more stash/inventory space because they programmed it so that every player loads every other players entire inventory and stash as soon as they load into the same area.
I understand I’m in the minority who just wanted a modern version of Diablo 2’s mechanics but Diablo 4 is really bland once you beat the story
