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The hassle of having the damn thing on your head, not being able to grab yer coffee, itchy nose moment, and battery use (for Rift anyway), are just a few things that stop me from plugging mine in.
Here are some of the games I've played
HL Alyx is quite something to behold. I've been playing it slow because I don't want it to end. It's incredible really.
Google Earth VR also mind blowing.
Skyrim is okay. I like just sitting around the landscape. The first time you encounter the spiders is pretty frightening. Unless you like spiders I guess. Fallout 4 on the other hand is awful in vr.
Iron Wolf is a great submarine sim, now with destroyers too. It's better with other players though, trying to manage the sub by yourself is an effort (although you can get assists).
Abode 2, one of the many escape room games. This one is nicely done.
Catch & Release, a fishing game with cartoony graphics. Okay smacks the shit out of my controller batteries though.
Elite Dangerous, don't really like this game anyway but does look good in vr - for a short while anyway.
Garden of the Sea. Gardening vr, really like this one. You can also putt around in a small boat which I feel vr needs more of.
Kingspray grafitti, they've stopped updating this and the last update seems to have made it a bit laggy. Still not bad to use though, but not great.
The Lab, free tech demo from Valve. Has some Alyx moments in it.
No Man's Sky. Just yuck. Fuck this game vr or no.
Pierhead Arcade 2. play silly arcade games in vr. it's ooookay.
Scanner Sombre, nice chilled clever little game.
Zaccaria Pinball. Excellent old style pinball game, the tables are sometimes a bit unforgiving but I love this. Lots of options too. Just buy all the tables.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 08:16 (three years ago) link
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I've had a Vive for just over two years. I upgraded from Vive wands to Index controllers last year.
The VR setup has been well worth the cost, considering I already had the computer hardware I needed to run it ($500 for the Vive kit, $40 for studio light stands to mount the lighthouses on so I could set up and break down at will, and $300 for the Index controllers a year later).
Here are some things that have made it more valuable to me than perhaps to others:
1) I already had a computer to run it, so entry cost was significantly lower.
2) I live alone in a 1br apartment, so I have total control over when and how I use it. I don't need to worry about knocking into others, or moving furniture to have the space to use room-scale VR.
3) At the end of the day, I'm a sucker for new tech and get a lot of joy out of dicking around with tech demos.
4) I have a couple of friends who also have VR, so we can play games together that you wouldn't want to enjoy with randos.
Half-Life: Alyx was a phenomenal experience, may be GOTY for me. I got a lot of play time out of Superhot, Rec Room, Alyx. I'm a big rhythm game nerd and I just do not care all that much for Beat Saber. Overall, I think a worthy grab if you have the time to put into it.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
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