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A leaked transcript from The Game Awards (12th Dec) suggests the game is due in March 2020.
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A leaked transcript from The Game Awards (12th Dec) suggests the game is due in March 2020.
VR only? - this will be make or break. VR setups for a decent game play arent cheap. anything below par will just annoy the end user with poor GFX and framerates. Valve taking a big gamble here.
I assume Valve started work on this when it looked like VR might take off but it's taken so long to develop that they've missed the boat.
If you're spending upward of £400 on the headset, £200 for a card that's going to give you a reasonable expereince shouldn't be a problem.
Vega 56, GTX 1070, 1660 Super, 980 Ti
Any of those would be a good baseline. Yes you can 'do' VR on 1060 / RX 570 / RX 580 / GTX 980 / GTX 970, but you'd be playing at minimum settings to maintain framerate.
I really enjoyed the lab, very polished and fun for a tech demo (a lot of content considering too) so it will be interesting to see what content is in this, HOWEVER, considering valve are selling their own headsets they are way past their due to release a proper full VR title which is a crying shame. I really enjoy VR as a whole and wish the tech would mature and the prices become cheaper so that developers will invest more time to it. There is already a lot more content out there than a lot of people realise but only a small portion of it contains decent re-playable titles, to this day Superhot is still one of my go to games on VR, although the creed boxing game is good exercise and no mans sky can be great fun too, if one of these companies marketed the fitness aspect of VR and produced a bundle of training software alongside a good value headset... then it could be seen as a great modern alternative to a Nintendo Wii, but they would need to streamline the install as VR can be a bit of a faff unless you are used to messing with wires and technology.
Didn't the Mayans predict this?
VR... nah, I pass.
From what I heard (read) it is testing bed for their new engine that should bring some more games and maybe be competition to Unreal engine as it seems that Gabe Newell hates them for some reason ;-)
I assume I'll have to go play all the Half Life games first?
This flu already giving me vertigo, i cant imagine playing vr even though im diehard hl fan... this makes me sad
Worth doing anyway :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Pleased to see Half-Life isn't totally dead, can't say i'd rush out to get a VR setup for it though. But hopefully this is the start of something bigger.
It is a time of remakes)This one is good at least,)
She is not in the original HL, so you can give that one a miss. Personally, despite being highly acclaimed, I never really enjoyed HL1 that much, but HL2 onward were great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Rumour has it the follow up to HL: Alyx will feature 3D and hit the stores by 2028.
I think the original HL showed up just how poor the story telling was in games of the time. So you might not have enjoyed it much, but thank it for moving the goalposts a long way forward anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by TooNice
geee only VR.. NOT good big pass then....
Yeah, thought so. People have been on at me to play them for ages...Quote:
Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix
Playing HL (1 in particular but also 2 to an extent,) for the first time now is a bit like watching Seinfeld or Airplane now: they no longer seem revolutionary because nearly everything released in their respective genres since then has copied all of the revolutionary bits.
Given how I'm not especially disposed toward FPSes, and how I'm often told the story is brilliant, I am still considering it...
You'll be saying you haven't played Portal next??Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Thankfully being old these games do regularly turn up very cheap.
LOL well said sir!Quote:
Originally Posted by jim
I don't have VR, so guess it's a pass for me.
I suppose I could always go back and complete HL2. It's one of the only games I actually don't own on PC these days, but I do own the orange box on the 360... at that time I was a console gamer, as too poor to afford a decent rig. But again, never completed it.
I just hope they were smart enough to incorporate a mouse and keyboard with this. Basically the VR headset would be swapping out for the monitor. Creating an immersive experience, merging VR into actual, proper gaming at the same time. It's possible, it doesn't have to be full blown VR headset and handhelds with an empty room set up.
Everyone has been complaining about HL3 not being released, but if you think about it, with ray tracing the time is just right for HL3 to came out with a game changer. If they release HL3 with ray tracing, realistic hair, cloth dynamics, 100% destruction and a lot better physics. The kind of leap we saw from hl1 to hl2 would be achieved. VR is all about immersion and making a game feel like you're living an epic story like a great movie experience makes you feel.
If there was any game that would get me interested in VR, then this would be a good contender - and I own Elite Dangerous.
But the price for VR is unreasonable given the clunkiness of the technology. The main problem with VR is you lose your controls. Even as somebody who can type, not being able to see my keyboard at all is going to be problematic for more complex games (i.e. more than WSAD). It's why I've never been bothered about not trying it out in Elite, I have a colleague who has VR and has never used it because couldn't be bothered mucking about with voice control to overcome the controls shortage.
Of course there are a lot of efforts to overcome this with fancy wavy controllers, but on that front, I have a tiny study to play games in, I can't be swinging my arms about, I'd smash something.
If they can get the price for VR seriously below the £200 mark then it might pique my interest, and I'm an adult with disposable income.
You map the controls to the HOTAS buttons. I have played without VR since getting the headset, but I can't be having with all the keyboard mashing any more even when I can see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dashers
The change when getting VR was to use a couple of the buttons like a "shift" to double the number of controls available (one of my shift buttons is hardly used). Voice command would not go down well in my house.
What is Portal?Quote:
Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix
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Originally Posted by spacein_vader