Great stream. No we wait for the PSVR launch!
After seeing both streams, even if Jeff felt about the same with them when talking about the experience, the vive stream just had way more positive energy to me.
This has tempered my expectations but the things I felt good about showed great (job simulator, hover junkers, budget cuts) and have me excited to get my hands on them myself
I have 0 VR experience and think that the vive looks like the best one to jump in with
Still feeling good with my "1st gen PSVR 2nd gen Vive 2" plan.
Not going to lie though, this stream really makes me want to be in experimental VR scene now.
anyone watch it all with impressions on what to buy? they're all pricy atm, at least pricy in the sense of buying everything all at once
So the stuff I've seen as "musts" or as close to musts so far.
Hover Junkers
Space Pirate Trainer
Playing through The Labs stuff
The Free stuff - Job Simulator, Fantastic Contraption
Vanishing Realms
The Gallery (biggest pill to swallow on price)
TheBlu
Light Repair Team looked fine at $5.
Man, VR seems like a colossal waste of money right now. Maybe in a few years when there's some great games for it and the price comes down. Still enjoyed the stream though.
Depends on what you're looking for.
Traditional, AAA games? Yeah, definitely.
Interested to see how VR is developing as more people get their hands on it? I'm super into that.
That's kind of how I feel. It does kind of suck that we won't have that AAA game for VR (whatever that may be). I just hope we have a steady stream of cool experiences for now.
Depends on what you're looking for.
Traditional, AAA games? Yeah, definitely.
Interested to see how VR is developing as more people get their hands on it? I'm super into that.
Watching this also made me gobsmacked at how much oculus has dropped the ball.
This was my big takeaway. I don't think the room-scale stuff will end up being a big deal because of the space requirements, but the motion controls are huge.
That said I'm still futilely checking my email and credit card account hourly hoping for some kind of movement from Oculus or HTC, I don't care which at this point.
After seeing both streams, even if Jeff felt about the same with them when talking about the experience, the vive stream just had way more positive energy to me.
This has tempered my expectations but the things I felt good about showed great (job simulator, hover junkers, budget cuts) and have me excited to get my hands on them myself
I have 0 VR experience and think that the vive looks like the best one to jump in with
Sorry if this has already been asked, but anyone got a link to an archive of the stream?
It should be working here.
Im like 3 hours in and this stream is magnitudes more positive than the other one was. Only reason they probably werent as positive was they were tired by the end. There was a lot more genuine reactions of people being impressed during this stream.
TRACERCORE
Giant Bomb's play of Windlands was pathetic. They got the grappling hooks, then immmediately got stuck on the first tree and quit the game.
To give an equivalent, that's like quitting mario 64 immediately after entering the castle.
They played it longer on the Oculus stream, but Jeff didn't do much better. That's why they quit out of it so fast this time around, the audience had already seen Jeff be bad at that game
Nintendo 64 had two games at launch in the US.Giant Bomb's play of Windlands was pathetic. They got the grappling hooks, then immmediately got stuck on the first tree and quit the game.
To give an equivalent, that's like quitting mario 64 immediately after entering the castle.
The game plays much differently with positional controllers than it does on the rift.
It also made them look silly because they were talking about things that are in the game. "This game should have an area where all you do is swinging."
That's, like, the entire rest of the game, beyond the initial tree they were failing at.
They were talking about how they think it`s limiting that you can only grab onto trees, and not everything else in the environment, even though they understood the puzzle aspect of only being able to grab certain objects.
Jesus these headsets make you look like a complete idiot.. I thought 3D glasses were bad. guess I'll be waiting.. PSVR seems the less idiot looking, what without all the Velcro straps and shit.
No they weren't, that was another conversation they had. They were talking about wishing there would be areas where all you did was swing rather than walk from platforms to platforms and jump.
That is what most of the game is like. The reason the part they were at wasn't like that is because they were still basically in the tutorial level.
No they weren't, that was another conversation they had. They were talking about wishing there would be areas where all you did was swing rather than walk from platforms to platforms and jump.
That is what most of the game is like. The reason the part they were at wasn't like that is because they were still basically in the tutorial level.
Oh maaaaan, the Job Simulator stuff is so good, especially when Jeff starts playing around with the camera! I would love to see them fool around with this some more.
Jesus these headsets make you look like a complete idiot.. I thought 3D glasses were bad. guess I'll be waiting.. PSVR seems the less idiot looking, what without all the Velcro straps and shit.
I read your 'oh maaan' in jeffs voice when he saw the donut create push shirt.
Dude if you care at all about your appearance then you'll want to stay faaaar away from VR.
I'm trying to imagine why I would care what I looked like while using VR. I'm being totally honest, I can't imagine a scenario where that would matter.
Still feeling good with my "1st gen PSVR 2nd gen Vive 2" plan.
A few takeaways from the bits of stream I watched:
Vive at least has Valve to act as the Nintendo in the Wii analogy, pumping out games that actually take advantage of the hardware and are compelling experiences on their own merits. But Valve's a much smaller outfit than Nintendo and we don't even know what, if any, games they have in development for Vive. Oculus doesn't really have anyone that can be relied on to produce quality VR games. PSVR could surprisingly have the best slate of games available when it launches, but until we get some more details it's premature to say either way.
What What What? What nintendo games took advantage of the wii controls? wii sports and metroid. Thats all wii got. The controls were tacted on for like 99% of the wii games or they just shouldnt have been games on the wii anyhow. Shooting stars at crap on mario games and swinging your sword without 1 to 1 matching with zelda was not needed.
I suppose that's fair, though Wii Sports was a hell of a game for showing off motion controls, and arguably Nintendo made better use of the Wiimote than other publishers. (Yes, I know about Wii Party and Wii Music. "Better use" doesn't necessarily mean "great use.")
Let me rephrase, then: Nintendo was the only reliable source of critically acclaimed Wii games, so even when the post-launch Wii library felt like a letdown, people could at least say, "there's this Nintendo game coming out and I know that'll be good!" And for the most part, they would be right. (Forget that Wii Party ever existed. And Wii Music.)
Nothing like that seems to exist for any of the VR solutions right now. There's no game anyone can point to and say, "this will be a great game and it's in VR!" Eve Valkyrie was going to be that game for me, but it looks like it's faltered badly, between being a very simplistic dogfighting game and trying to be a free-to-play multiplayer game without really being free to play. Beyond that, I don't really know what the breakout VR hit will look like, and given how expensive these systems are, it's much harder to take the promise of VR gaming on faith than it ever was for motion controls.
Any really cool games that they showed off today? I caught the stream long enough this morning to see Job Simulator and that was hilarious and seemed really cool.