Ah, missed it. Thought with that many keys I might have a chance, but no dice.

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I must say, I was skeptical of this game when it first started being covered, but it looks like it's getting more and more interesting as it goes along. I'm seeing more depth in the recent trailers which is pretty appealing.

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If HL2 didn't set off my simulation sickness in a uniquely bad way, even when the FoV is set to 100, I'd love to try the game out with some of Low-Spec Gamer's tweaks:

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Quoting: TuxeeWith HL1 I was and still am stuck in Xen between the Gonarch and the Nihilant. HL2 was different. Finished the base game several times - I find all levels stunning: Ravenholm, the highway section, the "water hazard"... Episode I was - relatively speaking - a bit of a letdown. Episode II cranked it up again, but I never finished the final battle against the Striders with the Magnusson Device. Shame.

I was sort of the opposite, I enjoyed the urban combat and navigating the wreckage of the tower in Episode I to the antlion caverns and frankly way-too-gimmicky final battle of Episode II. The fact that Magnusson pretty much literally came out of nowhere and everyone was suddenly deferring to the jerk didn't really help much. There were good bits of course, it's still a Half-Life game after all, but I thought it was further from the others than Ep I was.

As to HL2 itself, I think what I always looked forward to the most when playing was the sheer vertiginous tension of navigating the bridge. Which got even worse on the way back since you were being harassed by the gunship, and I was never really that good a shot with rockets.

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I like it a lot, and never got bored because I almost immediately stopped worrying about the fruit and just immersed myself in the fun of flying around the island. And it is tremendously fun and relaxing to just spend a few minutes here and there flying around without any pressure.

Sure, I collected fruit now and then, but I didn't feel any special drive to collect them all. It was more "hey, here's an excuse to get better at diving or turning or skimming the ground." But the "collect them all" aspect felt less like the point and more like the devs going "Oh yeah, we're supposed to put game elements in there too, huh?"

Oh, and I found it a lot more intuitive to use a controller. Surprised you didn't mention it.

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Quoting: liamdaweIt's not the fact that it's VR, but having something like that strapped to your face for a long time and the games themselves, that's what I'm keen to put some time and thoughts into.

I'm curious about how the headsets interact with glasses, personally. I have trouble even wearing headphones, since they crush the posts against my head, so the idea of an obviously much heavier piece of hardware that needs to have room for the lenses themselves (unless they've got SERIOUSLY adjustable focus to compensate I guess) is hard to wrap my head around, so to speak.

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Remember that you can play Lost Constellation and Longest Night on Itch.io for free, both of which are great previews of the art style and writing.

I pre-ordered this back in 2014, so I'm super eager to play. But circumstances mean that I won't be able to until Saturday. Alas, cruel fate!

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Hmm, starts on the wrong monitor with no options, and then hangs on the first loading screen. Not an auspicious start.

Edited to add: Second try things worked properly, but got bored when I scoured the whole level and still can't find an item I need, and the bobbing as you walk was making me start to feel ill.

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Oh cool, I won a key for this a while back, but decided to wait until the full release before really digging into it. I've wanted a game like this ever since Towns cratered.

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I've pretty much given up on a port actually happening. I was really excited about Banished when it came out, and really wanted to play it given there was already talk about a port. A friend bought it for me for Xmas but since then it's sat there like a digital paperweight for what, more than two years now? With occasional "it's coming" references before lapsing back into long radio silence again.

I appreciate they're working on tools to make upcoming games cross-platform, but I'm in the "I'll believe it when I see it, and I don't expect to see it" camp now.

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