Quoting: Smoke39

Quoting: kuhpunktI just find this hostility towards VR from some people so weird.

If someone doesn't find VR appealing, then making a game that only works in VR looks like an arbitrary and unnecessary barrier to entry. That's why people are hostile toward it. People feel like games are being kept from them for no good reason.

Quoting: Brisse

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kuhpunktDude, what are you even talking about? XD

Since you're typing in English, I assume you understand English, so you're going to have to be a bit more specific as to what you're confused about.

Everything.

VR isn't that expensive anymore. SteamVR is a standard. And then you start talking about communism.

For some of us it is expensive. I certainly couldn't afford it.

It's been on the market for several years now. You could have saved up some money. And I assume you have a gaming PC. How much did you spend on this? And of course it's going to get cheaper. Technology always does.

Sure, but I'm just not that attracted to VR in it's current state so I'd rather spend money on more important things. Maybe one day I'll change my mind.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kuhpunktDude, what are you even talking about? XD

Since you're typing in English, I assume you understand English, so you're going to have to be a bit more specific as to what you're confused about.

Everything.

VR isn't that expensive anymore. SteamVR is a standard. And then you start talking about communism.

That's completely wrong. VR is very expensive still, and look with your own eyes at a VR game on Steam and you'll see specific headsets mentioned rather than a standard like OpenXR.

Samsung Odyssey+ is often on sale for ~$250.

And SteamVR is a standard that supports all kinds of hardware.

Great, a piece of hardware, sometimes, costs lower than the price of an entire gaming console. How special.

SteamVR isn't an open real standard unless it in turn supports OpenXR or something that is a real open standard. Can you make a game using SteamVR without Steam, and would that code be open source and controlled by you? Case closed.

Also, if SteamVR was a standard, then they'd just show that icon instead of the icons for different individual VR headsets, and headsets would be sold with a SteamVR icon on them to show they adhere to a standard.

Quoting: Guest

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kuhpunktDude, what are you even talking about? XD

Since you're typing in English, I assume you understand English, so you're going to have to be a bit more specific as to what you're confused about.

Everything.

VR isn't that expensive anymore. SteamVR is a standard. And then you start talking about communism.

That's completely wrong. VR is very expensive still, and look with your own eyes at a VR game on Steam and you'll see specific headsets mentioned rather than a standard like OpenXR.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: kuhpunktWhy do you keep saying that it's a gimmick?

Because in my opinion, it is. I've tried VR, and my impression was the same I had with 3D television: neat but not essential and certainly not worth the additional expense and hassle to set it up.

3DTV doesn't allow anything that 2DTV doesn't offer. VR does. And you set it up once. There's hardly any hassle.

I'm not comparing VR to 3D television. I'm saying that my reaction when I had the opportunity to try VR was the same.

Quoting: Brisse

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kuhpunktDude, what are you even talking about? XD

Since you're typing in English, I assume you understand English, so you're going to have to be a bit more specific as to what you're confused about.

Everything.

VR isn't that expensive anymore. SteamVR is a standard. And then you start talking about communism.

For some of us it is expensive. I certainly couldn't afford it.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kuhpunktDude, what are you even talking about? XD

Since you're typing in English, I assume you understand English, so you're going to have to be a bit more specific as to what you're confused about.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kuhpunktWhy do you keep saying that it's a gimmick? And at the moment it has a limited audience, but to get out of that niche you need games like HL:A.

It will never get out until it's cheap and standardized. Right now it's neither. Steam still shows specific VR headsets that a game is compatible with, which is insane.

When capitalism starts functioning in a good way instead of a greedy way with VR, if that ever happens, or the hardware starts being developed by a communistic or non-price-gouging system, or wealth inequality is actually tackled so we can all afford shit, then perhaps the peasant majority can finally partake in VR entertainment too.

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: kuhpunktWhy do you keep saying that it's a gimmick?

Because in my opinion, it is. I've tried VR, and my impression was the same I had with 3D television: neat but not essential and certainly not worth the additional expense and hassle to set it up.

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: stuff

Quoting: Mountain ManMeanwhile, Valve is giving us some gimmicky VR bullshit...

Meanwhile Valve is making a potentially revolutionary new game...
Others studios would be fine making something like Black Mesa and selling it as an HD remake. Don't tell me you would prefer an "official" Black Mesa (=remake) over a totally new Half Life experience. I'd rather see 10 failed games that a least try something new then the 100th remake or reboot. I hope you are not one of those people who complains about Call of Duty being the same game over and over again.

A totally new Half-Life experience, yes; a totally new Half-Life experience exclusively for a niche audience that has bought an overpriced hardware gimmick, no.

And Black Mesa is more than just an HD remaster. There are some similarities to the original Half-Life but a lot of differences, too, enough to make it feel like a new experience.