• Plopp@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Personally I’m surprised that there are so few non-full-body-movement games. It’s amazing to sit down and play whatever game in a completely different 3D world. Moss is a great platformer in VR, pinball games are really cool in VR, and driving sims with a wheel and pedals kick absolut ass in VR. I bet games like FIFA, NBA, NHL etc would be amazing, top down car games would be amazing etc etc.

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      6 months ago

      It’s just really difficult and expensive to make proper games for VR, and the market isn’t quite there for it to be worth it. Lots of people still say Half Life Alyx is the only “full” VR game made by a popular company while a lot of PSVR titles felt like tech demos.

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        6 months ago

        The only real way for vr to explode would be for already established companies to make vr controls for their games, I’m thinking service games specifically. Imagine roaming in ff14 or wow in VR. I would still do hardcore content with standard controllers but I would 100 percent roam around doing stuff in VR.

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        6 months ago

        It really isn’t, you’re probably just not aware of all the “proper” games that are out there for VR. Browse the Steam store and look at all the VR games sometime.

        I have about 40 VR games in my Steam library, for example. I admit I haven’t played them all yet but I’ve played a lot of them and most of them are great. There are tons more that I could buy if I had the time to play all that shit.

      • Plopp@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Well what I’m saying is there should be more “less full” VR games. VR could be a somewhat simple add-on to many types of games. The difficult thing with VR is the object interaction, the handling of resources etc. if you’re in a large 1:1 world, but if you’re implement VR as basically just an extra viewport it’s not that difficult (for many types of games that are not FPS) and it could still add a lot to the game. Or you can do something like Moss, which is a really cool game.