There is a growing myth, a misconception that Half-Life, a classical title with a loud name in Steam community, despite it’s popularity and an interest among it’s members and followers, had a significant impact on videogames in general. A franchise that sold millions of copies, won many awards and essentially shaped Valve’s future as a corporation, had not actually been as popular in the recent years. It is no secret that the following Half-Life series possesses, fades on the background of more popul...

I finished Half-Life: Alyx in Non-VR and I gotta say, the experience was incredibly and amazingly bad. Let me start out by saying that it is inconsiderate that Valve had decided to force the game to run as intended solely on VR. Obviously a very tiny fraction of gaming community actually owns VR-headsets. Those who for some reason do own a VR headset surely haven’t made the right investment and will now do anything they can to defend their failed purchase by over-exaggerating that the purchase relative ...

the reason why hl:alyx is not viable as a competitive product compared to hundreds of other games is because it is targeted for a vr audience. vr audience that's actually pretty tiny if we compare it to whole pc market, as well as console market. that's actually half of the issue, in case it isn't obvious. not only is making a game only developed for vr headsets is technically anti-consumer, but the game's quality leaves much to be desired. graphically, nothing except textures and lighting quality can impr...

I'm seeing videos that people are playing this game without VR, how?

Why is it called Alyx? Shouldn't it make more sense to call it related to science, like the previous 7 games? Half Life, Relating to the time required for a quantity to reduce to half of its initial value commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay. Half Life: Decay, Ditto. Wheras, Half Life Opposing force: A play on the militaristic, being that Opposing force means The Enemy as well that Opposing Force in physics relates to Newton's Third Law of Mot...