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 ...

just wondering cause i wanna try this game and im not fond of paying 60 bucks

Your cat can't kill you if your a playing a game in VR. I guess if we are talking about your in game character. Not you yourself in real life. A cat can find a way.

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...