Has this game ruined VR? what else compares now?

[Devil in me.]

Barring Lone Echo and Saints and Sinners. What now will touch this title? some may say bones.. but they game did'nt grab me as much as Alyx has.

Most titles now pail in comparison. IS there anything on the horison that will touch this game is aspects of AAA goodness?

[StewBurns]

No other VR games are even comparable.

As for upcoming, I'm getting The Room tomorrow, but Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is the next 'AAA' VR game.

I'm also excited about Firmament, but I'm a Cyan geek, it won't be for everyone.

[leppermessiah]

VR has ruined most pancake games for me. I can't even really get into Doom Eternal. Which kinda sucks.

I enjoyed Disco Elysium though.

[Devil in me.]

What AAA do we have coming up barring lone echo 2. Suprised Ubisoft has not jumped in.

[Gunfreak]

I've generally been disappointed when it comes to VR single player games.
I tried as asguards wrath, and while the concept looked ok the completely weightless weapons ruined it. And the graphics are butugly next to HLA.
I hope mods and 3rd party developers use source 2 VR engine like they used HL and source.

As I was walking up some stairs in this game and thought someone needs to make a new proper SWAT game with this engine.

[Tusk]

Originally posted by Box-of-Demons:

What AAA do we have coming up barring lone echo 2. Suprised Ubisoft has not jumped in.

Ubisoft did jump in earlier this year, so they will release something probably 2-3 years down the line, if they don't change or throw out quickly something meanwhile.

Medal of Honor is AAA game tho, and Respawn lately does great things, so I have high hopes for that as well, but it is cursed with being oculus only same with the upcoming ubisoft title. CDPR also experimented with VR for cyberpunk, but they thought vr is not there yet, after alyx that might have changed their perspective on that, but that is also hella long if that pans out.

VR is mainly in the hands of indies at the moment, or so it seems.

[SpookyKitty]

What game even compared to Half-Life: 2 when it released? It shook up the gaming market and forced other developers to innovate. That is exactly what will happen with Alyx.

[urm]

Boneworks
It's a lot weaker in many ways (graphics, polish, story and dialogue), but stronger in others (gunplay, movement)

Elite Dangerous (although the threshold of entry is relatively high)

[Tusk]

Originally posted by Uz:

in that case why aren't games played on a monitor dead?

in that case why is tetris still a thing, why do 2D games exists when 3D was a thing since the 90's? Why do people emulate nes and snes?

Because people like different things and want different experiences. Like emulation, I couldn't use a simple emulator ever since I've messed around with EmuVR, the experience of using EmuVR vs snes9x or zsnes or anything is just inferior to EmuVR.

Monitors are not going to go away, since sharing a screen is easier than sharing a VR screen, but some games will move in VR direction. Some games will stay on traditional gaming, and some will try and make it work on both.

[Gunfreak]

Originally posted by bboy2812:

What game even compared to Half-Life: 2 when it released? It shook up the gaming market and forced other developers to innovate. That is exactly what will happen with Alyx.

Except when HL2 came out, gaming was still a relatively small industry, were innovation was important to sell games.
Today you'll make far more money releasing a game that is 99% the same as the game they released last year. Innovation is slightly better graphics and new ways to take money from players.

[RyanR3STL3SS]

Lone Echo is similar in many ways. Minimal non-VR interface, lots of interaction and detail. Not a shooter though.

[Emily Howard]

Half Life Alyx put me in a somewhat entitled position. I still have to play the DLC of Arizona Sunshine but after both Boneworks (technique) and HLA (story and immersion), it will be probably a worse experience.

[Kaede]

Ruined? What ruins VR is the fact that most titles make VR look like a gimmick instead of the next evolution of gaming.

[BearPajamaGod!]

I personally think that Boneworks more advanced with its physics and what not and it kind of ruined some things in this game for me.

[RubberduckzillA RIP Alwyn]

Given I found walking dead dissappointing and boneworks garbage, yes. I love spectro and pavlov, but the game has definitely amde other VR games seem very bad in comparison.

[_Pawel_]

Lone Echo wins over HL:A for me, can't wait for Lone Echo 2. Alyx is a great game but it's a good homework and nothing more, I expected way more from Valve. They got lazy.
No arms/body/selfshadow? No physics puzzles? No crowbar/melee? No jumping/sprinting? No serious enemies? I dind't feel any emotional involvement and gameplay mechanics got me bored pretty soon, while in Lone Echo they did a great job letting you bond instantly with your human partner. Plus the writing is very good, while in Alyx is pretty flat.