Nobody likes Half-Life: Alyx. (Reasons for it.)

[Tighty-Whitey]

half life alyx has a negative reception for the most part. that's right, those reviews seem to look as if the game is successful reception wise, but it actually isn't. the only people who have something good to say about half life alyx are the ones who planned to buy the game regardless, even if the gameplay is mediocre. many people bought the game without even having a vr headset, they bought it only for the valve collection or to feel as if they own an "expensive" game made for expensive vr headsets only to look like as if they own the headset, when in reality they don't. those are the reasons people buy the game for, but who actually likes it? no one really enjoyed the game because there isn't much to it, it's short and the gameplay variety is simply not there. those reviews simply lie for the reasons i described above and combined with what the game has to offer, those reviews don't seem to be convincing. most people didn't buy half life alyx and feel no need to talk about and don't really like the game. everyone pretty much knows that it's just a marketing scheme, what Valve did, so no one really considers to buy it nowadays. by looking at how many players play the game on daily basis on SteamDB we'll see it's not popular.

[IanL]

Oh look, another repeat of a previously locked thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/546560/discussions/0/6407003396127849823/

[TheToucanman]

i swear i've seen this guy before can we just report him and move on?

[temps]

Originally posted by Tighty-Whitey:

half life alyx has a negative reception for the most part.

Steam store page reviews from the actual players are "Overwhelmingly positive." Currently 98% positive.

Of course not everyone is happy it's VR exclusive. And that's okay... not every game is made to please every person or group, and it's okay to have some games that some people like and others don't.

(There's no shortage of games made to please flatscreen gamers that ignore the desires of VR players, for example.)

[/ΛΞLORZ]

The opinion of a guy using AI to create and with a vac ban is not worth much...

[dvo.sib]

From all these discussions on steam, I realized that there is no point in proving anything to anyone. In my opinion, even Lambda1VR from TeamBeef is just a blast into space. Not to mention HL2VR, and even more so Alyx (it's still the benchmark for VR games). I see a lot of unhappy reviews about VR. This is strange. My motion sickness disappeared after about 10 sessions of 30 minutes each. It's been 1.5 years, and I can play from morning to night without stopping. That's exactly what I do when I have time. But if there are so many dissatisfied people, maybe someone has limitations in their brain? And not everyone is capable of it? I didn't see any research, I thought that everyone should have the same thing. This is incomprehensible to me. Why deprive yourself of the most powerful impressions?

[MiseRawRble.]

Originally posted by dvo.sib:

From all these discussions on steam, I realized that there is no point in proving anything to anyone. In my opinion, even Lambda1VR from TeamBeef is just a blast into space. Not to mention HL2VR, and even more so Alyx (it's still the benchmark for VR games). I see a lot of unhappy reviews about VR. This is strange. My motion sickness disappeared after about 10 sessions of 30 minutes each. It's been 1.5 years, and I can play from morning to night without stopping. That's exactly what I do when I have time. But if there are so many dissatisfied people, maybe someone has limitations in their brain? And not everyone is capable of it? I didn't see any research, I thought that everyone should have the same thing. This is incomprehensible to me. Why deprive yourself of the most powerful impressions?

it doesn't matter if you liked half life alyx simply because it's a vr game. it doesn't make the actual game good. it's a generic game that doesn't do much.

[Kitai]

fun fact you dont like it dont play it is a thing,
also you can play any vr game without vr if you know where to find mods that are legit,
usually that garbage site called nexus mods or something like that,

also the positive reviews are actual players, the negative reviews are crying losers who are either bots or they just dont like vr for some reason.

its an actual entry to the half life series which if you know anything about half life its just a generic shooting game with exploration and what not, doesnt invent the wheel but it has good gameplay because valve does gameplay and story first.

[Mr.Fish]

VR was always a gimmick, 3rd time i've seen it tried since the 80s, it will need a 4th sometime in the next decade.

Basically a guitar hero with an extra screen, just a gimmick controller set.

5 years on and all alyx served to do was give valve a good excuse to abandon VR after flopping so hard.

Review scores on steam are kind of meaningless for small selling expensive gimmick type games, they delete refunded reviews from the stats you are only left with the reviews from people happy to drop £50 notes on some mess.

Stalker 2 has similar review numbers and price but with 3 times the CCU peak, so all that tells me is people who spent up to £1000 on gimmick tech are 3 times more likely to leave a positive review for a £50 test bed game, in order to justify the purchase.

£50 for a VR test lmao, no wonder it only ever had 40k CCU at time of release then fell off a cliff. All this was said at the time but a few hardcore VR fans put their heads in the sand.

[IanL]

Originally posted by Mr.Fish:

VR was always a gimmick, 3rd time i've seen it tried since the 80s, it will need a 4th sometime in the next decade.

Basically a guitar hero with an extra screen, just a gimmick controller set.

5 years on and all alyx served to do was give valve a good excuse to abandon VR after flopping so hard.

Review scores on steam are kind of meaningless for small selling expensive gimmick type games, they delete refunded reviews from the stats you are only left with the reviews from people happy to drop £50 notes on some mess.

Stalker 2 has similar review numbers and price but with 3 times the CCU peak, so all that tells me is people who spent up to £1000 on gimmick tech are 3 times more likely to leave a positive review for a £50 test bed game, in order to justify the purchase.

£50 for a VR test lmao, no wonder it only ever had 40k CCU at time of release then fell off a cliff. All this was said at the time but a few hardcore VR fans put their heads in the sand.

You know, the only thing people need to justify a gaming system is the fact they enjoy it. To them whether others do or not is completely irrelevant and to believe otherwise is to truly have your head in the sand. Enjoy what you enjoy and leave others to their own choices, no one needs anybody else's approval

[ROCKETMAN JOE]

Im six hours in to the campaign and I'm enjoying it a lot

[MiseRawRble.]

Originally posted by ROCKETMAN JOE:

Im six hours in to the campaign and I'm enjoying it a lot

and i dont like hl alyx so he has point

[IanL]

Originally posted by MiseRawRble.:

Originally posted by ROCKETMAN JOE:

Im six hours in to the campaign and I'm enjoying it a lot

and i dont like hl alyx so he has point

Except he doesn't have a point because he says 'Nobody likes Half-Life: Alyx' and that is blatantly not true, as numerous posts in this forum testify to as do the huge positive reviews on the game's store page along with the countless game critic positive reviews in the media.

If he'd said 'Some people don't like Alyx' no one would have argued, but then you can say that of any game ever made.

[Aidenel]

Originally posted by IanL:

Originally posted by MiseRawRble.:

and i dont like hl alyx so he has point

Except he doesn't have a point because he says 'Nobody likes Half-Life: Alyx' and that is blatantly not true, as numerous posts in this forum testify to as do the huge positive reviews on the game's store page along with the countless game critic positive reviews in the media.

If he'd said 'Some people don't like Alyx' no one would have argued, but then you can say that of any game ever made.

"Nobody" as in the 2% out of 83114 reviews. Obviously the rest are just bots and fanboys right?

[IanL]

Originally posted by Aidenel:

Originally posted by IanL:

Except he doesn't have a point because he says 'Nobody likes Half-Life: Alyx' and that is blatantly not true, as numerous posts in this forum testify to as do the huge positive reviews on the game's store page along with the countless game critic positive reviews in the media.

If he'd said 'Some people don't like Alyx' no one would have argued, but then you can say that of any game ever made.

"Nobody" as in the 2% out of 83114 reviews. Obviously the rest are just bots and fanboys right?

Exactly, there will always be reality deniers I guess.

[Sardines]

i love it, so the title of this post is nonsense even if i'm the only one who feels this way, which i'm not. get a life.