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News flash: VR is just another display device, and the reason it's stalling is because it's being treated as an entirely separate platform. Article below taken from https://www.patreon.com/icycalm
I have censored a couple of bad words for the sake of minors browsing the forum.
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VR Is Stalling For No Reason
This isn't a proper VGCULTURE essay. This is some basic common sense stuff that I really shouldn't have to write, yet which I am compelled to write because, astoundingly, no one else is.
So let's get this straight right off the bat: VR is NOT stalling because there aren't any good VR-exclusive games coming out, like everyone else is saying. That's like saying that LaserDisc stalled because there weren't any new LaserDisc-exclusive movies coming out ffs. VR is stalling because people are stupid and don't demand that ALL their new games work with VR out of the box.
We don't NEED new VR-exclusive games. The vast majority of the few such games that exist do not REQUIRE VR to be played, and therefore they SHOULDN'T require it. Their devs are shooting themselves in the foot by cutting out the greatest percentage of players in this way. Conversely, there is no reason at all why EVERY new game coming out — and especially all the first-person ones — shouldn't be playable in VR. There are goddamn UTILITIES made by single random people and distributed online for free that allow you to play ANY old first-person game in VR — like all the old Far Cries, for example — so why on earth a company like Ubisoft isn't adding a VR option in stuff like Wildlands and Far Cry 5 is beyond me.
Understand that there's nothing particularly special about a VR headset compared to a monitor or TV or projector, IT'S JUST A F#*!$ING DISPLAY YOU STUPID F#*!$ING MONKEYS. "Presence" is a term for idiots who need half a dozen words for the same concept, that concept here being "immersion". And if they made a brainjacking device tomorrow, you should STILL be able to play Far Cry 5 with it with barely any modifications. They ALREADY modify the game to work with various different resolutions and display setups, so making the necessary changes to ensure a smooth VR experience is merely an extension of that. Requiring that the devs make an ENTIRE NEW F#*!$ING GAME just because you want to use your VR headset is an ENTIRE NEW GALAXY of asinine that I simply don't have enough all-caps for! It's like when Sony announced the PSP, and Capcom said they'd make a DMC game specifically for it. Only, eventually, they didn't, because it wouldn't have made any financial sense. THAT'S why no one is making "VR-exclusive" games today — at least not serious ones — and all you get is dreck, or cheap gimmicks like Beat Saber.
So, to ask it one more time, why on earth can't I play Wildlands or FC5 in VR, with official support? Or Siege for that matter. Or even PA, since there is a VR version of AirMech up on Steam that looks fantastic [ > ]. Which brings me to the other giant stupidity: entire new versions of games that companies are charging people again for simply to add VR support as if they are brand-new f#*$ing games! It is insane that no one is screaming about this shit, and it's insane that with all this nonsense raging people are actually expecting VR to take off!
And then on top of all that, the vast majority of gimmicky VR-only games that come out seem to suffer from the brand-new "disembodied hands" syndrome for no apparent reason. You know what I am talking about, I am not going to bother elaborating. If your game has disembodied hands I refuse to even watch the trailer, let alone play the stupid thing.
So why is VR stalling? I said there is no reason, but I lied, since it's obviously sheer stupidity, plain and simple. Sheer stupidity of everyone involved: the companies that can't figure out that they should be adding VR support to their existing projects, the journalists and players who can't figure out that they should be asking for it, the shovelware-makers who are taking advantage of the paucity of titles to flood the market with their cheap dreck for a few quick bucks, the players who buy the dreck, the journalists who are reviewing it without trashing it as dreck...
Thankfully there's that Oculus James Bond game coming out, Defector [ > ], that looks cool. Of course, they are not letting you play it without a headset, which means they won't make much money, which means they won't invest much money, which means it looks like a 360 game, but it's still better than the shovelware dreck, so whatever. It's basically the same stupidity with what Ubisoft does (or doesn't do), but from the opposite direction, treating essentially a display device as if it's a new system ffs. People are paying an exorbitant amount of money on headsets and graphics cards to power them, and can't even play their fucking games on them. Of course VR isn't taking off!
F*!$ing morons. F*!k knows how many years it will take the industry to overcome this new stupidity. Until then, VR is doomed to stalling for no reason. In the meantime, I will research enthusiast utilities that let you play all games in VR and report back with my results. Might as well be the only writer here again who's doing something productive with his time.
I have censored a couple of bad words for the sake of minors browsing the forum.
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VR Is Stalling For No Reason
This isn't a proper VGCULTURE essay. This is some basic common sense stuff that I really shouldn't have to write, yet which I am compelled to write because, astoundingly, no one else is.
So let's get this straight right off the bat: VR is NOT stalling because there aren't any good VR-exclusive games coming out, like everyone else is saying. That's like saying that LaserDisc stalled because there weren't any new LaserDisc-exclusive movies coming out ffs. VR is stalling because people are stupid and don't demand that ALL their new games work with VR out of the box.
We don't NEED new VR-exclusive games. The vast majority of the few such games that exist do not REQUIRE VR to be played, and therefore they SHOULDN'T require it. Their devs are shooting themselves in the foot by cutting out the greatest percentage of players in this way. Conversely, there is no reason at all why EVERY new game coming out — and especially all the first-person ones — shouldn't be playable in VR. There are goddamn UTILITIES made by single random people and distributed online for free that allow you to play ANY old first-person game in VR — like all the old Far Cries, for example — so why on earth a company like Ubisoft isn't adding a VR option in stuff like Wildlands and Far Cry 5 is beyond me.
Understand that there's nothing particularly special about a VR headset compared to a monitor or TV or projector, IT'S JUST A F#*!$ING DISPLAY YOU STUPID F#*!$ING MONKEYS. "Presence" is a term for idiots who need half a dozen words for the same concept, that concept here being "immersion". And if they made a brainjacking device tomorrow, you should STILL be able to play Far Cry 5 with it with barely any modifications. They ALREADY modify the game to work with various different resolutions and display setups, so making the necessary changes to ensure a smooth VR experience is merely an extension of that. Requiring that the devs make an ENTIRE NEW F#*!$ING GAME just because you want to use your VR headset is an ENTIRE NEW GALAXY of asinine that I simply don't have enough all-caps for! It's like when Sony announced the PSP, and Capcom said they'd make a DMC game specifically for it. Only, eventually, they didn't, because it wouldn't have made any financial sense. THAT'S why no one is making "VR-exclusive" games today — at least not serious ones — and all you get is dreck, or cheap gimmicks like Beat Saber.
So, to ask it one more time, why on earth can't I play Wildlands or FC5 in VR, with official support? Or Siege for that matter. Or even PA, since there is a VR version of AirMech up on Steam that looks fantastic [ > ]. Which brings me to the other giant stupidity: entire new versions of games that companies are charging people again for simply to add VR support as if they are brand-new f#*$ing games! It is insane that no one is screaming about this shit, and it's insane that with all this nonsense raging people are actually expecting VR to take off!
And then on top of all that, the vast majority of gimmicky VR-only games that come out seem to suffer from the brand-new "disembodied hands" syndrome for no apparent reason. You know what I am talking about, I am not going to bother elaborating. If your game has disembodied hands I refuse to even watch the trailer, let alone play the stupid thing.
So why is VR stalling? I said there is no reason, but I lied, since it's obviously sheer stupidity, plain and simple. Sheer stupidity of everyone involved: the companies that can't figure out that they should be adding VR support to their existing projects, the journalists and players who can't figure out that they should be asking for it, the shovelware-makers who are taking advantage of the paucity of titles to flood the market with their cheap dreck for a few quick bucks, the players who buy the dreck, the journalists who are reviewing it without trashing it as dreck...
Thankfully there's that Oculus James Bond game coming out, Defector [ > ], that looks cool. Of course, they are not letting you play it without a headset, which means they won't make much money, which means they won't invest much money, which means it looks like a 360 game, but it's still better than the shovelware dreck, so whatever. It's basically the same stupidity with what Ubisoft does (or doesn't do), but from the opposite direction, treating essentially a display device as if it's a new system ffs. People are paying an exorbitant amount of money on headsets and graphics cards to power them, and can't even play their fucking games on them. Of course VR isn't taking off!
F*!$ing morons. F*!k knows how many years it will take the industry to overcome this new stupidity. Until then, VR is doomed to stalling for no reason. In the meantime, I will research enthusiast utilities that let you play all games in VR and report back with my results. Might as well be the only writer here again who's doing something productive with his time.
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