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Asgard's Wrath: 40 hour VR RPG coming out today
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IbizaPocholo
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Romulus
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That 9.4 ign review felt pretty accurate.
I got to play my about 45minutes earlier. It feels incredibly polished and is easily the best looking fps RPG I've ever played, VR or not.
The combat is visceral and the movement feels great. It's very intuitive too.
This is where VR is going, lots of super polished games exclusive to VR are on the way.
I got to play my about 45minutes earlier. It feels incredibly polished and is easily the best looking fps RPG I've ever played, VR or not.
The combat is visceral and the movement feels great. It's very intuitive too.
This is where VR is going, lots of super polished games exclusive to VR are on the way.
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ThatStupidLion
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not verty familiar with VR games, but those interaction animations are...poppy?
Romulus
Member
Once you put on the headset, that's the last thing you're thinking about. It truly feels next level.
Videos do VR absolutely zero justice.
ExpandKong
Banned
Man I read it right but I THOUGHT about Asura’s Wrath and then I started thinking about a spiritual sequel to that as a super anime styled take on Norse mythology and now I’m fuckin bummed that’s not what this is
Romulus
Member
Its Oculus exclusive.
TheShadowLord
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The video in the op shows the guy using a vive, though?
Romulus
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Revive works
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pr0cs
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This cannot be understated. It's impossible to judge a VR game by watching a video, in fact that ign review makes the game a janky mess but mostly because it's really difficult to film VR games without seizure inducing head shake and wobbly arm movements. The game doesn't look like that at all when you're in VR but it's exasperated 10x when watching a flat video of someone playing it.
I really don't understand why someone hasn't reinvented the God game genre for VR, it sounds from the ign review that was a favorite part of the game yet its part of the game very limited. I can't help but think that Populous or black and white would be awesome in VR
Romulus
Member
Yep. I've had several people demo my VR and state beforehand that they thought VR looks wonky in videos(I agree), only be wowed trying it.
pr0cs
Member
I fucking hate Skyrim, after being ruined by oblivion (one of few games I traded in last Gen) I avoided Skyrim like the black plauge.
I had some extra steam credit though and wanted to play a more involved title beyond the myriad of VR mini games and figured, fuck it I'll try Skyrim VR even if for fooling around and tech demo for VR.
It's a totally different game in VR. I'm still not a fan of the mechanics (auto enemy scaling is stupid in RPGs) but simply sitting at a table in a NPCs house, watching the smoke drift from their braziers, hearing the crackle of the fire watching the characters talk is a pretty amazing experience that someone who hasn't tried VR before, and for someone who has played the game most would underestimate how different the experience is in VR
Romulus
Member
Probably about as certain as AstroBot on Oculus.
hollams
Gold Member
Played for a couple of hours and it's really good and makes you feel like you are inside a God of War game.
I am playing on the hardest difficulty with all of the HUD turned off and have lost 3 times to one of the first big enemies. I will probably turn down the difficulty till I get more experience with the combat.
The only bad thing so far is the loading times. I installed on a regular hard drive and loading times were around 30-40 seconds, moving it to an SSD cut them down to 10-20, so better, but still a bit long. The game is 125G so it's a very large install.
I am playing on the hardest difficulty with all of the HUD turned off and have lost 3 times to one of the first big enemies. I will probably turn down the difficulty till I get more experience with the combat.
The only bad thing so far is the loading times. I installed on a regular hard drive and loading times were around 30-40 seconds, moving it to an SSD cut them down to 10-20, so better, but still a bit long. The game is 125G so it's a very large install.
Keihart
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The only game that makes me regret having a rift instead of a PSVR because i'm a super fan of the franchise.
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Romulus
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Horsemama1956
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I would buy this if like you walked up to an NPC in game and you literally had a conversation with that character. It just feels like playing a regular video game with a headset on with some motion tracked.
Racing and flight sim stuff is the only thing I fell is even close to immersive.
DarthBuzzer
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Yeah, I'd say that's a 100% impossibility. At this point it can't flop and it can't ever get a port. And if we imagine it ever did, it would always be the worst way to play.Hopefully it flops, so they have to make a none VR version.
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Stuart360
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Loads of VR only games have ended up getting none VR versions later on. I dont see why it cant get a port anyway, its just a Skyrim style game.
DarthBuzzer
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AI isn't that sophisticated yet in any game. However you do have genuine interactions with characters that feel personal, like so:
DarthBuzzer
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Oculus would never in a million years port a game for non-VR. Never happening, and I don't throw the word never around lightly.
Romulus
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Huh? It doesn't "feel" like a regular game at all. You're literally inside the game. That in itself is revelatory and the biggest jump I've experienced in gaming. It's incredibly immersive in practice.
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Stuart360
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Oh does Oculus themselves own the game?, now i get you. Yeah little chance then.
Keihart
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Yeah, developer Zansaru (the ones that remastered Sly and made Thiefs in time) and the publisher is Oculus. Depending on who owns the IP, a secuel could be made for multiplatform or if Oculus so desires, they could reach an agreement like Sony has done with some second parties like Quantic Dream.
Vawn
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That's a shame.
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Deleted member 17706
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I may have to hook up my Oculus again. Haven't used it in like 2 years.
Keihart
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Have you tried some good shooters? there is no much lacking in terms of interaction in that genre either, only locomotion really. Robo Recall is my favorite one yet. Only flaw is it's lenght but it's very arcade like so you are meant to replay it. In the MP department there is the very harcore sim like shooter Onward ofcourse, reloading and using scopes is a whole new kind of fun thing to master in VR.
magnumpy
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haha, that's right. oculus has billions of $ in facebook money backing them. hard to argue against $
StreetsofBeige
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For the first time, I think I saw a VR game that looks top quality with meaty content.
As for VR videos, why is it that videos always show gameplay (including super-imposed hands holding guns) always twitching and jerking around like it's always shifting 50 pixels in every direction back and forth?
I've never tried VR.
So you're saying when you actually play game, all this jerkiness isn't true and it's smooth flowing?
DarthBuzzer
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Stormland is the next AAA title for VR and comes out next month. Half Life VR will be revealed very soon as well which has potential to be a killer app in the same way BOTW was for Switch. Over the next 2 months you also have Boneworks which has potential to be revolutionary. In January you have a 15 hour Walking Dead game which looks pretty good. Medal of Honor VR is a thing for 2020 which is another full AAA. You also have plenty of unannounced games in the works like 2 other Valve games, an Assassin's Creed or Splinter Cell game, and a Wasteland game - all of which are intended to be AAA exclusives for VR.
DarthBuzzer
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Imagine a GoPro. Same concept. Humans have lots of micromovement that you never notice unless a camera picks it up. In this case it's just a virtual camera.
So yes, in VR everything is smooth, always. You might find Cloud's Buster Sword is shaky when using VR due to the lack of weight on such a huge tracked object, but in general it doesn't tend to bother people - plus as a developer you can smooth out these things in games using artificial drag.
pr0cs
Member
No, and to be honest I don't really understand why it's so common but it really hurts 2d representation of VR games when the gameplay looks like a jerky mess. It's not like that when playing at all. Perhaps it's your brain that tunes it out when in VR, perhaps it's actually how you move in real life and when transposed in game it comes off like a bad cerebral palsy dream but when playing that wacky behavior doesn't exist.
It's one of the things that makes VR REALLY hard to explain or demo, it really matters to play it in 3 dimensions
Romulus
Member
As others have said, VR just doesn't translate. The shakiness is exacerbated big time in videos.
Anyway, there are alot of meaty games already in VR, and more coming.
I'm playing Borderlands 2 now with a gun controller and its amazing. Actually leaning around corners, blind firing? It just adds a unexpected dynamic that I never thought possible with the series, not to mention life sized scale and depth perception(game charger).
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