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Half-Life: Alyx Anouncement Trailer
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nani17
are in a big trouble
Just take a left and head down the stairs please take a free copy of Anthem.
Please take one EA still have my kids
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GHG
Member
This attitude is terrible.
There's no such thing as never. Prices change, things advance and your circumstances might improve.
How about some positivity and optimism?
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, it always needed to be this. For years people have been saying a proper big budget full-length game built from the ground up for VR and that it probably needed to be Half-Life. I could definitely see this being the make or break moment for VR gaming.
bilderberg
Member
Everyone here without VR sounds so salty lol
"looks great for vr"
"happy for those few vr owners"
"looks great for vr"
"happy for those few vr owners"
Screamer-RSA
Member
Man the feels. Man fuck Valve... Fuck'em on behalf of everyone who have been waiting 12 years for HL and then you release a VR exclusive. That's fucking low.
Man fuck Valve... Fuck'em on behalf of everyone who have been waiting 12 years for HL and then you release a VR exclusive. That's fucking low.
You don't have space enough to sit? The game doesn't need to you stand up or move around.
Half-Life: Alyx - VR
A VR Return to Half-Life. Set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth.
half-life.com
pr0cs
Member
Yeah if you don't have a pc it'll be pricey, otherwise you can get in pretty inexpensive with Rift /quest
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Which is probably why they didn't go with Half-Life 3.
*looks at system requirements*
so you're saying there's zero chance for a PSVR release, eh?
The PSVR lack of accurate tracking and controllers wouldn't make the game work.
HeinzHarald88
Banned
Can't wait to see a bunch of uncoordinated nerds who struggle to catch things in real life trying to catch stuff in VR.
Tesseract
Banned
magnets everywhere
wordslaughter
Banned
No reason to hate on this.
I don't have a VR headset and have no plans on buying one just yet.
But one day I will and it will be nice to play this along with all the other cool games/experiences that will have built up by that time.
I don't have a VR headset and have no plans on buying one just yet.
But one day I will and it will be nice to play this along with all the other cool games/experiences that will have built up by that time.
JangoRain
Member
Ngl, the salt is real because I’m saving up for a house for next year. I’ll play it someday, in the mean time I guess I’ll strap my Nintendo switch to my face and watch someone play it on YouTube
Bathtub Fart
Banned
Man... Just seeing that universe with a fresh coat of paint makes me so joyful. Won't get VR though...too expensive.
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SweetShark
Member
With all seriousness I really want to buy a VR set just for this game and Bonework.
If they look so satisfying by just looking at them, then I can even imagine the feeling the whole thing you will have by your own control.
Also, I am so HYPE to see new characters/aliens from the HL universe!!!
If they look so satisfying by just looking at them, then I can even imagine the feeling the whole thing you will have by your own control.
Also, I am so HYPE to see new characters/aliens from the HL universe!!!
HaveButOneLife
Banned
Sorry for underestimating VR.
Is this Source 2? Looking good.
Is this Source 2? Looking good.
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gifgaf
Member
Don't be, it's difficult to get across just how fun VR is to someone who hasn't tried it because showing it on a flat screen does not give you the sense of presence VR gives. I understand how people can dismiss VR by looking at videos alone.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
What? Tons of Oculus' own funded/developed games don't let you use "a controller", in fact that was mostly their old games as it was necessary before Touch controllers were released. All their biggest stuff require Touch, from Lone Echo to Asgard's Wrath and Stormland.
And yes this works with Oculus too and anything that works with SteamVR, but not with "a controller" other than Touch and equivalent tracked controllers. Vive wands, Microsoft Mixed Reality controllers, etc.
Thank god for that, VR is flat and unnecessary without hand tracking and the interactions that go with it. Like playing an arcade lightgun game with a mouse or analog stick. Just wrong. But even worse as you do more than shoot in real free locomotion VR games.
The only games that work without hand tracking are games that have you operating things other than your hands, racing games with wheels, flying games with joysticks, and other such things that are still better with actual gear for it but a controller does an ok job at.
RE7 would have been so much more (and unplayable out of VR) had it been made for a platform that actually had modern VR controllers unlike the Move. Sony botched the platform's potential by not making a Move 2 for it and just retrofitting the ancient stuff they had.
This is the kind of shit VR tracked controllers allow in real games (and this is just a small production from a small studio, never mind AAA games like Half-Life: Alyx). I'd rather experience that than twiddle my thumbs, thanks.
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gifgaf
Member
It's not Index exclusive but you do have to use motion controls from the one of the headset, I don't think joypads are supported.
JimmyJones
Banned
VR only = no from me dawg. I get that they want to innovate and stuff but it’s a strange business decision.
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Deleted member 738976
Unconfirmed Member
Make it for PSVR also and maybe I'll try it. $500 or so isn't worth it for one game.
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Come On Tars
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Is it on rails?
gifgaf
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Come On Tars
Member
Oh thank God
SweetShark
Member
Hahaha, I was like you back then and when at last bought one the only games I bought was Pokemon Moon and 2 Ace Attorney games.
MrRenegade
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That is why VR is dead in the water. Expensive, needs extra work, plus it's a niche market. We'll see how HL: Alyx fares and how many can they actually sell.
lukilladog
Member
I´ll continue waiting for HL3 non VR, thanks.
E-Cat
Member
Currently.
June
Member
What physics, specifically?
Hardly. You can still make implications based on what is seen in the trailer. It just doesn't look anything great to me. Nothng worth going out and purchasing a headset for certainly
The less you need to use button to play in VR, the better. Instead of pressing X on your controller to open up something, you should open it up manually like you would do IRL.
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AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
It's not even that expensive anymore. You can get a new Rift S for $400 that is very close to the Index as far as hardware specs go, and I think you may be able to find it for 350 on black friday/cyber monday. Or you can get a used Rift CV1 for around 200 bucks, or if you just really want to go cheap get a Lenovo/HP WMR headset for ~120 bucks.
Just to put it in perspective, I bought the Oculus CV1 on launch for $600 without the Touch motion controls which came later at $200 more. You can buy that same headset used for around 200 bucks now, or get the more accessible/higher resolution Rift S for half the price I paid on launch.
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June
Member
I'm not watching a 15min vid on a different game lol.
What new physics were shown the trailer? Genuinely curious.
Kadayi
Banned
The Keighley interview (posted earlier in the thread) basically confirms that the whole purpose of the title is to grow the VR userbase by shipping headsets. They said they considered a number of their IPs discounting multiplayer due to the lower player bases (so no to CS, TF2 or L4D) and they opted not to go with Portal because the velocity and momentum would just result in people getting sick in VR which wouldn't be good. HL made sense because they were prototyping using existing game assets. There was no grand plan, which is why this isn't going to be the conclusion to the episodic trilogy.
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Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
They've also said these:
Kind of silly to try to downplay an AAA game project with a huge IP attached as some little experiment just meant to push this or that just because it doesn't have a number in the title.
Yeah they at some point decided to use the Half-Life IP for a VR flagship game, hence they properly designed a full Half-Life game around VR as they would have out of it and just as they could decide to do with any other IP in or out of VR and then try and make the best game they can.
Even if it was a non VR game it doesn't mean they'd jump to 3 right away (or that 3 necessarily rounds off a trilogy, we're still missing HL2: Episode 3, as well Half-Life 3) after all this time but rather use the opportunity to make a big game borne out of the desire to "push Source 2.x" or whatever.
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ProgenitorCastle
Banned
Sooooo hyped for this! Never played any Half Life games, but mannnnn I think this is just the kind of game VR needs! Seems so grand and AAA, and gave me the feeling Valve is back.
Kadayi
Banned
I'd didn't say it was an experiment (or a tech demo), but it certainly isn't a sequel versus a prequel to HL2. The whole reason they would want people to replay Episode 2 would be because invariably the game will round out some of Alyx's and Eli's relationship. Personally I'm hoping Mossman is in it.
TBH I think the smarter move though would have been to come up with a distinct VR IP free of any existing associations. Valve's name alone would carry enough Cache to garner interest and it would also free them up from peoples expectations.
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Rat Rage
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What a big fuck you to all the Half Life fans out there....
Let's analyse this situation. So 2 years ago, many big companies, including Valve thought that VR is the next big shit (despite VR being around for decades, albeit with less graphical fidelity). Lot's of big companies threw billions into this new technology.
Pretty soon, however, it became evident that VR is NOT the next big thing. Actually most people didn't give a shit. The big companies tried everything. Shilling the hell out of VR on the internet (even on OLD Gaf), producing new games for example, yet it all turned out to be a typical dreamcast situation: VR sells bad because nobody gives a shit > developers are reserved to release games for it and are waiting until it sells better and install base gets bigger > VR install base doesn't grow because there are no good games for it > developers get more reluctant to commit > VR base still doesn't grow because of no games, and so on.
This situation has been going on for 2 or 3 years. It should be evident that VR is a failure, yet companies like Valve undertake ridiculous messures to turn VR around. I mean, they have to, right? They spent so much money on a technology that wasn't the next coming of jesus.
Seeing Valve use Half Life as one of those desperate messures is pretty upsetting. Many years fans have been asking for a new entry, and only now they are bringing it to life, but only because they were so gullible to fall for the VR-meme, not because they thought developing a next entry of Half Life (one of the most successfull FPS of all time) would make SENSE.
Let's analyse this situation. So 2 years ago, many big companies, including Valve thought that VR is the next big shit (despite VR being around for decades, albeit with less graphical fidelity). Lot's of big companies threw billions into this new technology.
Pretty soon, however, it became evident that VR is NOT the next big thing. Actually most people didn't give a shit. The big companies tried everything. Shilling the hell out of VR on the internet (even on OLD Gaf), producing new games for example, yet it all turned out to be a typical dreamcast situation: VR sells bad because nobody gives a shit > developers are reserved to release games for it and are waiting until it sells better and install base gets bigger > VR install base doesn't grow because there are no good games for it > developers get more reluctant to commit > VR base still doesn't grow because of no games, and so on.
This situation has been going on for 2 or 3 years. It should be evident that VR is a failure, yet companies like Valve undertake ridiculous messures to turn VR around. I mean, they have to, right? They spent so much money on a technology that wasn't the next coming of jesus.
Seeing Valve use Half Life as one of those desperate messures is pretty upsetting. Many years fans have been asking for a new entry, and only now they are bringing it to life, but only because they were so gullible to fall for the VR-meme, not because they thought developing a next entry of Half Life (one of the most successfull FPS of all time) would make SENSE.
Very good analysis.
gifgaf
Member
Headsets are consistently high sellers, Index, Quest, Rift S all sold out when released. Your salt is clouding your judgment. Do some research before you make your comments instead of guessing. VR is growing, the hype around this game proves it. Yes I know it sucks being a VR exclusive for some people but it's no different than Valve making HL3 and giving Microsoft exclusivity for the Xbone.
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Katsura
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Except he is pretty much wrong on every count