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Batman: Arkham Shadow | Official Teaser Trailer | Meta Quest 3 | Full Reveal @ Summer Game Fest (June 7)
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Same. tbh it's making me more excited about this game. Not sure how I feel about it being VR but it seems like it's being made by people who know Arkam
They confirmed today that the game show is coming June 7.
Saying Ryan Payton was a dev on MGS4 is..lets say a really far stretch.
Everyone that's disappointed that it's a VR game, do keep in mind that this is subsidized by Meta. Without them funding it, the game wouldn't even exist.
Detective mode would be cool in VR. Not sure how well they'll handle the 3rd person camera and controls. It should be like Astro Bot though and let us control Batman like normal with head movement camera controls.
Producer on one; creative director on another...I think he just tried to find a happy medium and fumbled his terminology a bit. Seems innocent enough.
More super heroes is meh, but nice to see more first party VR only games, though we already knew this one was coming.
We had a thread on Era about that: https://www.resetera.com/threads/psvr2-or-quest-3.795843/
We had a thread on Era about that: https://www.resetera.com/threads/psvr2-or-quest-3.795843/
You guys do realize that this wouldn't exist WITHOUT Meta's funding? Like, it would be this or nothing at all.
Weird that you are complaining about this game's existence.
Weird that you are complaining about this game's existence.
It's really messed up to screw over your base. Consoles have figured out that BC is a big thing, I get that new gens mean exclusives… but here is the thing, I can plug my quest 2 to a PC and get all the power I need to run this game. They are locking out quest 2 owners because they want to. I'm still part of that ecosystem, I would still buy it through their store but nope I need to get the new headset that comes out every three years or so. Imagine a Pro console locking out games for the normal owners, that's what this is like.
I'm okay with it existing and I'm happy for people who are excited for it and actually have the applicable hardware. But the double disappointment of Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad made even the brief possibility of a new mainline Arkham game seem like a miracle. A VR game is kind of less interesting since there already was a VR Arkham game and it wasn't super substantive the first time (even if it was sort of novel).
For a series without a mainline title in nine years, it kind of sucks that the next installment will not be played by a majority of the original audience due to how much more niche VR seems to be. I can only speak for myself and I'm totally ignorant of sales charts, but I bought an Oculus years ago and I never will buy a VR headset again - it was the most frivolous piece of hardware I have ever invested in. They could release the next installment of every premiere franchise on the Meta Quest and it still would not make VR any less cumbersome or any more fun.
"If VR has any hope of taking off, it needs compelling exclusives…
Wait, no, not those exclusives!"
Wait, no, not those exclusives!"
"If VR has any hope of taking off, it needs compelling exclusives…
Wait, no, not those exclusives!"
Basically. Personally I feel so lucky we live in an age where we have access to an affordable portable vr console. It goes beyond my wildest dreams as a 90s kid.
I'm less complaining about the game's overall existence and more lamenting after the double whammy of getting through Gotham Knights *and* Kill the Justice League then having my brain briefly latch onto a new Arkham game coming to a platform I currently have until finding out it's Quest 3 only. At least it being Quest means that I don't also have to get a good enough computer AND headset in order to play it but, yeah, that's where I'm at.
Camoflaj are Meta 1st party. That's why it's fully exclusive.
With that said though Quest is so dominant within the VR market, that the usual prevailing logic of multiplatform development being a better business decision often doesn't apply. Quest being weaker also means lower asset requirements for visuals, and porting to more powerful devices requires effectively producing a remastered version of the same game, to reach a much smaller remaining audience.
It sucks, but it's also not really Meta's fault that the rest of the VR industry has been dropping the ball so badly year after year.
It's not going to come to PCVR. Meta's in-house games never do anymore since dropping the Rift in favor of Quest.
Ah, guess I'll be waiting a while.
I actually still haven't gotten around to playing the first Arkham VR game yet. I own it, I just haven't gotten around to setting it up with my Quest 2.
Came here to post this lmao. You can't just name it the same thing as a mainline entry!!
Damn I know I just got rightfully clowned on in the Alan Wake thread for talking about not buying shit from certain launchers but damn now I'm never going to buy this if it's going to stay in their mobile store. That store just feels synonymous with everything either looking or running like shit in headset
This is genuinely exciting news. I anticipate this is going to be a pretty ambitious project given the studio behind it. The original Arkham VR was nifty at the time, but very much an "experience". I'm expecting more of a real game here, and it being Quest 3 exclusive they will hopefully get to push the hardware a little bit in a way we haven't seen much on Quest 3 so far.
I'd expect this to be very different from the first Arkham VR game. That was more of an experimental demo during VR's infancy. Camoflaj have already done a comparatively fully featured Iron Man VR game, and based on past Meta developed titles, they seem to fund their projects really well considering the limited market (Asgards Wrath 2 is ridiculous... a 60hr open-world action RPG with a separate roguelike mode that would typically qualify as it's own game on top).
I can see Camoflaj being similar to Insomniac in terms of being largely tasked with translating superhero IP over.
Nah I get it.
In regards to launchers on PC I think people should really just play something they're really looking forward to wherever it launches. Perhaps pick it up during a sale, and if it hits your preferred launcher later you can grab it during a sale there too. I don't think missing out on highly anticipated games is worth it in that case.
A whole different hardware platform is a different matter though. A $500 Quest 3 to play one game is nowhere near as reasonable an option if you're not expecting to use it for much else. It also has puts actual limitations on the potential scope of a game, because it needs to be able to run off a mobile chipset.
In regards to this particular game though.. it should look a decent amount better than the games you currently associate with the Quest store. Up until now there's effectively been no games on the store that are actually made for Quest 3, rather than Quest 2. Quest 3 is quite a bit more powerful, and so games designed for it specifically should look quite a lot better. Even some games designed initially for Quest 2 look much better when given Quest 3 specific enhancements. Check out some examples by clicking through this video. In general games with graphics updated for Quest 3 tend to sit closer to their PCVR and PSVR2 counterparts than the Quest 2 version.
Huh? Quest 3 is multiple times more powerful than Quest 2, and Arkham is being developed exclusively for it by a Meta first party studio.
You have no idea what this new generation of standalone hardware can do, but it's for damn sure going to be better than anything that Quest 2 could do.
I'll have to check this out in a couple of years then - I buy a headset once every couple of years and am currently going through my lament period for a PSVR2 that has disappointed me lmao. I just remember being very let down by stuff like The Climb 2 as compared to the OG but I suppose that's last-gen visuals!
did swapping out the font on the logo trip anyone else out
Oh Ratcatcher is a great idea for a lead villain in a VR game.
Oh Ratcatcher is a great idea for a lead villain in a VR game.
Why? Why can't you name it that? We've had so many Arkham games from various developers, on various systems from console to mobile to PC.
Batman: Arkham - Wikipedia
Why can't we have another VR title called Arkham? We already had one.
"If VR has any hope of taking off, it needs compelling exclusives…
Wait, no, not those exclusives!"
It's so weird. Those that like VR should be celebrating that we have a first party spending money on developing VR only games, not modes or additions to existing titles, but genuinely a made for VR game possibly with a bigger budget (by VR standards). Can't be an easy decision, with how small the market is, so most third parties avoid it, but every so often Sony and Meta do one.
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What erosion? It's made by a skilled developer who made literally the best VR superhero game (Iron Man VR). There is no reason for pessimism.
Unless of course you are platform whining.