I got a reservation for some Index controllers, which come with a copy of the game, but haven't heard anything since I got a spot in line. I assume this Covid stuff has messed up their supply chain or something? I suppose I'll wait to play it because I'd rather play it with those controllers than my old Vive controllers.
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Half-Life: Alyx - Review Thread
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The horror focus probably means I won't ever finish this. Glad to pick it up and support the series though. I'm so sick of VR spiders.
This is like if elderly Bruce Wayne came out of retirement, donned the Batsuit, and went and upstaged Nightwing.
You didn't expect it to happen, but it did and it turned out better than you thought. The fact that Valve announced and released this thing within a 3 month time span is just stupid.
You didn't expect it to happen, but it did and it turned out better than you thought. The fact that Valve announced and released this thing within a 3 month time span is just stupid.
Seems like a winner. Sadly I don't have the rig or the headset to run it. Hopefully Sony will not fuck the PSVR2 controllers up cuz missing out on this could be a real blunder on their VR front. That said if it starts to seem like it won't be hitting the console space when we get news on the next gen VR stuff I'll prolly finally have to get a PC VR headset.
VentureBeat's review is pure garbage: "Real life is scary right now so Half Life Alyx isn't the right game to play."
Otherwise I'm happy to see reviewers are loving it.
Otherwise I'm happy to see reviewers are loving it.
Yes. The review is "There is Covid right now and the game also has horror parts! Thats not a good time to play it now!"
Sigh, I want to play this so bad. Has Valve mentioned anything at all about when this will be released without VR?
No shit, starts off saying the game is a downer because of CV19...........
They're just getting the usual era "people aren't allowed to have different opinions to me" super early.
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Whoops misread, sorry folks. Fixing now. Juggling a bunch of reviews rn trying to update the OP.
I don't usually say that because reviewer have the right to have their own opinion about anything.
But fuck VentureBeat. It's not a review, it's a pile of garbage.
As a massive fan of HL and HL2...I'm crushed I'll probably never play this.
But congrats to the team. Hope this means more Half-Life in the future.
But congrats to the team. Hope this means more Half-Life in the future.
"Holding Half-Life hostage"....holy shit at the rhetoric on this forum sometimes.
Happy, but unsurprised at the review performance. Big day for everyone at Valve, super stoked to see the success of the team!
This will be the best game that the most people will never play.
Edit: guess I shouldn't say "never". If VR becomes more commonplace in the future people will probably go back and play this.
Edit: guess I shouldn't say "never". If VR becomes more commonplace in the future people will probably go back and play this.
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3 will be almost certainly be a VR game now, considering the positive reception.
The good thing is that there's no way such a game would release in less than 4-5 years, so VR will be much cheaper/accessible by then.
It wasn't only the timing of release that was brought up as something the reviewer brought up as a negative though.
And they still gave it an 8/10 which is a good score.
I don't know if they'll figure out how to eliminate motion sickness within 5 years.
Sure.. but build a competent headset and console that can play alyx without as less restraints as possible. When PSVR2 and PS5 arrive only then there is a possibility of that happening.
If anything this is THE best time to release a VR game, as people are in need of immersive entertainment
That's on them, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of it in 1.5 hours
It's the thing they lead off with and put in the header though, so hugely important to them.
Especially because this is essentially a different developer, as Valve has changed a lot in the past two decades.
I did have the pleasure of working on and doing quite a bit of testing back when it was only known as "HL: VR" . It was nearly 3 years ago. Things came a long way :)
Valve has such an ingrained set of principles and values, that while the team might not be 100% the same people, the spirit of the company creating the game is very much unchanged. It shows in the work!