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VR has it's first AAA Exclusive: Asgard's Wrath, a 30-40 hour RPG with glowing reception thus far (PCVR, Oculus Studios)
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This works in Revive with Valve Index, but I had to turn settings down to "medium" on a powerful system (RTX 2080 Ti, i7-8770K overclocked) to overcome some weird animation stutter issues in Revive. I couldn't reproduce those issues on Oculus Rift S on the same PC.
Also, I'm behind on testing this, but I'm still mixed thus far. I have a certain bar I set for "why does this need to be in VR instead of flat-screen," and the game sure takes its sweet time answering that; it takes forever to get to legitimate sword combat, and when it does, the tutorial completely falls apart.
Also, I'm behind on testing this, but I'm still mixed thus far. I have a certain bar I set for "why does this need to be in VR instead of flat-screen," and the game sure takes its sweet time answering that; it takes forever to get to legitimate sword combat, and when it does, the tutorial completely falls apart.
That's a shame.
I will hold off a few days and see what the general consensus is with Revive and performance.
It's not a bold claim but clearly as you stated "happy for the VR crowd" it's a game not even coming to a platform that you have or maybe even interests you so that probably explains it now huh
Yeah, its a great next few months for VR. I'm not in a rush to pick this one up like I am with Stormland, but very glad its getting great reviews. Hope it's profitable, I think Quest getting PC compatibility should help with that.
Sweet, just bought. Incredibly excited, gonna be a cool few months for oculus.
I don't know the ocean part in the beginning immediately sold me why it needs to be in VR.
Played about 5 hours and i am absolutely loving it so far. The puzzles, combat, size and scope. The minions everything about this is rad.
The metascore site vrgamecritic just updated with a third review (Spanish) and it now has an official vrgc score of [93]
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Do you have the latest nvidia drivers? Reports are that it is much better with those drivers.
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Digital Foundry did do a Wipeout Omega Collection video though. Knowing them, they'll probably be drooling over the idea of making a video on the first dynamic foveated rendering solution in a few years.
From what I've heard journalists say there's simply no money in covering VR, that's why regular gaming websites don't do it. Nobody reads those reviews. Only the biggest games get covered and I don't think this one is well known, I haven't heard of it before people started talking about it in the PCVR thread a few days ago. So chances are the journos don't know about it either.
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This is definitely a big factor. It's also why there's so many misconceptions about VR out there - because the media is rarely telling anyone about VR.
Luckily, we have large existing IPs like Medal of Honor and Half Life coming in the near future, so that will start to put a spin in things. Every site is going to be heavily covering Half Life VR, that I can assure you.
You'll see more reviews for Asgard's Wrath come in the coming week though.
I was just surprised that not one regular gaming website has published a review. It seems to be a great game with big scope.
There are lots of VR games that get plenty reviews, e.g. Everybodys Golf VR sits at 34 reviews and Blood and Truth at 70.
I think that's maybe one sixth of the "40 hour"quest time they're advertising. They're freaking brutal.
I remember several launch VR games had massive load times as well. Hopefully they'll be able to fix it. Are you using an SSD?
Looks ... pretty cool.
Getting more of a God of War vibe than a Skyrim vibe from it.
The combat looks a bit weak, though. That first fight he just walks up to a bad guy, sticks to him and swings his weapons for a straight three minutes. I'm sure there are some nuances I'm missing, though.
Getting more of a God of War vibe than a Skyrim vibe from it.
The combat looks a bit weak, though. That first fight he just walks up to a bad guy, sticks to him and swings his weapons for a straight three minutes. I'm sure there are some nuances I'm missing, though.
They have to start somewhere. Of course they're going to make losses in the short term but if they don't create these types of deeper and more fully fledged experiences then VR gaming will be forever associated only with casual and quick experiences and never gain any wider traction.
Sure it's a risk though, but not really much of a risk for a company like Facebook.
While by 'flat-screen' standards I'd agree - I think definition should proportional to the market, else we'd have to retroactively classify almost the entire PS2 generation as "AA". I mean noone will spend 100+ on a VR exclusive for a good long while.
Anyway is the OP title stated to be bigger budget anywhere? Given Oculus is publishing and it's 40$ at launch I wouldn't be so sure...
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This is funded by Oculus. They've funded about half a billion in games, and Facebook in general has no trouble throwing billions around to make VR more mainstream.
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I actually don't think it should be proportional to the market, because then it just confuses things.
If we consider Astro Bot a AAA, most people without VR would disagree and those looking for AAA games would give it a hard pass (unless they actually try it), however if you provide them with a game that is genuinely providing that 15+ hour high budget experience that they're used to, then a lot more eyes will be turned upon it.
PS2 standards are just a different age in general. So much about game development back then has changed. The $40 price tag is likely there to ease people in, as people can be very touchy on spending more than $40 for VR games.
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Oculus Store. Non-Oculus users can access the game using ReVive. I play to play my Oculus Store games this way when I get my hands on an Index.
Played it for 3 hours and it is growing on me. At first I thought there is a lot of handholding but as you unlock more gameplay mechanics you can approach combat in a lot of different ways.
The Kratos-like axe is very satisfying to use.
Visuals especially in the tavern are really good for a VR game.
The Kratos-like axe is very satisfying to use.
Visuals especially in the tavern are really good for a VR game.
Ewwe they really need to tune down the effects going , they cover the whole screen and it looks like it would give me a headache sooner than it suppose to be.
No, Quest has nowhere near enough power to run this. You'll have to connect your Quest to a PC and run it through that when the Link cable comes out.
I don't have my Rift set up at the moment but I don't want to wait, going to try playing this with ALVR on the Quest. Hopefully it's playable.
No, PC only but you'll be able to play it with Oculus Link next month or try using wireless streaming.
No, PC only but you'll be able to play it with Oculus Link next month or try using wireless streaming.
Just played it for maybe 1 hour. First impression is really good. Very well made and felt like a high production AAA game.
Only issue for me is the performance, it's all over the place. But aside from that, great mechanics, great melee combat, great environment design.
Only issue for me is the performance, it's all over the place. But aside from that, great mechanics, great melee combat, great environment design.
I'm playing at medium settings on my 1070 using a CV1 and it runs great.
This is what I got VR for. Not experiences. Not arcade games. But REAL action adventure games that can't be replicated on consoles. Thank you!
That's nice but you're not on revive lol. revive can introduce a performance penalty
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Someone in another forum mentioned they ran it fine on a 1070 with stutters only happen infrequently. I have no idea what headset they used though. You'll probably find answers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/comments/dfxi1d/mini_asgards_wrath_review_revive_index_controllers/