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I mean to me $200 doesn't seem all that crazy. It's pretty wild technology for what amounts to used PS4 money
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Same. I spent the evening racing pretend racecars in my VR hat in my driving rig and it was awesome  Get a VR, you’ll love it
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Mar 6, 2020 06:32
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But I guess if you don’t even own a PC.. the entry price for a good experience is more like $2000?
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Mar 7, 2020 08:35
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And if you don't own a house it can reach the hundreds of thousands!
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Mar 7, 2020 09:09
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Thought I'd boot up Black Mesa 1.0 and holy gently caress Gordon Freeman is meant to be 27? I feel like a failure.
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Mar 7, 2020 14:40
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i can't wait to do the seesaw puzzle 5 times again, but in VR
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Mar 7, 2020 15:27
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stev posted:Thought I'd boot up Black Mesa 1.0 and holy gently caress Gordon Freeman is meant to be 27? I feel like a failure. Someone make a mod where Gordon can talk but the only thing he says is “ok boomer” to all the scientists and guards.
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Mar 7, 2020 16:37
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stev posted:Thought I'd boot up Black Mesa 1.0 and holy gently caress Gordon Freeman is meant to be 27? I feel like a failure. The upside is that neither of us likely has the level of responsibility to usher in an apocalyptic dimensional invasion if things go wrong at work
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Mar 7, 2020 17:38
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Blind Rasputin posted:But I guess if you don’t even own a PC.. the entry price for a good experience is more like $2000? This is also mostly true of non-VR PC games. Bremen fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Mar 7, 2020 |
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Mar 7, 2020 18:00
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An option would be to buy a refurbished dell optiplex for like, 200$ that has a decent i5/i7 and buy a used 1070 for another 200$ or something. 400~500 dollars and you'd be looking at a pretty decent machine. Or if you wanted something a bit more future proof you can just go to pc part picker and get a cheap 2000 series ryzen build, upgrade to 3000/4000 down the line if you wanted. I would still recommend buying a used card to save on the most expensive piece of the build though but then tack on ~400$ for a vr rig, and even then, facebook marketplace/kijiji/ whatever local buy and sell service you have will probably have some vive setups for fairly cheap. This isn't the recommended option but it IS cheap. I would still recommend a Rift S at this point tho
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Mar 7, 2020 18:08
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stev posted:Thought I'd boot up Black Mesa 1.0 and holy gently caress Gordon Freeman is meant to be 27? I feel like a failure. I’ve always assumed that they made Gordon get a Ph.D in theoretical physics by age 27 because if they made him any older, prospective teenage buyers might get turned off by playing an old. It’s like how in Japanese games you have all these super elite vets with a huge service record, and they’re like, 21.
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Mar 7, 2020 20:49
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Considering Japan's track record in the 20th century a 21 year old veteran is depressingly realistic. As for Freeman it's really not out of line with the games tone of the heroic action scientist from alien invasion b movies Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Mar 7, 2020 |
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Mar 7, 2020 21:16
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So what’s the price and parts for an above average fairly future proof machine for this? If this isn’t the right place I’ll ask elsewhere. Are all in one pc’s that aren’t covered up in cords a thing that allows for installing the necessary video card?
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Mar 7, 2020 22:12
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Blind Rasputin posted:So what’s the price and parts for an above average fairly future proof machine for this? If this isn’t the right place I’ll ask elsewhere. Are all in one pc’s that aren’t covered up in cords a thing that allows for installing the necessary video card? Get to the PC building thread in SH/SC
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I mentioned it in the general VR thread but I'm finally up and running on a newer machine that should run HL:A just fine  Now I need to figure out how to actually do stuff in the SteamVR home interface so I can look at the environment stuff they've released, all I can figure out for setting a private room is to use the default setting.
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Mar 7, 2020 23:55
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stev posted:Thought I'd boot up Black Mesa 1.0 and holy gently caress Gordon Freeman is meant to be 27? I feel like a failure. Remember, despite his PhD his whole job was to push a cart into some lasers. He’s basically an intern.
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Sammus posted:Remember, despite his PhD his whole job was to push a cart into some lasers. He’s basically an intern. "What do you need a helmet for? It's like you don't want me to give you a good performance review."
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Mar 8, 2020 14:59
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stev posted:Thought I'd boot up Black Mesa 1.0 and holy gently caress Gordon Freeman is meant to be 27? I feel like a failure. Do remember that Gordon is a turbo genius. He constructed a butane powered tennis ball cannon at age 6 and his thesis was titled "Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array"
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Do remember that Gordon is a turbo genius. He constructed a butane powered tennis ball cannon at age 6 and his thesis was titled "Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array" I feel like the space coma he was in between the games must have done something to his brain. By the end of the series all he can do is shoot and befriend garden gnomes.
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I mean I prefer the Freeman's Mind explanation where he's actually a severe drug abuser who went more than a little crazy during the Black Mesa incident and is convinced he's working for the CIA.
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Of course in his first private sector job he does get a powered armour suit that shoots him up with morphine while most of his colleagues are dead so it's not like he's on the worst career track.
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Haven't quite reached Xen yet in my BM1.0 run, but the highlight so far was the reprise of the dam battle theme popping up once you get the rocket launcher. Showed that loving helicopter what for. Came in handy for dealing with corner-humping grenade-spamming Hgrunts too 
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Mar 11, 2020 08:43
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Lmao, RPS just keeps getting worse and worse."Their Black Mesa review posted:There are moments in levels where it’s easy to lose sight of where you’re meant to be going, or to find the exit from a combat arena. These problems would be solved in a truly modern game via player testing and layout changes, or by a friendly NPC buzzing in your ear to point you in the right direction. Or even by a big quest arrow pointing to where to go. Your objectives also make progress a slog for the game’s third quarter, from the chapters ‘On A Rail’ through to ‘Lambda Core’. There are memorable moments within, including the enormous Garg, and being thrown in a trash compactor by enemy soldiers, but the rest feels repetitive. But then, did fighting the Alien Grunts and military ninjas ever feel good?
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Mar 11, 2020 19:43
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RPS has been a trash fire for ages now.
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Mar 11, 2020 21:13
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Tbf the ninjas in Half Life were never good.
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When I read that earlier I didn't take it as an active endorsement of those types of mechanic, just that this is how things work now. There were a few sections of the black mesa facility (in BM) that I was bumbling around trying to find the way forward and because I've lived through 2 decades of FPS iteration could feel myself getting irritated at it not being more obvious. And would agree that Ninja's and Alien grunts were good for variety but weren't as fun to deal with as other enemies in the game.
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Mar 11, 2020 21:39
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Jack Trades posted:RPS has been a trash fire for ages now. Its sad how short lived good gaming review sites are I remember like 20 years ago IGN was decent.
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I'm pretty sure they blocked me from commenting a while back after I mocked Graham for not being able to figure out PavlovVR, a game highly popular with children. I disagree with a lot of what John Walker says, but at least they're funny. Most of the new staff at RPS aren't insightful, they're often lazy and they're dishonest. The place has gotten pretty rotten.
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Fwoderwick posted:When I read that earlier I didn't take it as an active endorsement of those types of mechanic, just that this is how things work now. There were a few sections of the black mesa facility (in BM) that I was bumbling around trying to find the way forward and because I've lived through 2 decades of FPS iteration could feel myself getting irritated at it not being more obvious. That's exactly how I read it too, and I agree on all points. Parts of Forget About Freeman and Lambda Core are pretty boring and Black Mesa should have trimmed sections like it did with On a Rail. It's not exactly HL's failing either, because while fighting enforcers in the parking garage tunnels with the snark walls and flooding the lambda core suck in the original game, they feel way longer and more tedious with less enemy variety in Black Mesa. The new Xen is pretty but intensely gamey in places. The entire section of Xen with the parasitic nodes and leaf bridges felt like it was ripped straight out of a Metroid Prime game. I really did enjoy loading health kits and ammo crates and explosive barrels onto the mine trams only for everything to explode and go flying the second I got up to full speed. Having the ability to dick around and mess with physics objects like HL2 is wonderful and the improved interactivity and conversational NPCs really make the whole first half of the game even better.
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Mar 12, 2020 00:52
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I passed by black mesa, arizona today. #ididit #halflife3
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Mordja posted:Lmao, RPS just keeps getting worse and worse. Man that's so bad what is wrong with them
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Mar 12, 2020 05:14
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bef posted:I passed by black mesa, arizona today. #ididit #halflife3 I literally did the same two days ago. I should have stopped.
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Mar 12, 2020 05:24
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sigher posted:I literally did the same two days ago. I should have stopped. Whered u go bro? Navajo nation is pretty coool!!
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Mar 12, 2020 05:27
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bef posted:Whered u go bro? Navajo nation is pretty coool!! I drove from Cincinatti to LA, it was a bitch but fantastic.
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Haha hell nice, I love american road trips. southwest us is  . We live in a beautiful country Anyways sorry for deraail. Half life 3 is coming out!!!!  
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Run. Think. Shoot. Live. Throw up from motion sickness since this is a lot of people's first VR experience. ...Alyx's tagline could use some work
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Cartoon Man posted:Wonder if the game will end with Alyx finding Gordon near the beginning of HL2. Calling it - the game ends with the phrase "Doctor Freeman I presume."
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https://youtu.be/sK_PdwL5Y8g Half Life 2 devs watch a 50 minute speedrun incredulously. They mention a couple things about Alyx, and there are some amusing stories about development of certain areas, worth a watch if you're obsessive like me.
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"How many years did you work on that section that we just flew through in ten seconds?" "I was a little worried we were back in the bounds of the world, but it's good that we're free again." "This section is a lot longer than I remember." "No one thought the airboat section was too long." "It's been long enough, we can make fun of ourselves now." "When my kid starts playing Half-Life 2 and gets stuck, I'm going to send him this video and tell him it's a walkthrough."
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