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Did Amazon have any headsets on sale for Cyber Monday? I got some gift cards so if so I may wait until Christmas rolls around.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Just the Rift S. It was 350 for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Not much else outside of the Samsung Odyssey+ that was sold for 230 bucks but it’s sold out. BH Photo still has it in stock I think. Am I correct in thinking the Rift S is the go-to these days? It seems to be basically comparable to pricier headsets as long as you don't need the absolute max resolution.
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Dec 4, 2019 04:54
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Neddy Seagoon posted:And even then, you might get more out of the Quest in the long run. Why's that? Also lol at spurging on and index
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Dec 4, 2019 05:15
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's fully portable, so with crossbuy on the Oculus store you can just take it with you anywhere. Ohhh yeah I hadn't really looked at that one yet. If it has parity with the other headsets that sounds like the option for me for sure. Thanks for the help! I might actually just go on Amazon tonight and buy one of these things :P
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Dec 4, 2019 05:17
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Ordered a Quest. Just seems more in line with what I'm looking for. I got a psvr back in the summer, but it just makes me want to play games with decent hand tracking.
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Dec 4, 2019 06:59
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Played some Superhot VR last night. Maybe I'm crazy but it seems like you can't down a person with an open-hand slap. And that's a travesty.
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Dec 4, 2019 14:45
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I adored what little VR there was in Ace Combat so a game focused around that would be an instant buy from me.
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Dec 5, 2019 06:34
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:This is abrasiveness: the thread. We’re all heavily invested in niche tech and we will die defending our purchases goldurnit It's not niche! There are like 3 upcoming games!
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Dec 6, 2019 00:42
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A crime scene investigation game in vr would be cool. Relatively small, contained environments for the player to poke and prod at for clues. Holy poo poo, just do "Ace Attorney: VR". Now with immersive objection-action!
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Dec 9, 2019 05:40
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How sturdy is the Quest generally? Going to Florida in a couple weeks for the holidays and my sisters want to try it, but I dunno if I want to risk my expensive piece of tech by shoving it in a suitcase. Is there some sort of carrying case people use?
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Dec 9, 2019 15:29
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Sometimes, if I am posting angrily on the internet, it helps to remember how dumb it is to get mad at the internet. And then go do something else for a bit. People will probably have forgotten this entire conversation in a half hour anyways. Just saying.
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Dec 9, 2019 20:37
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Cicero posted:abrasive https://tenor.com/INE3.gif
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Dec 10, 2019 23:04
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HolyKrap posted:There's a few weirdos out there defending the lack of saving by saying it isn't possible to save locations of physics objects even though games have been doing that for well over a decade now. That's ridiculous. Even if they don't want to save physics objects it isn't that hard to implement checkpoints and reset the objects on reload.
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Dec 11, 2019 19:21
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StabMasterArson posted:The backseat game development in this thread is always funny but I’m not sure they didnt add a save function just to piss everyone off It's not backseat game dev to say "this dev team probably could've found a way to include this extremely basic feature that every other game manages to do"
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Dec 11, 2019 19:35
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explosivo posted:Man, Quests are properly sold out everywhere aren't they? Good on them for marketing the gently caress out of it but I guess that makes it easier to resist the temptation to buy one with bonus Christmas money this year It seems like the combination of the holidays and the Alyx announcement has really given VR sales a jolt. That said I ordered mine off Amazon and it only took them like a week to get it back in stock, so if you're still interested you can probably get one.
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Dec 11, 2019 19:44
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StabMasterArson posted:I just meant that it might not be that easy, just adding a save button could break the whole thing for all we know Well of course but that's why you don't develop an entire game before going "perhaps the players would like to save their progress?"
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Dec 11, 2019 19:46
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Got my Quest in tonight. Superhot is definitely 1000% better with actual hand tracking instead of trying to use the loving PS Move controllers. I just got to the drop. I was not expecting them to do that haha, had to slightly remove my headset for a sec to readjust. Looking forward to trying more stuff out!
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Dec 12, 2019 00:25
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Calipark posted:https://twitter.com/JonTerp/status/1204944625921929216 I am impressed with the confidence you pulled off that maneuver. I would probably have lost my balance and destroyed my tv.
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Dec 12, 2019 05:33
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So Robo Recall is pretty highly regarded right? Trying to decide between that and Pistol Whip.
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Dec 12, 2019 16:15
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Playing Pokerstars in the morning is a trip. It's not functionally that different from a flat-screen experience with a bunch of international people but something about sitting around a virtual poker table with people from the US, France, Denmark, Sweden etc is really cool. Re: The Quest, after having a couple days with it I agree that this is the direction VR needs to push in. Being able to just slip it on with no fuss or wires makes me way more likely to use it.
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Dec 12, 2019 17:30
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Don't suppose anyone's checked into that game that got announced at the Game Awards? Seems like a beat-em-up inspired by arcade games.
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Dec 13, 2019 06:15
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I'm intrigued. Twisted Pixel hasn't been 100% with their games but they do tend to go in some interesting directions.
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Dec 13, 2019 06:43
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VR Poker is really improving my game I feel. Best practice for reading people's body language and betting tendencies out there short of having a group of people you play with every single day.
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Dec 15, 2019 22:23
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RandomBlue posted:Except people play completely differently with fake money than they do with real money. If there were a quality VR poker with real buy ins I'd definitely dabble in that as well. Someday. Beat SuperHot tonight. Really excellent overall. The story was kind of non-existent and I thought the middle of the game dragged a bit, but the last few sequences were all really great. Hijacking the plane in particular I thought was awesome and made me really excited for the potential of crazy action sequences in VR games going forward. PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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Dec 16, 2019 01:34
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I was aimlessly browsing Quest games last night and came across the Arizona Sunshine trailer. WOOF that game looks loving rough. The zombie models in particular are loving absurdly low-poly.
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Dec 16, 2019 15:55
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Zaphod42 posted:Low poly really doesn't matter in VR though low poly models by themselves aren't the issue, it's the overall aesthetic just looking cheap and flat.
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Dec 16, 2019 18:03
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Combat Pretzel posted:Hmm in Pistol Whip, I hit better and higher scores one handed than when cupping the shooting hand to "stabilize" the gun. ... are you confused about your ability to steady one hand with another? That's not exactly a VR thing lol Oh misread your post, that is weird.
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Dec 16, 2019 22:43
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Close-range gun kills in SuperHot never get old.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:10
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Zaphod42 posted:Finally played some poker stars VR. FWIW I haven't had a single bad experience in PokerStars beyond people trolling by going all in every hand. I feel pretty confident in saying your experience was an isolated thing. The one thing I can say it really needs is the ability to kick people from tables. I might be missing it but I didn't see an option as host or otherwise.
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Dec 18, 2019 07:40
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StabMasterArson posted:I wish HL:A came out before BONEWORKS cos its kinda hard to care about it after playing that There should be room in your heart for many videogames.
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Dec 19, 2019 17:55
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Sure this has been talked about to death but how is streaming from PC to Quest generally? The research I've done seems to indicate if you have the connection for it it's pretty doable. I'm really not sure how to justify an $80 cord if I can just stream instead and be completely wireless.
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Dec 19, 2019 18:37
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Turin Turambar posted:Technically it's also streaming if you do it using the cable :P 
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Dec 19, 2019 18:43
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Lemming posted:If you already have a quest, there's no reason not to try it out. But it's not good. The image can be ok, but the controllers have so much latency nothing will feel good and it's all completely frustrating. Link feels like it's a native PCVR headset, streaming feels completely jank the whole time. Thanks. The stuff I found made it sound kind of janky overall but it was from several months ago so I thought maybe those initial bumps had been handled. Guess I may be shelling out for the facebook cord.
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Dec 19, 2019 18:44
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Tabletop Sim is great. There are certain games that work really well for it, generally any game that revolves around decks/hands is totally fine. The more pieces and complexity a game has, the more of a headache it's going to be to manage it. But a lot of the games on the workshop are very well scripted.
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Dec 20, 2019 16:34
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I would definitely be down for some goon poker. Probably easiest to set up through the Discord though. I'll try reaching out when I'm free in the evenings.
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FWIW I appreciate having Doctor here for an informed perspective that we don't hear a lot. I think Facebook is a piece of poo poo and disabled my account long ago, but I still think it's worthwhile to educate myself and I understand not everyone may see it the same way. I think this site in general has a tendency to meet unpopular opinions with  or just straight up knee-jerk anger and it's unfortunate.
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Picked up a Quest 2 the other day. Been playing Walking Dead Saints and Sinners, it's pretty drat cool. The first VR game I've played that is willing to just drop you off in a large area and let you explore around. It's bizarre that the game has no manual save feature, I was ready to take the headset off last night but had to push through another 15 or so minutes to get to a save point. Not a good look for a VR game. The space issue seems to still be the biggest VR hurdle at the moment. I was able to clear quite a bit of floorspace in my apartment, but even still I can't imagine the average person is able to clear out any more than 3-4 strides in any direction. And that's assuming you're starting at one end and going to the other. Most of the time I still avoid walking around in VR bc I don't want to miss the barrier appearing and slam into my tv or something. One possible solution that came to mind for this is if devs could implement some kind of "ideal angle" feature. Sort of like the current functionality to reset the view, but it would instead reset your orientation in the current area. So if you were standing 1 foot away from the edge of the barrier, and you had 6 open feet behind you, the camera would reset to have you 1 foot away from an in-game wall. It would work better in single-room games obviously and isn't a clean solution by any means. Just not a question with any good mechanical solutions at the moment. PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oct 28, 2020 14:42
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Gort posted:I feel like Thrill of the Fight is doing something like your "ideal angle" thing automatically. Like right at the start it tells you to stand in a given spot (on the weigh-in scale, it's a boxing game) and look at a camera. Then during fights it tells you to move back into your corner at the start to position you, and I feel like the other boxer moves to push you towards the ideal spot. Sounds cool, I haven't played Thrill of the Fight yet but it's on my list, I'll have to check it out. Gort posted:Edit: Or d'you mean like, it would draw the boxing ring to be the same shape as your play area? Mine would be super-weirdly shaped in that case. Nah actually changing the level would probably be a nightmare to implement. Just changing the camera to try and maximize the usefulness of the player's open space.
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One thing that helps me with motion sickness is moving my legs a little when doing the smooth locomotion. Helps trick my brain into thinking I'm actually moving. Sometimes I'll walk in place but just flexing the leg muscles helps.
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+1 for Pokerstars VR. It's...well, poker. But it has a good community and people will even chat a lot of the time.
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