| ▲ | AaronAPU 12 hours ago |
| The only really incredible VR experience I have had so far was Half-life Alyx. Is there anything that tier or even better these days? |
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| ▲ | cruano 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| On the PlayStation VR 2, there is Resident Evil 4 and 8. I'd never cared for those games until I tried them in VR. I'd argue is more like a good game with decent VR support rather than a good "VR" game though. That's also the case for things like Hitman, No Man's Sky, Metro Awakening and such. And then there are the racing sims. I find these are such an immersive experience it reaches an uncanny-valley type feeling for me, where my body is expecting G-forces that never come, or gets confused with the steering wheel not being the exact same size as my eyes are seeing. It's great though, and definitely recommended if you enjoy cars at all. |
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| ▲ | ChicagoBoy11 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Driving sims with the right setup are truly breathtaking gaming experiences. For driving, especially, even things like the weight of a headset almost add to the experience since in the real thing you are wearing a helmet. But it is a way to have a legit, e-sports level gaming experience with real-to-life controls with total VR immersion. |
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| ▲ | ehnto 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Agreed, if you have all the sim racing equipment already adding in VR brings you basically "there". The sim rig is a rabbit hole of immersive technologies of its own, but even just a basic wheel and pedal plus a headset will get you an incredible experience. I believe sim flight people would have the same opinions on that side of simming too. It's a uniquely ideal situation for VR. Seated with full tactile controls. | |
| ▲ | mrguyorama 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I once played a custom Japanese Highway map in Assetto Corsa made for nighttime cruising and was a little high and I forgot what reality was. I used to do a lot of GoKarting at a local course before the Pandemic, and VR racing is the single most immersive video game experience that you can have. The only thing you are missing is the physical exertion and G-Forces. Even the feel of the helmet and reduced field of view is emulated by the headset. Even cheap wheels have force feedback, and you can feel the weight shifting around. You can intuitively glance around for situational awareness. If you have experience, you will naturally fall into the look at where you want to go style of skid recovery, and you will feel the tires about to skid and feel in the wheel when they line back up with your vector of motion. It all transfers so well, even real race car drivers enjoy it. You can feel your body freak out when you hit a wall at 200mph because you misjudged the distance because you're not a real racecar driver. Driving an open cockpit car like an old F1 car is insane. You feel like you are just hanging out in the open air. I guess we didn't have survival instincts back then. If you have a few thousand extra dollars, you can even fix the lack of physical exertion and G-Forces! Shooting games are super fun too because it feels rewarding to be good at actually aiming, rather than stupid mouse twitches I have never been that good at. Also because Pavlov VR mods let me play Halo 1 Blood Gulch for real and that's magic. VR Chat is also a pretty incredible experience. When the pandemic first hit, I actually spent several weekends clubbing in VR Chat clubs. | | |
| ▲ | ehnto 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I have driven on tracks in real life and then the same track in VR, and all the spatial cues map perfectly. It's so close to "the same thing" that I really don't mind driving in VR more and then only paying for the occasional real life track day. My partner also likes that I can't actually die in VR, though sometimes I still close my eyes just before an impact. |
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| ▲ | ghosty141 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are some games yes but in my opinion right now the best VR experiences are simulators. Assetto Corsa, iRacing, DCS, MSFS etc. I bought a Bigscreen Beyond 2 + 5090 gpu basically just to play DCS (Digital Combat Simulator, a flight sim with full fidelity figher jets that you can even fly in PvP multiplayer) and it's the coolest thing VR has to offer for me. All my relatives and friends who tried it were stunned too. |
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| ▲ | CobrastanJorji 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm a huge fan of the "I Expect You To Die" series. They're basically a series of small escape rooms. The game's designed to be played seated. You play James Bond, except that for various silly reasons you find yourself stationary, and you have psychic powers to reach far away stuff because, again, stationary. "They've trapped Bond in a bathysphere!" "You're in a car in a jet ful of poisonous gas that's going to explode!" Each level will kill you quickly and hilariously over and over until you figure out a sequence of steps to survive. |
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| ▲ | riskable 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Beat Saber is the ultimate VR game, IMHO. It's what enabled me to create this masterpiece: https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20010657 :D |
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| ▲ | cholantesh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wish the answer was Thief: Legacy of Shadow but considering the war crime that was Eidos Montreal's previous outing on the franchise, I doubt it. |
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| ▲ | tianreyma 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| On my own system I've played a lot of modded Beat Saber. Arizona Sunshine was good but not very long. Other than that mostly just mini game type things like The Lab. One of my friends also has a KAT Walk C2 and I've played Skyrim VR on that. It takes a bit to get used to but it's a lot of fun. |
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| ▲ | JulesRosser 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Driving Sims, PavlovVR was a must play for a counterstrike shooter with great modding scene. Of course Skyrim VR, it's unplayable without mods but with voice recognition and QOL mods it's incredible, |
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| ▲ | sergiotapia 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I totally agree with you, I'm actually doing another Alyx run after only playing it on my Index. It actually please extremely well on the Quest 3 with the Steam Link app. Seamless. This guy on X gave me some suggestions of top tier VR games: Hubris, Into The Radius, Wanderer, Blade & Sorcery, RE4 Remake, Modded Skyrim VR, Modded Minecraft, Vertigo 2, Arken Age, Half Life 1 & 2 VR, UNDERDOGS, Hitman VR, Pixel Ripped Series, Walking Dead, Propagation Paradise Hotel |
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| ▲ | ehnto 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Hitman is amazing insofar as the worlds are so well realised and the gameplay is excellent. But the controls are a bit pants, and I had an issue on Quest three where it was applying a foveated rendering but the mask was off (and the quest 3 doesn't have eye tracking). So it was blurry within my field of view, and sharp just next to it. | |
| ▲ | mrguyorama 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Various random and unexpected indie games exist. Like the Indie community has fully embraced VR and it is full of unique and experimental and awesome and garbage games. Euro and American Truck Simulator still have VR support and it's more fun and satisfying than it should be. Load up Google Earth VR, plop yourself in front of your childhood home and feel more than you expected. If you like modern air combat: VTOL VR and DCS. If you like WW2 fighter combat, IL-2 Sturmovik. Hotdogs Horseshoes and Handgrenades for the ultimate American Freedom simulator. Project Wingman for Ace Combat 7 in VR. Star Wars Squadrons is fully playable in VR. War thunder has VR BeamNG has unofficial VR Rec Room if you want to get absolutely schooled by 13 year olds at laser tag and paintball and other games. Hyperbolica is an exploring and puzzle game about non-euclidean space, where walking in a straight line doesn't work like you expect and apparently it has VR Pulsar Lost Colony is a game about being a star trek captain with your friends and also can be played without VR. Phasmaphobia is a game about getting the shit scared out of you and you can do it in VR if you do not fear death An upcoming game about "Be an artemis astronaut". There was also one to explore a Google Earth style of the ISS. Also Kerbal Space Program at one time had a VR mod. |
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| ▲ | foresto 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I've heard that Elite Dangerous is nice in VR. |