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Edge #380 - PSVR2

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31 minutes ago, dumpster said:

VR feels like a whole new thing where the sky is the limit. Then you play Astrobot and it's surely one of the best games ever made, using the headset to create a 3D platformer that has totally new gameplay, in ways that could not be done before.  

 

But then you look at what else you can do.

 

First person shooters. Games where you sit in a cockpit. Games where you move your head to the side to avoid something, or step aside entirely. Games where you reach out to pick up items. Or an experience where you walk along a very high plank. Riding a rollercoaster. 

 

See how Resident Evil 4, surely the best Quest 2 game, becomes a first person shooter because it's in VR now.  Time Crisis becomes a first person shooter. Everything becomes first person, whether exploring, shooting, sitting in a vehicle....

 

So then you get Until Dawn Rush of Blood, which is a roller coaster gun game.  Or Megaton Rainfall which is identical to Iron Man as you fly around shooting.  Or Star Wars VR where you sit in a cockpit, like you do in Star Wars Squadrons, that Super Stardust game, Battlezone....

 

VR is amazing tech and they can make the screens clearer, increase your field of view, make the headset lighter and more comfortable, even get rid of the wires.  But the very nature of the idea makes all the games feel really similar to one another and for every amazing use of VR (Astrobot, Walk about Golf, Resident Evil 4) there are so many similar titles.  If Sony is going to persuade me to spend £600, they need to invest in game design and come up with new ideas.

 

Pianovision on Quest 2 is a good example. You connect your midi keyboard to the PC, run an app on the headset and you get a guitar hero style piano game/tutor.  It uses the exterior camera on the quest to show your actual piano in your room, then overlays colours and lights onto the keys.  Now sure how feasible it is to actually do in real life but the time I spent on it showed me there are some clever ideas and uses for VR out there.  Blood and Truth has some good ideas, Astrobot is rammed with them.  But did anyone play Blood and Truth through a second time? Once you have had that experience of VR a few times it feels like you've seen everything it has to offer and it takes a Pianovision or Astrobot to show you there's more.


it’s not as though traditional gaming doesn’t have similar traits.

 

Ubisoft games have a known template; Sony big budget third person adventures have a known template; open world games have a known template etc.

(sometimes you get an open world big budget Sony third person adventure that takes on all the Ubisoft tropes for good measure: because people like them and it makes money).

 

actual novelty is rare. And risky.

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teddymeow

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Having been told on Friday that I'm getting a payrise from January and then another in April (it's only taken 8 years) I'm able to actually look at getting one of these now.

 

Hoping that there are patches for Astro and Blood & Truth.

 

Defo going to play through Moss and the sequel. Lovely games.

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2 hours ago, teddymeow said:

Having been told on Friday that I'm getting a payrise from January and then another in April (it's only taken 8 years) I'm able to actually look at getting one of these now.

 

Good that you'll be able to afford a copy of Edge now. Which episode are you going to pick?

 

Sorry

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1 hour ago, womblingfree said:

Now just got to twiddle my thumbs until Evil West, Midnight Suns and Atari 50 are on Gamepass.

 

Now that you've prayed to the Gamepass gods, it's your duty to make the sacrifice.  I'd like Midnight Suns first, so of you could go ahead and buy it that'd be just swell.

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3 hours ago, monkeydog said:

 

Now that you've prayed to the Gamepass gods, it's your duty to make the sacrifice.  I'd like Midnight Suns first, so of you could go ahead and buy it that'd be just swell.

I bought all three of them during these Christmas holidays being sick and bored and feeling sorry for myself. You're welcome.

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Anyone still not had their subscription copy delivered (UK based)? No sign of mine but not sure if there are strikes at the moment / reasons for me not to contact them yet. Thanks.

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42 minutes ago, reef said:

Anyone still not had their subscription copy delivered (UK based)? No sign of mine but not sure if there are strikes at the moment / reasons for me not to contact them yet. Thanks.

I would contact them, I got mine before Christmas. 

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My Favourite Magazines seem to have given up sending me anything. I haven't received the last four copies of Retro Gamer, and this issue of Edge hasn't turned up either. They keep promising to post replacement copies, but nothing ever arrives.

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I know that a) Future won't won't to do this and b) it doesn't solve the issue for people who want a physical magazine, but they should provide free digital editions for print subscribers rather than make it a more expensive extra.

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On 06/01/2023 at 09:27, reef said:

Anyone still not had their subscription copy delivered (UK based)? No sign of mine but not sure if there are strikes at the moment / reasons for me not to contact them yet. Thanks.


Not had mine yet either

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