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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Half-Life 3 was already made and it was a VR exclusive. And it was REALLY good. And nobody cared.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I would love to play it but VR market hardware is loaded with compromises and it’s not mature enough for me yet.

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And nobody cared.

    It’s not “nobody cared” it’s “not enough people can afford to keep a roof over their heads, let alone afford an extra holodeck room in their house with an expensive holodeck setup”

    I’d love to play HL alyx. I didn’t and don’t live in a place where I can have a perpetually empty room I can drill holes in the wall of, or drop $1k on a valve index (after shipping and imports) plus a new $2k gaming rig.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People are buying entire consoles for one or two games. If folk can afford a 450 USD switch 2 for mario kart they can afford a facebook (ugh) quest for 300 bucks that regularly goes on sale.

      Can EVERYONE? No. But this is a luxury hobby and plenty of discourse online is “I bought a PS5 for Demon Souls” or “I love Welcome Tour” and so forth.

      Nah. Alyx was just completely ignored. Likely due to a mix of chuds not wanting to acknowledge women and… people don’t ACTUALLY care all that much about a new Half-Life. They just love meming about it.

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      • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People are buying entire consoles for one or two games. If folk can afford a 450 USD switch 2 for mario kart they can afford a facebook (ugh) quest for 300 bucks that regularly goes on sale.

        The difference is that you don’t need an entire room to play the Switch 2 (hell, you even need a TV). It’s easier to scrape together the $500+ required for a console than it is to afford a down payment and a mortgage, or the extra rent for a two-bedroom instead of a one-bedroom apartment.

        Consoles and VR are both luxury goods, but the barrier for entry with the former is much lower than with the latter.

        Space will always be the most expensive peripheral of all.

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      • slate@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Can a stand-alone quest play Alyx?

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  • simple@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And nobody cared.

    This has more to do with the vast majority of people not owning VR headsets than it does with a new half-life game coming out

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    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or not having the space to do motion controls

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Standing and Seated VR are both a thing that are both supported in Alyx.

        To be clear: I am not saying everyone should go buy a facebook quest 3 (I would NEVER say that… even if that is usually my begrudging suggestion to anyone who wants to try VR) and that everyone needs to play Alyx.

        But if the obsession over Half-Life 3 were anywhere near as big as the memes pretend they are… people spend more to play a tweaked re-release of a game they already have on a new console. We buy new GPUs when we find out our performance will be too low on fricking Dragon’s Dogma 2.

        But spend 300 bucks (usually closer to 200/250 on sale) to play their “dream game” ? Oh, nah, I’m washing my hair that… five years. Uhm… oh, I don’t like the head strap. That is why I can’t play it. Yeah…

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  • TheSambassador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Definitely agree with everything you said… Except that Souls games are Metroidvanias. Backtracking is really the only thing that most souls-likes share with Metroidvanias. Unlocking gameplay abilities that also function as environmental keys is the main defining feature of Metroidvanias IMO.

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  • HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I saw some article mention that there has not been a Half-Life game in ages… completely forgetting about Alyx.

    I’m just hoping for some good games moving forward that aren’t trying to milk us for everything we have with slop we don’t want.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m just hoping for some good games moving forward that aren’t trying to milk us for everything we have with slop we don’t want.

      … There is plenty of that?

      The thing to understand is that influencers pretty much always fall back to the “us vs them” mentality. We could see it with early youtube where they accused magazines/websites of all being corrupt and getting paid for reviews (never forget Jon “It’s about ethics in games journalism” Bain…). And we saw it in twitch when they instead said it was the youtubers and their sponsor deals who were doing the same. And we saw a huge rise in “I need to watch tiktok because that informs me about things that mainstream outlets don’t want me to hear!”

      Some outlets go political. Most are aggressively “apolitical” and all that entails. But that means that “the game devs are trying to screw you over” is a solid talking point. It is why everyone and their mother needs to say they hate live service games (with the added bonus of avoiding any chance of having a regular game they arer expected to stream) and so forth.

      But if you actually PLAY games? It is still a golden age where basically every sicko gets their fetish in game form (and Microprose and Kitfox are apparently the sleazy club I slink off to…). We are in for a pretty bad drought after the past two years or so of funding drying up and studios being gutted. But if you actually are looking you are gonna find a LOT of games that know what you want.

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