I’ve been interested in Soulslike games and got Code Vein on sale recently. I think I’m about halfway through and it’s pretty good. Playing at the 2nd hardest difficulty, dying here and there but also one or two shotting most bosses, which suggests it’s found a good sweet spot for difficulty where it’s not overly punishing but also not trivial, though I kinda wish I had started it on the hardest difficulty. I’m not sure how popular the game was but I suggest it.
The ultimate anime waifu creator. I’d also recommend giving it a try for any souls fans out there. Also don’t be ashamed if you look up a guide on the cathedral.
Haha walking into the cathedral was a cool gaming moment. I get there and am looking around, wondering who could have even built this, and then Louis asks “How is this even possible?”
They did a pretty good job with the follower conversations. Yeah, the random ones can get repetitive, but it added a bit more depth when Louis voiced what I was thinking. In another (annoying) area, as you get to the end, he says he hopes we’re done here soon.
Blood, Gore, Violence and Nudity? For free? Sign. Me. Up.
I kid of course. Nowadays I just get all of them (except that PC builder and 911 operator stuff…). I only have about 30-40 years left in my life, and I doubt I’ll ever clear my Epic freebie backlog.
“A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.”
It’s such a good game, almost everything is perfect IMO, I have over 200 hours in it and still go back to it every now and then. The lone developer also made the source code public a while ago, so there are mods, forks, spinoffs etc. being worked on.
Or store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-games if you always want to go straight to the freebies (though you have to wait for the actual freebies to load, they show you the freemium ones while you wait!)
I was part of the hardcore build it yourself crew for years and years, but I find now that for the last 10 years or so now, and especially with the death of places like Fry’s and all the bullshit Newegg pulled, it’s way easier and cheaper to buy a pre-built box that’s maybe 90-95% there, then tweak what you need to tweak.
Get that manufacturers warranty and forget trying to part it out yourself.
The main thing you’ll want to look for is resolution/pixel density and the refresh rate of the headset. bonus if it can support foveated rendering. I have the Reverb G2 which has a very high display resolution but is only 90hz, for some it’s just not good enough. I find it okay, but it being WMR is an issue for my wants, which is the Index Knuckles. The hand tracking just feels so good and is worth it for the games that utilize it - they’re also just more comfortable than the stock G2 controllers are. It’s a mixedVR setup I run, but it works with most of the games I’ve played (quite a few VR titles)
If there were a SteamVR headset that were consistent $349 on sale with the specs of the G2… alas.
Games wise I would look at the ~5 popular genres, which would be flight simming/racing, in-VR but not VR games (Tetris effect, Moose Life, KOTH emulators in VR), rhythm based (highly recommend pistol whip), and your action games, shooter and swordsy.
Some solid overall games Duck Season, Boneworks (or Bonelab, now. These 3 are all made by the same people), Superhot VR, REZ Infinite, Stride, Pavlov VR, Arkade, Naked Sun, King Kaiju, Holoball. If you like zombies, Arizona Sunshine and Saints & Sinners (Walking Dead) are fun. Bandit Point is a pretty good tower defence ish, and hyper psychic gauntlets is a little more laid back but still fun, though maybe on a sale, along with Vertical Shift. Can’t not mention Blade & Sorcery, Gorn, Half-Life Alyx, pretty much sacrelidge. There’s also a few asynchronous games, Phasmophobia but also Vox Machinae I learned recently as well as Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - particularly great for 3+ friends. Sim and arcade sim styles VR Regatta, VTolVR, V-Racer Hoverbike, Star Wars Squadrons, Elite Dangerous.
If you like creative hobbies I also recommend any music based program, Paradiddle for drumming, VInyl Reality for DJing (your own music on a hard drive), SynthVR for an extensive modular synth, Electronauts is more scaled back but with more than synths in mind. Vermillion for painting in VR and OpenBrush for VR paintings. There’s SculptrVR as well.
I mentioned Pistol Whip which is basically musical John wick simulator - there’s also beatsaber which everyone recommends but it’s always $30 and honestly, its pretty mediocre… imo of course, lol. It’s strength is the insane amount of user content but I found myself enjoying almost every single variation of BS. There’s audioshield, synth riders, and against which of them was my least favorite. Of them all though, PW just keeps me coming back for more - but they’re all fun.
Finally for games - on PC there’s a number of emulated VR games like Metroid Prime or Mario Sunshine that are worth trying. Indie Weird VR games are usually the best ones. Oh, and there are games that are more experiences than they are games, sometimes this is good, sometimes it’s a scam. I’d say the barometer is somewhere along the lines of Hellblade Senua Sacrifice VR - good experience if you know what you’re getting into, better than flat. VR meditation or drug trip experience - eh, less so. Subnautica is also worth a shot.
Anyway, you won’t be able to play many of these on console VR but I’m sure some are around. If you ever do foray into VR I recommend checking out some games, the general genres you encounter and see if they’re for you. VR is in a bit of a weird space right now but there are still lots of awesome games, it’s just a matter of measuring which era they’re from and how developed they were. 2016 Vive games aren’t always bad, but they aren’t always fleshed out. That doesn’t mean that 2020 VR games are any better, though… lol.
The last thing I’ll mention for real is programs to integrate things into VR, you can turn many games into 3D-like games with VorpX or mods, but it can take some finagling (and money sometimes). VorpX is ok. I’m more interested though in overlays, as that allows you to bring panels into VR. My favorite thing during lockdown was setting up Elite Dangerous, running SCRCPY to mirror my phone on my PC, and that window captured with XSOverlay (or OVR Toolkit). Let’s you have your phone in VR. Pop up another window for streaming and maybe one more for discord and baby we are living in the year 3000 in 2020 - VR space flight simming with floating windows for phone, media, and social… those were the days… stupid real life.
You’re kidding, right? I wish a bank would be so lenient with me as to let me pay off my interest-free loan with terms of ‘whenever you feel like it, off the money you make as a freelance forager.’
These games came out in very late teenage-hood for me, but the amount of nights piled around the TV with the bros, pounding beers and bongers, and scaring ourselves…oh man the memories. Those games were absolute rippers, Parasite Eve 2 especially (except for that end boss)
Resident Evil 1. I saw bits and pieces of my older brother playing it on the PS1, but was too scared to watch very long. I remember the iconic opening up to the zombie looking over its shoulder and then standing up right in front of you.
I rented it years later for the Gamecube and tried to play it while my little brother watched. I was playing super slowly and wasting all my ammo on every zombie because I was so scared. I remember one part vividly, I was in the long hallway where you pick up the arrowhead and theres a zombie just around the corner. I could hear the zombie so I baited him down the hallway so I could shoot him from a distance. I started shooting when he was off-camera and coming towards me, and when he appeared at the bottom of the screen and his head rotting head being very large in the perpective, I said “woah look at his head” at the exact moment before I got a headshot and the zombies head exploded. Me and my brother were really shocked, so I just paused and quit out. That was enough resident evil for me.
More years later I got resident evil for the DS for cheap at EB games and it became the first game I ever beat repeatedly for different endings and faster times, eventually leading me to now say that horror is my favorite genre.
Also, I never got into Silent Hill as a kid but since playing them in recent years I think they perfectly encapsulate my love for that age of gaming and survival horror in general.
And The Evil Within 1 is the best survival-horror action game ever made. In all its extreme jankiness and difficulty. I did a challenge run of no keys, no upgrades, no cheese in the cheese spots, single segment, no dlcs items, AKUMU difficulty and got 5 deaths. Shit is hard.
Uff, hard to say, a lot of the ones comented before applied to me.
As old pc gamer still missing one of the most influent scariest games. Alone in the dark… when you have to deal with the monsters added to frustration of bad controls…
This is the one that immediately popped into my mind. “Alone in the Dark” is the game that made me realize I don’t ever want to play another horror game again! :-D
Honestly I think that game has possibly one of the best ‘first rooms’ in horror game history, like even with the low poly graphics, that thing jumping through the window, giving you the impression that shit is happening and you need to move, and then doubles down with the zombie out of the floor, and that if you know what’s coming, you can prevent both. It’s a shame the final section is filled with janky-ass platforming.
Fallout 3 isn’t a horror game but man that atmosphere is crazy. I remember one of the very first missions has you go to galaxy news radio from the first settlement, megaton to talk to the DJ. It’s a really long journey through subway tunnels and ruined DC streets. The wasteland is pretty horrific and lots of enemies are disgusting and almost disturbing to look at.
As much as Bethesda gets shit for that game, they did an amazing job converting the atmosphere from the first two games into a 3D world.
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