Re:Why we've never fallen in love with virtual reality
by gpm on Friday January 10, 2020 @11:44AM
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Valve has started taking money for the game and given a concrete release date. I think you can count on it actually being released with little if any schedule slippage.
Re:Why we've never fallen in love with virtual reality
by woodrowbarlow on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:26PM
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coughcough duke nukem forever coughcough
Some YouTube streamers that I watch did a big run of VR games over the past year or so, and without exception they were gimmicky experiences that would have been better with a more conventional setup. Of course needing the equivalent of a GTX 1080 is a big barrier too.
My prediction is that when and if this new Half-Life game comes out, there won't be enough of a user-base actually using VR gear to sustain it; I hope that they have planned for that case and will release it as a normal PC shooter as well.