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SvennoJ on 14 June 2017
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0815user said:

so basically forward people vs. backwards people, eh?

Or rich vs poor.
Adventurous vs Neophobia.
Iron constiution vs easily sickened.

Zkuq said:

I'll take backwards compatibilite, please. In a lot of cases, VR still has problems with nausea, and I'm not sure there even exists any practical solution to those problems. The number of genres VR works well for is quite limited. To me, it seems like such a fundamental issue that I'm not too hopeful about VR, as interesting as it sounds.

Nausea gets less the more you use it. At first Super stardust's VR arena made me very unformtable, I couldn't play windlands for more than an hour and Trackmania made my stomach sink at the top of the jumps. That's all far behind now with no more issues. Windlands became one of my favorite games.
You need a little time for your brain to get used to the movement, learn what to expect, where to look and how to correlate movement input with screen output. It becomes second nature after a while like learning to ride a bicycle or how to play an fps or racer for the first time. First time playing Decent I was contiinously stuck against the wall, same thing happened in windlands which cause the discomfort.

Best is to start off with something comfortable like the excellent puzzler Statik or I expect you to die, or Bridge crew and work your way up from there.

What genres does VR not work for? It works great in 1st person and 3rd person games, rts, even pinball. The one genre missing so far is RPG which is coming with Skyrim. The only game that didn't work well was Super stardust, the planet floating in front of you limits your ability to keep track of everything. Obviously there's no benefit to 2D sidescrollers, yet I bet LBP would look magical as well and be a lot more clear on which plane you are on.

Mr Puggsly said:
Kerotan said:

Sounds a bit like the scorpio.  

 

Anyway reading the vr gaf thread psvr owners feel psvr had a great e3. Personally I'd choose this new and innovative games over old ones I've already played and moved on from. 

Not quite, Scorpio will be the best way to play many popular games. PS VR is a tech demo extravaganza.

Wow, I don't care what gaf users think. I'm a Vita owner, I rather Sony focus on that and it has a bigger userbase.

I think even comparing BC and VR is dumb. But BC has great content, VR needs more.

I compared the two as I'll grab any chance to talk about VR :p

I don't enjoy handhelds at all so I'm glad Sony is putting that behind them :) PSVR is already beyond the tech demo stage. Experiencies are getting less and less while games are getting bigger and longer. Apart from he FF15 fishing add-on, I see plenty full games coming.