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I guess Moss will be my next VR title.
Crazy thing that's never happened before--after my last session with Astrobot, I had a splitting headache that lasted for like two days. Maybe it was something else.



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d21lewis said:
I guess Moss will be my next VR title.
Crazy thing that's never happened before--after my last session with Astrobot, I had a splitting headache that lasted for like two days. Maybe it was something else.

I'm quite sensitive to VR, I get vertigo all the time (not as bad as about 10 years ago fortunately), so I have real problems with movement, only got a little queazy with Astro bot... though that doesn't mean it wasn't that, that made you have a headache.



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Madword said:
d21lewis said:
I guess Moss will be my next VR title.
Crazy thing that's never happened before--after my last session with Astrobot, I had a splitting headache that lasted for like two days. Maybe it was something else.

I'm quite sensitive to VR, I get vertigo all the time (not as bad as about 10 years ago fortunately), so I have real problems with movement, only got a little queazy with Astro bot... though that doesn't mean it wasn't that, that made you have a headache.

Moss has no movement at all. It's like Trine, the camera switches from scene to scene and you navigate though a diorama in front and around you.
In light tracer you control the movement, you grab the 'level' and move it around you to get a better look. Since it uses move it can be glitchy so probably not that great when you easily get vertigo.



KBG29 said:
Nothing sleeper about this, it has been one of the most anticipated games in the VR community since the Robots Rescue level in PlayRoom VR. The VR community has been buzzing about it ever since it was announced.

PSVR has a better line-up this holiday than the PS4, with Firewall Zero Hour, Astro Bot Rescue Mission, Deracine, and Blood &Truth, just to name a few.

When the VR community is as small as it is, then yes, it definitely is a "sleeper hit". When you can ask 30 random people at gamestop what system "Astrobot" is for, and you aren't confident even one of them would say "PSVR", it's a sleeper.



d21lewis said:
Playing this game and VR (the good VR) is like playing Super Mario 64 for the first time and trying to convince people it's great but they don't think anything will ever be better than the SNES. "We like the d-pad", "The graphics are so crude", "There's been analog sticks before. Why should it catch on now?" It's just frustrating. Not because I want to force something on people. It's that they're missing out and they don't even know that they're missing out!

Ohh man... so much cringe in one paragraph. You sound like a born-again christian.

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the-pi-guy said:
potato_hamster said:

Ohh man... so much cringe in one paragraph. You sound like a born-again christian.

You're right, he's way underselling how awesome VR is.  

To be 100% honest, the best moments in VR are unlike anything else.  It's a crazy moment when you get completely lost in VR, and forget where you are.  

I don't particularly understand why you seem so bothered when someone says anything positive about VR.  It doesn't make any sense to me why someone who seems to dislike VR so much, is spending so much time making posts about VR.  

What makes you think I don't like VR? Where have I said anything about negative about VR itself? The very worst thing I've ever said about it is that it's a niche product, it's not ready for mainstream, and it doesn't offer a fundamentally better experience for many genres of games.

See, there's a difference between laughing and facebalming at the VR evangelicals who act like they're enlightened for "getting VR" and treating those who don't dig it like they do as heathens, and disliking VR.

Learn the difference. Know the difference.

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John2290 said:
potato_hamster said:

Ohh man... so much cringe in one paragraph. You sound like a born-again christian.

Well that would make you the pissy anti-theist who keeps on yapping back. Both are as bad as each other however I don't see that with D12Lewis's post.

"Playing 1-2 Switch and HD Rumble (good HD Rumble) is like playing Super Mario 64 for the first time and trying to convince people it's great but they don't think anything will ever be better than the SNES. "We like the d-pad", "The graphics are so crude", "There's been vibrations in controllers before. Why should it catch on now?" It's just frustrating. Not because I want to force something on people. It's that they're missing out and they don't even know that they're missing out!"

See? Just as silly.

People are fully entitled not to think VR is the greatest thing ever or the next revolution in game. They're not wrong, they're not ignorant, they're not missing out, they just have different preferences than you. There's nothing wrong with preferring to game in front of a television with a controller. It's not an inferior experience, it's just a different one. 



potato_hamster said:
John2290 said:

Well that would make you the pissy anti-theist who keeps on yapping back. Both are as bad as each other however I don't see that with D12Lewis's post.

"Playing 1-2 Switch and HD Rumble (good HD Rumble) is like playing Super Mario 64 for the first time and trying to convince people it's great but they don't think anything will ever be better than the SNES. "We like the d-pad", "The graphics are so crude", "There's been vibrations in controllers before. Why should it catch on now?" It's just frustrating. Not because I want to force something on people. It's that they're missing out and they don't even know that they're missing out!"

See? Just as silly.

People are fully entitled not to think VR is the greatest thing ever or the next revolution in game. They're not wrong, they're not ignorant, they're not missing out, they just have different preferences than you. There's nothing wrong with preferring to game in front of a television with a controller. It's not an inferior experience, it's just a different one. 

All I can speak of is personal experience. Sorry. Astrobot is critically acclaimed for a reason, though. Hope you get to give it a try one day. It's okay if you don't.

 

*Shrugs*

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My buddy who isn't into cartoony platformers tried the demo and was blown away. It must be something special.



John2290 said:
potato_hamster said:

"Playing 1-2 Switch and HD Rumble (good HD Rumble) is like playing Super Mario 64 for the first time and trying to convince people it's great but they don't think anything will ever be better than the SNES. "We like the d-pad", "The graphics are so crude", "There's been vibrations in controllers before. Why should it catch on now?" It's just frustrating. Not because I want to force something on people. It's that they're missing out and they don't even know that they're missing out!"

See? Just as silly.

People are fully entitled not to think VR is the greatest thing ever or the next revolution in game. They're not wrong, they're not ignorant, they're not missing out, they just have different preferences than you. There's nothing wrong with preferring to game in front of a television with a controller. It's not an inferior experience, it's just a different one. 

People praising VR and celebrating it is far less obnoxious than you going into every VR thread to say the same things again and again, why do you care so damn much?

If all people were doing was praising and celebrating VR then I wouldn't have anything to comment on, would I?

Like I've said, if you want to all high five each other about how VR is the future of gaming, and how everyone else who doesn't get it is an ignorant heathen, perhaps this message board isn't the place for you.  If you have a problem with other injecting a little reality in it, enough to make posts whining about people talking about the realities of the actual state of VR, why do you care so damn much?