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Do you play VR Games?

Yes 111 17.24%
 
No 533 82.76%
 
Total:644

As we see new iterations of the Quest release and more games are getting announced for PSVR, it's slowly popping up more and more again. While I own a PSVR2 unit, I admittedly haven't really played around with it much over the past few years. I'm very interested in a few games coming out though (lumine's arise being at the top of the list). 

Do you play in VR? IF so, which device do you use? Do you think VR games are the future or just a niche for now? 



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Nope.

Niche forever.

People been claiming it's the future for 40 years. It always ends up niche. Will remain so.

Last edited by Leynos - on 25 June 2025

Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

No, the thought of attaching a screen to my face is fundamentally unappealing. 

Tried it, didn't like it.

EDIT: Maybe adding a poll would be interesting?

Last edited by curl-6 - on 25 June 2025

Every night, I'm just about to continue messing around some more in Hitman.


I play on PSVR2. It takes less time to put the headset on and get seated than for the game to finish loading the title screen. The headset is plenty comfortable, you can activate pass-through at any time to see what's going on around you, and you can enable side-tone to hear what's going on around you.

It's very liberating to have 2 hands instead of a single cursor for doing things.



Everything just works a lot faster, easier, more intuitive. Plus the added immersion and simply being able to look around with correct depth perception makes everything so much better than on a screen.

Especially the added depth perception makes platforming a lot more fun




Immersion is king though, can't go back to racing flat. Sitting in the car beats watching from the back seat by a mile.

This definitely doesn't have the same feel on TV




Two handed assault party time




And I could go on and on, I've been playing PSVR2 since release and have already bought more games for it than PS4 and PS5 flat games combined.


I don't mind if it stays a niche, developers try harder and more creative that way! Plenty more games on the way. The only 'issue' I have is, I loved Death Stranding, DS 2 is coming out tomorrow, I don't feel excited to play it at all :/ It's not in VR, why bother...



Oculus for me.

I don't play it often... And I tend to use it for 3D content rather than strictly VR content.

They have come a long way, but more improvements need to happen to make it a truly seamless experience... I wouldn't mind some active venting so the displays don't fog up during use though.

The games are expensive... Defense Grid 2 VR shouldn't cost $22+ for example which is more than the PC version. (That and sales are few and far between.)



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No, have absolutely no interest.

I tried a PSVR2 once though, like a year or two ago, and wasn’t impressed. It doesn’t immerse me at all. I tried three things; some Zombie game, some Star Wars game, and that Horizon game.

Obviously, you are still moving with a controller instead of walking around yourself, and these gesture based actions greatly limit gameplay. You make a real life hand movement of picking something up, but you aren’t actually picking something up so you’re just grabbing the air until the game registers what you’re attempting to do. Moving the camera, so really, looking around is also less real than you would expect, because it remains this weird combo of actually moving you head and using you controller. There can be a weird disconnect, between what your character’s supposed orientation is (so like, looking forward) and how you have your head rotated. Then, you have a brick on your face which you are constantly aware of. Lastly I had trouble getting my vision to be sharp, and without double vision. It often felt like I was looking at things cross-eyed, or like with 3DS if you held your face at the wrong distance. Sometimes it was fine sometimes it wasn’t. I tried meddling with all kinds of things and also the strap, but it never became perfect.

Because of these things, I know things are fake. My brain didn’t get tricked in any way. Heights don’t feel like you’re actually on an edge looking into the depth, zombies eating at your head isn’t scary. They’re just hovering in front of the camera. Suffice to say I failed to experience the ‘reality’.

I’d say the tech, or rather, the idea, just doesn’t work for the medium of Video Games. It’s cool for like, real life applications like to step into some building that’s under construction and you can look around to see what it more or less looks like when it’s been completed, but really that’s it.



I used to and I like the tech and all. But quite frankly, most games suck ass and I can't be bothered to go and look for the few ones that are actually fun for more than five minutes. I don't have the time for that. So my Quest 3 is sitting here and is just collecting dust.



唯一無二のRolStoppableに認められた、VGCの任天堂ファミリーの正式メンバーです。光栄に思います。

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with PSVR. But I don't have the money to get a PSVR2, but there seems to be a lot of good content available for it (and other VR)



Pemalite said:

Oculus for me.

I don't play it often... And I tend to use it for 3D content rather than strictly VR content.

They have come a long way, but more improvements need to happen to make it a truly seamless experience... I wouldn't mind some active venting so the displays don't fog up during use though.

The games are expensive... Defense Grid 2 VR shouldn't cost $22+ for example which is more than the PC version. (That and sales are few and far between.)

PSVR2 has a fan to keep the lenses from fogging up. But it's not really suited for PC work due to the pincushion effect from the lenses, no edge to edge clarity.

Sales are pretty good on PSVR2 games but of course still more expansive than PCVR. 



I used to, love them but it's just to inconvenient. I'll wait till the tech is just a small swimming size googles put on your head if that ever comes. I also don't like Metas ecosystem nor their pricing and sales structure and I hate that every time I boot up my quest 2 none of the games are playable cause they need to be updated. It's worse than Switch. If I were to play any VR it'd be PSVR 2 on a deep sale at some point cause I absolutely loved PSVR the first go round but I had a PRO for that.