VoodooDE: The Pimax 8KX is here! My first impressions with Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond [VR Gameplay]

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Looks like we’ll need to wait for hopefully an Arma VR game.

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We need a VR game from New World Interactive, who made Insurgency: Sandstorm. They know how to make a great game.

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Still say the game I most off all want is Crysis Remastered in VR.

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Indeed without Gamespy Arcade. Would love this even if they remastered it and Warhead to allow multiplayer again.

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I never played the original Crysis (I only played Crysis II) - my GPU was never powerful enough for the original but might be now lol. Do you think the original is better?

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Yes it was a revolution when it came :slight_smile:

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The original and Warhead were much better.

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Forget that! Aren’t we glossing over the fact that this is the first of the main VR reviews to have the headset?

Wheres the obligatory through the lens , comparison to G2 and review?

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Well Voodoode said his 8kX review will be later. This is more on Medal of Honor VR which so far has a lot of lackluster reviews.

RdToVR has even called it bland.

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I think expectations were too high for this game. I’m enjoying it for what it is. I’m using to loading screens, so getting taken out of VR environments is not a big deal.

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Apparently it gets good after an hour or two.

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VR gamers are so thirsty for AAA games that we keep repeating the same mistakes.

People think that just because some AAA pancake dev decides to join the revolution 4 years late that they automatically are going to make the most cutting edge VR game ever.

Its never been true.

Arktika1 (Made by the Metro 2033 devs) . Pretty lack luster. Nice visuals but meh

Stormland (Legemdary devs of Spiderman ps4) - that game was so overhyped i friggin hated that you had to climb everywhere with no directional markers played it for an hour and havent gone back…lame

Bethesda Skyrim, Fallout VR. - They charge us $80 :canada: for a game I’ve bought twice already. It must be good right . No it was the worst VR port ever. Its great because the mod community who knows more than them hiw VR should work fixed it and optimized it.

Doom VFR. Grenades sewn to your left hand gun sewn to your right. Come on…this is one step away from Vorpx gun-face.

Wolfenstein Cyberpilot. Do I even need to?

im sure the are more.

The only AAA studio that actually made good VR games has been Ubisoft who made no big claims and has been putting out bite sized VR exoeriences simce 2016.

And I know what your thinking…Squadrons is amazing. Yes it is but…EA actually got their feet wet 3/4 years ago with a Star Wars VR experience and obviously learned from that. It also seems they sid their research this time as well and actually added decent game mechanics.

I’ve said it before Indie Devs are the only guys with the passion and awareness of the industry to try something new and push VR forward.

Respawn obviously coukd have looked at any number if recent and not so recent games to make their gane better.

Who would have thought that studios like Sanzaru or Sundance would be capable of making far better games than AAA studios.

I think the problem with AAA pancake studios is that they rely maybe a bit too much on wjat works on pancake and dont realize that certain things can be really annoying in VR. Like load screens

Worst thing about Farpoint was starting the game with a 10 minute cutscene… God I hate that. Blood and Truth actually dis it right because it made you feel like you were part of the curscene and not just some ghost observer…anyway…rant over

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you make good points but I have to disagree on Skyrim. I think it was a very good port even before I added any mods to it and I spent over a 100 hours in it even after I had already spent over a 100 hours in the pancake version earlier. It definitely wasn’t a perfect port but it was also far from the worst ever IMO. I also really like Fallout but it was a poorly optimized port.

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Yess! My number one bugbear, and vote for what developers should prioritise addressing before anything else. :7

It can be ok tolerable when playing on screen - can be taken as an opportunity to go make a cuppa, but when you are committed, all donned up in immersion gear, every time you screech to a halt and have to stand around waiting, the annoyance with wasted seconds accumulate. :stuck_out_tongue:

If HL Alyx hadn’t at least padded the waiting cell with the map that shows your progress, I would have been livid. :stuck_out_tongue:

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i hated that in Fallout they didn’t even bother to replace the models of the vive wands in game to hands

super lazy.

Not to mention in Skyrim fans added full body IK etc.

but yes, at least Skyrim was ā€œplayableā€ out of the box

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never play Iron Man VR

in 2016 Ready At Dawn - studio which makes greate PS titles, created a great game Lone Echo, IMO it’s still a cool stuff, they also did multiplayer mod which is Echo Arena & Echo VR nowadays, I play it for 4 years already almost everyday, it speaks for itself. Very polished experience & top tier mechanics.

But yes there so small amount of good made games with big campaigns, I would like to play sometime like The Last Of Us II in VR with good VR adoption.

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I’d like to see VR ports of games like the Witcher III, etc. even if they are on the same level as Skyrim & Fallout because the games and the world they offer are so rich that the experience is good even if it is actually poor on implementation of VR mechanics (inventory system etc.). One reason why I don’t notice the lack of a true immersive VR inventory system in e.g. Skyrim surely is that as a PC gamer I am conditioned to work with such inventory systems for some 30-40 years by now, so it appears to be natural part of a game nevertheless…

Lone Echo was outstanding in terms of a number of VR mechanics, but it’s world is of course very limited, you play the story, that’s it. And no VR-only production can compete with the big Open World games out there so I rather take a hit on the higher levels of VR mechanics implementation and get access to a great world to get lost in which otherwise simply would not be available (unless you fancy VorpX).

My main ask is, that they make sure it’s not broken, e.g. proper controller support (it is annoying how many games don’t work well out of the box with Index controllers, and little seems to have been done by the devs to address this - obviously mainly older games, but you would think that they would have addressed it as part of their game support)

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it is okay, he need a little bit newer information, i mean xD

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