I hear that Elite Dangerous is incredible in VR, especially with a high octane rig to drive a good headset. I have a kindergartener though, so no time or money available for that any time soon.
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Elite makes me wanna vomit shortly after take off every. Damn. Time. So that. It's the one game I have absolutely no tolerance for, even when I fare pretty well in other low comfort games.
That Half Life VR game is supposed to be excellent, but the only VR platform I own is PSVR and I haven't even hooked it back up since I moved.
I hope they release it on PSVR 2 sometime, I played it on PC, but my graphics card isn’t great and I‘d love to play that again without framedrops
I guess the only one that I feel strongly about is Echo VR. Although I think it is possible to still play that through 3rd party workarounds? Can't imagine the community is there in the way it was before Meta decided to pull the plug on that one though.
I didn’t even consider Echo, but 100% that’s the same for me. I played Echo 99% of the time and nothing else has come close, both visually and gameplay wise. I also don’t want to mod it back to life, that’ll only be a slower death. A2 looks promising, but currently I‘ve lost hope that it will ever be the same. Hex is about to come out in 10 days, but it most certainly won’t have the same polish. Hopefully we’ll get something like Echo again some day.
Subnautica. I even own it, but for some reason the controls won’t work for me on our Valve Index. Even tried using a game controller for it and still nothing. It seems like a perfect game for VR, but I can’t get past the menu.
I would kind of like to play Astro Bot but don't have PSVR.
I'd like to go back and finish Obduction (I think I stopped in the middle because some other game came out) but I'll have to start over from the beginning because I don't remember what's going on. Also something happened since then so performance is terrible now.
I wanted to love star shelter because I love space games and the devs' other titles were great, but something about the locomotion made me very sick. Weird, since I had no problem with Lone Echo 1 & 2.
They should port Astro bot to PSVR2, I’ve heard so many good things about that game
Elite and Alyx .
Due to stick drift on my Index controller(s) basically any game that relies on them for movement. Haven't had a chance to play Ancient Dungeon, Pavlov, or Compound for a while now. I'm just thankful H3VR supports "armswinger" movement.
Vader Immortal. I have an Index, but the game is exclusive to the Oculus/Meta Quest.
I was really interested in trying cradle of sins because i love mobas but for some reason it never worked when i launched the game.
My guess is that it's not compatible with virtual desktop.
I should try again with steamVR link. That wasn't an option when i tried before.
I'd love to play Jedi Outcast but I'm too sick.
I have Skyrim vr for ps4 and I really want to play it but it makes me sick.. you do actual walking not teleporting, i believe it has a sway, and the background environment movement is just.. 🤢
It’s actually been the reason I haven’t put in most of the other vr games I have… I will eventually but I need a new setup (stationary bike or treadmill with a harness or something to trick my brain) to help with the nausea before I’m willing to disappoint myself again.
I also really want horizon vr, but idk if it would do the same (haven’t looked into it), and I don’t really want to get a vr2 if the setup change above doesn’t work..
There’s a few things that you can do against motion sickness, but smooth locomotion aka walking is a pretty bad place to start if you’re not used to VR. Not sure what other games you have, probably best to start there and see what works for you before investing into a new headset.
Climbing itself is actually not as much of a problem regarding motion sickness as people might think. Since you’re moving your hands and pulling yourself up manually it’s much less of a problem than walking.
I’ve played some vr games, just not many on psvr. There’s a local vr arcade where I’ve played a few things, and I briefly tried out a couple downloaded psvr games, Skyrim is just the one I really want to play and it’s mentally holding up wanting to play the others (which are iron man, doom vfr, and vr worlds, all of which I expect to have similar issues. I also have Rick and Morty and that one’s ok, just not really that engaging)
I made it maybe 5 minutes into skyrim, so I literally have only had a problem with walking so far lol. I’ve dealt with motion sickness of various sorts my whole life, and considering that the problem with this is specifically visual walking-type motion without actually feeling like I’m moving (like being a car passenger) and I already have a treadmill (and stationary bike if the treadmill doesn’t work) and can rig up a sort of harness for it, I’ll take my chances and go from there. I played a shooter with auto movement at an arcade and just bouncing between my feet was enough, but threw me off balance since vr and all.
The ones that teleport your location or don’t really have you move through the environment much/fast are pretty good and don’t make me uncomfortable, even with looking around. The psvr tracking isn’t great, though, and Skyrim specifically seems like it was just mapped into vr, not really designed for it (because that’s probably the case). That’s probably a big part of it.
I can play Half-Life: Alyx fine on my PC, but my play space is like 1m x 2m. I would LOVE to play that game in some like 10m x 10m space or even bigger with a wireless headset. It just lets you do so much, and I always have to use the damn teleport to move around :(
I’ve tried playing roomscale games in a larger space and in my experience, it‘s worse than using smooth locomotion. If you had infinite space it probably would be nice, but even with 10x10m, you reach the end soon and then have to know which way you need to go. You have to be aware of where you’re standing and you’ll still end up walking into the wall constantly. Not worth it imo.
You're probably right, but I would still love to experience it at least once.