u/Deconceptualist

Oh 100% I'm a longtime Patient Gamer so I know exactly what you mean. I just meant to say that playing older games (as in maybe 5-10 years after release) tends to be a different experience than something released maybe 2-3 years ago that happened to hit a deep discount. The tech landscape changes and maybe now you can fully max out the settings, including high res texture mods and an ENB that weren't possible before, that sort of thing.

Or maybe you can't do any of that so it feels a bit crusty and letterboxed, that happens too.

Tried Elite:D sorta briefly, yes. Not on my current higher-end machine though, that was the old (but decent) rig. The game felt too dry, and I say that as someone who even likes the Star Trek TNG episodes where Picard argues the details of Starfleet policy versus interplanetary diplomacy, heh.

But I definitely got the impression that VR would be a huge boost so I definitely wanna give the title another shot.

CORRECTION: It wasn't my own impression, I deserve no credit. It was this editorial by Lee Hutchinson that put Elite VR on my gaming bucket list.

I'll want to try it out, but honestly NMS was a huge disappointment for me when I played though it about 2 years ago. I'm definitely interested in space/flight titles in VR though.

I somehow overlooked those first two, but Underdogs looks like another fighting game I wanna try.

Racing sounds fun, and I have a copy of Dirt Rally I've never played (but enjoyed Dirt 1-3). I'd buy Rally 2.0 but it looks like it still requires a constant net connection for singleplayer, yuck.

I'll have to buy Kayak VR just so my girlfriend can play it if she gives me a hard time about buying the Frame lol. Subside looks like a similar relaxing title FYI

I've never owned a headset before but for me I think the VR list would be:

• Subnautica

• HL: Alyx

• Psychonauts Rhombus of Ruin

• Pistol Whip

• Talos Principle

• Underdogs

• Star Wars Squadrons (if it works?)

• Elite Dangerous

• Dirt Rally

• Iron Nest (if that's coming, yay)

• Superhot

• Sublevel Zero

• Overload

• Phasmophobia

• Into Black

• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

• Metal: Hellsinger

• Titan Isles

• Red Matter 1+2

• Simple Planes 2

• First Person Tennis

• Alien Isolation (mod) maybe with an adult diaper on lol

[Added a bunch because you all have great ideas]

I've seen a couple devs talk about this on their YouTube channels. They call it a chicken and egg problem. It's hard to get funding to develop games for a platform if you don't expect a decent sized audience. And nobody wants to buy hardware if there are no games for it. And it's resource-intensive to port a game to multiple very different pieces of VR hardware.

Hopefully Valve can break through that, because I hate having horrible spyware like the Quest as the industry standard.

Great list! I'll have to check out some of the unfamiliar titles.

I forgot about that Psychonauts game, awesome!

Metal: Hellsinger does sound fun but yeah I'm a VR newbie too so I'll save that one till I have more experience so I don't get sick or punch a wall lol

Hellblade was pretty psychologically abrasive on a regular monitor (and not fun IMO), might have to skip a replay of that in VR though.

Oh man thanks for reminding me about Talos Principle. That just shot to the top of my list 🙂

A Lemmite just had success with that!

https://aussie.zone/post/36630570

Valve is running the first lottery on Sep. 17 and giving selectees 72 hours to purchase. They tend to ship out hardware pretty fast after that. I think I got my Steam Controller within 5 days of purchase.

It's an option _in addition to_ all the other buttons and inputs. The main use case is for ratcheting/re-centering gyro controls. But yeah some people like their game to just auto-pause when they let go of the controller, or to bring up a map screen.

I agree it's not so useful at times when you need your digits on all the other inputs, but that's not really what it's for anyway.

They tend to start sales and release products on Tuesdays.

Y'know when this was first prototyped I considered asking whether was licensed, but thought, "Nah, dbrand wouldn't be that stupid, I'm sure they worked it out with Valve". Heh. Too much faith on my part I guess.

My thoughts exactly.

if it’s anything like my Steam Deck, the packaging wasn’t discrete

No it's much better this time. The shipping label still says Valve Corporation of course, but otherwise there's no indication of the contents.

[fixed typo]

The D-pad seems quite good to me and I play things like Silksong at times. Unless you're a fighting game diehard I doubt it would be an issue.

The joysticks are pretty comparable. The Elite 2's are a bit thicker in the stem and cap but otherwise they feel very similar. So yeah, very good.

These sound like operating system problems TBH. Especially failure to mount drives.