PSVR2: |OT| The new bar for VR, its time to feel a new real!🔥🔥

rofif

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I've been VR enthusiasts since forever and have Psvr1 which made me buy PSVR2 there isn't no honeymoon for me and I'm quite pleased. As a matter of fact my favorite platformer of all time is Astrobot Rescue mission and it's because it's so well done in VR and done better than any other platformer I know so I beg to differ. Tons of games I love, enjoy and have been busy with. Even the "tacked" on vr such as the Resi games make it a whole fully wayyyyy better experience to play in VR.

I definitely agree to disagree. Although we do know there are alot of lower budget games, as well as shovel ware the gems I've played have made it more than worth it to me.
But Astro is a real game not limited by vr. It just uses vr as a camera.
but games that are full vr have to be limited in ome way
 
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Instead, this hands-on mostly gave us an idea of how much spookier this new PSVR version is compared to the Quest version, featuring more photorealistic visuals and new lighting (or rather, lack of light). It’s not necessarily the most immersive VR experience, as your hands (or, put another way, Leon’s hands) only wander past objects in the demo — you can’t interact with most of them unless a button prompt appears.

When the lights go out and Leon has to turn on his flashlight, it doesn’t appear in your hands but rather as a light shining from – and tilting in line with – your head. The demo was also unfortunately limited to seated mode, which meant the holster and other equipment was placed a little in front of me rather than being mapped to my waist.

One of the biggest grumbles with the Quest version was that it’s never quite a pure VR game, on account of falling back on the original third-person perspective cutscenes. Sadly, this is something that the PSVR 2 version does too. Even its first-person cutscenes commit the same crime as Village, with sudden cuts that take control away from the player (a decision that can be motion sickness-inducing for some).

But before it sounds like we’re focusing on the negative, there’s one little change that does convince more. When stunning an enemy with Leon’s roundhouse kick, the Quest version would play the original canned animated cutscene. However, the PSVR 2 version cleverly opts to snap the camera to a slightly-raised position, from which you watch Leon run forward to deliver the counter. It seems unlikely that Capcom would have opted to have his feet actually stick out in first-person perspective, so this solution subtly keeps the action within context and doesn’t completely take you out of it.

When it comes to shooting mechanics, it felt similar to what you get in Village’s VR Mode, though we only got to use Leon’s pistol in the demo. Reloads are handled by pressing a button to empty the clip, before inserting a new one and pulling back the hammer. Leon’s knife can be wielded around to break barrels and boxes for items, but we unfortunately didn’t reach the point where you can parry the chainsaw-wielding maniac in the village.

However, it was amusing to channel another famous horror film villain instead – by holding R2 with the knife, Leon’s grip changes so that he’s holding the knife downwards. When downing a Ganados, you can quickly finish them off by grabbing the knife and getting as stabby as Norman Bates. I honestly started hearing tense strings as I made the stabbing motions.

While we would have loved to have spent a bit time sampling the action-packed moments, the demo of Resident Evil 4’s VR Mode had a lot of promise. If it manages to be on par with the Quest version, then we’re looking at a second must-have Resident Evil game on PSVR 2 in just one year. And that’s fine by us.

Resident Evil 4 VR mode comes to Resident Evil 4 as a free update on PSVR 2 this winter.
 
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Man, we need something big for VR. I'm very excited for RE4 Remake VR and Bulletstorm VR, but we need something more grand. All I been using my psvr2 for lately is GT7. I'm waiting on Moss 1/2 to go on sale, but whats taking so long for HL Alyx and Astro? Will they ever even come?

First year of PSVR2 has been very good, I just want at least some confirmation of whats coming soon or next year, its been 7 months and all we get is stuff idc about like Ghostbusters
 
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Man, we need something big for VR. I'm very excited for RE4 Remake VR and Bulletstorm VR, but we need something more grand. All I been using my psvr2 for lately is GT7. I'm waiting on Moss 1/2 to go on sale, but whats taking so long for HL Alyx and Astro? Will they ever even come?

First year of PSVR2 has been very good, I just want at least some confirmation of whats coming soon or next year, its been 7 months and all we get is stuff idc about like Ghostbusters
I want something like Switchback. The game is good and became much better after the patch.
 
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Killer_Sakoman

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It looked boring to me cuz of the on rails stuff, would you recommend it?
I don't like on rails too, but this game was good. I enjoyed shooting and the B rated movie cheap horror.
It's main problem is that it's too short. I would wait for discount or PS+, but you definitely should not miss it.
 
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Any recommendations for games? Don't care about genre, as long as it's fun. I haven't used my PSVR2 since playing GT7 a few months ago.