Personally, I can think of dozens of non-VR games I would have more fun playing than Elite: Dangerous!
VR support 'not at launch' for Odyssey
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Very true. If i completely lost my VR capability there lots of games i would play before Elite dangerous, like red dead redemption or a new Doom. But playing Elite in VR is as close to being in Star Trek's hollow deck as you can get, making Elite VR #1.
Steam's VR game the Lab is good fun and skyrim VR would be better if you could sit down, i get tired of always standing
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I have over 2000 hours playing Elite in VR over last 4 years and it has become my #1 game of choice.
But if VR was removed from the game then Elite Dangerous would become..............Boring.
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Seriously, just sit down I've never played skyrim VR standing...
A gamepad and a comfortable chair and you're of to fighting dragons.
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I bought defense grid 2 VR which is absolutely not a game or a genre you would instantly think.... "There is a game begging for VR, Tower Defence" ..... However it is really cool looking around the 3d models seeing the action from all sorts of angles. I also like how the Devs hid little orbs for you to find which actually gives you a reason to get on your hands and knees and crawl around the floor. My wife thinks it is hilarious.
Not as bad as when she videoed me (without my knowledge of course) playing super hot VR in nothing but my pants (we were in a heat wave).
That got deleted sharpish with serious threats of revenge if such a vid ever got out.
Using VR controllers is not necessarily HL:Alyx style gameplay.
IIRC you can play Skyrim VR sitting down. I cannot provide further details because I didn't want to play it like that but it is definitely possible. See: Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimvr/comments/bd6ak5/is_this_a_game_that_you_can_play_sitting_down/
None of the above changes the fact that they're marketing a large new product which is adding a completely different genre to the game. And which will have to sell itself on those merits.
You can rain dance all you like about it being a bad idea. But it's what they appear to be doing.
Nope. That's taking it to daft 'black or white' extremes. Matching industry norms (motion controllers) wouldn't mean matching the best games on offer. That's not the same thing.
Our own individual preferences are relatively immaterial when it comes to these areas.
FDev are trying to reach a new market with EDO (as they've said explicitly in their RNS updates). VR is trying to reach new players in the sense that it's aiming to grow. The latter means VR games are targeting systems which mitigate nausea. The desires of individual veteran EDVR players have zero impact on those particular aspects, as they are not the target of them.
This is like chance number five to provide examples of successful character games which don't support motion controllers. You still can't. And there's a reason for that. Nobody has made any in recent years.
Thrash around all you like, but every time you and others suggest that classic control scheme variants are a no-brainer for a launch candidate, and that FDev should just do that, you're ignoring a mountain of evidence that says otherwise.
Lol. The VR community, as with all communites, isn't all of one mind. And any individual is capable of being wrong
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I wouldn't play those, because they, like Elite, would just remind me of how much better they'd be in VR. (I tried with Witcher 3, no dice.) Though frankly, they'd probably still be better than non-VR ED. Games like Crusader Kings 3, on the other hand...
Weirdly, VR has made me understand EVE players more. I used to hate that game and its unimmersive approach to spaceflight, but hey, if I'm not going to feel immersed anyway, might as well just click around and get straight to the 2D menus the game is actually about.
Games that try to peddle some kind of an illusion of an "immersive" 3D world through a 2D rectangle are just ruined for me, it's like playing one of those old 2.5D games like Pole Position and Space Harrier now. They try to be 3D even though it's not really possible with that technology. Don't care how much "depth" or hundreds of hours of grinding and side quests they have, I feel more immersed bouncing around for 40 minutes in Sairento and I'm sated for that kind of experience. And it's low key a workout, so there's double the reason to play.
2D interface for games that are proudly 2D, that still works fine, and VR wouldn't add much to those kinds of games.
(For people who are still capable of playing first person space flying sims without VR: Let me use this space to remind you Infinity: Battlescape exists. If you're thinking of getting into a game like that, that's what you should be buying.)
I do hope you're not suggesting that non VR users should be playing another game instead of this one, because that's how it reads.
One could easily flip that around and say that VR players should be looking elsewhere, but I'm not sure you'd agree with that. By the way, what percentage of this game's players are using VR? I'd love to see some actual numbers.
No Man's Sky certainly has a lot going for it these days, but it's also a very different game from Elite.
Yeah.. but.. that acid induced colour scheme, the 90’s console characterisation and the Bejewelled-inspired gameplay...
It reminds me of those sci-fi books from the 1980s, which I believe may have been part of the inspiration. I don't mind it, but I can certainly see why others are less keen.
Is there an alternative?
I suppose not, if you want to play VR and VR only. It's not exactly a crowded genre these days.
I’d say it never has been - because getting expanse and depth requires many many hours of dev and content creation.. and that’s expensive...
You can either have depth and linear or expanse and less depth on normal game budgets.
If only that government NHS IT project money had been spent on ED rather than canned after 3 years - we’d have VR fully populated Earth like worlds with 1bn different alien species