I picked one up. I had moderate expectations, but to be honest I was super impressed at how effective it was.
The cabling situation is a bit of a nightmare. I now have a spaghetti mess of cables running to and from my PS4 and something's not quite right there as it is causing choppy audio, which would be indicative of an HDMI issue somewhere along the line. Despite this, when up and running, I couldn't quite believe just how immersive the experience actually is.
Allumette was incredible. It's probably a very average Pixar-lite animation, but the fact that I was in the middle of this huge sky-town in the clouds and I was able to move around, get closer to characters, look underneath them, step away, look at secondary characters on the edge - it just blew me away. I feel like I could watch it five times over and each time see a slightly different animation as I focus and move towards different parts. I'd argue on this basis, that there's more of an argument for VR movies than for VR games at this point.
Batman: Arkham VR is stupidly immersive. For example - I sat in Wayne Manor and actually tried to put my feet up on a footrest that I could see in the game. The bat cave also lends itself well to VR with it's sheer sense of space and scale and standing on Gotham rooftops and looking at the city moving below never gets old. There's not as much of a game as I expected - you don't really move around, you instead shift from highlighted point to highlighted point (very much like the movement in Killer7) and you don't do *that* much Batman stuff - it's more of a use your cool toys to investigate clues and crime scenes type deal - however, it does a great job of selling the feeling that you're actually in Gotham and is a great foundation to build a more interactive experience upon. Also DCEU >>>>>>>>> MCU.
Danger Ball (Playstation VR Worlds) was something I had little to no expectations of and yet ended up playing for a couple of hours. It's essentially air hockey / Pong from a first person perspective, with the paddle moved by your line of sight. It's fast, challenging, addictive and the environment is really effective - the puck whooshes past your head when you miss it.
Tonight is Resident Evil 7. I hear good things.
- is there a way we can change the topic to make this more of a general VR thread?
