And here to s*** all over your VR Hype, Is... Wait for it... GIANT BORED.... I mean... GIANT BOMB!!!
At PAX there were quite a few indie booths that games that looked and played like utter sh!t for the Oculus and Rift.
Well yeah indie booths showing off indie games. The Rift also supports Elite Dangerous, Project Cars, Dirt Rally support is incoming shortly (all mind blowing experiences in VR). Insomniac have three games in the works for Rift (Edge of Nowhere launches June). It's launched with 30 games and there's over 100 games coming this year alone.
The problem for VR is even the indie games that look like s*** on a screen can be incredible experiences in VR, you just have to try them. Don't get me wrong, you've every right to be sceptical but don't knock it until you've tried it (apologies of you have, VR is not for everyone). Maybe wait it out a generation or two but VR is here to stay, it's too awesome to fail this time around imo.
These are early days though and until there is a sizable amount of VR headsets out there, we can't expect many "insert ambiguous term here" devs to be investing in VR, luckily Oculus/Facebook are forking over the $ dollars to ensure content will come and Sony releasing their own VR headset will only strengthen the VR market.
Personally, Elite, Project Cars and Dirt are enough to Justify the price of a Rift alone, I will get many hundreds of hours of mind blowing enjoyment out of those games alone, all the other content is just gravy for me.
Good gracious. I posted my Oculus Rift on ebay today and in less than an hour it sold for $1,300. Ridiculous, I almost feel bad about selling it for that much but on the other hand considering how quickly it sold I may have been able to get more. Needless to say I am happy to pocket $600 profit after ebay costs/shipping. That fully pays for my PSVR plus a couple games.
Good gracious. I posted my Oculus Rift on ebay today and in less than an hour it sold for $1,300. Ridiculous, I almost feel bad about selling it for that much but on the other hand considering how quickly it sold I may have been able to get more. Needless to say I am happy to pocket $600 profit after ebay costs/shipping. That fully pays for my PSVR plus a couple games.
Good gracious. I posted my Oculus Rift on ebay today and in less than an hour it sold for $1,300. Ridiculous, I almost feel bad about selling it for that much but on the other hand considering how quickly it sold I may have been able to get more. Needless to say I am happy to pocket $600 profit after ebay costs/shipping. That fully pays for my PSVR plus a couple games.
Thanks guys. Personally I am in agreement that the OR is going to be a much better experience than PSVR, but like the whole PC vs. console argument some of are just more at ease and like the convenience of consoles even if they aren't the ultimate gaming experience.
I actually may end up selling my pre-order PSVR if the supplies are met with overwhelming demand and use the profits on both to get my ultimate setup, whether it be Neo/PSVR or new PC/OR combo. Either way it is going to be "free" gaming for sacrificing being the early bird.
Retail Oculus Rifts can be purchased this weekend at select locations at Best Buy, amazon.com and microsoft site.
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/o...rience-kicks-off-at-best-buy-locations-may-7/
I was same day preorder and am estimated for late June...
Your college had a "do not touch" box too??Oculus finally in hand and I haven't even gotten it out of the packaging yet, but this might be the nicest box I've touched since freshman year of college.
VR games look about as fun as Kinect games...and we saw how well those did.
Lucid Rifter I think the VR headset would be fun to use with shooters and racing games, will be cool to have a full surround visual. I just don't see games that involve actual VR movements as being something fun to play. I think the Hololens games look equally as bad right now. And I was someone who was and early adopter of Kinect and bought quite a few Kinect titles. Kinect never really lived up to its hype for gaming purposes (although Dance Central was pretty good). The best part of Kinect turned out to be its other features more so than the actual gaming. Maybe VR will be the same thing. Could be very cool for watching movies.
Lucid Rifter I think the VR headset would be fun to use with shooters and racing games, will be cool to have a full surround visual. I just don't see games that involve actual VR movements as being something fun to play. I think the Hololens games look equally as bad right now. And I was someone who was and early adopter of Kinect and bought quite a few Kinect titles. Kinect never really lived up to its hype for gaming purposes (although Dance Central was pretty good). The best part of Kinect turned out to be its other features more so than the actual gaming. Maybe VR will be the same thing. Could be very cool for watching movies.