Half Life Alyx reviews

de3d1

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Sep 11, 2013
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The first AAA critical acclaimed VR game? Cool, still wouldn't buy VR


Are you still developing games? VR would be a great way to get a game onto a platform for a single or dev or very small team. Especially something like Oculus Quest which doesn’t need AAA graphics. I only say as I remember you posted a few years back you was having a crack at developing.
 
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Are you still developing games? VR would be a great way to get a game onto a platform for a single or dev or very small team. Especially something like Oculus Quest which doesn’t need AAA graphics. I only say as I remember you posted a few years back you was having a crack at developing.
I stopped for a year due to massive sickness. I have a hard time getting back since....
 
This game it's pretty awesome. Most impressive graphics I've seen in VR. 2 hours of my life just disappeared. Really cool.

Im also impressed by my 2080 Super. Runs the game like a champ despite 20% of my GPU just to stream the video to the quest. Amazing.
 
Ended up in the top 10 rated games of all time on Steam, even above Half Life 1 and 2.


What a success, top 5 in sales going against Doom, and that's considering you need a VR headset to play it. Sold out 4 of the major VR headsets for months on end too. Still can't find an Index, Oculus Rift S, or Quest without hunting it down, and the Samsung Odyssey has been struggling to keep up, even before COV19.

VR is here to stay for a lot longer now. Expect more AAA exclusives on top of what was already coming before Half Life.
 
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I'm hearing everything from "one of the best games ever" to "meh, nothing new".
What I am sure of though, is that I'll prob won't play this in the foreseeable future.
 
I'm hearing everything from "one of the best games ever" to "meh, nothing new".
What I am sure of though, is that I'll prob won't play this in the foreseeable future.

I'm not seeing the "meh" impressions. I've been on every forum and user impressions are 99% over the moon. Resetera has the most, thousands and its literally one of, if not the most overwhelming well received games I've seen on there.
 
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I'm not seeing the "meh" impressions. I've been on every forum and user impressions are 99% over the moon. Resetera has the most, thousands and its literally one of, if not the most overwhelming well received games I've seen on there.
Just listened to giant bomcast, they thought it "me-ish"