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Not So MMO - No Man's Sky Beyond VR Impressions - MMORPG.com
The experience delivered by VR is unbelievably difficult to convey. Right now, you’re reading this on a screen -- a 2D experience. You experience 3D games through this 2D window. VR is so much more than 3D. It is a physical presence which, in that moment you are experiencing it, convinces your brain is completely 100% real. In normal gaming, you may press E to interact with something. In VR, you physically reach out to interact with it. You can imagine my dilemma, then, when it came time to describe my VR experience in No Man’s Sky Beyond.
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Once VR becomes affordable and more work is done to combat motion sickness (it's getting better), it's going to be the future of gaming. I can't imagine how fun a full-blown VR MMO would be.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
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With NMS, I found the blurry image nauseating and interacting with a game that has so much grind very tedious. Building is a pain because it's difficult to get a overview of what you're doing since everything is so massive. Targeting by using your head was cumbersome when trying to pick plants.
NMS VR is still neat, but it hardly feels like a way to play the game over longer periods and doing anything in NMS takes forever.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
I'm surprised that people seem to have no problem with how the mask/goggles/glasses interfere with the world around you. I mean i want a world to feel alive, but I don't want it to interupt "reality". That's exactly how I have felt the few times I have tried it. I don't enjoy that restriction at all.
Guess I'll just keep playing NMS on my PC and enjoy my life around me at the same time.
I'm not sure what you tried, but I don't feel at all that way with the Oculus S, nor did I feel that way with the Oculus CV1. I was blown away with what I was seeing, be it playing Lone Echo, being underwater in the Blu, roaming around Google Earth...it's just unbelievable what I was able to do with this headset and how immersed I felt by what I saw. The headset for both has been relatively comfortable for a couple of hours, the one cord I now use to connect the headset to the PC, though every once in a while distracting, you just get used to it.
I do agree however that everything still has room for improvement, like the Field of View, comfort, resolution can still improve, eye tracking, using all 5 fingers, etc...but some of the experiences available now are simply mind blowing in my opinion when I think about how you can't experience the same on a flat screen...and this is coming from someone who played 600+ hours of the Witcher 3 and is currently in love with Divinity Original SIn 2...not to mention the MMOs I have played. VR has a ton of room for improvement, but there is so much to like now at a cost that is so much less than it was a few years ago.
There Is Always Hope!
NMS on VR, its a dream come true for me, but without cables, without sensors and without a 500+ price tag.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Agreed without question this is the superior space game everyone should be focused on. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw was a terrible let down in my honest opinion.
Aloha Mr Hand !
There has been way more to do with VR...consoles....cell phones/mobile....cash shops....game stores...headphones...keyboards....PC addons...cool lights...loot boxes,season passes,Early Access etc etc than actual QUALITY game design.
It is like devs stopped trying to COMPETE in a game market,they simply aim for a different agenda,make money without a good game.
I know some people like this TYPE of game,perhaps similar to how i prefer Atlas over mmorpg's right now.It is because the "content" type games are NOT delivering quality,they all come off as generic shooters and loot drops.
However what i like about Atlas is the realistic look,i feel like i am really on a beach or in the water and the wild life really looks plausibly real.When i see No mans Sky it looks more like computer generated blocks/pixels,it does not come off as plausible,it looks fake.To me that is what separates games,the ones that don't look like a computer generated world.Yes i know Atlas has a blue zone line ,no game is perfect in delivering a realistic world feel.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Still a few bugs that have been annoying from time to time (had to delete my base because my Overseer and Scientist kept disappearing, destroyed several fugitive ships in space and never received the reward, etc), but this universe has sucked me in again and on more than one occasion I've found myself losing an hour or two more than I planned.
"When i see No mans Sky it looks more like computer generated blocks/pixels,it does not come off as plausible,it looks fake."
That's because it is. It's a video game. Generated by a computer. With voxels. It's fake.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Honestly Rec Room on Steam (F2P) is pretty damn fun! I've played a ton with Bradford. Really awesome fun game with tons to do. IMO it's VR's killer app at the moment
That's what I mean when I say killer app. NMS is close to that but if say, CDPR manages to do VR for CP 2077, now we're talking killer app
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
ShankTheTank meet the local grinch, Wizardry. This grinch won't be returning Christmas.
That's just, like, my opinion, man.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.