I’m out of my game funk and all it took was rollback netcode and an active community. From your suggestions, I ended up getting Battletech (from Game Pass) and X-Com 2. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions re: pc games. Like the weird bug in a jar that ‘powers’ the health stations. It’s about leaning in and appreciating the level of details that are there. I think that’s been the biggest wow factor VR has provided me. I’ve been so used to fuzzy graphics of the PSVR, with Alyx I’m constantly leaning in to get a better look at stuff. Sure hope they continue to make more games to flesh it out… I suppose it wasn’t until Half Life 2 and the Portal games that, Valve started to setup their own universe and characters. Definitely fleshes Alyx out a lot more as a character. Their back and forth, talking about the world before the events of Black Mesa is quite affecting. I’m thankful for Rhys Darby providing emotional support via Codec. When your reloading or interacting with objects in the area, you’re just left in the dark. I got to a section where you need to use a torch to navigate dark areas, it means you constantly have to have your left hand free to point forward.

Who knew having head crabs jumping at your actual face would be so genuinely terrifying? I did have a moment where I was using a bin lid as a shield and then deflecting a head crab into a bin and then shutting the lid on it and running away like a pro.

Now I’m dodging head crabs and those ceiling monsters in snot filled sewers. Inspecting secret labs chock full of weird science. Currently I’ve been going through City 17, watching all the joys of the Combine police state. Alyx feels likes Half-Life 2 on a smaller scale. In the same way that game took your typical Resident Evil game and applied it to a smaller scale at a more intimate FPS perspective. I think the closest thing I can compare it to is Resident Evil 7. Together with the most fluent VR controls there’s been in a game yet. It’s so immersive in all the ways Half-Life games have been in the past, with the same sense of humour that Valve had in Portal. I’m absolutely loving this game so far, it’s been too long since I’ve played a new Valve game. Half-Life: Alyx been playing a lot more of this on Oculus Quest via air link (cheers it’s legitimately a game changer!).

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