Moss, One of VR's Best Series, Is Being Un-VR'd and Brought to PC and Consoles
1mon 4d ago by piefed.ca/u/iamthetot in pcgaming@lemmy.ca from www.ign.com
Polyarc, a studio founded by ex-Bungie developers that's made a name for itself with two stellar VR games in its Moss series, is bringing both games to PC and consoles – no VR headset needed – in the form of Moss: The Forgotten Relic. The puzzle-platformer/action-adventure is due out this summer.
it will never not be funny to me that Valve released VR's killer app, and the killer app killed VR.
Nobody else has the time or budget to make something like Alyx, and strapping a monitor to your face is obnoxious in ideal situations, let alone to for a library broadly of $40 tech demos that last 15min.
Hey, it's ok here to admit that you had a shitty experience that one time with VR. We're not that other place. No need to inflate the whinge to full-blown hyperbole when grasping for validity, friend. Breathe. 😋
Alright alright. Twenty dollar tech demos that last 45min. Please don't sue me for using rhetoric to emphasize a point.
There are plenty of full/long games now, and there are tools to effectively play a lot of pancake games in vr with full stereoscopic vision. GTAV in VR is hilarious.
It's not the lack of games preventing VR adoption, it's price, bulky tech, and inconsistent experience.
I am pretty for VR, and I agree with you about the range of available software for it, hyperbole excluded. There really isn't much actually taking full advantage of what's possible for games with the current hardware outside of Alyx and some flatspace conversions like Hitman or GTA. Loads of cheap, fun-for-5-minutes arcade-like things or artsy "experiences" that are not even really games, tho.
I think you could make a fun VR game where you row a boat and do flag semaphore. I'm not gonna develop that shit, though.
As it stands right now VR is still very much in the enthusiast territory. The only ones I've seen really dropping money on the full VR experience, including body trackers and the like, are furries who hang out a lot on VRChat and Revolite... Or Resolite... I forgot what the other one is called.
Now the idea seems to be that Valve is going to make VR way more accessible with the Steam Gear but... Eh... We'll see.
Awesome. I love Moss.