So I recently purchased a Rift and I find myself getting very little use out of it. Superhot was a lot of fun, I'm looking to get GORN, but everything else seems pretty.... okay? What games have made you guys actually sink hours into VR?
I've heard many people unironically (as far as I could tell) say VRchat was worth buying their headsets for.
On that note, is there a good resource for not making it run like absolute shit? I have a 970 and an okay processor but the lag makes it extremely nauseating.
If you're into games like American/Euro Truck Sim or other driving/flight sims I feel like VR would be good for that. I know that's probably what I'd use it most for if I had a VR set.
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, VTOL VR, GORN, Kingspray Graffiti, Lone Echo, Robo Recall. I spent quite a lot of time playing them.
Vrchat is VERY CPU heavy due to people not optimizing their avatars. Either upgrade your cpu or get a group of friends who actually optimize. It's not because of the polygon count, it's the amount of materials, meshes, and dynamic bones.
Google earth was honestly an incredibly profound experience for me, and I still boot it up every now and then for a look.
Superhot VR is a really slick action game that's a ton of fun, and makes you feel like an action movie hero.
Both hot dogs horseshoes and hand grenades, and Euro/American truck simulator are perfect relaxing games, and way more d-stressing than the non 3D versions in my opinion.
VRChat is an oddly fun time, so is RecRoom, and those are both free. I really dig the Laser Tag and Paintball modes in RecRoom. Dodgeball is also fun if you wanna slam a child in the face with a dodgeball in VR. Lots of kids in RecRoom.
I've also really been enjoying Skyrim VR. It is pretty much just Skyrim in VR, so don't expect any crazy VR enhancements or anything, but the scale of that game is wild in VR. Magic and Archery are a ton of fun. Melee combat is okay. I don't know how it would run on a
I'd also highly recommend Thumper. The steam page describes it as rhythm violence. It can be played in 2d, but it's really intense in VR. It's also on sale for 8 dollars on the Oculus store right now.
Google Earth VR is also an oddly compelling free VR experience to mess around with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0pNGvfF_8
Onward is fun, and if you can drag your friends into getting/playing it it's even more fun. That and VRChat are the only real things I justified my VR setup for. While it's not particularly a game, Big Screen is relaxing if you wanna watch movies or shows too I suppose.
Games I've thoroughly enjoyed so far:
Vanishing Realms (if you want to play Zelda)
VTOL VR (it's like DCS except you can actually fly and operate the plane in less than ten minutes)
Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Handgrenades (if you like guns or mechanical/engineering stuffs)
FORM (if you like puzzle-y adventure games)
To the Top (fast-paced ninja parkour)
Sairento (if you want to play Warframe in VR)
Left Hand Path (if you want to play Dark Souls but more slowly and horrifyingly)
Climbey is a great time, lots and lots of custom maps to go through and you can make your own.
Fruit Ninja VR is the most fun I've had in VR
I've had the most fun in Robo Recall and GORN since I really, really, really enjoy ripping the limbs of my victims and being sadistic.
I even bought the rift for racing games but this is what I use it for
Superhot is really fun.
Lone Echo is amazing just as an example of how well VR can work. (The IK is very well done), though it's pretty short and doesn't have a lot of replay value. There's a multiplayer mode that's also available as a free standalone game but I couldn't really get into it.
From Other Suns: Like playing FTL in VR.
Onward: An fps a bit Arma like because of size of maps. Try Pavlov if you want something more like Counter Strike.
In Death: Is an archery game not super easy to properly describe best go watch some videos of it.
Penumbra VR is pretty scary, Obduction is very fun and immersing, same with Solus Project. Skyrim VR and Fallout 4 VR is also very good, even if some haters say otherwise.
Depends what headset you have. If you have the occulus and therefor the occulus store, get yourself Lone Echo. It may require getting your VR legs sorted as it's zero G movement but it's so far the best story thing I've played on VR.
Superhot VR is pretty great, a good game to make you feel like an ultimate badass...until you accidently bop a wall in real life and then feel like a huge tool.
If you're into Sim type games, then DCS combat flight sim is pretty great in VR, Elite Dangerous is slightly more interesting when it feels like you're sat in the cockpit..only slightly though. Dirt Rally is great, PCARS is also pretty great.
I think Warthunder supports VR now and that's free to play. I imagine it's pretty great for flying in simulator battles but I've not personally tried it. Doubt it has any use for the tank combat side of the game yet.
Hmm, if you have friends to play with, then Star Trek bridge crew is quite fun also, I wouldn't bother getting it and playing it singleplayer however, though it is possible.
As for shooting, I'd say Onward for an ARMA/Squad like experience or hot dogs, horseshoes and handgrenades which is more about just playing with guns on a range, which is fun in it's own right.
Robo Recall, Super hot, Arizona Sunshine, H3VR, Pavlov, H3VR, Audio Shield, Gorn
Killong Floor Incursion is pretty good too but it is a bit short, I would try to pick it up on sale.
Sairento has been mentioned already but it definitely deserves more of a highlight. It's an exceedingly unique game, that's feature complete after early access, with mechanics that you can only enjoy with proper VR. It's got all the elements you need for a good time with VR, and next to H3VR, Sairento is the next most played game on my list.
Sairento VR on Steam
I'm a serious shill for this game. It's great. You can do backflips. Get it.
If you don't have Oculus you can install Revive then you can play most Oculus store games via SteamVR.
I think a problem with Climbey is that a majority of the maps are rather poorly designed and rely too much on crapshoot jumping and not enough on actual climbing. Jumping around a dozen times until you finally get to grab a ledge is tedious and not very fun.
Oh, no mention of Organ Quarter yet? Another game I need to endorse as a worthwhile time investment rather than a one-off experience. Major love letter to classic resident evil and silent hill games, and I mean classic in all the best/potentially bad ways. It's scary as hell, though admittedly a lot of the game mechanics a little dated even before you consider the fact it's a VR game. Despite all that, if you want a classic survival horror title that you probably won't instantly nope out of, give it a shot.
I've had a Vive since May of last year. From then until mid September, I spent a grand total of 21 hours in Destinations, 14 hours in Serious Sam TFE and TSE VR, 4 hours in the QuiVR demo, 3 hours in The Lab, 3 hours in H3VR, and sub-hour play times in a bunch of free demos from the steam store. If you had asked me then, I would have said there really aren't any good games worth actually buying a VR headset for. None of the games I tried, with the exception of Serious Sam, felt genuinely fun to play beyond the initial 'wow' factor of VR and I wouldn't spend more than 30 minutes in a single play session. The problem was, and still is, major game developers aren't willing to invest money and time into making proper built-for-VR games and the vast majority of indie games either have rather shallow/repetitive/boring gameplay or only a few hours worth of content.
Then came VRChat.
Since mid September, I've spent a total of 940 hours in VRChat and an at least equal, if not greater, time creating content for the game. There hasn't been a single day where I haven't gotten on, and often I'll play for stretches of 4 to 8 hours. When I first joined, VRChat was a really small, cozy, and extremely welcoming community and I got to know a very large portion of the player base. I made quite literally my first real friends in VRChat, and its been my life ever since. Its really hard to describe what exactly it is we do in VRChat specifically, but one of the largest draws for me has been the absolute freedom they give you in creating avatars. I love creating unconventional avatars that do weird stuff with shaders and animations and then going around showing them off.
Sadly, VRChat is now infested with small children, trolls spamming disturbing images in your face, hackers, and just generally nasty people you don't want to be around that outnumber decent players 100 to 1. Practically all of the old community and anyone else who isn't a shithead have fled to private instances to keep these people out. I very rarely join public instances now. Last time I did I got someone with a particle emitter that covered most of the world spraying gay porn everywhere within just 5 minutes of me joining. These days I rely on my network of friends to get into private instances. So if you join now and just jump into a public world you're going to have a rather unpleasant experience. However, I'm sure more than a few of the people here will be willing to invite you to their worlds and help you form your own network so you can stay out of the pubs.
Isn't Rec Room the same kind of social VR thing minus the horrifying avatars?
Anyway, got Superhot VR last night.
I never played the regular Superhot, so this is all new and impressive even without the actual VR part.
The level design is amazing and it really gets your adrenaline pumping even as you try to very slowly John Woo your way out of cramped killzones full of irate red dudes.
Also I punched some stuff off my shelf to death while trying to punch a red dude in the balls to death. It worked. The controllers amazingly survived.
Still, everything feels a little wobbly. The gunplay isn't as tight as in Space Pirate Simulator, and throwing works really badly which is especially frustrating considering so many levels depend on throwing something at someone over something. Also, touch pad to release/throw? Seriously?
Elite Dangerous seems like it could be neat for VR
havent played it on VR but i heard lot of good things about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0b2Kd2xhU
good video on it
Missing from the video: even if you're intimately familiar with all of Elite's complexities, the VR version is still a pain in the ass due to the horrible UI and controls of the system and galaxy map screens. They're just not adapted to a 3d non-mouse interface.
For example there's just no easy way to search for a specific system or station, as there's no virtual keyboard and you can't really see your real one with the HMD on. Plus your cursor leaves the search window if you look away (like, say, when you flip you HMD up to try and see your keyboard).
Rec Room is a collection of party games (disc golf, laser tag, PvE dungeons, paintball, charades etc.)
Audioshield is one of my personal favorites.
I'm a big fan of McOsu - free rhythm game ported to VR by a fan.
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