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by mbrundle
1675 days ago
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I’ve been a keen gamer since a kid. Now a dad, I’m in a similar position where I rarely have time to play. But I adore the Oculus Quest 2! I’ve just completed Resident Evil 4 (it took several weeks, but it’s the first time I’ve completed a AAA game in years). The immersion is amazing, I haven’t been this absorbed in a game in a long time. Fighting your way through a fully realised VR environment (massive castles, underground caverns etc) is something new to me. I found that most console games are too complex for me to get back into after a week or two away - the mental effort needed to remember the controls puts me off after a long day of work followed by looking after the kids - but RE4 VR doesn’t have this problem. It’s very intuitive - you grab weapons from different points on your body, reload with physical motions, and there’s only a few actions that map to button presses, so it’s made it easy to pick it up again after a break. I’m looking forward to seeing this platform develop. Bonus: I tell the kids they can’t use it till they’re teenagers, so whilst they hog the PS4 for Minecraft, the Quest is exclusively for my use. :) |
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Same here. The Quest put the fun back in gaming for me. I tried some of the fancy new AAA PC games and I felt I just was not having as much fun as I did gaming as a kid since everything felt as the same-old rehashed recipes but with way fancier graphics and different stories, so I was just left yawning and bored quickly despite the realistic graphics and major hype.
But gaming in VR really makes me feel immersed and I finally feel like I'm having genuine fun like I'm a kid again. Why control a 1st/3rd person character on a screen, when you can be that characters and live the adventure yourself ?!.
Even though the graphics have a lot less polygons on the Quest, but since the art style of some games is designed from the get-go to be low-poly, it really fits well together. But somehow, some games on the Quest 2 really do look visually stunning, verging on modern console/PC fidelity, which is insane considering the underlying HW.
Mental health wise, it was a real life saver for me during the 2020 lockdowns as it allowed some quick escapism in new territories when everything was closed and my social circles broke up.
Not to mention, gaming in VR with 360 degrees of freedom is a lot healthier for your body and posture than gaming sitting at a desk/couch, especially if your day job also involves sitting at a desk for 8 hours.
As much as I despise Facebook/Meta, the Quest is a game changer which had a genuine positive impact on my life.