We're now mere weeks away from the release of the first Half-Life game in over a decade. It's big news even if it's not quite making the waves you'd expect thanks mostly to how Valve remains secretive of the new game but also that it's not Half-Life 3.
Instead, Half-Life: Alyx crafts a new single player experience out of the Freeman universe in an effort to provide the first true killer app of the VR age. The tech has been on the market for a few years now and with a couple of million users out there it may not have made much impact on the gaming landscape but it has a passionate small audience that Valve is hoping to fire up with its new game and their own VR set up, the Index.
For some, Alyx won't be their first experience of VR in the world of Gordon. Talented fans have been working away on a VR mod for Half-Life 2 for a long while now and in the area of PC VR fans have made wider efforts to create compatible experiences to offset the drought of major titles. GTA5 is now playable in VR, the recent Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners also went down well with players but at the same time the usual concern applies of what will they play post-Alyx.
New generations of console and GPU also threaten to pull player spending away from VR tech as the focus shifts back to high end traditional graphic showcases meaning that Alyx may be something of a swansong effort until the next-gen of machines and graphics cards refocus back on the tech as the dust settles.
Is 2020 a year of VR experiences for you? If so, via what method?
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Instead, Half-Life: Alyx crafts a new single player experience out of the Freeman universe in an effort to provide the first true killer app of the VR age. The tech has been on the market for a few years now and with a couple of million users out there it may not have made much impact on the gaming landscape but it has a passionate small audience that Valve is hoping to fire up with its new game and their own VR set up, the Index.
For some, Alyx won't be their first experience of VR in the world of Gordon. Talented fans have been working away on a VR mod for Half-Life 2 for a long while now and in the area of PC VR fans have made wider efforts to create compatible experiences to offset the drought of major titles. GTA5 is now playable in VR, the recent Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners also went down well with players but at the same time the usual concern applies of what will they play post-Alyx.
New generations of console and GPU also threaten to pull player spending away from VR tech as the focus shifts back to high end traditional graphic showcases meaning that Alyx may be something of a swansong effort until the next-gen of machines and graphics cards refocus back on the tech as the dust settles.
Is 2020 a year of VR experiences for you? If so, via what method?
You can select multiple options in the poll
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