tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-695527399731010011.post972322977100298391..comments2024-03-23T15:19:07.016-05:00Comments on Walker's Retreat: My Life in Gaming: Where's All The VR Pilot Sims?Bradford C. Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10810129226163375188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-695527399731010011.post-35530846543757099332017-07-07T17:29:19.740-05:002017-07-07T17:29:19.740-05:00Corporate reporting in.
Short answer: as of now, ...Corporate reporting in.<br /><br />Short answer: as of now, VR isn't good for simulations.<br />A triple-display setup for a flight or racing sim is much better unless you're willing to trade effectiveness for "immersion".<br />To put it bluntly, at the moment it's akin to using a gamepad instead of a HOTAS setup. Some swear by their gamepads, you know.<br /><br />At the moment the only sims you'll get will be casual.<br />Star Trek Bridge is far closer to Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes or Job Simulator than to an actual game.<br />I do personally believe, that the only major lesson from ST: BC is that the market will bear the price of 50 eurobux for a VR game.<br /><br />Multicrew is one of the most resilient bad ideas, it seems.<br />Multiple experiments seem to indicate it has next to zero retention value (hello, Guns of Icarus).<br /><br />Yeah, it's nice to fantasize about being Charlie-on-the-tail in the boiling sky, but what a player thinks he wants and what he really wants are two different things.<br />The problem is while a lot of players happily pre-order basing on former, the game is reviewed and actually bought basing on latter (and this is why pre-orders are cancers from the other side of the fence).<br /><br />Mixing it with a niche sim and adding a requirement of $600-$800 VR plus a $800-$1000 rig is a nice recipe for a disaster.<br />For now.<br /><br />When (and if) VR will give an advantage in effectiveness, things may very well change.<br />As for now, see Serious Sam VR, Batman Arkham VR, FORM and Arizona Sunshine for things the current tech is good for.None Neededhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05563399480200029669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-695527399731010011.post-86497853532424992652017-06-21T23:17:10.083-05:002017-06-21T23:17:10.083-05:00Well, the Star Trek thing is because of Artemis an...Well, the Star Trek thing is because of Artemis and Empty Epsilon. They're big enough to draw real attention to the fact that there's money they could make. They're just skipping a generation by going to VR directly.Alfred Genessonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14286804037036777378noreply@blogger.com