Comment on What's next after Half-Life?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Alyx was really fun. The first time a soldier reacted to my reaching out and touching them with my controller scared the bejeezus out of me!
Comment on What's next after Half-Life?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Alyx was really fun. The first time a soldier reacted to my reaching out and touching them with my controller scared the bejeezus out of me!
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The audio in the game is bonkers. Distant footsteps or floor creaking can really get you.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s the only really compelling VR application I have yet tried.
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I’ll suggest Vertigo 2 as a worthy followup.
It really impressed me with its detail and scope as a mainly solo effort, by a developer who worked at Valve for a while. It’s a big, cinematic shooting adventure, like Half-Life, so the game calls itself a half-like! There are cool bosses, memorable characters, and wildly varied environments. The story is pretty much a flipped Half-Life: you’re the alien who got teleported in after a big science disaster and you’re fighting your way back home. Compared to Alyx, which takes places around a handful of city blocks, Vertigo 2 throws you around a much larger-scale setting, so it’s more like the Half-Life 2 kind of linear gallery of wild shit.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That DOES look good! I really appreciate you telling me about it.