Summer 2016 were my healthiest few months…
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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Really interesting video. I can imagine playing an MMORPG where you get around by actually walking and running. Suddenly the biggest computer geeks would be super fit.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Oh?”
The world was at peace for those few months.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just think how annoying it would be if like the best players in the world were only good because they were literally Olympic sprinters and just ran literal circles around you in a fight lol
JohnSwanFromTheLough@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Too much realism?
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
More realistically, it’d be nerds who found a way to hack or cheat their controller to give them ridiculous speed, lol
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Neo confirmed?
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TIMMAY@lemmy.world 1 month ago
my phone wont let me open this but is it colin ferrell in “in bruges”?
Nyfure@kbin.social 1 month ago
Unikely.. Kinda why VR also didnt get too popular, most players just prefer "classic" controls and not movement-controls.
But this is huge for VR and other usages of this, probably even useful for production routing, but i dont have any knowledge of that.Plopp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Personally I’m surprised that there are so few non-full-body-movement games. It’s amazing to sit down and play whatever game in a completely different 3D world. Moss is a great platformer in VR, pinball games are really cool in VR, and driving sims with a wheel and pedals kick absolut ass in VR. I bet games like FIFA, NBA, NHL etc would be amazing, top down car games would be amazing etc etc.
simple@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s just really difficult and expensive to make proper games for VR, and the market isn’t quite there for it to be worth it. Lots of people still say Half Life Alyx is the only “full” VR game made by a popular company while a lot of PSVR titles felt like tech demos.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The only real way for vr to explode would be for already established companies to make vr controls for their games, I’m thinking service games specifically. Imagine roaming in ff14 or wow in VR. I would still do hardcore content with standard controllers but I would 100 percent roam around doing stuff in VR.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It really isn’t, you’re probably just not aware of all the “proper” games that are out there for VR. Browse the Steam store and look at all the VR games sometime.
I have about 40 VR games in my Steam library, for example. I admit I haven’t played them all yet but I’ve played a lot of them and most of them are great. There are tons more that I could buy if I had the time to play all that shit.
Plopp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well what I’m saying is there should be more “less full” VR games. VR could be a somewhat simple add-on to many types of games. The difficult thing with VR is the object interaction, the handling of resources etc. if you’re in a large 1:1 world, but if you’re implement VR as basically just an extra viewport it’s not that difficult (for many types of games that are not FPS) and it could still add a lot to the game. Or you can do something like Moss, which is a really cool game.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 month ago
Speedrunners must be able to speedrunning irl.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve recently been thinking about what I am calling double or compound walking where you walk with both the joystick and your real body for potentially combined movement speed. I don’t have enough room to verify if it works in any games but after I move I have a decently long hallway I could test it in. My thinking is to work around the abysmal stamina in the vr games I’ve played so far and weirdly slow movement speed.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 1 month ago
like when the collective world went outside at the same time when Pokemon Go launched. Our quiet downtown area was amazing to walk through. all those people.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kind of a shame that the pandemic was so soon after. I wonder how much it affected the game’s popularity.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 month ago
It was 3.6 years after? And it was pretty dead at that point. Like it was popular with a core group who were making Niantic and TPC tons of money, but the phenomenon was dead by the anniversary.
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It died in my area when they dropped the amount of spawn nodes to the point where you couldn’t really walk around. You had to drive pretty far at that point, and that kill let most people’s enthusiasm.
I don’t know if it was complaints by local businesses or what, but after that I never saw large groups walking around again.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Niantic was already killing interest in the game long before COVID wrecked it up a good bit, and they haven’t let up on pissing off the Pokemon Go gaming community since.
OneStepAhead@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Niantic gives zero fucks about “the community” and really only care about the “whale” players that spend $$$ on the game.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a shame. I never played it. My kid did/does, but rarely.
thirteene@lemmy.world 1 month ago
COVID hit and they released “play safe” features like remote raids and increased spawn radius. Then they started enshitification and striped features, raised prices, started starving players of resources and new features were pay gated. It’s still mildly popular but you need to join discord groups to raid.