Black Levels are being discussed today on the FB VR Groups. And seems more people are having NON-issues with them.
Zenbane said:
Black Levels are being discussed today on the FB VR Groups. And seems more people are having NON-issues with them.
I think some people are just ultra sensitive. I know your talking about black levels but godrays on the original rift never bothered me. Black levels being closer to grey doesn't bother me. That being said, the black levels on quest to are pretty good.
Zenbane said:
I'm going to post this here instead of the original thread, to keep everything on topic.
I was following up on something I had stated previously, about Quest 2 vs PCVR vs the current Market:Zenbane said:I'm not going to spend a few $1000 just for one new game (Alyx) lol
The more I thought about it, the more I realized:
The Quest 2 has proven to be valuable for the market in which it resides.
It isn't about Facebook abandoning the Rift, or Oculus walking away from PCVR. It's about VR, as a whole, failing to grow as a platform.
https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/comment/772441/#Comment_772441
Today I saw a new post on the FB VR Group where a user expressed this same sentiment. I would say that... now with the influx of new VR Users Quest 2 brings in, we're likely going to see more and more people take notice of the complete lack of AAA titles available.
Some of the responses he got,Had you called me, I would have warned youEverything is a disappointment compared to Alyx. Maybe 1 or 2 titles can compare..Half life alyx set bar so high. Unfortunately most other games fail. Lone Echo is next best thing to Half Life Alyx then Skyrim really cool with around 90+ mods but no where near as immersive. Unfortunately we have to wait for triple A games in production.
Overall, I think it's fair to say that Quest 2 is the right move since there are only a few titles that make high-end PCVR worth the cost.
if you are a sim racing fan, theres quite a lot of very good pcvr titles.
sim racing is made for vr, more so than FP shooters.
sadly there are still many game makers in the racing genre who think VR is not worth it.
Icecream.inc said:if you are a sim racing fan, theres quite a lot of very good pcvr titles.sim racing is made for vr, more so than FP shooters.sadly there are still many game makers in the racing genre who think VR is not worth it.
The problem with Alyx is that the game is so far ahead of anything else, Asgardians included, and is a complete outlier compared to all other VR games and apps. We cannot expect to get more Alyx class VR content for many years - if ever.
It feels like I'm getting 2-3 x better performance and visuals with Alyx compared to Asgard's Wrath. Thus textures and poly levels feel much better in Alyx outdoor locations than in Asgard's Wrath.
It will be a great problem if new Quest 2 users expect more Alyx class content. Then again, Half-Life 2 still reigns as the best PC game on Metacritic 16 years post-launch. I guess pancake lovers would be in the same boat, forever waiting for something to be better or equivalent to Half-Life 2, lol.
RuneSR2 said:
Icecream.inc said:if you are a sim racing fan, theres quite a lot of very good pcvr titles.sim racing is made for vr, more so than FP shooters.sadly there are still many game makers in the racing genre who think VR is not worth it.
The problem with Alyx is that the game is so far ahead of anything else, Asgardians included, and is a complete outlier compared to all other VR games and apps. We cannot expect to get more Alyx class VR content for many years - if ever.
It feels like I'm getting 2-3 x better performance and visuals with Alyx compared to Asgard's Wrath. Thus textures and poly levels feel much better in Alyx outdoor locations than in Asgard's Wrath.
It will be a great problem if new Quest 2 users expect more Alyx class content. Then again, Half-Life 2 still reigns as the best PC game on Metacritic 16 years post-launch. I guess pancake lovers would be in the same boat, forever waiting for something to be better or equivalent to Half-Life 2, lol.
Yea I placed Alyx above everything when I played through it. (Haven't gone past the initial starting area since) It's a true AAA title and the best VR game I've played out of the couple hundred I've played. I've not played a game before where I spent more time looking at the walls and admiring the scenery than actually playing lol. The amount of detail on the alien flora/creep is simply incredible in VR. That's not to say that Alyx gameplay is bad, I quite enjoyed it. The metro like survival horror mixed with the cool tricks of VR (The Russels/puzzles) made for a great time to me.
As far as Half Life 1 & 2...The problem with using metacritic type scores to compare to modern games is that those games came from a time period when gaming was rapidly evolving. Both of those games pushed boundaries forward hugely compared to what else was out at the time and as such they are held in high regard for doing so. That's not to say though in reality that there isn't better games technically today than those games because there's tons of them. It's just hard to rank them over a game that pioneered and inspired all of those other games as they are evolutions of the stage that games like Half Life set.
That said, I doubt Valve even made much of a profit if any on Alyx but it does seem to have greatly inspired them internally by the positive feedback. I would bet the next game will be flat screen half life with VR support included so they can cash in.
