pyroth309 said:
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 greatThat 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.
More than 1 mill now own Alyx - if 1 mill bought the game that may have paid (most of) the costs of making the game, as 1 mill sold would be $40 - 60 mill. And it all goes to Valve, they don't get to pay 30% to Steam 😉
The SteamSpy numbers include free copies to Index hardware owners, but 1 mill owners was a milestone achieved several months ago, the game may very well have sold 1 mill copies today.
Also Alyx is used to sell Indices, just like Oculus, MS and Sony make exclusive games to sell hardware - thus each Index kit sold may fund Alyx devs. So Alyx profit may be directly tied to Index sales.
I wonder just how many persons who'll buy Quest 2 to play Alyx, it's probably not a small number.
