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Devs afraid of creating a "murder simulator"?

MowTin
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Have you noticed that a lot of games in VR involve shooting robots or zombies? 

It seems they're afraid of backlash if killing people is too realistic. But it's still a game. We want the full "murder simulator." We're big boys. We can handle it. 

Here is what the devs said regarding Bullet Train / Robo Recall:

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/6/13185892/robo-recall-epic-games-oculus-rift-touch

The other struggle was balancing the fact that the game included a lot of violence that shouldn’t feel wrong to the player. They struggled with that during production.

"It was hard to make sure the game was fun but not a murder simulation," Jerome Platteaux, the game’s art director told Polygon. "So we made sure it’s colorful, it’s fun, it’s arcadey so people feel good coming back and not feeling like killing people again and again. That was one of the big pillars we had."

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kojack
MVP
MVP
A VR edition of JFK Reloaded? 🙂

Or Close Range?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYQhvW-tjNM


leo1954au said:

or even a good adventure game like what I'm playing now when I'm not on my rift Tex Murphy Telsa Affect 


YES! A Tex Murphy game would be perfect for VR! Well, if they improved the assets a bit, Tesla Effect had some very low poly models when walking around outside.





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danknugz
Superstar
my vote goes to under a killing moon Vr remaster!!
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MowTin
Expert Trustee
I want to see Left 4 Dead in VR. 
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Imeleon
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n3cr0-0 said:

I am loving the shooting games (dead and buried, arizona sunshine) and there is a myriad of games that I would like to see for instance FIGHT NIGHT! < no im not really into the sports games but fight night would be slick.

I cant wait to see what this next year pumps out in the shooters because this is still really fresh and the devs seem to be getting it right. that is all for my two cents


If you want boxing 'The thrill of the fight' is only £7 on steam. 
Rough n ready, but it's actual boxing. 

The_Hardboiled_
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I would love to see more mature rated content in a real setting. A GTA game would be a good fit for VR if done well. I imagine there would be more emphasis on the driving than gunplay, though. Especially if the game were in first person. 

Amphetamine
Adventurer
Isn't The Works of Mercy already in production? Being forced into killing people sure sounds like a murder simulator to me.