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Holy shit PSVR is amazing

SRTtoZ

Member
If that blows you away you should try the PSVR2 lol. That thing is like 100x better than the first iteration. Also, get Moss 1 and 2. Thank me later. Also, sell everything and get a PS5 and PSVR2. I'm telling you that it will blow your head off. Not only is the PSVR2 one of the most comfortable headsets with great lenses, HDR, super smooth etc, but the custom PSVR2 controllers beat the shit out of the Move controllers. It's like going from an N64 controller to a DualSense. I know money doesn't grow on trees but what I'm saying is save your money and then sell everything and make the jump. It will be worth it!

EDIT: And I'll say it again. Anyone in this thread with a PSVR2, buy Moss 1 and 2. It's one of the best VR experiences I've ever had.
 
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T-0800

Member
I love my PSVR but I haven't used it in a long time. I think one of the reasons, as silly as it may sound, is because VR games can be too immersive. It's a whole other experience when you feel like that zombie over there is going to hurt you. Like camping it is very in tents.
 
I definitely would suggest checking Eagle Flight. While almost all VR games would perfectly work fine as flat games, even VR exclusives, this is imho one of the very very few games that practically only works with the headset due to the controls and breakneck speed needing precise controls no regular controller can give, not on that intuitive and instant level.

Also shout out to Rush of Blood which should have been a game with a ton of DLCs from every existing horror movie and game. Similar to pinball games having all sorts of themed tables. But probably an IP rights nightmare to make that happen.
 
If that blows you away you should try the PSVR2 lol. That thing is like 100x better than the first iteration. Also, get Moss 1 and 2. Thank me later. Also, sell everything and get a PS5 and PSVR2. I'm telling you that it will blow your head off. Not only is the PSVR2 one of the most comfortable headsets with great lenses, HDR, super smooth etc, but the custom PSVR2 controllers beat the shit out of the Move controllers. It's like going from an N64 controller to a DualSense. I know money doesn't grow on trees but what I'm saying is save your money and then sell everything and make the jump. It will be worth it!

EDIT: And I'll say it again. Anyone in this thread with a PSVR2, buy Moss 1 and 2. It's one of the best VR experiences I've ever had.
Price at a little too high at the moment for me… I liked Moss 1 but found it a little to childish.
 

buenoblue

Member
Jumped on the PSVR bandwagon (original for PS4 as I don’t have a ps5 yet) and holy shit visual blur aside the immersion is great!

Drive club vr
Ace combat
Astro bot
Thumper
Pinball fx

And err dead or alive fortune (for research purposes only obviously)!

Going to try resident evil soon.

Need to get a bigger hard drive for my PS4 now so I can get everything installed. Can’t wait to scare my gf shitless with resi evil!

Just giving Sony a shoutout, this along with remote play with my vita is giving me some of the best experiences ever.

I haven’t felt this way about a jump on gaming since playing Mario 64 came out!

Defiantly going to look into getting a VR headset for my pc!

What other games would you guys recommend that don’t require move controllers as I don’t have those?
I mean if you are gaming on 10 year old tech I guess anything would impress you lol. Probably be blown away by a recent iphone gaming.or GeForce now.

Oh and pornhat vr 🤪
 
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ResurrectedContrarian

Suffers with mild autism
Virtual reality replaced motion controls (wii, ps move, Kinect) for the most part.
That's one reason I keep wondering when Nintendo will jump back into VR. It feels like a natural fit for them in the long run, but they'll need the price of the tech to get enough that they can still make a per-unit profit, so I'm not sure when that point finally arrives.
 
It’s criminal that PSVR2 is not backwards compatible.
Sony really should have made some SW that made conversion to PSVR2 easier. More chances of getting free PS5 updates, though I wouldn't mind paying $5 for PS5 upgrades to the best PSVR games, like Astrobot and Blood and Truth.

@OP
I suggest trying Waltz of the Wizard. It's a pretty VR experience. Especially the greatly expanded PSVR2 version.
 
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Wonko_C

Member
This is how everyone feels when they try vr.....tell me how much you have played after a year lol
Playing since 2017 lol. Not everybody drops it.

From my side the fact that VR has been on the market for so much time being shocked with OG PSVR nowadays is almost a joke.

If OP went with “Holy shit VR is amazing” I would buy that but OG PSVR nowadays? Not so much
It shows very few people have actually put on a headset. Those people will be blown away the first time they use VR, it doesn't matter if it's a 7 years old headset or the latest, it's still a paradigm shift regardless.

Sadly, for some people the novelty of VR wears off fast. For me it took around 2 weeks and I was never back since.
Why is that? Not enough games appealing to you or some other reason?

Yep totally agree with that. I own both OG PSVR and an Oculus Quest 2 headset and I can’t recall last time I played with any of them.
Same question as above. I just can't understand why stop using it when I have a big chunk of VR games that I haven't played through yet.

I own a PSVR2, Meta Quest 2 hooked up to a high-end PC with a 4090, and an original PSVR1 and I play VR games daily and can't get enough of them.


I've been an avid VR gamer since 2016 and it's extremely difficulty or next to impossible to go back to certain genres of games that don't have VR (driving or flying games).


I love VR and maybe some people get tired of VR but myself and most of my friends are just as excited or even more excited for VR games than we are for regular pancake games.
I wish my RL friends got into VR, just one and it's on a tight rope. He already dropped it 6 months ago, and only now I pushed him into coming back for Dungeons of Eternity. (He loves games with loot and multiplayer)

Try Skyrim, it is really great. Some (a lot actually) locations are jaw dropping.
It puzzles me why companies don't invest more in VR. When the investmen is made and VR is done right, VR games surpass non VR games by a mile.
I don't get how come there isn't a Dead Space VR game by now. An aliens game would be great too.
What a waste...
In a just world Dead Space and The Last of Us games would be right there alongside Village and RE4 remake with full VR modes included.

I find OG PSVR is actually a great place to get your VR legs.

Because of camera tracking, most games makes you face forward and some are seated experiences too.

Thus teaches you not to try and walk about everywhere which I think helps combat sickness and just understanding VR in general.

Whenever I put someone fresh into my Rift S they either end up falling over or they end up twisted and confused. Even though you have full 360 movement it's still best to face one direction and use your controllers to move much like you would a regular game or a PSVR game.

OP you are in for a treat when you upgrade. It only gets better
With world wobbling and 60fps games reprojected to 120, PSVR is like "Intro to VR, hardest difficulty": If you stuck with it and developed your VR games through it, nothing else will faze you.

VR is the only thing i can't have that makes me jealous.

It's still too expensive for my broke ass :(
Two years ago I was on the same boat: No way to earn enough disposable income for a newer PC or even a new console. I would still be if I didn't get lucky and landed a stressful job with a less than ideal pay, but it's better than nothing. 2 years later here I am with a decent PC and a Quest 2. We just have to keep going no matter what life throws at us.

Where there's a will, there's a way. We're talking about the same company that shove entire PS2 into PS3 to insure backwards compatibility. Well, maybe not the same company, old Sony is nothing like the new Sony.



No joke. When I got my Oculus and put it on the first time my mind was blown. But after a couple of weeks I couldn't be even asked to get it out of the little box and onto my head. I guess it's just not for me.

Assetto Corsa in VR was cool!


Did you go back to flat racing games after that? I find I can't play them anymore. I was a huge fan of the Forza Horizon series but I just can't get into it, not when I have to get in front of a TV to play it.

I've had VR for a decade now going right back to the Kickstarter dev kit. I'm on like my 5th or 6th headset. But we all know most people just play it for a bit then it sits there 🤷‍♂️
And I wish I could understand why is that with most people and why very few of us stuck with it and swear by it like a cult. Are our brains wired different?

I mean if you are gaming on 10 year old tech I guess anything would impress you lol. Probably be blown away by a recent iphone gaming.or GeForce now.

Oh and pornhat vr 🤪
Like I said to a poster above, if it's your first time using the tech you will be blown away regardless. Imagine traveling back 20 years to the past and showing one dude an iphone 1 and secretly showing another dude an iphone 15, they would be equally shocked.
 

Romulus

Member
Yeah the whole "novelty wears off" is bullshit imo. It's a lack of games.
But VR keeps growing despite nowhere near the same level of games. That's a massive testament to the tech. Fads like 3dtv or kinect hit surges and died quickly, whereas VR went from 1 million sales per year to 10 million in 2 financial quarters at year 6. Kinect/3dtv were rotting in the grave by then. VR is just starting. The tech is moving fast too.

Smaller+leagues more power.

And the games are coming. Assassins Creed will likely smoke
 
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Heimdall_Xtreme

Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
If that blows you away you should try the PSVR2 lol. That thing is like 100x better than the first iteration. Also, get Moss 1 and 2. Thank me later. Also, sell everything and get a PS5 and PSVR2. I'm telling you that it will blow your head off. Not only is the PSVR2 one of the most comfortable headsets with great lenses, HDR, super smooth etc, but the custom PSVR2 controllers beat the shit out of the Move controllers. It's like going from an N64 controller to a DualSense. I know money doesn't grow on trees but what I'm saying is save your money and then sell everything and make the jump. It will be worth it!

EDIT: And I'll say it again. Anyone in this thread with a PSVR2, buy Moss 1 and 2. It's one of the best VR experiences I've ever had.
Mmmmmmm..... Mmmmmmm 🤔.

Honestly, the most significant evolution of PS VR 2 is the controls.

I have both, but I feel like it's the same system sometimes, the eye tracking is interesting at first... But it's just an addition.
 

Three

Member
I bought a VR2 last week and I also think it is amazing, thumper and GT7 are the highlights for it. Horizon is good also but I have to get used to it because it still gives me náusea, same as TWD Saints and sinners. Moss 1 is also great. Also, give it a try to Humanity which was on PS plus essential.
Wish I had the PS VR1 but now it is very expensive in My country.
Sony really need to do a better job porting the old stuff. Where are you from if you don't mind me asking?
 

buenoblue

Member
The main problem for me is just that VR is different from what I, and I think the industry expected. Before i got my oculus dev kit I was like wow imagine playing COD and Fifa and being in the game.

But I quickly realized that any intense movement, especially traversal just doesn't work well for most people. Though I've built my tolerance up greatly I just can't imagine playing COD or rocket league in VR for hours on end like I do normally.
 

Papa_Wisdom

Member
Nah VR is different. I went from seeing top tier non-vr graphics to low end VR and it still blew me away.
I think of it as like a rollercoaster that was built 10 years ago to one that was built yesterday. The newer one may have higher drops, more loops and go faster but to someone who hasn’t been on the older one yet it’s still going to be exciting even if the new one is objectively better.
 
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