Yeah, I've got Ring Fit Adventure. I've not played it much myself (dodgy back) but my boy absolutely loves it and has played it literally every day throughout lockdown. It's really, really good and can be a very tough workout if that's what you want.
Anyone here have Ring Fit Adventure? apologies if it's been posted in an earlier PWB thread. Saw someone on my Friends List playing it and it reminded me it exists, I want it but it's quite pricey.
Yep. It's fantastic, and feels like a genuine workout, unlike Wii Fit, but of course it's difficult to get hold of and expensive at the moment. Worth it if you can find it for RRP, but don't pay the scalper prices.
Half Life: Alyx
I'm finally going in. I'm about an hour or so into it so far. I've almost shat myself only three times and I'm not sure I even have the courage to enter the next area.
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Same here. It's astonishingly good, isn't it? There's loads of little extra touches that I love. For example, I found a traffic cone early on, and of course decided to check if it would make a servicable hat. It did! So I wandered around the rest of that section with a cone on my head. Ilweran used some pens to write "The cake is a lie" on a wall. I'm finding that just the internal spaces and corridors are frightening. Things like the barnacles are terrifying, because they're so much more real in VR than on a screen. Also, the ability to play it wirelessly on the Quest is a complete game-changer. I can't imagine how rubbish wired VR must be in comparison.
I honestly think my brain would shut down if I saw a headcrab in VR. You're braver men than me.
Anyone here have Ring Fit Adventure? apologies if it's been posted in an earlier PWB thread. Saw someone on my Friends List playing it and it reminded me it exists, I want it but it's quite pricey.
Yep. It's fantastic, and feels like a genuine workout, unlike Wii Fit, but of course it's difficult to get hold of and expensive at the moment. Worth it if you can find it for RRP, but don't pay the scalper prices.
COUGH NINTENDO DISCOUNT COUGH.*
(plus postage, of course)
€59,70. So that's, what, just under £50 before postage?
That's a fantastic price for Ring Fit, I'd go for that if I were you, Al. Remember when playing it that the object of it is to get fit, not game the whole thing to complete areas in the most efficient way, and with the least effort. It's quite easy to forget that.
I honestly think my brain would shut down if I saw a headcrab in VR. You're braver men than me.
I've only seen one so far, and it was in a fridge with "DO NOT EAT" written on it. I don't like looking at the corpses of zombies, never mind anything else. Very early on I entered a corridor and there was a full black plastic bag on the floor. It took me a while to get past it because I was very suspicious of it. The advantage in VR is that you can creep up on things and physically poke them, so I did that. The big combine walkers are terrifying because they're right THERE and so HUGE. One walked past me and I just completely froze. Couldn't even run Alyx away. In fact, I nearly physically ran away, which would of course have resulted in me running into a wall. Also, there was a point when a door opened and there were combine forces on the other side and I instinctively surrendered immediately.
It is at least teaching me how useful I'd actually be in a real-life videogame-type situation.
Remember when playing it that the object of it is to get fit, not game the whole thing to complete areas in the most efficient way, and with the least effort. It's quite easy to forget that.
/looks at how Al plays all other games
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That's a fantastic price for Ring Fit, I'd go for that if I were you, Al. Remember when playing it that the object of it is to get fit, not game the whole thing to complete areas in the most efficient way, and with the least effort. It's quite easy to forget that.
I honestly think my brain would shut down if I saw a headcrab in VR. You're braver men than me.
I've only seen one so far, and it was in a fridge with "DO NOT EAT" written on it. I don't like looking at the corpses of zombies, never mind anything else. Very early on I entered a corridor and there was a full black plastic bag on the floor. It took me a while to get past it because I was very suspicious of it. The advantage in VR is that you can creep up on things and physically poke them, so I did that. The big combine walkers are terrifying because they're right THERE and so HUGE. One walked past me and I just completely froze. Couldn't even run Alyx away. In fact, I nearly physically ran away, which would of course have resulted in me running into a wall. Also, there was a point when a door opened and there were combine forces on the other side and I instinctively surrendered immediately.
It is at least teaching me how useful I'd actually be in a real-life videogame-type situation.
As I said in the other PWB thread, it's the doors that get me. They're so utterly doory. When you add the roomscale in and general feel of it, I do think it's a very close approximation of how you might react to these events in real life, rather than the more jump scare orientated stuff like RE7 or the horror rollercoaster thing on PSVR. Random bags, or headcrabs in cages make me react more like a real person would than a horror film trope where you can imagine some poor goon putting his head right into a random bucket and getting eaten. My only real concern is that the more videogame-like aspects of it sometimes break the deep immersion. I guess it has to have them in, but I'd feel I'd have got my money's worth just wandering through the environments feeling vaguely worried all the time, rather than having to have VIDEOGAME PUZZLE TYPE A and ENEMY SHOOTING ENCOUNTER B stapled over the top.
Also big shout out to the "Low" detail vs "High" detail modes that look practically alike. And the Low looks stunning.
Can you imagine if @Alastor actually decided to dedicate his gaming prowess to getting fit and treated his body the same way as Xenoblade Chronicles. He'd make The Rock look like Peewee Herman within a month.
I wish that was true! I'd love to get ripped playing videgames! That's quite a stretch from my current self who runs out of breath very easily now though T_T. And I'll think about that price for sure! Can't wait for it to be another 'Wii Sports' and my…entire family hijacks it.
I never had Wii Fit but I think that fact that it existed and with that stepping board was something else.