A realistic balanced view.
Considering your view is that you can't enjoy it, the games are rubbish and you won't use it because it's inferior, yeah, no. Your view is far from balanced.
It's just that you seem to think your view is THE right view and is therefore realistic and balanced.
I'll ask again, what is your aim here? Your original answer is dodging the question somewhat.
Are you trying to put people off getting into VR because
you don't think it's good enough?
If that's the case, then you and people like you are guilty of helping to bring about this doom that you're so adamant is happening.
EDIT: And before you claim that I just basically said that only positives are allowed, let me remind you that every time someone posts asking about what to buy, the advice they're given always mentions the up AND downsides of what's available, regardless of whether some posts are basically just gushing about how great it is.
People in this very conversation acknowledge those downsides too, including me.
Well you are wrong I am not dedicated to negatively. You’re the one that is suffering from confirmation bias big time. You should take a step back and look at your own posts and the way you react when people says things that go outside your bias. You keep belittling posts that fall outside your stance. It’s like you cannot accept people are not finding VR as amazing as you and so you are coming up with ways to write off those peoples posts even when they are valid or partly valid.
My posts are not about negativity but being realistic. I didn’t just start posting here because of Andys posts and Andys post on the whole is not wrong either.
No, your posts are nothing but negative and you did start this whole thing to agree with Andy, as your very first post in this particular conversation was to quote and agree with him "You're not alone" etc... Agreeing with him isn't the issue though. He's obviously entitled to his opinion, as are you.
It's just that you're only posting because he did, and like I said, misery loves company.
As said and explained, his opinion on certain aspects is premature - due to limited experience and knowledge - and perhaps a bit silly seeing as he'd already been disappointed with a brief go at a friend's and was then surprised again at being disappointed after buying his own.
I haven't dismissed and written off all of his or your criticisms and you know it.
Your idea of 'realistic and balanced' is questionable. It's your opinion that it's not 'good enough', just as it's Andy's subjective opinion that it's not worth the money.
Pretty much everyone else here would disagree based on their own positive experience, and most of us paid more than he did.
Who's right? You? Them? Both? Neither?
Views that fall outside my bias? What is my bias?
The way you carry on, it would appear that my stance is apparently "
VR is perfect OMG amazing and you can't say anything bad about it" etc, when the reality is that I've REPEATEDLY acknowledged that it's not perfect, it does have failings and that things could and will be improved, and that we are are having fun DESPITE that, because it can and does offer a great experience.
You either fail at reading comprehension if you think I can't accept other people's views on what could be improved, or you're just seeing what you want to see, especially if you think "I can't accept it if people don't think it's amazing as I do".
I suggest you take a step back and re-read what's been said, as you're dead wrong.
I find most of his points reasonable and balanced. Like Andy I find the on the whole the games that work well are the cockpit style games or the games where you act like a cockpit and don’t move from the spot. Like a lot of people I find once you start moving around on foot the games don’t really work or becoming gimmicky. I also find that once you have to move around you have to give up or go to a very simple interface which makes for simple dumbed down games which I do not enjoy. Sure some people like those moving around games but just as many if not more do not.
Now the cockpit style games with complicated interfaces. Sitting inside a Mech, as a bridge commander or in a car/spaceship is fantastic and is where VR excels for me. The wondering around, wavering my arms about with basic interfaces is not my idea of gaming for fun. Plus the early headsets are just not good enough yet and while you can have fun on those headsets many of us find the headsets are subtracting from the experience and fun we could be having.
So we're basically back to you complaining about it not meeting your standards again, although it is nice to hear that there are some things you actually do like after you've said "
we couldn’t be having a good time as the system isn’t able to provide us the positives even if we ignored the negatives.."
When you say moving around on foot, are you talking about full locomotion first person stuff, or are you talking about physically moving around the room? Can you give any examples of specific games?
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The fun we could be having"? What exactly are you comparing it to? Have you travelled to the future and played with their fancy VR headsets, or we back to imagining the perfect VR system that doesn't exist and complaining because the current ones aren't that?
It’s more the way you belittle what you see that isn’t in your view positive. It feels like we can only post positive hype or you have to attack the post.
Wrong.
So you can't quote any posts that support your accusation that I'm making unrealistic and overhyped claims.
Why? Because that never happened.
Again, your comprehension fails and it's your confirmation bias that's making you believe that only positives are allowed here.
If you feel like I'm attacking and belittling some of your posts and points, it's because a lot of what you're saying is laughable and perhaps it's you that has trouble accepting other opinions. It's honestly hard to not take the **** given the circumstances.
Just look at the other responses you're getting. Are they all wrong too? Oh wait, it's because they can't handle your balanced truth either, right?
It’s not my problem and it’s not my loss. I am not remotely like the guy in the cartoon but you are. You’re the guy in the first picture, the one that has the inferior play experience and lower level of fun. Which is fine if you are happy with that but stop acting like the rest of us should be. We are not losing out by waiting we are benefitting by waiting till the right moment. It’s the same principle as with the none VR games. Those of us that wait often end up with a better experience that is more fun.
You're not remotely like the guy who waits and complains, waits and complains? You're kidding yourself, as that's exactly what you're doing.
I'm having an inferior play experience and lower level of fun compared to what? The fantasy future VR you've invented in your head? Life's too short, mate. Have you been waiting and moaning about this since the 90's?
You're right about me being like the guy in the first pic, except that I'm the guy in
every picture having fun with each subsequent gen improvement, while guys like you find ways to complain about nothing being good enough and have no fun whatsoever.
If you're fine with waiting, then do it and stop bugging other people with negative BS and mental gymnastics.
If it makes you feel smarter and better for waiting for your ideal thing and whatever else, then good for you. I sincerely hope you find happiness in VR one day.
Put your question another way. Why should we accept an inferior play experience just because you are happy with that? You can rush, but I will go for the better overall experience.
I'm not saying you should. I never did
I'm saying it's a shame that you can't enjoy it right now. And like it or not, it is your loss for not being able to have fun as things stand, but that's too bad. If it isn't for you right now... Ok.
You can wait all you like, I don't care. I'm having fun right now and will do so up to and on to the better overall experience when it arrives - and the one after that.
What will you be doing apart from getting older and more miserable during that time while convincing yourself that it's not your problem, it's not your loss and is in fact a good thing because at least you won't be suffering all that inferiority while waiting for Christmas to come?
Accept it’s not, that’s you wrongly writing off his viewpoint. He didn’t just try one game, he didn't have a kneejerk reaction based on one briefly played game and the problem he described wasn’t because the game is misconfigured.
It was one game. I asked repeatedly what others in the first person genre he had tried and he declined to answer.
He specifically said he tried it for 20mins and was done.
Yes, there was a specific setting causing the blurriness he described. It's switched on by default IIRC.
Yes, he probably would've got motion sick anyway. Most of us do and learn to get past it.
His other isssues were regarding the VR implementation in that game, not VR itself, although it does seem that he took that brief experience as a be all end all example of first person VR gaming and then went on to state that it's only suited to seated games because of that experience. You'll find of plenty of people here that will disagree with that.
I honestly don't know what you're reading if you think none of that happened and I don't know why I've had to repeat it for something like the third time.
You say it's none of those things, but you neglect to say what it actually was.