The last game you completed, and rating.

Half Life Alyx on my Oculus Quest 2 linked (on max settings on an 3700X / 6800XT).

It's a very good game and paves the way for how VR and touch controls should be integrated into VR games. Shooting, reloading, walking etc all feel natural. The ability to accurately model water floating around in bottles is finally here! How many years of games have we watched water either not move at all or unrealistically "flow" when a character picks up a glass?

As an actual game, it's not quite as good as the hype makes out in my opinion. It's basically Sewer / Corridor Level: The Game and lacks environmental and colour variety; everything is brown, grey or black. It definitely has effective level and puzzle design but I wish a little more time was spent outside enjoying the vistas. The weapons are limited (by design to one hand) and the mods you can do to your weapons don't change the game that much.

It creates an immersive atmosphere with the the dark environments and the dialogue between Russell / Russ evolves over time, as does Alyx's confidence.

I just wish there was "more game", spatially.

8 or 9 out of 10 for the rating.
 
What VR kit are you using- I am trying to decide what to buy for myself, just to play this very game lol?

Doppleganger said:
Alien Isolation in VR using the MOTHER Mod -10/10

The most intense, most atmospheric, the scariest, gaming (hell, any) experience of my life. It's bad enough in pancake mode but in VR, the alien feels huge and deadly and you actually feel like you're in Sevastapool Station as it's gradually falling apart around you. The ambient sound effects as you hear the alien thumping around above you, or the alarms and sirens going off, along with the score that's scary and intense in its own right and echoes that of the 1st movie - all give you the willies and sweaty palms. What an experience and now that I've finished it, really struggling to get motivated to play any other game atm.

I think it might be my favourite game of all time, certainly up there with Lords of Midnight, Everquest, Bioshock 1 for me.
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doopydug said:
What VR kit are you using- I am trying to decide what to buy for myself, just to play this very game lol?
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In my sig, a Quest 2 with a link cable to my PC. My PC is too far from my network router to make wireless work. I mean it does work but due to lower bandwidth, the compromise in graphics quality wasn't worth it to me.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
The game ran like garbage on release, it had all sorts of issues that are now patched. I really enjoyed the Batmobile implementation on that play through but I can recall it being an FPS pounder previously.

I also think the visuals hold up really well for it's age.
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Ah cool. I think I'll install it, since it seems my kids are losing interest a bit in Valheim now since we keep needing to grind iron pretty much every evening.

Cheers.
 
Shadowrun Return - 8.5/10

Played the latter two years ago so returning to one I never played. As expected lacks the polish of the latter two, but still an absolute blast. The subsequent games are damm amazing, shame they flew under the radar of sorts as I would love to see further games.
 
Doppleganger said:
Alien Isolation in VR using the MOTHER Mod -10/10

The most intense, most atmospheric, the scariest, gaming (hell, any) experience of my life. It's bad enough in pancake mode but in VR, the alien feels huge and deadly and you actually feel like you're in Sevastapool Station as it's gradually falling apart around you. The ambient sound effects as you hear the alien thumping around above you, or the alarms and sirens going off, along with the score that's scary and intense in its own right and echoes that of the 1st movie - all give you the willies and sweaty palms. What an experience and now that I've finished it, really struggling to get motivated to play any other game atm.

I think it might be my favourite game of all time, certainly up there with Lords of Midnight, Everquest, Bioshock 1 for me.
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I have Alien: Isolation to play, and it's still un-launched as I'm not sure I can take it! The idea of playing it in VR is, frankly, terrifying.

Kudos to you for giving it a go, let alone finishing it!
 
doug_1986 said:
I have Alien: Isolation to play, and it's still un-launched as I'm not sure I can take it! The idea of playing it in VR is, frankly, terrifying.

Kudos to you for giving it a go, let alone finishing it!
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I think in "pancake" mode, the game is scary in the beginning when the alien shows up initially but then you eventually get used to it. In the medical facility for example, he shows up so many times that you eventually get the gist of it and it becomes a normal cat-mouse experience (imo).
Having said that, I think I will never try that in VR, I don't think I can take it. It must be a totally different experience, it would probably scare me even without an alien roaming around.
 
Finally finished doom eternal, took me a while to get into it, but when i did i enjoyed it very much, didnt find the pole jumping too annoying, and the combat and resource management is beautiful when your in full flow, a solid 8/10 from me, now onto the 2 part DLC
 
I just completed the expansion pack for Unreal (which I completed a year or two ago) Unreal: Return to Na Pali. 6h of late 90s shooting and it was a lot of fun as a palette cleanser after trying to get into big, lumbering modern games Witcher 3 and AC Ody.

Some enemies are BS in the way they dodge as you click shoot but it also had a pleasant soundtrack and the slightly open areas make it interesting to explore.

I'd say it's a 7/10
 
Subzero85 said:
Finally finished doom eternal, took me a while to get into it, but when i did i enjoyed it very much, didnt find the pole jumping too annoying, and the combat and resource management is beautiful when your in full flow, a solid 8/10 from me, now onto the 2 part DLC
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I'm playing it on and off. Found the Doom re-boot fantastic, but not feeling this one so much.
 
Black mesa - 8/10

Great remake which I picked up at some point for a tenner on sale . Really impressive homage to the original. Graphics and performance are great but a small number of areas did have performance got on my 5900x/3090. The xen levels did go on a bit too long but certainly much better than the original.
 
Rage 2 - 13/20

+Decent albeit not incredible graphics and performance. Very heavily GPU limited, I think you probably need RTX3070 or better to get it running at proper high frames.
+Game length feels about right, although I tended to complete all locations I found, I imagine you could rush the main campaign if you ignored all those. The way I played it, the pacing perhaps seemed a bit off, slow build up and then a rush to the finish line (I would estimate I spent about 80% of my time before entering Wellspring).
+Decent weapons and combat, although there were a few weapons and abilities I didn't unlock. Tended to use assault rifle most of the time, switching to shotgun for mutant sections and rocket launcher for bosses.
+Good amount of 'RPG-lite' customisation elements, in fact in the modern age it's a bit surprising it's got so many different facets (nanotrites, weapon upgrades, levels of nanos/weapons, vehicle upgrades, projects, crafting etc etc), you'd almost expect it to be dumbed down for modern gamers/consoles.

-Crashes if you disable vsync and you can't select 360fps or it sets 60fps. Statistics menu is greyed out. Just seems super-buggy on a technical level.
-Sometimes it's not clear what you need to do, for example on the dagger mission it just said "Complete tasks for this operative..." but there were no indicators of what tasks needed completing and talking to them didn't progress. Turned out I had to drive around a bit to get them to radio me (thanks google) but there's no indication of this.
-Before you unlock the trackers for Datapads they can be quite hard to spot, I had to spend ages backtracking on some levels to find them all. Kind of wish I hadn't bothered now, could have saved myself an hour or two.
-Vehicle handling is naff, which I wasn't too bothered about until I found there were race sections
-General Cross just seems like a typical cliched boss, pretty unforgettable, doesn't offer anything that hasn't been done a dozen times before in other shooters. In fact the same can be said for pretty much all the characters, it doesn't compare favourably with for example the recent Wolfenstein games or Borderlands series.

Overall it's the sort of game I was both happy to play through but also happy to see the back of, I haven't really got the motivation to sweep up the handful of missing locations and I won't be playing through it again.
 
Finally finished Grim Fandango again!

Got deep into the final year last year but forgot about it so decided to actually finish it, as good as ever and just reminded me of how amazing games used to be when I was a kid in story writing and really making you use your brain.

I struggle not to give it a 10/10, although there might be a heavy dose of nostalgia waiting in there :D
 
XIII (original 2003) 7/10

I got this free from gog. I never played it upon its release way back when It came out.

I really enjoyed it, loved the comic book theme and art style through out. Cliff hanger ended sucked though :(
 
crysis 2 on gamepass, its the most consoled console game I've ever played, its not good and not bad, generic and average in absolutely every way possible, 5/10, also the fov SUCKS and no fov slider is pure criminal
 
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. 8/10
Tried playing this when it came out on my old PC and didn't get into, partly cause the framerate wasn't great which made it not pleasant to play. Just finished it now and loved it! A few issues here and there which means it doesn't quite match up to the original or Deus Ex:HR for me, but overall it's full of really great environments to explore and unpick, and a good stealth systems and gadgets to play with. Would definitely recommend giving it a try if like me you let it pass you by originally. Also I finished it + all the side quests in ~30 hours which is nice, not too short, not too long.
 
I really want to play it, big Deus Ex fan, but I just can't get into it - they've still not fixed some of the mouse sensitivity/ADS scaling issues which make it unappealing for me to play and the menu/UI and gameplay mechanics when it comes to items and weapons, etc. needs a ton of work and just detracts too much from the experience for me.
 
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition 8/10

Finished this over the weekend after seeing its recommendarion in the Daily Deals thread. Fun gameplay with cheezy characters. Has a distinct Gears of War aesthetic probably because of the same developer i.e. People Can Fly. Surprised no sequel was announed for this even though the game is now a decade old.
 
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