klargon

Still coming out, ain’t it? I played it at EGX last year. Wasn’t overly sold, to be honest. Mind you, the tracking in the NEC was horrendous.

I had to play through Otogi back when I was a tester to capture some reference material for future development. I had a miserable time with it; devoid of any enjoyment. It doesn’t help when you feel under time pressure due to being paid for it, but I just found it unforgivingly tough at times. Too hard for me - if I didn’t have to finish it for my job, there’s no way I’d have stuck with it.

Nope

I don’t normally care about trophies, but I was so close to the platinum at the end that I figured I might as well just clean up the last few. Excellent game. Definitely the best ‘full-fat’ title I’ve played in VR. Real attention to detail to push it from good to great. Even the challenge levels don’t feel tacked on.

You can re-do the boss battle in the challenge asteroid belt thingy.

I found the same - it seems to hit a fairly abrupt end. Not sure I’d want any more events though. FH3 felt like a right chore. Just a bit weird not having a proper conclusion if you’re only bothered about single player.

If you want the best output, something like the gefen scaler will upscale and output dvi/hdmi. Not a cheap option, though.

Some of the Japan-only NGPC games are worth a bit and can be pretty cheap, with the added bonus of them being small. I found WonderSwan stuff to be interesting. Nothing worth a load of money, but quite widely available and cheap.

I have no idea what the online thing was that I just took part in. Apologies for my silence - I don’t play multiplayer so have no mic. I didn’t even have game audio as I was listening to the footy. Quite tough using manual gears with no audio!

Couldn’t you do that in 3, only it wasn’t free? It’s still a faff though - I almost always want to return to driving the previous car. The Crew 2 can switch vehicles near-instantaneously - would be great to have the same in Forza for favourite vehicles.

It’s a shame they still haven’t figured out that I want to be driving the car I drove to get to the event after the event, not whatever shite it made me use for the event.

Astro Bot from Monster-shop arrived today (first class, despite them saying 48 hours), so they get a thumbs-up from me.

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/dirt-rally-20-has-no-vr-support-planned

Played some Tetris Effect and Blood & Truth at EGX today. Tetris is an odd one - it really didn’t feel like it benefitted from being in VR. There’s definitely some Lumines in there with the way the music is integrated. I’m shit at Tetris, but it felt like standard Tetris with the addition of a piece-switching function (swap the current piece for one you ‘banked’ earlier) and the Zone thingy to retain line clears over a certain time period. Blood and Truth felt like a routine cover shooter, but I didn’t really get to play much. Tracking was bloody terrible in the NEC, probably due to the lighting. Gunplay and reloading felt fine, although the aiming with the pistol did feel a little off. Not sold on it yet, but I assume there’s a bit more variety in the final game. Most popular game there was Beat Saber. Astrobot seemed to be the least popular.

On the Ubi forums some people have success with deleting the save and then disabling their network connection after launching the game. Some have also had success with removing and re-downloading the game. Both are more effort than I’m willing to put in, so it’s gone. Hopefully the public beta will be more stable.