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Bought I Expect You To Die in the Easter sale. It's very good fun, but slightly shorter than I expected. The missions are also such that once you've worked out the correct sequence of actions there's not a lot of replay value.

Played RIGS a bit, twas ok, but had to constantly resist the urge to complain about being too old for this shit.

After playing a load more this afternoon I think Wipeout in VR is the best PSVR experience and the best Wipeout too.

It's pretty brilliant.

Don't try it in pilot mode, though.

Yeah the Dirt Rally equivalent of that really fucked me up, although I only had weedy little VR legs back then. I'm a fucking VR beefcake these days so I'll try it later.

There needs to be more VR racing games. It's pretty much the perfect use case.

I tried it and for me it was absolutely fine, even after an hour and a half. Definitely be keeping it set like that. I did try the default again but it didn't feel nearly as immersive. This just feels like how it's meant to be, it feels like Wipeout was always meant to be like this. Honestly can't imagine playing it on a flat screen now.

GT Sport finally gave their VR mode a tiny bit of love in the form of time trials. Obviously full races and mutiplayer would be better but even this small improvement has made it so much better. Between this is Wipeout I just can't get enough of PSVR at the moment.

More Wipeout, beyond the limit of my abilities on this zone run, and a couple of lucky wins:


Obviously 2D footage can't really get any of this across but it's no exaggeration to say that this is the most intense, memorable gaming experience I've had in decades. When I first got onto that Sol track I was grinning like a fucking loon.

If this isn't my personal game of the year then I can't wait to play the thing that is.

I dunno, I'm watching this in 2D and feeling pretty nauseous. Admittedly I've never tried 3D. But it feels plenty intense enough for me from here, thankyouverymuch.

In a way it's like taking LSD only you don't feel as though you might just lose all of your marbles.

The last time I took anything like that I became convinced I was dancing with a semi-naked Reg Holdsworth from The Bill (I don't think I was).

If there's one thing that those drugs can teach you it's the subjective nature of reality. So in a way you really were.

Reg Holdsworth was in Coronation Street.

You must have been fucked.

Who hasn't been on a bender where your mind has attempted an ambitious ITV crossover.

Reg Hollis is the chap I mean.

NOTHING IN MY FORTY YEARS UPON THIS EARTH HAS EVEN 1% PREPARED ME FOR THE FIRST “WALLRIDE” IN TRACKMANIA TURBO VR

NOTHING

I got a bit sick going down a slide in rec room!

Also I bought star trek.

PSA: A demo for Wipeout has just been released.

Gave Wipeout VR a go yesterday and it's surprisingly--and impressively--not even slightly vomit-inducing. They've accomplished this with the trick of having the actual cockpit you sit in being able to move independently of the chassis so even when your hovercraft is twisting all over the place your 'seat' stays level and you just see everything else move around you. It's an approach that never even occurred to me but it's very effective. I still think it should do the actual full revolution whenever you trigger a barrel roll just for shits and giggles.

It's good for getting used to it but the immersion ramps up significantly once you put it in the proper mode.

What does the 'proper' mode involve? I've had a look at a load of videos on YouTube and they all look exactly as what I experienced.

Actually, I just found a video of the 'pilot' camera mode. Ahahahahaha! That's batshit! I've got a mate that loves VR but doesn't handle it all that well, I can't wait to give him that experience.

I find it totally comfortable even in pilot mode. Dirt Rally has a similar mode but that really does make me ill. I think the key difference is that Wipeout has a bit of "give" so not all the ship movements come through directly and so it feels far more natural, in Dirt Rally if you choose that mode then it's like your eyes are absolutely fixed in a point in space relative to the car interior and it's just a horrifying experience.

Anyway give it a try it really does make you feel far more like you're in there and it might not even make you sick.

Not much in the way of detail as yet but From Software (of Dark Souls/Bloodborne fame) are making a PSVR game called Deracine:

https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/11/fro ... n-vr-game/

But will you finish it? *trollface*

Oooh lots of starter bundles at £199 now.

Negotiations with Mrs Z this evening:

https://www.game.co.uk/en/playstation-v ... tv-2395682?

Blimey, that's a good deal!

I’ve been playing Fruity Shooty.

The scenario is great. You work as a checkout operative at Lidl who has to scan customers items like the mindless drone that you are. However, for some reason which I’m hoping will become apparent as the story progresses, you are attacked by sentient fruit determined to destroy your checkout. Fortunately Lidl has installed a rail for the convenience of operatives that delivers an endless supply of assorted guns to dispatch the fruity horde. I know, just like a Grisham novel isn’t it.

It kinda sounds like it could be an Atari 2600 game.

Anyway, scan items and shoot fruit until bored. I was going to play for 10 minutes but dumped an hour into it last night. VR is stupid fun init.

They're making Rescue Robots into a full game! All the fucking hype yo!!

Are we close to £150 yet? Do I need a ps4 pro?

£150ish second hand, £250ish new. Works on a normal PS4, you don't need a pro.

It’s prime day on Amazon from midday next Monday. There might be some deals, though it’s usually a load of tat

Got a setup from CEX for £200 (they are notoriously expensive though obviously) thought it was cool didn't play it much though cause it's lots of faffin to get it out.

Eh; you plug two cables side-by-side into a box and you're done. I mean everybody's got a different barrier for faff levels of course, but one of the thing I appreciate about the PSVR is how quick and easy it is to get it going compared to how bad it might have been.

ETA: unless you've got a v1 headset and an HDR TV, then I'd totally get it.

Nah got the V2, by faff I mean I have to stand up, go over to the TV stand and pick up the VR then put it on then go and sit down.

I'm just lazy, if I had a headset stand next to my seat I'd probably use it way more.

(I did have a lot of issues setting it up because there was a fucking HDMI cable down the back of the tele that I THOUGHT had been unplugged from the PS4 (as it was threaded through everything as an in use cable is) but ended up 20 mins later not being plugged into the feckin TV after all.)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlayStati ... NA_NA&th=1

£230 for the headset, camera and some move controllers. Doesn't seem like a terrible deal.
Depends on how much you need the move controllers?

You don't need them, but they certainly add to the immersion.

You do need them: There are VR games that require the move controllers.

But there are some that don't.

I would strongly recommend getting them, obviously, but if you wanted to try it out you could do so.

My most 'ARGH, VR IS TERRIFYING' experience was enhanced by not supporting the move controllers, in fact

True. But all my most compelling VR gaming was done with Moves. I think it’s OK to get it without them, but be prepared that if it clicks with you you’re likely going to be buying Move as well soon after. And if there’s an upfront bundle for a good price, I’d get suggest picking them up.

I'd imagine without move controllers, you can't superhot correctly. Which seems like a daft thing to do.

Yeah it depends what you're into, Superhot is honestly the only game I've not played because I don't have them so I still haven't got around to picking any up as so far I would be paying £60 for one game. I like driving and flying games quite a bit so for me Wipeout is the best PSVR game followed by Ultrawings and neither of those need them (although Ultrawings can use them I always find motion controls for driving/flying to be utter gash because you can't physically feel the extents or the centre).

For that price though you'd be daft not to.

It is time to be binary about stuff. You of all people know this. In every way imaginable, if you do anything buy it with the technodicks.
The time to be measured about anything you feel assured about is over, for now.

This is an odd thread for Snappa to unveil his new 'do or die' approach to life.

Nice PSVR bundle for 200 notes at game:

https://www.game.co.uk/en/psvr-with-cam ... tv-2493825

New PSVR shooter that's apparently basically a Rainbow 6 game. Uses the Aim controller and is very, very good by all accounts:

https://www.eurogamer.net/amp/2018-08-0 ... station-vr

I played The Persistence this afternoon. It's good fun.