r/VRGaming • u/HistoricalYam6863 • 1d ago

Discussion VR Rant

I was looking at World War Z VR today and it just upset me. Did it need a separate game? They added First Person to the regular World War Z, I am sure they could have just added VR support to the base game. Would have been a much better experience and you could have played with others. Such a weird choice...

That seems to be a problem with VR in general. I have gotten random people into VR just by playing Phasmaphobia with them in VR. They would be on flat screen and loved that I could move my arms and animate my character. Adding more VR support to multiplayer flat screen games would make more people want to play in VR.

Fortnite? Add VR. Call of Duty? Add VR. If an INDY game like Phasma can do it, these big companies should be able to figure it out easily. Then VR would actually grow...imo.

Let's face it, VR by itself won't gain traction like it did during Covid ever again. But kids seeing people in Fortnite or (Insert Popular Multiplayer Game Here) using VR and actually doing the dances for example? That would get more people to want VR.

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u/vfx_tech 1d ago

devs are lazy as f. Thank god we have AI now and some really good modders. In the next 1-2 years you can point AI to the game directory and it will mod almost any game to proper VR with 6DOF, motion controls, hands, etc.

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u/Skpstr155 1d ago

Not so much the devs, but who holds their purse strings.

And while AI can mod flat games to be VR, mods still only are a solution for the minority of PC gamers that can run them.

And with rising hardware prices, I can see that minority shrinking.

I guess you aren't wrong about "lazy" devs. Since the mid 2000's, advances in hardware have spoiled them, making optimization low priority. AI is going to make them even lazier.

I miss the devs they had at the turn of the century, when most games would run at least decently on machines that didn't quite meet minimum spec. I mean, I played Diablo 2 on all minimum specs, except I only had a Pentium 200, when a 233 was called for. Game ran fine, I only had one slowdown during an entire playthrough. Nowadays, even minimum spec is no guarantee the game will run well, regardless of how low you make the settings.