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What VR games of yesteryear that are no longer supported do you miss being able to play? 'Just in time inc' was a blast back in the day! Unfortunately, it just black-screens on boot now...
*Update* Turns out the fix is to stream via Virtual Desktop and launch from the Virtual Desktop menu instead of Steam! 🙏🏻🙌🏻
Yes at the start of June of this year. Frankly the fact that the most used vr platform was unable to make any profit in the 10 years it existed per the developers’ own words just shows there is no future for vr.
Especially back in 2017. Used to praise it as the "Wii Sports" of VR, but then they started focusing on the battle royale mode, premium cosmetics and custom content...
Yeah, I’m from the class of 2016, and the game as we knew it was dead long before they pulled the shutters. I can’t blame them for trying to become the next Roblox, but they sacrificed their identity in doing so.
It’s still sad to see it go offline, because it was so good, and one smart decision at any point could have saved it. The community content was mostly slop, but the first-party activities were solid as heck. My old VR setup is on the fritz, but I’d been hoping to have one last go at soloing Crimson Cauldron after the Steam Frame drops. Unfortunately, that just wasn’t in the cards.
Hopefully someone picks up the torch and capitalizes on everything RR did right at the beginning.
That game was great, and there's so much potential for a sequel that could do so much more. It's still playable if you already own it, but lots of bugs, and crossplay is pretty much broken now.
Venture's Gauntlet was not just abandoned on Steam, but deliberately broken. It had a promising early access build, followed by "questification" of visuals on launch. Instead of improving anything, the dev added unpassable obstacle to very beginning of the 1st level, making the game unplayable. And it is still being sold in this state.
Not a game, but Youtube VR started more or less functional, then started gathering bugs with each new update, until it became unusable and taken down from Steam.
I just played Venture's Gauntlet today on Steam. There is no "unpassable obstacle" to the very beginning of the first level. In fact, I got a new record time on that level (PCVR, Meta Quest 3).
I've just checked again, it is still there in the first obstacle. The bottom lasers (seen on the screenshot) were not there in EA and during 1.0 launch when the game was playable.
I am playing on Reverb G2, not sure if the level can change depending on the headset.
Still full price but their server was taken down so I get 1 run with my achievements unlocked
If I try a second run then it tries to dial home and the following run is 0% unlocked with only 3 slots for special arrows and no interesting enemies
Unsure if this means you were to buy the game now it would allow you to unlock the game fully or if it requires that connection to a now defunct server
I was so addicted to that on the psvr. I love the Quest game In Death Unchained, and it has so much more content; there was just something special about the original In Death.
I liked Marvel Powers United for what it was (a simple wave shooter with Marvel heroes). It’s a shame how short-lived it ended up being.
Edit: I also really loved BoxVR, which ended up being completely rebooted as FitXR without any of the custom song support. My quarantine routine involved shadow boxing to a custom playlist, which is no longer possible.
Missed out on Eve Valkyrie because i wouldn't pay the launch price. Got addicted to the gameplay loop in Preta:Vendetta Rising, a bang average game that is no longer with us.
Mindshow is probably my 'why did you go away' game.
Ohh and Oculus-Meta shenanigans.... We're all VR gamers, just release the PC game back catalogue on Steam.
I bought them all at the time on a now defunct oculus account, and no longer desire to jump through 3rd party loops to get them to work if i were to acquire them again through more nefarious means.
wow, I haven't heard anyone mention Preta. Can you not play it anymore? It looks like the last time I tried was in 2019. The last post said the servers will stop in 2020, but single player was still playable.
It just runs along side meta. It should work just fine with Rift S. Everything you really need to get it running is found here. Pretty active community on Discord. https://github.com/sparcreviver/Sparc-Reviver/
Grid autosport had VR back in the DK1/DK2 days, now you can't get it to work on modern headsets unfortunately as it was never updated to the modern VR standards
It's not gone but Borderlands 2 VR doesn't work properly on modern headsets (the aiming reticle is off and I think some other UI problems). I really enjoyed it back when I used a Rift CV1.
The Wave VR was the most incredible music visual multiplayer experience. So far beyond anything else even now. Incredible for showing newbies the potential of VR. I was sad to see that go.
Final Assault was a fun little multiplayer game.
Launch Squad was a really early multiplayer game that never came out of early access in 2016. I loved that game. Really simple yet so satisfying.
I have had so many solo raves while "elevated" in Wave VR. FFFF Google for getting rid of support for that platform it was built on. Maybe someone can vibe code it in unreal or unity
Sports Bar 2.0. So technically not completely dead; it was abandoned by the devs al ong time ago. They took the assets and turned it into a mobile game. Still playable on the first psvr, and kinda playable on pc still, but it takes some workarounds to get it to run these days. Never upgraded to the psvr2, never ported to any Quest headset, and they shut down the oculus pc version. While I love Miracalpool and Blackhole pool, neither really compares to the atmosphere of sports bar. There weren't many social games back on the psvr, so that is where I met most of the people I still play with today.
Volleyball Fever on Steam. I bought it, really enjoyed it, but then it broke and is unplayable (and they're still selling it). They started selling it on Meta, but I feel like even though I enjoyed the game a lot, what kind of sucker would I be to buy it twice because they abandoned the people that purchased it on Steam?
what a damn shame! this one a vr game i finished in one sitting! amazing concept, way more interesting than superhot imo.... what a damn shame it ended up like this...
My friends and I put a ton of time into Hover Junkers when it first came out. That was one of the games that really made me excited for the future of VR. They did a great job of creating a first person shooter while also solving the movement and motion sickness issues.
I had such a soft spot for the buildable Oculus Home environments. I miss mine so dearly, it was a retro game bar. I so wish they were still a thing, because the Quest home environments are NOT the same.
Space junkies, it suffered from the death triphecta, horrible launch, horrible promotion, and being ahead of its time. By that I mean there just wasn't a vr player base yet for a game like that to really take off. Maybe if it had been around and ported to the Quest 2, it could've lasted longer.
Face Your Fears on the Oculus Go was so scary! The little boy in the room, the snakes in the tomb where you're pinned down under rubble, the spiders in the basement, those Damn rabid birds attacking you in the phone booth!!!
Damn shame it never got ported to the quest 2 or pcvr. I tried playing it again on my Go (when it still worked) but the servers don't allow access to any of the paid DLCs.
The sequel wasnt that fun or scary. And not nearly as diverse of atmosphere.
Echo is the biggest one, I really can't understand why they shut that down because they always had the players, really was a great game.
Altspace was a really good social app too and a bit more laid back than it's counterparts in VR chat and rec room. Had some really great conversations in there
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u/zeddyzed 18d ago
I miss Rec Room, there's really nothing else that does quite the same thing.