has anyone on here played this?
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i am not feeling this premise or the likely practical reality of watching the hot child anime do block puzzles or whatever but those credits are making me raise my eyebrows and then
this fucking giant vitamix being part of your death defying moe ordeal is making me lower and raise them over and over
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to be clear i was mostly posting it because of the credits lol
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I actually stumbled on this myself a few days ago on the Playstation Store and also was intrigued mainly by the staff involved and tone of the trailer. Looked like they had a kickstarter solely for it’s marketing costs. I’m waiting on a sale to pick it up though.
Someone should port Lifeline to VR.
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the fucked up sense of scale and the visual disconnect between the environments and the girl are some serious Grotesque Games candidacy material
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It’s cellphone The Room except moe as directed by Ico people
Well it’s official I need a PSVR
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SAW meets ICO is an insane pitch
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i’ll buy it for their forty dollar asking price if the “foreign language” the girl mysteriously speaks is just japanese
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one more week of quarantine and i’m sure i’ll own this and be posting 5000 words about how it’s perfect
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I only watched the trailers because everyone said the credits but holyshit those credits.
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I had no idea hiroki kikuta was still working in games at all lol
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Seen this before but it is a highly accurate simulation of historical european medieval combat
Last Labyrinth’s concept is way more bizarre than the trailer let on.
Anyway, I never played it but I assume this is pretty much like The Last Guardian. You’ve got an AI assistant you’re trying to point at to do work, so there’s a lot of waiting for the little girl to walk to objects you point to, she points at the thing and speaks Ico-lish, you nod yes, and then she does the thing. Repeat this for half of the intractable objects in a standard adventure game puzzle. For things I guess you’ll interact with a ton she’ll skip the confirmation nod, but there’s still the walking around and movement animations for everything.
It just takes a while for her to do the interaction you want, and if you’re just trying to solve a puzzle it takes longer to tinker with things than you’d want.
If you screw up you get to watch her die and then yourself. No blood and I don’t think she really screamed much, so it’s not super visceral or anything. But it’s still a little kid being crushed by spinning spike pillars.
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this is so fucking perverse and sounds miserable to play. amazing
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A lot of VR stuff reminds me of early 3D games, in the best way
I’ve been playing a lot of Dream Match Tennis, which I thought would be weird, but is actually really fun and does feel tennis-y. and a lot of Beat Saber. the Expert levels are incredible. and exhausting.
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Hey guys, so I’m really itching to get my hands on some VR but there’s no way in a billion fucking years I can afford a full-featured stand-alone headset. However, after having a chat with a friend which started out as a casual joke bit, I ended up coming across some interesting resources and links?
Firstly, there’s this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/992490/iVRy_Driver_for_SteamVR/
It’s a driver which claims to let you use a Mobile-based VR setup with steam, and says its well integrated. The free version starts to de-saturate the colors after 5 minutes (lmao what a limitation) but the paid version for mobile is only 8 bucks.
Then you have a whole slew of VR setups designed to house your mobile device, and I guess it hooks into the device’s gyroscope?
https://www.newegg.com/VR-Headsets/SubCategory/ID-3629?name=VR-Headsets&Tid=241616&Order=PRICE
These run anywhere from 15 to ~60 bucks. But most of them don’t seem to have wands, or at least proper ones. And I feel like that’d be pretty necessary for a worthwhile VR gaming experience. But it’s also entirely possible that Newegg just doesn’t have a good selection, and there might be more full-featured models out there? I just don’t know where to look.
I also don’t know whether this is a pointless endeavor and I should give up now. I definitely don’t want to spend ~$100 and then find out shit doesn’t work, or the experience is so crippled that I can’t even enjoy it.
Any input from you fine fellows?
I tried to set up my phone with one of those plasticky headsets and streaming video from my PC and let me tell you: it was pretty bad. BUT I also had a bad router at the time, so that might have been the issue. Plus that software looks pretty legit - I was using some hacked together solution.
I think it could be okay but not great since the main thing you’d be missing are the controllers. Most VR games are highly dependent on using the controllers as hands in Virtual Space, so would be limited to games that you can play with a regular controller which…I think are very few.
On the other hand, you could play Virtual Boy games?? Maybe???
And maybe VR Dolphin???
But yeah honestly, I would buy the cheapest plasticky headset and the driver thing, so like…spend <$30. I think that’s what it’s worth.
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Alrighties, yea, the controllers are kind of key. I don’t think I’d even bother with this if I couldn’t find a setup that had them, even if they were chintzy. Was hoping that someone might know for a fact there are some cheap mobile-based headsets out there that come with a pair of wands.
Edit: Although I guess Elite Dangerous?? But then I’d need to shell out money for a real flight stick and throttle pair, which defeats the purpose of this endeavor.