Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation
What Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality developers are talking about
Walmart is currently offering several big-name video games on its website at reduced prices. Games include Just Cause 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Grand Theft Auto V on Xbox One and PS4.
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Despite featuring around 100 story missions, the real destination in Red Dead Redemption 2 is the journey you make for yourself in the Rockstar's open world, and the game is better for it.
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The full game map for Red Dead Redemption 2 has leaked via the official strategy guide. Several locations from the original Red Dead Redemption are included alongside new locations.
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As technology has progressed, open-world video games have grown increasingly bigger. What seems like a universal positive has shown problems preventing the genre from truly moving forward, however.
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If you plan on buying Red Dead Redemption 2 for PlayStation 4, you'll get access to a few different goodies ahead of your Xbox One friends. These include items for both the story mode and Red Dead Online.
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The latest gameplay video for Red Dead Redemption 2 shows off a huge number of side activities and missions, including bounties, train robberies, duels, dancing, fishing, gambling, and more.
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The VR adaptation of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is brilliant. Ninja Theory took one of the best, most atmospheric, and excellent games to release this entire console generation and managed to cram it all inside of PC VR headsets to give it a new lease on life. We’ve seen third-person VR games work before (Lucky’s Tale, Moss, and Edge of Nowhere all stand out) but never anything quite on this scale before.
After playing Hellblade VR, I’m convinced that there is a market for re-purposing third-person non-VR games for VR devices when done right. As a result, I’ve put together this short list of third-person non-VR games that I would absolutely love to re-experience through the lenses of a VR headset.
This list is far from exhaustive though — let me know your votes down in the comments below!
As soon as the God of War reboot released, it was immediately lauded as one of the greatest games of all-time and perhaps the best of the PS4’s entire, massive library. Not only does it feature a gameplay style strikingly similar to Hellblade, but God of War was actually a PSVR tech demo once upon a time.
We can dream, right? Teases like this aren’t enough.
This is probably the biggest longshot on this list, but it’s fun to think about. Middle-earth is one of the few fantasy properties out there that hasn’t really gotten the VR treatment yet and both Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War are exciting third-person action games with massive, sprawling landscapes.
It’d be a real treat to play these inside of a VR headset.
We know that CD Projekt RED is hard at work on Cyberpunk 2077, but if they were going to bring one of their properties to VR, then The Witcher 3 would be the right way to do it. In fact, CD Projekt RED has shown interest in VR as recently as last year.
This would be an excellent rival to Skyrim VR for the VR RPG crown.
If VR can work in platformers like Lucky’s Tale, Moss, and Astro Bot, and Insomniac already has three VR games under their belt with a fourth on the way, then I see no reason why Ratchet & Clank shouldn’t be a totally natural fit for the medium.
This feels like a no-brainer. Come on, already!
Rocksteady claims to have moved on from Batman, but after playing the Batman Arkham VR experience I’m left with nothing but questions. Namely: how do you release a Batman VR game that doesn’t let me fight crime, explore the city, drive the batmobile, or do anything at all other than investigate crime scenes?
They dipped the tip of their toe into VR already, so it’s time they dive all the way in and give us a real Batman game in VR.
Yet another example of a developer experimenting with a tease of VR support by the way of Rise of the Tomb Raider and a movie tie-in app, but not fully committing to a full game. With Shadow of the Tomb Raider due out soon, this would be the perfect time.
Lara is an icon of the game industry and we should be able to experience her adventures from inside a VR headset for sure by now.
Ubisoft has positioned themselves as one of the top publishers of VR content in the market right now. Between Eagle Flight, Werewolves Within, and Star Trek: Bridge Crew, with Transference and Space Junkies coming soon, they’re got a great track record.
We saw a brief Assassin’s Creed location-based VR demo at E3, but it was barely a game. We want to really dive into a full adventure.
As a big surprise last year, Rockstar delivered LA Noire: The VR Case Files and totally caught us off guard. It was a great implementation of the game’s mechanics that featured a huge chunk of content and the entire city to explore. Even if we don’t get a full Read Dead VR experience, something on that scale at least would be amazing.
I just want to be a cowboy.
Naughty Dog is absolutely, without a doubt, one of the best game developers in the business right now. From Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter to Uncharted and The Last of Us, virtually everything they touch turns to gold. I am desperate to see what a studio like that could do in the VR space.
Even if it’s just a straight port, it’d be amazing to see one of these adventures inside a VR HMD. In the meantime, we just have to wait to see what former Naughty Dog developer Amy Hennig is up to…
Look, Capcom: I’m begging you. I know you said that Resident Evil 2’s Remake doesn’t have VR support in the plans, but please reconsider. Resident Evil 7 is, to this date, the scariest VR game I’ve played and one of the best VR games out there, period. I’d love to try RE2 as well, even if it’s in third person.
Do the right thing and bring Resident Evil 2 to VR!
From Software is currently working on a PSVR-exclusive interactive adventure game that takes the studio back to its pre-Dark Souls roots, but that doesn’t mean they can’t bring Dark Souls up to speed with VR support as well.
In fact, a Dark Souls 3 producer even teased that they want to bring the series to VR! It’s been almost two years since that day…where is it, From Software? Huh?
Once again: this feels like a no-brainer. Insomniac has a ton of VR experience already and Spider-Man is the perfect superhero to play as in VR. It works for Marvel Powers United VR and it could work for Insomniac as well.
I really, really want to swing around New York as Spider-Man.
Finally, most of the games on this list are slow-paced, atmospheric, methodical action games with a sprinkling of more intense affairs, but we’re missing a great big-budget shooter. That’s where The Division could fill a void.
As another Ubisoft title the studio has the framework and experience in place, so just show us the money already!
What do you think of our list? Do you have any other favorite third-person video games you’d love to try again inside a VR headset? Let us know down in the comments below!
Tagged with: assassin's creed, Batman, dark souls, god of war, hellblade, ratchet and clank, Red Dead, Tomb Raider, Uncharted
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Grand Theft Auto Online players are concerned that an upcoming flying vehicle could ruin free-roaming mode for the other players. The vehicle sports missiles, countermeasures, and machine guns.
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Rockstar released the third official trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 on Wednesday, May 2, giving fans another taste of the long-awaited sequel. The game launches in October for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 was recently delayed until October 26, and a new information leak suggests it's even more ambitious than we thought. The game will initially release on Xbox One and PS4.
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