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Valve released Alyx last year, which is really a masterpiece of a game up there with Half life and Portal, and is the only real AAA VR experience that exists. N
by nvarsj 5y ago
Valve released Alyx last year, which is really a masterpiece of a game up there with Half life and Portal, and is the only real AAA VR experience that exists. No other big studio would risk building such a VR game due to it still being considered a very niche market.
Yeah they release stuff sporadically, and by all accounts the internal organization is chaos. But that somehow manages to produce some of the best games of all time.
Let's not forget also that Valve has pushed Linux gaming more than anyone else.
- sli 5y agoAlyx very much feels like Valve's current Portal, where they're testing out some ideas they've developed before building out a truly expansive game. It wouldn't surprise me if HL3 eventually came out and was a VR experience built on top of Alyx the same way Portal 2 expanded Portal into a much larger game. The menu and method for selecting weapons in Alyx is ripe for some really intuitive gestures for multi-level radial menus, I would love to explore that myself if I can get back into gamedev one of these days. Weapon selection in classic Half-Life is organized by category, so two-motion gestures for selections seem like a logical step. You're right about the things that Valve excels at, I'm excited to see what they do with VR. It can always use big players in its corner.