I appreciate your insight. I also appreciate you confirming my suspicions: that VR, even today’s VR, isn’t much more than a novelty that I would very likely get bored of after 6 to 9 months, especially after investing a tremendous amount of money into it. FOMO gone

I’m in my late 40s as well, so I grew up with such VR promises as you did, and I very much doubt that today’s reality could possibly live up to the promises of the aforementioned yesteryear. Not that I wanna become the Lawnmower Man anyway. Also, FWIW, I’m very glad that I can still achieve the requisite amount of immersion by simply staring at my screen. Atmos-enabled headphones help, I will admit. No special goggles required.

Edit: btw, I only just got cyberpunk 2077 during this year’s summer sale on Steam, and I just spent 135 hours on my first play through, and now I’m starting my second play through. It’s the best game I’ve ever played since fallout 4 (my previously favorite game, and I just don’t understand why anyone hate fallout 4. I have over 20,000 hours on that game.) my settlements were built into cities-- to the point where the game engine couldn't handle generating any more NPCs to populate them, so even loading the area just cause content crashes, regardless of how much RAM I had in my machine.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Even though the headset collects dust now, I'd be willing to pay for way more than what I paid to have those 6 months back for the first time again.

I loved Fallout 4 too (started with the first Fallout, played them all), and being able to play Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Cyberpunk in VR is indescribably awesome. Fallout 4 becomes like a horror game. Imagine all the times you're under ground or in some dark tunnels/buildings without working power, including waking up right after the prologue. It's pitch black with a head mounted flashlight you can enable by reaching up to the top of your head. Walking through that is so insanely different from playing the game normally, it was an absolute blast. And while you can mod in full VR motion controls, by default the game has you using the thumbsticks like normal.

Using the Jetpack armor to fly into the air, sneaking around groups, even pulling out a gun and ending Mama Murphy's bullshit (motion controls on that one for sure) is so much more amazing from a view of actually being inside the game. I probably spent 300 hours in that. Way worth the price of a Quest 3.

My PC only has a 4060, so Cyberpunk runs like trash trying to push a VR resolution, but FO4 played perfectly.

[–] bklyn@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I loved Fallout 4 too (started with the first Fallout, played them all), and being able to play Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Cyberpunk in VR is indescribably awesome.

look... It's not that I don't wanna experience Cyberpunk in VR-- it's just that... well, I'm afraid that if I cum too hard in VR, that I'll never be able to cum again (metaphorically speaking). And Cyberpunk 2077 is just... such and amazing game... the first game I've played since Fallout 4 that has even come close to "tickling my pickle* _that I would never risk... that.

What I loved more than anything about Fallout 4, is that you (the Survivor) were treated as an independent entity in "the world", and the game happened independent of you and your existence in it. You (the character) existed, independently, both before and after the game started and completed, and, once the game was done, you (the character) could continue to live a full life, in the world, and continue to interact with the full world and all of its characters, FOREVER, and build you own new life. even an entire civilization, if that was your wish. And I did. often. FO3 and FONV, both had a definitive beginning and end. FO4 gave the player an open universe in which a story happened to occur. I loved that.

oh.... and the mods.... the endless forever mods...

Base game: 15GB
DLCs - 20GBs
MODs: 350G+ GBs

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I get it, sadly I've hit like 100 hours in Cyberpunk and got blah about it. Restarted Elden Ring and blah 30 hours in. I can count the number of games I've actually beaten since PS2 on one hand. Just saying to keep it in mind since it's an amazing way to play some games you already love when you're feeling burned out and nothing sounds fun.

[–] bklyn@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I get it, sadly I've hit like 100 hours in Cyberpunk and got blah about it.

Whaaaa‽ I made it through my first play through at about 180 hours, very much realizing about halfway through that I was doing it “the wrong way“ but finished the play through just to see a couple of different endings. Then I went back to my first save so I could do it again with much more knowledge about how to do it. “the right way“

I’m about 30 hours in to “the right way“ play through.

This game is fucking amazing. IMO.

I guess that, personally, I don’t require VR in order to get what I want out of the games I play.

Edit: steam says I have 204+ hours playing the game, and I bought it 28 days ago, so that’s a little over seven hours per day (average)

Some days I played it for 15+ hours, and some days I took off

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I did my normal thing where I play obsessively with every free moment then one day don't feel like it any more. I'm level 45ish and just brought down the aircar thing to get the scientist guy. No story missions done on any other chain. I was hunting down all the side gigs and police things on the map and didn't realize I had it set to only show that stuff, so I ignored all the story things for a long time. I did bag Judy, though. So that was nice.

[–] bklyn@piefed.social 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

Destroying the boat, setting it on fire, and then switch-hitting Kerry Eurodine before jumping off the ship naked into the bay was possibly the hottest game sex sequence I’ve ever experienced. Just knowing that the game devs put so much effort into ass fucking and getting ass fucked by an NPC via yacht-sexplosion was very meaningful to me… It was also soooo very hot.

But also, knowing that the devs of fallout 4 made sure that same-sex relationships were programmed in to literally every in-game relationship from the start… 10 YEARS EARLIER, …well…

It’s hard to say which was my favorite, in that regard. I think fallout, just because you could have a relationship with anyone.