I can certainly see the appeal of VR but I don’t know if there’s ever before been hardware so dependent on how gaming fits into your life. I’ve had PlayStation VR for nearly a year now and it feels like such an effort to bother playing that I’ve only played the Tetris Effect demo, the first three levels of Astro Bot, the X-Wing demo, and a couple of the demos in the starter pack thing that comes with it.
I have Rez Infinite, Resident Evil 7, and Tethered to try as well but it’s the hardware and the relative inconvenience that’s the problem. I cut myself off enough playing a standard console nowadays, so to add another layer to that feels like a step too far. It’s literally at the stage where I have to have a day off in the house on my own with no non-VR games on the go for me to consider playing it.
That’s such a seldom occurrence that I feel like the only benefit of me getting one last year was to satisfy my curiosity after everyone talking as though you’re literally pulled into a new world.
That felt like hyperbole but maybe that’s because I have a barely detectable squint and this might mean I don’t feel the benefit of 3D movies. That makes sense to me – I certainly wasn’t blown away by the 3D on the 3DS either. Although I can definitely detect the 3D and depth in VR, I feel like I must be missing the full effect.
I appreciate people look to get different things out of different games but I’ve never quite seen that apply so much to hardware before this. Even if it did make me feel fully immersed, until it becomes the norm for every household member to sit with a big plastic blindfold and earphones on all the time, I’m not sure this hardware is for me.
Panda
