Oculus Rift

[Frogacuda]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/10/43...s-rift-support

Half-Life 2 is the next Valve game to get OR support. A beta version is live now although it's reportedly less polished than TF2.

God dammit, Valve, PORTAL FUCKING 2. I want to play explorationy games where they go flying through the air with this thing, not shootmans.

[kedawa]

I want to play Descent and Jumping Flash! on this thing.

[Joust Williams]

I want to play racers on it too

[GohanX]

Fuck yes, on all of those.

[Frogacuda]

Oh god, Jumping Flash would be so rad.

[GohanX]

I really hadn't seriously considered racers, but the more I think about it the more I like the idea. I always hated cockpit views in racers since you really can't put your eyes on what you really need to be looking at (the next turn usually.)

[Yoshi]

The Forest is bordering on my dream game, since support for this has already been announced.

[Frogacuda]

Anything with a cockpit view is going to work pretty well. This is also why Hawken and Star Citizen work.

I really think first-person shooters are probably among the least interesting first-person games to play with this, because they don't really emphasize immersive qualities like motion, realism, or exploration. They're just arcadey.

All of this "let's patch in half-assed support for every old game" doesn't excite me. There are a few like Portal 2 and Mirror's Edge that I think would be really good if done right, but for the most part I think the best experiences are going to be new games designed with the Rift in mind. If they can really sell 500,000 of these in a year like they hope (a pretty big "if") then we'll definitely start seeing some of that.

[Compass]

I want Doom 3. With some kind of checkpoint-save patch. I don't have the willpower to not F5 all day if given the option.

[Mzo]

Driving games could actually be pretty amazing with this thing. The first person GTA IV mod running on this would be pretty great, too.