realitista

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[–] realitista@piefed.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Quest is definitely a great first intro. You will have lots of fun with it. I outgrew it unfortunately, but it's still a great platform despite Meta digging its tendrils into it.

[–] realitista@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah it's true. I'm not sure I will be interested in another quest unless they can get PSVR2 level graphics, ie with some kind of external console. I think Valve may be more likely to be the first to pull this off but the price will probably be higher than I'm willing to pay.

[–] realitista@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Yeah there should really be more first party games for it. Unfortunately it was probably doomed to some extent from the start due to the price. It's very hard to compete against quest's subsidized pricing and scale, and I guess most people don't care too much about having higher quality games.

Probably it's the last VR headset I will buy until someone figures out how to bring PSVR2 or higher graphical fidelity without buying a whole gaming PC and covert a large portion of standard AAA games to VR. Quest isn't good enough and PSVR2 won't get enough support.

 

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[–] realitista@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Yeah Veilguard is just a fun romp. Nothing too deep or meaningful, but just sort of a fun well paced refuge from everyday life.

There's still a pretty good pipeline of games for PSVR2. Not sure how long it will last, but for now my biggest issue is waiting for prices to come down on some of those titles rather than the lack of titles I want to play.

[–] realitista@piefed.world 8 points 3 days ago

At this point it's just an excercise in "how many times can he get you idiots to fall for it"

[–] realitista@piefed.world 3 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Zelda TOTK now that I finally have a Switch again. So good in 4k HDR.

Dragon's age: Veilguard. Got this for free with PS Plus and was pleasantly surprised how fun it was despite the anti woke brigade review bombing it.

Moss 2: getting back into this VR game on PSVR2

[–] realitista@piefed.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, go ahead and try to give someone that shit. No one would be surprised I watch porn and I don't do it in any sort of interesting way. I'm guessing no one would even want to watch it.

[–] realitista@piefed.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I mean I wouldn't look at this as a laptop replacement, just something I could use that way in a pinch. Lots of clamshell phones in the early 2000's had this layout and it worked pretty well.

If you really wanted to use this as a laptop much better to carry another little folding keyboard with you.

[–] realitista@piefed.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How about we make you a target, Vladdy? See how you like it?

[–] realitista@piefed.world 10 points 4 days ago (7 children)

It would be nice if one of the folds could be left folded at the bottom to give you a keyboard.

[–] realitista@piefed.world 2 points 5 days ago

Well it could also just depend on some mechanism that we haven't discovered yet. Even if we could technically reproduce it, we don't understand it and haven't managed to just stumble into it and may not for a very long time.

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