Half-Life: Alyx Preloads [Mar 21, 2020, 2:54 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Preloads are now underway for Half-Life: Alyx
on Steam.
paving the way for Monday's launch of the new virtual reality installment in the
Half-Life series. This may be useful to more gamers than imagined at
first. Despite the fact that it requires a virtual reality headset,
PlayTracker reports more than 300,000 gamers have preordered the VR shooter
(thanks
VideoGamer.com). Here's word:
Valve's return to City 17 is poised to make sales record headlines next week. PlayTracker Insight tracking is showing Half-Life: Alyx has already surpassed 300.000 owners ahead of its launch on Monday, March 23rd.
This already puts the game within striking distance of the biggest Steam releases of 2020 so far like TemTem, Wolcen, Borderlands 3, Metro Exodus, and, amusingly, Black Mesa - Crowbar Collective's re-imagining of the original Half-Life game. Launch sales should propel the game into first place, pending a surprising over-performance by Doom Eternal this weekend.
VR owners account for only 1% of Steam users according to the Steam Hardware Survey, making this sales performance quite an impressive achievement.
Why do people think if you're using VR controllers you can't also be seated..? If you have enough room to start a game, roll your chair back about 2 extra feet from the desk, and don't mind playing seated you can play any VR game I know of.
And yes there are VR games that work with M&KB. Those are generally all games that have 2D modes as well. If the game is designed for VR Controllers only, your experience will be a tremendous notch up in to what the VR experience can offer. You'll be interacting with things in a way impossible to accomplish otherwise. Like actually aiming and drawing your bow in Skyrim VR, or "John Wick"'ing your guns through HL:A.
This comment was edited on Mar 22, 2020, 15:33.
And yes there are VR games that work with M&KB. Those are generally all games that have 2D modes as well. If the game is designed for VR Controllers only, your experience will be a tremendous notch up in to what the VR experience can offer. You'll be interacting with things in a way impossible to accomplish otherwise. Like actually aiming and drawing your bow in Skyrim VR, or "John Wick"'ing your guns through HL:A.
This comment was edited on Mar 22, 2020, 15:33.
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