Meta Quest 3 | OT + Review Thread |

I've had this headset since January and still haven't touched flagship games like Assassin's Creed, Batman, and Asgard's Wrath 2, even though I bought them on sale a while ago. :messenger_grinning_sweat:
I'm still working my way through my list of old games that I can play in VR. For example, I recently finished Doom 1, 2, 64, and 3 with its expansions, and also MotorStorm Arctic Edge on PPSSPP VR. I'm currently playing Burnout Dominator and Heretic. Plus, Beat Saber modded is just the best.
I still prefer to play third-party games on PSVR2 when they are available, but I really love this headset and how flexible it is in terms of how much you can do with it.
 
Pelao said:
I'm still working my way through my list of old games that I can play in VR. For example, I recently finished Doom 1, 2, 64, and 3 with its expansions, and also MotorStorm Arctic Edge on PPSSPP VR. I'm currently playing Burnout Dominator and Heretic. Plus, Beat Saber modded is just the best.
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100% agree, I've spent 90% of my hours on Q2/3 playing ports/mods of older games: Duke Nukem 3D, Doom games, HL2+episodes, Portal 2, Tomb Raider, Quake games, and so on, endless content.

TwinB242 said:
Got back into VR with Ghost Town and it was the perfect choice and is now also among my top VR games.
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saving it for Halloween this year, looks fantastic; their prior game was highly polished too
 
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ResurrectedContrarian said:
100% agree, I've spent 90% of my hours on Q2/3 playing ports/mods of older games: Duke Nukem 3D, Doom games, HL2+episodes, Portal 2, Tomb Raider, Quake games, and so on, endless content.


saving it for Halloween this year, looks fantastic; their prior game was highly polished too
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I should mention its not at all scary. Its more atmospheric than anything else and I actually didn't mind that at all.
 
Magic Carpet said:
McDonald's VR world. Anyone given it a go yet? 🍔

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McDonaldland VR Experience - The Lore You Asked For

Step inside McDonaldland VR: A new immersive experience that brings childhood nostalgia to life. Play on Meta Quest or browser.
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Happy World Cup GIF by FIFA
 
Some nice stuff in this sale. Like RE4 (not as high % as others). And notably Turtle Rock Studios' Journey of the Gods which has returned from being delisted (owners could still redownload it but crossbuy didn't work even though I had it on PC before I got a Quest, Meta support found it so damn impossible to just activate it in my library for Quest that they gave me store credit despite it being years later just to shut me up about it, lol, yikes, but now that it's back it worked too!). I loved that game, Meta should fund a successor, they'd do wonders on 3 after doing so good on the first one.

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Apex Construct for like a buck is great too, it was one of the first Half-Life-esque VR adventures.

Not that only oldies are worthwhile, there's a constant stream of great VR games (that nobody hears of cos there's only coverage for f2p meme games, flat ports and rare big IP). Reach, Titan Isles and Of Lies and Rain are some of the upcoming games in this longform sort, VR gaming is on fire 🔥
 
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Wow, I tried RE4 for the first time, bought it on the sale. I'm just at the start but it seems so polished and well done. I mean, I know the game well from Wii etc., I've played loads of ganes and mods in VR and read about it/seen videos so more or less knew what to expect but still. It feels so good:messenger_ok:

Edit: pretty much the only thing I would say is not handled as well as it could have been is the sniper scope stuff encompassing your whole view, they could have done it like any other VR FPS instead, but it's alright enough, it works.

Everything else, from the cut scenes to the menus and the primary gameplay, including the switches to third person for some actions (and how they've made the manual melee also have the same effect as the kick if you don't wanna go 3rd for that) is top notch, smooth responsive and slick:messenger_fire:
 
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Magic Carpet said:
McDonald's VR world. Anyone given it a go yet? 🍔

mcdonaldlandvr.com

McDonaldland VR Experience - The Lore You Asked For

Step inside McDonaldland VR: A new immersive experience that brings childhood nostalgia to life. Play on Meta Quest or browser.
mcdonaldlandvr.com mcdonaldlandvr.com
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They should do a vr simulator trying to take a piss and you not being able to see your own dick because you are so morbidly obese. So you can't fucking aim.
 
Alexios said:
Wow, I tried RE4 for the first time, bought it on the sale. I'm just at the start but it seems so polished and well done. I mean, I know the game well from Wii etc., I've played loads of ganes and mods in VR and read about it/seen videos so more or less knew what to expect but still. It feels so good:messenger_ok:
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such a good port... feels exactly like stepping inside the original, the controls are well thought out, etc

I believe it's basically an internally developed game by Meta (since they bought the studio behind it) and those are always high quality... Asgard's Wrath, Lone Echo, etc.
 
ResurrectedContrarian said:
Hubris is on Quest+ this month



was on my list to try on my Q3 anyway, so that's a solid monthly pick
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I've played a few hours now, and it gets much better a little way in (maybe an hour or so, depending on your speed). The dull tutorial and entire opening areas didn't do it for me and almost made me move on, but it's quite a bit better after that, turns into a very solid VR sci-fi adventure.

Tons of obvious influence from Alyx in certain sequences, but in a less stressful or intense way.
 
LiquidMetal14 said:
That's interesting. I definitely do. I just fired it up this weekend for the first time in a few months. I use a PrismXR dedicated router with virtual desktop. AMAZING experience and wireless compat with PCVR.
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I was playing No Mans Sky this week from my PC to the Quest 3. That game works fantastic in VR.
I was using Gamepass, you have to fire up Steam VR then go to the Xbox app and launch No Mans Sky in VR.
Once again Steam takes other stores fronts and makes em better.
 
Magic Carpet said:
I was playing No Mans Sky this week from my PC to the Quest 3. That game works fantastic in VR.
I was using Gamepass, you have to fire up Steam VR then go to the Xbox app and launch No Mans Sky in VR.
Once again Steam takes other stores fronts and makes em better.
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Does it run better now? Before it was kinda shit.
 
Magic Carpet said:
It runs, 'ok', I was thinking about just buying it on Steam and skipping the Gamepass version.
But just exploring around and using the mining tool seems to be a better experience in VR.
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The game runs great in VR in my opinion. Being able to look around inside the ship, sky diving in VR, aiming and wondering... one of the better VR games, the core experience translates well.

Drawbacks are the Hud, it's focused on one direction and doesn't follow your field of view.. and ship flying is a little strange. They go for a Virtual HOTAS set up with a weirdly high deadzone on the joystick. It gets more intuitive the more you use it, but I do wish you could just use the controller analog sticks instead, feels like a holdover from the PSVR move controllers.
 
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I was messing around with VR yesterday. I was trying to get a Virtual Boy emulator working and it turned out it was broken.

I found another one that worked perfectly. It is VirtualBoyGo.

I was about the toss the headset trying to get the other one to work.

For some reason, I got a bunch of apps on my Quest 3 that I did not buy. Is Occulus giving out free apps or something?

There still seems to be life in VR, but it is kind of niche thing that really did not catch on.

That is still kind of fun because you got a lot of indie titles messing with it.

Still, it is great that you can watch Captain EO in VR. I got that working.
 
Stitch said:


eeehh that pod racing looks terrible... and the other stuff actually too lol
they should update Tales from the Galaxy's Edge for Quest 3
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So, you essentially can play with virtual Star Wars toys. It is kind of neat idea. I have not seen that done before.
I assume they are not trying to sell virtual toys, right? That is where it will suck. If it is all in one package, that would be great.
 
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Stitch said:


eeehh that pod racing looks terrible... and the other stuff actually too lol
they should update Tales from the Galaxy's Edge for Quest 3
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Yeah that doesn't look like much but probably better appreciated( as is generally the case) inside the headset. This looks like something much quicker/cheaper to produce than a full first person racer.
 
I don't really get why they went with AR at all for that racer, at least not in this perspective.

AR would make sense if they let the whole track live in your room like its a toy track on your table, and let you walk around and look at it during the race. A behind-the-car view is pointless in AR, it just means a horrible draw distance here and no skybox.
 
I notice one of the annoying things about VR games is that they want you to reach out too far.

Is there a way to fix that? The 7th Guest has that problem. You might as well stand up to play the game.
 
Krathoon said:
I notice one of the annoying things about VR games is that they want you to reach out too far.

Is there a way to fix that? The 7th Guest has that problem. You might as well stand up to play the game.
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I rarely play anything seated for this reason. I only play old-school conversions seated (eg. like Half Life 2 mod) usually, since they don't expect the reaching.
 
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