Great day with VR today. Yesterday my uncle, aunt and parents, all in their seventies, flew the X-Wing mission. Today my cousin brought his children over and we all watched his 12 year old fly the X-Wing and then do a few races in Driveclub, which I only bought the day before. This evening I spent 2 hours earning stars in Driveclub, in the living room while the old folks watched some shite.
I had hoped we'd play some Keep Talking, but it turned out the old folks were just too old for a game based on testing your ability to communicate. On the other hand I was very glad to have Eagle Flight, as it meant my dad, who doesn't have great control of his hands, could still experience, and self direct, a thorough VR game.
Driveclub's an interesting one. It took some time to warm to the idea of crashes putting the engine on hiatus, but I think I'll start to love that it forces you to drive properly. I knew from the demo that the graphics made an unfortunate trade off, prioritising effects over resolution. I'm used to it now. Crucially it's a fun and full featured racer, something worth dropping hours at a time into, and I'm hungry for that.
I'm disappointed, mostly in myself, that I haven't stuck with the cockpit view. I've been racing in third person for too many years to do without the extra information you get from further out. And it's still super like this, but it bypasses a huge amount of the game's value (the experience of verisimilitude, and these gloriously detailed cockpits). It also begs the question of why own and play in VR. People have started commenting on losing the sense of VR, and for me playing this game in third person is just like playing on a huge, really low res screen. I'm giving serious thought to picking up a wheel as a means of bringing myself back into the cockpit and close to the action again.
I'm a bit lost in the structure, it doesn't really seem like there is one ... Some things are locked, but there are so many things that aren't, I could really do with being forced to completely own a car or a track before moving on. An odd thing to complain about probably.
I looked online but it seemed pretty dead, is there much action to be had?