How To Make VR Games Fun

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  • @sporebryan2000
    @sporebryan2000 Před 5 měsíci +39

    3:43 as an editor myself this is exactly the kind of stuff that I sit back and think “yeah, I’m a focking genius” and then realize that only 3% of viewers will catch what I did there. 😂😂😂

    • @vangeeson
      @vangeeson Před 5 měsíci +2

      Came here to look for this comment. Good to see someone appreciates it.

    • @ScareFire
      @ScareFire Před 5 měsíci +1

      And there’s the 97% others like me that are wondering if this is a joke because I can’t figure it out

    • @ScareFire
      @ScareFire Před 5 měsíci +1

      Aaaahhhhhh, keep you « hooked » bahahahhahahah

    • @Gaze73
      @Gaze73 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Seemed like an obvious pun tbh.

  • @2spark631
    @2spark631 Před 5 měsíci +74

    Bro slapping hard against the graphics on Ancient Dungeon?? I like the graphics. They're very stylized and easy to render

    • @RinoaL
      @RinoaL Před 5 měsíci +7

      Yeah I wonder if maybe this guy is like 21 years old and never played a 2d game.

    • @joseandresjulienbarriere8786
      @joseandresjulienbarriere8786 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Say whatever you want guys but it looks like shit. It can be a beautiful shit but it would still be shit 😂

    • @blockheadhilger9626
      @blockheadhilger9626 Před 5 měsíci +1

      He said one thing about it 💀

    • @Gapple_
      @Gapple_ Před 5 měsíci +8

      @@blockheadhilger9626what? He said “this game looks like shit”

    • @Gapple_
      @Gapple_ Před 5 měsíci +14

      @@joseandresjulienbarriere8786an art style does not mean a game looks like shit

  • @SargonDragon
    @SargonDragon Před 5 měsíci +16

    Motion controls are not a novelty that just wears off. They offer substantially superior capabilities that keyboard and mouse simply can't do. Motion controls offer real and meaningful utility. The problem is that most games still just use them as effectively nothing more than a fancy keyboard and mouse. Used in this way, the novelty wears off because you might as well be using a regular keyboard and mouse.
    This is the fundamental problem with VR mods and VR modes for flat games. Their gameplay is necessarily designed around keyboard and mouse controls. If they were fun flat, they will still be fun in VR as you say. But not because of anything having to do with VR. Playing them in VR is reduced to just being a novelty and is not essential or incorporated into their game play.
    That is, flat games can be very fun but are necessarily limited in scope because of the limits of keyboard and mouse. Flat gaming is very mature and everything you can do within the limits of its controls has been done to death for many years already, and its stagnant in terms of offering anything truly new anymore. New flat titles are fun because of good story and lots of eye candy content, not because of anything truly new in their actual game mechanics.
    Unfortunately, in many/most cases, even native VR games are little different than flat game ports. They may have been built from the ground up for VR, yet still employ nothing more than the design philosophies and game mechanics of flat games with keyboard and mouse.
    This is essentially what you hit on in this video, but from a bit different angle, I think. Triple A games would also benefit greatly from truly incorporating motion controls and VR, too. But triple A studios are stuck in their ways and are really geared toward pumping out yearly updates with new chrome for the same flat titles. It's up to indie studios to experiment and lead the way exploring what can really be done with motion controls and having that be their competitive advantage.

    • @PommeDeux
      @PommeDeux Před 5 měsíci

      Any sort of VR specific mechanics that you think developers can implement in order to avoid the bare minimum?

  • @Greydawg
    @Greydawg Před 5 měsíci +10

    I subscribed because of this. Just brilliant. I was about to leave a much longer comment about how VR games have changed in the last 4 years & not necessarily at all for the best, but I'd rather just say "thanks" for this video. Just loved it & needed to hear it, sincerely. Cheers. 💯

  • @itrzho
    @itrzho Před 5 měsíci +14

    Exactly, Vr injector is cool, but Flat game still and old gameplay. We need a Vr games, new features, interact with hands in a VR still inovative game play. So many new things to do.

    • @robosergTV
      @robosergTV Před 5 měsíci

      motion controls are a gimmick. Didnt we have a large amount of VR games over the last 10 years and no one plays them nor makes them in big quantities? Flat games in 3D is the future of VR. The old VR with VR games is dead.

    • @baltazarriosdelbarco4230
      @baltazarriosdelbarco4230 Před 5 měsíci

      Raetarded take​@@robosergTV

    • @RestTarRr
      @RestTarRr Před 3 měsíci

      @@robosergTV there's a market for both but it's clear that people would much rather play actual vr games like alyx and vertigo than play a flat game in 3D. A well made high budget VR game with motion controls will always feel and play nicer on VR than a flat game. Motion controls are not a gimmick. They are being used as one though.

    • @edmtrip
      @edmtrip Před měsícem

      @@robosergTV this year are going to release batman arkhan vr, metro vr and alien vr... I dont think its dead

  • @Seymourseykrets
    @Seymourseykrets Před 5 měsíci +19

    This was an incredibly important video. Somehow this summarized what every vr player wants. Hopefully devs see this and implement these aspects.

    • @DaysOfFunder
      @DaysOfFunder Před 5 měsíci

      I'm a vr Dev and definitely listening.

  • @williamsmith6921
    @williamsmith6921 Před 5 měsíci +6

    4:00 that's space pirate trainer, not bonelab as the label suggests

    • @norsh4563
      @norsh4563 Před 5 měsíci

      I came down here to point out a couple of things like this, he also calls boneworks bonelab, he says stride is a vr shooter ‘based’ game while it’s main focus is parkour and added guns to keep the gameplay loop more action-y and just a couple of other things I find kinda wrong. It’s a good vid and he brings good points but it would also be good if he didn’t downplay vr so much and if he knew more about the games he talked about

    • @norsh4563
      @norsh4563 Před 5 měsíci +1

      He also talks shit about ancient dungeon and me no happy :(

    • @SimplexPL
      @SimplexPL Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@norsh4563only about the graphics, otherwise he praises the game.

  • @revalreval
    @revalreval Před 5 měsíci +2

    Ghostrunner soundtrack? Took some time to realize 😅

  • @VRnamek
    @VRnamek Před 5 měsíci +1

    Shadow Point is such an underrated gem. Good to know someone else who loved it. I've seen stupid psvr CZcamsrs who clearly didn't play stating it's just shadow matching puzzles when that's just like jumping in Mario, the basic mechanic.
    Now, Ancient Dungeon is an ancient dungeon crawler from 8-bit era brought to VR...

  • @gamecheater1019
    @gamecheater1019 Před 5 měsíci +3

    As someone who has played an excessive amount of vr titles that anyone should, I can agree on the points of this - but bro didn’t have to down ancient dungeon’s graphics that bad tho

  • @gorapidstudio
    @gorapidstudio Před 5 měsíci

    Awesome video! Glad to see The Burst being highlighted as one of the "fun to play" games! 😄

  • @Gooberisgoobing-ayo
    @Gooberisgoobing-ayo Před 5 měsíci +1

    “Next is ancient dungeon. It looks like shit.” 💀

  • @default6478
    @default6478 Před 5 měsíci +2

    6:28 caught me off guard i started dying

  • @RafaelRodrigues-jq6uc
    @RafaelRodrigues-jq6uc Před 5 měsíci

    dude thank you for your videos they are very helpfull

  • @phylozix11
    @phylozix11 Před 5 měsíci

    You're saying things most VR content creators wouldn't even say. Most really just say how good VR is over flat games. There is nothing wrong with games that are flat in VR using a gamepad but most people want really immersed games that only uses the motion controllers and first person views. I love that there are options and something for everyone.

  • @GreyMatterShades
    @GreyMatterShades Před 5 měsíci

    This was a very well put together video. I think most VR developers could benefit from following your advice here. Best of luck with your consultation business. The insights you've shown through your many videos on this channel indicate that you could bring a lot of value to VR game developers.

  • @ronm6585
    @ronm6585 Před 5 měsíci

    Thank you. Good info.

  • @specterman603
    @specterman603 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Like the editing

  • @Space-O-2001
    @Space-O-2001 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Nice video. You credited the Space Pirate trainer footage to Bone Works, unless there's a section that looks like that in BW

  • @Maunth
    @Maunth Před 5 měsíci

    You know its a good day when josalt's evil alter ego post

  • @paudiaz4660
    @paudiaz4660 Před 5 měsíci +2

    An average game should be rated a 5 IMO

  • @barrettkepler7618
    @barrettkepler7618 Před 5 měsíci

    Loved your video
    Leaving this comment so CZcams would recommend this video to more people

  • @RinoaL
    @RinoaL Před 5 měsíci +4

    I don't get why you hate the style of Ancient Dungeon so much. That caught me off guard since it's a normal style for many games. I wonder if maybe you never played 2d games or the games they inspired that much.

  • @SimplexPL
    @SimplexPL Před 5 měsíci

    9:35 nitpick - in Horizon games you actually fight robo-animals. The majority of them is not based on dinosaurs. Cheers.

  • @magma5267
    @magma5267 Před 5 měsíci

    How are you playing the Ghostrunner OST without getting copyrighted

    • @williamsmith6921
      @williamsmith6921 Před 5 měsíci

      game osts don't get automatically flagged because they play during gameplay, and only assholes like nintendo ever actually try to enforce their use outside of gameplay

  • @stephenreimann7628
    @stephenreimann7628 Před 5 měsíci

    I find Half life Alyx good value with all the mod maps it offers. Also there is more to VR with flying combat games going to the Titanic and into space and the moon etc. I still have the rift s and happy with it (except for the software bugs but have learnt how to overcome them) - I don't do flat screen anymore. I have tried the new UEVR bu t not too good on rift s but did enjoy The little nightmare series was way better than flat screen and easier to play I think. Red Matter 1 and 2 are great VR games. Very different from the normal games. If iwould say to someone who wants to start VR is start off simple with just VR non-games like LOST or Blue (jurassic park) get used to it. Then go for something simple like the titanic experience. Or similar. Half Life Alyx can be intense but I love it. Also did resident evil 7 that was awesome - Love the warplanes series 1 and 2 but the new one looks crappy. Quest 3 is to expensive for me atm but i do know graphics are better.

  • @djp1234
    @djp1234 Před 5 měsíci +2

    All the best VR games I've played have been AAA flatscreen games ported to VR.

    • @Fifmut
      @Fifmut Před 5 měsíci

      Such as?

    • @djp1234
      @djp1234 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Fifmut Cyberpunk 2077, Far cry 1, 5, 6, Resident Evil 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, Gran Turismo 7, MS Flight Simulator, all Unreal Engine 4-5 games. The list keeps getting longer every day.

    • @Fifmut
      @Fifmut Před 5 měsíci

      @@djp1234 Far Cry 1? I’ll have to try that. Thanks

    • @djp1234
      @djp1234 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Fifmut and many more classic shooters. Wolfenstein, Doom 1-3, Quake 1-4, Prey (2006), Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem 3D, Half Life 1-2. Almost every major game is playable in VR now.

    • @Fifmut
      @Fifmut Před 5 měsíci

      @@djp1234 Well yeah but there's a difference between 'playable' and good.
      I admit, from this list I have only tried the HL2 VR mod. I think it's really fun but it's still wonky compared to a native VR title, and the fact that it's considered one of the best VR mods doesn't fill me with confidence regarding the other ports.

  • @Wanagowa
    @Wanagowa Před 5 měsíci +2

    4:48 that’s boneworks not bonelab

  • @extremeencounter7458
    @extremeencounter7458 Před 5 měsíci

    3:43 "Clever girl"

  • @GamingRoadkill
    @GamingRoadkill Před 5 měsíci

    Bro showing gameplay from Bobeworks and some other game I’ve never even seen before and slapping “Bonelab” on it

  • @Koiooioiushi
    @Koiooioiushi Před 5 měsíci +13

    You call Ancient Dungeon's artstyle dogshit?
    Come on man...

    • @CIinbox
      @CIinbox Před 5 měsíci +5

      That was a indeed bit harsh... You may enjoy retro-style pixelated graphics or not. I think they pulled it off pretty well in this game.

    • @Frenuellcrackser33
      @Frenuellcrackser33 Před 5 měsíci +1

      agreed, I think it looks awesome.

    • @Azimii
      @Azimii Před 5 měsíci +2

      yeah it was very aggressive lmao. the artstyle is defined and has a purpose, not dogshit

    • @joshmoran4589
      @joshmoran4589 Před 5 měsíci

      He just really doesn't like pixel/retro art style. He was trying to be funny about it.

    • @RinoaL
      @RinoaL Před 5 měsíci +3

      It's at that moment that I realized the creator of this video was probably born after 2000.

  • @ookami5329
    @ookami5329 Před 5 měsíci

    I wish I lived in an "average house"

  • @UncleShaneVR
    @UncleShaneVR Před 5 měsíci +5

    This is awesome sauce1!1!1 (First comment lol)

    • @dexx222
      @dexx222 Před 5 měsíci

      IMA TOUCH YOU

  • @antonysfunandgames592
    @antonysfunandgames592 Před 4 měsíci

    Ancient dungeon is basically a copy of minecraft

  • @TheT0X1N
    @TheT0X1N Před 5 měsíci

    3:43 I see what you did there 😉

  • @antoinesvirtualbasement
    @antoinesvirtualbasement Před 5 měsíci

    Some of these games have basic motion controls, wtf that mean, dude tripping

  • @dominicstocker5144
    @dominicstocker5144 Před 5 měsíci +1

    0:29 my man if you’re in a marriage rn and don’t have children yet please get a divorce, it does NOT appear to be working out 💀 also not everybody drives cars

  • @ndoki9
    @ndoki9 Před 5 měsíci

    Good and realistic graphics are extremely important to me for the immersion

  • @kristenhawkins5453
    @kristenhawkins5453 Před 5 měsíci

    Over🎁 🎈🎈🎈

  • @iraklimgeladze5223
    @iraklimgeladze5223 Před 5 měsíci +2

    AAA VR games is not feasible. Having Flat game port could help VR to become popular.
    Anyway, VR still needs more development into every direction.
    Hardware, software and content is not there yet.

  • @FrazzaJazz
    @FrazzaJazz Před 5 měsíci

    "I'm gonna have game developers pay me to be the only playtester during development" Lmaooo never change dude

    • @virtualinsider
      @virtualinsider  Před 5 měsíci +1

      When did I say that? I offer a playtesting service and have playtested for 12 VR games now so far.

    • @bearofthewest389
      @bearofthewest389 Před 5 měsíci

      Which VR games are those 12 btw?Just curious is all, no idea how that comment took it as suggesting VR games need no other playtesters bar you lol.@@virtualinsider

    • @virtualinsider
      @virtualinsider  Před 5 měsíci

      @@bearofthewest389 Some are still under NDA but ive playtested for games like The Burst, Bootstrap Island and Dead Hook. I also have been doing some consultation work for Impact Reality XR.

  • @notqunt1671
    @notqunt1671 Před 5 měsíci

    Asgards Wrath 2 feels like a boring flatscreen game made for the PS2 strapped to my face, the game design is ungodly dull in that.

  • @robosergTV
    @robosergTV Před 5 měsíci +2

    1:32 AC:Odyssey is one of the best open world RPGs in the last decade and sold very good. Not what I would call an "average game". I'll take this game alone over anything native VR offer. In fact, I bought Quest 3 yesterday only to play AAA PC games with UEVR or Depth3D reshade plug-in. I was bored with native VR games after 1 week of borrowing a Rift S couple of years ago. Native VR games is what nearly killed VR - boring, simple, cartoony looking games with outdated graphics.

    • @bearofthewest389
      @bearofthewest389 Před 5 měsíci

      "can get away with average gameplay" thate a very fair take on that game and a game like that is not doing relaly in depth or intresting gameplay typical third person combat.

    • @yoshen433
      @yoshen433 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Average AC fan take SMH

    • @robosergTV
      @robosergTV Před 5 měsíci

      @@yoshen433 Average uninformed biggot with strong feelings but no factual substance behind, also known as a "fanatic".

    • @robosergTV
      @robosergTV Před 5 měsíci

      @@yoshen433 You are an average uninformed biggot or an internet clown with blind hate:
      1. who didnt try any AC games and parrots ideas planted by some second tier influencer.
      2. Has no factual arguments, only uses ad-hominem attacks.

    • @robosergTV
      @robosergTV Před 5 měsíci

      @@bearofthewest389 it has stealth and other gameplay mechanics as well. There is no other game like this if you include the scale, production quality, amount of content, etc. Only Ghost of Tsushima comes close. That's like one game.

  • @jonathanjones2435
    @jonathanjones2435 Před 5 měsíci

    VR games have a bunch of problems.
    First, they feel more empty and lonely. NPCS with good social interactions are more important in VR games.
    Second, game designers keep making ugly and disgusting worlds for some reason. In VR this is not that appealing. I'd rather walk through a gorgeous forest in Skyrim vr than a roach filled apocalyptic sewer. Make VR games gorgeous.
    Third, slower is better in VR. Why make a fast paced, hectic game in VR? That is what flat screen games are for. VR excels when we can get close to physical objects, pick them up, take our time. Putting my hands in the cauldron in Elixir and pulling it out to find tentacle fingers is still one of my best experiences.
    Fourth, we don't want to move our arms! For some reason, game developers think that the coolest thing about VR is we get to wave our arms around. So they make it so we have to actually climb ladders and turn wheels and... nope. I just got home from work. I wanna relax. I only want to move my arms when I'm doing something interesting, like tossing a rock through a window. I only want to move my arms when it adds something. Basically, when it involves some type of physics interaction. I like to tap the signs in skyrim and watch them swing. I like to toss paint buckets around in half life alyx. climbing ladders? Not so much.
    Fifth, room and corridor layouts work better in VR than open plane. Standing in a big open field is pointless in VR. It nullifies all the depth and detail of VR. VR's strongest selling point.
    Sixth, of course then there is nausea. Drinking ginger seems to help with that. But the VR developers aren't telling people for some reason?

  • @barbuceanu2005
    @barbuceanu2005 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I would rather play flat AAA games in VR, instead of any made for VR game. VR games look like they come from the year 2000.

    • @edmtrip
      @edmtrip Před měsícem

      well, then I guess you don´t know many vr games. And even if they look like from the year 2000 most of AAA flatgames are the same games all the years but with better graphics, and most of them full of bugs or really boring games

    • @barbuceanu2005
      @barbuceanu2005 Před měsícem

      @@edmtrip Playing native VR games like the ones on Quest for instance, it's such a waiste of time imo. They are so boring and look so bad, like they are fake, artificial. Like your vision is severely damaged or pixelated. That kind of games, with that kind of primitive graphics, would be laughable in 2D.

    • @edmtrip
      @edmtrip Před měsícem

      ​@@barbuceanu2005 if you played red matter 2, the walking dead saints and sinner (PCVR version), lone echo, arizona sunshine 2 PCVR version, half life alyx, the 7th guest, genotype, asgard wrath 1 or 2, the room VR, warhammer age of sigmar tempestfall, wanderer, hubris, vertigo 2, contractors showddown and many more and you still think that, is definitly your fault.
      All those are amazing games with good graphics and not boring, what is boring for me is playing a FPS with a mouse or controler and watching a flat screen, playing a horror game meanwhile you see your own room, that seems and definitly is, boring
      Anyways there are good VR mods for flat games, but are not the same than native vr games
      Cheers

    • @barbuceanu2005
      @barbuceanu2005 Před měsícem

      @@edmtrip Well, good for you that you are happy with nowadays VR games. I played the walking dead saints and sinner (PCVR version), lone echo, half life alyx, contractors, and I stand my ground: the graphics are simply not convincing to me. It's like a gimmick, like a kids toy. That's why for me it's a waist of time. The only VR game I found convincing was The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. The graphics blew me away with how realistic it was. And it's an old VR game, from 2016. Also the Showdown demo from Oculus. Robo recall was also good, and fun, also Pistolwhip. But since then, only rubish. The focus switched from PCVR to standalone, and it shows. Thank god to the VR modding community we can play AAA games in VR.
      I definitely agree with you about flatscreen games being boring AF, but also these simplistic VR games, no wonder people are not interested in VR anymore.

    • @edmtrip
      @edmtrip Před měsícem

      @@barbuceanu2005 well, thats your point and its okay, if you get fun with those mods thats good, and that´s whats important, I am playing contractors showdown (is not the normal contractors, its a battle royale), and I didnt have this fun in any other game in my life.
      And I dont think people are not interested in VR anymore, on the contrary, lately I see a lot more people interested in virtual reality, games are selling more than ever, my friends are starting to consider buying headsets and CZcams channels about VR are achieving numbers that, although small compared to flat gaming channels, were unthinkable years ago.
      And this year are releasing a batman arkham, metro and alien, VR exclusives what is pretty insane.
      In my opinion VR is in his best moment and I am enjoying it more than ever.