PCGamer: “ Alyx from Half-Life 2 is now the star of her own game, and Barney from the original Half-Life got his own spin-off in Blue Shift. Rebecca Chambers from Resident Evil was one of the protagonists in its prequel, and Gat and Kinzie from the Saints Row series became the stars in Gat Out of Hell. Let's not forget that every single Rabbids game is technically a Rayman spin-off.
There are plenty more examples of side characters who got to be heroes later on. But we're asking who should be next. Which NPC deserves their own game?”
TheGamer sat down with City 1, the talented devs behind Half-Life: Alyx NoVR, to find out more about their new indie FPS Chemical-Burn.
After all of the PS Studio games that released on Steam, I’m baffled Sony hasn’t gotten Alyx onto the PSVR2.
I was thinking the same thing . No Half Life video game is available on PS4 and PS5 .
Half-Life: Alyx is one of the most immersive, story-rich, realistic VR game that has set the bar so high that it might not be surpassed.
Vertigo Games' Metro Awakening is the latest AAA game announced for VR. And it could be VR's next Half-Life: Alyx.
If Vertigo tries for the real AAA experience like Valve did then yeah
But if Vertigo tries for the light Call of the mountain experience then nope it will be another... light eperience
It looked very much like a proper metro game in vr. I'm mostly worried about its length. Hopefully atleast 6+ hours and not 2.
Agreed hoping for some decent hours to be had, 6 plus sounds about right.
Love the series so wiping the gas mask clean, changing filters, checking watch and reloading weapon should be fantastic.
Also one for the headphones, going to be so atmospheric and not for the faint hearted.
@EvertonFC
Mega jank or short playtime is the only thing that could kill the potential in this one, as I see it. And I don't really believe that they would go with something super short.
I'm very optimistic, they really just need to combine Re4 Remake with Metro last Light and we're golden.
looking like a VR game and being an actual game and not some slice is completely different. We will know more in time though.
That's perfectly fine too, but I don't think that detracts from Peter's main point: there's a gap between COTM & what HL: Alyx accomplished as VR-only titles.
Short is ok, that't to be expected from a vr game. But there's short and there's demo sized.
So many great games, I've still got about 20 games on my wishlist to get through.
Wallets going to hurt this year with VR and traditional games.
IMO RE8 and RE4 already clear Alyx. Yes Alyx is ground-up VR so it has more of a cohesive feel but the RE games are full AAA campaigns that are thrilling and using the iconic guns of RE4 in VR is something else.
Alyx will always be the benchmark personally because it was designed for VR. It didn't have VR shoe-horned into it. While Village and RE4 are fantastic, not being able to interact with your environment properly is what sets something like Alyx apart.
Walking up to bottle and picking it up is cool and all but there's more to a game that that and I feel like it's something that is more of a novelty. There's much more to the combat in something like RE4 with multiple enemies rushing you (not dumbed down numbers for VR) and actually physically parrying attacks with a knife before single-hand pumping Leon's shotgun etc.
If you prefer Alyx, that's cool, it's an amazing game for sure and I'm not trying to convince you otherwise, but for me the RE VR games do more.
@generic - for me, VR is all about immersion. Resident Evil is amazing, but when you can't even interact with a single thing around you, it feels very limiting IMO.
Everyone is different of course. Arizona Sunshine and the Walking Dead has tons of enemies and frenetic paces, and they still allow you to interact with almost everything in sight. Even simple things like putting your hand against a wall and being able to place your hand on it. It's all about the little things for me in VR. Climbing ladders, vaulting over things, etc.
This is gonna be weird but I'm gonna say the blacksmith aka "The Crafter" from Lords of the Fallen. An interdimensional being from "100 lifetime's ago" wandering through space and time drawn to these powerful crystals that are able to open even more dimensions for him to explore. Sounds like an awesome adventure if done right.
Sully from Uncharted
Prequel before he meets Nate and how he met Marlowe.
Barry Burton from Resident Evil
Could do something maybe before he rescues Jill at the end of Resident Evil 3, maybe he runs into trouble with Umbrella before hand who knows.
Ish from the Last of Us
Imagine playing a new Last of Us game with a character then realising at the end he's Ish
Zelda from Legend of Zelda
I'd like a spin off where the whole "cycle of hatred" Link and Zelda are cursed into ends up having era where the roles are reversed. The Hyrule family have a son, name him after the fabled warrior Link and a girl in a village who ends up being this eras chosen hero is named Zelda.
DMC - Vergil
MGS - The Boss
RDR - Dutch
Elizabeth from BioShock and yeah...that's pretty much it. Video game characters are pretty forgettable since a lot of the games play the same. Snake and Lara Croft are still the most popular non cartoony protagonists even 20 years later.
Gavin from Red Dead Redemption 2. I mean, wherever he is you know it's a wild adventure, thus best game of your life. He may be straight outta Maidenhead, but this guy is bad enough to be out of bubblegum because it ain't invented yet.