Playing Half-Life Alyx Without VR
Today on Valve News Network, we take a look at a recent leak of a pre-release build of Half-Life Alyx that kept in all internal non-VR testing tools and commands still built in. These tools now allow modders to create non-VR mods for Half-Life Alyx much faster than previously thought. In fact, with the right files and noclip bound to a key, it's possible to play most of the game using Half-Life 2's weapon-set, however, the question needs to be asked, is it even good?
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(nice video though)
Tyler... It's "et cetera", not "exetera"
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Not enjoyable at all? I mean hla is meant to be slower paced, but the story beats and set pieces are of half life and valve. It may miss the point of VR, but wouldn't it expose a new generation to half life and make them curious of how it must be in VR and 2d half life would great for accessibility.
Believe me when I say this, but I could never imagine playing this game in any way other than vr. The way that this specific game is designed would be absolutely dreadful on a flat panel. You lose almost all aspects of realism from the horror, the gunplay would be far far too easy, the puzzles would be useless or boring, and you would just fly through the game. That isn't to say that I don't think that people messing with the flat panel aspects of source 2 is bad. I would absolutely love to see people remake HL2 in source 2 because that game deserves some love and I would love to see what valve does internally with the engine. Although, after playing this game I honestly can't say I would ever want to go back to a flat half life game. It is a totally different experience that brings the world to life. I do hope that this game will kickstart a push toward more AAA vr games, forcing manufacturers to innovate and lower prices -- making VR more commonplace.
I find the videos tone to be very aggressive almost accusing those who want to play hla without paying 500 for VR and a upgrades of committing a crime.
The intended message of the video is that playing the game without VR is missing the point, and will not be an enjoyable experience for the end-user.
Love it. Great video.