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Penny Arcade - Comic - New Civilization
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Penny Arcade - Comic - New Civilization
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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It's unbelievably easy to slip into character in VR games in general thanks to how amazing it is to be IN the game instead of looking AT the game. But Bridge Crew is even easier.
Even playing with friends, you find yourself requesting orders from "Captain" instead of "Pete" or whoever, and the instinct is overwhelmingly strong to acknowledge orders with "Yes sir" while trusting that the orders are well informed with a purpose.
Everyone specializes in their field, whether that's Helm, Tactical, or Engineering, and the Captain has the overview directing Engineering to reduce engine power to run silently, or instructing Tactical to lower the shields and bring survivors aboard with the transporter, or saying "Helmsman, take us in, nice and slow. Fly casual."
And there's full cross play between Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PSVR, which means the playerbase is enormous, at least compared to other VR games.
If VR needed a killer app still, this game is it.
The Vive alone is around 900 bucks, a good enough video card around 200 and up and a a CPU that can handle it.
The complete package will cost you around 1500 dollars.
That's a lot of money for something that's fun for an hour or two.
Said like a person that's never experienced the community in Rec Room.
I mean you're probably not going to play Bridge Crew and then throw the computer and Vive in the garbage.
Law and Order ≠ Justice
This is a fair point. I considered buying a VR headset like buying any other platform: I'm investing in the platform and will over time recoup my investment with (hopefully) many games.
If you want to list the full cost of the platform and compare it to just the cost of the game, you are making an unfair comparison unless you are purchasing the platform only for that one game and will not use it for anything else.
I know, but aren't most of the games available 2 hour deals as of now? Even if you buy it as a long term investment, it's going to have a lot more down time than play time. I'm not trying to knock the games or the vive, it just seems absurd to me, the price and what you get out of it.
You don't buy a new gaming system for every single game? I don't like the bits to touch, it sullies the experience.
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Replacement Vive $900 every 2 hours
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
You'll also have a top level gaming PC that can play literally tens of thousands of games.
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I've put six hours into Bridge Crew and not even finished the five scripted missions, let alone touched the package of randomly generated missions, which one of my friends has put a further thirty hours into.
Also, it's manifestly unreasonable to include the cost of the PC and then act like the PC is only good for VR.
On top of that, the Vive is the most expensive example. The Rift is $200 cheaper for the same capability, and the PSVR is even cheaper than that for a still very good experience.
The PSVR surrenders a fair bit to the Rift and Vive, so you do get more for your money. But yes, if you already own a PS4, the PSVR is the better buy.
If you own a gaming PC that's already VR-capable, however, you'd be insane to go PSVR, especially now that the full Rift package is only $600.
It comes with a decent amount of free games (the Oculus at least, I don't know about the Vive) but yeah, you're not missing out on a huge amount by not being an early adopter.
Precisely. For the first time in a long time, I bought a badass system so I could get a Vive. I haven't gotten to play with the Vive much in months because house arrangements changed for the worse. Instead, I've played a ton of great PC games, many of which were on sale on Steam because I'd waited past the initial high-priced launch window.
In the video itself? Seems like a joke on the level of Halo teabagging.
But you can almost make a new strip with the second panel and then a summary of what went on in this video, retitling the panels to "how you think it should be" and "how it winds up being."
Welp. This video made me sad
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You wouldn't. Is the joke.
Basically, people observed the etiquette of a sporting duel and would apologize if they hit you while you weren't ready.
Or the biggest Roadhog, but the first possibility is more adorable.
Artemis is very good, yes. I strongly encourage people to play it if you haven't (and don't have VR for Bridge Crew).
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I hear Dark Souls is like that too. In Japan.