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Just bought a Oculus Rift CV1

Paddy234
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I just purchased a used oculus rift for $750 NZ which contains the headset, the touch controllers and 2 sensors. It will take a few days before it is delivered so i was just wondering what games would people recommend for me to get. I tried VR for the first time today using the vive at a VR lounge and was pretty blown away. I played Serious sam vr which was fun but pretty gimmicky and boring after 20 minutes and a driving game that i can't remember the name of which i didn't enjoy much due to motion sickness. I'm after more story driven games with great gameplay and while i know games like GTA 5, fallout 4, resident evil 7 etc aren't available yet for the rift are their games similar or close to these experiences? I would like to play some high quality games in graphics, story and gameplay to be immersed into the world as much as possible 
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Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary
Off the top of my head, I would recommend:

Call of the Starseed Episode 1

Robo Recall

Technolust

Obduction (now has better Touch support)

Elite Dangerous

Raw Data

SUPERHOT

Any VR Porn  😛


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Techy111
MVP
MVP
Plus a good car racing game like Assetto Corsa and a good flight sim like fsx, p3d or xplane with flyinside or now IL2 🙂 the world is your virtual oyster 😉
A PC with lots of gadgets inside and a thing to see in 3D that you put on your head.

Anonymous
Not applicable
All of those games above plus the following from the Oculus Store:

Dead & Buried (Free)
The Unspoken
Arizona Sunshine
Edge Of Nowhere
Chronos
The Assembly
Dreadhalls*
EVE Valkyrie
Dead Secret
Damaged Core

And the following from Steam:

The Solus Project*
P.O.L.L.E.N.*
Subnautica*
Push For Emor
Onward*
Pavlov*
The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter VR*

The ones I've marked with an asterisk are games that you'll need to grow your 'VR legs' before playing. Here's the best way to build up a resistance to simulation sickness:

1) Play a Comfortable rated game from the Oculus Store until you START to feel a little odd or uncomfortable and then STOP immediately (by pressing the Oculus Button on the Touch controller/Oculus Button on the remote/Xbox button on the Gamepad) and keep your headset on.

2) Take a few long blinks, around half a second each and relax.

3) Remove your headset and take a LONG break, at least several hours but I personally would recommend a break overnight.

4) Repeat steps 1-3 and after a couple of weeks you'll notice that you can last longer before feeling odd or uncomfortable. Then try some Moderated rated stuff from the Oculus Store, Lucky's Tale is an ideal game to try because it has camera movement and repeat steps 1-3. Once you have that sorted then move onto Intense rated stuff.

The most important thing is this: DON'T TRY AND POWER THROUGH IT OTHERWISE YOU WILL END UP THROWING UP OR END UP BEING LAID UP IN BED FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS AND YOUR BRAIN WILL START TO ASSOCIATE VR WITH BEING ILL.

Welcome to the future :smiley:

Expediter
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I will make this short and save you a bunch of money. 

Get a third sensor for 360 tracking, then purchase Onward.( it's on steam). Greatet VR game out there now. The other games suggested are good as well but don't offer a lasting experience in my opinion.

snowdogs advice is good as well. Take it slow, Onward's movement system was the first that let me fully run around without feeling weird. Have fun because when you find a good game vr is amazing. 

Paddy234
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Thanks guys, i do plan on getting a third sensor shortly for the 360 tracking as on the Vive it was unreal. I do wonder how locomotion in VR is going to evolve as they haven't found a perfect system yet. Can't wait till i have it :smile:

Expediter
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I find full locomotion in onward to be as good as it's going to get. I would not want to treadmill run the entire map of downfall. The full locomotion in onward is awesome and has a strange way of not making you sic. 

metalnwood
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Hi Paddy, another NZ'er, good to see..   $750 sounds like a good price for everything.   I only  got my sensors a week ago and they are a hit with everyone, it does open up a lot of different gameplay for the rift.

     As others have said, if you got a bit motion sickness it can take a while, some are worse than others.   I would not get onward until you get your VR legs.  It takes some getting used to.

    Racing and flying are often some of the easiest but there are some racing games with baked in effects that really dont work with the rift and need to be turned off in VR.  I found it easy to get sued to cockpit games, much harder to get used to ones with locomotion.

     Now I see the gameplay that the touch opens and I will have to get more used to locomotion as well or I am missing out on too much..   Things like robo recall I found easy compared to onwards.  YMMV.

Paddy234
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jasonh said:

Hi Paddy, another NZ'er, good to see..   $750 sounds like a good price for everything.   I only  got my sensors a week ago and they are a hit with everyone, it does open up a lot of different gameplay for the rift.

     As others have said, if you got a bit motion sickness it can take a while, some are worse than others.   I would not get onward until you get your VR legs.  It takes some getting used to.

    Racing and flying are often some of the easiest but there are some racing games with baked in effects that really dont work with the rift and need to be turned off in VR.  I found it easy to get sued to cockpit games, much harder to get used to ones with locomotion.

     Now I see the gameplay that the touch opens and I will have to get more used to locomotion as well or I am missing out on too much..   Things like robo recall I found easy compared to onwards.  YMMV.


Thanks Jason though i'm actually Irish, i've been living in Christchurch for the last 4 years and feel well settled here :). Yea i say the motion sickeness will be something i will have to work through so it's minimized. For me seeing and being able to interact in VR and be so immersed is something i don't want to go back on. Even playing far cry 4 today on my monitor and it just doesn't do it for me anymore since i've tried VR. I know however its all down to content and i haven't been massively impressed with most of the content so far which are basically mini games and quite gimmicky but some of the games guys mentioned on here look promising. I'm very much looking forward to fallout 4 VR and hopefully when PSVR exclusive deal with resident evil 7 expires they bring it to PC users. With more and more people buying VR we will start to see some big serious games come to it  

The-Hoff
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snowdog said:

All of those games above plus the following from the Oculus Store:

Dead & Buried (Free)
The Unspoken
Arizona Sunshine
Edge Of Nowhere
Chronos
The Assembly
Dreadhalls*
EVE Valkyrie
Dead Secret
Damaged Core

And the following from Steam:

The Solus Project*
P.O.L.L.E.N.*
Subnautica*
Push For Emor
Onward*
Pavlov*
The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter VR*

The ones I've marked with an asterisk are games that you'll need to grow your 'VR legs' before playing. Here's the best way to build up a resistance to simulation sickness:

1) Play a Comfortable rated game from the Oculus Store until you START to feel a little odd or uncomfortable and then STOP immediately (by pressing the Oculus Button on the Touch controller/Oculus Button on the remote/Xbox button on the Gamepad) and keep your headset on.

2) Take a few long blinks, around half a second each and relax.

3) Remove your headset and take a LONG break, at least several hours but I personally would recommend a break overnight.

4) Repeat steps 1-3 and after a couple of weeks you'll notice that you can last longer before feeling odd or uncomfortable. Then try some Moderated rated stuff from the Oculus Store, Lucky's Tale is an ideal game to try because it has camera movement and repeat steps 1-3. Once you have that sorted then move onto Intense rated stuff.

The most important thing is this: DON'T TRY AND POWER THROUGH IT OTHERWISE YOU WILL END UP THROWING UP OR END UP BEING LAID UP IN BED FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS AND YOUR BRAIN WILL START TO ASSOCIATE VR WITH BEING ILL.

Welcome to the future :smiley:


I tried Dreadhalls a while ago and I didn't take a break and I felt absolutely dreadful for an entire day. Since then I haven't been back but I want to. Maybe I should try your steps to see if it works for me. Can you really train yourself to get used to it and not feel sick with intense games?
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