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So, I bought an XBox One

MowTin
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I'm looking to switch my 1080p projector to a 4k projector. I needed a 4k Bluray player. PS4 failed to deliver this so I replaced by old PS3 with an XBox One X. Only choice if you're a Home Theater enthusiast.

So, why do I bring this up in a VR forum? Well, I decided to play some Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. It looked great on my massive 133" screen and all but...moving around a controller to aim? Pancake console gaming just feels so primitive now after getting used to holding guns in your hands and pointing and shooting. I can never go back to fiddling around with a thumbstick. 

First person shooters in 2D are totally dead to me now. But third person games (I bought Red Dead Redemption 2) still feel good. 

But of course, flat games have so much more content than most VR games. I can't wait for the day when ports are more common and we have full AAA VR games.

Has VR affected your ability to enjoy certain 2D games you used to enjoy? I'm always thinking, "Boy I wish this were in VR." 
i7 9700k 3090 rtx   CV1, Rift-S, Index, G2
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OmegaM4N
Expert Trustee
^^^Wow, that is a bummer, first time i have heard of VR having such a negative affect.
CV1/Vive-knuckles)/Dell Vr Visor/Go/Quest II/ PSVR.

RedRizla
Honored Visionary
I think they ditched 3D to quickly when it came to PC gaming. We have the hardware now for great 3D games with good FPS. You can totally get immersed when you have a large screen and a game in 3D, so it's a shame it came to an end for games even though movies failed to catch on. Yes you can still get modded games, but now that Projectors are moving to 4K, I just hope they don't stop doing 3D projectors too..

falken76
Expert Consultant

MowTin said:


Has VR affected your ability to enjoy certain 2D games you used to enjoy? I'm always thinking, "Boy I wish this were in VR." 



VR actually re-ignited my interest in games.  I got board with gaming more than 10 years ago.  I'm not a gamer, I play this thing just enough for it to still amaze the shit out of me more than 2 years after I bought it.  I might use it 3 times a week, but compared to how much I gamed for a decade before I got this, that's a 100% increase.

It most certainly must effect my desire to play any 2d games.  There was a new 2d Transformers (g1) game that came out last year that was on sale on steam.  I didn't want to lose money on the deal so I bought it.  I still haven't installed it because I'd have to go get the xbox controller out of the rift box and install the drivers, by then I have lost interest and find myself in Onward.

Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary

MowTin said:

Has VR affected your ability to enjoy certain 2D games you used to enjoy? I'm always thinking, "Boy I wish this were in VR." 


No, not at all. 


System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.

DigitalDeviant
Protege
Interesting thread. B)
I think even before VR came along I was becoming somewhat jaded with 2D games. I have been around a fair while and whilst games have improved in aesthetics and such over the years, the core experience has not undergone a paradigm shift such as VR since the transition into 3D gaming. You hang around long enough and you become less impressed with the recycling that goes on.
I can still enjoy a 2D game, I still like playing RDR2 for example and I am impressed with its incredibly detailed world but it takes something of that calibre to get me on board these days. What gets me about VR is how even an apparently mundane mini game can grip me in the VR space. I can't tell you how long I have spent just looking at VR objects up close, throwing them about and playing the blaster / target mini game types. This is the relatively early stages of VR too, so I am glad it came along when it did because it means i will be around to experience the birth and maturity of at least two paradigm shifts in video game entertainment.

Napagady
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Where do you buy games for Xbox One ?

Digikid1
Consultant

Napagady said:

Where do you buy games for Xbox One ?


Can’t Tell if that’s a serious question or not......

OmegaM4N
Expert Trustee

Napagady said:

Where do you buy games for Xbox One ?


You start up your PC and Rift, then start up your XBX, then you start XBX streaming service that will stream your xbox to your rift in theatre mode, then you put your headset on and navigate the XBX dashboard to the xbox store, and then you buy xbox games. 😉

CV1/Vive-knuckles)/Dell Vr Visor/Go/Quest II/ PSVR.

SkScotchegg
Expert Trustee

MowTin said:

I'm looking to switch my 1080p projector to a 4k projector. I needed a 4k Bluray player. PS4 failed to deliver this so I replaced by old PS3 with an XBox One X. Only choice if you're a Home Theater enthusiast.

So, why do I bring this up in a VR forum? Well, I decided to play some Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. It looked great on my massive 133" screen and all but...moving around a controller to aim? Pancake console gaming just feels so primitive now after getting used to holding guns in your hands and pointing and shooting. I can never go back to fiddling around with a thumbstick. 

First person shooters in 2D are totally dead to me now. But third person games (I bought Red Dead Redemption 2) still feel good. 

But of course, flat games have so much more content than most VR games. I can't wait for the day when ports are more common and we have full AAA VR games.

Has VR affected your ability to enjoy certain 2D games you used to enjoy? I'm always thinking, "Boy I wish this were in VR." 


Mate I would highly recommend you don't go 4k for projectors, a lot of people including me can't tell the difference and I'm afraid you will make this purchase and then regret it and feel you have wasted your money.

I would stick to 1080p for projector if I was you. 

And regarding games, I haven't been effected by that, I play Battlefield 5 on PC with keyboard and mouse and I love it, and I play Read Dead Redemption 2 and Spiderman on PS4 and love that too. 

And of course VR is amazing but it hasn't taken anything away from standard 2D gaming for me personally. I enjoy gaming on all platforms.

One thing I did notice, after playing Fifa on my projector for past 5 years, when I tried to play it on my PC monitor which is 35" I couldn't play it, it just didn't feel right, it felt too small, but this is an exception, Fifa is the only game I have to play on a massive projector screen over 120". Everything else I'm happy to play on my 35" monitor or my 55" 4k TV.
UK: England - Leeds - - RTX 2080 - Rift CV1 & Rift S - Make love, not war - See you in the Oasis!

MowTin
Expert Trustee

RedRizla said:

@MowTin - Where do you get the Tridef driver from for 3D. When I try to get it it says it's no longer available? Is there anything else that would work apart from Nvidia 3D vision, which I already have for some games?


No idea what you're talking about. I'm not playing RDR2 in 3D. I'm playing it on XBox One X on my projector. 
i7 9700k 3090 rtx   CV1, Rift-S, Index, G2