Joe from GamersFTW writes: Every so often, you need to look back to see how far you’ve come. The gaming industry has come a long way since the days of the Commodore 64 and Atari 2600, controlling one rectangle in order to get a square past another rectangle in Pong. With virtual reality becoming more reality than virtual this year, making its way into the living room of those burdened with excessive amounts of disposable income, it seems as though this year is a great year for the gaming industry. 2016 is looking set to be a benchmark year for the industry.
Laundry, cleaning and classic arcade games all in glorious virtual reality
It's sometimes claimed that PC VR usage on Steam is shrinking, but here's why that isn't actually true.
Vr is dope. Idk know why people wanna hate. It's definitely a dope next step. Even if it's a sidestep. I really wish more developers would throw down. Imagine a last of us with vr, or a final fantasy game, all kinds of stuff. It would be incredible.
The Flat2VR community is taking the next step and announced a studio that will develop and commercialize licensed VR ports.
This is great news I love virtual reality and my psVR2 however it's clear that the current bespoke way of building VR games is not working. There's some great games that have been released Absol but they are few and far between and if they are native they are clearly lower in budget and scope then at least I would like. It's definitely jarring to.go from high quality games like Spider-Man 2 to the biggest VR releases like Arizona sunshine 2 and see the huge gulp in quality.
This company aims to streamline porting older games into VR and make them feel as VR native as possible.
And to be honest some of my favourite VR experiences have been traditionally flat screen games ported into VR like resident evil 7, 8 4, doom 3 with the aim controller or borderlands 2.
And I'm not saying that there isn't great native VR games to be found I'm saying more traditional games ported over would be very welcome we have decades of amazing games that we all love and VR presents an opportunity to truely bring us into the world.
Amazing news, there're so many forgotten gems out there, these guys have been consistently porting old games like Return to Wolfenstein, Quake 4, jedi knight, etc. Sounds great that they can earn a living by doing official ports, publishers dust off some old properties, gamers get great games in VR, we all win.
Awesome news! Which popular Steam and Switch game do you think is their first project?
very nice article! yeah, this year is a huge leap of the gaming industry. the next great year after 2016 will be the year when GTA6 will be released :D
2016 looks set to be a very good year in recent memory, yes, but the RARE days of 1998 takes it for me.
I think it's a question that needs to be asked in hindsight. 1998 and 2007 are good years looking backwards, sure, but we couldn't say that they were big deals before they happened. I will admit that 2016 is looking promising. Time will tell if it will be memorable.
No, but a great year none the least.
This will be a great year for any gamer regardless of platform. The return of the JRPG genre to consoles. The PS4 getting finally getting a shit ton of major exclusives:
Uncharted 4
Let it Die
VR line up of games
Just to name a few
Is just another great year for PC gaming exclusives:
P.A.M.E.L.A
Stellaris
Stardew Valley
Superhot
Xcom 2
Tides of Numera
Perception
Lost Ark
Star Citizen
I am just babbling now but is a great year nonetheless.