{"id":3145,"date":"2020-09-16T07:17:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T07:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obilesky.com\/2020\/09\/16\/valve-explains-why-half-life-alyx-is-vr-only-this-is-just-the-start-of-half-lifes-return\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T07:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T07:17:23","slug":"valve-explains-why-half-life-alyx-is-vr-only-this-is-just-the-start-of-half-lifes-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"Valve explains why Half-Life: Alyx is VR-only, this is just the start of Half-Life&#8217;s return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.obilesky.com\/game\/0216\/1qxkv0betw1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p> System Requirements <\/p>\n<p>Low vs Ultra Screenshots<\/p>\n<p>GPU Performance Chart<\/p>\n<p>CPU List That Meet System Requirements<\/p>\n<p>GPU List That Meet System Requirements<\/p>\n<p>Comments <\/p>\n<p>Half-Life: Alyx <\/p>\n<p>PC Demand<\/p>\n<p>14 <\/p>\n<p>Rate this game<\/p>\n<p>User Rating<\/p>\n<p>6.71 <\/p>\n<p>Ok<\/p>\n<p>Not Ok<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"ors-thumb-up-36729\" class=\"thumb-btn-36729 thumbUpClean   \" data-thumb-val=\"1\" title=\"I think Half-Life: Alyx is well optimised\" data-gid=\"36729\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p><button id=\"ors-thumb-down-36729\" class=\"thumb-btn-36729 thumbDownClean   \" data-thumb-val=\"-1\" title=\"I think Half-Life: Alyx is not well optimised\" data-gid=\"36729\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Optimisation<\/p>\n<p>5.3 <\/p>\n<p>For gamers without an obscene amount of cash taking up precious space in their wallets, the news that Half-Life: Alyx would be a VR-exclusive no doubt caused its fair share of disappointment. Here we are, waiting, well, half our lives for a new Half-Life, and along comes a version targeted at a comparatively microscopic audience. It\u2019s frustrating, for sure, but Valve also felt it was a necessary step in order to truly push the Half-Life franchise forward in a meaningful way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Verge, Valve programmer David Speyer how the experimentation with both the Half-Life franchise and VR has opened up many potential new avenues for the Half-Life series, breathing new hope into an eventual Half-Life 3.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether this means we can expect to see more Half-Life titles, Speyrer said \u201cYes. <em>It\u2019s probably no surprise that many people at Valve have been wanting to get back to the Half-Life universe for a long time, and this experience has only reinforced that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the process of creating Half-Life: Alyx, we\u2019ve had to explore new ways to tell stories with these characters and this world, and we\u2019ve discovered a lot of new gameplay experiences that go beyond what we\u2019ve been able to do before. Of course, we\u2019ll have to wait and see how people react to Half-Life: Alyx once it\u2019s out, but we\u2019d love to continue pushing forward.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle scrolling-ad-item\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0052787453283862\" data-ad-slot=\"2741061911\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Of course, in the here and now it\u2019s all about Half-Life Alyx, and if you\u2019re clinging onto a faint hope that there\u2019ll eventually be a standard \u2018flat\u2019 version, then it\u2019s probably time to let you down gently. Half-Life: Alyx is a virtual reality exclusive. It\u2019s been designed from the ground up for VR and motion controls and it just won\u2019t be possible to create a non-VR version of the eagerly anticipated game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe would love to be delivering a version of this that you could play with a mouse and a keyboard,\u201d<\/em> said Valve\u2019s Dario Casali during a chat with Geoff Keighley. <em>\u201cBut as we said, it began as an exploration of VR. The more we used the controllers and the headset, the amount of possibilities these things give us, the more we realized that there\u2019s so much opportunity that we can\u2019t really translate back to the keyboard.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As such, you&#8217;re absolutely going to need a PC VR headset if you want to play Half-Life Alyx. The premium option would be Valve&#8217;s Index headset but, at $999 for the full package, it certainly isn&#8217;t cheap. Fortunately, HL Alyx will be compatible with most dedicate PC virtual reality HMDs, the cheapest of which would be either the Oculus Quest plus a link cable, or the Oculus Quest, for $399. These include Oculus Touch controllers for motion control. At $400 it&#8217;s definitely not cheap but, aside from second-hand hardware, it&#8217;s just about the cheapest way to play Half-Life: Alyx at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System Requirements Low vs Ultra Screenshots GPU Performance Chart CPU List That Meet System Requirements&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1543,1332,129,1567,590],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news","tag-alyx","tag-explains","tag-life","tag-return","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}