Metro Awakening the Subject of New PSVR2 Screenshots

If I had a PSVR2 I'd be all over this. Love the Metro games.

This and the Alien game - life in the not so old dog yet.

Love Metro, games like this and the Assassin’s Creed one are why I’d quite enjoy VR if it didn’t make me feel violently ill.

@nessisonett Still feel ill on PSVR2? That sucks, but you should go check your ears, I read an article at the doctor's waitingroom that the balance part of the ear is the main factor for illness in VR.
If that is true, I hope they can make some "medicine" so everyone can enjoy VR.

@hypnotoad Yeah like real dogs, they have that burst of life and then they die.

@Zeke68 interesting. I suffer from single-sided deafness in left ear, always at least moderate to bad tinnitus. Thank god the vertigo has gone away. Maybe I’m glad I’ve waited on the VR thing.

Everything I read and see about this game makes it a day one buy for me. Love the flat games. The atmosphere in vr is going to be great and I love the little touches like having to put on your gas mask.

@Zeke68 Haha, wouldn’t pay that much for PSVR2 considering the first one made me ill!

@nessisonett I have two friends that played my PSVR1 for like 2 minutes and was green in the face and ready to puke, but they play Beat Saber, GT7, Walking Dead and Resident Evil without problems on the PSVR2. So it must be the updated screens in the headset I guess. Better framerates and so on..

Wait, I thought Sony wasn't supporting this anymore. Someone email the Playstation Blog and take this post down. That guy on Android Central said so. Push Square and every other gaming outlet reported it. This post must be fake, otherwise gaming media is being really misleading for no reason.

@CVCubbington Yeah, as I was sitting waiting for my appointment my eyes fell on that medical magazine on the table. Some swedish research magazine, don't remember the name, but after a few pages I found this article "Why does Virtual Reality" make some people nauseous and some not"
And it was pointing to some "damage" in the middle ear. Was a lot of medical terms I can never repeat, but that was the main point. I found it great they actually seem to make some research about the problem at least.

Maybe I will dust it off for this one....even though I might just have to accept I don't like playing in vr that much...just a pain in arse lol

I've been playing my PSVR2 a surprising amount of late. Synth Riders is simply brilliant

Metro Awakening, Behemoth, Alien Rogue Incursion, Arken Age, Wanderer, Max Mustard, Ghosts of Tabor, Low-Fi(?), Zombie Army VR, Mare, Aces of Thunder.. The 2nd half of 2024 is going to be amazing for PSVR 2, so much bangers! My poor wallet...😬😭

Will be playing this on PC. I just hope that it's not yet another short VR game, that only last for about 5-6 hours, and has no replay value.
I also get the feeling that it will be more of an "experience", with a few heavily scripted action moment squeezed in. Which is another problem with a lot of VR games. Less of a full blown game, and more of an interactive "Universal Studios" ride.

I hope I'm wrong about everything above, as I want it to be a proper Metro game, and not a typical VR cash grab.

I love my PSVR1 and PSVR2 but I'm gradually moving my VR library over to my Quest 3.

I'm gutted I've spent so much money in the PS Store that I'll never get back.

@WaveBoy No I don't have a PC (yet) but absolutely love my Quest 3. The sweet spot is perfect and the lack of cable has made it so much more hassle free.

I agree that PSVR2 has better colour range but I see very little difference in the fidelity considering Quest 3 is half the price.

What would be really cool is if this was just the first point in an unholy triangle of games to come to PSVR2, the other two being Resistance and Killzone... Come on Sony!

I have no plan to play this VR game as I haven’t and not interested to gave PS VR which is a useless gadjet.
But I will definitely chase its news and wishing 4A the best.
I’m insanely waiting for their next metro on consoles.

@__jamiie But they're essentially the same price? Or are you arguing that PS5 is needed? Cause if you're on here then chances are you already have one, no?

@WaveBoy I'll look into this.

Wooowww Sammy AND Liam remembered PSVR2 exists today. Is this heaven? Am I dead?

@maybemaybemaybe I don't quite understand what you're saying. I have a PS5, and PSVR2. And a Meta Quest 3.

One cost me £600.

The other cost me £1,200.

@WaveBoy Still curious to hear how psvr2 works out on PC. The lenses are pure garbage but the actual IQ is good on it. The problem most psvr2 games have is low resolution rendering because the hardware is really too weak, and most of the games are cheap quest 2, not 3 ports. May end up decent as wired pcvr aside the lenses. At least direct DP without compression so good to have along with q3.

@WaveBoy the blacks and compression are big deals. Ironically psvr2 is a "real" pcvr headset with display port native while quest 3 is an AV1 compressed in between . Quest is still better in a lot of ways but it's nice to have a native dp pcvr set around if you do pc rather than only quest. Even if quest is better.

But yeah the gimped features is just dumb. Otoh no pcvr headset under $1500 has eye tracking so it's not at a competitive disadvantage there. And only a selection of titles supports it (flight Sim, dcs, UEVR (which is hacky) etc.

Moss 2 is one of the frew that use the full res. Legendary tales, cyube, Unplugged, red matter 2. Nms. Many games are sloppy q2 ports though and it gives vr2 a worse rep than it should.

Still a weird no man's land. Psvr2 has it's problems. Quest 3 is great hardware but either PS2 gfx or compromised on PC. And dedicated pcvrsv are big and expensive. Still for pc, at least if you already have vr2 you get a real pcvr dp set out of it.

Still probably getting q3. Though. Maybe a PCvr rig too.

@__jamiie it's a disingenuous argument. The PSVR2 didn't cost you that much, a PS5 and the VR2 did.

The target audience for the VR2 are those who already have a PS5, that's your baseline. From there both are essentially the same price and to suggest you're paying the whole 1200 for the VR2 is wilful ignorance.

@NEStalgia I suspect those features are absent... for now. They could either be implemented by Sony or modders down the line Again, this leads me to believe the "Sony has dropped PSVR2 support" premise is nonsense. They wouldn't hold those back if they were really trying to sell PSVR + PC Adapters in earnest. Galaxy brain: it's part of a deal to get Alyx on PS5 eventually. Practical brain: they're hedging their bets. Cynical brain: A team developed the adapter for a now vestigial purpose (an old Alyx deal that's never happening, or maybe a Horizon VR port to PC) and they're trying to recoup dev costs without investing more funds.

@yoda87960 I think it's a bit simpler than that, in that they were trying to get an adapter out quickly and cheaply. As no PCVR games even support the haptics, and no other unit at similar price points support eye tracking, it was a simple decision to not spend the extra money developing those features. People got overexcited that because the eye tracking exists it would bring foveated to low cost PCVR for the first time, but the reality is there's no incentive for Sony to invest in that as it can't generate a return for them.

And to be fair, the only reason they bothered implementing it to begin with is because of the PS5's relative "weak" hardware for VR made it kind of necessary for console VR to be viable, while on PC, it's a rare feature anyway, and most things rely on the ability to brute force it natively, and even in games that do support it, there's often only a 15% improvement from it at most. If that's the difference from 40-60 frames that matters, but often it doesn't.

So I kind of "get it", but I still think it's a shame.

As for their role in dropping VR, I think Jimbo was pretty up front about their strategy early on (rare for him) - their only reason to be in VR is because Meta is basically running a rival console ecosystem to PS and they couldn't let the VR differentiator allow Meta to start gaining traction in the "console gaming space" without their ability to also be there in case that happened and be able to have their own VR to compete. But since Meta isn't gaining enough market to be a threat to PS, Sony doesn't actually care about the VR space. I.E. Meta is in VR because they see a business market in VR. Sony is in VR just in case Meta creates a market that competes with PS for customers. PC support just lets them amortize their investment, but not enough to put money into making it a particularly desirable PC component.

@WaveBoy For Meta, their two issues are that they're really a console, so subsidized hardware made up on software sales in their store. Theyn don't really want to put too much effort into to playing steam games on the hardware they payed for. Plus their whole platform is about simplicity. One cable, plug it in, done. Adding display port with a breakout adapter and power plug and USB etc runs against their brand design. And dp over USB at that res with power delivery isn't up to snuff either, so they just run it through the video streaming. It works for what they're doing but it's not whats ideal for heavy pcvr. It's ironically one place where the Sony is better. And obviously dedicated pcvr sets.

Psvr2 apparently uses the NV Link that Nvidia included, then abandoned on the rtx 20xx series. It's not a normal usb 3.2 plug on the front of PS5, is a property Nvidia connection that they abandoned after like 3 years. Which is funny, it means all PS5 owners are paying for psvr2 functionality, it's built into the console 😂
I loved both moss games, but I agree it's more of an expansion than sequel. Then again most sequels used to be like that until dlc made it extinct. I played both back to back on vr2 . Didn't get tired of it really but I wasn't longing for more either.

@maybemaybemaybe I'd love for you to show me a way to use my PSVR2 without the PS5.

@NEStalgia This makes the most sense, especially since Meta basically launched their own PS Plus Essential/nerfed Game Pass subscription thing. Seems like they're trying to go after Sony, but it's not making much of an impact overall (when you include non-VR home gaming). And yet, Sony will still attempt to have something in place in the event they do become a significant threat to market share or a whole new market emerges. Wonder if Zuckerberg will ever go crazy enough to try and launch a regular console. VR is fascinating from a historical perspective, even if it ends up being a dead end.

@WaveBoy Wow you fought the octopus in 2024? You get a cookie. I've had my VR1 sitting there since 2020, I never even got my adapter from Sony. I still have multiple PS4's sitting around. I never actually finished Astrobot to the end, and had dreamed of finishing it on PS5, but, alas, it won't be, and I can't get myself to hook up that monstrosity again to do it. Let alone deal with the fog lol.

IDK, VR2 doesn't feel much more alive than VR2 really, I don't think lack of a "collective" experience matters much to me. Lack of enjoyable to use hardware matters more. The more poignant part is that you find playing retro games on a real CRT has more collective experience than PSVR.

Astrobot's fate is tragic IMO. A mascot created for VR turned pancake hero. It's like finding out that Mario will only appear in movies from now on, no more games.

Yeah, that shark cage was something else. I you know me, and I don't touch horror, but somehow, I know it's not a "horror" theme, but that should be more terrifying....but I enjoyed it lol. Was pretty tense the whole time though.

I still find it so weird how there's this whole Quest/Game Pass partnership thing going on, which doesn't involve VR at all. Like, why bother? The main obstacles I see with Quest/Xbox for VR is that, MS not only doesn't care about VR, but is ENDING their direct Windows VR program (Windows Mixed Reality) and in the process breaking several good HMDs (HP Reverb G2 being the most notable, super popular headset with sim flight/racing players.) They'll be removing it in a Windows update. That's the first VR system retroactively killed from above I know of. Meanwhile, for Meta, the Xbox console market is, I think about the same size as their own market of Q1, 2, 3, and Pro combined. Yeah, unfair comparing generations to one generation, but still, for Meta they wouldn't be gaining a ton of potential market even if Xbox unexpectedly chose to support it, so it may not be worth their time. It makes a lot of sense for the consumer, but with Xbox in a stalled growth position, and MS itself actively killing the proprietary VR system they had in Windows, it doesn't seem that likely anymore. I think the era of PSVR1 was when the whole industry felt VR had the possibility to become mainstream and gave it a try. That time ended, and VR is its own industry with its own players, the big mass market firms lost any interest because they couldn't turn it into an instant new huge market.

But I still find it bizzarre that there's an actual Xbox branded Quest 3 that exists.......just to play pancake on big screen mode. Just...why..?

LOL, seems some "prime day" sales are showing up on Q3 and I might just have to bite! Probably wont get around to use it for a few weeks, but it's calling to me. Only thing that's a killer is the darned accessories cost more than the headset....it looks "cheap" and then when you're doing buying things to make it convenient it costs as much as a flipping BSB lol. Especially if taking wireless PCVR into account. Batteries, batteries, batteries.

I can't decide between elite/halo strap either. I'm only used to halo from PSVR2, and I neither love it nor hate it. Some days the pressure on my head annoys me, some days it doesn't, but IDK if pressure on my face would feel better or worse.

I've seen some threads of people that went to Q3 for a while, and then went back to PSVR2 or Quest Pro or even Index because they felt the contrast/colors made the Q3 feel less "real", despite the worse motion. But part of me assumes these are the same people that play on quality mode in pancacke because 30fps "looks the same"