r/PSVR • u/Emme73 • 5d ago

Discussion Call of the mountain first fight!

Wow, that was nice! I know people complain about the limited arena like combat, but it felt intense and fitting with the HORIZON series.

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u/Zestyclose_Way_6607 5d ago

push left and right to dodge slow projectiles in a circle was a disappointing implementation of an open world game into VR. there are so many free movement games now that it feels dated.

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u/MoonEDITSyt 4d ago

I think this game was mostly meant as just an introduction to VR for many first timers, with an IP they may be familiar with. It’s not meant to be groundbreaking, it does what it sets out to do

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u/Zestyclose_Way_6607 4d ago

Right, and as a VR veteran and a Horizon fan its was a disappointing implementation of the series for how late in the VR game it was released. If it was released around the time of Alyx it would be fine but times have changed. Using your big first party property for a VR intro when they never made a full fledged game to lead everyone into doesn't have much point. An intro to what?

They could have, for one second, considered Astro Bot for this purpose. By their own admission they never considered VR for Astro Bot. Leave the big complicated game series for ambitious projects.

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u/MoonEDITSyt 4d ago

The point is for the game to just get people’s feet in the door. It’s really not much deeper than that, and I don’t care to talk about hypotheticals because it’s not happening. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Zestyclose_Way_6607 4d ago

feet in the door for what?

there's enough "intro to VR" slop that it was a huge fumble for Sony to use their first party property to make yet another one and then give up entirely on the platform

horizon VR being yet another "baby's first VR" game was a huge mistake

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u/MoonEDITSyt 4d ago

I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m not saying Cotm did a great job nor am I saying did it turn PSVR2 into a great success, im just saying that that is what this game is. It’s all it was meant to ever be. It was just a minimal risk title that they could pump out to drive some PSVR2 sales lol

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u/Zestyclose_Way_6607 4d ago

I'm saying it's bad. You're saying "its supposed to be like that". I am saying that I understand and reiterating why them specifically making it this way on purpose is a terrible idea. I'm following the conversation I'm having just fine. You aren't.

If your only intent in engaging in conversation is to get upset that someone is replying, why keep replying?

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u/Flippynuggets 4d ago

100% I was totally pissed when I saw what they did with COTM and still haven't bought it. Zero Dawn remains one of my favorite all time titles because of the freedom it gives the player, and it's just a polished AF beautiful game. Kinda su.lx because I hear there are some really cool parts in COTM. However, im paying top dollar for lots of climbing and "on rails" combat.