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This game is undeniably an excellent game. However, there is a HUGE skill barrier to entry.

People are going to look at the videos/screenshots and think of a 3rd person hack n slash game. This is not that, this is not that AT ALL.

This game is a super competetive fighting game, with an extremely high skill ceiling. Unfortunately, the control interface and general gameplay is much different than anything else ever made in this style. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because it's fresh and different. It's bad because it makes learning what you are doing wrong a complete nightmare.

The "uniqueness" of the combat system also makes it somewhat unintuitive and you are going to lose .. a lot .. before you get good. When you begin playing this game, get ready to get floored over and over again, I suspect that there is a large amount of people that will not be able to adapt to this combat system. Add in the fact that the game looks like a casual hack n slash and that is a huge recipe for dissapointment.

However, if white knuckle highly competetive fighting games are your thing, then this game is your jam. Imagine if Street Fighter completely threw out its 6 button system and replaced it with something never done before by anyone. You will get a sense of infuriation and confusion over something you're nto used to, but if you master it .. you will be miles above the average player and able to roll people. But, like in high level fighting games .. when you get 2 players fighting who are both competent ... then thats when this game shines, you will have one of the most intense fighting experiences you've ever had.

I hope this will become an eSports game, because this is the sort of thing that would be amazing to watch on a stage.

It's a bit rough around the edges, but its neat.

Thumbs up if it has any chance of bringing us a Deus Ex VR game though.

Twin Stick Free Locomotion Just implemented in the Experimental Mode! - And its freaking amazing!

I am loving this game so much since Twin Stick mode was implemented.
The Twin Stick mode emulates dual stick movement on a controller or WASD/mouse movement. It enables you to move forward/back and strafe left/right with your left stick and smooth turning in the right stick. You can now move, block and slash all at the same time!

The dev implemented this feature based on user feedback and is proven to be focused and active.

Strong VR FPS are few and far between, but in my eyes this has just become one of them and earned my full recommendation. Buy this now!

I've never played a Serious Sam game before .. The enemies look janky as hell, the graphics look like the game was made in the early to mid 2000's. However as a VR game, this game is excellent! VR makes those downsides far less of a problem, as it is so much fun just pointing and blasting away at endless enemies no matter what they look like.

Which brings me to the best point about this game: The controls!

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter has THE best implementation of controls in any VR FPS game so far.

They have gone the extra mile to implement every possible option in favor of letting the user customize the experience as they see fit for either the best immersion setting or best comfort setting, whatever suits you.

It has:

- Teleportation
- Free locomotion with Strafing
- Oriented from the controller
- Oriented from the head set
- Smooth Turning
- Snap Turning

And much much more.

I am personally playing it with full free locomotion, strafing, with orientation to the head set and it is perfect! The gameplay is as fast paced as the classic DooM/Duke3D style games except its in VR and you can point and shoot in all directions with your motion controllers. I can only hope that other Dev's take note, because THIS is how you do VR controls!

I highly recommend this, and suggest letting other dev's know about it because this game succeeds where so many other dev's have failed.

I think this is currently the best open world Skiing/Snowboarding Game out there.

Traverse a large mountain terrain and explore to your hearts content. If you can see it you can walk to it, you can ski on it or you can fly over it.

The visuals are amazing, excellent graphics. Decent music/sound effects. Gameplay can be either immensely challenging or soothingly chill as you carve up the slopes pulling off insane tricks or just exploring the vast and beautiful environment.

Most of the challenges arent too hard, but there are a few that will have you raging hard to beat them. It was personally pretty satsifying to overcome these, but they are mostly the higher level challenges.

The biggest complaint I have seen is about the price tag. Is it worth $60? .. maybe, it is for me personally as I intend to be playing it often just to relax and explore and remind myself of Skiing. This means I will eventually sink at least 80 to 100 hours into the game easily, thus making it a solid investment. If you're looking for something more than that, then maybe perhaps wait for the price to come down a bit to around $40.

After about 20 hours of gameplay I have hit max level and unlocked all the mountains, but there is still tonnes of challenges left that I haven't yet gotten gold on and plenty of drop-points/points of interest still left to find.

IMO: If you want a Skiing Game that focuses primarily on exploration, then I would say that this is worth getting it for the full price. If you are looking for anything else, wait for a sale.

A truly unique take on a CCG, it does draw from elements of popular games such as Magic: The Gathering but the rules are different enough to provide an interesting new challenge.

The theme is excellent, I love Cyberpunk and this game is Cyberpunk as ♥♥♥♥!

But the best part is how the single player campaign is implemented. It's a true "limited league" environment where you start with a crappy pile of cards and you work at it by defeating enemies and gaining cards and completing quests to gain credits and buying more cards, eventually crafting the perfect deck to stomp everyone in the field. This is the best computer based CCG I have played since the original Magic: The Gathering - Shandalar game from 1994.

THIS is how you do a video-game based CCG. No free to play nonsense, no build restrictions, just play/acquire/build till you have a kick-ass deck that does everything you want it to.

I fully recommend this game.

This game is fantastic.

On the surface it seems like a simple, stupid piece of fun .. but things get a bit deeper when you play online against real humans. It's actually a pretty deep turn based strategy/card game at it's core. You won't see much challenging game play vs the AI who always seems to spout nonsense insults that amount to little to nothing. Playing online however you face off against players who actually know how to play and string together insult combo's that require you to out-think your opponent.

Do you take the continuation? Can your opponent get more than 15 points to cancel you? Should you cop a grammar penalty to take the last "is a cheese shop" card and break your opponents combo? There is an incredible amount of depth to this game that just seems like simple stupid fun.

The downside is that there are a lot of idiot's online who disconnect rather than take a loss, which can be annoying. But that's a pretty common problem in any online 1v1 environment even in AAA titles, for an indie dev I can hardly blame them for that. They are aparently working on a way to fix the issue though.

This game is a steal for 1-2$ .. I would have payed upwards of $5 easily and have gotten tonnes of enjoyment out of it.

Click-turning is forced on the player.

No option for free locomotion with stick/mouse turning.

No teleport option for those with room-scale.

Your view is blacked out with an "out of bounds message" if you try to turn around without click turning.

Strafe keys have been "dimmed" so you only move very slightly to the right or left when strafing.

The game itself looks really good and it has some very interesting things going for it especially with how it co-ordinates your HMD movements to the actual character body - like leaning the torso in if you move your head forward. Theres some good stuff here but it is marred by absolute garbage controls with no customizability for either convenience or comfort.

Wipeout is back, and its got a new coat of paint: Red
Red makes things move faster. It's a fact!

The visuals are stunning, the music is excellent. The gameplay is a bit tricky at first, but at some point the control scheme just "clicks" and you start burning magnet at 1500 km/h, much as it did with the original Wipeout games.

I have been exclusively playing the game in VR personally. While it is not an extremely polished VR implementation, I have had minor issues such as judder during menu's and loading screens (but not in game thankfully). They have also ommitted any actual Cockpit mode, aparently due to it causing motion sickness for their beta testers. They claim to be working on perfecting the cockpit mode for motion sickness but the fact they couldnt include it on launch is a bit of a dissapointment because it would have been amazing. The views for VR that are included are "face on the road" or "sitting on top of your ship".

Other than that it has been an absolute blast. Wipeout style anti-grav racers are a dying bread and in sore need of a solid title to bring them back into focus. Redout is exactly that .. only its actually faster. It's Wipeout at the speed of Extreme G.

I fully recommend it.

New Retro Arcade: Neon is my new Life.

Ok - HUGE caveat:

1. New Retro Arcade: Neon does NOT come with arcade machines loaded with games to play. You must modify them yourself with emulators and roms which must be acquired on your own.

2. This game is VERY buggy right now, it almost should have been an early access game.

3. This game is very much intended to be modified to suit your needs, but requires you to have some decent problem solving and research skills to figure out how to work all of the features to make it shine. It is not for the feint of heart .. or 'mind' in this case.

Despite those points I am still recommending this title.

NRA-N is the BEST emulation lobby you will ever encounter. The immersion factor is THROUGH THE ROOF on this one, you get to walk around an 80's-90's style arcade environment which includes many interactable features and mini-games such as the ticket-style games you would typically find in an arcade like: ski-ball, basketball hoop shooting, darts, air hockey.

Then, with the NRA-N configuration tool you can add:

Each arcade can emulate a game of your choosing, so that when you walk up to it and interact it loads the game and it plays on the screen IN the environment! You dont even leave NRA-N .. if you want to stop playing that arcade machine .. just turn around and walk away to another .. start that one up and play. The feeling you get when doing this will flash you right back to the 90's when you slammed your fist down after losing at a game and the continue screen appears and starts to count down.

There are game cartridges littered throughout the environment, using the config tool you can make these games emulate any SNES/Genesis/NES or other console game, instead of just interacting with it, you have to physically pick it up and put it into the game console and it will start playing on a CRT screen. Just think, in 2016, you can play Super Metroid on a CRT screen on your top tier PC in VR.

There are cassette tapes littered all over the place, you can use the config tool to load these up with any MP3 you want and then plug them into a cassette player to play whatever song you want to set the mood.

There are VHS tapes you can set to movie files so you can watch Aliens .. or Terminator 2 on a CRT TV! - note however this feature is currently buggy for some people. I have gotten it to work but without sound, still trying to mess with it .. but the tech is there! .. it should work eventually!

You can modify posters, you can modify the graphics of the arcade machines .. the graphics of the cartridges.

Or you can just chill and throw darts at a wall.

NRA-N is my new life. It's still janky .. its still being worked on despite being released .. but I dont CARE! .. ITS AWESOME! and I still recommend it in spite of its flaws.