Half-Life: Alyx

I wanted to play Half-Life: Alyx since the announcement, it's my first VR game, and I also got my first gaming PC in literally a decade just to play it, so to say that I was excited to play it would be quite an understatement. And it didn't disappoint in the slightest! It's very much a Half-Life game, it builds on all the same gameplay elements and the atmosphere that made the original games so iconic, and adds so much more. HL:A draws inspiration from both HL1 and HL2, blending suffocating confined Xen-infested spaces with street battles against the hi-tech Combine, really a bridge between both HL games. I was going into HLA half-expecting it to be a VR attraction of sorts, and thank goodness I was so wrong. While the game features several "wow" moments, it mostly uses VR to immerse you in the setting, to bring the environment to life. You can interact with almost everything, with many mechanics and puzzles relying on spatial controls. In fact, using VR quickly becomes second nature, and before long you stop thinking about the controls and simply feel like you're there. The other thing that surprised me is the length of the game, I'd say it's about as long as HL2, there are a lot of things to see. For me, HLA brings so much to the table in every aspect, I consider it a full-fledged entry in Half-Life series, that in my opinion could as well be named Half-Life 3.

Game is fun, mechanics are super fun, the combat is amazing but the price... I will never recommend a game that costs 78$ (canadian) and have 8 hours of gameplay, I explored the most I could, got almost all achievements and even then, 8 hours of gameplay. I bought it when it was on sale and I did that right, also, the story of it was just meh, needing to know the entire half life story to enjoy it is meh for 80$, did enjoy that g-man was the prisonner, 8/10 gameplay 6/10 story would pay 20-30$, not 80$

Melhor experiência VR que eu já tive! Estar imerso no mundo de Half Life foi uma dos melhores momentos que eu já tive em jogos!

Absolute Cinema / 10 Was totally worth buying a VR headset and all the motion sickness I got at the start. 😁

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É um jogo muito bom, mas não achei essa piroca toda como muitos dizem. Pra mim está sendo uma experiência mediana, o jogo não condiz com as especificações da loja, pra mim ele tem uma performance bem +/- rodando em 80/90hz, mas isso pode ser culpa do SteamVR que é um lixo, da Meta ou do jogo mesmo, eu não sei. Estou tendo que rodar tudo praticamente no baixo, pra não ficar um desempenho porco, talvez por isso que eu não esteja achando ele essa piroca toda. Se você tiver um PC parrudo com 12 de VRAM ou mais, talvez a experiência seja top mesmo. No meu caso eu só tenho 8 de VRAM, é o limite mínimo aceitável, então fico bem limitado. 8/10