I had some fun over the past weekend starting and completing the fun VR game “I expect you to die!“.
The premise from the website:
You are part of a special secret agency that aims to topple Dr. Zor and the Zoraxis organization.
You have been given telekinetic powers — a special treat for our Agents in the Enhanced Operative Division. Report to your office where your Agency Handler will provide you the information and training you need to successfully complete your missions. Welcome aboard.
There are a lot of fun puzzles and many scenarios (missions) to complete. I completed them all and had great fun doing so. There’s great satisfaction to be had in beating the puzzles and thwarting Dr Zor and his henchmen. Nothing is too frustrating. I think it has just the right amount of difficultly.
I had Wishlisted the sequel and saw on Steam I can purchase it for a discount of 20% since I have the first game. But yesterday I noticed they now have a THIRD installment coming real soon now! I can’t wait to play both of these! 🙂
I’ve been getting back into VR with my Oculus Quest Pro after not using it for a while.
I had started doing some exercise with Beat Saber and Dance Central and Eleven Pingpong, but decided to branch out.
I originally started playing “I expect you to die!” but after half an hour or so had to run and get the groceries delivered to the front door. When I got back I spent about an hour trying to get it to launch but it kept crashing out. I’ve reinstalled it since, but that afternoon I wanted to test it on another game to make sure everything was still good with the headset.
I clicked on A Fisherman’s Tale. You play a puppet inside a model of a lighthouse. Above you is a puppet copy of you in a bigger copy of the same lighthouse with the same objects in it. Below you is another smaller puppet copy of you in a smaller model of the same lighthouse with the same objects in it. In fact, you can interact with the other puppet versions of yourself. You will need to in order to complete the puzzles in this game. Maybe you need a larger version of an object which is stored in the upper-level bigger model. Maybe you need the same object shrunk down in size which you can reach into the small model of the lighthouse on the table in the room you’re in. Tons of fun! I completed the game and really enjoyed it. It probably would have taken a lot longer if I had turned off hints (which only occur if you’re really, really stuck anyway) but I’d have been too frustrated if I didn’t figure out the puzzle!
Once I finished that I decided to see what all the fuss is about with Half Life: Alyx. This is a part of the original Half Life game story. I’m playing it in Story Mode as I haven’t really played the other games and didn’t know what I’d be in for. There’s still enough difficult puzzles to figure out and scary action, but it’s not too frustrating as higher levels would be. The controls are great and the graphics are amazingly high-quality and life-like. You get to talk to other ‘people’ in the game to move the story along. I’m not really into alien or zombie games, but this kinda combines them into a fun adventure. I play about 3-3.5 hours at a time untethered. My Oculus Quest Pro still has about 29% charge at the end of 3.5 hours and the controllers still retain 82% each — which is AMAZING! People were sure it’d last maybe 2-2.5 hours from what I read. The first time I played this I had already been playing The Fisherman’s Tale above so I did need to plug in my long USB cable, but it’s powerful enough to charge the headset while playing. I really recommend this if you like some fun action games.
I have completed about 21% of achievements so far and so still have quite a ways to go, but that’s no issue.
This week’s playlist: Solar Fake – Sick of you GRENDEL – Dirty ALUCVRD – Nail fetish hate god Boy Harsher – Give me a reason Tycho Brahe – Dislocation (Travesty Dub edit) Amelia Arsenic – Homewrecker Angelspit – All hail the hustle (Pill brigade mix) I:Scintilla – Taken Night Club – Gossip DK-Zero – F U $ Junksista – Problems Studio-X – Butene Machines Lederman De Meyer – Atoms in fury Mach FoX – A sickness Combichrist – Hate like me MATT HART – I am overlord Aesthetic Perfection – American Psycho Covenant – 20 Hz Pure Obsessions & Red Nights – A lovely day Psy’Aviah – On my mind Sobriquet – Skyline ExoKult – Ready to blow Zheani Sparkes – Tarantulas Brioni Faith – Cyborg mix Dirt Factory – Violence Mesh – Kill your darlings Puscifer – The Mission Empathy Test – Monsters
This week’s playlist: The Evil Dark (EVVL DVRK1) – Dead world Neuroticfish – Velocity (Solar Experiments remix) GRENDEL – Hate this (X-Fusion remix) Solar Fake – I despise you ESA: Electronic Substance Abuse – One missed call (Empirion remix) [aesthetische] – We follow blindly (feat Mari Kattman) Goo Munday – Anti-life Vargil – Scare city The Crystalline Effect – Blue sea (Dave Forman remix) Amelia Arsenic – Live slow Die old Studio-X vs Simon Carter – Solar Flare (feat. Bridgette) AND ONE – Timekiller (Project Pitchfork remix) MONO INC. – Children of the dark Night Club – Schizophrenic Diffuzion – Still believe (Aesthetische cold mix) Psy’Aviah – OK (M.I.K.E mix) NeuroWulf – Submerge Termınal – Crackdown Karoshi – Monster Ponyloaf the band – Lost heartache AD:keY offical – You can’t fuck me Boy Harsher – Machina (feat Ms Boan – Mariana Saldana) Tycho Brahe – It’s not enough (The Garland cult remix) Sirus – Neuroleptic (Final mix) Warp Music Community – Humans Mechanical Vein – Feel your noise
This week’s playlist: Simon Sebastian – Antigravity felix marc – Hysteria Komor Kommando – Music is my religion Neikka RPM – Tease me disease me Circuito cerrado – What’s your emergency? Sobriquet – Not everything I believe is true Mildreda – Bright side Mari Chrome – Here I am Dirt Factory – Crash landing UCNX – Sleep when you’re dead Halo In Reverse – The windy city Lovelorn Dolls – After dark Studio-X – Lonely Gusano – Sangre eternal Kant Kino – Owner of this house lives here Zheani Sparkes – Napalm ESA: Electronic Substance Abuse – I detach The Psychic Force – Die in the clinic InfraVision – Anne Clark – Our darkness Angelspit – Stand in line The True UnioN – Purousthai VNV Nation – Fearless Prozium – Lay my vengeance [aesthetische] – Back to life GINGER SNAP5 – Waiting for MATT HART – To the core
