My Problem with VR (Meta Quest) Price and Experience
Here I wanted to tell you about my problem with the BR, specifically what the software part is, the online store, so I had bought this game and I was really waiting for it, it costs 50 euros at the moment. That is the starting price and what is my problem, my main problem with VR and with this I also want to associate it with this so that my point is understood, there are two main ones.
- The experience
- The price
Batman Knight PC VS Batman shadow VR
So now that this is clear, the game currently costs $50, I want to compare it with one that is a little older, which is Batman Knight or any of the rest of the trilogy you could say, but I prefer to stop at this one since it is the last one. Note that the current price of this one, which is at the end, as one could see, the sale price is 2. If you wait for the Steam sales and such, you can get it for a dollar, which is an absurd price and obviously that would not be the final price, but it is a game that is almost 10 years old to date and that is why it has this price. It is also important to mention that I never tire of saying that it is my opinion and this is also a somewhat hateful comparison because we are talking about a PC with the Hardware of a phone that is the meta quest, but even so, I believe that in the end what interests us is the experience and that is a little what I want to convey in this video, so here you can see a little of the problem that I tell you about the price since in the end, as I told you, I bought this video game. I played for a while, I returned it and the gameplay is very similar, that is to say the experience is very similar to this type of video games, it is quite faithful, which I really liked, but in the end everything is completely inferior in terms of graphics and the gameplay itself is inferior to this type of titles as I told you at the beginning, so what I see here or the problem I have with the BR is that simply because of the investment, that is to say that you are there on the site, on the digital site, we sacrifice everything else, meaning again the gameplay and what are the graphics in general, simply here in the PC version.
You gain immersion, you lose gameplay
Apart from being immersed in the site as far as I played it the only thing we gain or that we have different is that when you go to do a long jump with the cape you have to press two triggers to do this crutch instead of simply pressing a button, or in other words this is really more of a nuisance to me in the end to be making a clown of myself with this crutch. And when you want to activate detective mode on a PC it would simply be a button here you place it here so they are really stupid things that offer nothing in the end to the experience simply because you are immersed in a virtual 3D environment we have these types of situations in which a game completely inferior to this one.
The price of Batman VR is 25 or 50 times higher than that of PC, which is better in EVERYTHING
As I was telling you, they sell it for at least 25 times its value and again if you wait for the winter sales or something like that it would be 50 times its value, understand that it currently costs 50 and this game you can buy for $ therefore I would prefer 1000 times to implement in case there is no a mod to simply pass this game to VR and I forget about this one since in the end as I tell you the experience is similar and this one wins by grows if you compare it with the other and to finish it seems important to me to also mention the crutches that I was indicating to you for me as I tell you that when I want to activate a long jump doing this gesture grants little while in other types of games it makes a little more sense as I told you at the beginning I am quite a fan of games that are of the baver type in which you basically have to cut objects you have to be quite fast it is as if it were a yeti saber there it does make more sense to do those types of gestures for several reasons one is because you have to be quite fast therefore it is you have to make a clown of it because object after object keeps coming out and therefore you have to cut them, that's the joke of the game and try to make as few of them as possible and that's basically what the game is about, therefore you have, like, the complete experience and that would be a pretty difficult game to simulate or to be able to apply on a PC platform with the keyboard or the video game controller directly. Other games that are quite interesting on the BR are the shooting games, a bit for the same reason because if you can take advantage of what the trigger is to be the trigger of the gun there. The only problem is a bit the precision that we don't have that much precision in this type of controls at least for the current version but even so it could be quite enjoyable.
Batman Shadow is a great game, the problem is the price
So also to conclude, mind you, I don't consider this a bad game, I really liked the experience a bit but for the price it really isn't worth it to me, a little because of what I mentioned before, if it were a game that would come out for I don't know about $ if you wait for some offer or some coupon that comes out it would be a little more interesting, for example, when you buy it for $50 I had a 30% coupon therefore I was left with like $50 but for me it wasn't enough to invest that money, I would prefer to invest that money 1 times which I never do either because I always play I buy games on sale it's my thing but I would prefer to invest those $50 and maybe a little more in one of the latest releases that have come out for PC than to be buying a game that really is and Compared again comparisons are odious because it is a PC game I know that but no matter how much it is if we compare it with a 10 year old game it is still completely inferior in everything else simply because of the virtual reality experience.
- Andrés Cruz
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