Recently got sent a promo deal where I could get £30 off the retail price of the headset and a full year to pay it off interest free, so given the overwhelmingly positive reviews it seemed like a no-brainer. Just waiting now for the updated version of the PS camera to come separately from Amazon (cheapest one I could find new), and I'll be away with the fairies soon enough. Gona be careful to wait for reviews for every title though, and won't be spending £40/£50 a pop on things I'll only be diving into sporadically.
It's made me think, it's coming up to 30 years since
Space Harrier first came to home consoles (created by SEGA for the arcades in December 1985, ported to the Master System a year later), and 2018 will be the anniversary of
Space Harrier 3-D, among the first wave of console games to employ stereoscopic 3D (SegaScope LCD shutter glasses), an early attempt at full immersion in a videogame world in your home.
Iconic graphics, iconic music, simple-but-frantic arcade rail-shooter gameplay... why isn't this getting a mind-blowing VR remake right this instant?
Rez Infinite is being very well-received indeed, just think of what you could do with the unique aesthetic style, absolutely flippin' legendary soundtrack, and sheer nostalgia-power of the grandaddy of that whole genre of games!
I can just picture it now - it'd have a little intro that'd hark back to the awesome dramatic silliness of that mid-'80s arcade era, setting the bombastic-high-fantasy-sci-fi mood and building up that heroic feeling...
https://www.youtube.com/v/sDd0aSRvU3k...
WELCOME TO THE FANTASY ZONE! GET READY...https://www.youtube.com/v/lwESnLptwKc&start=10You'd have that familiar old synthesised scratchy speech sample and death scream, the colourful chequerboard floor, the essential character and enemy designs all intact, but it'd just start cranking it up visually & aurally until your head gets sent completely west, into a whole other dimension. It should be akin to a full-on acid trip and/or out-of-body spiritual experience. It should make you quit your job the very next day and start assembling your own jetpack, try opening a wormhole portal to the fantasy zone by cooking The Internet in your microwave.
Ravey thud-thud music is a bit too overdone a style with this sort of thing, so they should instead go with intense '80s experimental punkopsychedelic art-rock versions of those classic tracks and new efforts, like a
Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth sound or something, Pixes at their most raw and deranged, with perhaps a generous splash of totally non-ironic retrofuturist electronica, like a full-tilt Aphex Twin. BBC Radiophonic Workshop speeding through Neo-Tokyo on mitzies.
https://www.youtube.com/v/XYrQC-jWMFMhttps://www.youtube.com/v/uQeJVqdt92MIt should be an otherworldly epileptic VR experience designed to break your mind, and leave your thankful for it