Topic: Games you've recently beat

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I really need to get back to PSVR2's Subside's DLC 'Makoa Shelf'. It starts out serine and peaceful when you're in the shallows, but once you swim off into the deep, the atmosphere changes instantly, from being almost tropical-like and then quickly transitioning into a dark murky abyss. My thalasaphobia then kicks in, and my heart feels like it's about to blast out of my chest the moment I get blind sided by an enormous tiger shark. Giant freakish marine life & certain horror games in VR are no doubt my achilies heel.

And no joke, I've only beaten 2 games this year, while dabbling in just a handful more. Steel Assault(An underwhelming 90's throw back platformer) on Switch and Shadow Gate VR: Mines of Mythrock(PSVR2). I haven't been in the zone as of late, the last two months have kept smacking me with bouts of depression. I'm probably going stir crazy.

I enjoy being a bit of a homebody from time to time, just enjoying my solitute(I'm an artist, and it's required in order to write and be creative) here and there, but I'm also a bit of a motor mouth that typically, or used to, spend at least an hour on the phone nearly every day chatting it up with friends & family if i couldn't spend time with them. When that's taken away, I start to spiral a little. Not an extrovert by any means, but not I'm note entirely an introvert either.

Anyways, lack of gaming aside, I've been watching a lot more movies as of late. been meaning to dabble in some 80's anime > Bubble gum Crisis, GunBuster, or late 80's anthology series that I still havent checked out yet, including Freddy's Nightmares('MTV' Freddy talking on the role as the Crypt Keeper) & Friday the 13nth: The Series. Which are all going to be a first time experience, and that's usually what I'm going for these days rather than bouncing back to most of my favourites like lets say Return of the Living Dead(85'), and watching that for the 100nth time.

And i think what's really throwing me off from gaming right now, is the fact that Resident Evil 9: Requiem hasn't gotten a PSVR2 Mode. RE is my favourite franchise of all time at this point(With Mega Man & Super Mario following not too far behind), and I've had it on the back burner for just over 6 months now. I'm losing my patience. It's not guaranteed either. If Capcom unveils an RE Requiem Gold Edition during their showcase on the 16nth of this month, and there's no VR mode included, than it's time to officially throw in the towel at any chance of a possibility of it heading to PSVR2. Sony would most likely have to pay them to do the deed anyways, as they did with RE7, RE8 & RE4R VR, since Capcom will not waste 7 months of development and chance failing to even break even in sales. If there's no decent profit to be made, than why bother at this point? They wont do it out of passion or kindness. Leave that to the PCVR modders. AND they're doing it free, as long as you've purchased the flatscreen version of said game through Steam.

The PCVR mod exists, and apparantly it's just as good, if not better than Capcoms official VR PSVR2 modes. But, a beefy PC gaming rig is a big investment and it's plagued with friction. But I'll definitely need it for my Steam Frame. It's either get a PS5 Pro, and play Requiem on that, on a 65" QD-OLED TV, or skip the PS5 Pro, and buy something like a PC with a 5070 Ti($3000 cad later) and play it in VR.

In a perfect ideal world, based on what's currently available now, I'd love to just wirelessly connect Valve's Steam Frame to PS5 Pro, and Gain access to every single PCVR mod coming our way.

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it feels like the developer went the extra mile with Makoa Shelf, because now there's multiple schools of tropical fish being displayed on-screen all at once, including groups of smaller sized sharks which rarely ever happened with any of the previous sections found in the main game itself, like in Cobalt colve(which is smaller in size compared to Makoa, yet marine life felt more sparse), with the exception of Koi Haven.

But that area is a lot more smaller and more confined, which in the end is less taxing in terms of power. Makoa is the most graphically impressive, I'd say, of all the areas. Anybody jumping into Subside, I'd recommend starting out with that DLC. It's one of the best showpieces for PSVR2. If only Subside contained optional music for each section, which would of greatlly added to the atmosphere, rather than feeling like an almost full on true to life simulation.

And when a shark accidentally bumps into your head, not only can you hear the thud, but you can feel it from PSVR2's head haptics too. Stuff like that just greatly adds even more to the immersion! I'm sure @GirlVersusGamer whome I think is new to VR, would be having a hayday accidently slipping outside that Shark cage in the great white shark encouter mode. I can't even last 2 minutes with it, and that's inside the cage. lol It's beyond terrifying. Still, it pales in comparison to the shark encounter in PSVR1's Ocean Descent from 2016. That one plays out like a scripted Universal theme park attraction, where as Subside is just a Sim, and the shark itself is kind of limited with what it can do.

Subside Shark >

Small snippet from Ocean Descent >

Also, PS5 Pro owners get an increase in SuperSampling(2.5x the res, vs 2x with base PS5) and dynamic shadows thrown in in the mix. I still have a base PS5. Not entirely sure if I want to ge a Pro, or just cave and get a PC with a bit more juice(think 5070) for the upcoming Steam Frame. Talk about a VR conundrum. lol

I'd rather just settle for the Pro as my VR machine, but the Steam Frame in most ways bests PSVR2, and then with PCVR you gain excess to all of all of the upcoming VR mods, including RE Requiem, Bioshock and more. And I haven't played Snow Scout, but I have dabbled in Metro. It's got some really nasty mura, and the characer banting just drags and it suffers from obvious reprojection(motion duplication) from 60fps. Arachnaphobes need not apply! apparantly there's one freaky section that's swarming in giant spiders. It's bad enough that game itself has you trudging through small confined chlostrophobic tight spaces with little wiggle room.

And i actually bought the DVD set collection for Tales of the Crypt a few years back. It's a lot more consistent compared to Tales from the Darkside and 80's Twilight Zone in terms of older anthology series go, but it's not quite as ballsy, creative or daring. There's plenty of gems though. I recently checked it out on Tubi, and as expected the streamed quality(Image compression and whatever else) can't compete with the discs.

And I don't know about you, but i was so much happier pre-streaming back in the later 2000's and early 2010's when I was buying DVD's, just owning them, while getting the best possible image & audio quality(No image or audio compression or degradation), and having a collection of movies/TV shows that i actually enjoyed and cared about, rather than skimming through and drowning in a cessppol of thousands of random movies on multiple streaming services.

When you have access to hundreds of thousands of movies via streaming at the touch of a button, you wind up feeling like some spoiled kid with an infinate wallet in a candy store. Any level of appreciation and value feels like it's completely thrown out the window. I miss the dedication factor, simplicity and cherrishing what you bought and owned physically. Obviously you can still do that, but it's not quite the same as it was in the 2000's and earlier 2010's when streaming was still in it's infant stage. And I just can't get on board subscribing to multiple streaming services and having to pay another monthly bill just to gain access to certain stuff that will most likely get pulled at some point anyways. I usually just use Prime for new movie rentals, and then Tubi for a lot of weirder obscure 80's & 90's stuff....But those 4 in 1 corporate soull sucking Travasco & Tide commercials are a total pain in the butt! They pop up like 3 times during a movie, and there's no way to disable them.