Half-Life: Alyx
Overwhelmingly Positive
Total: 56.9 ThousandPositive: 55.9 ThousandNegative: 1.01 Thousand
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s groundbreaking VR return to the iconic Half-Life series, blending action and adventure in a gripping narrative set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2. As Alyx Vance, you lead humanity’s fight against the alien Combine in a world rich with environmental storytelling, immersive puzzles, and visceral combat. Built from the ground up for VR, the game offers unparalleled interactivity—lean, aim, rummage, and hack your way through a dystopian cityscape. With an AI Community Rating of 90.7%, players praise its 'amazing' atmosphere, 'immersive' gameplay, and 'great' story. However, some note frustrations with limited interactivity, occasional bugs, and the absence of melee combat. Despite these critiques, Half-Life: Alyx is a must-play for VR enthusiasts and Half-Life fans alike, offering a deeply engaging experience that sets a new standard for VR gaming.
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I remember partway through my first playthrough, I was hit by a wave of sadness, as I realised I must not have very much game left to experience, and the sombre knowledge that I'd never play another VR game that could possibly stand a chance of measuring up to it. That feeling passed, as it turns out I was only a quarter of the way through at that point in time, but the latter sentiment has held true. Nothing could compare. Half-Life Alyx is far from a vertical slice or a tech demo; it's a full fledged AAA experience that reminds you of when AAA meant something more than "a big company made it". Further than that, it's built to take full advantage of everything VR has to offer, and spares no expense giving you the experience in the most polished format imaginable. I said it then and I'll say it now, HL:A is the best game I've ever played. I don't say this lightly. Devil May Cry 3 and 5 hold special places in my heart, as do the Halo and Ace Attorney trilogies, and friends of mine know how badly I'll shill Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Burnout Paradise. Doom, Steins;Gate, Monster Hunter, Left 4 Dead, there's an ocean of amazing games out there that belong in the category of peak, and among them, stands Half-Life Alyx, towering over them. An experience you truly cannot get anywhere else, and one that I highly doubt can ever be replicated. A game that playing with a mouse & keyboard would be doing an immense disservice to yourself. I cannot in good conscience recommend VR as a platform, but should you ever find yourself wanting, or have an opportunity with a weekend at a friend's house, please. Do yourself a favour. Play this game.
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--{ Graphics }--- You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☑ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 ☑ 100
[h1]Half-Life fan for 25 freaking years.[/h1] I'm 29 now, and I probably first sat down at a computer when I was like 3 or something. Between the ages of 4 and 5, I was already diving into Half-Life (1998), and by the time I hit 5, I had conquered it. Half-Life became my first major storyline game and my all-time favorite game series for the rest of my life. [h1]I was eagerly waiting for HL2.[/h1] And it hit me right in the feels with its gripping narrative and the tech engine's capabilities, not to mention the game designers' wizardry. Then came the two epic episodes with an ending that just left me itching to know what happens next. [h1]And bam, here comes ALYX![/h1] Breaking the boundaries of player-game interaction, delivering a totally fresh gaming experience. Once again, an awesome storyline with a killer ending that's got me itching and hoping for Gabe's not-so-favorite number, Half-Life 3. [i]“The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”[/i] — G-Man
Man fuck this laggy ass game man It made my night horrible and i was trying to get the gnome achivment and i was at the end of the stupid ass game i had him then i beat it i don't get the fucking trophie then i was trying to load up a save and my fucking saves are all the way back to chapter 6 when i made a save before i did anything so fuck this game man now i have to keep this game at 41 out of 42 achivments because of this ass of a vr game. It's 3 in the morning.
constant crashes, tried multiple fixes and nothing still. intel i7 14700k 3.4ghz nvidia gtx 4070 ti (EDIT) using the meta quest 3. tried with airlink and link cable so far only game that this has happened
don't buy this game if you're left handed, like me. all your guns are bound to your hands (which is a bad system to begin with) and they have a left handed option but it's terrible and forcibly reverses your movement controls. 5 years and an overwhelming number of complaints and they haven't fixed this. only reason i'm not refunding is that i'm holding on to the hope that they eventually will if you want a good alternative with half life-inspired gameplay in vr and no problems for lefties, try boneworks (and the sequel, bonelabs, but i haven't played that myself yet)
Though impressive in it's steps to push VR as a medium forward I found the game to be more frusterating than fun most of the time. Don't get me wrong, the gun play can be fun with the reloading and whatnot but as I got through the end game I found the game falling part as I got stuck in walls literally at the end of the game not to mention the weird physics bugs that are very prevelant throughout as I try to grab ammo only for it to clip through the floor. Floor clipping was actually rather common in certain scenarios. There are also weird level design choices like random pits and other stuff that I can't think of.. Because I just finished beating it. 13hrs long and under optimized even for a source game it does not run well on a 3060 without a few console commands to disable things like volumetric fog among other things. If you have a high end PC then it should be fine. It works well with PSVR2 too!
Gimmicks, and lag. Wait for sale. They were throwing things at the wall to see what sticks instead of wowing us with handsome VR environments and immersion. The post-jeff puzzle is absolute trash, as there is zero feedback. That is whereabouts I will stop, I think. Idk about these skill puzzles. They made puzzles with easy methodology, but hard to execute, mired in repetitive work that is easy to understand but hard to execute. This isn't dota, its not why im here. On oculus 2 via airplay with a gigabit home network every time it loads a new area i get sick, 5-15 sec lag, the horrible kind that steps up enough to make me hurl. Instead of lagging, spit out a menu, or put the good ol Loading form halflife 2 (that too is there, and much better done).
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