Arken Age

Очень похоже на то что авторы изначально хотели просто ещё один рогалик сделать, но потом нашли в себе силы сделать нечто большее. Игра представляет из себя сюжетный опен ворлд экшон, весь игровой мир это разные комнаты большого города. Перемещение свободное куда угодно через телепорты которые расположены в коридорах между комнатами, всегда можно вернуться и пошарить любую локацию. Враги довольно жёсткие, урона нам вносят больше чем мы им, есть челендж, но так же постоянное ощущение что не хватает демаги нашим пушкам. Одна из не многих вр игр которая чувствуется наполненной контентом и в целом ощущается отполированной, однозначно стоит потраченного времени.

Slept on this one for some time after seeing some mixed reviews. Saw it on sale for half price and thought what the hell, and gave it a try. Its an interesting one. It kind of takes many of the best VR ideas of the last few years and mashes them together into one fantasy sci-fi game. As such it seems a little clunky at first, it takes a few hours to get the hang of everyone, but once it clicks its great. You move through decently sized arenas killing enemies with highly customisable weapons. Using Melee or various guns. The enemies aren't pushovers either. Overall I am pleasantly surprised by the quality on offer, and can happily recommend this game.

Its one of the best games for PCVR out there, i would place it even higher than bonelab and boneworks in terms of AI, Graphics (I will explain why) in boneworks / bonelab most level is just grey buildings with nothing to see, here we have bright colorful world with unique style textures is very low quality BUT if you are not gonna stare at them in close its better than other vr games, very good tutorial, very optimized, very good combat better than blade and sorcery ai is just best in vr litteraly, full body and good controls idk why everyone skip this treasure, its litteraly even better than hl alyx. all i can say THATS how VR games should look like!

My thoughts: (3.2 hours playtime review) Yep, it slaps. Combat is very responsive, UI is basically perfect, the level design is well done, although the color palette for the world never really changes, so not much biome variety unfortunately. The story is generic, but it's not bad by any means, just uninteresting. The enemy AI is what I really like the most here. They fight with a genuine intent to kill you, it's not gamified, it's very immersive combat and you have to think fast and fight faster. Arken Age has the closest sword combat I've found to my dream of playing a Sword Art Online game in VR. They really did an outstanding job with the combat. First Impression: (42 minutes playtime review) I'm barely past the tutorial and I can tell that this slaps. The combat feels so good, the controls and body slots all make sense and work well. This was clearly made by gamers, and I'm loving it. Don't change a thing.

they messed up the floor height, this game guarantees motion sickness. Im not sure how a dev can mess something that important up by that much, my boundary and floor and VR-height in game is perfectly adjusted but still, the floor is always moving up and down, especially if you are physically crouching or jumping (orjust walking where your head goes above your normal height naturally. Im not sure how one is supposed the play the game, I have a large 20*20m area in my backyard but its impossible to use that for the game, it actually encurages you to just play seated, because you have to use the thumbsticks to move around, the human body is just too slow for those fights. Also the grabbing system needs more refinement, too many times that one just grabbed the weapon instead of an item or so. The general idea of the game is nice though, but Im feeling too sick to have many good words. Also one core component of the game is to decaptivate the enemy.... i mean thats rough but also sooo hard to do. If thats a core mechanic, why do enemies disappear after 1second, i mean if its supposed to be realistic the enemies should stay on the ground for a little longer so I have time to do that. EDIT after finishing the game: playing seated is the only option that works somewhat. You need an office chair without armrests and no head-rest that works the best. And all movements exclusively with the controlers, dont even try to move by yourself, the game is just punishing you for that. Just stay on the chair, dont move the chair except for turning around and then its somewhat ok. Also the slicing of the heads, that works the best with the ritual dagger... all other melee are not really doing it. Would have been nice to have better graphics though. Its a new game but graphics looks like from 2015, especially the levels, soo low-poly and so low-res textures even on highest settings. What i like though is that you can actually get all achievements in one go. Even the grinding of 1000 hyperion soldiers is doable, after the main mission are like 300 left to go, for that just use the trial squad in the starting location, it takes like 30-40min to kill the remaining 300. but my review will still stay on no, would like to give a score thats more nuanced, but even seated its quite rough to keep the food in the belly.

Унылая стрельба и унылые зарубы под музычку из супермаркета. Скушно што капец.

Хорошая игра, тот кто ищет сюжет не понравится, а тот кто хочет экшн зайдет. Много сакралок и много поисков артефактов, бесконечно много боев и прыжков, лазаний. Мне после работы прикололо.

Very solid VR game, story is ok, mechanics are polished, melee combat is very good, graphically awsome, enviroments are wide open and try to reach secret areas is fun. A must have game for VR collection.