Robinson: The Journey - Crytek's new VR game

slipsius

Wow.... Just.... Wow. In the recent VR discussion thread, I mentioned I wasnt convinced. This.... might change my mind.

http://www.robinsonthegame.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5pT_H41mY

skankerzero

Nice cinematic. I'll wait to see gameplay footage though.

thomasp

for some reason i was waiting for king kong to appear through the entire video.

low odor

 skankerzero said:

Nice cinematic. I'll wait to see gameplay footage though.

Yeah, I'll believe it when it's running 90fps in an HMD...

ZacD

Part of the demo is on the Rift store, here's what it looks like 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjFn4McSyk

Quotidian

man, I'm sick of floating robot orbs talking you through a game

ZacD

I totally agree, it's kind of a cop out. We can't do a good enough guide character with our budget, time, and resources, so we are going to do a talking floating ball. It's becoming a cliche. 

lotet

I like dinosaurs, so I guess Im o board, floating ball or not, but how will you know, the game play?

loggie24

Extremely skeptical to the fact that they are making a VR game for an inferior platform. The technical issues such as maintaining high enough FPS, then resolution and graphical fidelity must suffer to some degree unless they can surprise us since the majority of console titles are 30fps. I wouldn't trust videos for now, will just have to wait and see what happens further out..

claydough

Quotidian said:

man, I'm sick of floating robot orbs talking you through a game

U mean this isn't Portal 3?
( pretty obvious with the anglophile accent to boot )
Gorgeous work either way.

skankerzero

ZacD said:

Part of the demo is on the Rift store, here's what it looks like 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjFn4McSyk

What's up with the camera movement at 1:20? Are they forcing your line of sight so you can't look behind you? He moves his head a lot and it translates to no movement on the screen. That makes the VR experience kind of pointless.

Also, such great artwork and then they slap rim lighting on the T-Rex. That's really lame. They should use the light map on the character to mask out the rim lighting effect in the areas like the mouth that shouldn't have rim lighting.

spiderDude

claydough said:

Quotidian said:

man, I'm sick of floating robot orbs talking you through a game

U mean this isn't Portal 3?
( pretty obvious with the anglophile accent to boot )
Gorgeous work either way.

I got a Lost in Space vibe from it

mats effect

Man they should have had this on stage at the keynote. Looks pretty interesting to me its good to see a couple of bigger budget VR titles on the way. 

I think they sort of stealth announced a wile back that the box the Playstation headset connects to would boost the systems processing power.