{"id":9513,"date":"2021-12-23T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:54:06","slug":"24-days-of-desire-23-resident-evil-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9513","title":{"rendered":"24 Days of Desire (23): Resident Evil VR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems like there was a very long time where VR was just something I&#8217;d never be able to have for myself. It needs a huge room, an expensive headset, an even more expensive computer&#8230; There were just so many barriers to entry that I just ignored VR as a thing that existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Facebook started bombarding me with Oculus Quest 2 ads, and at some point I decided to see what it was all about. Now here we are a year later, and I&#8217;m enjoying a&#8230; fairly limited library of VR games. There just aren&#8217;t all that many games available for Quest 2. But that actually doesn&#8217;t matter, because it has the best game of them all: <strong>Resident Evil 4<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Suffice to say, I&#8217;m over the moon for this particular port of RE4. One of the best games ever, but completely reworked so that you <em>are<\/em> Leon. It&#8217;s an incredible new way to experience a game that I&#8217;ve played through dozens of times, and I&#8217;ll probably play it dozens <em>more<\/em> times in VR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Resident Evil 4 VR - Chapter 5\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DtgF8ImQaVo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But of course, if you give Ryan an incredible VR port of one Resident Evil game, he&#8217;s going to want another to go with it. And honestly, I think that a VR remake of the original <strong>Resident Evil<\/strong> would be <em>amazing<\/em>. Imagine being able to actually walk through that iconic mansion! To go mano-a-monstero with all the beasties that roam the grounds! To hang out with Barry! I haven&#8217;t really thought it through enough yet to consider all the potential issues that remaking the game in VR would cause, but I have decided that it&#8217;s something I absolutely need to play nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you may be wondering: which <em>version<\/em> of Resident Evil would I want to see in VR? Well, this is already a pretty outlandish ask, so while I&#8217;m at it, can&#8217;t I have both? As great as the REmake version of the game would be, there&#8217;s so much charm in the original version that I&#8217;d really enjoy being able to experience it from a new perspective as well. But if I were forced to choose one or the other? REmake, obviously. It&#8217;s just a richer, fuller game all  around. It takes the original game, makes it prettier, and adds a ton of content that never feels out of place or tacked-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though RE4VR is selling like hotcakes and being praised as the definitive version of the game (by me, at least), I don&#8217;t believe that we&#8217;ll ever actually see any of the &#8220;classic-style&#8221; RE games ported to VR. While Armature was basically able to build RE4VR on existing assets, it would be a heck of a lot more work to create an entire game&#8217;s worth of new environments, since REs 1 to 3 all originally used pre-rendered backgrounds. But it&#8217;s a fun dream I have! And not even Zuckerberg can take that away from me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like there was a very long time where VR was just something I&#8217;d never be able to have for myself. It needs a huge room, an expensive headset, an even more expensive computer&#8230; There were just so many barriers to entry that I just ignored VR as a thing that existed. Then Facebook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 Days of Desire (23): Resident Evil VR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20,27,6,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-retro-gaming","category-spooky","category-video-games","category-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9514,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions\/9514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}