I do occasionally
return to play old games, but often, I quickly remember why I
abandoned them. I had heard over the years that Hello Games was
extremely attentive to the complaints of gamers who felt they’d
been let down, and I even tried one of their earlier patches to see
if much had changed. Maybe it just wasn’t developed enough yet, or
maybe I should have started the game over instead of using my past
save, but I was really ready to fully abandon it until I decided to
give it one more try, last Friday night, using the new VR patch. What a
difference! I started a new game from the beginning, and found myself
in a spacesuit standing on an alien planet. I immediately adjusted
the VR settings so I could have smooth movement instead of
teleportation (I got my VR legs last year and have been fine ever
since) and then I started exploring. Odd plant life, strange
minerals, and weird little scurrying creatures were all around me,
part of the rolling landscape that I traversed. Then my spacesuit’s
system alerted me that my environmental protection was depleting, due
to acidic rain! I had to run and find shelter, the nearest being a
small crevasse in the ground that opened up into a dark cavern…
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