I won’t go as far to say the mod is entirely terrible per se. I say ‘ostensibly’, but it seems that there’s now a keyboard and mouse mod for Half-Life: Alyx, which you can see in action below in the developer’s promo. This ground-up VR design philosophy renders the game ostensibly un-portable to traditional monitors. You might compare it to playing Dance Dance Revolution with a gamepad instead of arrows to stomp on. Valve specifically designed Half-Life: Alyx with the intuitive input of head-tracking and motion controllers in mind, which if you remove, nullifies much of the fun they designed around those things. There’s nothing wrong if you like playing those sorts of VR-supported titles ( Alien: Isolation is great, don’t get me wrong) but with four years of consumer VR under our collective belts, it’s safe to say we’ve moved beyond those sorts of things from a game design standpoint. Whatever your opinion on the nuts and bolts of Half-Life: Alyx, it’s actually an honest-to-goodness VR game, and not a glorified experimental mod like we’ve seen in the past. Get a VR headset and don’t spoil it for yourself. If you don’t own a VR headset but still want to play though, I’d caution you against playing it for the first time with the new, unofficial PC monitor mod. Half-Life: Alyx (2020), Valve’s made-for-VR entry into the fabled Half-Life series, launched late last month on SteamVR-compatible headsets to near-universal praise.
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