VR will likely come out with something significantly better in 3-4 years.
1-2 years more likely for Gen2.
VR is just for first person games.
This is not true at all, there are various Third Person and even Top-Down Strategy games that work perfectly fine.
Throw in the fact that you will never be able to play a vr game as quickly as you can a 'screen'
This is mostly true, although not necessarily because it's impossible, but because a loud minority of people are constantly pushing for "comfort features" so they don't get sick, and for some reason there's this kind of "developer response":
There's still Multiplayer games like Pavlov VR, Onward that are close to Counter Strike or stuff like Echo Combat where you can fly around and shoot stuff. Other games that have been Modded like
Doom 3 or even
Quake 2 are also perfectly playable. But yeah I doubt you'll see Tribes 2, Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament any time soon. On the other hand you're not going to get them anyway even on PC with consoles and "Battle Royale" games dominating the market.
If not, then you can kiss goodbye to any glimmer of incline that still occasionally shines through.
There's a lot more innovation in VR at the moment than on any other platform (I'd possibly make an exception for Indie games on Steam, but they're impossible to overview). In parts it feels like 90s PC gaming with people trying different stuff and coming up with some new concepts or reviving old ones to try them in VR while the wider gaming industry kind of seems stuck in a rut and just focusing on developing and releasing that rebranded Open-World game or fad Multiplayer game. On the other hand there aren't really any big huge AAA Blockbusters in VR other than ports since the market isn't large enough to support them.
Anyway again if have 1000$ you don't mind wasting and are curious/attracted about this idea then go for it.
Oculus Bundle with all the "Accessories" was just 350 $/€ during Amazon Prime Day, some of the Mixed Reality HMDs are even under $200 lately:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/h...headset-with-motion-controllers/8n5g0j1qf74b/ and are workable although I'd go with one of the big two. If you already have a gaming PC with a proper graphics card (which is the majority of the spending on a VR rig) it's really not that expensive to also buy into VR.
I was hoping VR would be usable with KB/mouse and thus for any type of game. The people who have actually tried it claim it's not though, that you do in fact need those stupid hand gadgets. Then again, some people also claim you need joysticks for flight sims.
Most games during the Development Kit 1/2 phase were Mouse+Keyboard, you could play stuff like Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2 etc. and there were even some games designed with VR in mind like Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe that required a Mouse. But as someone who's used it let me tell you that fumbling around in the dark while you have your VR HMD on to find the table/keyboard/mouse and then being stuck sitting down/anchored to one spot while moving your head to look around instead of the mouse and pressing keys when not playing Racing/Flight games where you're also stuck sitting in a cockpit really doesn't fit VR and you'll quickly feel limited and like you want to be unchained from that position and to interact with the world closer or more direct. You could theoretically play with KB&M but even a Wireless XBone Controller that you can hold in your hands and move/turn around a bit with, which is more self-explanatory and intuitive was a major upgrade early on (first year of Oculus Rift) and some of the releases during that time like "Edge of Nowhere" seem almost antique now after the VR Controllers are out. Those "stupid hand gadgets" are really great though, since you can use them to directly interact/aim/shoot etc. at stuff without any abstraction layer of having to point the mouse and they become second nature really quick e.g. you're in the world and are using your arms or gadgets to do stuff or point at stuff. The Oculus Touch controllers are the best so far, but Steam will release their Knuckles at some point soon:
