I get too sick in VR to make it worth paying for the hardware, but I'm kind of tempted to get a Quest 3 from a Rent A Center kind of place for a week just to play Half Life Alyx lol.
You can rent VR equipment? Rad! Good plan bro!
Nice rig!
Nah, just by piecing together what's out there. I have two transcuders attached to my seat, and they're connected to my PC through simhub. Anytime I hit a bump or my tires lose traction, the speakers vibrate throughout the seat and simulate the actual vibration. Hit a rumble strip and your entire body vibrates from it, which is insane as the effects pair perfectly with the force feedback through the wheel. At some point I might hook up a couple of case fans -- connect them to simhub and they will increase airflow as you accelerate, imitating wind as you speed up. The sim community is just nuts with how much you can do to add immersion to a rig, and it's pretty cheap too. The transcuders and sound card were about $40 total and make the entire setup feel alive, like a car you're actually driving through space.
Impressive! That sounds rad, bud.
Good you got that much RAM before this apocalypse. I grabbed 32GB when it was dirt cheap two years ago and glad as hell I did now. Fucking OpenAI. Crucial just completely exited the commercial RAM and SSD market. Then Nvidia's not bundling RAM with their GeForce chips any more so with AIBs having to source VRAM without the volume discounts Nvidia gets you can bet RTX gaming cards are going to increase in price significantly.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is stunning with a half decent gpu. Game is pretty cpu bound but still looks great at 30-40 fps so you can crank details on it. I never play it seriously though, just do stupid shit like see if I can fly a 747 under the Golden Gate or kamikaze into the crater of Mt Fuji lol. Basically play it like the GTA flying missions whenever I feel like buying Game Pass. Still haven't managed to not kill everyone on board trying to land at some of those crazy airports in the Himalayas.
A friend of mine JUST got a PC and 1 week later it jumped $450 in price. He got a beast of a rig too.
Just received my Odin 3 Max. Ultra's got backed up a month because of sourcing 24gb ram.
You talking New Super Mario Bros Wii or New Super Mario Bros on DS? Both are top notch, but if you haven't played it yet Super Mario Wonder is IMO the best 2D Mario since Super Mario World on SNES. Definitely wouldn't bother emulating Switch though when you can buy Erista Switch that can be softmodded or Switch OLED that you can pay someone to hardmod or do it yourself if your soldering skills are elite (the modchip is supposed to be really difficult to install on the Switch OLED and is way beyond my skills). Super Mario Maker 2 on Switch is also outstanding even just counting the built in levels.
Huh, thought Clair Obscur was supposed to be a short RPG, like 30-35 hours. Maybe I heard wrong. I'm gonna jump on it soon but still playing through Spiderman Miles Morales, which looks awesome at 4k with all the snow effects maxed out and RT turned on. Except the RT shadows: those look like ass since shadows for the trees stop swaying in the wind when that's turned on.
I'll check some of those out. I have an original Odin and ran into limitations on what I emulated. I have a steam deck but it's cumbersome and a pain to go back and forth between steam and desktop mode to set up. I rarely play anything more than 15 minutes at a crack. At my age the fun is setting things up etc. My oldest is 17 and he is showing interest in setting it up also. It's basically glorified problem solving puzzles. You run into a problem and something isn't working like it's supposed to, figure it out. I'd much rather mess with emulation or soldering a switch than actually just buying one even if it wasn't about the money.
Soldering a modchip on an OLED Switch requires a microscope and is supposed to be really hard unless you're great at microsoldering, as the previous Mariko Switches were pretty easy to solder a chip onto which along with early Eristas being soft moddable made the Switch piracy scene huge.
I think it's short I just can't get invested in it too much. It takes a while to get your bearings and then I have to learn the battle system which takes time.
