Playstation VR

[Syrellaris]

I've wondered about this too. What I'd really like is 3rd person VR, where we're within the game world but able to see our character, with our own perspective hovering nearby, the same as camera position does now.

Chronos is a nice example of that. It is a great game and not first person, while it is an RPG.

[Yurimi]

point still stands, and can you show a source? cuz i don't see anything of him saying it wont be.

Q: Would you like to do research with UI/UXs designed for VR games? Or are you already working on this?
A: Minagawa: I have an interest in playing VR games as a hobby, but whether or not to implement it into FFXIV’s UI is a completely different story. Though if it’s possible to make a limited VR game within FFXIV, I'd like to challenge our team to do it.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/289443

"Regarding VR, Minagawa has a lot of interest in it, but since Final Fantasy XIV was not developed with VR in mind – he sees it as incredibly difficult to implement this. If there was a standalone feature where you walked through a major city-state maybe, similar to the demo units they’ve showed off at Sony events."

http://www.novacrystallis.com/2016/0...ve-28-summary/

Square Enix has told Eurogamer that Final Fantasy 14's involvement with PlayStation VR, as seen on the slide below, amounts to nothing more than a demo created for the Tokyo Game Show.

"This is a demo that's been created for TGS," the company told us, "we don't have any plans for an official release."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...playstation-vr


So while we may see some sort of VR minigame or tech demo involving FFXIV one day SE has no intentions of making the game itself VR compatible any time soon. These are the sources against it can you provide sources to back your claims that you said it will be?

[File2ish]

There's a game on the Occulus I tried that's a 3rd person platformer (no idea what it's called, I don't have any VR equipment), worked well when friends weren't messing with the camera location thingamajig and making it a nauseating experience. Not sure why people are assuming it HAS to be 1st person.

[Yurimi]

There's a game on the Occulus I tried that's a 3rd person platformer (no idea what it's called, I don't have any VR equipment), worked well when friends weren't messing with the camera location thingamajig and making it a nauseating experience. Not sure why people are assuming it HAS to be 1st person.

I believe you are probably refering to "Lucky's Tale" which was actually a fairly good use of VR in a 3rd person aspect. Reminded me a lot of playing board games like mouse trap with my family as a kid. I would say that while this game will likely support (since the PS4 itself supports it) cinema mode which I am guessing would be similar to the old Sony HMZ-Tx (in my case HMZ-T1) series of HMD's they used to market before VR was a thing I dont see them implementing that in this game just due to the game not really being designed for VR in any capacity. The old HMZ line of HMD's sony made simulated the look of sitting in a theater looking at a massive screen more than a VR experience which I think would probably be how they go about this for at least the PS4. I am sure for the PC there will be (if not already) some mods available to give it a pseudo VR look but as far as the game itself... while I am a firm believer that VR is a great thing I just dont see how they could make it work whether from a first person or third person view for this game without a lot of major reworks that quite frankly I do not see the developers investing in any time in the near future and am skeptical even for it in the distant future.

[Lunavi]

It would be too bad if this game didn't support VR as I would love that feature for roleplaying. :/

[Maero]

There was a video a while back that Yoshi was playing in VR doing Titan fight, i just think it would be rather hard to see stuff to dodge, etc..
Titan looked huge in VR, lol

[ManuelBravo]

I highly doubt it, if you look at the limitations for the VR look up Batman VR game play. Very restricted, no actual fighting, and the VR is more of an accessory. It's still very early on and perhaps in a few years first person might be a possibility.

[Gramul]

I highly doubt it, if you look at the limitations for the VR look up Batman VR game play. Very restricted, no actual fighting, and the VR is more of an accessory.

Again, this operates under the assumption that VR needs to be in First Person.