https://massivelyop.com MMORPG news and opinions Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:53:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/24/tales-from-the-holodeck-altair-breaker-is-an-unfinished-and-unsatisfying-example-of-multiplayer-vr-swordplay/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/24/tales-from-the-holodeck-altair-breaker-is-an-unfinished-and-unsatisfying-example-of-multiplayer-vr-swordplay/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=401865 One of the best things I’ve experienced in VR gaming has been swordfighting. Sure, waving a controller around to translate it into sword strikes isn’t precisely novel in gaming thanks to the Wii, but doing it in virtual reality can very often feel a lot more impactful owing to the first-person view, the three dimensional […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/24/tales-from-the-holodeck-altair-breaker-is-an-unfinished-and-unsatisfying-example-of-multiplayer-vr-swordplay/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2022/04/12/tales-from-the-holodeck-virtual-reality-is-best-as-a-gaming-machine-not-as-a-portal-to-the-metaverse/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/04/12/tales-from-the-holodeck-virtual-reality-is-best-as-a-gaming-machine-not-as-a-portal-to-the-metaverse/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=382790 Welcome to a new column here on MassivelyOP! Tales from the Holodeck was inspired by a couple of things: my purchase of a VR headset (a Quest 2 specifically) and the desire to expand our coverage of MMOs, MMORPGs, and multiplayer games into new territories, including VR. However, this column isn’t going to be restricted […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/04/12/tales-from-the-holodeck-virtual-reality-is-best-as-a-gaming-machine-not-as-a-portal-to-the-metaverse/feed/ 12