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Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by koncertejo@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world

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I genuinely can't believe Half Life Alyx is five years old.

No other video game has felt the way Alyx felt. No one else has taken such a bold swing in what a video game can be. It's burned into my mind as my Half Life game, the one that came out at just the right time for me.

It was also my "pandemic" game. While everyone else was playing Animal Crossing or Doom Eternal, I was playing and replaying Half Life Alyx.

It definitely feels like it's somewhat doomed to be less remembered in the popular consciousness than most big games that come out, and indeed the rest of the games in the Half Life lineage. Cries of "Half Life 3 when?" still abound in spite of the very clear effort Alyx made to move the story forward. But to me it feels like a game that still hasn't been topped in the five years since it came out, not by a long shot.

Half Life Alyx received a Game of the Year win from GameSpot, and nominations from a few other publications. When it came to events like The Game Awards with a dedicated "Best VR Game" category, it won handily.

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[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

I thought you still needed to plug the VR headset into a computer ? is the computer built into the headset ?

[-] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes for the standalone devices, but you can connect them via cable or wirelessly to a pc too

[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Most of the common ones now do wireless streaming from the PC for PCVR. But yes, for PCVR games you will still need a PC to run it. There are some VR headsets that are capable of running some games on it without a connected PC, like my Quest 2 can run Superhot or BeatSaber etc.