That doesn’t mean that virtual reality games can’t be long and complex. They’re designed to feel expansive by being geographically big, forcing you to trek long distances between settlements. That’s something that Fallout 4 and Skyrim in VR simply can’t deliver, no matter how smooth their interfaces get. I’ve written before about the need for dense games in VR - spaces where movement isn’t treated like a free action, you’re never more than a few steps away from something interesting, and you don’t have to walk right up to an item to see whether it’s worth investigating. VR open worlds will need to stop equating movement with progress It’s hard to say too much about how the rest of the game will work, because you can’t do much more than shoot fire at enemies from one hand and clumsily hack at them with a sword in the other. Its aging, relatively simple graphics give you plateaus of snow and stone that look fine on a small screen, but unnaturally sparse when they’re life-sized. It’s still using a teleportation system that doesn’t let you move very far, and exploring the world in fully immersive VR just makes you realize how empty it looks. This is even worse in the Skyrim demo, which is in a much earlier stage of production. That makes things more realistic, but Fallout isn’t designed to work realistically - in order to keep finding interesting things, you’re meant to travel distances that no human being could manage at such a fast pace. When you feel more like you’re actually wandering around, you start realizing just how big everything is, and how much motion it takes to get between objectives. But it’s still not like the flatscreen version, where moving is something you can do without even thinking about it.
Much to Bethesda’s credit, I didn’t get sick while walking around with a stick in Fallout 4 on the HTC Vive. But that won’t solve the bigger issue, which is that Fallout’s huge spaces aren’t as much fun to explore in VR. Things like the frame rate could be fixed by the game’s launch later this year. My demo had minor frame rate issues, and the visuals had jagged edges similar to those of Resident Evil 7’s VR mode. The most obvious problem is that Fallout 4’s dusty brown-and-green environments are difficult to parse on a grainy headset screen, making it tougher to spot enemies. ‘Fallout 4’ is a lot better than last year, but it feels inherently awkwardīethesda says the game was fully playable at E3, and I believe it, although I only had time to go through a couple of sorties with ghouls and raiders.
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