Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 18:14:00 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Acidy-goodness: Aliens Rogue Incurision Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 14:14:01 -0400 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-1OVyVzuSf8nf20kNEV8dV46WiPTnIuzcYkCA51vv8sWMt8C16mKlV3QTiW+cClfoizoHkzrQFpxU2qV!ffL0sBL0hMCI7QR616IOISBj4xyx/D7G+JPChfA7amLDY3d4UEnCmKpHZT+8w9k6Dd4XDiKH X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 I'm a sucker for the Aliens franchise, and have over the years played pretty much all the games in that franchise. But there's one recent game I haven't played, and that was "Rogue Incursion", and that solely because it was a VR exclusive. As much as I liked my xenomorph tales, I wasn't going to buy a VR headset just for the privilege of seeing a facehugger latch onto me in super-realistic 3D. Fortunately, it was recently announced* that an 'Evolved Edition' would soon release that allowed all us non-VR Luddites to finally experience the horror. So I'm all for that. It does say something about the state of VR, though, that the publisher has to release a non-VR version. Despite all the hype about how VR was going to revolutionize the industry and we'd all soon be playing with heavy headsets strapped to our face, that never really happened. The majority of gamers shrugged and said, "You know what, I'm fine with my flatscreen TV/monitor". And now the rest of the industry seems to be turning its back on the technology too. I hope this game will be better than the no-VR mods for "Half Life: Alyx" though. Admittedly, those were fan-creations that had no access to the source code, so optimizations were quite limited, but that experience was quite rough. Presumably the "Rogue Incursion" game will be more polished... but I'm definitely waiting for user reviews before I even think of buying this game. Still, more Aliens games are always welcome (well, unless the game somehow involves Gearbox Studios; then I'll pass). Send in the xenomorphs! * here's the steam webpage https://store.steampowered.com/app/3655390/Alien_Rogue_Incursion_Evolved_Edition/