Looking for a bit of help about the oculous go
I don't know shit about this but I'd like to get my wife one of these for her birthday. I have a modest PC setup, i recently played GTA V on low settings without issue, so it seems to me it's not going to be powerful enough to play a rift on.
I've seen these oculous go's and had a look at them. They actually seem kinda fun but the games they had on it were fairly pathetic. I played an okay dungeon crawler zombie thing and a parachute game. Visually i was pretty impressed but there was fuck all in terms of actual gameplay.
So, can i play doom on the thing or are there any titles that would make it worth buying? Like full priced games that don't feature microtransactions you could suggest, and what is it like paired with a Bluetooth controller?
If it's really sub-par bit of kit I won't bother but all the reviews I've seen online seem extreme in hate or praise.
Thanks for your time
Posted Jul 13, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC
Go is more of a media viewing device.
Look into Oculus Quest - it's made for gaming. Game library is somewhat limited compared to PCVR, but much larger than Go. For example here's top 10 Quest games.
I've looked at it but it's about £400/£500, well over budget I'm afraid.
There are games on the go though, are you saying it's shit basically?
For games there won't be much. You can checkout the entire library here but there is very limited experiences due to its processor and that it's only 3DOF (no position) and a fairly limited controller.
I adore my go for watching TV and YouTube at night but I'd never use it for gaming personally.
Well first of all you need to understand limitations of this device. Both Go headset and the single controller have 3 degrees of freedom. (3DoF vs 6DoF example). This and fact that it runs on mobile hardware severely limits the type of games you can output in it - you'll never have the games with the scale of Doom. Most of games are short experiences with a smaller scope, check best Go games.
You will exhaust game library very quickly, that's why Go is mostly used to watch movies/youtube/netflix.
You can't even run doom on it? I could run doom on my old sony erricson. If it can't handle something that simple it must be completely pointless! I was at least hoping I'd be able to cobble together some old fps like duke nukem, quake and doom.
Do you mean original Doom? Of course technically it could run it, but it's not available on Go, not as far as I know.