The fuck does a game have to do to NOT be a tech demo on Yas Forums?
A tech demo is literally that, a demo to show off Tech.
You know what's a tech demo? Unplayable oculus rift early games that were just rollercoaster rides/sit down and oo and aah at shit.
Most VR games are legitimate games with effort now, Alyx is a game not a tech demo no matter how hard you shills want to believe it is.
i pirated it for my rift s and have played a half of it (gonna finish this weekend)
id say what will decide its status as a tech demo or not is how they will follow up on it. remember the radeon 7 gpu? it was supposed to be a look into the future of radeon gpus and HBM and prove that HBM is viable for both consumer gaming cards and workstation cards. What came after radeon 7? 5700xt cards with gddr6 and NOT hbm, thus retroactively making radeon 7 a tech demo. It was actually a product to show investors rather than to sell it to the public, theres a term for this but I forgot it. But the fact that they were up on stage touting it as the next best thing only to 180 and do something else entirely out of necessity is what made it a one off experiment, aka a demo. If hl3 isnt fully VR, or doesnt combine the cool parts of VR with a regular fps title, then that would make alyx retroactively a tech demo
>Retroactive tech demo
Jesus christ.
>make alyx retroactively a tech demo
thats... thats the most retarded fucking thing i've ever heard spewed from someone on Yas Forums.
A tech demo is used to show off tech and is a demo.
If it's in a game, it's no longer a fucking demo it's a game.
The Radeon 7 wasn't a tech demo because it actually utilized the HBM for legitimate purposes but was never picked up cause people realized there was more cost efficient better shit.
Were floppy disks a tech demo despite being used for decades?
Are VHS tapes now a tech demo despite being used for decades?
What about CRT monitors, or TV's, or quite literally anything that's been used for years.
They weren't used to "demonstrate the tech" they WERE the tech you ding bat.
I guess every car ever is now a Tech demo because the god damn tesla exists.
3D platforming on par with Mario 64 was really new and exciting as a tech. However, it didn't make Mario good just because it was new tech.
it was how creatively it was used to the point of inspiring future games and still being fun if played today.
That's the difference
i love the part where you need to cover your mouth during a mission but if you pick up a gas mask and put it on you don't need to do it anymore and can easily get pass jeff.
you literally just described what HL:A is going for by using SM64 as a base.
it's called an analogy
>tfw was wondering what the FUCK he was talking about when he said "cover your mouth"
>Tfw was wearing a respirator since the first level and never noticed the coughing
xen clams scared the shit outta me though
i smacked my face with my controller when a metal head crab jumped on me.