Recent reviews by Longomontanus

Must have if you have VR.

I'm not usually a fan of racing games and simulators, but this game just feels so satisfying. I'm terrible at it, I never win a race, and I'm still having an absolute blast every round. This is the only game I've played where I've laughed so hard that I've fallen off my chair gasping for air, after a disastrous round on the figure 8 track left my car compressed to about half its original size, limping along the track rocking back and forth so the single wheel it had left occasionally touched the ground. Highly recommended.

In 1996, two years after I bought my first computer, I was introduced to the Elder Scrolls series through the game Daggerfall. It blew my mind. Most of the games I had been playing up to that point were linear and/or pretty small in scope. Daggerfall allowed me to freely explore a giant world, with for the time amazing graphics and seemingly limitless content. It allowed me to immerse myself deeply into its world and I loved it. Later came Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, all good games but unable to wow me in the way Daggerfall did and so ultimately feeling like a letdown. Damn nostalgia. Now finally, over 20 years later, my mind has been blown again.

I bought Skyrim VR some time ago to play on my Oculus Rift, and unsurprisingly it was a pretty underwhelming experience on my GTX 970. The graphics had to be lowered to pretty much the minimum and I still had pretty poor performance. A few days ago I upgraded to an RTX 2080 (non-ti, similar performance to a 1080ti), installed most of the mods from one of the "40 mods for Skyrim VR" lists floating around the net and gave Skyrim VR another go. And I absolutely love it. There's free movement, the graphics are great (at least with mods), the interface is cumbersome but works well enough when you get used to it, and obviously the game has vast amounts of content to experience.

TLDR: Highly recommended, but only if you have a powerful enough graphics card (1080 or above).

With the September 2017 update this game now works perfectly on Rift. And it is awesome.

Pros:
- I am extremely happy that there is enough interest in VR for this to be made, good or bad.
- Nice art, environments and mood.
- Free.

Cons:
- Game menu loads on monitor not headset.
- Movement is thumbstick move where you look... Come on guys this isn't 2014.
- At least on my DK2 the perspective/FOV is off, meaning the environment moves faster towards the sides of the view than in the middle when you move your head. I couldn't find a way to adjust this.
- There is no interaction with NPCs or environments, you just walk around alone in a few different scenes and look at stuff.

Conclusion:
A really good example of how not to make a VR experience. Some of the design choices are pretty much the worst that could have been made. I hope that this is an indication of that a proper Deus Ex VR experience is coming, with better everything.

Definitely not recommended.