re Alien Isolation VR experience for my brother

Hi there I just wanted to update a couple of you on how my trip went for my brother. I put a post up a week or so ago saying how Alien Isolation was an incredible experience and how my brother had been a long term Aliens fan and how he was interested in seeing it.

My brothers had depression all his life, hes struggled in work getting bullied out of his last job to the point of being unable to work since. The psychological effects of bullying coupled with low self esteem and depression can be pretty dramatic unfortunately. Hes been on and off medication most of his life and coupled with alcohol addiction and smoking (sometimes weed) this has all had quite a negative effect on his health.

To top it off a few years ago his wife of 16 years killed herself after he spent a couple of days at mums following an argument, that led to regular attempts at his own life right up until this year. Not painting a glamorous picture here sorry for that. This part is only relevant to a couple of posters who wished him well, I just wanted to point out how bad things had gotten for him.

Anyway I had showed him the DK1 a year or so ago and he was real excited about seeing Alien Isolation in the DK2. I drove down the 300 odd miles on Saturday and soon had it all setup for him. The previous night I had got back in from working all day and powered through from mission 4 to mission 9 just so my brother could re-live the scene from the original Alien movie where they discover the Derelict.

I plugged him in and off he went, he spent ages just gawking around him and it took a while for him to work out the hand held tracking device. That was a bit frustrating because for a regular gamer like me it couldn't have been simpler lol He was soon approaching the Derelict and a he said something like 'Err ok im...Ahhhh there it is yes' when he got to the scene where it is revealed in the distance.

It took him ages to actually get inside it, he was spending like 5 minutes at a time examining the surface of the walls on the outside lol he was saying 'wow I never imagined id be standing here'. It really is that feeling btw to anyone who hasn't seen it yet, its like you really are on the set of the movie.

I pretty much left him too it after that, he went in and explored and finally came out at the finale, which I wont spoil for anyone who hasn't played that mission yet.

He was amazed by it, he said it was such a strange experience being there at that place, the devs had done a stellar job that's for sure. The whole trip was a fantastic experience for him, interestingly probably the highlight of the whole trip (apart from smashing my mum at scrabble 543 points haha) was us three all going for a walk with my sisters dog across the fields.

He did enjoy it though and I think I went down just at the right time to pick him up, hes really looking forward to an exploration game, he kept asking - is there somewhere I can just go off and explore, you know across mountains etc? I told him Skyrim is like that, but without official support there really isn't at the moment is there? Nothing yet. Heres hoping for World of Warcraft: Revisited or something in VR right from the start with updated graphics and FPS mode lol :)

VR has given him something to look forward to in the future, its not quite there yet and im looking forward to it too. Its a great feeling because you know its only going to get better, and better, and better! The future is bright and I cant wait for it, the DK2 has given so many people such sweet glimpses into the potential of VR (including the students iv shown it off to in school), it has the ability to transform all our lives for the better and im so grateful to everyone at Oculus for making our dreams finally, a reality.

TLDR - My brother loved the experience and is really looking forward to consumer VR now, we both are.

PS; if anyone has completed the game and can provide me with the save file I would appreciate that, I have very little free time and im only really interested in the EVA spacewalk now which I think is mission 16. I wont have time to complete the game but wouldn't mind seeing that part in VR. The wife went nuts at me on that Friday night because she hadn't seen me all week and I spent that evening getting to mission 9 and left early the next morning lol I wont spend any longer than I have to now away from her this holiday :)

Submitted October 28, 2014 at 12:02PM by Falandorn http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2klgxa/re_alien_isolation_vr_experience_for_my_brother/