@darthbuzzard: it's quite telling when i go to a cinema and now find the screen to be relatively "small" lol (altho in reality of course the VR is the small screen... Great tech tho means no eye strain, altho im finding the quantity of time im wearing it is messing with my forehead a bit sry if too much detail haha. My unit was bought 2nd hand and can tend to cut out quite often when i move too much, any ideas on whats causing that are welcome. Wish id bought it new tbh.)

Edit: in defense of tvs, vr will never have as good resolution bc the screen is so much smaller. I find it a very worthwhile tradeoff, and any game with text too small to read in the maximum size setting just has bad UI in my opinion (the worst example being boring xcom clone Phantom Doctrine which only shows one key number in a size and colour scheme unreadable on vr. Xcom itself never has any such issues).

I just use it for "cinema mode" as an alternative to a tv, so im all set whatever the future may hold! ;D

XCOM does both, focussing on Single Player campaign of a unique kind of depth and complexity with almost infinite replayability, but the online pvp is not bad AT ALL. Unfortunately you need the same DLC loadout as your partner, but now that it is on the PSNow service I can stream the zero DLC version exclusively for mp. I love online 2d brawlers, specifically Streets of Rage 2 (megadrive/genesis collection) and Final Fight (capcom beatemup bundle, but more impressively the remastered, ggpo Double Impact edition on the PSNow service/PS3). However, by far the most emotionally affecting experience Ive had was my time with Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (via the cinematic mode of my PSVR headset). It's a tough call: as the question stands, id have to edge it to online, but if u include story based offline AND replayable stuff such as xcom (the procedurally generated Enter the Gungeon also comes to mind), then i would vote offline.

Found out this pretty sweet dubstep remix stopped someone from killing themself. Had me sobbing last time i listened and couldnt even finish it, which surprised me as i havent been like that since Times Like These after I was fired lol. "When i dream of dying... I never felt so loved! Ive been having dreams..."

https://youtu.be/A2BSmaBTWeY

Jeez i thought Defender was late 70s but no it was early 80s. I'm too old.

@Ish_basic: got excited by the amazing vanishing sequence, the trippy shrine sequence, best cgi noodles ever, the shiba inu... the entire trailer was a masterpiece beginning to end. It is very encouraging to see Japanese creatives making more mature design decisions than the anime trash that has unfortunately become so pervasive.

Born 1980 so not really. I'd like to try getting into Defender, though.

Ghostwire Tokyo, love the whole "vanishing" theme and it's handled so well in this trailer.

Best of E3 for me. Love the new abstract-realist design work coming out of Japan, in the vein of Death Stranding. There is also the collab with RR Martin but for me Ghostwire stole the show.

Would link the vid now but im on my phone. Also found the presentation from the creative director to be utterly charming. But of course the game is a complete mystery at this early stage, but im a huge fan of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture so naturally the theme appeals...

39 here. My journey through gaming has been:

Collecovision - ZX Spectrum - PC 286/386/486 - Sega Saturn - SNES (yup, went back a gen) - Dreamcast - PS3 - PS4

My list of top games:

Chaos the Battle of Wizards (ZX), classic Doom (i play it on ps3 with my vr headset, yes it works!), Final Fight Double Impact, Megadrive/Genesis Collection (for online Streets of Rage 2), Valkyria Chronicles, XCOM Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Street Fighter V (as spectator only).

So Chaos is basically the only thing that has truly passed the test of time on the zx spectrum imo. I still play Chase HQ to be fair, but it hasnt aged quite so well. The two best retro brawlers, FF and SoR2, both have online functionality now which is immensely enjoyable (especially as i am very dominant in these games, after grinding for years trying and failing to be great at fighters). One annoying thing is that the PS4 version of Final Fight, on the beatemup collection, is vastly inferior to the PS3's Double Impact edition, but luckily you can play it on the ps4's streaming service psnow. Chaos creator Julian Gollop's X-COM received the ultimate reboot treatment and my only wish is that it was more popular so we had more XCOM games on the way (heres hoping for XCOM 3 at some point though). Valkyria Chronicles was a beautiful game which SEGA has sadly mangled to the point where VC4 has me raging and its RIDICULOUS "story" (meanwhile the gameplay and ui is entirely unchanged. Lazy). Everybody's Gone to the Rapture flexes this gen's INCREDIBLE visuals while not having any pewpew shooty nonsense, instead generating a very eery and creepy tone without resorting to jump scares. Again, I just wish it was more popular so we got more in this style.

Resident Evil 7 is also incredible on VR bit is too terrifying for me to finish.

So looking at my list, seems I prefer the older stuff but given a new spin through online functionality (id never play the two brawlers offline for too long, whats the fun with no partner to troll?!). I spent years playing Street Fighter but it gradually became a spectator sport for me, and now I know all the top players on the Capcom Pro Tour which i follow closely. The one instance where time has not helped is Doom... I dont especially like the new reboot, but no classic Doom is available on ps4 or PSNow, which means i cant stream it. I generally play it on ps3 with vr headset but yes i should be on pc. I guess even my laptop could handle it. Cant quite be bothered tho. And i wouldnt be able to use my headset. I think they deliberately wont give us ps4 classic so as not to interfere with the new Doom bc they secretly know the old one is better, which sucks.