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Dialogue
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That’s Life
Ever since Half-Life: Alyx was announced as a VR exclusive, I suppose it was inevitable that modders would convert it for a flat screen. Having now played through it twice in VR, and watched a bunch of increasingly sophisticated non-VR mods, my feelings about the conversion are ambivalent.
On one hand, the VR install base is about 1.3% on Steam, but the ending of Alyx is shocking and significant enough that I think as many Half-Life fans as possible need to see it. Likewise, one can hardly begrudge a Half-Life fan wanting to play the first Half-Life in 13 years.
On the other hand, while I think is incredible in VR, I doubt it translates very well outside it. was designed hand-inhand with the Valve Index: built,
