So, yesterday I put the PSVR on my buddy and set him up with the Move controllers and Rush of Blood. It was the funniest thing I have seen in quite a while
. He's a mostly technologically challenged 50-something, and definitely not a "gamer", but he was having a great time and did very well with the controls. He jumped like crazy at the in-your-face scares, and was yelling obscenities. I swore he would have ripped off the headset after the first one, but he didn't, and I had to pull him off of it at the end of level 3.
I got him to try Farpoint, but there are a lot of controls on the gun which aren't friendly to a non-gamer. He thought it was really cool, but had trouble navigating everything. His son, on the other hand, is a crack COD player, and picked up the controls quickly. He had no problems shooting what he was aiming at and moving around, but I noticed he was having trouble shaking his normal habits of playing an FPS, where looking around is controlled by the thumbsticks. So he ended up getting pounded by flying objects and attacks from the side. Eventually, he started coming around to the requirement of "natural situational awareness", through head movements, and starting doing better. By the time he got done, he asked if there were other games like Farpoint yet, and said he would start looking for deals on the units.
Both had a good time, and neither of them complained about anything other than the cost of entry
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