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Deadpool VR Will Either Be Amazing Or Awful, And It All Depends On If It's Funny Or Cringe

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tessa Kaur

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I’ve owned exactly one VR headset in my entire life, and it was the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation VR, gifted by my younger brother for my birthday. I browsed the games available on the platform, and the only thing that seemed even remotely worth playing was , which was fun until I realised I’d have to pay to add songs I a🐷ctually wanted to listen to. I set it aside after a month or two, where it collected dust in my bedroom, never to be toucꦛhed again.

VR Games Have Come Quite A Way, But Maybe Not Far Enough

Gordon Freeman posing with Alyx Vance in the Half Life 2 cover art.

But virtual reality games have come a long way since then. We got the critically acclaimed in 2020, the excellent and equally-beloved in 2018, and last year’s , which won several awards. We’re increasingly seeing established franchises dabble in VR offshoots – , , and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Dark Pictures: Switchback – while still others adapt their existing games to the platform, like with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil Village, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 4, , and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Among Us VR.

Still, none of these games have looked so good that they earned more than a half-hearted shrug out of me, let alone a temptation to shell out hundreds of dollars for a headset. A Meta Quest 3 would cost more than a month of rent! In this economy? Sure, I’m missing out on cutting-edge tech and a platform full of games of which some are actually good now, but there hasn’t beenꦇ anything that’s wowed me enough to take the plunge♛.

That’s until I saw at last week’s Summer Games ﷺFest. The antihero hasn’t had a video game focused solely on him since 2013, which to be fair, wasn’t that long🌞 ago.

That said, you also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:can’t play that game anymore, so if you haven’t already gotten a copy and played it, it pretty much doesn’t exist. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Game preser💜vation really is in the pits, huh?

I’m not a Deadpool fan by any stretch of the imagination – I’ve always been mo🐈st interested in the X-Men, out of all of Marvel’s characters – so getting to play as the dude doesn’t immediately grab my attention. However, the Borderlands-y cel-shaded graphics, creative ways to murd💖er enemies, and sardonic sense of humour certainly did.

Lots of VR games have combat in this vein, but rarely do they look so fun, and it feels like the platform was made for games exactly like this – frenetic, brutal, and bloody. I very much want to hold a fascist’s face to a spinning blade and repeateไdly smash some old guy’s head into a table. That it features a character rarely spotlighted in video games is just a plus.

If Deadpool VR Isn’t Funny, It’s A Flop

Kenny the Gatlian pistrol being held by the main character in High on Life.

But as we’ve seen with other games – 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:High On Life, anyone? – a game that relies on irreverent, sardonic humour can easily fall flat. The other Deadpool game had critics spl෴it on its humour, either saying its fourth-wall breaking and humour worked, or that the jokes fell flat as part of a wider, significantly flawed title. Deadpool is already hard to pul♔l off, considering his specific brand of humour. It can even get grating if you don’t gel with it. How will it feel to play a whole video game with his voice in your ear?

Speaking of voices, it feels like Neil Patrick Harris is doing a Ryan Reynolds voice, and it’s k♍inda weird.

Deadpool in VR, beyond making it feel good to play the antihero, will have to make sure the humour lands, and that’s going to be difficult. If it’s laugh out loud funny, Deadpool VR will probably be a winner. But if it turns out to be more like , well… that game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:just had a sequel announced, so I guess it’s not all bad.