 I'm taking the Nintendo Switch and I'm just ever so carefully putting it to the side for the day and instead pulling out another somewhat portable system not really it has a cord but with an OLED screen a lot of similarities between these two like the amount of fun you can have playing them. Got a bit of a stretch? I don't really have any expectations for this video I just love VR and recently the PlayStation VR 2 release and I've been playing a ton of games and you know me when I play a ton of games I want a verbal diarrhea about a ton of games. This is not a review of the PlayStation VR 2 headset I did that already and my opinion on it hasn't really changed all that much I just want to talk about the best games you can play on this thing. With all that said let me get this big bulky headset that is wired my two unnecessarily large controllers that go along with this thing and on top of all of that the 3D sound stereo pulse earphones that I had to buy because I would be caught dead before using those crummy little painful spikes they call earbuds which by the way have the same sound quality of a Walkman from the 90s. These are much better and they're wireless so all right. Hey oh I'm very busy as you can probably tell so I don't have time to cook. 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of food I now get to eat fresh at home and I am going to eat it and then get back to my very important business of playing Stardew Valley all right bye all right so somewhere in this basement I have Resident Evil Village Physically I can't find it for the life of me so we're going to pretend like this is it the point I was trying to make which is this is one of the only games on the list that has a physical Resident Evil Village which released on PlayStation 5 you can just download a free VR version of that game easily the game I played the least on this list for reasons that are very clear I'm a big old baby boy that can't handle scary games but it is really great at the same time it's fantastic it's literally the entire Resident Evil Village experience just working perfectly in VR it's even free if you have the main game which is insane the amount of extra work dedication and development it must take to shift a game into VR and they're just giving it away like those guys on the streets of New York that just hand you their album for free a very scary spooky album for free it is so much exactly the same game in VR that you even have the original cutscenes a little jarring actually because you can't move in them you're just stuck in place watching it all happen around you gets even weirder when the position of the character in the cutscene is like lying on the ground but in real life your standing makes you kind of feel like a toner ready to be plucked out of the ground but there's nothing that gets my heart pounding faster than a zombie rushing towards my face while I struggle to reload my gun and remember which side of my body I left my knife so good luck screaming your way through this one and probably missing as many shots as I did and Resident Evil it's really important not to miss shots and I was just out there firing that thing like it was the 4th of July after a game so stressful how about we cut to one that is just ever so relaxing okay so sometimes it can be really stressful if you try racing these idiots in their kayaks but otherwise it's pretty relaxing kayak mirage is a visually jaw dropping featuring beautiful locations from all around the world the kayak mechanics are physically accurate to the point where I even found this guy on reddit who had made his own at-home makeshift kayak rod paddle thing to use while he plays the game you gain speed by paddling faster if you want to turn you obviously just paddle on one side you can even throw your paddle like into one side and hold it there if you want a fast-paced handbrake turn you can paddle freely around open roam areas to just take in the scenery or you can partake in these checkpoint races where you see these other players but I don't think they're actually there there I'm pretty sure it's just ghost players it's still fun but the devs have said that real-time multiplayer white water rapids and an open world are all planned for the future I would say the only thing I'm missing in this game is smello vision you know so I could like smell the fresh open sea water or the river in the lakes I think all of that would really heighten how relaxed I feel when I play but you know that's not a technology that exists so I'm not going to put that on Sony this time while Resident Evil may be the game I've played the least in this video Zenith is easily the one that I've played the most have you ever seen uh the sword art online well yeah it's kind of just like that except I don't be dying the game no dying real life I mean that would be kind of crazy a VR open world MMO RPG that actually does a really great job at bringing the genre in a virtual reality right now there's two main classes blade master and essence mage there are more classes coming over time but for now you can pick between those and then you can pick DPS tank or support I picked blade master DPS swinging two massive swords in combat using them to block attacks and hit weak points but also there's special abilities to unlock and discover as you play like throwing your swords to create AoE effects charging up massive crits and more the mage class I haven't played but it's a whole different beast it even comes with a book full of spells that you can cast and I'm pretty sure it all goes into hand movements and how you you know cameo mayo the spells the more I played the more depth I found for starters the map is actually pretty huge I've been playing for weeks now on and off and I've still only explored like less than half of the sprawling open world there's loads and loads of main mission quests and side quests collectable items around the world but alongside everything I've said there's a whole separate Pokemon catching mechanic you can catch any of the bugs critters and non-attacky animals around the game you can even have them follow you around and give you stat boosts there's also cooking you need to find forage or buy the ingredients for yourself then activate your own personal mobile kitchen station where you can cut your own produce fry and boil your ingredients there's always loads of players around as well as an active community of people and they're always on mic and talking so you can find plenty of people to help you do raids or just progress through the game you can make new friends this one is actually a really good time and I can't recommend it enough speaking of games I didn't think I would get sucked into demio is actually pretty fine again this goes into even the most simple basic premises but put in VR can suddenly become so much more fun this one is a tabletop survival RPG borrowing its themes and ideas for games like magic the gathering and dungeons and dragons essentially imagine gathering around a table in an old crusty 70s basement with your long-lost childhood friends being able to roll your own dice physically move your pieces around the board and even see your friends sitting across from you making their own moves while you try and distract them by waving at them or making vulgar hand gestures please blow that I get so much joy out of just actually picking up my warrior piece putting it down and then watching the smooth animation of it either moving where I told it to go or attacking the creature I told it to attack it's the first time I've experienced something like Star Wars chess or Yu-Gi-Oh in real life I mean I know it's not actually real life but it's just cool to watch your creatures your monsters come to life before you you have several different hero types to pick from each with their own abilities you and your friends dungeon crawl through unexplored rooms looking for the exit while fighting to stay alive with massive boss fights at the end it's a perfect game for friends who live apart but want to spend some quality time together you know because it all feels like you're sat around the table and because of the game that it is you need constant communication and teamwork sharing that excitement over successes or disappointment over losses and the losses are definitely gonna happen because the game is stupidly hard I mean like brutally we can never actually beat anything because we suck but it's still good time what the what the what the what the what the what the what the bat the song has been stuck in my head it's so heck and catchy what the bat if you've played what the golf you might know what you're in for here because now they've made what the bat it's an all in VR and your hands are freaking baseball bats that's all you need to know you do everything with your bad arms including hitting balls into windows painting zebras and awkwardly trying to toast some bread and then smacking the bird that tries to take that bread each of the levels have a theme like waking up and completing your morning routine or needing to make coffee for a bunch of cats you know normal everyday things with your bat arms it usually starts with a basic premise and then expands on it several times in wackier and wackier ways pushing you to think outside the box and find creative ways to solve each puzzle solving the harder puzzles are usually the most rewarding ones that make you laugh the most because I could try and hit the bowling ball up and around this entire core so I could realize the end goal is right there and I can just smack it in didn't have to do the whole thing big brain it's just the best kind of silly I would compare it to like job simulator or the rick and morty VR game it's funny and fun it's okay to have fun sometimes it's not all about big honking guns and military out of every game in the video today no man sky VR is the one that impresses me the most when you stand in the middle of no man skies world the scope of it all really sinks in this isn't just an open world game it's an open galaxy game an open universe game multiverse even this is the entire no man sky experience in VR if you already have a safe file for no man sky and you want to get the VR you can just start playing your safe file you can even play with your friends who don't have VR at the same time that you're in VR on top of that every single aspect of no man sky has been retort in VR to work seamlessly exploration mining and building shooting driving the moment I was hooked on this game in VR was the second I sat down in my own personal spaceship grabbed the throttle and launched out of the atmosphere and flew myself to another planet there's no load screens or wait times it's one seamless open universe exploration and it's so fun to play with friends no man sky has come such a long way since launch the team at hello games has released multiple patches DLCs content and more while still offering this VR experience for free and even releasing a massive VR upgrade version for PlayStation VR 2's release which improved the resolution and visuals across the entire game I've grown to really enjoy no man sky but the best way to experience it is in VR it is so addicting this next one in my opinion out of all the games on the list has the best shooting and gameplay mechanics after the fall is essentially left for dead in VR if you've played that game yet know exactly what you're in for him up to four friends entering levels filled with zombies around every corner your goal is to try and make it to the end of the level alive there's checkpoint stations around the way to refill your ammo and items and as well as regular zombies you've got ugly special ones to look out for each one will mess you up in different ways like grabbing you or your friends and holding them down in one spot or a bloater that explodes and makes it impossible to see in between each run you have a hub world where you can see all other players gearing up for their next mission and you can do the same here there's a weapon ordering station where you can tune up your guns and add attachments and make the best load up possible and yet get these attachments and upgrades by successfully completing runs the higher the difficulty level the better the rewards and the stuff you'll get at the end which of course adds a ton of replay value going back through and trying harder and harder levels as your loot gets better and better it pays to search around the levels too because if you find the hidden floppy disks you'll get rarer drops assuming you could make it all the way to the end without dying the best part of this game is the shooting and gunplay mechanics the team behind this game kind of specialized in that previously having made arizona sunrise which was reviewed positively for the same reason the act of loading and unloading your guns is super smooth while aiming and shooting also feels right on point when you get in the groove of just chewing through hordes of zombies dabbing yourself with a healing pin before tossing a couple of grenades into the crowd and desperately loading your guns back up again it all feels really badass also the cooperative teamwork as you yell at your friends battle strategies and take down big bosses together is just so much fun hey if you like paula duty if you like counter strike have love is probably the game for you the gun design are all very precise and even though it's all digital while i'm playing i still feel the need to handle everything with respect and care because it just feels so realistic there is an insane amount of variety in game modes there's even a zombie mode which of course i went straight to but the main mode is the classic 5v5 search and destroy and just like my long nights of playing ballerina with my friends this is one of my favorite game types i've never really been a huge fan of massive team death match game types where you constantly respawn and don't get me wrong paula definitely has those game types if that's what you're into they got everything but i really like the thrill of only having one life per round and really needing to make it count it slows down the pace of the gameplay and allows your skills to really shine and it can lead to some awesome clutch moments like when there's only you left on the team but like three of them and somehow you're the hero the only thing that stinks about the psvr2 version of pavlov is it some new updated top of the line version of pavlov and it doesn't work with the other crossplay versions of pavlov on pc or meta quest so you can only play with playstation vr2 people right now i think there's plans to fix that and update the other versions elsewhere but yeah the game's great if you were to ask any vr enthusiast what are some of the best games to start with what vr game should i go to first i can guarantee you moss and moss2 will be among the top of their recommendations they are perfect examples of what is possible in vr for now i'm just gonna talk about moss2 but i do recommend going back and playing the first one it's still so good you play as the reader guiding this tiny adorable but also rough and tough mouse named quill through her adventure it plays out like a traditional puzzle platform you control quills movements the same way you would any other game jumping attacking climbing and so on but you can also interact with the world as the reader character where you physically interact with the world as well like stretching out vines to create new platforms or touching walls to make climbable ivy spread across its surface quill also knows that you're guiding her and will frequently turn to talk to you or request a high five for a job well done and oh my god that's where vr is able to transcend the genre and add a layer of connection i've never felt before on top of all of that the visuals are absolutely beautiful from wonderful sculpted castles and environments to the character and enemy designs also moss is perfect for people who might get motion sick while playing vr because you're only ever standing in one place you're not moving around like crazy you're moving the little mouse around you can take it all at your own pace the puzzles are challenging but they're not super hard they didn't want to make them impossible so people would take the headset off to go on google all the time they wanted to keep you immersed and they do a great job at that i saved the only current playstation vr 2 exclusive game to very last and it's not because it's my favorite because it definitely ain't but because it feels like the biggest budget triple a game out of all of them with absolutely gorgeous visuals great music and sound design and tight fun gameplay but at the same time it is the most tech demo we feeling game i have played in vr for a while horizon call of the mountain is a sony vr game set in the world of horizon of course you play as a new character named ryer who is a master of climbing and archery which is lucky because that's all you're gonna do but i will say that both elements are done flawlessly there's just a bit too much of them climbing in vr is weirdly satisfying scaling across a large ravine or worming my way around large mountains and structures can really get the blood pumping i even had some uncharted esque moments where i was climbing and i would slip and then catch myself last second it's a level of climbing immersion in a game i haven't felt before but i was hoping that this as a horizon game would feel more open but it is just one straight corridor until the end there is plenty of things to shoot at the bow mechanics are awesome being able to quickly knock back arrow after arrow with no delay and i don't know if it's the eye tracking in the headset or the new gen motion controllers but i managed to aim in this game like a crack shot hawkeye from avengers just back back back i was hoping the battles with the mechs would be more in depth but the game locks you onto a circle rail like you don't have to dash like side to side around it in a in a circumference but other than that this game really does serve just as a this is what vr can offer you it's made even more telling by the ridiculous amount of musical instruments painting supplies and random other toys scattered around the levels which having a game like this on launch of a new headset makes perfect sense sure you have people picking up vr for the first time and they're probably gonna get this game and it's gonna teach them all about vr i just wish they had done something like astro bot vr again where it's a free pack-in game to kind of teach you these things and then the game that's 60 dollars might actually be a game i know i'm being a little harsh but all that said if this is your first time in vr horizon call of the mountain will probably blow you away i think 60 is a reach considering some of the experiences we have out there but again for your first time in vr if you're just picking up the headset in this game i do think it's worth it to experience something way more beautiful than you're gonna see anywhere else other than maybe half-life alex if you have steam vr because that game is still untouchable as far as visuals go i want to give a little pro tip before i get out of here for anybody that has motion sickness while they play vr games there's a hack i got to tell you and some info i'm gonna keep it real short the info is the new tech in this bad boy the OLED screen the higher refresh rate the resolution all of that is what has gone such a long way to help your eyes and your brain associate with what's happening so if you haven't tried a newer headset in a while your problem might be fixed just there alone but if you want an actual hack when you turn side to side have it on snap don't do smooth motion turning where it looks for you because the looking for you is what's gonna make you a hurl it's the biggest mistake i see so many people do they go oh snapping why i don't i don't that's unrealistic i want smooth you're gonna throw up but it's how i play for hours and hours and hours without getting motion sick if somehow you love this video and it does really well heck maybe i'll do more like the video leave a comment down below with your favorite vr games maybe ones i can talk about next and uh yeah i'll do a switch video next i know i i get it i i understand yeah no it's fine i actually have a lot of cool switch video ideas so i'm actually okay with it bye