Beat Saber is a must own VR game. It's a must play VR game, even if you don't have the equipment to play it, I encourage you to go out there to one of those overpriced joints that rent VR equipment, and try it for fifteen minutes. It'll blow you away, some of you so much so, that you'll be sold on getting VR equipment for yourself.
That's what happened to me anyway, a few years back I had the opportunity to try Beat Saber and I was hooked right from the start. The gameplay loop, no matter the difficulty, is really satisfying. It's tapping into that "rhythm game" hype and madness that I haven't felt rage within me since the highs of Guitar Hero and Rock Band many years ago. Since that moment, I purchased Beat Saber on 3 platforms, have earned all the achievements, and have plugged in a cumulative 200+ hours. What's more, is I've burned over 30,000 calories in a year, just from playing Beat Saber. That's insane!
From the lowly depths of "easy mode" I've built reflex after reflex from the scraps of my failures, and I slowly advanced through the difficulties week by week and month by month. The patterns of the blocks start to emerge and instead of being disappointed by seeing a glimpse of what's behind the curtain, it pushed me to go harder and further than ever. Now, I rank in the top 0.5% of players, at the hardest difficulty. Now, I play with modifiers that I could have never dreamed of using back when I started. The progress I've made is thrilling, and the sense of accomplishment I have for completing many of these songs dozens of times over like this, is something that I wear as a badge of honor. I hope that all the people who I recommend the game to, go through a similar experience. I always hope to see them at the top. I always need more friends to play multiplayer with paha.
But beyond the base game, the community is amazing. The mods are spectacular. I've made quite a few friends all across the globe just by playing this game and participating in the community. That's cool.
The only gripe I have with this otherwise perfect game... the micro-transactions, and now, the new block types.
I know I can play all of their songs, for free, with mods. I enjoy playing vanilla though. Less hassle. Still, I don't think I should be paying more than 20$ a year for DLC. They desperately need a season pass. Each new pack that comes out is 7-20$. For a measly 10 or so songs. That's ridiculous. The packs usually are not worth what they cost, and I should know, I own all of them (except for the BTS pack... lmao)
The new block types have changed the meta of how the maps are made. I don't listen to Lady Gaga, but that pack came out right before the new block types and I thought the maps included were some of the most creative and fun maps in the entire game to date. Made me anticipate the next pack, which was from one of my favorite bands, Fall Out Boy. But the maps sucked man. Some of my favorite songs... The new block types have genetically changed how maps have to be, by forcing these new block types in, and I think it's completely killed the creativity (with Expert+ maps) in a way that I'm not sure can be recovered. If the electronic pack comes around and gives me the same icky feelings, I could be done with new content in the game for good.
But one man yelling at the clouds aside, I have not been so enamored with a VR game EVER. I love those traditional VR games (like Boneworks), but there's something about Beat Saber that keeps pulling me back again and again and again... despite it all.
That's what happened to me anyway, a few years back I had the opportunity to try Beat Saber and I was hooked right from the start. The gameplay loop, no matter the difficulty, is really satisfying. It's tapping into that "rhythm game" hype and madness that I haven't felt rage within me since the highs of Guitar Hero and Rock Band many years ago. Since that moment, I purchased Beat Saber on 3 platforms, have earned all the achievements, and have plugged in a cumulative 200+ hours. What's more, is I've burned over 30,000 calories in a year, just from playing Beat Saber. That's insane!
From the lowly depths of "easy mode" I've built reflex after reflex from the scraps of my failures, and I slowly advanced through the difficulties week by week and month by month. The patterns of the blocks start to emerge and instead of being disappointed by seeing a glimpse of what's behind the curtain, it pushed me to go harder and further than ever. Now, I rank in the top 0.5% of players, at the hardest difficulty. Now, I play with modifiers that I could have never dreamed of using back when I started. The progress I've made is thrilling, and the sense of accomplishment I have for completing many of these songs dozens of times over like this, is something that I wear as a badge of honor. I hope that all the people who I recommend the game to, go through a similar experience. I always hope to see them at the top. I always need more friends to play multiplayer with paha.
But beyond the base game, the community is amazing. The mods are spectacular. I've made quite a few friends all across the globe just by playing this game and participating in the community. That's cool.
The only gripe I have with this otherwise perfect game... the micro-transactions, and now, the new block types.
I know I can play all of their songs, for free, with mods. I enjoy playing vanilla though. Less hassle. Still, I don't think I should be paying more than 20$ a year for DLC. They desperately need a season pass. Each new pack that comes out is 7-20$. For a measly 10 or so songs. That's ridiculous. The packs usually are not worth what they cost, and I should know, I own all of them (except for the BTS pack... lmao)
The new block types have changed the meta of how the maps are made. I don't listen to Lady Gaga, but that pack came out right before the new block types and I thought the maps included were some of the most creative and fun maps in the entire game to date. Made me anticipate the next pack, which was from one of my favorite bands, Fall Out Boy. But the maps sucked man. Some of my favorite songs... The new block types have genetically changed how maps have to be, by forcing these new block types in, and I think it's completely killed the creativity (with Expert+ maps) in a way that I'm not sure can be recovered. If the electronic pack comes around and gives me the same icky feelings, I could be done with new content in the game for good.
But one man yelling at the clouds aside, I have not been so enamored with a VR game EVER. I love those traditional VR games (like Boneworks), but there's something about Beat Saber that keeps pulling me back again and again and again... despite it all.