You place some grass on the ground and get some pieces of firewood ready. You need to know how to build a fire, or you need to intuit it.

In A Township Tale there’s no menu saying “Here’s what you need for a fire then press this button'. A Township Tale excels at this, where most VR games have totally ignored this potential.īack to the fire.

In VR there are so many opportunities to take things a player can do and make them physical, almost make them close to the process of doing the actual thing, because you have virtual hands that can actually move objects like you can with your real hands. Even in a games market saturated with survival titles, the most basic aspects of survival must be abstracted away to suit the controls which a player can use. All in all, pretty removed from the actual process of creating a fire and cooking meat. Maybe you want to cook something on that fire, well you press a use key and a menu pops up and you can turn some uncooked meat into some cooked meat with another button press. Then you either select a campfire to build from a menu, maneuver it’s hologram into position, and press a button to place it on the ground. In a “Flat” game, aka a non-VR title using a mouse and keyboard, you would need fire lighting items in your in game inventory. While lacking in the “Massive Multiplayer” aspect of a game like Runescape or World of Warcraft as Orbus VR: Reborn attempts to emulate, A Township Tale focuses more on it’s systems and the ways in which a player can do things normally done in a Multiplayer RPG space, but in VR. It has best been described as a sort of Runescape VR (for anyone who still plays or remembers that most venerable of graphical MUDS).

A Township Tale is a new VR title from Alta, which just released on Oculus Quest.

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