It seems to me that "VR anime" would benefit from stealing the structure of Visual Novels. Instead of static backdrops, it's individual rooms or locations. Fade in at the start of the scene, fade out at the end. Maybe you're Generic Protagonist for the scene or maybe you're just an invisible observer, but either way interaction is kept to a minimum. The characters say their lines, gesture, and walk around, but it's all pre-scripted because it's a story rather than a game. Maybe even borrow further mechanics of VNs, such as the Next Line Button, which will fast-forward if you hold it down. Or a way to select specific scenes. I feel that, at least until we figure out VR a little better, interaction should be something that the developers go all-in on, or leave it out completely. (And because all this extra modelling, texturing, rigging, and animation is going to be super expensive, maybe keep the "ero" to a minimum and go for something more mainstream. A little fanservice never hurts, but maybe this sort of thing has broad audience appeal, so it's a good idea not to scare off general audiences at the start.)
What! are you trying to make the first successful piece of art in a new format NON PORNOGRAPHIC! That's literally never worked in the history of mankind.
I always appreciate your ideas and analyses, even for topics I previously had no interest in. I'd never heard of VR anime before watching this, and I'm glad my first exposure wasn't someone angrily ranting about it and instead was a measured response. Also, because I couldn't find anyone else who mentioned this, the film of a train that people thought was about to hit them was "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat." "The Great Train Robbery," while also a major milestone in film history and development, is something different entirely. Comparing the early stages of VR to the early stages of film using "Arrival of a Train" is a great analogy, though
That fact that he so badly mispronounced Eizouken makes me believe he's never watched Eizouken, because they say the word "Eizouken" an average of ten times per episode, so -100 brownie points.
So in the Travelling While Black segment, there was a brief shot of the Shire, and the first thing I came up with was "There and Black Again", and I'm not sure what to do with it.
I just used it because it was one of the pictures of an "environment" that I had on-hand, but that's a really cool interpretation and I totally endorse it.
Submitted for the approval of my fellow weebs: A VR Anime Mecha Game where you are put into the role of a new pilot. The game could be equal parts visual novel (getting to know your fellow pilots) and mech combat (from basic controls and training to full combat) with the added bonus of training the player to acclimate to playing in a VR space on both a storytelling and physical level. Bonus points: How you perform in the mech training affects paths in the novel.
I can't wait for VR shows to happen. A WW2 beach landing where you are one of the soldiers. A security guard at an SCP style facility. Heck. THE MAGIC SCHOOLBUS! Thank you, I'm done. Society no longer has me. Take me away Mrs. Frizzle.
Oh yea, can’t wait to get shot and left on the beaches of Normandy while I watch my squad mates get gunned down by the Nazis while I slowly bleed out and the screen fades to red then black.
I always get hyped when I see an explanation point video notification. I'm sure this has been said before into the ground but how his videos are edited is really cool.
Dude, you seriously killed it with the final lines, as always. I'm never gonna forget from your DDLC video the "you're the passenger, not the pilot." Keep it up with the heavy hitting one clause summaries, they're great :)
Aljaž Božičko Did you enjoy it? I think I got through the LN in just under 48 hours after starting it, but I did start where the manga was currently up to at that point (which I think was the Frost Elves arc). I remember reading every ending chapter as they came out.
@@sirapple589 Hm ... I did "like" it. It is hard to say. Main premise is quite simple and easy and quite a few developments are pleasant, jokes keep being fun and once character starts developing he becomes more reasonable ... if I remember correctly. It feels so similar to "Overgeared" that I have to keep remembering which one am I thinking about ... but I liked Solo Levelling more as a story and less as a development. Solo is quite heavy on his notion that main char keeps risking his life and quite a few times, he survives only by factoring luck because he didnt want to wait till problems will become easy on their own by grinding for few years. "Same as So, I am a Spider, so What?", quite liked that one, even more than Solo. Most hard encounters like dog at Hell gates and Architect are response to his actions and wouldnt trigger if he wouldnt allow them + his encounter with architect is ... what? ... he wouldnt win if he were to choose the other reward and it seems like something too planed and important to give him a chance to miss on the opportunity ... I think author had quite a hard time figuring out how to make things fun and exciting and most developments are quite uninspired. And some later developments make no seanse if you think what they would mean for world-building when story was just starting, even when they quite nicely connect story, but most LN have this problems, because they cant correct past material, books are better in that regard, finished products. I think that I got most fun out of it through character interaction, his shadow army, all people with their little agendas and misinterpretations ... that was probably reason why I kept reading it. And I liked the theme of course. Overgeared for instance had better characters, not great, but better, at least in my eyes, he was more fun and he was a jerk, but world-building was bad to the point I doubt that author was out of highschool at the time of writing. Cant remember Solo having this problem, even if it was quite heavily whispering to Korean people, especially with "those dirty Japanese are shit and they should be grateful we tolerate them" felt quite personal. Anyway ... if I would have to give it a score ... 6-7/10, but it was a nice read. It is also one of the reads that prompted me into writing what I am working on as of now, but my standards for world-building are so high, that I might never manage to publish anything xD, so I can totally get why most people dont bother, stories would never be made with only people like me around :), but still ... it does hurt when nice stories feel cheap. I like them, but they still feel cheap. Right now, I had similar "love it, hate it, love it" with LN Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World (but it is better than Solo) and new Overlord (
Aljaž Božičko Hey, don’t apologize for that, your opinion was clearly well informed and very interesting. I personally am a sucker for an OP protagonist story and Solo Levelling delivers that in spades. The real issue to me is that so many characters just get left behind, Demon Waifu, Baek (coolest MFer in the ‘verse), Choi and Ju-Hee are just the ones that stand out. The world is cool, it makes sense that China would use a different ranking system to the rest of the world, It makes sense that America would invest so heavily in getting as many S-ranks as possible. I couldn’t see any issues with the world building as the story went on. It’s nice to see a protagonist that actually thinks things through, he doesn’t just decide to do something, he seriously considers what to do. I just really enjoyed it, Cha Hae-In is best girl and Beru is best boy (fight me).
My main question is "Who would the viewer be." At least in concept, there are three different places that the viewer could be placed: in the body of the main character, in the body of a side/background character, or in the third person as an invisible observer. However, just because the camera could be in one of those positions doesn't mean it should be. Also, I don't think switching between those different camera placements would be a good idea because of how jarring it would be, unless it was executed well.
Not only that, but imo 2/3 of those options just wouldn't be engaging. If you're in the body of a side character, you may have a role, but most of the time you'll be watching everyone else act without your input. At best, it'd be like the "cutscenes" in Half Life 2, at worst it'd be like the opening to Skyrim. If you're an observer with no character, then you're just watching a movie where you can direct the camera. If it's just a static story, and your involvement is minimal, why even make a VR game/experience in the first place, when a movie, show, or book could do the same for less money and with more accessibility?
Imagine a investigation style VR, crime scene or like danganronpa ( maybe having an interactive mode and act as an aid to the protagonist), where you can walk in the room, yourself see the things for your self, maybe find clues before the protagonist finds them maybe see suspects sneaking away evidence and stuff. See the story unfold not even from the front row but in the scene itself
The VR is the future of everything Have u seen half life alyx game? But for anime...... there's a lot of bad anime isekai And could they create a whole world to do anything u want? What if they fusion between VR and visual novel games Hmm
I'm sorry but my friendship with you has ended. I cannot abide anyone who hates Holo or anything about Spice & Wolf other than the fact that the anime ended way too early. Still staying subscribed, though.
Zelenal I thought I misheard and had to go back twice. Spice and Wolf was the first light novel series I finished. What the hell is exclamation point talking about?! Worst girl? W*F!? Konosuba girls use the idea to gain appeal but Jesus that’s not the case with spice and wolf. There are plenty of much worse girl characters in anime.
I'm pretty sure the reason they have Laurence sit down in you is to give Holo a good reason to be all lovey dovey with "you", which she wouldn't be for a stranger.
I got the Toy-Con VR Goggles for Switch and there's so few obvious titles that make use of it. Spice + Wolf VR didn't look like it offered much of substance from its screenshots for how much it was asking, especially since I never saw past the first episode of the actual show, so I guess I made a good call there.
Thanks for bringing up Traveling While Black. VR is still immature but I feel the space growing and learning and it makes me hopeful for anime of course but even for topics like that documentary
Huh. I'd never considered the idea of YOU being the protagonist of a story told in VR, but now I really want one. You could do some really amazing stuff with that. Imagine being the Macguffin in a "the macguffin is a person" style action story.
Pro tip for all those of you that want the best possible VR Experience no matter how much savings you have. Get into Lucid Dreaming. Basically the ultimate immersion...
I like the idea where you get to pseudo free cam or possess/attach to characters to assume their perspective. otherwise you get to just be the animal companion of the group that sometimes get acknowledged
Immersion in VR can help with storytelling so much, offering it as a new medium on its own separate from actual video games. Circletoons's video on "The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners" portrays this good, but there are other really good ones. The VR game "Ghost Giant," although somewhat simple in execution, really helps the player connect with its main character Louis. *(Spoilers for Ghost Giant, check it out yourself plz it's really worth it)* Throughout the entire game you help Louis, a young boy probably no more than 12, try to keep his life together and terrified that if people found out his mother had depression, they'd take her away. You help him find ways to cheer up his mother, you repair his broken friendship, you give him hope. So at the end when you watch Louis cry and beg to the adults to not take his mother away, while completely powerless to do anything, it's heart wrenching, because the entire time it wasn't some other character helping Louis, it was YOU. And now you're completely powerless to do anything. By making the character YOU in the story, it adds a layer of depth and connection that no other medium can do. I for one, cannot wait for future titles to take advantage of this.
Charlie Garza Storytelling in videogames could be brought to the next level in VR, gameplay mechanics could actually focus on things other than combat which would be really beneficial.
I feel like it's pretty telling that the user is oblidged to be Lawernce in the Spice&Wolf game. The developers were obviously very sure that the only type of people who would ever be interested in this is a straight dude who really wants to hang out with naked Holo the wolf girl.
I had this issue with VR and Super Hot stepping off the ledge was tough even when I knew I was in my room and it saying I wasn't far enough to fall while standing litterally in game on air made it that much tougher cuz I had to keep going.
@@upg5147 i have all of the figures and collector's stuff for it. To me, Yes it was. Also, this is the only series I go all out and buy everything related to.
Dear god, if you allow the creation of a harem anime vr where you get to play as the main character and marry best girl or all girls by the end I shall spread your word and dedicate my life to purging nonbelievers
Your newest video about incels made me feel bad when you said no one appreciates your creative work so I'm taking a looksie at the videos I haven't watched yet XD Sorry I just watch the clickbait and dip most of the time. I really do enjoy your work. I love your sense of humor, I just like watching videos where people point out the flaws of popular media.
The problem making these type of experiences is that making one would be prohibitively expensive, and it's going to take a long time for VR to reach the market saturation to make such an investment worth the risk. The new Half Life might be what it takes but I'm thinking we're 5 to 10 years away from what we're hoping for.
Yeah, I read the light novels after I enjoyed the anime but really the light novels fixed a lot of the Oh Lord Holo is mad again BS by showing how dense Lawrence was most of the time
While watching this video I couldn't help but feel that using VR for anime would be pointless when video games exist and are far easier and immersive to do in VR.
I think as VR takes off, the line between 'game' and 'anime' is really gonna start to blur. We're going to start seeing hybrid media if they try to really take advantage of VRs potential.
@@ExplanationPointAnime See thats what I thought but at some point in your video it said Maiden Abyss and having never seen the show I assumed I was wrong all along. Edit: Specifically the logo at 4:26
@@nefarious6815 I would pretty much never look at anything visual in one of my videos and think "Huh! I thought it was different than that!" because I almost definitely got it wrong on purpose for comedic effect.
@@ExplanationPointAnime Yeah thats probably good advice. Also while your here I just wanna say that I absolutely love your videos. You do a really good job and everytime you post something it makes my day a little bit better. So from the bottom of my heart, Thank you.
One thing I'd like to bring up is Hyperdimension Neptunia VIIR (read V2R) does its VR events. You are 'interacting' 1 on 1 with the characters and they all feel different than normal, and I initially disliked how forced the writing felt for some of them. Neptune is normal because she is always the fuck the 4th wall I'm just going to have fun character, but noire, vert, and blanc all feel incredibly forced. Noire acts overly interested in the player and really hypes up her tsundere act, blanc is outright shy and nervous instead of her normal quiet and reserved, and she also never goes into her angry mode, and finally vert bounces between trying to be seductive and an otaku. But then you think about it for a minute. All of these characters know they are in a game, and they know you are a player from one of the 'heavenly realms'. Getting you to like them is a form of self preservation, because as long as you keep buying their games, their games continue being made, meaning their lives continue onward.
Yeah, VR is still in it's infancy so the experiences are mainly small in scope and somewhat clunky as they figure out there rules. As time passes it'll become cheaper to develop for and the rules will be figured out so the scale, complexity, and quality of VR will improve. VRs been around for awhile, but it's only just started actually taking off and I think Half Life Alyx may be the actual start of mainstream VR usage and development. Not because it is or isn't x quality threshold but simply for driving interest and headset sales like nothing before. Beat Saber just can't pull VR by itself.
For real though, the reason why VR anime can't become what you describe is because it would take too much money and work to realize and would be a MASSIVE, MASSIVE financial risk because of how small the VR market realistically is. So far, the only franchise who has enough money and power to even try it would Fate. And we all know that a Fate VR would just absolutely be a waifu vehicle. And we all know that it would sell the most.
A Fate VR game would be great!.... if it had been made before grand order happened and ruined everything Edit: For clarification, I think a Fate VR game based on Stay Night or an original grail war scenario which focused on the actual story and having interesting and developed characters (like Stay Night) could be really good but because Grand Order is so popular (despite being imo one of the worst Fate related things to ever exist) it would just become another platform for the poorly designed and ridiculously oversexualised grand order characters, which would just suck
Sadly, VR is likely 5-10 years away from being a viable medium. First of all, we *really* need the software available to be more than just ludicrously priced tech demos. And, we also need the software to figure out less gimmicky control methods as everything available at the moment is either puke city or super awkward. Some VR porn is pretty interesting, though.
I submit to you: HL: A, Boneworks (Both $60 fully fleshed out games), etc. Teleportation isn't puke city, although it's slightly awkward until 360 treadmills come out there's no fix for that. Also before you start complaining about the price, most headsets are cost around $500, which, while expensive, isn't prohibitively expensive and it's a lot like buying a new console.
It seems to me that "VR anime" would benefit from stealing the structure of Visual Novels. Instead of static backdrops, it's individual rooms or locations. Fade in at the start of the scene, fade out at the end. Maybe you're Generic Protagonist for the scene or maybe you're just an invisible observer, but either way interaction is kept to a minimum. The characters say their lines, gesture, and walk around, but it's all pre-scripted because it's a story rather than a game. Maybe even borrow further mechanics of VNs, such as the Next Line Button, which will fast-forward if you hold it down. Or a way to select specific scenes. I feel that, at least until we figure out VR a little better, interaction should be something that the developers go all-in on, or leave it out completely.
(And because all this extra modelling, texturing, rigging, and animation is going to be super expensive, maybe keep the "ero" to a minimum and go for something more mainstream. A little fanservice never hurts, but maybe this sort of thing has broad audience appeal, so it's a good idea not to scare off general audiences at the start.)
A "VRN" or "Virtual Reality Novel" sounds dope and I want 10 or more.
I like the idea but I feel like Vr as a concept, and even this concept is still much better as a game making tool then a medium for tv and movies.
I just imagined otome vn in VR and got so excited, you are right! Although this is a not so popular genre so perhaps it is a bit obscure
What! are you trying to make the first successful piece of art in a new format NON PORNOGRAPHIC! That's literally never worked in the history of mankind.
Maybe it's because I'm really tired, but I utterly lost it at "Craft singles and Holo Lens the wise wolf". Well done, ExPoint. Thank you.
The way you described "spicy wolf" is the best way I have heard anyone talk about that Anime.
S P I C Y W O L F
I always appreciate your ideas and analyses, even for topics I previously had no interest in. I'd never heard of VR anime before watching this, and I'm glad my first exposure wasn't someone angrily ranting about it and instead was a measured response.
Also, because I couldn't find anyone else who mentioned this, the film of a train that people thought was about to hit them was "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat." "The Great Train Robbery," while also a major milestone in film history and development, is something different entirely. Comparing the early stages of VR to the early stages of film using "Arrival of a Train" is a great analogy, though
Huh. Today I learned! Thanks for the correction.
Me at the start of the video: Oh man this was made for Eizouken
EP mentions Eizouken
Me: Well It's official wheres my VR gremlin!
"a story as beautiful as a Ghibli movie and engaging as Brotherhood"
OMG this was a beautiful line!! I really felt that
The fact that you just mentioned Eizoken, makes me believe you like Eizoken, so, 10 brownie points.
That fact that he so badly mispronounced Eizouken makes me believe he's never watched Eizouken, because they say the word "Eizouken" an average of ten times per episode, so -100 brownie points.
Anime should be the last place VR thrives. There are so many isekai anime that says how this is a bad idea.
But harem
Catwizerd15 nothing goes here
You make a good point.
Time to dive head first into a death game.
no you don't understand, that's WHY they want it
Why are you everywhere
I mean now that I think about a company would never want to kill it's customers since they are there main cash flow
"The kinks that would theoretically be being shamed are not very well expressed in this experience"
What a great line.
So in the Travelling While Black segment, there was a brief shot of the Shire, and the first thing I came up with was "There and Black Again", and I'm not sure what to do with it.
I just used it because it was one of the pictures of an "environment" that I had on-hand, but that's a really cool interpretation and I totally endorse it.
3:22
I honestly thought that the bus you were showing was the Bang Bus.
I was very worried about Tiana.
Submitted for the approval of my fellow weebs: A VR Anime Mecha Game where you are put into the role of a new pilot. The game could be equal parts visual novel (getting to know your fellow pilots) and mech combat (from basic controls and training to full combat) with the added bonus of training the player to acclimate to playing in a VR space on both a storytelling and physical level.
Bonus points: How you perform in the mech training affects paths in the novel.
I can't wait for VR shows to happen. A WW2 beach landing where you are one of the soldiers. A security guard at an SCP style facility. Heck. THE MAGIC SCHOOLBUS! Thank you, I'm done. Society no longer has me. Take me away Mrs. Frizzle.
Oh yea, can’t wait to get shot and left on the beaches of Normandy while I watch my squad mates get gunned down by the Nazis while I slowly bleed out and the screen fades to red then black.
@@markuscaesar670 how about being a b17 gunner during one of the many raids over germany, france, etc?
A sponsor every video and a patreon, truly securing the bag.
"Only a VR Animé can be about me." - Explanation Point, 2019
I always get hyped when I see an explanation point video notification. I'm sure this has been said before into the ground but how his videos are edited is really cool.
Dude, you seriously killed it with the final lines, as always. I'm never gonna forget from your DDLC video the "you're the passenger, not the pilot." Keep it up with the heavy hitting one clause summaries, they're great :)
Mr Point,
Do you read Solo Levelling?
I’m just curious.
He reads?
Manga or LN ... that was one loooooooong read. I think that I was "read-shit-sleep [repeat]"-ing for entire week.
Aljaž Božičko
Did you enjoy it?
I think I got through the LN in just under 48 hours after starting it, but I did start where the manga was currently up to at that point (which I think was the Frost Elves arc).
I remember reading every ending chapter as they came out.
@@sirapple589 Hm ... I did "like" it. It is hard to say. Main premise is quite simple and easy and quite a few developments are pleasant, jokes keep being fun and once character starts developing he becomes more reasonable ... if I remember correctly. It feels so similar to "Overgeared" that I have to keep remembering which one am I thinking about ... but I liked Solo Levelling more as a story and less as a development. Solo is quite heavy on his notion that main char keeps risking his life and quite a few times, he survives only by factoring luck because he didnt want to wait till problems will become easy on their own by grinding for few years. "Same as So, I am a Spider, so What?", quite liked that one, even more than Solo. Most hard encounters like dog at Hell gates and Architect are response to his actions and wouldnt trigger if he wouldnt allow them + his encounter with architect is ... what? ... he wouldnt win if he were to choose the other reward and it seems like something too planed and important to give him a chance to miss on the opportunity ... I think author had quite a hard time figuring out how to make things fun and exciting and most developments are quite uninspired. And some later developments make no seanse if you think what they would mean for world-building when story was just starting, even when they quite nicely connect story, but most LN have this problems, because they cant correct past material, books are better in that regard, finished products. I think that I got most fun out of it through character interaction, his shadow army, all people with their little agendas and misinterpretations ... that was probably reason why I kept reading it. And I liked the theme of course. Overgeared for instance had better characters, not great, but better, at least in my eyes, he was more fun and he was a jerk, but world-building was bad to the point I doubt that author was out of highschool at the time of writing. Cant remember Solo having this problem, even if it was quite heavily whispering to Korean people, especially with "those dirty Japanese are shit and they should be grateful we tolerate them" felt quite personal. Anyway ... if I would have to give it a score ... 6-7/10, but it was a nice read. It is also one of the reads that prompted me into writing what I am working on as of now, but my standards for world-building are so high, that I might never manage to publish anything xD, so I can totally get why most people dont bother, stories would never be made with only people like me around :), but still ... it does hurt when nice stories feel cheap. I like them, but they still feel cheap. Right now, I had similar "love it, hate it, love it" with LN Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World (but it is better than Solo) and new Overlord (
Aljaž Božičko
Hey, don’t apologize for that, your opinion was clearly well informed and very interesting.
I personally am a sucker for an OP protagonist story and Solo Levelling delivers that in spades.
The real issue to me is that so many characters just get left behind, Demon Waifu, Baek (coolest MFer in the ‘verse), Choi and Ju-Hee are just the ones that stand out.
The world is cool, it makes sense that China would use a different ranking system to the rest of the world, It makes sense that America would invest so heavily in getting as many S-ranks as possible. I couldn’t see any issues with the world building as the story went on.
It’s nice to see a protagonist that actually thinks things through, he doesn’t just decide to do something, he seriously considers what to do.
I just really enjoyed it, Cha Hae-In is best girl and Beru is best boy (fight me).
Just imagine watching one of Melody's streams in VR.
I like how the "and" in _Spice & Wolf_ is emphasized in English AND Japanese
Editor: *A N D*
My main question is "Who would the viewer be." At least in concept, there are three different places that the viewer could be placed: in the body of the main character, in the body of a side/background character, or in the third person as an invisible observer. However, just because the camera could be in one of those positions doesn't mean it should be. Also, I don't think switching between those different camera placements would be a good idea because of how jarring it would be, unless it was executed well.
Not only that, but imo 2/3 of those options just wouldn't be engaging. If you're in the body of a side character, you may have a role, but most of the time you'll be watching everyone else act without your input. At best, it'd be like the "cutscenes" in Half Life 2, at worst it'd be like the opening to Skyrim. If you're an observer with no character, then you're just watching a movie where you can direct the camera. If it's just a static story, and your involvement is minimal, why even make a VR game/experience in the first place, when a movie, show, or book could do the same for less money and with more accessibility?
The thing is, if Anime becomes VR, then I have to buy a VR device to watch it. And that device isn't particulary cheap. At least, not in my country.
Imagine a investigation style VR, crime scene or like danganronpa ( maybe having an interactive mode and act as an aid to the protagonist), where you can walk in the room, yourself see the things for your self, maybe find clues before the protagonist finds them maybe see suspects sneaking away evidence and stuff. See the story unfold not even from the front row but in the scene itself
The VR is the future of everything
Have u seen half life alyx game?
But for anime......
there's a lot of bad anime isekai
And could they create a whole world to do anything u want?
What if they fusion between VR and visual novel games
Hmm
Man I missed your content, just binged all your new videos that I have missed Keep it up
Holy fuck I want that made in abyss VR experience...
No one else will want this but...
I REALLY want to see a part 2 to this, and see more of what you have to say on it more.
As a certified D.C. resident I can say fir certain, ben’s chili bowl is awesome. It’s like 5 blocks from my house and the food a great.
As a grad student at fresno state, I felt it when he described it as hell on earth. It's the hot sweaty bung hole of the valley
"Why I hate Holo"
How can one man be so wrong. /s
I'm sorry but my friendship with you has ended. I cannot abide anyone who hates Holo or anything about Spice & Wolf other than the fact that the anime ended way too early.
Still staying subscribed, though.
Zelenal I thought I misheard and had to go back twice. Spice and Wolf was the first light novel series I finished. What the hell is exclamation point talking about?! Worst girl? W*F!? Konosuba girls use the idea to gain appeal but Jesus that’s not the case with spice and wolf. There are plenty of much worse girl characters in anime.
"Aizooken"
There wasn't a single vowel he pronounced correctly. That will haunt my dreams.
For real, he gotta step up his pronunciation game
I'm pretty sure the reason they have Laurence sit down in you is to give Holo a good reason to be all lovey dovey with "you", which she wouldn't be for a stranger.
Imagine corpes party VR, or the visual novel genre as a whole !
can't wait to experience monogatari's tooth brush scene in VR
I got the Toy-Con VR Goggles for Switch and there's so few obvious titles that make use of it. Spice + Wolf VR didn't look like it offered much of substance from its screenshots for how much it was asking, especially since I never saw past the first episode of the actual show, so I guess I made a good call there.
I personally cannot wait for the first SAO type game it may be clunky to do things in, but boy will it be fun to mess around in with friends
0:46 omg that Fresno joke fucking made me die. This is coming from a person that lives in Fresno.
Thanks for bringing up Traveling While Black. VR is still immature but I feel the space growing and learning and it makes me hopeful for anime of course but even for topics like that documentary
Huh. I'd never considered the idea of YOU being the protagonist of a story told in VR, but now I really want one. You could do some really amazing stuff with that. Imagine being the Macguffin in a "the macguffin is a person" style action story.
Nice love craft reference at the beginning there
Pro tip for all those of you that want the best possible VR Experience no matter how much savings you have.
Get into Lucid Dreaming. Basically the ultimate immersion...
Nice Bojack reference
I like the idea where you get to pseudo free cam or possess/attach to characters to assume their perspective. otherwise you get to just be the animal companion of the group that sometimes get acknowledged
I was actually expecting a video about Infinite Dendrogram and Bofuri aka Shield Loli
"This 40 year old 20 year old."
Genius.
Have you tried Tokyo Chronos?
As someone who grew up near Fresno....I feel that. Everyone should escape fresno
Immersion in VR can help with storytelling so much, offering it as a new medium on its own separate from actual video games. Circletoons's video on "The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners" portrays this good, but there are other really good ones. The VR game "Ghost Giant," although somewhat simple in execution, really helps the player connect with its main character Louis. *(Spoilers for Ghost Giant, check it out yourself plz it's really worth it)*
Throughout the entire game you help Louis, a young boy probably no more than 12, try to keep his life together and terrified that if people found out his mother had depression, they'd take her away. You help him find ways to cheer up his mother, you repair his broken friendship, you give him hope. So at the end when you watch Louis cry and beg to the adults to not take his mother away, while completely powerless to do anything, it's heart wrenching, because the entire time it wasn't some other character helping Louis, it was YOU. And now you're completely powerless to do anything. By making the character YOU in the story, it adds a layer of depth and connection that no other medium can do. I for one, cannot wait for future titles to take advantage of this.
Charlie Garza Storytelling in videogames could be brought to the next level in VR, gameplay mechanics could actually focus on things other than combat which would be really beneficial.
I feel like it's pretty telling that the user is oblidged to be Lawernce in the Spice&Wolf game. The developers were obviously very sure that the only type of people who would ever be interested in this is a straight dude who really wants to hang out with naked Holo the wolf girl.
I had this issue with VR and Super Hot stepping off the ledge was tough even when I knew I was in my room and it saying I wasn't far enough to fall while standing litterally in game on air made it that much tougher cuz I had to keep going.
Great video, but imagine how much better it could have been with a cappella
Spice and Wolf is my favorite series and I funded this game by spending $120 on it.
Worth it?
@@upg5147 i have all of the figures and collector's stuff for it. To me, Yes it was.
Also, this is the only series I go all out and buy everything related to.
@@royal-wolf Well good for you then!
@@royal-wolf Glad you were happy with it! I can't imagine how awesome that must be.
Ha ive been comparing vr to that train thing!
6:00 someone mentioned it!
The Fresno joke took me by the collar, dragged me through several train cars, and threw me into the remnants of an oil rig
Can I just say the skin mask kirito bit had me in tears from both laughter and sheer horror.
Dear god, if you allow the creation of a harem anime vr where you get to play as the main character and marry best girl or all girls by the end I shall spread your word and dedicate my life to purging nonbelievers
I mean this would probably complete eradicate procreations in Japan but that’s a risk I’m willing to take
Your newest video about incels made me feel bad when you said no one appreciates your creative work so I'm taking a looksie at the videos I haven't watched yet XD Sorry I just watch the clickbait and dip most of the time. I really do enjoy your work. I love your sense of humor, I just like watching videos where people point out the flaws of popular media.
Was that a Overly Sarcastic Productions reference I just saw at 0:22?
The problem making these type of experiences is that making one would be prohibitively expensive, and it's going to take a long time for VR to reach the market saturation to make such an investment worth the risk. The new Half Life might be what it takes but I'm thinking we're 5 to 10 years away from what we're hoping for.
"Closest I've been to hell since leaving fresno." as someone who lived in fresno for 5 years IO felt that
Daaaamn you from Fresno? Congrats on getting out my dude.
If I got a made in abyss game I would die happily
Is the reason you dislike Holo that the anime occasionally boils down to "What's Holo upset about today?"
Yeah, that was jarring after a while
Yeah, I read the light novels after I enjoyed the anime but really the light novels fixed a lot of the Oh Lord Holo is mad again BS by showing how dense Lawrence was most of the time
3rd, watched it, interesting concept and you gave me another idea to try and do
Do you think Madoka saved the Claymores before they died? They were sort of magical girls.
I hope that one day visual novels begin being made on VR
As a DC native, I can tell you you absolutely should go Ben’s Chili Bowl if you ever visit; it is awesome!
Although, I would still like to know, why do you think Holo is worst girl as a person?
Also, do you know which are the oldest amvs?
YO Made in Abyss VR sounds like H E L L A fun
I wanna race downtown mount akina.
Mmm... Ben's Chili Bowl. Some of the best hot dogs I've ever had.
While watching this video I couldn't help but feel that using VR for anime would be pointless when video games exist and are far easier and immersive to do in VR.
RetroNintendo | Aids Yea that is sort of what I think as well
What Arthur episode I'm genuenly curious?
Thought this was gonna be about animé set in VR like SAO and BOFURI
Car is speeding in your direction and you just remembered ... I dont have my VR headset on.
Since VR anime has to be 3D, I would love to see the guys behind Beastars and Houseki no Kuni make one
Noooooo!!! Get that robolizard off my screen, you are heartattacking me in a medical way! 7:34
I think as VR takes off, the line between 'game' and 'anime' is really gonna start to blur. We're going to start seeing hybrid media if they try to really take advantage of VRs potential.
But if any is VR... How will we download it illegally? What would be the poiny anymore?
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wait so spice and wolf has a vr anime version
intresting
Please o please do an isekai quartet episode
Ascendance of a Bookworm
So I was today years old when I discovered that Maiden Abyss was in fact not called Made In Abyss
It is called "Made in Abyss."
@@ExplanationPointAnime See thats what I thought but at some point in your video it said Maiden Abyss and having never seen the show I assumed I was wrong all along.
Edit: Specifically the logo at 4:26
@@nefarious6815 I would pretty much never look at anything visual in one of my videos and think "Huh! I thought it was different than that!" because I almost definitely got it wrong on purpose for comedic effect.
@@ExplanationPointAnime Yeah thats probably good advice. Also while your here I just wanna say that I absolutely love your videos. You do a really good job and everytime you post something it makes my day a little bit better. So from the bottom of my heart, Thank you.
@@nefarious6815 Thanks! It gets really tough making these things sometimes, so that means a lot
"Closest ive been to hell since leaving Fresno". If Fresno is hell What the fuck is Bakersfeild?
One thing I'd like to bring up is Hyperdimension Neptunia VIIR (read V2R) does its VR events. You are 'interacting' 1 on 1 with the characters and they all feel different than normal, and I initially disliked how forced the writing felt for some of them. Neptune is normal because she is always the fuck the 4th wall I'm just going to have fun character, but noire, vert, and blanc all feel incredibly forced. Noire acts overly interested in the player and really hypes up her tsundere act, blanc is outright shy and nervous instead of her normal quiet and reserved, and she also never goes into her angry mode, and finally vert bounces between trying to be seductive and an otaku. But then you think about it for a minute. All of these characters know they are in a game, and they know you are a player from one of the 'heavenly realms'. Getting you to like them is a form of self preservation, because as long as you keep buying their games, their games continue being made, meaning their lives continue onward.
It is true... Hideyoshi is best hideyoshi
Yeah, VR is still in it's infancy so the experiences are mainly small in scope and somewhat clunky as they figure out there rules. As time passes it'll become cheaper to develop for and the rules will be figured out so the scale, complexity, and quality of VR will improve. VRs been around for awhile, but it's only just started actually taking off and I think Half Life Alyx may be the actual start of mainstream VR usage and development. Not because it is or isn't x quality threshold but simply for driving interest and headset sales like nothing before. Beat Saber just can't pull VR by itself.
Great vid!
As a Ben, I can confirm that I, too, have a chili bowl.
For real though, the reason why VR anime can't become what you describe is because it would take too much money and work to realize and would be a MASSIVE, MASSIVE financial risk because of how small the VR market realistically is.
So far, the only franchise who has enough money and power to even try it would Fate. And we all know that a Fate VR would just absolutely be a waifu vehicle. And we all know that it would sell the most.
A Fate VR game would be great!.... if it had been made before grand order happened and ruined everything
Edit: For clarification, I think a Fate VR game based on Stay Night or an original grail war scenario which focused on the actual story and having interesting and developed characters (like Stay Night) could be really good but because Grand Order is so popular (despite being imo one of the worst Fate related things to ever exist) it would just become another platform for the poorly designed and ridiculously oversexualised grand order characters, which would just suck
Sadly, VR is likely 5-10 years away from being a viable medium. First of all, we *really* need the software available to be more than just ludicrously priced tech demos. And, we also need the software to figure out less gimmicky control methods as everything available at the moment is either puke city or super awkward.
Some VR porn is pretty interesting, though.
I submit to you: HL: A, Boneworks (Both $60 fully fleshed out games), etc. Teleportation isn't puke city, although it's slightly awkward until 360 treadmills come out there's no fix for that. Also before you start complaining about the price, most headsets are cost around $500, which, while expensive, isn't prohibitively expensive and it's a lot like buying a new console.
I'm sorry was that an overly sarcastic productions reference?
7:24 Still waiting.
VR visual novels
0:49
Bruh you got to leave Fresno lucky.
Danganronpa VR was a cool look