A little taste of extended family holiday gaming | The DeanBeat
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When I asked my extended family what they wanted to play on the Meta Quest 3 during the holidays, they asked me what I had to show them. To simplify things, I said I have a “meditation game” and a “shooting game.”
To my surprise, most of them said they wanted to play the shooting game. And perhaps not so surprising: The Meta Quest 3 was the gaming platform that they came back to over and over again. I gave them a choice between the meditation game of Tripp, where you can experience a kind of interactive psychedelic experience and Pistol Whip, the shooting game in virtual reality. Only a couple chose the meditation game, while they came back over and over to play Pistol Whip.
We had a wide ranger of people at the family gathering, equally split between men and women. We had a 10-year-old girl and a 90-year-old matriarch. I had to simplify things because we didn’t have a lot of time for each game demo, and certainly not enough time for anyone to learn something complicated. On that front, the newer and more popular Gorilla Tag lost out because it was a bit tough to figure out at the outset. These players needed something that they could learn in a few seconds. Of course, shooting won.
With Pistol Whip, the gameplay is pretty intuitive. You put two controllers in your hand and can shoot with one of them. You point at the Start button, squeeze the trigger, and it starts, after I set it up and get them ready with the headset. Then the enemies come at them in a game on rails, and the player has to shoot them. After six bullets, you reload by pointing the controller down and back up. It’s a fast-moving
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