Why Lone Echo Was A VR Game Ahead Of Its Time

Lone Echo released in 2017, only 1 year after the Rift and Vive and was well ahead of its time in many areas. In this video I show you why.
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[@ANJIN79SAMMA]

This isn’t just a great game it’s literally one of the best games I’ve ever played. One of the best experiences I’ve ever experienced- bring on the sequel!!!

[@conceptual420]

glen lawrie play echo be for similar mechanics

[@admra7]

im so exited for the sequel!

[@mirshia5248]

so u like chores

[@ANJIN79SAMMA]

@@mirshia5248 eh?

[@mirshia5248]

@@ANJIN79SAMMA i played it and it bored me to death, it was cool for the first 1 hour then go boring reall quick with its constant chores

[@VRPat]

I'll never forget that bond that made my heart beat faster when Liv was in trouble.

[@Just-Felix]

Well lets see if it happens now when i am going to buy the game

[@WayneRoberts72]

@@Just-Felix i bet it will

[@Cazanu417]

@@WayneRoberts72 it fking did for me made me tear up when you can tell her morning sunshine after all that shit

[@wideshadyy]

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD: During the end sequence of the game, when you find LIV and after her, it felt like I was actually trying to save my friend's life. I was frantically looking around, trying to find the next vent to clear and after the game ended, I realised that it was the best, most immersive game, I had ever played. To this day, it is my favourite game vr or not.

[@salemisjuucy]

@@wideshadyy a little late to the party, just got a pc capable of running pcvr and played the hell out of lone echo, and you're so right. I was literally shouting, "WHERE IS THE NEXT VENT" "ALRIGHT LIZ I'VE ALMOST GOT THEM ALL" and then realized how dumb i am for shouting in to the thin air of my bedroom like i'm trying to actually save a person.

[@1ROCKET-]

You aren’t a labor unit, you’re an echo unit

[@Matthew-zx8cs]

Every time I hear someone talk about the best be games Lone echo is never on their list. It’s criminal how few people know about this game

[@SkylerLinux]

Sadly it's Facebook's fault, I know they bankrolled it; however it's keeping all the non-Facebook VR users away from it.

[@mirshia5248]

its chores games

[@qweqwe1]

@@SkylerLinux fuck Facebook, and Fukerberg

[@BDNeon]

Probably because it's not on Steam where the people who are serious about VR play.

[@acurisur]

@@SkylerLinux Facebook (actually now Meta) didn't just bank roll it, they own the studio and the IP. You're not going to sell your system by handing over your exclusives. Keeping your exclusives is how PlayStation has got to where they are today.

[@Dogboy73]

Bought this a couple of years ago when I bought a Rift S. Only just played through it via Air Link on Quest 2. Was fantastic. Really impressive VR title. Also bought Lone Echo 2 about a year ago when I had a 30% discount Oculus voucher. Starting that next week. Can’t wait.

[@OneofInfinity.]

Played it on the Quest with link and looked already amazing.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

It is a beautiful game, I wish they would stop allowing exclusivity. They would sell this like water in the Sahara if they did. As well as the climb.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

@Zwenk Wiel I get how it works, but there is more than one way to get things done.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

@Matthew Johnston if you can make revive useable please show me. I have it and it never works remotely as advertised.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

@Matthew Johnston I have an I7 7700K GTX 1080. using the vive. I bought revive 4 years ago and it never really worked. it may be better now. But I haven't tried it yet.

[@deepdivevr7244]

use revive if you dont own oculus

[@TrendyWhistle]

Gopherchucks Games bought?? Isn’t revive free? Anyway since switching to the index from rift, revive doesn’t have any issues at all for me. Also, wasn’t oculus’s exclusivity deal only timed? Meaning the devs were free to port it after a few months if they wanted to? Other than funding, the biggest quality improvement in oculus exclusives to me was the fact that it was an exclusive, the game was mad from the ground up for one controller, one headset, and the level of polish they can achieve that way is amazing, I still can’t imagine how any of the game would be really half as fun without the rift controllers, in fact even with the index controllers, it’s a downgrade. I think the reason behind the exclusivity is beyond the contract itself, and I actually still prefer the rift DK1 over the valve index for this very reason, the software integration on the rift is just leagues ahead in all the basic features compared to steamVR, which is much more widely spread, but not as well done in general.

[@04dram04]

The graphics are crazy good for 2017. I wonder how they even look on the rift and vive

[@underflip2]

holy shit only 5 hours? It took me almost twice that long but i like to look around :-p

[@kyledupont7711]

This is probably they only game I can think of where the movement works for VR with no compromises

[@mexmax1657]

This was my first real VR experience, after playing the Oculus Welcome Tutorial and so on. I was stunned, really. Good to see this Video. I will install it right now to play it one more time. ;)

[@Just-Felix]

Wow you are so lucky

[@RobbyAngel]

Excellent Review; it's nice to see appreciation for a title that almost felt like it got swept under the rug... Lone Echo is a beautifully told story through elements of VR that were never used up until around now with ALYX. You are right it was a short game; frankly if its your first time playing it did felt a whole lot longer. Maybe when you wanted to look for all those '*logs*' for some extra dialog, that was a fun little extra thing you could do. I know that Lone Echo 2 keeps getting pushed back due to delays and OQuest Remakes of LE. But it'll come, I hope its great! :D

[@hammadsheikh6032]

Thank you for the early spoiler warning. Much appreciated. Still trying to find a way to play it.

[@zacboyles1396]

I just bought it because of this video, downloading now. Thanks!

[@andrewstencel]

I started playing this yesterday, just for trying it out. Didn't see almost 3 hours get past me. It felt incredible, like a real VR masterpiece.

[@doin6823]

this is such a beautiful game

[@underflip2]

This game actually looks as good or better in VR than on a 2D screen believe it or not.

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

I just finished this masterpiece. I freaking loved it!!! Top three for sure! If you’re new to VR, you NEED to try Boneworks, Lone Echo and Half-life Alyx, each different but majestic in its category. 😄👍

[@peterdelisle7083]

2 months later I just bought all 3, thanks

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

@@peterdelisle7083 Let me know which one's best. For me it was Boneworks but I wanna know your opinion.

[@harlejay]

@@henryjohnson-ville3834 interesting, how do you deal with the full locomotion? I was having a great time playing Boneworks but I couldn't get through the tutorial stage due to the intense nausea. I tried locomotion in HL Alyx as well but did have to switch over to teleportation!

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

@@harlejay I'm not sure. Maybe my inner ear is more tolerate to full locomotion. The only time I felt weird was in Lone Echo as you float towards a massive object, you come to a stop when bumping into this object, I look down to see nothing then I get shaky knees so that's when I have to get on my knees to not fall. My brain knows I'm holding onto an object in-game but there's nothing below me so my body gets nervous. 😂

[@wideshadyy]

I also love these games, like many others, but I disagree that new players should at them. Half life alyx, maybe cos of the teleport, but boneworks would be too much for a lot of people (I've tried). And lone Echo requires rather in depth knowledge of the controllers and could be quite disorientating for some.

[@brokencat2662]

I used the backpack thrusted through those navigating corridors, with high speed and minor adjustments i made it through far quicker and died only 4 times total inside the space ship.

[@UGuyU_]

looks really amazing.. thanks.

[@underflip2]

Its amazing. A real VR gem

[@Naiceratops]

It was extremely ahead of it’s time, I am really proud to have done QA on it

[@HunterRodrigez]

I swear, this game is so immersive that it took me a few moments to get used to my real life hands again after playing it for a while like, "oh right... I have to actually open my hand and move all of my fingers when I want to grab something instead of just pushing a trigger" that never happened with any other VR game before or since

[@Vespyr_]

That's so strange to me. When I use a controller I mentally don't think I'm pushing a trigger, I just need to push a trigger to access things. I mentally don't think I'm using my hands to grab things in real life either, I just grab things by using my hands....

[@HunterRodrigez]

@@Vespyr_ It usually is the same for me, which made the whole experience even weirder. It was more like, when I tried to grab something in real life, my hand just did the motion of pushing the trigger on the VR controller, even though I wasn't holding the controllers anymore... This never happened with a regular controller, but using VR controllers is much closer to naturally using your hands This feeling also only lasted like 2 minutes after playing the game for 2 hours or so

[@jay6817]

I can't believe I bought this ages ago, had a quick look and said to myself, right I really want to devote heaps of time for it, then forgot it completely. 😫

[@deepdivevr7244]

you play as an AI uploaded into a free labor unit....you are unique...all other units are just robots....if you die you are uploaded to a closest free unit. still best vr game

[@Just-Felix]

Wow you are so underrated Btw thanks for the spoiler warning Really high quality video You earned a sub! ❤

[@KashTheGamerYT]

It’s awesone

[@KiwiInGermanyMTB]

Amazing game, hope the sequel has a bit more action though

[@Vespyr_]

Seriously. I'm just kind of bored.

[@jfourvr196]

punga champ best game

[@asherwyllie7113]

I never knew that the husk could be a ragdoll

[@despecc]

For those of you who missed it: 9:06

[@niogos]

Most advanced VR game so far. Much more revolutionary than Alyx

[@BigSunn0]

Hope Valve scoops up these devs cos, if Oculus does they will force em to make haircut simulator and dog poop scooping simulator and zookeeper simulator and etc ect etc

[@matbrady123456]

I agree with the spirit of this video. Lone Echo was indeed ahead of its time, however... the game itself, even right up to the climax, was simply performing small tasks. What an incredible story based around menial labour. What a fantastic space odyssey revolving around ...chores. What a missed opportunity by the game designers of Ready At Dawn, who failed to capture the extent of what engaging vr gameplay could be.

[@virtualinsider]

I agree the actual gameplay wasnt very compelling. Im looking forward to Lone Echo 2 as I think they will have more to it than flipping switches and turning dials this time.

[@Vespyr_]

Truth. I really kind of hate that this much effort was used so poorly.

[@chris_stacey]

The mechanics are perfect. Focus more on the immersive elements and the story - make it more complicated and you'll lose both of those elements!

[@matbrady123456]

"A little handsy", hahaha!

[@beedykh2235]

Can I play the game now with ReVive for example, with no issues?

[@virtualinsider]

Yes, I played through the game using ReVive on My index.

[@SteamDeckGameplay]

I just got an index, can I play it?

[@virtualinsider]

Yes, You will have to buy it through the oculus store and use a program called ReVive to play it. I plyed the entire game with my index.

[@keahibailey2646]

Isnt this coming to quest? Or, I think it's called Echo Arena

[@1ronic262]

Keahi Bailey it’s not the same thing

[@axserwz5022]

That's a spinoff sports game based on lone echo

[@deepdivevr7244]

echo arena is a multiplayer game...same mechanics....it is free now for pc vr....just amazing experience

[@maxxbmd]

Lone Echo is the one with the singleplayer story-based one. Echo Arena was initially part of Lone Echo, but was eventually split into its' own free game. Echo Arena, the competitive multiplayer one, is the one coming to the quest.

[@deepdivevr7244]

@@maxxbmd just got an invite to close beta.....finally

[@acemenzel3876]

Great Video

[@UnderdogSMO]

do we know what happend to LA2 I feel like it got pushed back around the time Alyx came out and then.... nothing

[@virtualinsider]

My guess would be it got pushed back to a fall release so Oculus have chance to get more headsets in stock and sold so they have more people to sell the game to. I expect we will have a busy last 6 months with game releases as we still have alot of good games coming this year and there is only half a year left.

[@aurabless7552]

Needs a Quest 2 port!

[@Koderfacts]

Just Use Virtual Desktop to play it wireless, part 2 isnt gonna be on Quest 2 btw

[@carcinogen60yearsago]

@@Koderfacts Not everybody has a pc. Just saying...

[@joshuaroughan3350]

To non Americans this game just got 20% more expensive (thanks Corona Virus) also The Oculus store should do local currency pricing because the exchange rates at the moment are unreal

[@KashTheGamerYT]

Welp, time to crack it 🥱

[@arthur10renato]

Yeah, as a Brazilian I can't buy anything on Oculus Store because it doesn't have local currency pricing. As an example, Beat saber on Steam costs about 35% of the value of The Oculus Store lol

[@deepdivevr7244]

you can always punish oculus by getting a torrent

[@Vespyr_]

@@arthur10renato Just pirate the game.

[@kongoubongo1114]

Looks nice but I don't want to give Facebook more money than I have already given them. I like my Rift S but I dislike Facebook.

[@nignogfucklong7301]

oop

[@breadsoup3708]

Spoiler alert I guess It was definitely ahead of it’s time *especially at the end*

[@virtualinsider]

I see what you did there

[@controllerbrain]

I forced myself to play up until apollo then couldn't go any longer cause I was just so bored.

[@Simon74]

Slap my ass but I enjoyed Lone Echo more than Half-Life: Alyx.

[@virtualinsider]

Bend over

[@HiCZoK]

You know if there is a way to change gamma on Rift S? Lone echo is a bit washed out

[@virtualinsider]

I dont unfortunetly.

[@Vespyr_]

I use Virtual Desktop on the Oculus Quest 2 to play and it has a gamma setting.

[@Vespyr_]

It's a great game but its first half just has no sense of urgency and the character dialog is just, not compelling at all. I'm just doing chores.

[@Vespyr_]

The game has zero drama, zero depth to its conversations, it has a chance to do some compelling rpg branching conversation threads and decides, incredibly, not to go through the SIMPLE writing effort of making more than two choices that lead to the same conclusions. Even though it'd have been easy to do, and better for the games replay value. They spend so much time, with goofy mechanics in the belief that people won't be capable of figuring things out for themselves. The moment you think something interesting is going to happen, it doesn't. The minute you think someone is going to say something worthwhile, they don't. The instant you think something emotional is there between the two, it's just an illusion. The game is a mediocre disappointment. But it's pretty... and I guess that makes it ahead of its time.

[@CaptiveHat]

i refuse to support any game that is Oculus only. VR is new to the market. We shouldnt be making games Exclusive to a specific headset. a reason i support Valve. They want others to use their software and give players the opportunity to experience their games no matter their hardware..

[@zefnoly9147]

The thing though with valve is that their headsets are overpriced. Their software is underdeveloped compared to oculus and they have only released one game AAA so far that isn't considered a pure demo for VR. Which has 2020 graphics but mechanics that has been in VR games for over a year already. I do support what valve would do and I wish oculus removed their exclusivity. But so far they are the ones doing the most for their industry. Including the fact they sell their headsets at a loss rather than overpricing them sickly. Just to make sure as many people get into VR as possible. Which is why I also think they should make the oculus software avialable to all headsets on the market as well... Alongside all their games. Simply because they are the biggest producer and publisher of actual AAA games on the market atm.

[@mattirrodraca2807]

@@zefnoly9147 you do realize that they only do that to take in as much of the market as possible and push out anyone else

[@alexhb7949]

In my opinion, htis game was overrated as hell

[@Yautja24]

Not on Steam, so it doesn't matter if its good.

[@mirshia5248]

this game bored me to death, its a chores game