Oculus Teases An "Even Better" Yu-Gi-Oh Virtual World Experience
Given the popularity of card games, both digital and physical, and the growing virtual reality fever, you'd expect someone would come up with this eventually. And how better than the very people who instigated the VR renaissance, Oculus. Company founder Palmer Luckey took to Twitter to tease what gamers would probably be talking for the next few days. A virtual reality experience that would rival, nay even trump, what was portrayed in the anime adoptation of Yu-Gi-Oh, one of the most popular, and best selling, card battle games in the world.
The Virtual World Arc that Luckey refers to is a part of the first anime series where the protagonists find themselves in a virtual world to do card battles, which, if you think about the fictional world of the anime itself, is almost like an Inception experience. In the anime, the characters hooked into VR via capsule-like chambers. In the real world, of course, we'd have to settle for VR headsets like the Oculus Rift.
Luckey naturally doesn't say anything else aside from that tweet. He did saw it fit to retweet Oculus international studio boss Jason Rubin on how that is the most "tested" experience in Oculus Studios, hinting at how addictive the experience was for the developers themselves. TCGs, CCGs, and card battle games have always been such, though few have managed to hook players into their fictional worlds for life. But add in a VR twist and you're probably going to be hooked forever.
It isn't clear if Oculus is going for a completely new card game or if it is working with any of the available franchises. Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, and the more recent Hearthstone all come to mind.
There will definitely also be questions of controls. VR has yet to come to a point where input will be as natural as real world hand actions. The Oculus Touch definitely tries to approximate those, but of course not to the extent that it will match that of the anime series. It would, however, be cool if such an accessory would be made later on. Consider our interest piqued.
SOURCE: @Palmer Luckey