Game EXP: The Climb - Quest 2

 

The Climb
Systems: Windows, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2
Release Date: April 28, 2016 - December 3, 2019
Publisher: Crytek
Developer: Crytek
Time Spent: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This isn't going to be so much of a regular Game EXP article because I didn't really have one planned before I sat down and started writing, but I couldn't think of what else to call this.  So Game EXP it is.

The whole point of this is self-promotion, but why else use a website to talk about video games if this isn't self-promotion? Anyway!  Over the last week, I've been keeping the Oculus Quest 2 headset at work to play with it during my lunch breaks, and because I have more arm, leg, and ceiling room at my office.  And I've jumped back into the first The Climb game having already gone through The Climb 2 several years ago.  I also found out that I can record videos in a slightly wider than a square screen, so that makes for better YouTube videos too.  And this last week, I uploaded an unremarkable video of one of my playthroughs and it was hitting around 75 views every hour, which is pretty bonkers for me.  So I started recording more videos of each of the climbing routes and uploading those.

And thus we now have a playlist with five and growing videos up.  I preface that there's not anything great or groundbreaking in these, it's just me playing The Climb and in the case of the Hard climb in the Canyon stages, failing miserably for nealry nine straight minutes.  In my defense, I am vocal in my opinion that the 'cleaning off the holds' mechanic in The Climb is so intuitive that the actual mechanic is broken and thankfully was fixed in The Climb 2.

But just to give you a quick taste, here are two climbs, one from the Bay stage, and the viral video from the Canyon stage.

The Bay - Zen Bay (Easy)

The Canyon - Red Rock (Medium)

Over the coming days/weeks, I'll upload more climbing videos and I'll probably do the same with The Climb 2, because I really do love this franchise, even if some of the mechanics in The Climb are just bat-shit horrible.  We'll talk more later.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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