A video posted on YouTube which allegedly showed two minutes of Skyrim gameplay running on an Oculus Rift VR headset excite fans who’re eagerly waiting to play the dragon hunting game on a virtual world. However, gamers have been cautioned against raising their hopes too high. While Skyrim is relatively playable on the Oculus Rift headset, and relative being the key word here, navigating the game’s menu is impossible.
Developers with their own Oculus dev kit can probably get the game to play but they would soon realize that the Oculus doesn’t run well with graphical user interfaces, in-game text and menus. According to developer reviews, this is a major problem with the hardware and makes playing games like Skyrim hopeless. The difficulty appears to be the various menus that often pop-up in these games. During a test run, the headset had to be removed each time texts appear. Unfortunately, Skyrim is a text heavy game, with menus to access, inventory to search and chests to open. Most of these menus appear only partially or are outright invisible on the Oculus Rift.
There’s always the chance that games similar to Skyrim will gets mods that would allow the various in-game menus visible and usable. However, that kind of support would be coming from another developer since Skyrim publisher Bethesda Softworks has already said goodbye to the game.
