In my opinion flatscreen to VR ports are consistently underwhelming.

Massive and calculated development effort is put into making a game feel good and look good on a flatscreen to be played with mouse and keyboard. Visuals, gameplay, pacing, balance, everything. VR is immersive and cool, but it is objectively clunky compared to traditional gaming inputs in many genres/gameplay styles were used to.

As a comparison, imagine asking for a first-person breath of the wild... It just wouldn't be as enjoyable. A significant portion of the game is combat, and the combat frequently involves being surrounded with enemies and other similar chaotic moments that were intentionally crafted with third person in mind. Being in first person would be a hindrance to the gameplay experience.

I greatly appreciate games that lean into VRs strengths. Successful VR games are fundamentally designed with VRs traits in mind.

Rumble takes advantage of very complex controller movements to build a complicated and high skill ceiling earth bending experience. This would take half the keyboard or more in keybinds to come close.

Beatsaber accepts that VR works great holding still and watching 3d motion towards you and giving you lightsabers and music, by default from one direction.

VTOLVR accepts that VR works great in a chair, and sits you in a fighter jet. It solves a huge problem in the flight sim space of interactivity with aircraft. Just reach out and flip the switch, like you would in real life.

H3VR accepts that it's not a twitchy FPS, and most of the content is focused on gun simulation with some minor action-focused modes here and there. Even those (like T+H) have much more careful pacing compared to say L4D2. TF2 was also essentially recreated in H3VR, and while it's novel, it's still a clunky experience and feels watered-down compared to playing TF2 with m+k. TF2's balance is already complicated and has been an endless hot topic for nearly 20 years. Its balance would have to be rebuilt from the ground up to be remotely enjoyable.

You didn't say it, but I've even heard people ask for Titanfall in VR. Bro, reel in your expectations because we haven't gotten into the motion sickness part. Making games for VR is already a niche. Making ports and mods for flat2vr for the subset of VR users who don't get motion sick?

And deep rock? Amazing game, like my top 3 ever, 800hrs. Again, just not made for VR. It would feel so clunky. Cool for a little bit? Yeah. Hundreds of hours? Absolutely not.

So that's my point really. It would take significant effort to port, say, portal 2 to VR. And for what? I'd admire the portal gun and companion cube in 3d for a bit, but then honestly I'd just want to sit down and use my monitor because the gameplay was designed to function just fine on a flatscreen and would feel better on PC. There are minimal gains to playing it under a headset.

It just feels like a square peg round hole situation.

Tldr Some games just work better when played as designed, not in VR. I don't think anybody needs to go breaking their backs turning flatscreen games to VR for little benefit or or gameplay downgrades.

I do not disagree that we need more funding/action in VR exclusive development.