After spending $15k on their Skyrim VR setup, one streamer has added a haptic suit just to feel pain

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

A Skyrim VR streamer who spent $15,000 on a VR setup just for the Bethesda game has added a new element into the mix: actual pain.

You ever feel like video games don't feel real enough to you? Sure, you can put on a headset and experience games in first-person thanks to VR tech, but you can't feel anything exactly. There's always putting on a haptic feedback suit, but even then, something's missing… The true way to experience a game is to feel the very pain your character is feeling, something that Skyrim VR and Fallout VR streamer Gingas has decided to put themselves through for the sake of entertainment (thanks, GamesRadar).

GingasVR has already done a bit of work to make Skyrim VR a bit more of an immersive experience, which she put around $15,000 into, alongside some mods for things like physics and more accurate body movements via three Vive trackers. She also uses a fan to simulate wind and weather, and she does have a haptic vest to feel all sorts of things. Now, as she shared in a video earlier this week, she's added another vest on top of that - one that electrocutes her anytime she feels pain.

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