Escape Goat posted:

Where am I supposed to game if the library burns down?

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Stadia not having Pre-orders at the moment must be a publishers wet dream, being able to announce just a day before release.

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Khablam posted:

Well google sure cut down their estimates quickly.

Weedle posted:

They’ve specified elsewhere that they mean ten timed Stadia exclusives but it’s hilarious that this isn’t even the first time they’ve hosed up that messaging.

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If Doom 2016 isn't a free pro game for March, someone needs to be fired

Now with that said, I'm 99.9% certain that Doom 2016 Will be out in March and be a free pro game BUT if that doesn't happen, someone dropped the ball BIG TIME considering it's the same month Doom Eternal comes out.

Have Doom 2016 on March 1st for free, people play it and get hyped for Doom eternal just three weeks later. No brainer

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Ever since it missed launch, I've assumed that is exactly what's going to happen. It just makes too much sense.

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Rinkles posted:

what's the theory for why doom isn't out yet?

Rinkles posted:

what's the theory for why doom isn't out yet?

e:something cropped up before the stadia launch, and id can't commit any resouces to fixing it since they're busy with doom eternal?

Rotten Red Rod posted:

My guess is there's some issue with input lag in the engine they can't eliminate on Stadia, as demonstrated by Wolfenstein: Youngblood's extra bad input lag on Stadia compared to other games.

Khablam posted:

Well google sure cut down their estimates quickly.

Pyrus Malus posted:

20 games?? what do you need 10 games for? fine, here's 5 games, as Doom 2016 becomes their only game of 2020

Rinkles posted:

it was like their flagship title when they were previewig their tech

Rinkles posted:

what's the theory for why doom isn't out yet?

e:something cropped up before the stadia launch, and id can't commit any resouces to fixing it since they're busy with doom eternal?

Rinkles posted:

it was like their flagship title when they were previewig their tech

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A first I was a sceptic...

I was totally sceptical about Stadia and decided against buying the FE at launch but was lucky enough to pick up a buddy code on one of the threads on here - I’m on a long work trip and extremely bored/missing some decent gaming. Checked the hotel Wi-fi and it’s pulling decent speeds so thought it was worth a go on my work laptop (standard Dell i7, no graphics) and I am MINDBLOWN! I just dipped into Destiny 2 and had a quick spin around - there was lag (like console games can do when playing online) but overall I hardly noticed any input lag from my standard work issue Dell wireless mouse. This has totally changed my weekend - now to purchase FM20 - already have it on Steam and it runs OK but pretty hot/slow on my MBP at home. I know this is a little slow on the uptake but totally sold on the potential and definitely won’t invest in a gaming laptop/pc now!

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Have you ever had a job where you rely on information and confirmation by others inside your company?
Imagine those "others" being outside of your company, having a ton of different projects going on and serving a market that openly despises both rushed launches and delays.
Stadia not having Pre-orders at the moment must be a publishers wet dream, being able to announce just a day before release.
Google could push more, but at the same time they're at the mercy of what info they're given and allowed to publish. It's probably a cirkle jerk of communication that we're not seeing.
I get the frustration though. I too want more or newer games and announcements.

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It's easier to develop a niche game than a AAA title. You can certainly bet that of the 10 exclusives this first half of the year, any that are Stadia-first (designed for Stadia before looking at any other platform) and not just timed exclusive are going to be smaller scale games. That doesn't necessarily mean they'll be any less great - one could say Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Cuphead, et al fit into the category of smaller scale phenoms but that does mean we should not expect a Q1/Q2 "God of War" or "Halo" out of Stadia.

I think we will get our Mario on Stadia, but I would put it into next year. Tequila Works indicated they started prototyping Gylt with Stadia more than two years ago, so if they were one of the first to get their hands on the system which was still very much in development and Gylt was the end product after two years, that's a good sign that more established studios that started, say, last year will end up rolling out top tier Stadia-firsts 2-3 years later.

As for me, I'm going to be fascinated to see what the flagship(s) of Stadia end up being because they're going to be designed to leverage the unique aspects of Stadia in ways we've never seen in games before. If they come from SGE, they'll have been designed from the ground up for Stadia. But also at some point, presumably, the Stadia team handed a powerhouse studio like EA or Bethesda or Ubisoft the keys to the technical Maserati that is Stadia and said, "Let's go build a track." That's gonna be fun to see.

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If Doom 2016 isn't a free pro game for March, someone needs to be fired

Now with that said, I'm 99.9% certain that Doom 2016 Will be out in March and be a free pro game BUT if that doesn't happen, someone dropped the ball BIG TIME considering it's the same month Doom Eternal comes out.
Have Doom 2016 on March 1st for free, people play it and get hyped for Doom eternal just three weeks later. No brainer

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Or a person could get Doom’d fatigue and skip the new game. I don’t think it’s a no brainer.

leftist heap posted:

Those demos were insanely controlled.

Imran Khan posted:

More to the point, I was missing shots, and it was initially difficult to time melee hits against enemies. It's not that the input lag makes Doom unplayable, but it makes it harder, and it makes you worse at the game. It's the kind of thing that would make you reboot your console and check your TV settings.

leftist heap posted:

Those demos were insanely controlled.

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Hi,

I work in the video game industry and I have already played or owned most of the offered catalog. I mostly bought Stadia to test it, as I collect gaming hardware as a hobby. What follows is a personal opinion.

I think Stadia is on the right track to make AAA gaming, even gaming, mainstream. But it has a loooong way to go to get there.

Bringing in the gaming enthusiasts or hardcore gamers with the current content is difficult, I wish more studios would enable actual cross-platform gaming AND progression. I have already put several hours in the Tomb Raider trilogy on PC, allow me to pick up where I left off! I don't want to start over...

I could play some Stadia games at lunch break or during commute and come back to the PC or console... If the kids or the significant other need the bandwidth to watch something, with my current connection, I can't play at the same time (it's a 400 mbps connection, hybrid cable and fiber). And yes, my router has a custom firmware that handles QoS, it's usually not an issue with regular gaming, but Stadia takes its toll.

Let me play wherever I want, and I might stick to Stadia when the infrastructure allows it. It doesn't involve Stadia alone, the publishers, the studios should be allowed by the first parties to enable this cross progression feature, as most of the industry is going towards a form of streaming anyway.

If the walled gardens become a thing of the past, every success will be content driven. That's why we're all here for, right? Play games!

American McGay posted:

I think Stadia is on the right track to make AAA gaming, even gaming, mainstream.

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I would like to take a minute to talk about the technical side of Stadia (and a brief, unhinged, segway on the future of gaming)

So my wife signed me up for Stadia for fathers day because I am not a big game player at this phase in my life, I am a pretty big google fanboy.

So I'm not going to stand here and tell you that Stadia, specifically, is the future or that Stadia will even be around in 5 years. But there is one thing that I can say, and needs to be said.

It actually works. That is goddamned amazing. It works on the 80$ dongle on my TV, it works on my POS 5 year old Dell XPS and it works on my wife's 300$ chrome book. (it technically works on my pixel 3a but I've never been desperate enough to try it)

and in all of the these instances it works very very well. I've had problem with lag once in destiny 2 and never Mortal Kombat ( mean I get no sound in the fights on the surround sound but what ever)

but it works, and it works on devices that were never, ever, meant to handle processes like this.

-The Segways-

I always knew this was a beta release because google projects never leave beta

Thinking outside the box for a minute, Stadia, or the architecture that supports it will wholey change industries. 6000$ desktops to run rendering software or CAD. Gone

The Lack of local installation seems like the most absurd reason to throw a hissy fit. I also don't expect it to be permanent. You know what's not hard in comparison to running lag free server side FPS and fighting games? letting people download install files.

Finally, people are loving morons, this was never going to be the netflx of games, it was never advertised that way there's no reason to think it was. It was always a cloud platform for gaming and it loving works

What would I like to see

I want to see a goddamned war game. I want to see Day of Defeat (I'm dating myself) with 300 person games and huge rear end maps.
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Also this is my first reddit post, I think we can all agree it was great.

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Thinking outside the box for a minute, Stadia, or the architecture that supports it will wholey change industries. 6000$ desktops to run rendering software or CAD. Gone

Communist Walrus posted:

Ah! I see you're looking at my Chromecast dongle. Truly, it is the crown jewel of my gaming hardware collection.