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the stadia excrement thread
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I haven't seen it coming.
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https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/21 ... nted-games
This part isn’t true at least, it got mistranslated from an Italian tweet and spread around
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/21 ... nted-games
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weirdly enough, thinking about stadia's latency problems that have been showing up in some tweets and what not took me down a rabbit hole that lead to thinking about Eternal Darkness again
mostly because like, one of the crazy sanity effects in the game was like, you enter a room, and you play it normally, then the game refuses to recognize your inputs like if you unplugged your controller, and then your character is killed by the monsters in the room. but it didn't actually happen so you're back in the previous room
another one was like, you're in a room and you're playing normally, but then out of nowhere, the entire upper half of your body explodes, leaving only the waist down, which falls over, as you're dead. but not really, because it didn't happen, and you're safe and sound as you were before you entered the room
god, eternal darkness was such a good game. i'm not big on horror but it was honestly the best horror game I've ever played. it plays around with lovecraftian ideas and how knowing about such things is too much for our brains, but it basically sets it up into a "sanity gauge" where if you see too many spooky zombies and monsters without killing them to recover on that gauge, the camera's fixed angles get more menacing and unhinged, the game starts unveiling spooks in the environment and then the game becomes more and more likely to start actively messing with the player in various ways, both subtle ways (the torso explosion, the room being full of enemies, you're suddenly in the wrong place) and just directly fucking with the player (controller disconnected, memory card erased, the brief fakeout early in the game basically saying that you played a demo and you should look forward to the sequel/full version)
god, that was such a good game. way better than stadia's garbage
mostly because like, one of the crazy sanity effects in the game was like, you enter a room, and you play it normally, then the game refuses to recognize your inputs like if you unplugged your controller, and then your character is killed by the monsters in the room. but it didn't actually happen so you're back in the previous room
another one was like, you're in a room and you're playing normally, but then out of nowhere, the entire upper half of your body explodes, leaving only the waist down, which falls over, as you're dead. but not really, because it didn't happen, and you're safe and sound as you were before you entered the room
god, eternal darkness was such a good game. i'm not big on horror but it was honestly the best horror game I've ever played. it plays around with lovecraftian ideas and how knowing about such things is too much for our brains, but it basically sets it up into a "sanity gauge" where if you see too many spooky zombies and monsters without killing them to recover on that gauge, the camera's fixed angles get more menacing and unhinged, the game starts unveiling spooks in the environment and then the game becomes more and more likely to start actively messing with the player in various ways, both subtle ways (the torso explosion, the room being full of enemies, you're suddenly in the wrong place) and just directly fucking with the player (controller disconnected, memory card erased, the brief fakeout early in the game basically saying that you played a demo and you should look forward to the sequel/full version)
god, that was such a good game. way better than stadia's garbage
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Re: the stadia excrement thread
That's, uh, certainly an advertisement, there.
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i expect them to try to scrub that from the internet once all this crashes and burns
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Re: the stadia excrement thread
Like the whole IT BENDS TIME AND SPACE TO GET -YOU- VIDEO GAMES
and the fact that there are no women in it except for the one at the end who is -obviously- not -playing- any video games, pfff
and the fact that there are no women in it except for the one at the end who is -obviously- not -playing- any video games, pfff
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The Sega Channel was way better than Stadia and I don't think this will be a controversial opinion.
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Gloomy Rube wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:20 pmThe Sega Channel was way better than Stadia and I don't think this will be a controversial opinion.
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only if they do it like this:DaikatunaRevengeance wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:18 pmthey should yell GOOGLE in the same say SEGA did in the 90s
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Stadia's player numbers are in and since the only kind of stadia you can buy right now comes bundled with Destiny 2, they're using Destiny 2 numbers as a decent "this is how many people are playing stadia"
they have 19,000 players playing on Stadia
in contrast, all other platforms are in the 400,000s
they have 19,000 players playing on Stadia
in contrast, all other platforms are in the 400,000s
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Also apparently chromecast ultras are overheating from use and shutting down, and google's response was 'No they aren't"
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Re: the stadia excrement thread
Gloomy Rube wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:10 pmStadia's player numbers are in and since the only kind of stadia you can buy right now comes bundled with Destiny 2, they're using Destiny 2 numbers as a decent "this is how many people are playing stadia"
they have 19,000 players playing on Stadia
in contrast, all other platforms are in the 400,000s
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Re: the stadia excrement thread
The best part is that the chromecast ultra is the only way for people to play Stadia on a TV right nowGloomy Rube wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:13 pmAlso apparently chromecast ultras are overheating from use and shutting down, and google's response was 'No they aren't"
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From a few days ago: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... 175k-timesGloomy Rube wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:10 pmStadia's player numbers are in and since the only kind of stadia you can buy right now comes bundled with Destiny 2, they're using Destiny 2 numbers as a decent "this is how many people are playing stadia"
they have 19,000 players playing on Stadia
in contrast, all other platforms are in the 400,000s
The Google Stadia App is required for setting up the service to begin with, and buying games. Also, yeah, you can only get one kind of Stadia via the $130 "Founders Pack", as the other options for signing up with Stadia aren't available until 2020
So while keeping in mind that there is the $130 buy-in limitation, as well as that everyone is required to use the Stadia app (and unless they have an activation code from buying the pack, the Stadia app can't do anything), we can look that as of a week ago, November 21st, the Stadia app has been downloaded about 175,000 times.
Even considering the $130 buy-in that limits the amount of people who theoretically would be using Stadia, and assuming that all of the recorded downloads accounts for people who bought the "Founders Pack", 175,000 players for a console launch (because this is the closest thing we can compare Stadia's launch to) is extremely dire.
To help put it in perspective, I looked up some sales numbers for consoles that are notable for being commercial failures. I'll list them below, alongside the estimated numbers for Stadia.
- Playstation Vita - about 16 million units sold
- Sega Saturn - 9.5 million units sold worldwide
- Sega Dreamcast - 9.13 million units sold worldwide
- Nokia N-Gauge - about 3 million units sold
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (3DO) - 2 million units sold
- Atari 5200 - about 1 million units sold
- Nintendo Virtual Boy - 770,000 total units sold worldwide
- Tiger Electronics Game.com - less than 300,000 units sold
- Atari Jaguar - less than 250,000 units sold
- Google Stadia - over 175,000 app downloads
But even still, *just* 175,000 is dire numbers for something that's aiming to become a major video games platform, even for a limited launch like this.
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Re: the stadia excrement thread
wait wasn't there response actually something like "well, okay, maybe they are, but that's actually normal and furthermore..."Gloomy Rube wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:13 pmAlso apparently chromecast ultras are overheating from use and shutting down, and google's response was 'No they aren't"
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RIP Syndrome wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:47 amwait wasn't there response actually something like "well, okay, maybe they are, but that's actually normal and furthermore..."
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The response I saw was along the lines of "It may be WARM TO THE TOUCH but it will not overheat and cause a shutdown"RIP Syndrome wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:47 amwait wasn't there response actually something like "well, okay, maybe they are, but that's actually normal and furthermore..."
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