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With the Stadia streaming service from Google launching on November 19th for those with the Founder's Edition or Premiere Edition, they're finally revealing what will be available.

It will only have 12, yes 12, titles at launch and a few of them are sequels. They are: Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Destiny 2, GYLT, Just Dance 2020, Kine, Mortal Kombat 11, Red Dead Redemption 2, Thumper, Tomb Raider + Rise + Shadow and lastly Samurai Shodown.

The only title you will get included in the Stadia Pro subscription (three months free with the Founder/Premier Edition) is Destiny 2, all others you have to pay for. If you stop paying for Stadia Pro, you lose access to any free games claimed and only keep those you've paid for normally.

Google said more will be coming before 2019 is up like Borderlands 3, Darksiders Genesis, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and more although the dates of them are "Subject to Change". You can see the announcement about them here.

This Debian Linux and Vulkan powered streaming service certainly has an uphill battle to win over gamers and this launch line up, honestly, doesn't seem all that great. With the leaks about Steam Cloud Gaming (#1, #2), Stadia may have an even bigger fight coming.

We have a Stadia Founder's Edition pre-ordered to cover it here, although our thoughts on how Stadia runs on Linux may be quite delayed as they ship it out based on order date. Checking back on it, ours is saying to be delivered by November 27th.

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Ehvis Nov 12, 2019
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Quoting: EikeEveryone's their own of course, but I'm surprised how many people state no interest at all in Red Dead Redemption 2.

I'd be interested to play it, but it does seem to be one of the less popular titles among tuxers. However, I won't pay significant money for Windows games. Stadia value would be even lower to me and I don't expect "Stadia store" prices to be in line with what I have in mind. I'll stick with my backlog. Which for some reason keeps growing. :D
eldaking Nov 12, 2019
Quoting: EikeEveryone's their own of course, but I'm surprised how many people state no interest at all in Red Dead Redemption 2.

The big AAA games (which are all action games, shooters, or action RPGs) get disproportionate media attention. Sure, they are big, but if we add together all the small niches that are ignored it also becomes huge. Or in other words, a lot of people are interested in that but not the actual majority.

Also, we have a biased sample here. People that are super interested in running such games are, on average, less likely to play games on Linux.
Nezchan Nov 12, 2019
Quoting: EikeEveryone's their own of course, but I'm surprised how many people state no interest at all in Red Dead Redemption 2.

For me it's mostly that westerns aren't really my thing. They're okay, but not something I want to get really immersed in.

By the same token, Assassin's Creed has fun mechanics, but the Ancient Greek setting ain't doing it for me.
lejimster Nov 12, 2019
Quoting: RussianNeuroMancerSo they ported Red Dead Redemption 2...
Maybe they're just using something like Proton with the games Vulkan renderer for this title.

It's nice to see more games come out with Vulkan renderer as an option, although I do wish it was the default api.
chimpy Nov 12, 2019
I know it's not they're "style" because Google wants everyone to move to the cloud, but in a couple years time (or sooner) they could have a large enough library that they could release an actual console that can compete against Sony and Microsoft. But who knows though.


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bubexel Nov 12, 2019
We are not the target for Stadia, and it's not going to replace or fight against PC market. It's more against console war. Parents can buy a cheap console to their son, that they can cancel when they want. And children can play in house, in granparents house or in a vacations trip. This is the target of this Stadia. Doesnt matter you can buy a PC with the cost of it. This target doesn't want a pc or waste a big amount of cash. They want just something as a service.
Kimyrielle Nov 12, 2019
That's a much smaller selection than I'd have expected. With all the money and manpower Google can (and probably did) throw at this project, I'd have expected them making sort of a bigger splash for release, when they're guaranteed to get a lot of media attention. If they don't expand this meager offering really fast, Stadia will vanish into the dark really fast.
Salvatos Nov 12, 2019
They do have twice the number of games planned by the end of the year. If they keep adding more high-profile titles every few weeks, I could see it becoming competitive with services like PlayStation Plus in a reasonable amount of time.
Eike Nov 12, 2019
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Quoting: bubexelWe are not the target for Stadia, and it's not going to replace or fight against PC market. It's more against console war.

This.
Google literally says at their store:
"Stadia - Games, without a console or downloads"
(In German, it's "Stadia – Spiele ganz ohne Konsole" - it doesn't talk about the downloads part.)
I've seen it called a "virtual console", which seems to fit well.
Alm888 Nov 12, 2019
Quoting: EikeEveryone's their own of course, but I'm surprised how many people state no interest at all in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Granted, the game is being advertised like there is no tomorrow. But this not automatically translates into interest. Don't know for others, but I personally absolutely loathe and despise shooters and am not into westerns in general, either games or movies (being a space-themed sucker since "Space Rangers"). I think, the last western shooter I had played was Gun.Smoke for Dendy (Famicom). I hated it. :D

Other than that, my opinion on Stadia™ has not changed a bit with this huge "revelation". A very weak game set: no games interest me (most I have not even heard of, thanks to only tracking DRM-free Linux-native games).
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