To be fair, being all about style over gameplay is Vampire: The Masquerade's brand. So this game could be seen as just embracing the essence of the franchise! :P

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyLots of things in the world are a success because people aren't as smart as me. Spam, f'rinstance.

You are not advocating for a solution to spam [External Link], are you? :)

To the contrary. I'm saying that, like many other things, the viability of spam in the first place depends on there being a sucker born every (very small interval of time, varying with birthrate), which I do not see changing any time soon. But if nobody was dumb enough to pay attention to it, it would generate no sales or whatever and would not exist.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPNot to downplay the device, but a feature like that should simply become available via tablet/smartphone (+ controller attached, of course). I don't really see the need for an extra piece of hardware here, to be honest.

I don't personally expect it to be a success. But consider trying to play games on a tablet/smartphone while holding a controller--you can't also hold the tablet/smartphone, so you will need to put it somewhere and that somewhere will have to allow it to be propped up in a stable way where you can see it properly while gaming and the controller itself won't block your view of the screen. Even with one of those little prop-up-a-tablet thingies, that lets out planes, trains, and automobiles, not to mention buses and many coffee tables (too low). With this you would presumably be able to play on the go, with real PC games, plausibly even continuing the same game you were playing on the PC at home.
So there's at least one use case. Dunno if that's going to be enough, though. If nothing else, to sell something like this in big numbers what you need is a big advertising/marketing budget to prompt people to think they should buy it because it is a new shiny electronic thing. I don't think they have that budget.

There are controllers (and/or frames) that attach the controller firmly to the smartphone/tablet, so you do not have to hold two devices. Stuff like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Bluetooth-Android-Controller%EF%BC%8CBRHE-Controller/dp/B0772SXD12 [External Link]

Maybe that one isn't optimal, but what I'm saying is that a more optimally designed controller-for-smartphones/tablets sounds like a better idea to me than extra display hardware when all you really do is stream image/audio to and input from the device. Two things smartphones are already capable of.

Hang on, I thought it was supposed to run the games itself, not stream them.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPNot to downplay the device, but a feature like that should simply become available via tablet/smartphone (+ controller attached, of course). I don't really see the need for an extra piece of hardware here, to be honest.

I don't personally expect it to be a success. But consider trying to play games on a tablet/smartphone while holding a controller--you can't also hold the tablet/smartphone, so you will need to put it somewhere and that somewhere will have to allow it to be propped up in a stable way where you can see it properly while gaming and the controller itself won't block your view of the screen. Even with one of those little prop-up-a-tablet thingies, that lets out planes, trains, and automobiles, not to mention buses and many coffee tables (too low). With this you would presumably be able to play on the go, with real PC games, plausibly even continuing the same game you were playing on the PC at home.
So there's at least one use case. Dunno if that's going to be enough, though. If nothing else, to sell something like this in big numbers what you need is a big advertising/marketing budget to prompt people to think they should buy it because it is a new shiny electronic thing. I don't think they have that budget.

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Quoting: NanobangGoogle is a plague. (snippage)

Yeah, boo on Google for providing a service that people might enjoy and want to pay for and if happens to be a success it's only because people are not as smart or hip as you.

Lots of things in the world are a success because people aren't as smart as me. Spam, f'rinstance.

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Quoting: legluondunetThe streaming games will soon replace all known games format we know: CD, DVD, digital, consoles...
For the dev/publisher it's an evolution: less support, the game just work for everyone the same way, less development: you develop your game for one platform, the server it is installed on, that's all.
For the gamers it's an evolution too: click and play, the console mind, you don't need to tweak during several hours...no update to install...just play instantly, whatever the platform.

Publishers of computer stuff, from OSes to whatever, have been trying to move to subscription models for years and have often ended up either pulling back at the last moment or breaking themselves on the rock of consumer rejection. And that's without games' issues with bandwidth and latency.
I guess the question is, are computer games more like other computer stuff or more like movies and music?

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Quoting: DesumIt literally doesn't matter that it's using Linux and Vulkan. You're running the game from Google's computers. This is a hard 'no thanks' from me; game streaming is the ULTIMATE walled-garden and DRM scheme.

It literally doesn't matter to an individual player. It matters in terms of spread and dominance of technologies. I'm not gonna use it either, but if every dev under the sun is used to using Linux and Vulkan to develop for Stadia, that's going to have an impact on things. And if every game under the sun gets a Vulkan build because it's going to need one for Stadia anyway, why not just use Vulkan for Windows too? If this service is pretty successful, it could be the tipping point in the question of whether Vulkan or DirectX12 dominates. That in itself is probably a side benefit for Google, who are probably on average happy any time a Microsoft technology fails to take hold.

Mind you, if it's too successful there are some serious drawbacks to that.

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Age of Empires . . . that reminds me, did anyone ever do a baseball game called "Age of Umpires"?

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Oh, right, this is that anime-nostalgic one!

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Quoting: GuestJust got the base game, is on discount. 75% off on Steam.
I've read something about how it became a spyware as stated in the new EULA, and i don't understood well if they changed it.

This sounded kind of worrisome to me. And someone said something of the sort a couple of days ago on the last Kerbal Space Program article. So I did a bit of cursory googling. It sure looks to me like the whole thing is ignorant excitability gone viral at best, deliberate trolling and sabotage at worst. They really don't seem to be doing anything unusual at all.

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