BIGtrouble77 wrote on Nov 20, 2019, 16:14:

chickenboo wrote on Nov 20, 2019, 14:02:

Agreed, despite all the corporate white-washing about enabling new generations of non-console-owning yet-to-be-gamers, a cynical take could certainly see Google's move as an attempt at monopolizing the place where people play games, just as YouTube is the defacto place where people watch online videos.

It's obvious that Google looks at Stadia the same way they look at Youtube... it's just a vessel for consuming media while running deep learning algorithms around our behaviors. Once these companies own the channels to play games, they will have a bigger influence in how and what games will be made- and they will be made to manipulate us. That's a terrible future that will pretty much ensure that I won't be playing AAA games.

mxmissile wrote on Nov 20, 2019, 13:16:

BIGtrouble77 wrote on Nov 20, 2019, 12:56:
"Need to pivot, even if it means losing some of the biggest AAA games"

The only benefit I see with this service is the ability to play AAA games on a Chromebook. Why would I use this service for indie games that could run on a Samsung toaster? The qhole idea of streaming games can't die fast enough. It's just a play to hold the gaming industry hostage to a select few companies acting in bad faith.

Huge +1, Like or whatever for this.

Bumpy wrote on Nov 19, 2019, 12:48:
I don't get why Google even attempted this.

Surely their tech and R&D people knew it wouldn't work.

Verno wrote on Nov 7, 2019, 13:44:

jdreyer wrote on Nov 7, 2019, 02:50:
If Steam lets me stream games that I own to my phone, that would be awesome. I would love to be able to play Into the Breach streaming on my phone.

I don't know, phone controls suck and pairing a gamepad with a phone just makes me want the full experience without the smaller screen. But to each his own I guess.

phinn wrote on Nov 4, 2019, 11:23:

Is Overwatch online-only?

Of course, not to be rude what year do you think this is? Everything is and should be online only these days. It's a non issue, let's move on.

Let's talk about how amazing Diablo 4 is going to be if they keep to Diablo 1's art style and music, Diablo 2's story quality and character classes, and Diablo 3's fluid gameplay, then add in much more challenge (Diablo 3 is way too easy) and pvp and you have masterpiece potential.

ventry wrote on Nov 1, 2019, 19:00:

Cutter wrote on Nov 1, 2019, 16:22:
Must be nice to have a government looking out for its citizens rights as consumers.

Why, yes.
Yes it is.
We have one of the best consumer protections there is.
We even have a "reasonable expectation of use" policy.
It is tied to recommended retail price value of object.
Say you buy a laptop for A$1500 and it comes with a 2 year warranty and it dies 2.5 or 3 years after purchase. As long as you can show you looked after said laptop (ie no dings, spillages etc.) you are entitled to make a claim for replacement under "reasonable expectation of use" policy.

Flatline wrote on Nov 1, 2019, 19:13:
Meh.

Also in the gameplay trailer the dude is totally Deckard's brother I bet.

saluk wrote on Oct 31, 2019, 16:22:
Hey valve: can you spend like a month fixing some of these years-long issues with big picture mode plzkthxbai. (Videos randomly not playing, sale notifications not having a list of the games that are part of the sale, scaling not working right on the "about this game" pop-up, the friends list scaling being completely broken since the messaging was updated...)

WitcherOntheProwl wrote on Oct 18, 2019, 15:08:
The play through that was released a several months ago showed just how dumb and boring the game will be. I will likely get it for achievements only when released on steam for a couple dollars.

Dunkirk wrote on Oct 17, 2019, 14:10:
I couldn't even be bothered to finish the first one. For all the unmitigated hype over the thing, I found the story missions to be tedious and annoyingly Quicktime-like. Here, chase this purse thief all over town for no reason. Or, here make this shot or lasso on a dime. Oops! You suck! Try 2 or 3 or 6 times. I finally just gave up after one of the chase scenes where I didn't get the bad guys in time, and the train rolled into town. Oh, I'm sorry, Rockstar! You limited the speed of my horse arbitrarily, and put me on an invisible clock. Excellent work. I tweeted many, many of these frustrations at them.

There's a really great hunting game in there. I thoroughly enjoyed unlocking all of the outfits. Except that one time a cougar literally spawned 10 feet in front of my horse. DEAD...

Unlocking the gear, though? Yeah, right. I destroyed a controller over the second phase of the knife game. Screw that noise.

I suppose what's so unbelievably frustrating about the game to me is that you're just cruising along, minding your own business, having a good time, and then WHAM! DEAD! I guess the GTA games are like this? I wouldn't know; I never played any of them. Anyway, I'm not paying another $100 for a second version of this nonsense. I feel like Rockstar is thanking me for my money, but saying that I'm just not good enough to get the full $100 of game. Sorry. Thanks. Have a nice day.

D-Rock wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 12:00:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 11:43:
Games are not going to get smaller. news at 11

I didn't read the article. The headline was enough to turn me away. It's idiotic.

Of course games are going to get bigger. Storage will also grow in size at a similar rate. What is there to be 'scared' of?!?

I'm so tired of crappy journalism -- but I guess it's just Kotaku being Kotaku...

Beamer wrote on Oct 9, 2019, 15:23:

Nullity wrote on Oct 9, 2019, 14:44:

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 9, 2019, 14:39:

D-Rock wrote on Oct 9, 2019, 11:19:
The current generation is a generation that is addicted to convenience.

Oh cool, I must belong to the current generation, because I guarantee you I am addicted to convenience. I have been for, oh I don't know, about five decades? The whole the 'next generation' is bad or going to ruin everything is about as old as language. Things change, always have, always will.

Yep, and anyone trying to fight it is simply baffling to me. I find it wholly incomprehensible.

Right?

While I built my current PC, I find myself spending next to no time doing any kind of debugging, error testing, or fixing it. I don't really have the time, nor the interest. The thing just works. This is a huge improvement, and shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. By not having to spend time getting viruses off my computer, or understanding which drivers are conflicting, or why some new piece of hardware isn't being recognized, I have time to do something more constructive.