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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by turtlebits on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:35PM (#21578561)
I guess I should have clarified. My only devices are a Pixelbook and my work MBP - no desktop. Playing at home (or work) are totally fine for me. Playing games like Hearthstone (where latency isn't breaking factor) is fine with me as well.
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by failuser on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:51PM (#21578690)
Why not play Hearthstone or similar games on MBP? They need to invent new class of games: latency-tolerant, but graphically intensive. Photorealistic turn-based massively multiplayer games?
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by hnick on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:53PM (#21580105)
Most JRPGs would fit the bill, especially the turn-based combat ones.
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by rowanG077 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:29PM (#21580313)
Huh? Most modern JRPGs are action based nowadays. The days of turn based are mostly over.
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by hnick on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:35PM (#21580340)
A lot of older games are being re-released so they shouldn't be ignored, and even action based ones often have internal cooldowns and timers for a pseudo turn-based system.

I mean Persona 5 was a pretty big game that AFAIK has turn based combat. It would be nice to stream since I won't own a Playstation any time soon.

Regardless, they are definitely less latency intensive than FPS or other genres.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by Mirioron on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:00PM (#21578768)
Heroes of Might and Magic as an MMO!
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by nkrisc on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:39PM (#21578597)
FWIW Hearthstone calibre games are already playable on any moderately recent smartphone. Not much gain from Stadia in that regard.
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by Mirioron on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:01PM (#21578784)
To add to that: I've played Hearthstone itself on a Oneplus One (phone from 2014).
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by hombre_fatal on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:26PM (#21578975)
The word "calibre" is doing a lot of work in your sentence.

There are all sorts of seemingly low-resource-intensive, low-latency, even old games of that "calibre" that stutter on my Macbook Pro.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by gamblor956 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @06:12PM (#21579385)
That's more of an indictment of how bad Apple computers are at handling games.
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by musicale on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @06:22PM (#21579461)
Apple computers with discrete GPUs (like the aforementioned MacBook Pro) are great at running DirectX-based games natively under Windows via Boot Camp.

They're also great at running Metal-based (e.g. Apple Arcade) games natively under macOS.

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