Preezy wrote:I've also "claimed" Sniper Elite 4 and Hitman 2 as part of the Pro trial, just in case I fancy trying something different in the next couple of weeks, but even if I don't pay the monthly fee I've still got a Chromecast Ultra and the controller out of it, so I'll always have the Stadia option available to me.
Hitman 1 was one of my favourite gaming experiences ever and by all accounts Hitman 2 is even better so deffo check that out. Thanks for you impressions - looking forward to getting the ccu and controller myself. I'll be hooking up via the ethernet I reckon.
jawa2 wrote:Preezy wrote:So I had a Stadia Premiere Edition evening with Cyberpunk...
Great to hear these kinds of experiences! Stadia is something that a year ago I wouldn't have considered... but now it feels more like a decent option. It'd be great if Google could bring back the Cyberpunk offer - or something similar - as it has undoubtedly brought in many more customers and got people talking about it.
As has been mentioned, cyberpunk feels like the perfect use case for this. I'm not ready to splash out on upgrading hardware myself yet, and the seamless Ness of just playing with the latest patches no fuss is very handy an impressive.
That said I'm not sure I'll get too many more games beyond CP2077. For a start I feel a bit icky about having purchases on a cloud with a company that has a history of axing their products. Secondly I'm not sure it presents great value - there hasn't been any great deals on the games themselves (obviously this CCU+Controller deal was very good but that isn't really software, more just shifting a warehouse full of stock that wouldn't sell while growing their user base.)
I'm also a little disappointed that the hardware stadia is running isn't top of the line. It really should be all the bells and whistles with Ray tracing etc. to really hammer home its advantage. By most accounts CP2077 on Stadia is the 3rd best experience you can have (tied with PS5, after top end PCs then Xbox SX) and I'm not sure that's good enough to make its case. I have noticed blurriness while walking around, especially in dark areas and after fiddling with all the (limited!) graphics options.
All in all I'm happy and impressed with the experience. I think it says a LOT that I haven't mentioned latency once - it is nonexistent. We'll see if I stick with it long term, though!