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Context: I bought the Stadia Founder's Edition this Summer after being impressed by Google's reveal presser (and because I wanted to reserve "Ngamer" like I own on all platforms). I tried it out at the Cousin's Party at my house last night, after the conclusion of our annual Turkey Bowl game in the back yard. (Then after Stadia time we checked out the latest Virtual Reality games on my Valve Index.)

Copied from Discord:

[3:29 PM]~Ng:Stadia Review: first night I tested on my gaming laptop in my Chrome browser and it was choppy/unplayable. this weekend I tried the preferred method which is to plug the included Chromecast Ultra directly into ethernet and connect the included controller to your WiFi so they're both going straight back to Google's servers
[3:30 PM]~Ng:it was still having a little lag... but then I remembered I was streaming HQ football through Hulu Live on my Roku on the other HDMI. killed the Roku and made sure my phone/desktop weren't downloading or doing anything and it was a PERFECT experience. we passed around the controller at Thanksgiving and no one could tell they weren't directly connected to a console
[3:33 PM]~Ng:some games are free once you're on the service, one of them is Samurai Shodown, no one at the party had played a fighting games since SF2 but they got the hang of it and were beating the computer players and having no input lag. we finished Story Mode and the 6 year olds had a great time watching (graphics are great and you fight lots of colorful characters). the 3 and 4 year olds couldn't tell what was happening but they watched as well

[3:35 PM]~Ng:you also get Destiny 2 for free so we played the first section of that next and again, all our jumps and shots came out instantly, looked great in 1080, we jumped into the game in seconds with no downloads or wait times. everyone was very impressed
[3:36 PM]~Ng:having to buy additional games is true, BUT at least you get them at a discounted rate. for instance RDR2 is $40 instead of 60 if you're subscribed, I'm going to pick it up tonight now that I know Stadia runs so well at my house

[3:40 PM]~Ng:as an added bonus I've been very impressed with the Chromecast Ultra, didn't realize how much it simplified life. I'd heard you were able to push anything on your phone to the device to have it come up on the TV, and that works great, but I didn't realize you could also send it a signal from any computer running Chrome that's on the WiFi
[3:43 PM]~Ng:so I just hit Chrome - Options - Cast - Full Desktop and everyone could sit on the couches and see what was going to the player's eyes on the big screen when we went through the hottest new VR games of the season. I've done that before, but this saved having to run a second input across the room to the television

Now, as for the virtual reality session... it was the second Thanksgiving in a row where rhythm games dominated the night! Last year all the cousins got instantly hooked on Beat Saber, but in 2019 everyone was all about that new hotness, Pistol Whip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVoh0AIph1k


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