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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 ga
by turtlebits 7y ago
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.
- nkrisc 7y agoFWIW Hearthstone calibre games are already playable on any moderately recent smartphone. Not much gain from Stadia in that regard.
- Mirioron 7y agoTo add to that: I've played Hearthstone itself on a Oneplus One (phone from 2014).
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThe 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.
- gamblor956 7y agoThat's more of an indictment of how bad Apple computers are at handling games.
- musicale 7y agoApple 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.
- failuser 7y agoWhy 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?
- Mirioron 7y agoHeroes of Might and Magic as an MMO!
- hnick 7y agoMost JRPGs would fit the bill, especially the turn-based combat ones.
- rowanG077 7y agoHuh? Most modern JRPGs are action based nowadays. The days of turn based are mostly over.
- hnick 7y agoA 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.