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RE: I tried Amazon Luna so you don't have to

in Hive Gaming12 days ago

I admit I had to do a double take when I saw a post of yours here (hello there :D) - I also had seen DanDaDan's first six episodes recently (nice surprise too)

The title did catch me well - cloud gaming services honestly are often an "O don't think so for me" because of that latency + internet speed reliance.

I can't ever think that playing with big delay is good when most of my games of preference require action and reaction (and if there's ANY reason I would stomach it, would either be to fool around with friends long gone into far away places through Parsec, or if a game I want to play online requires my inputs to be delayed due to server/player distance), so I've always seen these things as some sort of fad.

It could work in the very specific perfect conditions the creators seem to expect (high speed internet/wifi plus the servers not taking a hit whenever you try), but honestly that idea sounds something out of Japan - not in a bad sense...but in the sense that Japan (I think) may have the structure for high speed internet everywhere to have such idea work consistently.

My only hunch for that is knowing that Japan is full of modern arcade games that support national online between arcade cabinets - so that would have to be pretty fast to work swimmingly on all cabinets across the country.

But anywhere else it seems like a pipe dream more than anything that it works perfectly each time because of course things aren't as simple.

Thanks for your fresh impression on this one - I had a sudden memory to Samurai Showdown (the last one) being exclusive to Stadia users if you wanted to play it on PC for a while... definitely wouldn't have hurt that game's long time health if they had just offered a normal PC port instead or along that Stadia version rather than waiting until it died to do so.

On one last curious note... isn't it crazy that the phones we have now can emulate a ton of things portable consoles and phones from a decade ago could only dream of? DS and PSP emulators on a phone would have been crazy when they were fresh, but now they are hands down one of the easiest things to run on it.

Hope you had a great day :)