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Mephisto78
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Resident Evil 7: the best cloud gaming experience yet?

Hello,

In my humble opinion most ports for Google Stadia were a huge step back in comparison to the PC versions of these games, for example Cyberpunk 2077 or Metro Exodus. The performance mode and even the mode with good/better visuals of Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't really look great. Compared to the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077, the Stadia version just looks awful.

It's the same with Metro Exodus (limited to 4K 30fps).

These and other games do suffer from the limitation of 30fps when played at 4K resolution. It's just not a good experience when played via Stadia.

 

But in my opinion Resident Evil 7: Biohazard runs and looks marvelous on Google Stadia. OK, the graphics are outdated (4 years old now), but the experience is just great!

 

So, Google, a perfect cloud gaming experience IS possible on your platform (only god and maybe the people at google who are in charge know why this isn't possible for all Stadia games). The cloud gaming experience you get is right now extremely dependent on what game you actually play on Google Stadia. This is not acceptable. In other words: as far as no one will actually complain about Stadia when playing Resident Evil 7 on Stadia, when it comes to other games this is completely different. I really hope that Capcom and Google will prove that this great cloud gaming experience is also possible with a new Blockbuster game like Resident Evil: Village.

Nevertheless I assume that just Capcom did a fantastic job providing/porting Resident Evil 7: Biohazard for Google Stadia. I read somewhere that Google payed Capcom 10 million dollars for RE7: Biohazard and RE8: Village for porting these games to Stadia. And Capcom did a great job when it comes to RE7 so far.

So, what's the conclusion from all of this? Do big studios in the gaming industry only can provide great cloud gaming experiences when payed for it by the Cloud Gaming providers? At least it seems that this is the case.

So, Google take some money (you have a lot of it) and pay the publishers/studios a good price for providing a great gaming experience on your platform. At least, and that's the key finding here, Google Stadia indeed IS capable of providing users a flawless could gaming experience like Resident Evil 7 proved.

I always thought that publishers and gaming studios should have a major interest that their games are running and looking great on all platforms for which these games are developed/ported to, but I assume I was wrong. Some companies in the gaming industry just don't care about cloud gaming yet and the experience the gamers get on these platforms with their games. This kind of thinking is indeed a big mistake. 

 

So, that's it. I will be glad to read your opinions about this topic.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

 

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RXShorty
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Hiya @Mephisto78,

I think the first thing that comes to mind is to treat Stadia as a console. Of course the PC versions of a lot games will look better (PC master race! 🤫).

And the other thing is indeed the companies that provide the ports/versions of the Stadia version need to do a good job.

Stadia is relatively new so developers need to learn how to get the most out of Stadia. I think more and more good versions of games will come to Stadia for sure.

But again there is such thing a compression when using a stream. So to expect the same quality as a high end gaming PC is not possible yet. Though I agree there are games that should easily run on a higher framerate etc.

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Samas
Silver Stadia Guide
Silver Stadia Guide

It's not unusual. Think of any other gaming platform: Nintendo, Android, Apple, Xbox. There are plenty of cases where a game made for multiple platforms is going to run really well and optimized for some but not others. Certainly the game developer carries most of the burden to make their games run the best on any console they develop for, but the reality is rarely optimal. The platform does have an obligation to carry good games that run well (think Nintendo's old "seal of quality") to give the platform a good reputation. Google and Stadia here obviously hold most of that obligation and I think Google's recent pivot to doing just that will result in good quality experiences overall; the bug in this ointment certainly is the variability of quality Internet connection but that will take time to smooth out (same as when music went streaming online, movies, etc).

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