Discover Google Stadia

[maiki]

Continuing the discussion from Baldurs Gate III post- trailer discussion:

@maiki

This is one of the first games we’ve heard about it being on Google Stadia. Can you tell us about how it’s going to work on an unknown platform like that?

SV: It’s not so unknown for us [ laughs ]. We’ve been at it for some time. The thing about Stadia is that it’s going to be accessible to anybody, at least if you have Stadia services within the country where you are. It’s going to allow you to play the game at really high settings on a very shitty PC, which is going to solve one of the problems that we have with this game because the production values are so high. We’ve always tried to make the games fairly low specs, so that solves that.

Stadia will also allow a whole bunch of community features that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to do. I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening in the streaming sphere when it comes to Dungeons & Dragons, but there’s a lot going on there. Things like Stadia allow you to do much more.

We’re implementing Stadia fairly deep into the game, actually. In due course, we will announce the features and demonstrate it. I don’t think people understand, yet, exactly how transformative Stadia is going to be. Not in a corporate way, I actually mean it. Because they haven’t seen it, they haven’t touched it, but it is quite special.

Looks and sounds like bullshit to me! Let’s see how long I can go without knowing anything else about it…

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@maiki

Looks and sounds like bullshit to me! Let’s see how long I can go without knowing anything else about it…

I already know too much about it, and plan on ignoring it hard core from here on out myself.