{"id":48578,"date":"2019-11-25T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=48578"},"modified":"2019-11-24T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:41:58","slug":"diecast-280-stadia-jedi-fallen-order-half-life-alyx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=48578","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #280: Stadia, Jedi Fallen Order, Half-Life Alyx"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want a podcast that’s an actual discussion and not me thoughtlessly talking over Paul for an hour, then don’t miss the Eh! Steve! Podcast this week<\/a>, where I discuss Control with the hosts.<\/p>\n


Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><\/div>
\nHosts: Paul<\/a>, Shamus<\/a>. Episode edited by Issac<\/a>.
\nDiecast280<\/a><\/p>\n

Show notes:<\/p>\n

00:00 DaVinci Resolve!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our first video produced with DaVinci Resolve<\/a> will go live tomorrow. Issac is very positive on the new editor. <\/p>\n

02:39 Rage 2 is Broken<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have done all the main quests for the three leaders Marshall, Hagar, and Kvasir. All three say that everything is ready for Project Dagger, which is the final mission. However, the in-game journal still says “Help your allies to build Project Dagger”, indicating that everything is not<\/strong> ready. There’s no map marker \/ quest objective. If I get in the tank and drive to the enemy base, I get dialog suggesting that the project is not ready, and then get a scripted insta-kill death from the door defenses.<\/p>\n

Changing quests doesn’t help. Talking to the leaders doesn’t do anything. Dying doesn’t fix it. Restarting the game doesn’t help. Doing other quests doesn’t do anything. Looking around the internet, I see other people have been reporting this bug for months, and as of this writing there doesn’t seem to be a solution aside from “Start over and hope it doesn’t happen again.”<\/p>\n

My playthrough is now dead. <\/p>\n

When Bethesda bought ID Software back in 2009, I wondered if Bethesda would be blessed by ID’s superior code, or if ID would be cursed by Bethesda’s horrendous “““QA”””. In retrospect, the answer should have been obvious. Company culture is everything. Company values percolate down from the top, not the other way around.<\/p>\n

07:24 Google Stadia<\/strong> <\/p>\n

To give you a sense of how the launch went, here are the top headlines on YouTube:<\/p>\n

The Post tested Google Stadia. The input lag is horrendous.<\/a>
\nGoogle Stadia review: Playable, not perfect<\/a>
\nGoogle Stadia Is Dead to Me<\/a>
\nStadia’s False Marketing, Overheating Chromecasts, & Abysmal Sales<\/a><\/p>\n

But then we do have some positive reviews:
\nI TRIED Google Stadia…<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t know. The service still makes no sense to me. Like I said back in July: <\/p>\n

Who is this service for? It\u2019s supposedly for people who want to play AAA games but don\u2019t have access to AAA hardware. It\u2019s for people who are into hardcore games but don\u2019t mind an unavoidable baseline of input lag. It\u2019s for people who can\u2019t afford a $400 console but can afford to buy games at full price and pay an additional $120 every single year. It\u2019s for people who have lots of devices who somehow don\u2019t own any dedicated gaming hardware. Most of all, it\u2019s for people who have no memory of OnLive\u2019s failure or who are happy to buy games that will vanish into the ether if the exact same idea fails again.<\/p>\n

Stadia is for casual gamers who are into hardcore titles and poor people with lots of disposable income. This is a service for nobody, and it makes no sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

16:03 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order<\/strong> <\/p>\n

It feels like this should be a double-colon name as such: Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order<\/em>. Having the colon between Jedi and Fallen Order and NOT a colon between Star Wars and the subtitle feels odd.<\/p>\n

Actually, given the typical styling of Star Wars logos, I guess the game should be called STAR Jedi Fallen Order WARS.<\/p>\n

Whatever. My thoughts on this game are pretty conflicted.<\/p>\n

23:44 Hyper Light Drifter<\/strong> <\/p>\n