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Does anyone here spend a significant amount of their gaming time using cloud/remote play?

Banjo64

cumsessed
I played through Spyro: Ripto’s Rage, Spyro; Year of the Dragon and Spider-Man (2018) using remote play (PS Vita and laptop).

The experience was mostly fine. The Vita’s wifi card isn’t great, so my laptop ran it better.

Game play wise, there’s some tricky platforming challenges on both games. For those tight sections I had to use my PS4.

Yesterday I tried Everybody’s Golf and Dirt 5 through xCloud using touch controls. The experience again was pretty good, but I was sat next to my router.

Has anyone else played through a meaty game this way? Do you use your phone, tablet or PC? Do you have a backbone or kishi, and what’s that like?

I’m thinking of trying to play through Starfield it’s entirety through cloud.
 

TrebleShot

Member
I am recovering from Flu and yesterday had all the days football on the TV couldn’t be bothered to sit at my desktop or fire on the PS5 so I sat and chilled on the sofa playing Forza Horizon 5 via xcloud on my steam deck , it was great.


The tech is getting better and better and once they understand how to market it properly it will kick off in a big way.
 

Tams

Member
No. It was at best a stuttery mess for me.

And I forgot to cancel the trial, so I ended up paying for GeForce NOW for over a year, I didn't use and couldn't even use well.
 
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baphomet

Member
Like what? Because honestly, if you have good internet, most single player games play perfectly well.

I have gigabit fiber.

If you think it plays perfectly fine then great for you. As someone who actually does input and display lag testing, I wouldnt play that shit if it was the only way on earth to play video games.

I remember people saying they couldn't tell the difference between a terrible 96kbps mp3 and a cd back in the 90s too.
 

Fabieter

Member
I tried both several times acceoss different services and didn't think it was worth it. Maybe 1gb connection isn't enough rho I don't know.
 
I’m thinking of trying to play through Starfield it’s entirety through cloud.
Disgusted Jim Carrey GIF


Why would you do such atrocities?

I mean playing a shooter using cloud gaming. Not starfield itself. I probably test starfield to even though I'm no expecting to enjoy it.
 
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I've tried it a few times but I really don't like the image quality when playing through the cloud. It looks so blurry. I also kept getting weird screen glitches. The experience was OK but still miles off actually being something I want to use often.
 

Holammer

Member
No significant amount, but it's getting more common for me to use Steam's Remote Play Together to play with friends. Regular games and emulated classics via RetroArch.
Annoyingly Sackboy disabled the feature. Co-op denied!
 

ReBurn

Member
I haven't had any major gameplay issues with streaming. Both PS and Xbox streaming work really well for me. I spend probably 25% of my gaming time streaming. Most of my game pass quests are done via streaming. Burned 30 hamburgers in Overcooked 2 just last night.
 

Skifi28

Member
Remote play very rarely when I'm too lazy to change rooms. It kind of works, but I wouldn't call it a great experience.
 
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reksveks

Member
Yeah, I do. It's hard to get as many steps that I do if I am sitting on my arse playing games so am using remote play alot.
 

Fredrik

Member
No.
But I used to play Control through Geforce Now to get ray-tracing when I only had a 1080ti. Played some Cyberpunk too that way.
 

simpatico

Member
I travel for work. When this stuff is lean enough to run on hotel wifi, I'm going to be using it a lot. Look forward to playing my PC library on my MBP on the road.
 

Rubik8

Member
I have gigabit fiber.

If you think it plays perfectly fine then great for you. As someone who actually does input and display lag testing, I wouldnt play that shit if it was the only way on earth to play video games.

I remember people saying they couldn't tell the difference between a terrible 96kbps mp3 and a cd back in the 90s too.
This guy gets it.
 

Shut0wen

Member
Xcloud imo is the best streaming so far while sonys has never improved, which is ashame because they have a ton of better games to stream then xbox but the input lag is just insane borderline unplayable
 

Jimmy_liv

Member
I'd love it to work properly but any of the time I would actually use cloud gaming I just don't have a decent connection.

Staying in a hotel for a business trip - hotel Internet is too inconsistent.
On holiday by a beach or pool - hotel Internet isnt very good.
 

Shwing

Member
I use PlayStation Remote Play (PS5) on my Android Tablet using an old PS4 DualShock controller, and it's fantastic tbh. Very close an experience to sitting infront of actual tv. The PS5 is wired into the home network - tablet is, of course, wifi.
 
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