Immortals Fenyx Rising Stadia demo available now (until 12/21)

JigglesBunny · Oct 22, 2020

1. This is quite literally Breath of the Wild with Darksiders combat. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this but this combination really works for me even though it feels derivative to the point of being plagiarism.

2. Stadia is still an ungodly mess and I never want to touch it again.

kambaybolongo · Oct 22, 2020

Schierke Mori said:
Man, that writing and humor...is extremely offputting.

no kidding

I don't think I could deal with an entire game of that

Border · Oct 22, 2020

I want to give this a spin -- is Stadia over Wifi any good?

Mesoian · Oct 22, 2020

Border said:
I want to give this a spin -- is Stadia over Wifi any good?

I tried it using my phone as a wifi card, had 0 problems.

The game is actually a lot better than I thought. The back and forth between the gods was actually pretty funny at times and the combat seemed pretty solid. I'll certainly give this a try at some point.

FunMouse · Oct 22, 2020

Border said:
I want to give this a spin -- is Stadia over Wifi any good?

Depends on the type of WiFi you have and it's connectivity. I have 950/950 and I played it downstairs on my computer which only gets 200-300 of that 950 and all the stadia games play perfectly fine. Fenix ran silky smooth, well as smooth as you can expect from a 30fps demo lol.

Dyle · Oct 22, 2020

Seems ok. The banter is a bit much for me, not sure whether the combat relying so heavily on the abilities will feel great, and it's very strange how they straight up lifted some things from BotW but not others, in some situations like carrying and moving the boxes it seems like they would have been better off more directly copying it.

Chief Malik · Oct 22, 2020

mordecaii83 said:
You have to use Chrome browser for Stadia right? I can't use the new Edge or one of the other Chromium browsers? If so looks like I'll have to skip the demo since I refuse to ever reinstall Chrome.

Yes you can use other chrome based stuff. I used brave.

Phantom · Oct 22, 2020

The game is...not good. Exploration seems bad unless the demo is just empty. Combat feels like F2P. Also devs, please stop adding stamina bars in all open world games, IT SUCKS.

Shola Akinnuso · Oct 22, 2020

Yushi said:
Something just didnt feel right. No suprising for Stadia. As for the game, maybe once its heavily discounted? Or ill jsut watch someone stream it.

InfinitePotat0 said:
Played it for 5 minutes to see how the combat felt and turned it off. The resolution and frame rate were bothering me too much. I have gigabit internet Its not a knock on the game more of a knock on stadia.

I came to this thread hoping that people would be pleasantly surprised by STADIA's performance, but I was more surprised at some of the responses. I'm actually shocked. I've never heard of poor performance with fiber/gigabit connections. Like...that's the IDEAL situation. I have a similar setup to what someone else here posted: 945/940 w/ about 250-300 wifi, and the game plays GLORIOUSLY on my iPAD w/xbox One controller. InfinitePotat0 experience was...interesting.

I've been a Stadia convert for months now. All of the lag issues that I had in my old apartment have disappeared. Now, I'm buying all of my big AAA on Stadia. Including Cyberpunk. But yeah, i'm very curious about how your fiber connection runs so poorly and with such lag that you were burned within 5 minutes.

mattiewheels · Oct 23, 2020

I don't get the tech reason why some games are 60fps and some are 30 and foggy. Is it not a case of their servers running the best possible settings of the game?

VanWinkle · Oct 23, 2020

I really liked this. Takes the stuff I like about BOTW and has more fun combat, more linear progression, no weapon damage, and stamina is more forgiving. Basically BOTW with more handholding and humor. MUCH more up my alley than that game.

30fps was...not great, though.

Hexer · Oct 23, 2020

Was not expecting to like the game as much as I did. Stadia is perfect for demos like this. No need to wait for the download, just click and play. I'm sure it'll look really good on next gen consoles. It looked "fine" with streaming. I'm also used to playing stuff on xCloud tho, so maybe I'm just used to the way streaming games look, lol. The game went from "Wait for Sale" to "Day One" for Series X. I really enjoyed it! :)

BloodHound · Oct 23, 2020

Game was fun. The writing however...not for me.

Jaded Alyx · Oct 23, 2020

Blackbanditsho said:
I came to this thread hoping that people would be pleasantly surprised by STADIA's performance, but I was more surprised at some of the responses. I'm actually shocked. I've never heard of poor performance with fiber/gigabit connections. Like...that's the IDEAL situation. I have a similar setup to what someone else here posted: 945/940 w/ about 250-300 wifi, and the game plays GLORIOUSLY on my iPAD w/xbox One controller. InfinitePotat0 experience was...interesting.

I've been a Stadia convert for months now. All of the lag issues that I had in my old apartment have disappeared. Now, I'm buying all of my big AAA on Stadia. Including Cyberpunk. But yeah, i'm very curious about how your fiber connection runs so poorly and with such lag that you were burned within 5 minutes.

Doesn't this largely depend on where you live in relation to a data centre? Latency?

Spectromixer · Oct 23, 2020

Agreed that the writing was not good but I enjoyed the Darksiders/BotW combo of the gameplay. And we got an armor set for the full game.

Fredrik · Oct 23, 2020

Jaded Alyx said:
So... PC?

Normally that would be the easy choice, yeah. But this will be played with the kids so I need the couch and then it depends on how the PC version plays/looks through Geforce Now, or maybe Steam Link but Geforce Now is better at the moment since the hardware is better than what I currently have. Might go with the Xbox Series X version if it's good. DF will hopefully help me decide.

Looks wonderful on Stadia too though!

Look at all those colors! 😍

Why can't you cut the grass though? Missed opportunity to be even more Zelda!

30fps in 2020 gets me frowning too, but I still wouldn't hesitate to jump in there going by what I played on the demo, plays great 👍

Snake__ · Oct 23, 2020

Finished the demo
Gameplay is really fun
Stadia runs pretty well
But holy shit the image quality is bad, so blurry
Also the narration is straight up bad, really hope they ease off of it after the tutorial area

Linus815 · Oct 23, 2020

JigglesBunny said:
1. This is quite literally Breath of the Wild with Darksiders combat. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this but this combination really works for me even though it feels derivative to the point of being plagiarism.

The combat is lifted straight from AC Odyssey.

SalvadorDagi · Oct 23, 2020

I'm at a loss seeing so many people have issues with Stadia. I've got a 300Mb down, so getting ~200 over WiFi and Fenyx (and Grid, F1 2020 and Orcs Must Die) runs perfectly fine in 4k. No hitches/drops or issues. Maybe it's because I'm running on a Chromecast Ultra plugged into the TV.

Liked the game far more than I thought I would. Pre-ordered.

Hasney · Oct 23, 2020

The narration is insufferable and it kills any drive to think about progressing in the game further. The rest of the game feels very by the numbers, but it would be fine if it wasn't thinking it was hilarious all the way through.

unfashionable · Oct 23, 2020

Man its really rough playing this after 60 fps genshin impact, felt sluggish and jerky framerate very poor considering the fairly simplistic visuals and obviously blurry image quality. And the Stadia is supposedly as powerful as the PC I ran genshin on.

Game kinda makes me feel like Stadia has no future being so underpowered. It was awesome to quick launch the game without an install but I think these demos will be great to see if you like the gameplay but then buy on a different platform. For example I was sold on this game so will get it but on PC or PS5.

As far as the game is concerned, I think it would be good at a higher framerate but its unfortunate coming after having played genshin, for free no less. I didnt really enjoy the humor this game seems to have.

danmaku · Oct 23, 2020

mattiewheels said:
I don't get the tech reason why some games are 60fps and some are 30 and foggy. Is it not a case of their servers running the best possible settings of the game?

Stadia runs on Linux so games need to be ported if they don't have a Linux version already. Some devs will just make the game run at normal settings and call it a day.

Laser Ramon · Oct 23, 2020

I played this giving Immortals and Stadia a chance. Stadia actually performed better than I expected. Immortals, however, I did not expect to be so obnoxious.

SirThou · Oct 23, 2020

Just finished the demo. Not bad overall, I could see the writing getting corny a fair bit and I'm not convinced the exploration's gonna be as good as BOTW, but seems like it'll be pretty fun regardless.

Unfortunately, I'm literally playing through AC Odyssey right now and the combat is almost exactly the same, so to avoid gameplay and setting fatigue, it's less likely I'll be getting this right away. Maybe next year.

dunkzilla · Oct 23, 2020

I don't know why I'm surprised that Stadia doesn't work on Firefox.

Piccoro · Oct 23, 2020

dunkzilla said:
I don't know why I'm surprised that Stadia doesn't work on Firefox.

It only works on Chromium-based browsers, so Google Chrome and the new MS Edge.

dunkzilla · Oct 23, 2020

Piccoro said:
It only works on Chromium-based browsers, so Google Chrome and the new MS Edge.

Yeah. I have neither installed though. Will need to install one of them later today.

Mbolibombo · Oct 23, 2020

So.. is it fun?

Sande · Oct 23, 2020

I'm very pleasantly surprised. Not day 1, but almost certainly gonna pick this up down the line.

Deleted member 25128 · Oct 23, 2020

From what I watched I didn't like it, the writing/humour came across very poor, and the gameplay didn't look great (but I only lasted 10 minutes of the 20 minute gameplay so it could have improved), but what with the poor writing I don't think I could handle it.

Good to have a demo for people though....

Nugnip · Oct 23, 2020

It's pretty cool. Very weird playing this right after Genshin Impact, but it's OK. I can't stand the writing though, it tries to be funny and it's just not. At all. I probably won't play it unless with some deep discount.

Fredrik · Oct 23, 2020

SalvadorDagi said:
I'm at a loss seeing so many people have issues with Stadia. I've got a 300Mb down, so getting ~200 over WiFi and Fenyx (and Grid, F1 2020 and Orcs Must Die) runs perfectly fine in 4k. No hitches/drops or issues. Maybe it's because I'm running on a Chromecast Ultra plugged into the TV.

Liked the game far more than I thought I would. Pre-ordered.

Back at the launch there were many who experienced stuttering on Stadia on PC, me included, but on Chromecast Ultra everything ran smoothly.
I thought they had fixed that though.

Dylan · Oct 23, 2020

mattiewheels said:
I don't get the tech reason why some games are 60fps and some are 30 and foggy. Is it not a case of their servers running the best possible settings of the game?

Have they confirmed it will be 30fps at launch? This is still a demo afterall.

SwampBastard · Oct 23, 2020

I enjoyed the visuals and the gameplay, but the "humor" is extremely off-putting. I can suffer through it for a demo, but not a whole game.

toy_brain · Oct 23, 2020

Its interesting to read just how divided people are on the games writing. It feels like a 50/50 split between people who hated it and people who enjoyed it.
Personally I thought it was enjoyable, and even clever in places - if you paid attention.
Also if anyone at Ubisoft says their games aren't political:
Zeus: "So maybe that's the secret of the Gods: Oppression!"

I see what you're trying to say Ubisoft. ;)

Aniki · Oct 23, 2020

Absolutely loved my time with this demo. I totally enjoyed the moment to moment gameplay. The combat felt really fun and satisfying and i'm liking the comedic tone after at first being somewhat sceptical i would like it. I fell off Assasins Creed after Unity but i would be interested to play the newer ones if they play similar to Fenyx. Like i'm really pleasently surprised how much i like the combat.

hey it's that dog · Oct 23, 2020

Played some last night and it was pretty alright. Combat seems fun enough, the world looks nice. Walking around on the ground and single jumping doesn't look or feel great, but I guess there will be a lot more running, gliding, or riding a mount.

Too much talking and the writing is more bad than good.

Also, the control layout was pretty bizarre IMO for the style of game it is. Rather than using the face buttons for light and heavy attack they went Souls-style with shoulder buttons, and ok, that's fine since there's a Souls-style lock on, I can wrap my head around that quickly, but why on earth did they put dodge on Square/X? I remapped dodge to Circle/B so that was fine. I also tried to remap some other stuff but the game doesn't automatically handle input conflicts so shit just because a mess to sort through, not knowing what most of the commands actually are on the control customization screen.

Lastly, why am I playing this game at 30fps on Stadia, a service that is supposed to be like using powerful hardware without paying for powerful hardware?

burnfout · Oct 23, 2020

This was pretty good. Account in seconds, connected my Ps4 controller and nice demo

Played perfectly.

N64Controller · Oct 23, 2020

I liked the demo.

Didn't like Stadia. The input lag was very offputting, and the visuals felt very compressed. It ran smoothly, considering it was 30fps. I'm not used to seeing 30fps on my PC so had to get used to that.

toy_brain said:
Its interesting to read just how divided people are on the games writing. It feels like a 50/50 split between people who hated it and people who enjoyed it.
Personally I thought it was enjoyable, and even clever in places - if you paid attention.

Reminds me of the TLOU2 threads, where people who didn't like the story or the ending were flagged as people who didn't understand it or not paying attention, when it's in your face and impossible to not understand.

People have got to stop assuming that when others don't like the writing, don't like the story, don't like the direction, it's not because they didn't understand it. Everyone who played the demo understood the dialogue, understood the direction and where they were going. It's clear as day, in your face. The 50/50 you see isn't those who got it vs those who didn't. I paid attention, I didn't like it. I found the dialogue to be overbearing, and didn't like the humor. It's just not for everyone.

Glad you enjoyed it though, the fact that a lot of people did shows that there's an audience for it!

flaxknuckles · Oct 23, 2020

toy_brain said:
Its interesting to read just how divided people are on the games writing. It feels like a 50/50 split between people who hated it and people who enjoyed it.
Personally I thought it was enjoyable, and even clever in places - if you paid attention.
Also if anyone at Ubisoft says their games aren't political:
Zeus: "So maybe that's the secret of the Gods: Oppression!"

I see what you're trying to say Ubisoft. ;)

I find it ranges from meh to pretty amusing. And I usually heavily dislike the over the top humor in games like Sunset Overdrive, Borderlands, and Agents of Mayhem.

Deleted member 4090 · Oct 23, 2020

This really does sell the power of Stadia. There's no way I would download a 15GB demo for this, but jumping in immediately with Chrome is a great way to sample games.

I guess I'm in the niche of really liking the humor. Narrated by two old guys that aren't getting things quite right, but they are Zeus and Prometheus and Zeus is just rambling to his prisoner? FUCKING GOLD.

N64Controller · Oct 23, 2020

Neoweee said:
This really does sell the power of Stadia. There's no way I would download a 15GB demo for this, but jumping in immediately with Chrome is a great way to sample games.

I would also use Stadia for demos, no interest in downloading them at all. But it's a nice way to sample a game. I can't see myself using Stadia in any other way though.

Cliff Steele · Oct 23, 2020

Just finished the demo. I liked what I played. Feels like a much more colorful Assassin's Creed. Will get in a sale later down the line.

Dylan · Oct 23, 2020

toy_brain said:
Its interesting to read just how divided people are on the games writing.

The humour made much more sense to me knowing this was a game made in Quebec, heh. I wonder if the French dub is actually the way to play this.

NabiscoFelt · Oct 23, 2020

Neoweee said:
This really does sell the power of Stadia. There's no way I would download a 15GB demo for this, but jumping in immediately with Chrome is a great way to sample games.

I guess I'm in the niche of really liking the humor. Narrated by two old guys that aren't getting things quite right, but they are Zeus and Prometheus and Zeus is just rambling to his prisoner? FUCKING GOLD.

I also enjoyed it overall. Parts of it were a little too much imo (the whole chicken thing was kinda borderline) but I thought the overall tone was pretty good. Guess it just appeals to my tastes more. In general I definitely don't see (hear?) anything that I'd consider unplayably bad

N64Controller · Oct 23, 2020

Dylan said:
The humour made much more sense to me knowing this was a game made in Quebec, heh. I wonder if the French dub is actually the way to play this.

I'm from Québec, and don't understand why the humor made much more sense to you knowing this was a game made in Québec.

The game is written in English, and then localized in French.

Carthago Delenda Est · Oct 23, 2020

hey it's that dog said:
Played some last night and it was pretty alright. Combat seems fun enough, the world looks nice. Walking around on the ground and single jumping doesn't look or feel great, but I guess there will be a lot more running, gliding, or riding a mount.

Too much talking and the writing is more bad than good.

Also, the control layout was pretty bizarre IMO for the style of game it is. Rather than using the face buttons for light and heavy attack they went Souls-style with shoulder buttons, and ok, that's fine since there's a Souls-style lock on, I can wrap my head around that quickly, but why on earth did they put dodge on Square/X? I remapped dodge to Circle/B so that was fine. I also tried to remap some other stuff but the game doesn't automatically handle input conflicts so shit just because a mess to sort through, not knowing what most of the commands actually are on the control customization screen.

Lastly, why am I playing this game at 30fps on Stadia, a service that is supposed to be like using powerful hardware without paying for powerful hardware?

X is typically dodge in most action games.

SwampBastard · Oct 23, 2020

SalvadorDagi said:
I'm at a loss seeing so many people have issues with Stadia. I've got a 300Mb down, so getting ~200 over WiFi and Fenyx (and Grid, F1 2020 and Orcs Must Die) runs perfectly fine in 4k. No hitches/drops or issues. Maybe it's because I'm running on a Chromecast Ultra plugged into the TV.

Seconded. I think it comes down to people's home networking setups. A buddy and I live in the same city with the same internet provider at the same bandwidth level. Stadia runs flawlessly for me no matter what device I'm using. He has frequent issues with the stream. He's getting a Nest Wifi setup this weekend, which is what I have, and I will be curious to see if that fixes his issues.

Dylan · Oct 23, 2020

GoemonTheNinja said:
I'm from Québec, and don't understand why the humor made much more sense to you knowing this was a game made in Québec.

The game is written in English, and then localized in French.

I guess I just associate cheesy cutesy humor with Quebec. In my head this all sounds better in French but if it was written in English I'm probably wrong.

Rodrigues solitaire · Oct 23, 2020

Dylan said:
Have they confirmed it will be 30fps at launch? This is still a demo afterall.

Odyssey runs dynamic 4K/30 or 1080/30 on Stadia as well for god knows what reason. Think they capped it at 30 and called it a day.

In contrast to The Division 2 and Breakpoint for example, both which run at 60fps at 1080p (unsure about 4K).

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