Four or five years ago, what he appreciated the most was to play on the sofa again. The whole living room for me. Stretch your legs, turn on the TV and play the strongest thing I had inside the console. I have been picking this philosophy for a few years, completing my hobbies with strength exercises. And I prefer to enjoy time and be less obsessed with the ritual of perfect quality, perfect lighting, etc. I prefer to play, even on a small screen, to waste time. AND This philosophy led me to a decision: playing on iPad.
And I'm not talking about using the iPad to cushion a subscription to Apple Arcade. In fact, I think I have a free month without buying. I'm talking about playing the “Doom: The Dark Ages”, which has just left, or “Clear Oscur: Expedition 33”, “ Avowed '', “Assassin's Creed Shadows” and much more. I'm talking about playing emulationLocal platforms making a Streamcast and Cloud game. A combo that was perfect for me:
- Emulation for retro classics: arcades, abandonment And the little games I can find in the itching.
- Cloud Game for Triple A, Using platforms such as GeForce Now, Psnow, Luna or Xbox Cloud.
- Y run down “Distant game with the console, but in another room and on another screen, in this case, the use of the iPad – for everything else.”
I made this decision for several reasons. And they all add the same nucleus: it was even the nose to see how the installation progression bar was more and more slow, to have the hard drive full of things that I do not remember, not to know what to choose between so many options. When in reality, the best option, sometimes, is not to choose, but to play.
The problem of meaningless accumulation
Here, it is quite well illustrated: 576 games in epic games. 265 GOG games (and a good handful without buyout)
I am an Amazon Prime user. And if you didn't know, all Amazon Prime users have access to a free Amazon Luna subscription. So far, everything that is good, you may have bought some games and you can try them from now on. But the interesting thing is in the first -rate game. Each month, Amazon gives a good handful of games and becomes your property forever. Some are linked to the library of Epic games “They, in turn, give a match every week”, others Gog games –Idem – and others Steam or directly on the platforms of Microsoft.
We are talking about an average of 100 games per year, between services and others. For zero dollars. Yes, I pay for the Amazon subscription, but I would continue to do it for fast shipments, for reading, podcasting and first -rate music services. I also pay the Xbox Game Pass, I mean, Amazon has just sold them 'Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition', both for PC and Xbox. We are talking about one of the best shooters of this generation.
There are many articles discussing the devaluation of video games due to all these gifts. These awards that come to our accounts without disturbing us or buying them They banish the real cost: behind each project, there are sometimes hundreds of people working for years in ideas which, for the simple fact of the existing, can already be considered a success.
Well, here is the change in my habits. I have accumulated hundreds of these games over the years and I took digital dust. So I killed two birds with one blow: on the one hand, I stop worrying about immediacy and emergency, the Phomo. I barely buy games at the exit price.
On the other hand, I discover games that would never have taken place under my radar. And I make a lot of profit. Amazon Luna synchronizes with several libraries, just as GeForce does now. So, if you have a forgotten game of Ubisoft or forgotten electronic arts, which you bought at Christmas offers five years ago, you can now play in streaming. You don't need a PC with energy, which already occupies the servers.
The game in the cloud has promised ubiquity. And then we took the jug in cold water when Google closed Stadia. And this is what I have with Amazon Luna – it is the best of all the platforms, without zero latency and with the availability of choosing the number of nvidia tegra x1 nuclei, I want to activate to have more computing power in my departure. The reality is that we now have better options. Today's alternatives are better than Stadia and do not receive more attention either. GeForce now allows you to play directly 4K con hdr, cloud g-sync transmitted a 120/240 IPS there If you play from the native application and have a payment account.
How to create direct access from the browser so that you do not have to install applications
I'm going further: I have two iPads at home. A fourth generation iPad Air and an iPad M1 to work. Game in the first, that It is limited to the solo 64 GB of RAM. And so as not to fill his space and see how it slows down, I play just by creating direct access. The Google Chrome application weighs 1.3 GB. Safari is almost the same. And ready, I no longer need it either.
The procedure is very simple. To create this shortcut, from any browser that you touch on the address bar or the sharing icon and choose 'Add to the home screen'.
At the time, you will see that an icon was created – that you can personalize – with the service in question. And so you save having to download official applications. Once connected to the service, you can play. And yes, sometimes you have to wait a few seconds in the connection queue to play, but it's nothing time compared to the fact of must download, start, erase… this whole process of management of local bookstores no longer exists in my head.
I use four services, but you can even organize the home screen and have A kind of personalized centerwhere the icons of the game platforms you use:
Do you play with the order? Even better
Of course, playing the iPad itself has never seemed the best option. The tactile sensation is pleasant, but I'm too used to playing with an order. In this case, cloud game platforms are more and more lax and GeForce Now and Amazon Luna or Xbox Cloud allow you to connect almost any Bluetooth controller you may think, whether official or not.I use the typical Xbox One controls Because I like asymmetry between the two joysticks, triggers, general weight and autonomy. I charge them once a week.
To synchronize a console command, just go to 'Parameters'of the system, play in'BluetoothAnd search for the command you want to synchronize. You will almost always have to touch an activation button that flashes in a certain color – the bland intermittent. When the iPad recognizes, the command means that you can use it to play:
The procedure is simple and from my point of view, you will gain in comfort, be able to leave the iPad placed in horizontal mode – with any case or support. Of course, there are also iPad controllers similar to that, but they seem uncomfortable arms to me and I have never been able to adapt to it. So my two conclusions
Reading the iPad implies certain restrictions. In itself, it is not a device to play, it is the truth. But its Liquid Retina screen – with resolution 2360 x 1640 pixels and its compatibility with a high contrast, in my case – I loved playing for hours to enjoy ghost subscriptions. The limited edition PlayStation 5 that they gave me will continue at home, and it is a good alternative for more spacious periods, like summer or Christmas, to play in the company of friends, family or my children.
Today, I prefer that they are the ones on the sofa And I take advantage of this ignored world of games taking advantage of the fact that every month, I have a lot of gigas in the data. I had more than 800 games without touch and the iPad was my departure from Fomo Gamer. So yes: I'm not looking for the best screen, I'm trying to play more, enjoy more and choose less.
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