I have a few problems with it.

1. Look at killedbygoogle.com and consider things that don’t pan out get killed. Which is fine, but considering the massive investment required for this, if the service isn’t profitable it will die, and your purchases will be lost forever.

2. This isn’t Netflix for gaming like a lot of people compare it to. It’s more iTunes for gaming. If it was a subscription for a ton of games that I can play whenever I would be all over this honestly.

3. Even if they stay afloat for 50 years, they’ve removed games from people’s Google Play accounts when they have a dispute with a publisher. You could just lose $60 because your game’s publisher decides to stop selling on Stadia.

4. The any device idea is great until you consider, how the hell are you going to play Rage 2 or something on your phone? You’d at least need a controller and even then, full console/pc games are made to look good and play well on large screens.

5. The one time I could think this would be the most useful is traveling, but what percentage of hotel WiFi you’ve used has been decent?

6. You can stream 4K/HDR video on your tv and play a 4K disc, and you can tell a lot of difference in quality. The compression will always introduce some level of quality loss. So you’re always paying for an inferior product.

7. But mostly it all comes down to ownership. You don’t own the hardware or the software with Stadia, you’re just paying for a license to use the software, that Google can revoke at any time. Digital distribution on PC at least has ways around that. Valve has said that in the event that Steam closes down, they’ll provide a way to get your games before it shuts down. Gog games are yours to do whatever with.

But one thing I neglected to even mention in that comment: I’ve talked myself out of preordering a couple times already. I’m interested in it just from a technical standpoint and cool factor if nothing else.

This is an absolute steal for two amazing games (six kinda). The Aladdin SNES game being missing is kinda expected, and welcome. See the awesome Portscenter rundown for more info why:
https://youtu.be/gfV-uMoSSPk

I played the original campaign and then I’ve been waiting for the whole shebang to release before diving back in for the other campaigns. I’m pretty excited for that. As for Dig? Sure, it looks fun. A very different kind of game.

I’m tentatively looking forward to this but... Dr Mario left a bad taste in my mouth. I hope this doesn’t fall so incredibly deep into the free-to-play trappings.

Haha, yeah. I want another Mario Run style game but they’ll never do that again.

“Style” as in the payment model, not the genre.

Great episode! Thanks guys!

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Getting at launch and I have played and own the original gameboy version. I can’t remember if I have beat it though. It would have been a long time ago, if I have.

Getting it at launch, and I consider the original one of the top two Zelda games ever.

There’s simultaneously a lot to unpack and not much at the same time.

Is that the first time we’ve ever seen saber throw and return in live action?

That city they’re looking out over looks amazing and I can’t wait to see more of it.

So the red dual saber is absolutely incredible looking. But to finish the series with dark Rey doesn’t make a lot of sense, and they don’t have a lot of time to turn her and turn her back. So I’m betting this is some dark side force trick or a vision (like you mention) or her long lost twin, or clone, or something. That saber seems way too badass to just be used in a vision though.

That’s really all that needs to be said, right?

I think we will find out that Rey is a Vulcan from the planet Ork

There are no gray Jedi in canon. There were some in legends, but the current story group seems to dislike that idea.

I think Will’s idea is perfect. Nanu Nanu and Prosper!

Also you can find out about C3PO’s red arm in a comic about him, and he got his gold arm back by the end of The Force Awakens. Presumably he was just waiting for a replacement protocol droid arm.

What is that isn’t C3PO, but rather Triple Zero?

Wrong body color but I’ve seen some theories that it’s triple zero’s “brain” inside C3PO. Which, if we get Triple Zero dialogue delivered by Anthony Daniels, the rest movie could literally be all the characters kicking rocks and it would be a net positive.

The ending will be Rey as Sith and C3PO as Triple Zero.

The new canon is pretty clear that Skywalker is a unique name, the old canon couldn’t keep it straight. But it’s something people have pondered over the years because it’s kinda dumb to give Luke that name.
https://www.quora.com/Was-Skywalker-a-common-surname-in-the-Star-Wars-universe-If-not-then-why-didn%E2%80%99t-they-give-Luke-a-different-last-name-to-help-hide-his-true-identity

Triple Zero was painted at one point but didn’t remain so. It could be anything but one thing people (me) who want all these expanded characters to show up don’t take into account is the time to explain things. I desperately want Ahsoka to show in a movie for instance, but how do you introduce a character like that to the live action movies without breaking the narrative flow for a bit of a long explanation of who she is? Trip kinda falls into that a bit too. Still more possible than a huge character like Ahsoka but this is a character that is important to comic fans and nobody else, and explaining his relation to the whole narrative would take some time.

I still want it though. 😂

Yeah, she’s literally my favorite Star Wars character. More than Luke, Han, Rey, Anakin. It feels weird saying that as a 37 year old but her character development went to some crazy places and we were along for the ride and man... I felt that. When she showed up in Rebels I was elated. I can’t wait to see where Filoni takes her next.

I am there. I hope another trailer drops before the 12th. I want to see more of the actual story.

Yeah I'm way in on this. The canon on Boba Fett is way weird, Jango may or may not have ever been a Mandalorian at all, and just stole the armor, and Boba's armor seems to have been coughed up by the sarlaac and is being sold in one of the Aftermath books. BUT there's still room to spin it all as Boba somehow getting out and tracking down another set of Mandalorian armor but I hope they don't. Just leave that be. I want some Star Wars with new characters.

As for Maul: The Mandalorian takes place after Rebels, after RotJ even, so this can't have Maul in it. Maybe his syndicate is still around and can be there (and I'd love that). And the way the new Lucasfilm works, EVERYTHING is canon, and there are no levels of canon, just a group of people tasked to make sure canon doesn't clash at all, so Maul wouldn't show up and face off against Obi-Wan in his series because he didn't know where Obi-Wan was until a day or so before Obi-Wan killed him, which happened pretty dang near the start of Episode IV, a while after the Obi-Wan series. He may be on the planet but away from Obi-Wan somehow. I suppose Obi-Wan could know Maul was there but not the other way around. BUT again, I'm hoping for Qi'Ra and the syndicate, even if we definitely won't get that face off between Maul and Obi-Wan.

Not sure what you're asking there.

Oh, I already covered that in the comment above. The timeline doesn’t match up for him to be involved much.

It doesn’t, they’ve said it takes place between the prologue of Solo and the rest of Solo, so it’s a while before that.

Though if it runs for a few years they may expand that I guess, and they could do a live action version of the Duel from Rebels to have the two series overlap, but it would only take up a single episode.

Plus, that part of Maul’s life, he’d left the crime syndicate behind basically, and had become obsessed with revenge and sith lore.

I mean anything is possible, Star Wars is technically a part of Marvel and the snap could have messed with that reality too, right?