72 TECH ADVISOR • APRIL 2020REVIEW
a brave attempt to tackle bullying and other weighty
themes within the confines of a stealth game.
But I cannot imagine who decided to make the
lone Google Stadia exclusive a game that takes
place almost exclusively in the dark. Blotchy shadows
almost completely ruin the experience, even on
the Chromecast where I had the most luck avoiding
compression artifacts. I want to play it, but not like this.Data caps
Before we end, a word on data caps. That’s the other
part that gives me pause about Stadia. Many people,
myself included, have a 1TB cap on our monthly
Internet. Go over that twice in a year, you get a
warning. Go over it again, and you’ll need to pay an
extra on top of your standard Internet bill.
It’s a problem even for standard game downloads
nowadays. Red Dead Redemption II came in around
150GB, I think. That’s huge, and publishers should
absolutely be lobbying against these punitive measures
by Internet providers.