GeForce Now: analysis and opinions after use

From try GeForce Now and enjoy Cyberpunk 2077 Ray Tracing, one of the fashionable PC games, I can go on to comment on the great interest that a platform that is dedicated to streaming games can produce, and that you have linked from the most popular game accounts such as Steam, Epic Games or GOG.

If this past year has broken in with great force, apart from being due to the experience it offers, it must be said that the reason behind it is due to the current lack of NVIDIA 3000 series graphics cards; yes, the same ones that allow you to enjoy that Ray Tracing or Ray Tracing. That is, it is almost impossible to get one that allows you to play games like Cyberpunk 2077 to the fullest. Go for it.

How GeForce NOW works

GeForce NOW is an online gaming streaming platform. That is, it broadcasts games through the app that we can install both on our PC, our Android mobile or even through the Chrome browser. When we say broadcast, it is that it broadcasts content like Netflix, HBO or other types of platforms as fashionable as Disney + itself would.

In other words, what we are really going to need is a good screen to enjoy the quality of the graphics And something very necessary and vital for the broadcast to be at the highest possible quality (in fact, if the connection worsens, the quality of it can be cut or reduced), is that we have a fiber optic type connection.

Apart from that another of the best excuses is the be able to enjoy games with Ray Tracing or Ray Tracing as with Cyberpunk 2077 from CD Project. We attach some images so that you can see in situ the great graphic quality that is generated:

If we have such a connection, though you can also shoot with ADSL, we can maximize the quality of game graphics that we would need a good PC to be able to generate such graphics. It is for this reason that right now GeForce NOW, like Stadia, is on everyone's lips for the savings it entails.

And another important aspect, GeForce NOW itself does not have a game libraryInstead, you have to link your Epic Games, GOG or Steam accounts to "broadcast" the games you have purchased or those that are free. But we will touch on this topic in depth below.

GeForce NOW paid and free subscription

Logically it has a cost, although it must be said in its favor that offers a free subscription, although it only allows you to use the platform for 1 hour a day; Maybe for one who plays little during the day it is fine, but since on the weekend you want to have a good session.

Like GeForce NOW depends on available bandwidthIt is important that if we consider using this platform, we throw out the paid subscription that will allow us to have a slot or gap in those game broadcasts.

Until now there were monthly Founders subscriptions (the paid one), but the novelty of GeForce NOW is that For € 27,45 we will have the platform for 6 months; We do not really know why, but surely it is a perfect amount to be able to enjoy all the free games of those platforms and those that we have (and that are compatible with GeForce NOW, since the list is increasing).

Let summarize the differences of the two subscription modes to make clear the importance of access to the broadcast:

Free: € 0 per month
- Standard access
- 1 hour session duration
Founders: € 27,45 for 6 months
- Priority access
- Long session duration
- RTX activated

If we say the access is that from the free subscription you will get in the queue to be able to enter or broadcast games. Which will change if we go to the founders subscription to go directly to the game in the cloud if the game had this option.

So I said, if you plan to enjoy GeForce NOW after trying it, the € 27,45 goes a long way, exactly 6 months.

What games can I play on GeForce NOW

Now, after explaining how this cloud gaming platform works, you have to comment that the list of games is expanding with new titles every month. We say this because you may not find all the games you have purchased on Steam.

Yes it is true that things are improving and now we go from the more than 1.000 titles counting the free ones, as they could be League of Legends, Fortnite or DOTA 2 among many others, and those of payment with games of substance like Cyberpunk 2077 or the incredible simulator Factorio present only in Steam.

That being said, there is important deficiencies in the list of games such as those of Rockstar Games And that surely many would like to be able to enjoy with Ray Tracing or Ray Tracing activated to be able to take titles such as Red Dead Redemption Online or GTA V.

Here we are present now amid a fight for this market share between Geforce NOW and Stadia from Google; It is precisely the latter that Rockstar Games games are present, so you know.

Now, the list of games is huge and you have it available so that you have all the links to Geforce NOW paid and free games (yes, there are many).

And of course we can miss games like Minecraft, Blizzard like Diablo or the Starcraft, or those same from Tencent Games such as PUBG Mobile as a great moba that you surely know. Of course they are not all there, but they will have to be given time to expand the list and become even a better gaming platform.

The best free GeForce NOW games

There is no shortage of games of substance like Fortnite, the great Path of Exile (a la Diablo from Blizzard), SMITE, Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 and its MOBA, Brawlhalla, EVE Online or the spectacular card game GWENT.

I mean, what is games and games to play and maximize your graphics. Here we do not have any problem with taking that slider of the graphics to the maximum. Of all of them we would recommend a lot, but we are left with those Path of Exile, the same EVE Online and its sidereal space or that GWENT that last year left us all stunned with its good manners when designing a game.

Os we leave this list so that you have them at hand and you can download them:

The best paid games from Geforce Now

If we go to the paid ones, the list is huge to be able to enjoy the best games. We have all the Assassin's Creed, MMORPGs like Black Desert, medieval shooter combat games like Blade & Soul, the mentioned Cyberpunk 2077, Cities: Skylines as a great Sim City simulator, the addictive Factorio, all the Farcry, Immortal Fenyx Rising and many others that we invite you to know with the link that we share a few paragraphs above.

There is also the fashion game Valheim, and that allows you to become a Viking who has to fend for himself to survive in a hostile world. So we are not lacking in that great list of paid games.

And what was said, you must link your accounts to access the games that supports GeForce NOW, because if not the thing is quite difficult.

Some paid games:

All platforms GeForce NOW is on

It is important to know that another of the greatest virtues of GeForce Now is the number of platforms you are on. We even have it on Android TV, so it's a matter of get Chromecast with Google TV to bring the gaming platform in the cloud to the screen of our television, even if it is not Smart or has Internet.

These are all devices on which you can install GeForce NOW:

PC with Windows: discharge
MAC OS (iMac, MacBook and Mac Pro): discharge
Chrome browser (Chromebook, PC and Mac): discharge
Safari browser (iPhone and iPad): discharge
Android (mobile and tablet): discharge
Android TV and Google TV: discharge

We have been able try it in Chrome and the truth is that it goes scary without any slowdown and with the graphs with the Ray Tracing activated. We mention that aspect of the graphics because it is currently the most disruptive and one of the reasons why we can motivate ourselves to try GeForce NOW.

The ideal time for GeForce NOW is now

Surely you have read news related to mining with those graphics cards on the subject of bitcoins. This fledgling industry, or whatever we want to call it, is turning high-end graphics cards into luxury goods.

Just for the fact that for mining swarms are assembled in which these graphs are essential to be able to produce bitcoins. What it is generating is that the normal PC market is damaged because it is quite difficult to get one to be able to build a good gaming PC.

And if we add to this the flood of gamers around the planet, and more so in the current moment in which confinement and COVID-19 have led us to be confined, everything is quite complicated to try to mount a PC like the saying.

So Geforce NOW is at the ideal time to propose a gaming experience Magnificent with the graphics full and without the need to make a major investment. And is that a good PC for gaming can easily spend € 1.000 (always counting on the fact that we pull an Intel chip that exceeds € 300 and then all the components that go hand in hand, in order to embroider it with that RTX graphic like the 3000 series.

These are current prices of being cards (out of stock of course):

Gigabyte AORUS RTX 3080 GAMING BOX 10GB GDR6X: € 1299,90
Gigabyte GEFORCE RTX 3070 GAMING OC 8GB GDDR6 Refurbished !: € 562,10

With two unique examples, of products out of stock and without deadlines for entry, we can understand how this year and the next, and if NVIDIA is not able to manufacture more graphics, platforms like GeForce NOW are going to be better understood and more and more gamers are going to switch to them.

What do I need to get the most out of GeForce NOW?

If we ignore the fact of buying a gaming PC, we simply have to worry, depending on the device we usually use, about two main elements:

Una good quality screen (if it can be 4K better than better)
And one fiber optic connection

With a good screen, whether on a desktop PC (even with hardware from a few years ago), the one in our living room, or the laptop, we will have enough equipment to test it.

The best solution? Right now it would be to have a TV with HDMI and connect a Chromecast with Google TV in which we can install GeForce NOW. This Chromecast costs € 69,99 and will allow us to enjoy the entire Google NOW experience through the inches that our television has; apart from enjoying games on the same Chromecast TV.

Other than that we can pair controllers via Bluetooth connection that incorporates the remote control of this Chromecast with Google TV.

Final opinion on GeForce Now

GeForce NOW surely that a few years ago it was not even important, but in the current state of the market with a lack of equipment, and the increasingly better Internet connection through fiber optics as happens in a country, make this platform the ideal one to enjoy gaming to the fullest.

Let's say It is at the ideal time for it to continue growing and even the occasional competitor to come out that he realizes that if he does not launch his service, then it will be late (it could be the same Steam that could perfectly get into this fight).

This is GeForce NOW, a whole platform for gaming and that allows us to save ourselves from buying a powerful gaming PC to enjoy Ray Tracing and the latest graphic novelties.

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GeForce Now: Analysis and Opinions After Use