OnLive - This Revolutionizes Gaming - Games

For those of you who haven't heard of OnLive, let me give you a brief explanation of what it exactly is. OnLive is a brand new gaming platform released shortly ago, OnLive was first released as a subscription based program, but is now COMPLETELY FREE. OnLive removes the hassles of ongoing PC gaming hardware frustrations, frame rates that suck dick and just plain out shitty performance. There are multiple "servers" stashed over the country that render games for you, kinda like Remote Desktop support or TeamViewer, which let's you buy games/rent games from the service, it also has demos. Which is the only thing you pay. Making an account, downloading the Application (5MB) and starting it up only takes LITERALLY 10 seconds, once in, you can see your Profile, add friends, send messages and invites, go to the Marketplace to buy/rent games, Brag Clips and Arena, Arena let's you spectate players playing any game. Now, what's REALLY FUCKING COOL about OnLive is that I can play Mafia II on a 8 year old Netbook with NO GPU, all you need is a 5Mbps-10Mbps internet connection, it doesn't lag at all.. There's NO downloading the games or patching, you literally open OnLive, buy/rent a game or play a demo. There are only about 15+ish games out on the service, but more are on the way. So, if your ISP doesn't cap or limit your bandwith and you have a great internet connection, this is really, really fucking cool, especially when you see a guy playing Crysis on a decade old Laptop. It works with just about any Mac and PC computer, TV ADAPTER and Controller coming soon too! [url]www.OnLive.com[/url]

Besides the fact that if the company goes bankrupt, you are screwed. And the fact that most people don't have the internet speed for it. And input lag is horrendous.

Why OnLive is terrible: * Very annoying input lag. There’s no avoiding this, there will always be a delay on the internet. * 720p highest resolution * Low quality video do to extreme compression. * No mods * No editing game configs * No editing game period. * Required internet connection to play * Need to be close to a server and have a great internet * You can no longer play games after three years of being release tons more resons too

the hell is this

[QUOTE=t205gorillaz;25479707] this is really, really fucking cool, especially when you see a guy playing Crysis on a decade old Laptop.[/QUOTE] [img]http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/8/9/2/2/1/7/Pic1_copy.jpg.jpg[/img] :barf:

[QUOTE=Psycho_Shadow;25479942]the hell is this[/QUOTE] Bobby Kotick's wet dream.

[url]http://onlivefans.com/showthread.php?36-Why-Onlive-will-Fail-Hard[/url] Fans are raging out on the OnLive forum

[QUOTE=RAYHALO;25480078][img_thumb]http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/8/9/2/2/1/7/Pic1_copy.jpg.jpg[/img_thumb] :barf:[/QUOTE] I would gladly play that on my laptop that can only run hl1 But it's not available in europe, so fuck them

It's going to fail harder than the Jungle. [editline]18th October 2010[/editline] Oh and they had the great idea of starting out in a country with a 32/km2 population density and a huge area (the US is pretty damn big), which doesn't have what you'd call top-notch internet infrastructure. They should have started in Japan, South Korea or Scandinavia. Their service needs short distances and high internet speeds.

[QUOTE=acds;25482557]It's going to fail harder than the Jungle. [editline]18th October 2010[/editline] Oh and they had the great idea of starting out in a country with a 32/km2 population density and a huge area (the US is pretty damn big), which doesn't have what you'd call top-notch internet infrastructure. They should have started in Japan, South Korea or Scandinavia. Their service needs short distances and high internet speeds.[/QUOTE] They can't start in japan, their lack of kawaii interactive love novels will disgust most japanese.

people are still using this shit? really? I am dissapoint....

They gave me a free trail. for 1 month The whole thing looked awesome, the menu, the music, the fact you can see other players. But as soon i launched Assassins creed 2 (30 minute trail) I had a delay of 3 seconds. It sounds like nothing, but its HORRIBLE.

[QUOTE=darth-veger;25482528][url]http://onlivefans.com/showthread.php?36-Why-Onlive-will-Fail-Hard[/url] Fans are raging out on the OnLive forum[/QUOTE] ZULND3R a fanboy there.

from what I've seen, normal gameplay looks like you're playing a 240p video

[QUOTE=edja007;25482544]I would gladly play that on my laptop that can only run hl1 But it's not available in europe, so fuck them[/QUOTE] this

[QUOTE=darth-veger;25483100]They gave me a free trail. for 1 month The whole thing looked awesome, the menu, the music, the fact you can see other players. But as soon i launched Assassins creed 2 (30 minute trail) I had a delay of 3 seconds. It sounds like nothing, but its HORRIBLE.[/QUOTE] 3 seconds is fucking atrocious, that's 3000 milliseconds. Usually PC games with dedicated servers give you around 100 milliseconds (and I and most others usually look for under 40). If they get me lossless compression, 1920x1080 resolution and upwards, always maxed settings (no matter what), allow me to have full control over my files, no deletion after 3 years and latencies under 5-10 milliseconds (anything above 10 in singleplayer would piss me off, then add it onto the multiplayer latency and those 30 milliseconds jump up by 1/3rd) then I'll seriously consider it. Heck even then I won't be able to force 32x AA in some games through the GPU panel, so it still would miss some stuff.

the idea is cool n all, but executing it properly would be very difficult OnLive is a good example

Wait 5 years and come back.

I hardly get input lag, if I do it's far minimal and hardly noticeable. My internet is beast and I'm close to an LA server, it runs and looks fine to me, sure it's a bit murky but it's better then not being able to play some of these games at all.

I wished they release the server software, so people can stream games from our gaming computers to our netbooks or laptops.

Worst idea ever.

Good idea, Fuckawful execution.

Guy on those onlive forums made a point, if onlive goes under, then what happens to all the games we bought on onlive?

Besides the fact Onlive has it's downsides it has it's upsides also. I was one of the very very first people to sign up for Onlive and because of it they send me free promo codes and shit all the time. I've gotten the Lego Harry Potter game and something else for free. I've never played them for more then ten minutes but none the else free shit is free shit.

I tried OnLive a few weeks ago, the video quality depends on your internet speed. I was playing with less than half a second of delay. It's awesome for trying demos because you won't have to download them. [img_thumb]http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3118/dghjdgjd1.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/2114/asdfasdf1.jpg[/img_thumb] It's not great quality, but there was barely and delay. It's definitely not worth it for fast-paced games like UT3 though.

[QUOTE=I_love_garrysmod;25523541] It's not great quality, but there was barely and delay. It's definitely not worth it for fast-paced games like UT3 though.[/QUOTE] Even a tenth of a second input lag is noticeable.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;25523614]Even a tenth of a second input lag is noticeable.[/QUOTE] Of course it's noticeable. I'd rather have a slight delay than to not play at all though.

This 'service' is like a bad excuse not to buy a console.

[QUOTE=Inacio;25526768]And instead buy theirs? :downs: Which isn't an actual console but still[/QUOTE] It's still a bad excuse, and as you said it's not a console so your argument is invalid.

I can see this being a last resort if you have a computer that is utter shit and you are [b]extremely[/b] desperate to play something. I'd rather cough up the money for a good computer than use this anyway.