[QUOTE=Shugo;22883592]I just got into OnLive and played a couple demos. My verdict? I'm personally extremely impressed. I played through the Just Cause 2 demo and the Borderlands demo. Both ran pretty great, which impresses me because my network connection is total shit (my router sucks).
I don't own Just Cause 2, but I do own Borderlands and I can safely say that I'm disappointed that I didn't wait to buy it on OnLive instead. My computer isn't so hot with newly-released games, and Borderlands has some major problems, at least for me. If I don't run it at a very low resolution, it has some graphical issues that eventually result in crashing. Really sucks. Multiplayer is also an extreme lagfest for me, with large areas or intense battles dropping my FPS to extreme lows. I played through the General Knox DLC with friends and was barely able to do anything except stay behind the lines and offer support.
My OnLive Borderlands experience was great. The game looked beautiful with full graphics and full 720p resolution coming cleanly and smoothly over the streamed video. Controls were perfect and 1:1; it kept up with my mouse flawlessly. If there was any latency, I certainly couldn't feel it. I rushed through the demo doing as much as I could before my half-an-hour was up and it kept up with everything I did. I was able to blast through groups of enemies just as quickly as I could on the regular version.
Personally, I'm an OnLive believer. As long as your connection is decent, you can play PC games in high quality graphics. If they do this right, this could really catch on with people running low-end setups.
The only thing I really don't like is their payment plan system. You don't buy a license to play the game forever like you would on a service like Steam. They only promise that the game will stay on the service for a certain amount of time, and then after that it may or may not stay. I hope they change their minds on that one.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, after more time playing Just Cause 2 with it I'm personally having a really good time with it. Sure it has hiccups every now and then but so far I'm having a ton of fun with it.
You're right, though. The Borderlands demo was probably one of the better ones in terms of controls. It was the smoothest in my opinion, tied with Red Faction: Guerrilla.
I agree with you about the pricing, too. Making us pay the full price for games that might not be on the servers forever is, frankly, a terrible idea. However, I have a suggestion for them: If a game is taken off the server, they should give a ticket to allow you to redeem a game of equal or lesser value, no strings attached.
A few questions for you:
Where do you live? Because I can clearly feel an input delay. It's one of the problems I have with it. Also, what does your internet connection look like? Here is mine
[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/rank/1144430341.png[/IMG][/URL]
I live in Philly.
Are you paying for your service or did you manage to nab a free year like me? Would you recommend paying for it?
Finally, what is your tag, so I can add you?
Thank you for your post! I'll add it to the OP.
Sorry for the big 'ol bump, but this service now supports Wi-Fi!
Also, Mafia II, Saw, and Kane and Lynch: Dog Days were added, among others.
It still could be better but it's not bad.
Add Arma2 and Crysis (Crysis 2 when it's released) and i'll pay for the service. Other than that I can buy hard copies of my games and play on my own computer.
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I just got the 1 year joiner thing, and the lag is insane. I crashed about 100times will playing dirt 2. I have 25mbps internet just to add. This gaming platform needs work if it's going to succeed. Also the resolution killed the visuals, it felt like I was playing a nintendo 64 on a flatscreen tv.
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One more thing, I just tried JC2 and the gameplay was impaired extremely. It almost took the fun out of it. Although I do not expect anything more than a gaming platform in a glorified beta test. A side note to all of this I'm using a store bought 2005 hp with a nvidia 6150se with 3gbs of ram and like 1.7 ghz. So all of these games wouldn't even be possible without OnLive. So for pc gamers out there like me, that can't afford a decent rig, this service is the wish i've been waiting for.
Just rented JC2 for a couple of days I get these annoying artifacts on my screen sometimes when I play:
[img_thumb]http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5209/artifacts.png[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7144/74008437.png[/img_thumb]
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one thing to add is that's my actual quality of the game, not because it's a low quality picture
Wow, that looks really bad. What does your internet connection look like?
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