Onlive
Anybody else signed up to www.onlive.co.uk? BT Broadband customers get three whole months of exciting cloud-based computer gaming FREE.... or, rather, would do if I could get the bloody website to work.
Supposedly it ought to install some software to run games on, only this doesn't happen, and the... ahem, live chat customer service thing is a farce, because I keep mysteriously moving back from 2nd or 1st place in the queue to 4th.
(And there are no Telltale games on it!)
Supposedly it ought to install some software to run games on, only this doesn't happen, and the... ahem, live chat customer service thing is a farce, because I keep mysteriously moving back from 2nd or 1st place in the queue to 4th.
(And there are no Telltale games on it!)
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So. We'll see what happens.
I bought Space Marine on Onlive for £1 yesterday. It plays surprisingly well considering my internet isn't anything special.
They were giving away free game systems at eurogamer expo. Unfortunately I was unable to attend this year so nothing for me. However if you pre-order Saints Row 3 you can get one free too.
but I dont see the need now that my laptop can play the games I want, but this has had me tempted for a while.
Oh yeah, the fact that it let me purchase Arkham City for a dollar and be able to run it with an Integrated Graphics Card without a single problem regarding input delay is completely moot because the picture has a bit of loss.
It does for me. It's not "a bit of loss" either, it's completely terrible. Impossible to see distant objects behind all the compression artifacts and blurring. And the brightness and contrast was terrible as well. I don't know maybe that's only the case with free trials. But it sure didn't sell it for me. I won't settle for anything less than top quality for a AAA game. Especially when my rig can more than handle it. I just believe that OnLive has a long way to go to becoming any kind of standard. Maybe even ahead of its time, which is the most optimistic thing I can say for it. Internet connection speeds need to evolve to handle it properly. Also, no chance of modifying game files, which I kind of like. It's just another attempt at turning the PC into a game console. No, only data on my own physical hard drive is for me. None of this streaming nonsense.
When I tried it the input lag was a whole 1.5 seconds or something. It was terrible. On every game I tried.
I'm a very niche market, enjoying PC games but not enough to warrant getting a decent setup. So Onlive is perfect for me. I also have very little input lag if at all and the video quality is still very good (although there is a bit of notable loss, it's far better then the game'd run on my Computer). The fact there are so many sales is a bit disconcerting, though, as it leads me to think they need much more business, which is most likely the case.