Onlive ALL GAMES FOR £1

Tyrone77 · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:50

lowrider007 said:
I use a 360 pad for most of my PC gaming so input lag isn't felt nearly as much as it is with a mouse, I'll happily play through Deus ex human Revolution for a pound rather than paying £30 for the game as I'm not exactly flush atm with all these new releases.

Will have to try a 360 controller, because mouse lag onlive deus ex is a POS.

Guess I forget about finishing the game on hardest difficulty with a 360 controller.

FrenchTart · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:51

lowrider007 said:
Which is fine but were talking about an opening post where a guy says he thinks the service is amazing, so I really don't see what sense it makes to convince him otherwise unless he's truly wasting his money which atm he isn't.

However, I wouldn't want other people to buy into this service based on his glowing review when the majority of us on here actually found it utterly pants.

As you said earlier, it's only £1. However, when I tried a demo of Metro I decided that even £1 wasn't worth it. That was with a very fast internet connection too.

Cool Breeze · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:54

You fools spending a pound do realise that they will start pulling subs from your account each month if you dont cancel...? It's just a way to reel you in. What I mean is they have you card details , so be careful you'll end up being charged quite easily for stuff. And I don't like the Idea of never owning what I've payed for not good on the full priced games.

BTW I am with BT so got 3 months free access, tried it and on the PC it's a no go visuals to make you wanna puke and the lag.... As a console thing it might work. And thats on an infinity line 35mb

FrenchTart · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:55

Cool Breeze said:
You fools spending a pound do realise that they will start pulling subs from your account each month if you dont cancel...? It's just a way to reel you in.

BTW I am with BT so got 3 months free access, tried it and on the PC it's a no go visuals to make you wanna puke and the lag.... As a console thing it might work. And thats on an infinity line 35mb

Pretty sure you're wrong about the subscription. That's a separate service/option.

ic1male · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:59

I was playing AC: Brotherhood and although there were minor blips when the screen resolution went a bit lower once a blue moon, I didn't notice ANY difference than playing it on my Xbox 360. Thanks Be for a wonderful internet connection.

FrenchTart · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:00

ic1male said:
I was playing AC: Brotherhood and although there were minor blips when the screen resolution went a bit lower once a blue moon, I didn't notice ANY difference than playing it on my Xbox 360. Thanks Be for a wonderful internet connection.

Yeah. If your primary point of comparison is a console then you'll probably be okay with OnLive.

iv-tecman · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:00

FrenchTart said:
Pretty sure you're wrong about the subscription. That's a separate service/option.

I thought so as well.... Its just a special one game for a quid offer, or so I thought. I got Deus Ex, great way to ruin a game I'd never played but was a great way to get me to part with the money for the full version I can run at a decent res with proper AA on my laptop through my TV using HDMI - so had its use, shame I paid a quid...

Do see the service as a way to demo some games for 30 mins if I don't mind ignoring the fact the lag and woeful gaphics isn't the game - just the service..

Pighardia · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:08

iv-tecman said:
Do see the service as a way to demo some games for 30 mins if I don't mind ignoring the fact the lag and woeful gaphics isn't the game - just the service..

I thought this and tried the Space Marine demo. Thought it was awful, then i started to think that i wasn't getting the best out of it with the lag and everything so i shouldn't write it off, it probably isn't a great representation of the game, So in the end it was useless as a demo for me as well

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I don't have the greatest connection though.

If you are going to use it to demo games, i think you will have to bare in mind that it is not a great representation and in that respect it makes it slightly limited.

Dicehunter · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:10

onlive is a horrid gaping puss soaked anus of a games platform.

orderoftheflame · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:10

FrenchTart said:
Yeah. If your primary point of comparison is a console then you'll probably be okay with OnLive.

Graphics were noticeably worse than a PS3 or 360 for OnLive to me (100mb, good ping).

ridiculous "lol console" stereotypes aside, I think you'd have to have extremely low standards to want to sell your console to migrate onlive. I think it's going to stagnate and die in this country quite quickly unfortunately.

Cool Breeze · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:10

FrenchTart said:
Pretty sure you're wrong about the subscription. That's a separate service/option.

Ah ok maybe I am , I thought it was subscription based , based on my BT access. Still not my thing though but I can see it's apeal in some areas.

FrenchTart · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:19

orderoftheflame said:
Graphics were noticeably worse than a PS3 or 360 for OnLive to me (100mb, good ping).

ridiculous "lol console" stereotypes aside, I think you'd have to have extremely low standards to want to sell your console to migrate onlive. I think it's going to stagnate and die in this country quite quickly unfortunately.

Fair enough. I probably do subconsciously have a lower opinion of consolers, though I generally try not to let it could my judgement too much

Limenote · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:23

this sounds great for use with underpowered laptops, can imagine wireless giving it trouble though?

Liam123 · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:39

just been on livechat with one of there guys he said this:
Berret: As I said, the graphics are turned up almost to maximum and the service delivered in 720p high def, it will never look like it does on a high end gaming computer, and we will never offer downloads.

*tuned up to maximum my arse rofl*

Limenote · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:48

the only thing stopping them maxing out the games is the server load right? I mean they are still sending the same data after the frames are rendered anyway, in that respect its not the internet bandwidth limiting the graphics options.

cosmos55 · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:52

move to console forum

*puts flame proof suit on*

Liam123 · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:53

tbh metro looks not tht bad on my alienware m11 notebook its just so dark

Devlish · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:54

Xink said:
this sounds great for use with underpowered laptops, can imagine wireless giving it trouble though?

Yup I'd say where it shines. Small screen minimises graphic issues but wireless is a no no. Must be wired. Problem of course is the mouse!

mcwildcard · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:59

Liam123 said:
just been on livechat with one of there guys he said this:
Berret: As I said, the graphics are turned up almost to maximum and the service delivered in 720p high def, it will never look like it does on a high end gaming computer, and we will never offer downloads.

*tuned up to maximum my arse rofl*

Note the 'almost' caveat!
I punted a quid on Deux Ex just to see how it all worked and handled, as much as the input lag made it frustrating to play, I was still impressed at how far they'd come. That said, there is no way on gods green earth that Deux Ex should look that scraggy, graphically.
I'd go back to it in a year or two when the service refines itself further and the lag is (hopefully) less of an issue.

Dea924 · 29 Sep 2011 at 09:12

Installed.. first time it said.. - "cannot connect to onlive servers.. you are in a queue"

Uninstalled.. Back to steam thankyou.

why would i want to queue to play games id bought because other people are playing at the same time.. whole point of owning the game or license is to play them when you want.. not want in a frickin queue