OnLive now FREE and WORKS in the UK!

Its awful, played a bit of Red faction demo and, its laggy, it might just have that console feel laggy mouse input. The quality is shocking, simply shocking, and as for testing a game, from that demo I don't know if its a Dragon age 1, or a Dragon age 2 game.

Ie in comparison to the previous game in full high res on a "real" computer it feels like its gone back 5 years. So do I buy it and hope input, graphics, sound, general feel of the game are fine and its all down to Onlive, or do I not buy it because it feels like a rubbish cashing in remake done in half the time and really badly.

THe difference really is appauling, Red faction guerilla in high quality vs this, it felt like I went back a decade.

But as with so many things, technology for technology's sake, not for the end users experience. I should say technology thrown down our throats as the latest and greatest thing....... so they can charge more for it.


I just wish people could do basic maths, a console costs more than sticking a decent gpu in any computer, which then becomes a much better gaming machine. The price people pay for consoles and the cost of console games vs PC, unless you buy 2-3 games consoles end up costing you FAR more than a normal PC.
 
drunkenmaster said:
I just wish people could do basic maths, a console costs more than sticking a decent gpu in any computer, which then becomes a much better gaming machine. The price people pay for consoles and the cost of console games vs PC, unless you buy 2-3 games consoles end up costing you FAR more than a normal PC.
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Oh come off it Drunken. Got a new 250gb xbox off amazon a month back for €160. I don't think I've ever spent more than €15 on an xbox game, they depreciate at a shocking rate, you can buy them second hand, and then sell them again afterwards.

not everyone with a console is a drooling pre-teen ready to hand out 60 quid for the latest COD. Most of them, admittedly, but still :p
 
drunkenmaster said:
Its awful, played a bit of Red faction demo and, its laggy, it might just have that console feel laggy mouse input. The quality is shocking, simply shocking, and as for testing a game, from that demo I don't know if its a Dragon age 1, or a Dragon age 2 game.
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Remember its a latancy-vital program and you're currently connecting to the US servers which will probably explain all the lag. Once the UK beta starts and its still laggy, then we can start calling it awful :p

Edit: Plus its not designed for people with top of the range computers which can play everything maxed out. Its for people with laptops, netbooks or old PCs who'd find it cheaper to get the games and stream them like this rather than buy a new PC. Plus you can get the set top box and not even need a PC at all.
 
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Never have and never will like the OnLive concept.

To have to continually downloading gigabytes of data whilst playing a game strikes me as stupid and more of a backwards innovation than a progressive one.
 
Just tried this out for the first time, played darksiders and metro 2033.

Darksiders I thought was perfectly playable but Metro had input lag as others have said and also visually was pretty awful.

Its actually badly coloured my opinion of metro as the onlive version is so shoddy (I hadnt played it before, not sure if I want to again).

If this releases with options for scalable video resolution depending on connection speed then I can see it being a winner. But I felt both games lacked visual panache and I dont think I would play all the way through with the games looking like that.
 
Just noticed this news about Autumn UK launch (http://blog.onlive.com/2011/06/02/happy-1st-birthday-onlive/)

Seems like both Player Tag and Email are checked across both UK and US servers. I.e. I couldn't sign up to the UK page with my already registered "US" Email nor could I use my already registered "US" Player Tag.

Sign up for a UK account with alternative credentials just in case theirs future issues though.

EDIT: For those of you that signed up to the UK account for me it wasn't obvious how you could actually use it once registered. I get the impression that you're not meant to at the moment. However, if you go to the US site (http://www.onlive.com/) you can sign in and download the app and start using it straight away.

I get the impression that there has been more improvements to the service as this is the best it's preformed for me yet. Higher resolution video with less lag. Got to the point where I'd consider dropping a fiver on some of the games rather than just using the free demos to try things out!
 
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Strange. I managed to log in to the service with my UK details on the US client. Mind you, that's the opposite of what you are saying. :D
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Ehhh I don't think so... I agree with you. What I'm trying to say that it looks like both "US" and "UK" accounts are on the same system. Which we would expect them to be.

I couldn't register again on the UK site with my previously registered details and both my old US account and new UK account work fine with the client.

The only issue appears to be that you can only log in and download the client from the US site but either US or UK details will work on their site.

I think everyone was under the impression that there would be some sort of restriction imposed to stop non US players playing. However it appears there isn't any at all other than the fact they don't publicise how to download it :)
 
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The fear 3 "version" on onlive is so lame...I'm now not sure if its a bad game or if its just onlive thats bad.

Onlive could be a decent way of demoing games but if the representations are this bad it might put me and other people off from purchasing.
 
Just tried Fear 3 there. I'm finding it playable in terms of lag but yeah, the FPS genre doesn't lend itself well to any latency at all.

Graphically as well I'm not sure if it's because of the entire screen movement with a FPS but it does seem to be sent in a pretty low / blurry resolution.
 
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