http://www.dpsinsider.com/forums/tags/wii Bongiovi Acoustics DPS Community en-US Tue, 22 May 2012 02:02:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.dpsinsider.com/forums/search.php http://www.dpsinsider.com/forums/topic/onlive-review#post-329 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:38:33 +0000 anthrox 329@http://www.dpsinsider.com/forums/ <p>So gaming as we know it maybe changed forever. If you guys haven't heard about it it's called Onlive and it takes cloud computing and flips it on it's head. Who would have thought that playing Crysis on a basic $400 netbook would have been possible?</p> <p>Onlive, which is still in live beta, is a gaming service that allows you to play a game without having to install it, not a single file is stored on your HDD, rather all the games are installed on cloud systems many many many miles away and it streams the video feed to you and you control the game. First let me say that this works far better than I thought. I have a Macbook pro 15" unibody design and I was playing Assassins Creed 2, Borderlands, Batman Arkham Asylum and MLB 2k10 with out installing a single piece of software with the exception of the onlive app itself.</p> <p>Now there are were a few glitches with the video feed, but nothing that prevented me from having a good time. And you must have a wired connection at a minimum of 3Mbps and an the lower the latency the better off you are. But it works as advertised, much to my surprise. I do not recommend this service to twitch players however, as even the slightest amount of lag can throw them off. There is the issue of purchasing the games however, and this is where I have a problem. You pay just about the same price as retail to essentially rent a game, as the license only works on the Onlive service. I have a problem with this, if I pay $40 for a video game, I want to play that game when and where I want. However that kind of mentality kind of defeats the purpose of the service. </p> <p>Overall I would say it is worth a try, as I stated before it is still in beta and last I checked, you can sign up for a beta invite and your first year of service is free, and the next year will be $4 a month or so. If they can re-work the pricing structure of the games and the service, and they get the much hyped tv console hyped and work on that wired connection only thing, than I can see this becoming a threat to the big three console developers. </p>