Get Some Free Gaming on OnLive This Halloweekend

Wow. Nice.

no thanks, not interested in 'cloud' gaming or any free gimmick trying to get 'likes' on facebook.
Like im THAT dumb to not see what they are trying to do....

You don't like that they are trying to increase business? Don't complain about things that are free. If you don't like it don't use it.

This is a nice way to attract potential future interest.

Told my friend about this yesterday so I can watch him freak out in Amnesia.

I just tried playing a few of these free games and its absolutely terrible. The mouse jumps around a bunch while aiming. All the terrain is extremely fuzzy. I couldn't stand playing for more than 2 minutes.

Aww, someone has a bad internet connection.

So I just tested it out; load times were short (surprisingly short) and gameplay was relatively smooth. Addendum: Load times were short compared to loading metro on DX11 high settings, when I play on low it loads just as fast or faster than onlive did.

BUT

My 6790 renders metro 2033 on high DX11 at the same frame rate as onlive was rendering it on dx9 low. That is pretty poor performance for a company touting their product as the next best thing comming down the pipe.

Additionally; you have ZERO control over the grapics, those options are removed from the game's options menu. WTF.

Even Orcs must die was rendering low res. And stuttered a little.

And I have a good connection 8down/1up

I am on Comcast internet. 20mbps down, about 5 or 6mbps up. 60-70ms pings in online games. OnLive still looks like ps2 era graphics on my computer.

It's a cool concept, considering how many things go on within 1/10th of a second, but it's not good enough yet in my opinion.

Probably be better to just pick them up from the Steam sale, 'cause after Halloween is over, you still have your game to play.

Orcs Must Die is actually kinda cool. It's like a tower defense game with hack and slash type action.

FPS games and racing games are terrible because of high latency, but 3rd person games (Orcs Must Die, Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed, etc) are ok. And it doesn't matter if you have a 10.000 GB/s connection! If it takes 3 seconds to receive/transmit, gameplay's gonna be ugly. In the future I hope they branch out to other countries, or at least have some (closer) competition.

The fifth game is probably gonna be a zombie game like Left 4 Dead or something...

that great..

Agree and I wonder how laggy Metro 2033 will be because that game is demanding on video hardware.

i know i'm about to get a lot of thumbs down. but before i start on my points that will earn me the most thumbs down of all time, i would like to point out I myself am a PC gamer more so than any thing else.

now on to the comment that going to set me on the path of breaking a thumbs down record.

I AM SO SICK OF ALL THE WHINEY ASS PC GAMERS HERE AT TOM"S THAT ATTACK ANY AND EVERY THING THAT SEEMS TO THREATEN THEIR EXCUSE TO EXPULGE GOBS OF MONEY OUT OF THIER WALLETS ON COMP HARDWARE THAT THE VAST AMJORITY OF GAMERS IN GENERAL CANT AFFORD !!!

Seriosuly poepel , the PC gmaers here at tom's make pc gmaers all over look liek total dicks
"whah consoles are holding PC's back and games shoudl only cater to super rich like me whah "

"whah, This cloud gaming service sucks cos it doesn't use my 1200 dollars worth of SLI-ed Hardedware"

"whah Xbox 360 sucks cos it was built in 2005"

"whah, console kiddies are stupid whah"


give me a break already grow up yourselfs, and for gods sake SOME ONE CALL A WHAMBULANCE ! for all these bitch ass whiney PC gamers here at toms, because you guys are all making the rest of us look like asses to any one that can't afford a gaming pc


P.S. this is the last time i'm going to ever post soemthing in this regard tired of telling you guys to grow up guessing you'll never figure that part of life out

^ LOL and you are telling other people to get a life, ok.

what's the quality of graphics on the games over the cloud?

I have a badass desktop at home, but when I'm stuck at a hotel with wireless and laptop, onlive saves the day, I'm able to deal with the lag and still play effectively. L2play.

It may not be "there" yet for some years, but cloud gaming is probably going to be the future...

While I wouldn't make OnLive my main gaming platform (since I have access to a decent computer system) for what it delivers it is quite nice. Now I know people are going to complain about the lag and graphics, but remember that the game is being rendered hundreds if not thousands of miles away and is taking and issuing commands in real time. That's pretty impressive in my book. It reminds me of Sega Channel back in the early 90. With time this service can only get better.

It's also a great way to try out games with the 30min trial passes. And above all, it runs on my four year old laptop that I use while traveling.

By the way if you haven't played Orcs Must Die, it is a fantastic puzzle/tower defense.

Sounds nice but I'm still doing devils night...nice try matrix.

I'd rather not use it, it become a trend, or any other sheeple fall for this. Cloud gaming needs to die so businesses won't see this as viable and try to market it.

Uh, no. I have 20 mb down and 5 mb up. I usually have a ping of 40 ms while gaming online. That is not a bad internet connection. I even tried playing it at my local college campus with 100 mb down and up. Still not any better.

On 100/100 mbit here with below 30 in ping, does it matter... not that much since its not rendered on my machine but rather elsewhere with everything dialed down to the lowest possible setting and then compressed adding even more blur/latency. No thx!

This. I always wanted to try OnLive out, but man what a disappointment. I tried metro 2033 and Fear 3 and man it looks like ass on my 1080p monitor, like a 720p upscale or something.

That's because it is a 720p upscale (1280x720). A lot of people still game on 1280x1024, a small percentage even lower. Most laptops/netbooks come in 1024 x 600, 1366x768. And think of it this way, would you rather spend $9.99/month for playing over 100 games or $39.99 to be able to play them in 1080p?

I think 720p is good enough (for now), for the money. It has a lot room for expansion too. For instance they could add a savegame manager that lets you upload saved games or that "syncs" them with your computer(s) whenever you log into OnLive, so that they work with installed games too.





If Sony did this with their entire library they would make a KILLING. The PlayStation 5 could be the first console that goes with you everywhere! Not just through TV sets connected to the internet (first Android-powered TV was announced last year and Apple is rumoured to be working on a TV set with iOS), but through phones, tablets, netbooks, basically anything that connects to the internet.

Heck, the PS5 could be purely software (PS "5" as in being able to play PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP and Vita games, all in one). There's a huge opportunity there.

Here you go...automatic thumbs down clicked before I read any further. And I stopped reading at:


I have a SINGLE MSI GeForce GTX 460 Hawk video card with an old 9800GTX+ for physx which would cost you a total of about $200. I can run ALL of those game at the HIGHEST graphics settings and still get around 40 FPS. So, 1st your an IDIOT. You don't need 3 GTX580's in SLI with a GTX580 for Physx to run current games at the highest settings. I think a SINLE GTX580 can run ANY game at the highest settings and still get around 60+ FPS.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."
―Yoda —

Sorry, you don't approve of Onlive or the cloud or, well apparently, anything. There are millions of users that disagree with you. I for one welcome our new overlords.

I completely agree.. I just picked up all the GTAIV games for $12.54. All of them, gta, gta II, Gta III, GTA IV, Vice city, San Andreas, both expansions for GTA IV, ALL for only 12 bucks and some change. Thats why I love steam...
Was gonna get Bioshock 2 which was on sale for $5.00 last night, but I refuse to buy any games that use secure rom the way they implemented it. (And I do BUY all my games to support the developers I like)

As far as onlive, I tried it a couple of times, way to laggy for me. Until 200mb fiber optics are the norm and lag has been eliminated, and they work out some deal with all the ISP's with the bandcaps, I think i'll stick with my pc. I'll stick with my PC. (Comcast 12MB down connection)

Nice one! Report on this cloud foolishness only to direct attention away. I like it!

What are you talking about? There's a THW article on the steam sale, as well. Tinfoil hat too tight?

Cloud gaming will eventually take over local gaming, but NOT in the near future. Internet bandwidth in the US is not sufficient for proper cloud gaming. We will need much much faster internet connection to utilize this technology.

It's like streaming bluray videos in the 28K modem age.