" Its good to see they are willing to take the steps needed to try and fix this massive fuck up. Its just too bad they couldn't do this stuff before releasing the game. Deadlines are important, but when your game is fucking broken you probably shouldn't release it. Hopefully this will be the turning point that will bring Square Enix back to its quality control glory days. "
It's not even that it's really broken it is just massively boring. The game looks great but there is nothing interetsting to do. Crafting is a nightmare. The class system makes no sense. They should have imrpoved upon the work that was done in FFXI instead of trying to reinvent every game system. I think my biggest complaint though is the combat system. Way way way too much time passes between each attack. You feel like you are just staring at combat that takes too long rather than being engaged.
" At what point do they start ritually sacrificing members of their team to try to calm subscribers? Because I think they're running out of ways to apologize that don't involve massive blood loss. "
Don't you know? In Japan if you disgrace yourself you commit seppuku. In all seriousness though they really needed to make drastic changes to their staff because it's obvious that they are completely out of touch.
" @Diamond: I feel the product couldn't be better polished and simpler to enjoy, personally. I'm starting to think that a lot of your vitriol toward OnLive is based on you not ever actually owning anything that you play. I get that, it sucks, but I am going to take the wait and see approach to see how they deal with pricing... so far they've had some pretty good sales, so paying less for a game you don't actually own isn't too bad. It's not that different than Steam in many regards.
@Xeridae: When I used it on my PC it was pretty damn good, being able to compare to instances of Batman: AA side by side was pretty handy and ya, you could see some compression and I could pump OnLives Batman up to the max, but it played really well with no noticeable lag. The quality is WAY above 480p. Granted, that's on my connection, I have FiOS so the bandwidth isn't really an issue I suppose. I have said from the beginning that Broadband penetration is really key for OnLive's success. That and software of course. Edit: I haven't tried the Box yet, obviously, but the impressions that Gizmodo have written up seem to cast quite a favorable light on it. "
I think you have the perfect set up for it though. Think about what it would be like on a big tv screen though and not a monitor. I mean the smaller the screen the better quality the image is going to be no matter what.
" @Diamond: None of that changes the fact that it's the cheapest way to get quality looking PC games on your TV. Hell, it's among the cheapest ways to get any games on your TV. You are correct though, there is no comparable market for customers to go to... which is why it's needed. So lets review, you can spend 99 dollars for a plug and play device that will stream high end PC gaming to your TV with little noticeable lag. Or you can spend about 500-600 bucks and build yourself a nice media-center PC with gaming capability and get about the same result, while admittedly being better for something like Black Ops or it's like... I'm not sure why I'd pay 600 bucks to play a PC version of Fallout: NV on my TV (assuming it something that would be provided on the service). Just like Consoles have a reason to exist and an audience, so too does OnLive. Will I ever use it? Hells to the no, I'm Gaming Master Race all the way and I can't get by without dual monitors and sitting 18-24 inches from my screen... but I have a feeling that there are quite a few people out there who will welcome a device like this into their homes with open arms. Don't worry @Diamond, we will still be able to build our ridiculously over powered PCs that produce gorgeous screen-shots and run games at 90fps; OnLive and PC gaming can exist in the same marketplace. But, it won't really matter unless OnLive gets some software support will it? "
It's not that simple or easy. Most people will see serious compression issues as your internet connection struggles to stream games in real time and in HD. You get what you pay for with this which is more like 480p.
Netflix is a great example of what I am talking about. Unless you have a screaming fast internet connection it compresses the hell out of the video and it looks like shit 89% of the time.
If you can afford to pay 60 bucks for a game then why not save your money for a console at the very least and get the quality you deserve?
They really think this is going to be successful? Really? Who here doesn't already have either one of the three consoles or a PC? yeah let me just shove that investment aside to pay a monthly fee for sub optimal video quality, bad ports, laggy gameplay. The flat rate is bullshit too because let's say you want to play a back logged game that is only 20 bucks on xbox live but you keep dishing out money for it every month with onlive plus you never even own it, you are just renting it. Not to mention that we don;t have the infrastructure to support the kind of data streaming this service will require. It all sounds soooo appealing. I bet their pre-order sales are jaw dropping.
If they can make it work then good for them but I don't see how there is any market for this.
1. Anyone trying to play real music with this guitar outside of the game will immediately be a tool. 2. For the price you could have bought a pretty decent guitar that I'm positive will sound a hundred times better than this Fender.
I really wish this whole genre would die so that people might actually learn to play real instruments. Obviously the interest is there. Even though they are trying to make it more like the real thing it never will be because they are controlling what you play. You can't feel the music this way imo.
Valve has the market cornered on this sort of thing already. I would actually prefer to have the software I own installed on my machine that I know runs better than a server a few states away but apparently OnLive is cutting edge :P
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