Morning Discussion

by Alice O'Connor, Dec 28, 2009 5:00am PST

It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Friends and family gather round, feasts are held three days in a row and there's enough half-melted refrozen snow slush for you to feel some kind of victory. Unless, of course, so much flu courses through your veins that even your sloshed uncle is more alert, stabler and a better conversationalist than you.

I ended up mostly playing King's Bounty: Armored Princess. It's fun. That's my review.

I've tried almost every potion, poultice, syrup, pill, powder, lozenge and tincture under the sun, all to no avail. Desperate times call for desperate measures and it'll be a cold day in Walthamstow before I let Kwanzaa be ruined too so if I'm not on the mend by tomorrow it'll be the ole Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap. Dilute! Dilute! O.K.!

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I just watched half of the OnLive presentation (http://tv.seas.columbia.edu/videos/545/60/79?file=1&autostart=true) and holy. fucking. shit. I hope it works as well as advertised because if it does, it's a game changer without a doubt.

However, did they mention the controller vs. mouse/keyboard issue? I'm probably going to go with the micro-console and controller setup. So when I play a multiplayer game like MW2 (yes, I know activision is being dumb and hasn't signed up on it yet), will I be playing against ALL OnLive users, including those who are playing on PC with mouse and keyboard? If so, I see this being a HUGE problem. They would have to make an option to separate the two user bases for competitive play.

Dec 28, 2009 11:18am PST

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I just watched half of the OnLive presentation (http://tv.seas.columbia.edu/videos/545/60/79?file=1&autos... : freakynipples69
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  playing crysis on the iphone was sick : GloriousCow
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    yeah, that left me speechless. Also spectating live games on the iphone is incredibly cool. : freakynipples69
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      something i'm confused about is the seeming complete emphasis on games. I know they showed some movie tr... : GloriousCow
      
      It could be used just to give people cheap access to a PC. Nothing is stopping them from letting people a... : aggressor
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  Remember, this is for PC games, so you'd be playing against PC users who are more than likely using a mou... : aggressor
  - Oh man, I so look forward to raping OnLive users. It'll be like ShadowRun all over again. : LoioshDwaggie
  - Looks like I need to find a good, comfortable way to use a mouse and keyboard on a couch. : freakynipples69
  - Except you can just plug in a mouse and keyboard and it works. : pancake humper
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  Mouse and keyboard is an option for OnLive. You can play Crysis with a gamepad right now if you want, doe... : Serpico74
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    nm, I misunderstood. You'll be playing with people that have a mouse+keyboard, its inevitable. :) : Serpico74
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      Crysis has an option when you are creating a server to make it gamepad only. : SockMonkeh
      
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      I think every game should have this option once OnLive launches. : freakynipples69
      
      Yeah, I agree. I don't want to get stuck on a team with some controller-wielding tard. : SockMonkeh
- It's definitely a disruptive technology, and will be great for the pc/mac/mobile market. Onlive also has ... : Frozen Pixel
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  The other thing people don't realize is that you only play with people in your own "zone" so you can't ju... : Visceral Monkey
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    That sucks. I guess it'll divide up shackers by territory if OnLive has a big enough adoption rate here. : freakynipples69
    - Well, for onlive, yes it will. The are like 5 of them I think, I know one is in Texas (naturally) one for... : Visceral Monkey
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    Are you sure about that? I was thinking about this and I don't see why the multiplayer aspect couldn't wo... : Geoffrois
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      I'm positive, unless something changed from the first presentation, and I didn't see anything in the late... : Visceral Monkey
      
      Of course the *best* thing about it is no Canadians, Europeans, Asians or Mexicans! IT'S THE WHITE MANS D... : Visceral Monkey
      
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      He does give an example of "the dad" being on a business trip and playing [insert game] with his kid who ... : Mysig
      
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      Unless they changed something, I'd say yes. I think this is one of those things they don't advertise much.
      
      Also, scroll down in this thread to see crysis running on a PC and then the same game using onlive"
      
      http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=863767&page=4
      
      I'm kind of meh about the quality I suppose.
      
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      Unless they changed something, I'd say yes. I think this is one of those things they don't advertise muc... : Visceral Monkey
      
      http://www.facepunch.com/showpost.php?p=19066757&postcount=102 : Visceral Monkey
      
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      If that's the case then I understand why they don't talk about it. I'm not overly impressed by that limit... : Mysig
      
      Pretty much, its an option, that's it. Not really an option for me unless they have a good a la carte ser... : Serpico74
- Well this technology wont happen in my country for atleast another decade, we just dont have the network ... : thewindcriesmary
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  80ms is waaaaay too slow. <Fancy Hat> As a pretty good Rock Band plastic guitarist, I can tell the di... : DOOManiac
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    That said, for a CEO, this guy really knows WTF he's talking about. : DOOManiac
    - He started off as an engineer, was one of the architects of Quicktime back in the 80s, his "other" compan... : Serpico74
- I haven't had a chance to watch it, how do they actually have the horsepower to render something like UE3... : Fred Garvin

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