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Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by ivanb on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @05:03AM (#4635602)
In modern gaming responsiveness is the prerequisite to everything. You can't fight the laws of physics. Server-side only latency hiding just does not work: there is always a noticeable delay between a key press and visual response.

In addition a decent gaming PC doesn't cost much these days and games on mobile devices are as enjoyable as desktop and console ones. They will get even cheaper and cooler with time.

There is no reason for existence of such a service.

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Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by andybak on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @07:11AM (#4635826)
Did you actually play OnLive? I've played FPS shooters on it for hours quite happily.
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Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by ivanb on Friday October 12, 2012 @04:57PM (#4646813)
It is not available in my country, so no. Actually after your comment I've read and watched several modern reviews of the service. Players don't seem to be complaining about the latency so maybe it is really not that noticeable as I thought it would be. Thus my initial point about the latency does not hold much water.
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Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by weego on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @05:10AM (#4635614)
Unless the game you are playing doesn't require lots of micro/twitch, like the new XCOM game, all the total war series, sim city, anno series etc.
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Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by ivanb on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @05:28AM (#4635649)
A dedicated hi-tech service to play strategy and puzzle games then?
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Re:Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off f... by freehunter on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @08:21AM (#4635978)
I never much cared for UT3 on the service (maybe it was the game, maybe it was the connection, but it felt sloppy) but Red Faction 3 was fantastic. That's a physics-based third person shooter/action title. I beat the whole game on OnLive.
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