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Posted by: Dirk_Gently
As for your reviews as a whole, most seem like rants rather than unbiased facts. My only worries with it have been bandwidth caps and how they play into this gaming future. I honestly enjoy it, not everyone has the same tastes.
It's a review. It's telling it as it is. Sure, I threw in my opinion and I pointed out all of the negative PROBLEMS with it, but I didn't make anything up. It's all based on fact, with some rational reasoning explaining whether it's good or bad. Yeah, my review, for the most part, is a rant about how BAD this service is...but you can't blame me they gave more problems than benefits for me to write about.
For example of what I mean by fact with rational reasoning...
The UT3 servers are limited because of the number of users currently...but should it be a problem? No. They should be letting users connect to servers in the full game, not just on their LAN. Heck, there's not even any dedicated servers set up on their LAN. But the reason for this is because of how they mopped themselves into a corner with their service limitations. Connecting to a dedicated server on the Internet would allow clients to download user created maps. It would also be a problem with banning, since OnLive doesn't rely on product keys. This shouldn't be acceptable for any multiplayer game today. We talk about Halo 2 Vista and how it's limited, and then we go backing how it's OK for OnLive to be limiting their games?
I did touch on the benefits in the first or second part, but it was limited to only being able to play games with crappy hardware or on devices such as your phone.
Edit: The one thing I need to ask is, do you have a computer that cannot play every game at max settings? Because if you do, I can understand why you aren't being so picky about the performance and quality of this service as I am. I've played these games at max settings on my computer, in addition to playing them through OnLive. I'm able to compare the two and pick out the specific differences between them. Since I am running them at max settings and I have no performance issues, I have the "perfect" benchmark that OnLive needs to match up to. I don't care about graphics quality in my review as much as general performance, so if there were some tiny blips of glitches here and there compared to my perfect experience with a local copy, I wrote about it.
[Edited on 08.15.2010 10:14 AM PDT]