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Subject: Halo 3, ODST, and Reach for the PC, Mac and iPad and Harvest, etc.
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Posted by: Dirk_Gently
I must say, it is an amazing service.

Posted by: Moifugley
I think Onlive is a great idea.
They are basically hosting the game for you, and hosting the OS, so it could work with PC, Mac, iPad and w/e else is dumb enough.

The most brutally honest and thorough OnLive review you will ever see:

Part 1: http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?21918-OnLive&am p;p=546754&viewfull=1#post546754

Part 2: http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?21918-OnLive&am p;p=546795&viewfull=1#post546795

Part 3: http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?21918-OnLive&am p;p=547398&viewfull=1#post547398

Part 4: http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?21918-OnLive&am p;p=547465&viewfull=1#post547465

Please read up on it (especially part 4) before further promoting and supporting OnLive, so you understand it fully.

[Edited on 08.14.2010 11:34 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2010 11:25 PM PDT
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I'm glad i brought my mittens.. Oh no I lost one of my mittens! we have to go back

Great Idea unfortunately the iPad does not have the graphics qualifications to run a game like halo 3, but yes the other Ideas are good

  • 08.15.2010 5:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: jcap
Your account can remain suspended for a maximum of 12 months. After those 12 months, your account is permanently deleted and you lose EVERYTHING. All your saved games and game purchases are lost forever with no way of recovering them.

Final thoughts: 0/10. This -blam!- -blam!- sucks.
That is one brutally honest review, and a great one.

  • 08.15.2010 5:50 AM PDT

My Youtube - Halo 2 Online Co-op
BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: jcap
Your account can remain suspended for a maximum of 12 months. After those 12 months, your account is permanently deleted and you lose EVERYTHING. All your saved games and game purchases are lost forever with no way of recovering them.

Final thoughts: 0/10. This -blam!- -blam!- sucks.
That is one brutally honest review, and a great one.
I hope this useless p.o.s doesn't come into UK.

The idea behind them hosting the game for you on any number of platforms was a great idea, the idea itself was great.

The initiative wasn't, but I guess we're used to the fact that companies never act on their idea, like how GFWL was supposed to bring the best of Xbox Live over to PC, and now it's a plague.

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  • 08.15.2010 5:56 AM PDT

Daodan Latency at 65%

so I guess you have not really taken into account the terribly few number of people on it as of right now based on being chosen for the founding members group, as well as having a connection that meets the requirements.

I have purchased both AC2 and UT3. Both you cover in your reviews. I have experienced graphical lag once in AC2 and nothing at all in UT3. The UT3 servers leave something to be desired due to lack of players. Hosting games is not an issue, as it is all done in the cloud.

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.

To clarify I have had only one issue with using the application itself and that was due to Ubisoft's drm account business and not the actual client causing a problem.

Each to their own. The service has worked flawlessly for me, other people have had different experiences based on their distance from the datacenters and performance ingame.

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Helljumper, the iPad has been demoed running Borderlands by the Onlive team. The service streams you a live feed of what you are doing. This requires minimal hardware and the iPad can do this without question.

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  • 08.15.2010 6:39 AM PDT
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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.

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  • 08.15.2010 10:04 AM PDT

Daodan Latency at 65%

Well I can play them on max settings, that is not an issue. My issue is with DRM and why I play AC2 via onlive rather than local. There is no way I buy a game that made DRM get in the way of playing it. Onlive removes the entire aspect of connectivity DRM from AC2 for me because it seamlessly flows into the game itself.

I don't care about graphics as much as how much fun I am having. If I can play UT3 for a few hours and maybe I have a bit of lag. Whatever, I am having fun with it. I have a 25/12 connection. I have experienced maybe 3 drops in the past 2-3 years. My connection is always strong and reliable, I have yet to have a performance issue that made me stop playing.

I agree that they should be connecting the games to the retail online experience. You also have to consider that they are still in their infancy with this. It will get better with time, but seeing as it is the first of its kind to go public it is doing pretty good.

  • 08.15.2010 10:32 AM PDT

Making it for iPad and macs is retarded and who games on an iPad?! Don't see people playing halo ce on ipads nowadays

  • 08.18.2010 2:27 AM PDT

Pardon me for being late but I dont think posting this thread here on Bungie forums will help anyone. Currently, Microsoft has the reins to port Halo games. If you want to see Halo 3 for PC, petitions should be signed on a mammoth scale & sent to Microsoft. The other thing I can imagine is have an army (the size of orcs in Return of the King) march on the doorsteps of Microsoft's headquarters at Redmond. Posting here & dreaming that this will happen won't do good to anyone. I don't need to mention about ODST since its just an year old & Reach hasn't even seen the light of the day on 360 yet. Finally, you should mention MAC & iPad once the remaining Halo games ever get ported to PC & as of now the chances of a PC port are very slim.

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  • 08.23.2010 7:20 AM PDT

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BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

I stand corrected, no one wants anymore Halo games for PC.
The only place I trusted, with all my heart has betrayed me I never thought anyone would be ignorant to the features present in Halo 3/Reach and improving capabilities for PC

It's simple, no one cares about Halo 3/ODST+Reach on PC, not even the people on Halo CE.

What a lovely Bunch of Epic Fail.

[Edited on 08.23.2010 8:58 AM PDT]

  • 08.23.2010 8:57 AM PDT

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Posted by: big_sarge

Calm down, kid.

  • 08.24.2010 1:31 PM PDT

Sorry

[Edited on 08.26.2010 12:05 PM PDT]

  • 08.25.2010 12:11 PM PDT

If you really, really love the Halo franchise, you would go to it instead of whining about it having it brought to you. Go on Ebay or craigslist or even Amazon, I assure you that you can find a Xbox 360 pro for under $100. I'm not trying to be a douche, because I know what the OP is talking about having Halo fans without an Xbox. You can go ahead and check my gamertag on Xbox.com, I use to be a H2V player until I got a Xbox 360.

I really doubt the number of Halo PC or H2V fans would cover the costs of producing the game (Halo 3 or Halo: Reach) for PC, and no, they will not make a lot more money. The Halo fanbase started at Xbox 360, and it doesn't take much to realize that that's where the money is at. And if you think Microsoft is going to let their biggest video game be playable on Macs, you're an idiot. And for the iPad? You have got to be kidding me.

Oh, and Bungie is done with Halo games. Go back to your hole, idiot OP.

Yes, I'm insulting you.

Posted by: Gen Wasabo
Bungie is a bunch of tards if they dont get someone to port halo 3 to the pc. Halo 3 is pretty much done selling new copies of the game for 360 i mean everyone has it. They need to realise they can make way more money if they port it. Also microsoft is retarded too they dont realise that there not selling anymore consols basically everyone that can afford it has one or a PS3 and the new xbox is a joke there are no big upsides to it, it looks different oooooo wooooow!


You're an idiot too if you think you know how Bungie's games are selling better than Bungie.

  • 08.25.2010 7:12 PM PDT

sorry

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