There's a streaming service called Gaikai, pretty much the same deal as Onlive. They're partnered with EA and they have ME2 as well.
Too bad the service was terrible. I tried it a few months ago and it was hilariously laggy and unplayable. Not sure if they've improved since then.
Huh, I take that back. I've just tried Dead Space 2 on it a few seconds ago and it ran fine. Oh well, seems like they really did improve.
They stream. It runs in your browser, actually. You click on a game and it starts instantly, even faster than Onlive.
I might record some footage of it tomorrow, in the same way I did Onlive with Prince of Persia. We'll see.
I'll wait to see your video before I try it. All I've heard is a bunch of hating from the OnLive fanboys. I'd like to see it in action.
The reason I asked bout the streaming, is there is apparently another service that streams the levels to your PC as you play the game. While you are playing level one, level two is downloading, etc. I don't know if you get to store the game locally or not...and I don't recall the name of the service...
I ended up playing both Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect 2 on Gaikai. It's okay, but not as smooth as OnLive. Got some pretty ugly lag and framerate issues in certain areas, like that last room in the ME2 demo. I'm not entirely surprised, honestly. The footage of both DS2 and ME2 is up here in the LP section, if anyone's interested.
Is the witcher 2 worth bothering for someone who hated... no loathed the combat from the first one?
The combat system was completely redesigned for the sequel, but you might still hate it, for entirely different reasons. Honestly, if you couldn't get past the combat and just enjoy the first game for what it was, I wouldn't bother with the second one, either.
I tried this about a week ago. Used the desktop client. I decided to demo a game I demo'd on the xbox so I could compare them. The game was Homefront. The game was laggy (mostly video lag, hiccups, but not much of the expected control lag) and looked awful compared to the 360 version.
Overall, I was semi-impressed, because despite those two flaws, the game was still playable and the service worked decently. I'm not switching to it for my primary gaming service any time soon but I am willing to give it another shot sometime in the near future.
You don't really need that beast of a PC to play it, I played it at 1920x1200 @ medium-high settings with just a poor old HD4870
I didn't play The Witcher 1 (Plan to), but I enjoyed The Witcher 2. It's combat system was both fun and challenging to me, and the story had me immersed the whole time I played it. It's a great game worth playing.
Last edited by Panda Man; 4th-August-2011 at 15:04.