Yes, for all those who haven't heard, Game Maker is now officially awesome. I don't care what any of you say bad about it. The first game maker game to be released on an Iphone is out now for a small price of 99 cents(I sure as hell ain't buying it). I can't wait to see what people are going to be able to pull off with game maker in the next 5-15 years. I am pretty sure Game maker will function with consoles like Xbox, Playstation or WII by then. Oh, the possibilities. GM is also on PSP too which is cool too. :P
Now on to another matter, some shit called Onlive came out a few days ago. Don't know what it is? I'll tell you, you lazy obese sonavabitch. Imagine Xbox Live. Now imagine it on your PC. Now, imagine being able to play high end current-gen games on your shitty 10 year old computer. Yes, you heard me right. You can now play games like Mafia 2, Red Faction and quite a few high end games, right on that shitty thing you call a computer. I played it on my somewhat average computer, and it performed without a hiccup. There are probably only about 15 games available now. But tons more should be available within the coming months. The only downside to it for me though, is that you can't actually own your game in your hands, all the games you play are through the Onlive servers, so if the Onlive servers suddenly go haywire or explode or something like that, yo ass ain't playing yo game until dat shit fixed.And obese stripper midget will be laughing at you.
Seriously? That's so ridiculous that I have no idea if that would work or not.
It would be nice to have a single console that can play any platform's games.I'm pretty sure the console version will fail miserably. They have no buisiness even trying to attempt that.
I mean just look at the controller for god's sake. http://topnews.com.sg/images/onlive-console.jpgJust has FAIL written all over it.Holy shit instafail.
If anyone were to attempt something like this, I'd hope it would be someone who has been in the market before.Notice the controller actually says LIVE on it. I'd laugh in a game's tutorial if it said "Press The L button to pick up a gun".
The problem is that eventually we are going to reach the point where cheap computers can handle the newest games. Plus we already have consoles to do this sort of thing. I also can't imagine having to run entire games for people and stream them to be very cheap.
Onlive sounds… intriguing.
Also, I agree with you on GM.@ KaBob Wait what do you mean, like games will become so technically advanced they will run incredibly fast?
@Qwilderwibben FUCK YEAH, THAT'S THE KIND OF ATTITUDE I LIKE TO SEE. :PWhat I mean is that at some point most games will stop dramatically increasing their graphics (due to the graphics costing so much and looking so good) and at the same time computers are getting faster and cheaper so eventually you won't need to constantly upgrade your computer just to play a game on low graphics.
What KaBob mean is that computers are advancing and getting cheap so quickly that a service like this would be more expensive soon.
EDIT: hijacked D=@Kabobbies :3
Oh, now I see what you mean. Did you know that graphics are already maxed out with infinite polygons thanks to a little program called Unlimited Detail.