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.
I laughed when they showed World of Warcraft graphics, which are easily some of the worst graphics in existence (though granted, they have good reason, and other than that, I don't complain).
We need a better way to show more detailed foliage. Having scattered planes with textures is getting old.If Unlimited Detail is as good as they say it is then maybe we are even closer than I thought. The big thing would then be raising processor speed for stuff like physics, but considering all the dual/quad/etc cores showing up recently, things are probably going to go fairly quick.
Onlive was interesting. it lags but I was able to play the demos on my netbook :D and it was awesome! albet my internet is slow in general so I had to hook it directly to my router XD
I swear, video game technology is becoming more incredible with each passing second. I can only imagine what will be possible within the next 10 years.
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Isn't OnLive limited to some shitty resolution and framerate, too? I'm guessing you couldn't have 1920x1200/1920x1080 or above streamed at 60FPS to you. And I heard they don't even run at max settings or something?
It does run on max settings and the frame rate is stable too, I think it's just the resolution that's not great. I forgot, download it and play it for yourself.
I rather have the ability to play games if my internet is down or if I'm on my laptop at school (baaaddd internets)
The fact it runs on max settings is the service's entire point - I'd assume at some point you'll be able to change resolution settings, but obviously the higher you go, the faster internet you need. So, instead of buying a decent internet connection for $x and a decent computer for $y, you buy a great internet connection for $3x and save money for about a year. Whoop-de-doo.
I have a feeling they are going to be targeting the facebook audience since that seems to be the general area of internet integrated people without any computer experience who wouldn't know better.