So today was my first time trying one of those services that streams PC games running on a higher end machine to yours after hearing about them forever, and damn did it work a treat! Surprised at the tiny amount of lag it had too. http://www.gaikai.com/ Should try it out! ;-) (If a thread exists already, forgive) Edit: Also, to breakup my post and not make it look like an advertisement, it has a small selection of games so far, but some pretty big name titles. I always heard about the On-live as it was the first big name service that was doing the same thing, but I never tried it. I heard bad things about connection quality, but I don't know. Someone just sent me a link today, and I must say this service definitely does better than my first assumption when waiting for the game to load. & is pretty neat as it should work on all of nowadays "low end" machines.
Pretty much, and Gaikai is browser based. Honestly, I tried it with ME2 awhile back during a stress-test, and the lag was horrible, it made the game completely unplayable. I'd recommend OnLive over Gaikai anyday for people looking into game streaming options.. However, nothing beats playing a PC game on the PC, since you'll be able to modify your game with user-made content, and have all kinds of nice options.
My quick demo play of DR2 resulted in 0 lag, that was what made me want to post this on here. I was too surprised by the connection quality, especially with my mid-level ISP. But agreed, nothing ever beats owning something you can modify and actually hold in your hands. Never will either. The only good thing about Streaming games is the fact low end PC users can play games their systems wouldn't be able to run at all directly. Looking past that, it is indeed pointless.;-)
