{"id":1473,"date":"2011-10-25T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2011-10-25T10:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:44:58","slug":"deus-ex-human-revolution-for-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don’t know how long this promotion will be on, but right now if you head on over to Onlive.com<\/a> and sign up, your first game purchase is only $1.<\/p>\n

This is assuming you are new to Onlive or at least haven’t made any purchases yet.<\/p>\n

I signed up for Onlive after getting back from PAX last month, but hadn’t made any purchases yet.\u00a0 Immediately after getting the e-mail from Onlive, I logged in and purchased Deus Ex: Human Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The only other games I would have been interested in are L.A. Noire<\/a> and Batman: Arkham City<\/a>, but neither game is available yet and pre-orders don’t count for this promotion.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

In a previous post<\/a>, I mentioned that I found the control lag with Onlive to be a big problem with games that require a fast response (like racing games).\u00a0 After spending some time playing DE: HR through Onlive, I still believe this is a big problem.\u00a0 Luckily, DE: HR doesn’t require lightning fast controls.\u00a0 L.A. Noire will probably be even better suited for this type of service since it has a much slower pace.\u00a0 I still wouldn’t recommend purchasing any racing games or fast paced first person shooters.\u00a0 It’s still possible I will run into lag related difficulties with Deus Ex as the game progresses (and the difficulty increases).<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

In the end, the biggest benefit to using a cloud based gaming service like Onlive, is it allows you to play high end PC Games without having a high end PC.\u00a0 I actually have a fairly high end system already (4GHz i5 2500k\/8GB DDR3\/ HD5850) so this isn’t really a benefit for me, but saving 98% off of the retail price of a 2 month old game is pretty huge.<\/p>\n

I would still prefer to have my PC do all of the work\/processing so that I can get pure 1080p goodness with 0% lag, but for $1 I can’t really complain.<\/p>\n

ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how long this promotion will be on, but right now if you head on over to Onlive.com and sign up, your first game purchase is only $1.<\/p>\n

This is assuming you are new to Onlive or at least haven’t made any purchases yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[125,126,204,99,13],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-cloud","tag-deus-ex","tag-games","tag-onlive","tag-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-nL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}