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  • I think after a while everything will go over internett when the speed is so fast its no point in having a high spec pc cuz your phone will have the powers of a super computer :)

  • Hipster: "I Played Games When Games Weren't Cool"

  • I think if there was some kind of partnership between Steam and Online, it would make a good combination. Use the onlive feature to try out a game for half an hour, purchase it through steam or rent it through onlive. With that people can't use 'I pirate games to see what its like and then buy it' excuse anymore either.

  • @bcmin12 there is a reason it's called a excuse. they will still pirate games because they don't want to spend money

  • It's not really that gaming in general is more socially acceptable, more like certain genres are socially acceptable. Someone who play's CoD people won't think much off, but if you play something like WoW or Final Fantasy some people will still see you as awkard and nerdy. It doesn't bother myself much at all, when someone calls me a nerd a just jokingly say "Please, I wish i was smart enough to be a nerd."

  • I plan on playing games until I am sick of the whole thing as a whole, no matter if its a console or what I use right now, PC.

  • I played games when it wasnt cool... Hipster xD

  • TotalBiscuit for Prime Minister......

  • @weza3 TotalBiscuit for Emperor of Mankind.

  • While my grandmother had no interest in playing games, she is interested in seeing them, because she's fascinated by how far they've come and what they are capable of. Even subpar games I can't stand are so impressive to her. It makes me realize how jaded I and many others are. We're complaining about a world we've been given to explore we would never have otherwise had. You can be a war hero, a god, a zombie killer. And we whine about they're still not good enough. God how childish...

  • my parents in mid forties play puzzle games and fun games most of the time

  • Ranting TB is best TB

  • My thought on who Onlive is aimed at:

    It might be aimed at people who hardly ever upgrade their pc. We've come to a point now where most applications on an everyday pc don't really need more cpu power: web browsing, office apps, playing music. Any 5-year old cpu can handle that. So someone with a 5-year old pc could just get onlive, instead of buying new hardware or a new pc.

  • STD :3

  • 7:02 you talking about me TB.

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  • how did the social stigma on gaming turn into a quality family time rant?? i love your rants but the way you connect things can be sudden

  • Anyone else notice how ironic it is that TB doesn't like people talking over movies?

  • I played fable 3 with my sister. Also my video drivers won't run minecraft

  • @lordroflcopter Same here. There's no ATI support for Linux. Noooootttcchhhh!!!

  • Well, I have an excellent connection and a console, but my PC is shitty as a fuck. I tried OnLive, and my computer cannot run it.

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

  • You know, i cant stand those comments people make with time link for the videos, just to get some thumbs up.

    But in these mailbox video, i actually miss it when they're not here :D

  • Gotta say I actually rather enjoyed this mailbox. The topic of playing games at certain age is definitely interesting, my mother keeps asking me "When will you grow out of gaming?". Well, my answer, just like TB's, probably never. Gaming is something I love and something I've been with ever since I was a kid, and I couldn't care less about social stigma either, so... To the poster of the question especially, don't get pushed by others' opinion on how you spend your free time, man.

  • Trolls: "OMG TB YOU SUCK"

    Me: *pulls out shotgun* "hey you, get away from there keyboards are for big boys!!!"

  • I played quake 2 with my sister and father when i was young, it was awsome.

  • I disagree with TB on the on live thingy, maybe younger gamers who can't afford a high spec pc wants to play battlefield 3 for example. I actually experienced it myself when I found out that my pc can't run BF3, I was heartbroken and when a service like this offers me a chance to play BF3 instead of saving up to about 1000 pounds.

  • @TheBaggy1337 I've heard that BF3 hasn't been announced for OnLive because of the relationship between EA and OnLive... If you researched this and can prove me wrong, can you show me? I'd be interested to see it.

  • @Chris246t8kr I didn't say that it was avaiveble, but it was an example

  • @TheBaggy1337 I know, I was fully aware that it was an example but you were "heartbroken" that your PC won't run BF3... so why say that you can save up to £1000 if it wouldn't be available in the first place?

  • @Chris246t8kr I don't quite understand what you mean but what I meant that if I can't run it, I need about £1000 to buy a new pc.

  • when has watching tv with your kids been bonding with them, try computers games vs sport / park / making lego etc... not tv and movies. ;)

    books are no good for kids!.. good luck with your kids reading :)

  • @Farbo123 that wouldnt work my mother hates gaming and the whole online thing so she would flip that i was talking to people and then make me delete everything my fasther already knows i talk to people adn he has spent over 200 dollars on my gaming (very nice) and he understands thought neither of them really like the fact that i game.. i dont tell my mom andthing about the money i spend on them and such because it is just redicules how much she hates gaming... wants to sell computer to stop me

  • I agree entirely with TB on the gaming social question. Nice one TB!

  • i see onlive as another source of cheap deals rather then an actual alternative to going to the shop or steam

    atm they are doing a £1 deal on all games which means i'd save £39 on a game such as warhammer, etc

  • TB. Do you read these letters before you make the video, or can you really talk such sense without having to think about it beforehand? Much love. <3

  • ...this left me quite...perplexed... and creeped out... OnLive: what are you hiding? =_=

  • is it aimed at young children just getting into games 'the next generations'

  • I also see OnLive working, because they can give you MORE computing power for the time you play than the average person can reasonably purchase, so they could one day have games that only the onlive system could handle. I would also add that onlive has said that they are still financially viable even if no one buys games, and just pays the sub fee and uses it to demo and watch people play.

  • I also see OnLive working, because they can give you MORE computing power for the time you play than the average person can reasonably purchase, so they could one day have games that only the onlive system could handle.

  • my grandma whos 76 plays video game. and not just puzzle games but shoter games too. its kinda scary

  • @opelstorm1324 you have an awesome grandma ;p

  • @opelstorm1324 Wow, I can't even make my dad play anything more than Tetris and Arkanoid :D I wish he rolled and kicked ass with me in some MMO or other multiplayer stuff :)

  • @opelstorm1324 lulwut

  • @opelstorm1324 I would watch the hell out of "granny spawncamps". You could devote an entire youtube channel to her!

  • @opelstorm1324 wow 1 awesome grandma one of my grandmas can barely shut down the computer and she is 65 my other grand who is 70 can use the computer and the internet. Weird stuff

  • @opelstorm1324 more like kinda AWESOME!

  • @opelstorm1324 wow your grandma is awesome!

  • @opelstorm1324 Coolest Grandma ever! Can't even picture my grandma doing that

  • New Hack:

    watch?v=nACDn3RQIlA

  • TB played games before it was cool

  • OnLive could work for students with low-spec laptops (universities have high-speed internet) and dedicated MMO players who used to play one MMO for years and aren't interested in new hardware.

    OnLive isn't the future but renting computing power is. If you need some calculations done you could rent computing power rather than buying a building full of computers. You could sell your computing power when you're not using your home PC. - More in Permutation City by Greg Egan.

  • @dizzt19 I think the OnLive service will offer more value to a wider audience once they can incorporate other services... such as TV/Movie streaming. I love to load up the Arena every now and then and watch people play, but right now there is not enough value in the service for me to really invest in it (i.e. buy a game).

  • 07:55

    I CAN SEE MYSELF GAMING TILL I DIE

    -TotalBiscuit's Tombstone

  • xD Its a bit different with my family. We actually talk about stuff while watching TV, especially when its something like Daily Planet or a Discovery/ History channel show. Mostly in commercials, we just mute and talk. Now I have to totally disagree with talking through movies at home. Some movies are just so bad or confusing that you can't help discussing it. And just because they made the movie doesn't mean they know better, look at "The Last Airbender" along with others. To each his/her own.

  • "Maybe they should play a champ like trynd so they don't have to learn :P" Oh TB..

  • LOL total biscuit rage =)

  • free RP and champions, no program very easy just watch

    /watch?v=FJ_k31RIphw

  • TB, I can tell you who would want the OnLive service: it's for people not smart enough to install game on PC. It's the plug n' play convenience of a console for the PC, and whatever else I suppose. You may not think that's a huge demographic but IT IS. Kids everywhere, especially the ones that play COD; the ones with parents that don't trust their kids to own a computer of their own. Don't you see, it's the perfect package! PC for most people means complication! Well... that was my impression.

  • 3:48 Yo, ur team has captured the Quarry!

  • Was anyone just watching the game he was playing and completely ignoring his words for a majority of the video?

  • @zapdos131313 No because that would defeat the point in watching this video in the first place.

  • @Sneezlebob How about YES.

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  • I use onlive, great deals, got a free game system and controller for preordering a game. Very fun, I love being able to play my game on a "console" and continue it later on the computer.

  • I use onlive, great deals, got a free game system and controller for preordering a game. Very fun, I love being able to play my game on a "console" and continue it later on the computer.

  • IM using onlive purely because of the £1 bonus thing, thats it

  • Anyone else see TB's sly comment about trdyn at the end? ;D

  • 'maybe they should play a champ like Trynd so they don't have to learn' I'll drink to that TB.

  • (p2) that means that dev's are no longer restricted by 10 year old console graphic limitations or PC games were piracy is running rampant

  • (p1)onlive are for people like me people that pay more for games then most of you due to tax and what not but we do have our entire country covered in 16Mb speed wifi (it will be upgraded to 40-60 by mid 2012) while it might be true that the picture is in a losi form (i know nothing about video so i cant say)i would hope the tech evolve as more people buy into it...and just think about it if onlive become's the go to place for your games

  • Ran out of room on my nerd rage replay.

    Onlive will have exclusives and the one that Steve Perlman stats will look like avatar when it comes out in 2012 and he states the best 2012gaming pc will not come close to have the power of running that game. That reminds me Onlive hardware is like comparing a Toyota mini van to a NASCAR in graphic power Ver a PC and yes onlive is the NASCAR. 

  • @TotalHalibut Your logic on this matter is is way off. I'll tell you who they are targeting MR totalfailbutt. I will not upgrade my pc for $200+ just to play a $60 pc game for a year and then more costly upgrades, i do not like console games anymore and i want to play PC games on my TV or tablet (never ever needs upgrades) and fyi if you buy a hard-copy of a new released game (deus ex3 is the first) and if its on onlive you will get the full play-pass code with it so you will have both.

  • @TotalHalibut : people who are running Linux and don't want to pay for a Windows License might be interested by Onlive, provided they do support Linux...

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  • Wow, shirking your priorities sounded like jerking your privates for a sec there...I'm tired...

  • An onlive-ish service on steam would've been nice. Simply Steam + the possibility to play from anywhere and on basically any machine, but maybe not as crispy.

  • Well, i think onlive is for the people with a cheap PC and who don't like to wait for downloads and updates.

  • The only way I see this Onlive business model work is through rental services.

    I don't think people will be willing to pay a full game price just to have access to it when certain conditions are met, such as having a high speed connection around.You don't own a license of the game and cannot download it on your PC.

    It will be great for monthly renting,because it allows you to try all these games out before you buy them or play them until you acquire a good enough PC/Console that can handle them

  • @AfterStarX Why would you not just buy them there if you don't have a good enough PC/console? That's actually what it's ment for.

    I do however not like the fact that you don't see the games, you can't touch them, it's just a few bytes on their server saying you own it.

  • @arjanboogaart Please read again what I wrote. I said "...play them UNTIL you acquire a good enough PC/Console that can handle them."

  • @AfterStarX When you buy the hard copy of a game you do not own the game (license) you only own the CD and you can buy hard copy's and get the onlive Ver free. Get out of the past and live in the present. Like i said in my replay before this one, onlive will have exclusives that put pc/consoles to shame. The cloud is in and hardware is out. Full price for onlive games? mmm no. I spent $34 total and i got assassin creed BH, metro2033, just cause2, silenthunter5, batman arkham asylum + more.

  • We will change the ordinariness! We will create an empty channel with the majority of subscribers! We break the stereotypes!

  • Every mac user should have onlive tbh they can't play shi"t anyway so ye this would be great for them, and ye mac users should be able to afford a good connection :P

  • @koabarra ooohhh, very clever ;)

  • 3:11 its like you read my mind! I agree with you 1000%

  • wow tbs wife must  talk alot

  • The best way to watch a movie with family is to have it be a bad movie and MST3k it. Granted you've got to be a bit witty and funny as a family.

  • I used to play video games before they were cool... hipster totalbiscuit

  • 3:15 well said. Speaks my mind exactly :D I involuntarily clapped hehe. I hate it when people talks during a movie. Unfortunately my family and my college roomates LOVES to talk during a movie :(( I began to feel that I'm weird for not talking.

  • You say its no use to you, and that may be true now, but, in the future:

    1) Would you rather spend hundreds on upgrading your PC in the future to keep up or just use that money for games? I personally pick the latter.

    2) Consoles do have used games, but with the sales Onlive has, which are similar to Steam, why would you need them?

    3) Your argument applies to alot of stuff. Netflix because someone doesnt have dvd player. Smartphones because someone doesnt have a computer. Both have exploded.

  • That said its cool that you like some of the features. I see your point on why most wont need the service, and that is correct, but the same could be said of Steam when it first came out, noone needed steam, they could just buy discs for the game. Now practically everyone who games on PC uses steam and its smashing the pc retail market, because of the convenience due to no more store visits or shipments or discs. Onlive adds convenience because no installs or downloads or platform restrictions.

  • Another thing to consider is the Playpack discount of 30%. If you're subscribed to it you get 30% off all purchases. So a $50 game for $35. Say someone that may not be able to run the game at high/max specs could pay $35 or $60 to play on Console. Yes, there is a little sacrifice due to the video stream, but later on I could buy the game cheap for under $10 3-4 years down the road when I have a PC good enough to run high/max or get it used on console for that and still end up paying less.

  • 7:03

    Oh, tb.. You hipster :)

  • I use Onlive because my pc isn't high end nor am I going to upgrade any time soon because of budget and I want to play some of the games on there now without using up hard disk space AND I do not really like playing on a console as much as pc. I also like the chat and the feature that allows you to watch other's play on the service. As for buying a game on it's own? Not worth it for me because I don't keep it yet I paid for it. 10 bucks a month is kinda eh but I have some fun and I'm not alone:)

  • I was thinking about what TB and my fondest memory was sniping my dad from on top the big wheel in last resort on halo two

  • fuck this guy below me

  • I try to get my Dad/mom to game with me but my mom doesn't know what the heck Cod or Battlefield is, and or is How it is played. My dad know some but he won't game...

  • Onlive fanboy are MAD : gooDOTgl/Hxw9X

    :D 

  • Onlive is maybe for Mac users since they cant play any new game ;D

  • @HDlfc10 WHAT HAS U DONE?!

  • "Maybe they should play a champ like trynd so they don't have to try. :P"

  • For April First, he should do "WTF is Runescape"

  • Finally!

  • "Why the hell should I listen to you? I'll spend my leisure as I damned well please."

    *looks at description*

    Rated TV-Y. Approved for all audiences. xD

  • I <3 the noob trynd that keeps trying to focus karthas. That is the dumbest idea I have ever seen a LoL player have. Other than not warding of coarse.

  • omg, I hate people talking during movies aswell!!! :D

  • the average age of an MMO player is 36

  • "They are lonely, give them some attention"

    xD

  • Who else wanted to press the "Continue" to end it?

  • onlive - as i listen to you talking about it, i wonder - couldnt it be the ultimate marketing platform? you program your game for whatever hardware you want, publish on onLive, people can try it out instantly without downloads or ANY traces on their computer, no installs or uninstalls... and if they like it, they buy it and download it whole... that's the way i could see it working, but then it would make more sense to monetise on "advertisers" and keep the user-end free

  • LOL I <3 YOU TB look what he types at end of game!!!! XDXD

  • It's good for people with macs its huge for the mac gamers

  • onlive has its place in gaming for a good while.

    you sir however dont !!!!

    looool

  • are you coming to Dreamhack winter this year ? :D

  • ctrl+hotkey of skill instead of clicking the + X)

  • I use OnLive frequently. I love it. I play more games on it than my PS3.

  • i think im going to show this to my family, they hate on video games... but LOVE when im down in the living room watching TV and i hate it because we dont talk :/

  • @MasterCheif0300 am I a clone of yours? Sooo similar :o

  • @MasterCheif0300 i have this about every thing. my family keeps complaing we don't speend time together... well maybe i'm rea<lly the only one noticeing the pattern but for the love of god we do not talk when we are together.

    what is the point to force the family to eat together if it's not to talk over dinner?

  • @theguyyouhate my family used to talk together but now they moved a TV into our kitchen so we just stare at it, and ofc they get to choose the channel and i HAVE to stay otherwise im unsocial... every time i see my parents they are either, doing chors, sleeping, or watching TV completely silent. And they say they dont have Time for video games... i think most parents should see gaming as a media as well as tv. We dont just sit in front of a screen, we actually think and socialise :3

  • @MasterCheif0300 i won't insult you because you're a fellow Halo'er

  • I dont care about som damm stupid ULTRA WIDE SCREEN thing!!! ffs total biscuit and simon and lewis... you just need to put that stuff away

  • @Crispypanhead They dont control what ads play in the beginning, youtube does.

  • In my country you are a nerd if you are bad at DotA or CS 1.6 or never have played it games are a very important social medium here.....the country is Serbia.....

  • I will be gaming until I'm dead. Good day sir.

  • TotalBiscuit: Dominion is fairly terrible.

    Rammus: "Ok"

  • @JustJamx3s he never said it was terrible

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  • I still play video games with my mum, I'm 20 and she's 58.

  • hey tb sorry to hear about that std you got abroad

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  • @HDlfc10 What STD?

  • @HDlfc10 from a broad you mean dohoho 

  • I WILL USE ONLIVE!

    when i go to Uni and take a piddly netbook and leave my monster PC at home and have lovely uni internet :D

  • @BOB1million College/university internet is crap. I'm using it right now, and I have to pause my video every few minutes to load.

  • @SerraFlame D: fuck that, gap year..

  • @SerraFlame Then take my internet: pausing every half a minute - or even more often - to make it load. Yeah, it's a shit.

  • Books is a limited form of media, yes, but so are video games. Books can do some things that video games can't, for instance are books generally way, way, WAY better at going into the heads of the character(s) in the book. In video games you rarely ever hear what the character is thinking as you go, because quite frankly, there's no really good method of conveying that through video/audio as of yet.

    Games are also limited when it comes to visuals. A game simply can't look as realistic as a film

  • @Jostedalsosten They can and do, most of the time. Just look at the graphics of Battlefield 3. And if you're talking an animated movie, that's even more realistic of an idea. Just look at a good family game, little big planet 2.

    Games can still portray the character's thoughts, as well as look as good as a film, maybe a little less realistic, but more extravagant special effects (Because they don't have to be possible to do outside of games).

  • @c0d3w0rd Sure, but you will have to agree that games such as Skyrim and BF3 can't match the visuals of a fantasy or war film. When I made the comment earlier I thought it was obvious that I excluded animated movies, as they are not about realism.

    It's definitely a subject of debate, but in my opinion games and films have up until this point failed at doing so. That is not to say that you don't explore the characters in dept in these media, however they do so in a different manner.

  • @c0d3w0rd Where a book conveys a persons thoughts more directly, a film or game might show this through facial expressions, subtle remarks and such. While this is a viable way of doing so, it still is a non-verbal form of communication, which, inevitably, means there's less detail. Books are superior in this regard, but films are superior in a different regard, just as games are superior in yet another area. Which is *the* best medium is a matter of taste.

  • @Jostedalsosten Around 55% of all communication is body language. Don't quote me on the exact statistics, but that's something that games and movies have, given that they do it right.

  • @hlsghost Sure, I know about that, but body language isn't enough to see what a person is thinking. In a book you can get that conveyed exactly as it is thought, word for word. There's no room for misconceptions. If body language was sufficient we would all know exactly what everyone else thinks all the time, and it's pretty obvious that we don't.

  • Poor Like and Favourite buttons... I will give you attention! <3

  • Don't lie to me all LoL gameplay is bad not just dominion. /fan flames. I'm super biased, everyone can enjoy what they like to not my job to convince them to play other ARTS/MOBA games. But HoN/DotA/DotA2 are more fun to watch. Ofcourse i just watched this and then changed tabs like it was an audio podcast.

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  • Watching this on a netbook, at the moment i have just a netbook, and i am MASSIVELY into PC Gaming :/

  • @theonlybritontheweb What games do you play?

  • My alliance leader in Guild Wars is a 50 year old woman... :p

  • the question..uhm..uhh,aahm...ALIE­NS!

  • Thumbs up if you watched this in full screen and tried to click continue at the victory screen...

  • @voodoopwns I think your the only one dumb enough -_-

  • i been seeing millions of adverts for onvile its getting on my nerves

  • you can double click a item to buy it!

  • man tb that was bad ass what you said at the end.

  • can anyone suggest a good but kinda cheap gaming pc?

  • I love how TB gets side tracked so easily sometimes lol

  • @MegaYognaught well if u have a pc congrats on having to upgrade all the time lol jk but seriously if u have a ps3 we can get along and play games we both like (skyrim).

  • @ixtoxicxz

    Lol, I've only upgraded my PC once. It's not too much of a hassle. And anyway, I'm just the kind of person who likes power and performance over convenience. Subjective opinion, I suppose, but oh well. Skyrim FTW!

  • @tigerface66 no i have a 2 story house and i sleep in my room up stairs

  • @ixtoxicxz Ok then just cause you said you in your living room is better then you Downstairs

  • dear total halibut i have consoles and a good conection but my comp is rubbish as it cant even run terria and on