PC’s can and probably does kick ass if you know what you are doing from the get go. But, just buying what ever 16yr old kid tells you at Best Buy, more than likely, you will have your hopes destroyed. This is a broken record, but it seems to be an endless story. I tried to explain my friend about the positives of PC and he just keeps bringing up “well, it still sounds like a pain in the ass to get a rig started, and playing on a keyboard and mouse is foreign to me” Which I do agree, a lot of people that grew up on consoles, have a hard time wanting to switch to the “master race.”
Good thing nearly every game on pc works with a Controller.
Good thing there are like 50 million Xbox 360 controllers in the wild that all work on PC.
Games just download and play now, you don’t even install shit anymore(if it’s from Steam), which means that’s 1 less step you need to do before you start playing. Dual Shock 4 and Xbox controllers are plug-and-play too. With forced online paywalls on all next-gen consoles not a Wii U(lol) PC is looking better than it ever has.
Great post. Too bad it’s going to go over the heads of all the animu loving phaggots and Scrub Fighter IV players.
Early 2000’s was my favorite times as a PC gamer. I coasted through the PS2-gen with a high-end PC(at the time, playing dat Half-Life 2 and DOOM 3 and Quake 3-engine based games) as well as GBA/DS/PS2/GC assist. DC a bit too before it got GGPO’d.
But too bad there isn’t a Gamestop of PC’s so that people can get guided into building a decent rig. Not everyone has the patience/effort to research what it takes to build one, and that a big reason why people buy consoles over PC.
Without emulation…PC’s wouldn’t have anything worth playing.
I’m not interested in fps games or mmo’s , lol.
#PCmasterwankolol
It’s coming soon, it’s called Steambox.
There are also pre-built Alienware PC’s that are the size of current-gen consoles that are built in such a way to be played console-style.
Honestly, I moved back to PC 1/2 way through this gen because I was fucking tired of every game running at sub-30 FPS and stuttering out the ass as soon as any action hit the screen. Playing a game that I played on console, on PC with double the framerate+improved graphics blew me away. The difference is way, way bigger than you or others might think. The differences are so big that when I saw PS4/Xbox One games in action all I thought to myself was how they all looked like PC games from 1-2 years ago.
Your views are clouded if you seriously think PC gaming is nothing but FPS games and MMO’s.
I think everybody in this thread so far has overlooked Sony’s true role in the past 25 years or so. Everybody has focused on Sony’s Computer Entertainment Divison(Gaming essentially), yet nobody has mentioned all the other divisions that brought us monumental changes in the last quarter century. If we look at the stuff that Sony has given us, it’s hard to believe how they got to where they are today. From the CD to the Walkman to their line of Trinitron televisons(which I still own one to this day and it’s still going strong for almost twenty years now, though I did pack it up a couple of montys ago). Yes, Sony as a brand was a pioneer in many fields and that we can not dispute. Where they succeeded they revolutionized and when they failed, they failed hard.
I guess Sony’s story is starting to look like almost any other manufacturer that has reached the top of the mountain and is about to fall hard. When day to day “consumer electronics” become a commodity and when people look at price over quality first, than you better be ready to adapt fast. The Koreans and Chinese got this very early, but the Japanese were too late to the party.
While I don’t believe that Sony will cease to exist as a company anytime soon, I do see them selling a lot of their divisions very soon in the near future.
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I bet some of the older members on here remember these:
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Maybe this generation will bring good innovative games back, rather than safe games.
This thread is filled with ALOT of ignorant views, holy shit! 
Thinking PC gaming is all FPS and MMOs…just straight up lols.
Both those genres are overrepresented in the PC-gaming library , and that is what i should have said.
There simply are no games for PC that appeal to me.
PC is ALLRIGHT as long as you aren’t someone who leans heavily towards japanese games and gamedesign.
I can’t think of any pc game aside from fps and mmo’s. Shine the light.
I dunno, most “AAA” games have taken the “safe” route.
Innovation and creativity is stuck in the indie scene lately it seems. The only innovative “AAA” game I’ve played this gen is Dead Rising.
Walkman was equivalent to what the iPod is now. :shake:
Sony has its hands in almost everything. It’s crazy to think how as a company they’ve been entertaining me through music, games, tech and movies for as long as I can remember.
I still have my md player
so I guess I have a 79% chance of dying in 2 years
i built a pc last year and have come to regret it. all of the great games like grand theft auto IV have bad pc ports. any good graphics come from mods made in the community. the video cards and processors are great but the games aren’t programmed to make full use of them. consoles really give you the most bang for your buck, i’ve advised all of my friends away from gaming PCs.
i’m sure playstation will pick back up. their 1st party game releases last year got alot of attention. i would buy a ps4 just to play a new rachet and clank or something like the last of us.
I think you only see the “AAA” releases on PC if nothing appeals to you. PC has a gaming library spanning over 20 years in every single genre you can think of, with endless BC.
Google “Steam” or “GOG” or “list of PC games.”
The library of PC games is larger and more diverse than any single console by itself. How are you guys so sheltered when it comes to one of the best gaming platforms and libraries around?
It’s like you guys live in a world where only one console exists where you don’t realize there are great games spanning across every platform and genre not called Xbox.
I don’t own a console, so I don’t know.
So do I, and it still probably works after all these years. LOL…