| aLkaLiNE said: A lot of the inaccessibility for me toward PC stems from the fact that A) my couch is far more comfortable than our computer chair. B) Justin, my little brother practically lives on it. I couldn't invest that much time in it even if I wanted to. B.2) I don't WANT to spend that much time on it because I see what it's done for him and his social life. C) It's the press of a power button and the click of an X to launch a game on PS4, all within seconds. PC is not that fast from a cold boot. It's the little things. There's honestly not the best stigma about PC players and that's a stigma many of them help foster - 'PC master race' as a term is evidenced by that. As someone who plays video games, the only thing and I mean literally the only thing PC has that might interest me even a little bit are MMORPGs which require ridiculous amounts of time to be competitive in. Other than that one genre, home consoles do everything more comfortably, more accessibly, and you won't have to upgrade in 8-10 years except possibly a hard drive, possibly a peripheral or two and an online subscription. Many of you downplay these things or use Steam as a point about games being cheap, etc. Second hand console games are just as cheap around here and I don't have to download them (we don't have the fastest internet). With my lifestyle PC is just not an attractive option. I'm sure others feel this way too; Just feels condescending when PC players don't understand why everyone and their mother aren't on the platform. |
no offense but you've technically come straight into a PC thread and just downplayed PC right from the getgo with little personal quips to a point where you're basing all of what you said as if it were fact instead of complete subjective opinion where it doesn't matter to anyone else but yourself.
This isn't the place to talk about consoles vs PC, this was him talking about his GPU and specs doing him well for GTA V on PC.
A few tid bits of info you don't know about PC as much just going by what you've written:
1) You can plug your PC into your TV, it;s not hard or expensive.
2)You don't need to invest much time and even then people invest a lot of time on their consoles the same as PC players would, not everyone is your brother and doesn't require as much either.
3)Same as point 2 since you've just added point 2 and made it into something you make sound like it damages everyone, that's simply not true at all.
4)You can use an SSD to make your boot times so much faster that it takes seconds, put your PC into sleep or hibernation mode, you only need to click to start your game anyways on PC rather than walking over to your console and having to pop in a disk or take one out, if you use digital games as your argument you lose that since PC's were doing that before consoles and consoles don't make digital any different.
"There's honestly not the best stigma about PC players and that's a stigma many of them help foster - 'PC master race' as a term is evidenced by that."
PC master race is a joke thatw as started by Yahtzee over on The Escapist, it;s been a joke ever since and yes there are people who twist it into a bad of price but they are not the majority and even then console gamers do the same calling themselves god gamers or godgamestation4 etc, it;s not just PC players, not every PC player is condesending and console players can do just the same, it is not a one way street.
"As someone who plays video games, the only thing and I mean literally the only thing PC has that might interest me even a little bit are MMORPGs which require ridiculous amounts of time to be competitive in"
Sounds to me like PC gaming was never your thing, I suggest you step completely away from it then if RTS, SIM and other genres don't interest you. I've played WoW on and off for years and I hardly find it difficult or time consuming, you just have to find the time you want to spend on it, you know like managing your time skills like we should all be doing throughout life anyway.
"Other than that one genre, home consoles do everything more comfortably, more accessibly, and you won't have to upgrade in 8-10 years except possibly a hard drive, possibly a peripheral or two and an online subscription."
Consoles don't have RTS or the SIm genre, there are more than just one genre when it comes to PC, PC's can do the same when it comes to couch gaming with a gamepad plugged in and even then you don't have to upgrade as often as you're making it out to be, I'm upgrading shortly and with that I won't have to upgrade for at least another 5-6 years which is plenty of time and even then it won't cost me much for the enxt upgrade by that time.
Also the majority of PC games have free online, you actually have to pay a sub to play online on 360,XB1 and PS4 so yeah PC has the utmost edge over consoles in that regard, same with the Wii U.
Honestly I don't know why you decided to just pop in and complain about PC gaming when you already stated it wasn't for you, you came in throwing and downplaying PC as if it wasn't for anyone, it;s not for you and you knew this before you hopped into the thread, I find that adds nothing to this topic at all and just turns it into an on purpose PC vs console thread which is essentially what's happening now due to me having to point out you being wrong on so many levels instead of just going with "it's my opinion and PC gaming is not for me so I'll just bow out from here on".
See now you've made it clear you don't ever want to get into PC gaming and don't like it so I;'d imagine you won't be popping into future PC dicussion topics because it;s not for you and you've clearly made your peace, further popping in won't add anything to future dicussions, it'd be like me leaving console gaming and yet trying to pop in console only topics throwing around info I don't know about and acting like I know something only to get corrected which is what is happening now.
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