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i have a gaming pc and i didn't play a real game on it since i bought my ps4, it might be a great time to be a gamer on pc, but it's a godly time to game on ps4, Bloodborne, Gravity Rysh Remastered, R&C, Uncharted 4, in the future Horizon, FFXV, The Last Guardian, Detroit, GTS, Persona V, too good



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They just need to make more PC games, but consoles are where the money is. Can you imagine a studio like Naughty Dog working on a PC game?



"But the PC ports are all shit and loaded with micro trans and don't look any better than console games at all, plenty of 2D games than 3D".

Joking aside I'd agree, it is a good time to game on PC. Plenty of titles coming out each month from all sides, modding communities dishing out their own content and ways to improve your games, Japanese supporting the platform more than they did 10 years ago along with plenty of vendors around to nab games at a cheaper price if it takes your fancy. Also new hardware coming out this year and the next that will bring about some good changes here and there.

Also I discovered you can play Overwatch with a gamepad along with the usual K+M support (unrelated but still nifty for those who want the option).

 

Just thought I'd also like to point out a new Kickstarter for a Dinosaur game where you play as the dinos, in which you must evolve, mate, fight, eat and drink to survive: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1379624404/saurian-an-open-world-dinosaur-survival-experience (Not tot trying to plug btw since it's listed as being PC only as far as info goes and it fits with the OP adding KS in their discussion). 



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"

JRPGfan said:
Steam and humble bundle... the sales are insane.
You can find really cheap games on PC, that is the main draw of PC gameing.

Also sites like GMG, managed to nab Fallout 4 a month and a half after release for just £26, even cheaper than what it was sold for on Steam during the Xmas sale, it was proper insane to see it that cheap.



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"

AnthonyW86 said:
Johnw1104 said:
With the absurdly huge library and the crazy steam sales (I mean that one annual sale it seems like every game is at least 50% off) I really have to agree. It's definitely the best time to be a PC gamer that I've ever known, and I've been at it since DOS and 8 inch floppy disks.

I have to dissagree with you on the last part, mid 90's to mid 00's the best by far.

I'd have to ask what it was that you liked most about it?

I can kind of agree for a couple of reasons, though ultimately I don't. First, I very much miss those wonderful, giant boxes full of books, maps, images, and all those extra goodies that used to come with computer games. I absolutely loved the adventure and point-and-click genres, for instance, and they flourished then.

Also, games seemed borderline mindblowing when I'd play them as the improvements were so vast over what came before. The early RTS games (Age of Empires/Warcraft/C&C etc), online games like Quake/Counter-Strike/Rainbow Six, whatever genre Diablo/Diablo II is, those early MMO's like Ultima Online/Everquest/Star Wars Galaxies/FFXI/Vanilla WoW (I probably played or tried a dozen+ MMO's in that span); every game was just an amazing experience because it still felt fresh and new to an extent, akin to that transition between Mario World and Mario 64.

In that sense, it was a revolutionary time for PC gaming that was so much fun to experience, so I definitely loved it. Now, though, we're seeing the birth of a new revolutionary period where the best games are often indie games, the libraries are impossibly large, and genre lines are being blurred. Steam is just a wonderful thing, and I'm very excited to see what's available a few years down the road given what we already have.



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Slimebeast said:
All hail the PC. It certainly is good.

I'm still enjoying Mont & Blade: Warband so much (through Viking reforged), and Bannerlord looks unbelievably good. I can't believe we'll get to experience such a game some day.

I played Mount & Blade to death lol, I was so happy when Paradox Interactive picked them up a few years ago. In my opinion they're the absolute perfect publisher for the franchise, and I can't wait to see what their additional funding is going to yield in Mount & Blade II (the footage showed so far looks awesome).



Ruler said:

Today i get almost every game now the pc gets on my ps4, and i think with the PS4 Neo and frequant console upgrades the library will just keep growing and growing where it one day the difference will be small in comparison to steam.

First, your interests must be fairly limited as far as PC games go as there is zero chance you could get "almost every game" the PC gets on your PS4. Just take a gander through Steam's library, the number of games you can't get on consoles is rather staggering.

Second, the PS4 Neo will do nothing to close the gap with the PC (do consider a new generation of GPUs is just about to hit the market tomorrow), nor will "frequent console upgrades" really alter the console library all that much. It's not a safe assumption that console upgrades will happen any more than once per console lifecycle, and that isn't what's separating the two libraries to begin with.

We're still waiting to see if they'll even release proper consoles going forward, after all. The gap between the two libraries, in my experience, is actually growing between the consoles and the PC, not shrinking. The one thing that might actually unite the two is something like the Steam box, and I do wonder with these console upgrades and such if people might not begin simply looking at those... they already have an assortment of upgrades available, after all, as well as access to PC games.



Johnw1104 said:
Ruler said:

Today i get almost every game now the pc gets on my ps4, and i think with the PS4 Neo and frequant console upgrades the library will just keep growing and growing where it one day the difference will be small in comparison to steam.

First, your interests must be fairly limited as far as PC games go as there is zero chance you could get "almost every game" the PC gets on your PS4. Just take a gander through Steam's library, the number of games you can't get on consoles is rather staggering.

Second, the PS4 Neo will do nothing to close the gap with the PC (do consider a new generation of GPUs is just about to hit the market tomorrow), nor will "frequent console upgrades" really alter the console library all that much. It's not a safe assumption that console upgrades will happen any more than once per console lifecycle, and that isn't what's separating the two libraries to begin with.

We're still waiting to see if they'll even release proper consoles going forward, after all. The gap between the two libraries, in my experience, is actually growing between the consoles and the PC, not shrinking. The one thing that might actually unite the two is something like the Steam box, and I do wonder with these console upgrades and such if people might not begin simply looking at those... they already have an assortment of upgrades available, after all, as well as access to PC games.

I dont see any game i missing on my PS4 the PC has, but theres quite a lot of high quality exclusives the PS4 has the PC lacks. Sure the PC has its mobas and free to play games but these dont interest me, even if they would i only would havet he time, money and dedication to play one of them. Sorry but to say some obscure indie game or free to play game is on the same quality like Bloodborne or U4 is redicolous.

Steam has a lot of legacy games from previous generations but do you what there is in the console world? PS1, 2 and 3. You can play all these games as well on your older console.

And no i dont see how the steam library gets bigger and bigger over PSN, PC gamers used to bragg about all these indies. Now we do get them too and even for free on PS+, and more and more free to play games at least the popular ones. Same way with 7th games, we get more and more remasters and older games on PS4. Along every new release plus exclusives from japanese devoloper or from Sony. No the difference becomes smaller and samller

Yeah the Neo is strong enough to play games in 60fps. Can you built a stronger pc? sure you can but the Neo is hitting the average target of PC gamers wallets, lets be honest.

Why should Sony reset the next gen? they arent even sure there will be a PS5. From now on the PS4 library will get bigger and bigger



Johnw1104 said:
Slimebeast said:
All hail the PC. It certainly is good.

I'm still enjoying Mont & Blade: Warband so much (through Viking reforged), and Bannerlord looks unbelievably good. I can't believe we'll get to experience such a game some day.

I played Mount & Blade to death lol, I was so happy when Paradox Interactive picked them up a few years ago. In my opinion they're the absolute perfect publisher for the franchise, and I can't wait to see what their additional funding is going to yield in Mount & Blade II (the footage showed so far looks awesome).

Yeah, Paradox is pretty good when they leave out the DLCs lol

It looks like TaleWorlds recruited some foreign talent based on the developer videos. To me the game looks totally AAA, although I was already happy with the Warband graphics. I love the graphics of Mount & Blade.

Have you played any of the mods or expansions for Warband and what's your experience?



Ruler said:
Johnw1104 said:

First, your interests must be fairly limited as far as PC games go as there is zero chance you could get "almost every game" the PC gets on your PS4. Just take a gander through Steam's library, the number of games you can't get on consoles is rather staggering.

Second, the PS4 Neo will do nothing to close the gap with the PC (do consider a new generation of GPUs is just about to hit the market tomorrow), nor will "frequent console upgrades" really alter the console library all that much. It's not a safe assumption that console upgrades will happen any more than once per console lifecycle, and that isn't what's separating the two libraries to begin with.

We're still waiting to see if they'll even release proper consoles going forward, after all. The gap between the two libraries, in my experience, is actually growing between the consoles and the PC, not shrinking. The one thing that might actually unite the two is something like the Steam box, and I do wonder with these console upgrades and such if people might not begin simply looking at those... they already have an assortment of upgrades available, after all, as well as access to PC games.

I dont see any game i missing on my PS4 the PC has, but theres quite a lot of high quality exclusives the PS4 has the PC lacks. Sure the PC has its mobas and free to play games but these dont interest me, even if they would i only would havet he time, money and dedication to play one of them. Sorry but to say some obscure indie game or free to play game is on the same quality like Bloodborne or U4 is redicolous.

Steam has a lot of legacy games from previous generations but do you what there is in the console world? PS1, 2 and 3. You can play all these games as well on your older console.

And no i dont see how the steam library gets bigger and bigger over PSN, PC gamers used to bragg about all these indies. Now we do get them too and even for free on PS+, and more and more free to play games at least the popular ones. Same way with 7th games, we get more and more remasters and older games on PS4. Along every new release plus exclusives from japanese devoloper or from Sony. No the difference becomes smaller and samller

Yeah the Neo is strong enough to play games in 60fps. Can you built a stronger pc? sure you can but the Neo is hitting the average target of PC gamers wallets, lets be honest.

Why should Sony reset the next gen? they arent even sure there will be a PS5. From now on the PS4 library will get bigger and bigger

You have to include the indie games to really acknowledge the strength of the PC.

Mount & Blade, Expeditions: Conquistador, Pillars of Eternity, Grim Dawn, Legend of Grimrock, Kingdom, Cities: Skyline, Europa Universalis, Stellaris, SOMA, Banished, just to make a few I like a lot.

There's just so many sophisticated, deep, quality games on PC made with smaller budgets.

And then there's the big ones like XCOM, Total War and Heroes of Might & Magic.