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GlingGling on 24 August 2008
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NintendoTogepi said:
GlingGling said:

I say this with the least meanness and as jokingly as is possible: cry me a river.

How long have you been PC gaming? Or using computers in general?

Nazna and Zkuq basically expressed my sentiment on the subject. My only advice to you would be: if you want to continue PC gaming then you should suck it up and get used to any "problems" you individually may be experiencing.

A great many of "us" flow through the process of playing PC games as if we were brushing our teeth. Not that it's really easy (because brushing ones teeth can be tricky), but we've been around it so long that we know what to do if we encounter a problem. That is considering that we've already dealt with most problems and our systems are set up in such a way that we rarely experience said problems.

So if you really care about PC gaming. Stick to it and you too will one day be happy. You know what they say, "Live and learn."

 

11 years of PC gaming and if anything it's gotten worse in recent times. I like to think I'm fairly knowledgable about computers (everyone I know always asks me for help whenever they have a problem), but PC gaming is frustrating at times. I'm just baffled that it's still such a hassle. It shouldn't take SEVEN HOURS to install a game, between it installing wrong, having to delete the files, clean the disc, crashing, half-installing, having to uninstall a game that isn't there etc.

It sucks that PC gaming is awesome, it really does.

 

I'm not saying I've never had problems but the only game that ever took anywhere near that much time to "get working" was Outcast (released July 1999). That included a lot of google searching and installing a multitude of hacks to get it to run in 640x480 (the original game was limited to 512x384 because it was too hardcore for it's day) on an operating system it was never designed for. And even amongst old games I rarely have trouble with the likes of dosbox and really cool people that make patches for games (did you know you can play Baldur's Gate in the Baldur's Gate 2 engine to increase resolution?). 

Edit: I run into trouble pretty often on the shady side of PC gaming. I've spent as many as 12 man hours "getting a game to work."

You must be a character from a fantasy book, the one that attracts trouble (problems) at every turn. All I can say is I feel really sorry for your problems. It sucks to be you (as a PC gamer). I hope things start looking up. Let us know when you are no longer cursed.