greenmedic88 said:
That was the other thing that sticks out in mind about PC gaming, specifically when it comes to self built PCs; you spend a lot of time tweaking settings, updating and modifying, even after the process of mapping out hardware specs, pricing all hardware to get the best parts under the same budget, assembling everything neatly with clean wire management and airflow, overclocking CPU in BIOS, stress testing OC settings for system stability, overclocking GPU, stress testing settings for game stability, etc. and I still spent a lot of time tweaking settings in each game to get the best performance to visuals balance. It was almost like every game I played with a decent engine became a benchmark program for my system. I had fun with that, but I spent a lot less time actually playing through games as a result. That doesn't happen on a console. |
It depends how demanding you are. I built my PC over 2 years ago now and don't really fiddle with it much. I launch the game, put it to 1080p Ultra and see what happens. Using fraps, look at the framerate and then decide. It rarely takes me more than 10 minutes.
I only really buy brand new console games, hence have to deal with pre-order codes on them which wastes a good 10 minutes as well
The real problem is I'm going to have start making more comprimises as my 670 based system ages and becomes less and less competitive. That's going to take time and I'm going to have to think about whether a game is going to work before trying to run it, though that's mostly just due to poor optimisation
My PS4 gives me nice peace of mind that everything is going to work and that's good for me. it's also dead easy and is nice and attached to my TV (I know that doesn't work as a sentence, but whatever). My PC gives me the chance to tinker and generally play slower paced games, mostly turn based
In some ways I want to get more involved with PC gaming, but as the OP says, the PC gaming community is toxic. So I want as little to do with them as possible
