kristianity77 said:
Buy a game Check to see if you have the minimum or recommended requirements for said game. If not, spend money Install It Try to Run It Go around updating Drivers because said new game doesn't run Run the game Runs terribly Mess about with set up, graphics options, resolution Finally play game ( or dont play it, but tell everyone within earshot how amazing it runs regardless)
Or
Buy game, play game. There is a reason consoles are more in favour regardless of whether they fall behind the PC in terms of specs or not. Plug into TV, buy game, play away, on a closed ecosystem with friends. Thats all you need to do. |
I've been gaming on PC for 20 years or more and I've never had such issues. I have waited 3 hours on painstakingly slow updates and patches on my PS3 games though, and I've played plenty of console games that ran poorly, had choppy framerates, glitching textures and massive pop-in issues. I haven't upgraded any of my hardware either for about 4 years now.
Purchasing, installing and playing games on Steam is no more difficult than purchasing, installing and using apps on a smart device; it just has a smaller audience. This whole fallacy that you have to be a tech wizard to game on PC's and that console games are simply pop the disc in and play, is getting old. Have you ever purchased a digital copy of a game on a console? Why are there digital stores at all, they are so difficult and should be of no interest to console gamers. Mainstream games sell less on PC as a rule, and there are several reasons for this, the PC being a clunky tool that people is too difficult to use is not one of them.
PS: Who would buy a game first and then check to see if they meet the hardware requirements later? If someone is that stupid; their PC is not the problem.
