| patronmacabre said: I feel that the whole problem with the PC gaming master race argument was that it was trying to convince console gamers to play on PC. In doing that, it was deliberately trying to make PC gaming be something it wasn't, which is to say, convenient, simple, functional, and mindlessly enjoyable. |
Nobody seriously said that said that PC gaming is more convenient, simple, functional, and mindlessly enjoyable than console gaming. The argument was/is that modern PC gaming got much more convenient, simple, functional, and mindlessly enjoyable than PC gaming in the past: automatic game-patches without searching the internet (Steam, Origin, Uplay, GOG Galaxy, other game clients, the games themselves), automatic driver-updates (or automatic notifications when new drivers are available), automatic game settings (f.e. Nvidia Experience), automatic security patches (Windows Update), better and free malware-protection and -detection (UAC, Windows Defender), better game controller support (almost every game of the last decade supports at least the Xbox-gamepads), no noisy DVD-installations or disc changing or nasty disc-protections (like StarForce or Tages) or typing in long CD-keys for account-bound games.
Meanwhile the consoles didn't only adopt features from PCs but also inconveniences like mandatory installations and other stuff. The convenience gap between modern PCs and modern consoles shrunk a lot over the years!
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patronmacabre said: |
You felt wrong. It's not hte whole argument, it is only one of the arguments.
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patronmacabre said: I feel like anyone who grew up as a PC gamer understands the appeal of a console. It's just nice always being sure that a game on a console will run reasonably well. Consoles are also appealing because the machines and the operating systems themselves don't degrade after about five years. I love being able to go back to my PS2 and having it work almost perfectly, whereas if I were to go back to my PC from 2000, that machine would likely melt trying to even start up. |
You are feeling very much, aren't you? I hope you feel well.
You don't have to go back to your PC from 2000 to play PC-games from the year 2000... most of them will also run on newer PCs. And in most cases they will even run much better now due to scalability of PC games, they run in resolutions and settings which would have been insane in the past.
Outcast (1999):
Many classics got even more enhanced for free with mods.
Deus Ex (2000):
Gothic 2 (2003):
GTA San Andreas (2004/2005):
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patronmacabre said: I really wonder how a lot of new PC gamers are going to react once, in about four or five years or so, they find out that there once super powerful PC can no longer play the games it once could. |
The 2012 - 2016 games (the games the PC is bought for now) will run the same on the 2015 PC in "about four or five years or so" as they are running now... perhaps a bit better due to graphic driver improvements and game patches. With a simple change of the graphic card (it has not to be an expensive high-end GPU), they will run gorgeous.
The 2017 - 2019 games will probably also run fine... the next big jump of "minimum requirements" in PC-games will probably arrived together with the launch of the PS5 / Xbox Two since most games are multiplatform nowadays.
