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SvennoJ on 05 July 2016
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GOWTLOZ said:

Convenience is the best part of console gaming. I never had the problem you are having, but I've had other problems before with PC games, such as requiring GFWL and being Windows 8 incompatible like with GTA IV, so it was hard but I got a workaround to it after many hours. Then later my copy of EFLC was bricked when I had already completed TLAD and was playing TBOGT, by an update to GFWL that the client itself had asked for. I later bought it on PS3.

But if you understand the technical side of things there are awlways workarounds to any software problem and these days its become more simple too, its mostly a matter of having the latest drivers installed and checking that your system specs can run the game.

I play mostly on PS4 now as I like to play on one platform at a time but PC gaming offers a lot of options and its getting better too.

Sure, you can always fix it, it's just extra time spend not gaming. I still play on my laptop occasionally, usually indies but I also played Elite Dangerous for months and months on it. As long as you use it often the minor annoyances stay in the background. However if you only game once a week or an hour here or there updates and configuration quickly eat into your time. Setting up the controls in Elite Dangerous already takes an hour, imagine the fun when a controller ID glitch in windows 8.1 made the game reset all the bindings on startup. Set up key and controller bindings for 100 different functions every time you want to play lol. The next patch fixed it again but these kinda things happen a lot more often on PC.

I also don't care about the most shiny pixels anymore. Mostly stable 1080p is good enough. On PC I usually have to go into the settings and figure out how to get reasonable performance at native display res, then adjust it again during the game when the action or effects ramp up. Simple solution is to have the latest gpu, or simply play on a console where all that fine tuning has already been done.

Anyway at the end of the day, when the kids are in bed, I just want to relax on the couch, watch some netflix/blu-ray and/or play a game for a bit.  So yeah ps4 is pretty much perfect for that. Last gen I still used the PC and a USB extension cable to game in 1080p on the couch with a ps3 controller, yet this gen the ps4 is good enough for 1080p gaming.