| Conina said: So you don't want a PC in any room, got it. You don't need a $1.500 laptop to watch some movies. There are dozens of ways how you can watch game of thrones in your living room. Amazon TV stick, ChromeCast, Roku stick, USB-Stick, home console (you don't have to throw all your consoles away if you add a PC to your gaming options), $200 tablet, $300 laptop... "I don't like the Xbox controller" is a knockout argument. At least you have the option on PC for almost any other controller, most consoles don't give you that choice. How would you like it, if some people come in every Playstation thread and disturb the discussions there with arguments like "But I don't like the DS4 controller"? You have to authorize the computer of a friend ONCE, not every time he wants to play one of your games. That's not a "hassle to discourage people from sharing" and neither "only realistically useful if you live in the same household." But why am I trying to set things straight, you'll never give up your prejudices against PC anyways. |
Why call it prejudice? If you're happy with a device that does all you want, why go for a more cumbersome way to do the same thing.
I don't know if PC gaming is the best it has ever been. It's still not the most convenient way for lounge gaming. It was perfect for me in the 90's when I was still gaming behind a desk and had everything in the same room interconnected. Living in student housing we put in our own lan network to game between appartments while sharing a high speed internet connection. (high speed for the 90's adsl) My PC was connected to the TV, I could watch (and record) TV/PS1/DC/SVHS/Laserdisc in a window and it could output it all to TV and projector (bought a second hand CRT projector to hang from the ceiling, was awesome with NVidea 3D shutter glasses) I used it to mix all audio sources, it was a mess of cables going back and forth along the walls, 5.1 sound crammed into the room as well, no problem when living alone. PC gaming was pretty magical to me back then, plus the games were all fresh and exciting with new genres and ideas popping up all the time. Pretty hard to top that.
Nowadays it's all in separate rooms and my game time has vastly dwindled. Convenience, simplicity, fast access, easily moveable are all things that matter more now. Anyway I can understand your frustration. I can promote blu-ray quality as much as I want and the awesomeness of physical media and all the extras that come with it, yet most people are happy with netflix streaming quality. Same with consoles and pc.
