How do you Play Games on PC?

[JEMC]

John2290 said:

JEMC said:

I read the OP, talking about backlog games because of the usual sales on Steam or other places, and then I read your post, where you skipped the subject in question and simply complained about how hard it is to make a game run with all the different settings PC games have. So no, your point doesn't stand.

Now, about what you said, most if not all games already select the "best" settings given our hardware when they get installed, so the tweaking you mention is simply because you want to do it to get more, but in any case a necessity. Besides, because of how many games are console ports, the number of settings to work with have been reduced so it's not like there's much to tweak anymore.

Yeah, my bad. I thought i adressed open and was addinv my other reasons for quitting too. I never got to the levels of the people in this thread but 70 (steam) games while playing maybe 5  or 6 past the first hour of two is about the same deal. Not counting my rts/4x/builders or my library off of steam. Also not because I don't know how to set up games, it just became an obsession in the same way the OP has with flash sales. To many options can hurt and when games drop to 95% of their RRP it hits gamers hard in the dopamine centers, I can easily see why people here have wasted money on hundreds of games and only played . 

Console wise on ps4 alone I've 300 or so games. finished 150 of them, 100% and platinumed 34 of them, near 30 or so of them were free and the rest I've given a fair try getting hours into most. I'd reckon mayve 30 or so games that I've bought and played less than an hour or too. 10 percent compared to 90+ percent on PC and steam. 

Theres a lot to be said about having less options and less flash sales, especially steam level sales thaf go beyond the pale sometimes with1 euro or less games.

Also, this isn't even touching on the hundreds of games i installed over the years before steam. For some reason back then at least games got a fair go. 

I got around 170 games on Steam, including those I have twice (the original and the remaster/remake that were given away for free, like Titan Quest), the ones I got without noticing, like this year's MWNL5 event from Sega that granted me more 5 games and some that I didn't want but came with past Humble Bundles. I've played 84, almost half of them.

For me, having control over what and how many games I get is easy, but that's because I'm cheap/mean .