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Why don't you own a gaming PC?
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Why don't you own a gaming PC?
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I don't want to pay $1000 to play pixel indies like undertale
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>origin
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>steam
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>>336871823
then don't buy a ps4.
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>>336871970
Steam is GOAT though
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>>336872054
>drm
>good
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>>336872132
You can play offline retard
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I don't have the money. Like a scrub.
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>>336872230
Are you retarded or is this bait?
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>>336872517
Are you? Does baby not know how to turn offline mode on? Does your mommy still tuck you in gagabooboo?
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>>336872517
Steam is not DRM idiot. DRM is still decided by the developer of the game and is not a mandatory part of steam. Plenty of games can be launched directly from their executable without needing to start steam.
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>>336871729
>origin
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>>336871729
>Steam
>60FPS
Sounds like the kid is mimicing a casual. I think his mum is the real gamer there.
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>it's another Jehovah's witness thread
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>>336872132
Steam by itself isn't actually DRM you dumb finposter.
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>Steam is bad because it's DRM
>now excuse me while I play on a console, with online I have to pay for and stay connected to 24/7
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>>336872763
>Plenty of games can be launched directly from their executable without needing to start steam.
they still require you to be signed into your steam account and use the steam client to install.
It's DRM.
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>>336871729
Because I'm not retarded and the best things can run on a calculator.
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>>336873751
Traditional games need disks to install, what disgusting DRM.
GoG games require a web browser to download and install, total DRM too fucking polish fucks ree.
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No games
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>>336871729
>all these redditors ITT
You have your circle jerk section on your site, please stay there
Literally the only thing PC is good for is porn
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>>336874147
I knew someone would make a stupid post like this.
GoG and Humble Bundle games let you install and play if you already have the files, without an internet connection and without a client.
CD based games let you do this as well, because you already have the files on the disc.

Steam will not let you install from a backup while offline or without the client.
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>>336875181
>If you already have the files
>if you already have the files

>But if you don't already have the files with steam, you need it to download the files HA GOTCHA!

Are you retarded?
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>>336875714
you really are too stupid to get it huh?
it's reasonable to keep backups if you want to travel somewhere.
Steam requires you to check-in to make installations, even if you aren't downloading the files.
GOG and Humble don't.
Requiring a check-in is DRM, otherwise steam would just let you install your backup of a DRM-free game regardless.

Stop being a dumb apologist.
I have over 500 steam games but there's a very obvious difference between the freedom steam offers in comparison to true DRM-free.
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>steam isn't DRM!

Explain this mandatory steam dll on my pirated games, fuckheads
If it weren't DRM like GOG, this shit wouldn't be mandatory and you'd be able to install the damn game on an infinite number of PCs with no restrictions at all
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>>336871970

everytime I see the wew lad face I think it's CIA.
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>>336871729
I'm a casual.
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How is being forced to launch a game through a 3rd party client a positive in any way?
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>>336875932
I don't think it's mandatory to integrate Steam into the game. If the dev included an executable, it might as well work the same way as the GoG version.
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>>336875714
I think the point he's trying to make is that steam doesn't give you individual packed files that can be exctracted and installed in the same way that GoG does. While he's techincally correct, it still doesn't make steam itself DRM in the same way a developer's own website isn't DRM.

>>336875932
>it's reasonable to keep backups if you want to travel somewhere.
You can still make backups, you can even compress them yourself if you want, it's just that steam itself doesn't provide you the compressed files.

You're arguing a really specific superficiality that isn't crucial to the definition of DRM

>>336876006
Probably a game that uses Steamworks which IS DRM. Not all games on Steam use Steamworks, it is up to the developer whether or not they want to include steamworks drm in their game or their own form of drm (which is why some steam games use uplay or gfwl when that was still a thing).

>>336876238
>forced
It's not. Which is why it's annoying when developers choose to add DRM to their games. Again, the steam client itself isn't DRM, it's the developer's decision whether or not to use Steamworks (drm) or their own drm.
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>>336876238
fuck off pissbaby
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>>336875932
Why do you keep blatantly lying anon?
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>>336873137
>>336873137
The lesson here is that both are shit and we should all kill ourselves
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>>336876429
I already explained this.
If a game is "DRM-free" on steam that means you can launch it from the executable.
But the install process still requires you to be signed in and in online mode and the client.
And you can't always backup the actual installed files because even some "DRM-free" games have dependencies.

For instance I own Rayman Origins on steam which is "drm-free".
If I was to just backup the folder manually and then try opening the executable on another PC, it would not work.

>>336876434
>You can still make backups, you can even compress them yourself if you want, it's just that steam itself doesn't provide you the compressed files.
>You're arguing a really specific superficiality that isn't crucial to the definition of DRM
it's a key difference in the freedom you have as the owner of the product.
If you back up manually you won't necessarily be able to get the game to run because of dependencies, if you backup through steam's menu it won't let you restore the backup unless you're online and using the client.
GOG and Humble just let you run the installer regardless.
>>336876529
I'm not?
Why are people so crazy about defending steam on this issue?
Steam is still great but it just doesn't give you as much freedom as real DRM-free providers.
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>>336876434
>Probably a game that uses Steamworks which IS DRM

That's not the case, every single steam torrent game requires that dll
I've checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_using_Steam_authentication to make sure, and none of the hundreds of games i have torrented recently are there
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>>336876818
>dependencies
You mean like this one?
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>>336871729
Haven't gotten the money to buy parts to build one yet.
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>>336877195
OHHHHHHHHH BURRRRNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
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>>336871729
I do but I only really use it for older games and emulation
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>>336876862
That is on the developer. If steam itself was drm, how are there so many drm-free games on steam?
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

>none of the hundreds of games i have torrented recently are there
Out of curiosity, can you list, like 10 of them? Hell even 8 or 6 if you want.

>>336876818
>If you back up manually you won't necessarily be able to get the game to run because of dependencies
What dependencies? If they're steam related, then the game you're trying to back up is not drm free OR you're not properly backing your game up yourself.
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>>336876818
I hate Steam far more than you but Steam does have some genuine DRM free games available. They're not ALL fake DRM free like you describe. As in, you can delete Steam and still play the games, you can move them to another computer that never had Steam installed and they will run. They're mostly older games that predate Steam being a popular thing or even existing, but I'd bet a dollar that some smaller new games are genuinely DRM free too.
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I built one back in 2011. The only really demanding game I played on it was Far Cry 3 and Witcher 2. Plus I'm honestly ok with just playing games on console since it seems like I have to go through so many fucking hoops just to get some games to work
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>>336877716
It restricts the freedom of simply taking a installer and installing a game on an unlimited number of computers, it's DRM

>Out of curiosity, can you list, like 10 of them? Hell even 8 or 6 if you want.
There you go, DS3 is the only thing with steamworks i found on the list
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>>336872132
"DRM" that adds nice features like playtime logging and cloud saving is nice though
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>>336874809
Silky smooth 30fps
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>>336878708
I don't rely on steam cloud anymore, not after it lost my almost perfect MGR:R save file.
I use gamesave manager to back up my saves to my NAS and Dropbox.
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I spent $1800 to shit post on /v/ and to tell 12 year Olds to kill themselves
I'm selling my pc, buying a laptop and going back to TAFE
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Is this the PC indoctrination thread?
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And to my surprise, the game actually works through Wine.
We could argue about the multiplayer using Steam, but that's a different issue dependent on the developer again.

>>336878378
But if you can move the installed game, then this point becomes kind of moot.

Sure, having the installer free of any restraints is obviously better, but Steam tends to get a lot more flak than it deserves, because of choices made by everyone other than them.
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Too poor.
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>>336879097
What're you gonna do at TAFE?
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>Spend $1000 on gaming PC
>It decides not to work just after the warranty expires
>Can't even play Minecraft without it crashing

Glad I fell for the PC gaming meme
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>>336879682
>It decides not to work just after the warranty expires
It's a feature to get you to spend more money. Get with it. This is how life runs now. Capitalism.
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>>336879682
>warranty on the entire PC
>buying prebuilt
lmfao, geeksquad cuked you
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>>336879210
What theme are you using? Looks epic
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>>336879943
I said fuck it after I tried build a PC and the motherboard was just DoA.
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>buy GPU off Amazon
>ships to my gook country
>dies 4 months later
>have to fucking ship it to another country for RMA

Why
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>limiting yourself to one machine
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>>336874147

Disks won't fail because a company went under.
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>>336880128

But PCucks will tell you it does everything even though emulation is shit.
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>>336880039
>motherboard was just DoA.
What's with this shit happening so often? It's like they're out to fuck you when you've got everything and one part is dead.
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>>336880331
Because PC masterrace is so good they don't even need shit that works.
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>>336878378
Slightly less convenient file formatting does not make something drm. If you have installed a drm free game from steam, nothing is stopping you manually backing that game up, copying it, and installing it on as many machines as you like, as many times as you like, because that game is drm free. The dll file you're worried about is probably tied to whatever crack came with your pirated game. Or I don't even fucking know what you're complaining about because I just tried running Rabi Ribi, Code of Princess and Nekopara and none of them put a steam api dll in my processes.

Also lel at the butthurt consolekid janny that filed a ban request for my image macro, but not for this kid >>336874509
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>>336873137
Which console needs me to stay online 24/7?
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>>336880026
I think it's this one.(appchan x)
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>>336880128
>Buying multiple redundant machines you don't need because the people who make those machines hold games hostage
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>>336880128
I just see no reason in owning consoles. They restrict me in ways I don't want to be restricted and what few games there are that interest me don't make up for that.
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Kind of at a crossroads. Thinking of buying a PS4 JUST for bllodborne because I'm a huge From Software Fan. Than and maybe even a PS3 for all the armored cores and Demon's Souls.

I have a kick ass gaming PC as is. 4690k @ 4.7ghz, 980ti classified @ 1550mhz etc.

If I hook a PS4 to a 1440p monitor, will it automatically downscale to the proper res while playing? Money isn't really an issue but I don't want to by the PS4 and find it doesn't hook up to a 1440p monitor.
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Because it upsets someone in this thread and I'm content with my current pc's specs for the time being.
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>>336880331
I think it's because parts are so delicate and when they get shipped from gookland they get thrown around inside the containers. I usually find it's hard drives that are doa, not motherboards.
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>not being an idort
>not being PC + 3DS + PSV + WiiU + PS4 god race
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>>336880840

acouple of those are just a waste of money.
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>>336880840
>No Xbone
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>>336880389
The dll is not on your process list, it's right there on the game folder

>>336880840
>>336880128
>being a good goy
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>>336871729
I do, and I also have a PS4

Get fucked you platform warring shitheads
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>>336871729
i do
its old though
maybe this winter i will build a new one
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>>336880840
>PSV

Why though?
Only thing it has is the muramasa dlc.
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>>336871823
If you wanted to play Undertale so badly you could always play it on your daddy's computer.
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>>336880389
>The dll file you're worried about is probably tied to whatever crack came with your pirated game

It's a part of steam, bruh
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>>336880559
[Petition signing intensifies]
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>>336880840
>Paying hundreds of dollars to play a few games
No sank you.
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I built one a week ago. Now waiting for GTX 1080 and its complete
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>>336881627
So I'm supposed to be ashamed that I let my consumer voice be heard and ask the market to properly serve customers that are being ignored?
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>>336880496
No. Not your 4chen
Your desktop.
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>>336881925
It's just KDE with compiz + emerald.
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>>336882136
>KDE with compiz
Why?
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>>336881864
There's a reason why you're being ignored.
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>>336882428
Because it makes more business sense to use an exclusive to sell hardware and increase one's market presence and thus profitability in the short and long run?
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Serious question here, not trying to be a dick.
I want to get a high end gaming pc, but I don't really know of any games that will test the limits of that pc. What are some truly straining games for pic that really take advantage of the superior hardware?
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>>336882621
Crisis 1-3 are well known, I dunno of others.
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>>336882621
Heavily modded skyrim
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>>336882621
Minecraft.
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>>336882621
If you want to see the limits of graphics there are a lot of tech demos that can show you what is possible, most games typically are geared towards the general public and being able to get at least the majority of medium end computers to run the game, so there really isn't all that much in the way of really straining games these days.

Maybe modded arma or skyrim, though those are generally straining because their engines are kind of janky and inefficient.
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Consolefags are too lazy to actually but and get someone to set up a machine, or fuck, even get a prebuild, so they have to make up excuses like
>>336871823
and
>>336871970

The minute consoles die the minute the industry will be better
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>>336882352
MATE stopped working the way I wanted, and compiz has features I still like.
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>>336882992
That actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks, anon!
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>>336883215
No problem anon, though there may be some straining graphics intensive PC games out there I don't know about, I don't really keep up with high fidelity PC games as much as I used to since by today's standards I'm on a toaster.
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Why don't you own an arcade collection, /v/?
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>>336883068
>The minute consoles die the minute the industry will be better
Top tier delusion
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>>336883660
>not making your own arcades
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>>336883825
jamma is for poorfags
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>>336883723
Face it, the consolefags either move to Steam for games and now developers have to make decent products, or they go to mobile for their fix of casual P2W shit.

Consoles are causing a mix of the two, and its fucking up the industry
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>>336872671
the gagabooboo was a nice touch
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>>336871729
I do. The only reason I wouldn't is if I were a NEET and I didn't have to do PC work
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>>336883973
You're retarded. If consoles disappear, japan won't start developing for PC like you think they will.
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>>336883660
I'm poor and emulators suit my needs just fine.
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>>336884171
But most weebshit is ported to PC.
Also, Japan is filled with casuals. In a few years eastern games are going to be button mashers with huge tits anyway
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>I don't want to buy a new graphics card every year. :(
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>>336880559
>hostage

I'm so fucking sick of this argument. Exclusive games would not have existed in most cases if not for the exclusivity deal that spawned them. This is usually in part due to the large amount of creative freedom that devs seem to enjoy when working on a project solely for one platform.

So a game gets developed specifically for a company's plastic shitbox from the ground up, and then the PC community demands that it should work on whatever they happen to have on hand, just because.
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>>336887160
That's horse shit though, only a handful of first party devs honestly and earnestly develop a game with the intention of it being totally exclusive, most of the rest of time "exclusive deals" end up just financing back burner projects that would have eventually seen the light of day eventually but now are exclusive.
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>>336883660
Once I can afford a house, I absolutely would.
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>>336871729
Cause i have a Job and a real life
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No purpose to buy a PC.

It's a waste of money, why people continue on with this dead system is beyond me.
No games to play, shitty ports, filled with hackers, expensive as fuck hardware, toxic and small community.

No purpose.
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>>336887436
I can't think of an exclusive game I've played that's like that. All muh Halo's, Bloodborne, Demon's Souls, Gravity Rush, assorted weeb shit, TLOU, Panzer Dragoon: Orta, JSRF, about a billion PS2 titles, all the Bamco Gundam PS2 games, Nier. Those are a few exclusive games that have been part of my life, which would not have existed if not for exclusivity.

As in, someone says "we'll finance this for our system, and only our system." I seem to be an outlier on /v/ in that I play very few multiplats at all, as they rarely interest me. The games each gen that I bother with usually end up being those weird "backburner projects" that come out for one console only.

Also, as I seem to need to point out every fucking time this argument springs up, PC is the only community that demands games from other systems. Nintendo shit stays on Nintendo, Xbox shit generally stays on Xbox (IDK what's going on with their Windows thing), but for whatever reason, any and all Sony IPs get called out as big, evil hostage situations. Petitions are made, tears are shed.

It's basically "I'll get a Wii U for Nintendo IPs, but I'll just make a petition for Sony's"
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>>336881864
>So I'm supposed to be ashamed that I let my consumer voice be heard and ask the market to properly serve customers that are being ignored?
You know how you do it? By not buying their game and not talking about it. THAT'S IT!
But no, you're poor and mommy won't buy you a PS4, they already bought you a PC for "school"
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>>336880331
>What's with this shit happening so often?
It doesn´t, that´s why they are selling them.
I bought a playstation 1 once that lasted for a grand total one week of christmas holiday, that does not mean that it happens "so often", although it happened for 50% of my PS1s.
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>>336887867
>I can't think of an exclusive game I've played that's like that
Then your memory fails you, or you haven't played many exclusives.
> which would not have existed if not for exclusivity.
Do you have a single shred of proof of that?

>Also, as I seem to need to point out every fucking time this argument springs up, PC is the only community that demands games from other systems.
I guess console friends are just used to not getting games.

>B-but nintendo
Who's console is half the price of the competition regularly and doesn't run on PC hardware.
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>>336887160
>Exclusive games would not have existed in most cases if not for the exclusivity deal that spawned them.
That is even less of an argument, because not the existence of the console spawned the impetus of the developer to make the game.
If the console it released on would not have existed it would simply have released on a different console.
> This is usually in part due to the large amount of creative freedom that devs seem to enjoy when working on a project solely for one platform.
Where is the logic behind that reasoning?
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>>336888023
>You get your voice heard by doing nothing
Are you retarded?
>You are just too poor to buy a console, my parents love me though so they buy me them all
I'm going to take that as a yes.
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>>336871729
I do

I got a 970 and now I feel strangely butthurt about the existence of the 1070
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>>336888531
>Not paying attention to new architecture release schedules and rumors which have been going on for months
Anon, why?
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>>336888023
You still have to voice your opinion on why your not buying it. Otherwise the publishers will just assume either no one wants the game or there wasn't enough marketing.
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>>336888383
>>You get your voice heard by doing nothing
nobody cares about beggars
although who knows, make another petition and maybe from will release Demon's Souls and Bloodborned to PC
Maybe a petition about Nier too
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>>336888250
>>336888360
>being this defensive

It works like this: you go to a publisher, or a publisher comes to you. You get together and they're now your sugar daddy. This is especially true of long-standing partnerships or ownerships like Sony-Naughty Dog and Microsoft-Bungie (before they left).

The shitstorm over Bloodborne is a good example. BB was made on Sony's dollar, with Studio Japan's oversight. Thus, it comes out on PS4 and only PS4. PC community cannot accept this. To this day, they have not accepted this. The concept that it's exclusive because it was made specifically for the system it's exclusive to just eludes you all.

They don't make a finished product then shop around for a publisher. They need the fucking money to make the game. Dark Souls, published by Bamco, could be milled out to run on any and every platform, so it did. BB, made in partnership with a console exclusive dev and Sony money, does not.

This is where the relation ship between console and exclusive comes in. You see, you make this plastic shitbox that can run games. It's affordable, it has presence, publishers will make a version of the game for your box. However, there needs to be a cherry on the cake, something to make people go "oh okay, I'll get this one because it has X." X is a good exclusive.

Good exclusives on all platforms (see the Xbox/PS2/Gamecube era) means healthy competition and tons of great, competing games trying to sell systems. Everyone wins. The same shit on every platform just means...everyone just has a PC and every game releases on Steam Greenlight, unfinished as par for the course. Ew.
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>>336889029
Does it scare you that a game your system has will no longer be exclusive and therefore less of a quality purchase or something? I still can't imagine what about giving developers market data about demand for one of their products would otherwise cause you to think it must somehow be demeaning or begging or otherwise wrong.
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Too poor
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>>336888657
Well I bought it on release and knew the 1070 would release eventually

but that does not ease my butt-pain
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>>336889252
>Does it scare you that a game your system has will no longer be exclusive and therefore less of a quality purchase or something?
Unlike you, I don't have to justify my every purchase because I'm not poor
Don't like Xbox games? Don't but an Xbox.
But you clearly love Sony games, why else would you beg for them like a hobo?
You know what you can do? Get a job. You have no school in summer, no? So there, perfect opportunity to grow up and take matters into your own hands
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>>336889231
Except for the fact those are first party publishers, and as I have already stated the same can not be said for third party exclusivity deals which you keep trying to pretend do not exist.

>Good exclusives on all platforms (see the Xbox/PS2/Gamecube era) means healthy competition and tons of great, competing games trying to sell systems
Oh right, because somehow people only try to make their game good and sell if it's exclusive, otherwise for some reason competition magically flies out the window and no one has to compete with other releases.
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>>336889252
>have community based around thing
>outside group demands access to thing
>thing gets passed around like a communal onahole
>thing is no longer special
>community now includes millions of Steam dwellers
>not really a community anymore

It's like your culture has a dish that's only made within your small group. One day some cucklefuck sells the recipe to a worldwide cooking network who meme it up and it becomes an international hit, sold in every restaurant, on every hipster cooking Youtube channel, and in convenient TV dinner form on the frozen isle of your local grocer.

That bit of your community is lost. The dish is no longer yours for being part of it. No longer a feature of your community. Just one more goddamned thing.
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>>336889485
>Unlike you, I don't have to justify my every purchase because I'm not poor
Oh obviously, this is why you go to such lengths to argue about systems on a video game image board. Clearly you are well off and don't care at all about this subject, I mean that would be silly.

>Psht, nothing personal poor kid, get a real job and buy a console
Your juvenile insults are more a disservice to yourself than they are to me.
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>>336889794
>A mass produced and sold console is a unified community
>Games are only special if they are exclusive otherwise they are worthless
>Bad food analogies
Really nigger?
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>>336889824
>Oh obviously, this is why you go to such lengths to argue about systems on a video game image board
Did I ever say one platform was better than another? No, I didn't. But I can see why an underage poster would find that I'm arguing how much better the thing they can't have is, because you can't afford it

Remember to make mommy vote Bernie, he'll give you a FREE PS4!
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>>336871729
>being a PCuck
Why the fuck would anyone choose to be PC-only?
Fucking /reddit/-core cancer is invading again
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>>336889647
>Oh right, because somehow people only try to make their game good and sell if it's exclusive, otherwise for some reason competition magically flies out the window and no one has to compete with other releases.

Pretty much, yeah. Selling systems and being the "top" system on the market is a pretty huge factor in publishers searching for that "killer app" for their system. Two gens ago, everyone had something worth buying a console for. Last gen it kind of cooled down and things began to get homogeneous. The search for the game everyone wanted, that would sell their system is what drove the big console titans to actually put forth effort, which led to good games. Putting everything on every platform, so that everyone is gonna buy the same shit either way, makes everyone lazy.

This is actually the fault of gaming's popularity. After it got really super huge, it had an audience that didn't care about anything anymore. They'd buy the next big thing even if it wasn't really the next big thing at all. A system no longer needed a killer app, it just needed to exist, and be affordable. That's the PS4, which has a couple decent games to its name, but nothing like its forebear the PS2.

If you want to see devs competing with on pressure to sell systems, look at Steam Greenlight. That's the future you want. Indie survival games out the ass, and whatever will make for good streaming. I'd rather have a game that I have to buy a fucking console for than a game that can just be put on sale in any unfinished state pending communal demand.

It's almost a fucking capitalism vs communism argument. People don't demand quality when they have the ability to speak communally. People are stupid. You have to put choices in front of their faces in order to get them to pick something good. If you leave it up to them what gets sold, what gets made available for purchase, you wind up with nothing but shit.
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>>336871729
I play games on it, but it's not optimized for gaming

I had to delete wildstar because I never got the fucking thing running over like 6 fps. Sure, it's an older one, but it runs guild wars 2 okay, and other games fine.
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>>336889982
Of course, you don't care about systems at all and are just a pure hearted idort who shitposts for hours on end because others don't buy the same console as you, all because of how little you care about this sort of stuff, gotcha.

>More /v/ memes and /pol/ memes
Yeah, I think I'm going to stop giving you what (you) want now, consider this my last reply out of courtesy so you don't have to lurk the thread refreshing over and over waiting for someone to bite your bait.
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>>336873751
>they still require you to be signed into your steam account and use the steam client to install.
No, they don't. Thats the ones using the steamworks DRM, plenty need no steam at all.
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>>336890348
>Closed systems are more competitive than open systems
That is completely idiotic, I want you to think long and hard about the absolute insanity of the bullshit you are spouting right now. Do you even understand the ideals of a free market.

>Two gens ago, everyone had something worth buying a console for.
Again, horseshit, two gens ago most of the consoles were about where we are today, the only console with an outstanding library was PS2, and that was only because of the large install base, combined with a very low barrier of entry and costs of software licencing and of course game development in general on the PS2. The gamecube had far more first party support and exclusives for the sake of exclusivity than the PS2 ever did and it was a failure, selling less units than the xbox (who only really had halo) and only slightly overselling the Dreamcast in it's life time. Also at this time the PC market was fairly weak. So once again the success of that gen had nothing to do with exclusives, and everything to do with other favorable market conditions and general library quality.

>If you want to see devs competing with on pressure to sell systems, look at Steam Greenlight.
That is complete false equivalence, greenlight is entirely indie stuff, to compare low budget indie games to games made by first party A-AAA devs and equate the two as the same sort of market is completely and utterly dishonest.


>It's almost a fucking capitalism vs communism argument. [...] People are stupid. If you leave it up to them what gets sold, what gets made available for purchase, you wind up with nothing but shit.
Except that the communal whims of the market are exactly what dictates how labor is distributed and what sells. When an exclusive is made to sell a system it is exactly designed to appeal to the most possible people, and therefore attract the most people into purchasing hardware, it is not made because of artistic vision. It is capitalistic practices embodied.
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>tfw you just play older games from previous gens that you missed out on back in the day
God bless emulation.
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>>336891373
>PC too weak for some emulation
>Go to play on my modded consoles or through carts
>Ultra low resolutions make every game look like smeared shit over my HDTV
>Go get a free CRT TV from some craigslist advert and plug my consoles into that
>Still looks like shit but now on a tiny screen that's giving me eye cancer from the tube radiation

I really need to upgrade my toaster.
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