>After nine years of only playing video games on a PC, you know what I realized?
>>320162081
wat
It's gay
>>320162081
>Not green text
I DONT CARE
>>320162081
Shitposting is bliss?
>>320162081
That ignorance is bliss. Best to just stay happy on PC games than bother with console shitposting.
>>320162750
>>320162081
That pirating prevents you from enjoying video games, that's why consoles set their price at 69.99. They enjoy their games a lot more than I do.
>>320163389
Does paying help you to cognitively commit to a game?
>>320163389
where the fuck do you live that 70 bucks is average price
please don't make up lies
>>320163869
not him but for me it does. i just can't get myself to give a shit about games i pirate.
fallout 4, far cry 4, GG Xrd, Tales of Zestiria, all dropped within 1 hour
>>320163869
It definitely does, I'm way more likely to finish a game if I buy it. Not sure that's a good thing though.
>>320163953
Europe
>>320163389
>That pirating prevents you from enjoying video games
Lies. Disinterest prevents you from enjoying video games. Indecision and compulsiveness prevent you from enjoying video games.
>>320163869
I don't pirate, but being able to scoop up games for dirt cheap on a steam sale directly correlates to cheapening the experience with a game imo. I never had a backlog til I switched to PC.
I just have too many games to play, I can't commit to one and give it the attention it deserves.
>>320164598
That's wrong though. I might pirate a game a feel like I'm wasting my time because if I buy it I'll have to start over, or just won't have any interest in the game.
Then after buying the game for 4.99 it feels great, I want to do everything, and have way more fun. Hell I'm sure paying 1$ on a humble bundle makes me enjoy the games a lot more.
>>320164876
>after buying the game for 4.99 it feels great
It's because you're autist. Once i felt on this myth /v/ came up with, bought a lot of games i enjoyed while on piracy and bought a lot i never played before. Made no diference for me.
>>320163953
Canada
>>320164183
>Pirating a multiplayer game
pirates . . . . .
>>320167672
Canuckfag here, that IS a lie.
Video games are actually $80 up here.
>>320162081
What movie is this from?
>>320164183
it could be that all of those are fucking horrible
>>320167948
Superman
>>320167948
the godfather
>>320167948
The Dark Knight Rises
>>320164876
i got you anon, i feel Exactly the same
>>320162081
That you're quoting a really shitty film whose popularity mystifies me to this day?
>>320167827
Are you talking about Xrd? As far as I know the multiplayer is dead on PC, just like every other fighting game that isn't SFIV.
>>320167948
Metroid Prime
>>320168335
>>320168335
Fuck off, the first Matrix movie is known to be great. It's one of the best action movies that influenced the whole genre. It's what the guys loved to watch when they were disappointed by The Phantom Menace. And the lore it sets up is fucking great.
Just get out of here you piece of shit.
>>320168335
hello reddit. are you enjoying your stay here in 4chan?
>>320162081
That even though a PC provides more opportunities for entertainment. At the end of the day the industry and the games it makes are turning into dumbed down shlok. And that video games just don't have the same special effort or love put into them like they used to?
>>320168335
Did you only watch it a decade after the fact or something? Are you underaged?
>>320167948
red alert.
>>320162081
That you picked the wrong hobby because modern vidya is fucking garbage?
Because as someone who played vidya since childhood, I really feel as though I made a bad choice with this being my hobby.
>But it's ok for the devs to release unfinished games that dont work, have cut content, and generally treat fans like shit.
How did the communit become so terrible, and actively enabling devs fucking us in the ass?
God I wish I took up something else. Anything would have been an improvement over modern games. Atleast I have old classics I guess.
>>320169280
>How did the communit become so terrible, and actively enabling devs fucking us in the ass?
Because like you, everyone else grew up with vidya since their childhood. They are enough people to buy their shit despite being a large backlash. The Order 1886 was proof of this.
>>320167948
The Matrix
>>320167948
Star wars a new bazinga
>>320168335
>i can't look smart if i like popular things so i will just say i hate them
>>320164876
what kind of pavlov's dog psychology bullshit is this?
there is 2 kinds of games.
bad ones and good ones.
how can you like a game better when you pay some fee for it?
isn't it retarded?
>>320164876
>if I buy it I'll have to start over
But that's absolutely wrong, anon. Not even debatably wrong like the other points made in this discussion, but factually, 100%, inarguably, objectively incorrect. I regularly buy games after I pirate them. I have never once had an issue where a save file would not work in the legitimately purchased version of the game.
>>320168887
actually, dark city and ghost in the shell were matrix before matrix.
>>320170153
remorse, guilt, post purchase rationalisation
There are a lot of reasons to enjoy something more after paying for it.
I'm actually surprised how some people can't understand this. There must be something wrong with their brains. Or they're just niggers.
That after every single game I don't feel satisfied, I just feel overwhelmingly sad. When I fully commit to a game and the characters I'm happy. When the credits roll I feel like I'm in a movie theater and I know that after all of this I'm going back to a meaningless existence.
>>320170386
>not starting over for the achievements
>>320170153
>what kind of pavlov's dog psychology bullshit is this?
If a dog could talk they would ask the same thing about actual pavlov's dog psychology.
It is part of our psychology. You might not be aware of it, and it might not really noticeably affect you individually, but it does have that affect.
>tfw the ps3 is 9 years old and still has no games
>>320170545
>caring about achievements
>>320169842
Yeah, but because I grew up with a world without dlc and other bullshit, I dont defend it.
You have people defending shit being stuck at 30fps, or being unplayable due to bugs.
This never happened before. It's a modern problem, and it's the cancer killing vidya.
Fuck it's probably why letsplays are a thing with kids, games are so linear and uninteractive, that people can just watch otehrs play them and get the same experience.
>>320170431
>There are a lot of reasons to enjoy something more after paying for it.
no. not at all. this is just illogical and irrational thinking. you lie yourself basically. you force yourself to have fun because you paid for something. it is like watching a really bad movie to the end of it because you pay for it.
>>320170790
I'm not forcing myself. That's just how I feel. Don't pretend to know more about me than I do anon.
>>320170557
i am not affected by that effect. this is irrational.
>>320170525
You have two options, either it ends and you feel sad it's over. Or it never ends, and you wish it would die without shambling along like a zombie, a husk of what it was.
Also visuals novels are far worse than this. Mainly Higurashi (Or Umineko if you actually liked it) becauseit was saying goodbye to a cast of characters you were seeing for around 100 hours.
>>320167948
Memento
>>320170962
fuck off nigger
>>320170962
>this is irrational
You're right. Human behavior isn't always rational, but it doesn't mean people don't still think and feel that way, nor does it mean that you can just think about it rationally and the feeling will entirely disappear. We don't work like that.
>>320164723
>I never had a backlog til I switched to PC.
Nah, you're just a stupid good goy. Gaming has been in the gutter for years. I used to pirate quite frequently, now it's rare if i pirate 3 games per year, but then again the ones i pirate i end up buying and fill me with joy knowing that there are developers out there that still has the love and passion that build up what it later become this huge garbage industry.
tldr Acquire better tastes and learn to filter games better through more refined judgement.
>>320171687
Why would I want to become an elitist faggot that shits on every game online?
>>320167948
No Country for Old Men ya dingus
>>320164183
the inverse applies to me when it comes to handhelds
ds flashcarts were the best/worst thing to happen to me. But thinking back I don't regret those +10k hours that I've put into all those pirated games.
>>320163389
>implying I haven't been playing modded fallout since release for FREE
>implying I haven't enjoyed it
Sorry you have to fight your buyers remorse with your delusion over the quality of the game.
Thankfully, people like myself enjoy games and can still call them mediocre.
I honestly would've regretted paying full price, thank you chinks and ruskies for circumventing game security systems for me!
>>320171807
>Be plebeian faggot that enjoy virtually every videogame
>Bitches about how that makes videogames less enjoyable for you
And just to be clear, it's not like i'm a hardcore shitposter that don't play videogames, i just replay old games. There are a lot of gold stuff that you can cycle through them and when you go full circle the old game is still pretty damn fresh.
>>320170687
The fact that there is now so many people posting this kind of thing though: how games are designed to be effectivly broken in design now (pay more later guise and maybe it'll be good!) should prove how bad its got
It's all just a buisness life cycle: they'll keep pushing for more money for the product until people will no longer pay. Then a few of the cunts will go bust, the rest will notice, and things will settle down to something sensible. Right now I think we are starting to see a tipping point.
>tfw /v/ is the red pill of vidya
>after posting here for years I no longer enjoy video games
All I see are the glaring flaws in the games, the industry, and even games without big flaws I now find myself nitpicking. I would prefer to be a normie bro playing COD all the time.
>>320170106
Works for the rest of /v/ with everything else.
>>320167948
boku no morpheus
>>320168317
>>320164876
he he, good goyim
>rubs hands
you tell those bad goy that fun is based of how many shekels you spend
>>320163869
Post purchase rationalization
Even if the game is shit you're more likely to play it because you spent the money.
Personally I think that games I actually stick with without paying for them first are the real games that deserve my money.
>>320167948
New Hitman reboot
>>320172817
This.
>>320163869
Yes.
If I buy a bad game that isn't total shit I finish it (at least before steam refunds), ie GW2
If I pirate a bad game I drop it, ie DA2
>>320164876
>Buy top tier indie games on steam sales after having pirated it in the past
>Feel dirty inside and wanting to buy one more copy to give away because those devs deserved
>Good goys intensifies but i look i remember my bills and savings that i have to do because i have no family or friends to help me if shit ever hits the fan
I pirate big and medium companies' games and never buy them without any remorse, though. Looking forward to pirate Dragon's Dogma. I'm not a commie, but if the CEOs and shareholders of those companies were in my place, i know damn well that they would do the same and they're all about maximizing profits at any costs, so fuck them.
nice thread guys.
>>320163389
>have to jump trough mental hoops and trick yourself to enjoy games on consoles
Console gaymers, everyone
>>320162081
I'm paying for insane amount money for performance that I can't fully utilize due driver overhead, dated contexts and cross+previous hardware compatibility implementations that Manufacturers has to abide in order to get certs and production order. I also have deal with Nvidia gameworks, and unoptimized ports.
>>320172293
>Right now I think we are starting to see a tipping point.
You mean as people are funding the 3.3 million dollar man?
>>320163869
Yup.
I only pirate games to try them out and then uninstall them. Then I wait till they're on sale to buy them and play through them.
Part of why I hope pirating won't come to the Vita because I have to buy my games on there and I actually play through all of them.
>>320163953
>>320167672
>>320167916
$79.99 with ontario tax, total is 90 fucking dollars for a new game. fuck off
>>320162081
Video games suck.
>>320173631
You do realize that the average posts:poster ratio is 2:1 to 3:1, right ? Be it a 50 posts thread or a 500 posts thread.
Inb4 merely pretending to be retarded
>Yakuza 6 trailer drops
>nothing but mustards begging for a PC port
pathetic
>>320167948
Command & Conquer
>>320174679
>people want to be able to play games on the system they have instead of submitting to jewery and being made to pay several hundred dollars more to enjoy one or two games they're interested in
>somehow this is pathetic
not even a mustard but come on
being a good little goy and viewing exclusivity as a pro instead of a con is even more pathetic
>>320167948
meme
>>320167948
tfw only one of the responses is actually helping
kek, never change /v/
>>320173631
you are retarded
>>320175480
every gamer that matters already has a ps4, anon
>>320175480
>being poor
>>320176039
>being slapdash with your money
>>320167948
Darude sandstorm
>>320162081
Is this the new /tv/ meme?
>>320176197
>being so poor that triple digits are a big decision
>>320167948
5 Days a Stranger
>>320176354
>being so ignorant that he doesn't know how to turn triple digits into more digits
>>320175480
>I'm not a mustard but here's a generic mustard argument
>>320163389
>That pirating prevents you from enjoying video games, that's why consoles set their price at 69.99. They enjoy their games a lot more than I do.
1: That's bullshit. I enjoyed games if they're good, regardless of whether I bought them or not. Just recently emulated kingdom hearts 2 FM+ and it was great.
2: You're implying that only pc pirates. Go look at pirate bay and check out all the fucking ps3 games you can pirate there.
>>320176685
>being so retarded you don't know how to spend money while making money
wealthy > rich
stop being so poor and pretending you know how to play the market
fact of the matter is ps4s are dirt cheap and only a fucking kid living with his parents would complain about exclusivity
>>320162081
That FPS means first person shooter.
>>320176685
>i should never spend anything because i can always invest it!
kill yourself poorfag. and do it with the delusional thought that richfags will end up broke after they buy some amenities for themselves to make your poorfag self feel better.
>>320176685
Could you possibly sound more like a teenager living with this parents?
>>320163869
>pirate witcher 3
>drop the game out of boredom, didn't even reach the first griffin fight
>buy it during a steam sale
>80+ hours
I guess when you get something for free, you're not looking to get your money's worth out of it.
>>320163953
rainbow six siege is £50
>>320176685
Your IQ digits sound low.
>>320162081
> nine years
You've been in a coma for quite some time
>>320163869
Of course it does!
>>320162750
Console gamer turned PC gamer here. I was sick of the console wars and I was glad to be out of it. But shortly after building my first budget-build computer, I had people telling me my 750ti was a "meme card" and that I should have "spent more to get a good card". Two years later, I'm upgrading. New motherboard, new CPU and a 970 (the best I could afford) and once again, I'm getting people saying "spend more to get the better card", "what, don't you know the 980 is better?", "3.5 meme card". The 980 is $200 more in Vegemiteland, I just can't justify spending another $200 on something which I've already spent a considerable amount of money on.
I know a lot of PC gamers are delusional enough to think we're all best buds and stick together just because of our chosen platform. But we aren't. Now, instead of people judging me for my choice between 3 consoles, I get people judging me for my choice between hundreds of thousands of component combinations. Fuck you all.
>>320176354
>still buying a ps4
>still buying an xbox one
We're not talking about money here. We're talking about you being a fucking buffoon.
>>320163869
Pirated all Valve games, then purchased them all on sale, because they would look good on my virtual game shelf.
After seeing the direction that Valve has taken, I'm ashamed by my contribution.
With corporations, every dollar you spend grows an increasingly debased animal.
>>320171235
Except that's exactly what happes
>>320178576
> I was sick of the console wars
>Yielding to social pressure and irrelevant bickering and letting it determine how you enjoy your hobby
Welcome to the suffering of being a complete retard.
>>320172817
This is why game demos need to become a thing again.
>>320167948
Steak eater
>>320167948
Revenge of the Sith
>>320178576
You're a moron.
>>320167948
Baby's Day Out
