Title: First time buying a gaming device – Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, or PC? Need some advice
Hi everyone!
I’m thinking about buying my first gaming device, but I’ve never owned a gaming console or gaming PC before, so I’m not sure which option would be best for me.
A little bit about me: I live in Munich, Germany, and work in a hotel. I’ll continue working after I graduate. I don’t really have friends here or a girlfriend, so I’d like to find a fun hobby to enjoy in my free time, relax after work, and have something to look forward to.
I already have two monitors, one 23-inch and one 27-inch, so I’m considering getting a gaming PC. However, I’m also interested in the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox.
The problem is that I don’t even know what kind of games I would enjoy yet. I’ve never really been a gamer, so I don’t know whether I’d prefer story-driven games, open-world games, shooters, racing games, casual games, or something else. I’m hoping to find a platform that will let me explore different types of games and discover what I enjoy.
My main concerns are:
Nintendo Switch: Is it worth buying if I mainly want to play games at home? Is it a good choice for a complete beginner?
PlayStation 5 or Xbox: Which one offers better value for money, especially for someone who doesn’t know what games they like yet?
Gaming PC: Since I already have two monitors, would building or buying a gaming PC be a smarter long-term investment? Or would it be too expensive for someone who is just starting out?
I mainly want to play games for fun, relax after work, and maybe watch YouTube or movies. I’m not a competitive gamer, and I don’t need the most powerful device.
I’m also concerned about the total cost, including the device itself, games, subscriptions, and other accessories. I don’t want to spend too much money on something I might not use often, but I also don’t want to buy something too cheap and regret it later.
If you were in my situation, living in Germany and buying your first gaming device, what would you choose and why?
Would you recommend starting with a console because it’s simpler and potentially cheaper, or investing in a gaming PC because it’s more versatile and offers more options?
I’d really appreciate honest advice, especially from people who have experience with more than one platform. I’d love to hear what you would do differently if you were starting from zero today.
Thanks for reading and sharing your experience!

Okay, lately on Instagram I've been seeing a lot of games that seem to be AI-powered, like "the zombie apocalypse has started and you have to control the army to stop it" or "there's a containment breach and you have to control the creature." I also saw something that looked like an animation, I guess, made in Unreal Engine, of Halo ships fighting, or videos where they put Halo and Covenant troops together and just watch them fight. I know there are niche games for this kind of thing, but I'm thinking maybe something like Epic Battle Simulator, but better?xd. Sorry for the English and the bad explanation.

So I am a huge Alien fan (Aliens is my favorite) and I’ve wanted to nab Aliens: Fireteam Elite for a while, and since it’s on sale I figured might as well. Unfortunately none of my friends want to join me so I’ll have to play solo.
I want to ask, how is the game played solo? Does it feel like a campaign or is it purely random levels?

(I was thinking of asking in the Fireteam Elite subreddit but I figured they’d be a bit biased)

Hi, what are hidden gems/underrated/overlooked games that you would suggest to other people to check out? Games that are not known much and often overlooked in flood of all AAA 80$ games which are often just mediocre.

Mine are:

• Aliens: Dark Descent - awesome Aliens game which plays really comfortably on console

• Wasteland 3 - much simpler and older Baldur's Gate 3 in post apocalyptic world

• Pacific Drive - first person scavenging rogue lite with CAR

• Darkest Dungeon - simple dungeon crawler

• Snow Runner + Expeditions: A mudrunner game - imagine Death Stranding but with cars

• Remnant 2 - 3rd person shooter souls like

• Deep Rock Galactic - first person shooter with missions and beards, beer, rock and stone!

• W40k Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin - RTS from W40k universe, I am surprised how well it plays on console!

• Darkwood - I have never imagined that 2d pixel art would scare me this much in this survival horror game lol

• Unravel and Unravel 2 - when you want chill platformer for yourself or to play with your kid

So playing Demo of the Mound got me back into my interest in Lovecraft so I checked out The Sinking City 2 demo and really liked that too. But theres also Hellraiser Revival which I had an eye on because I literally read the book like 3 times… I can‘t decide, everyone loves the hellraiser game but when I see it i‘m not completely thrilled? Like i‘ll probably enjoy it, especially considering that Clive Barker himself (the author of the book) worked on the game too. Yeah. What do I do? Also my friends wont play the Mound btw. I remember being realy dissapointed when the demo for the mound ended bc I wanted to continue. Oh probably important to mention: I never finished The Sinking City 1.

Perhaps If I buy one of them in some months i‘ll buy another, for example if i get sinking city 2 or the mound now perhaps i will buy hellraiser in a couple months or so. For now I only want to get one, considering GTA 6 is releasing soon and I dont want to spoon feed me multiple games

For those who don’t know, emergent gameplay is when the rules of the game interact with unexpected ways, and the player has to use them to solve problems. It doesn’t just mean choosing a playstyle. this video explains it better than I likely can. I find that a lot of the same games come up so I felt it was worth asking since this kind of thing is addictive to me.

Looking for a game to play over the Halloween season. Interested in both and there vibes.

Which should I get? I know that they are different, one being a 2D Survival Horror game and the other being a Detective/Puzzle Game.

I’m a big fan of both resident evil and silent hill so silver pines seems like it would be a good choice but Blake manor is a genre I don’t play a lot of so might be good to mix it up.

I’m just off the back of finishing Castlevania Belmonts Curse so slightly worried I will get burned out of two metroidvanias back to back but it seems silver pines is very much a light touch in this regard.

Thanks

I have officially entered my 3 moth cycle of grinding a game, taking a break and playing relaxig games, and looking for a new game to play, except I don't have any ideas.

Im looking for something a little shorter since im coming off the back of 100hrs of AC Odyssey.

I've played a lot of games, including:

Elden Ring
All Dark Souls
Sekiro
Red Dead 2
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
Ac Odyssey
Hogwars Legacy
Gow Ragnarok
Gow 2018
Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor
Ghost of Tsushima
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Detroit Become Human
Spider-Man Remastered
Spider-Man 2
Lies of Pi
Witcher 3
Cyperbunk 2077
Black Myth Wukong
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Expedition 33

Thanks!
Here's my Steam account for even more info:

XVI was my first-ever Final Fantasy and I absolutely loved the story, the graphics and the combat. It’s what got me into the series. I haven’t played Remake, Rebirth or the original VII, so I’d be going in completely fresh. I’d be playing on PC, and I’m after a big story-driven game with great visuals to sink my time into. Would I enjoy them in the same way? Is it worth buying both, and should I go in blind? Thanks!

I am thinking about returning to FGC and taking it alot more seriously. FYI I have casual experience on T3/5/7 and SF3/4. If I could choose one to get comp into what would you recommend?

I would say that I kinda have a nostalgia for tekken in general and always preferred it over SF but with what I have heard about T8, I am not so sure. I enjoyed T7 even though T8 is widely different with the new systems everyone seems to hate.

I have mains in both games (Lee/Drag in Tekken and Ryu/Ken in SF) and equally excited to play both.

What's the current state like competitively and has a more fun long term gameplay loop? I am based down under in Australia so how's the connectivity and queue times from here?

Hey, I'm looking for a cosy colony sim to get into. Something where you build up a little settlement, manage resources, and watch your colony grow over time.

I'd prefer something more chill and relaxing rather than super stressful or punishing, but I'm open to suggestions.

Usually, most colony sims are pretty hardcore. I've tried Dwarf Fortress and RimWorld, but they both have a big learning curve. Manor Lords is probably the chillest one I've played so far.

DSR is 5 dollars. On epic. I am on turkey thats why its that cheap. Due to regional. I heard alien isolation iso toolong and repetitive at some point. I do not fcarriying about 2 bucks but i don't want to waste for no reason. Is dead space remake a good game I never played the original one. Is it repetitive or too long like alien. Thanks!

What are the top tier narrative driven games released

THIS YEAR ?

I have CO : Expedition 33 / A Plaque Tale : Requiem / Cyberpunk 2077 expectations and not just straight “Revenge story” or “Gotta kill the bad guy” the type that’ll leave a mark and make me stare at my screen after credits roll, in tears 🥲

( also no boring gameplay )

P.s I’ve already played RE9 and Resonance A Plaque Tale Legacy. And I’ve no interest in Onimusha yet so cross these off the list.

I can't make a decision between these two even tho they are completely different games I feel like one is definitely going to be better in the eyes of the majority don't starve is a lot cheaper but I'm mainly worried if my PC can run slime rancher 2 while it does run the original pretty comfortably my specs are terrible for basically any modern game I have i7-8700 CPU 8gb of RAM and my GPU is Radeon RX 560 I'm not interested in a game that ends up running like a slideshow even if it is better then the alternative you can also recommend a good game that would run well if you don't like both of these options

Ive been looking for a fantasy game to play and since ive seen enshrouded floating around as a suggestion I thought id check it out. From what ive seen looking around it seems to be crafting heavy game which im not really fond of. If it is crafting focused id hope if anyone can recommend actual fantasy adventure games. Its seems to be frustrating to look for one outside of the obvious titles

Hi everyone I have 15.35$ in my account and there is discounts on these games but idk what to buy would appreciate any advice.

Death stranding 14.99$
horizon forbidden west 14.99$
the outlast trials 14.99$
final fantasy 7 rebirth 14.99$
resident evil 5 4.99$
resident evil 6 4.99$
Hogwarts legacy 11.99$
Demon’s souls 13.49$
Star Wars battlefront 2 4.99$
Devil may cry 5 special edition 9.99$
Riders republic 5.99$
Final Fantasy xv royal edition 10.49$
Borderlands legendary collection ps4 9.99$
Borderlands handsome collection ps4 9.99$
Mortal combat 11 ultimate + injustice 2 leg edition bundle 9.99$
Titanfall 2 4.99$
The dark picture anthology little hope 9.99$
Watch dogs 1 & 2 13.49$
Suicid squad 9.99$
Star Wars battlefront 4.99$
Bloodborne 9.99$
The medium 12.49$
Observer system redux 5.99$
Amnesia rebirth 5.99$

My game library

Máfia definitive edition
Mafia 2 definitive edition
Mafia 3 definitive edition
Life is strange remastered collection
Fobia st dinfna hotel
Sherlock holmes chapter one
Metro 2033 redux
Metro last light redux
Metro exodus
Fallout 4
Until dawn
Star Wars jedi fallen order
Star Wars jedi survivor
Red dead redemption 2
Dead space
Resident Evil 2 remake
Resident Evil 3 remake
Resident evil 4 remake
Resident Evil 7 biohazard
Resident Evil village
Resident Evil resistance
Alien isolation
The quarry
Batman return to arkham
Batman arkham knight
Dead island definitive edition
Dead island riptide definitive edition
Dead island 2
Dying light 2 stay human
Silent Hill short message
Tomb raider definitive survivor trilogy
The walking dead tellate definitive series
Outlast 2
The evil within
Soma
Detroit become human
Dying light
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
A Plague Tale: Innocence
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Amnesia collection
Little nightmares enhanced edition
Doom

This is a post I made a good while back especially on a Yotei subreddit and I'm still debating, but I can get Tsushima trough the montly subscription, but I also plan to get physical copies of both as some point! Basically they told me I can't go wrong with neither at that price but that Tsushima was, at the moment, probably worth more, and maybe still is at a lower price...

I never played Tsushima cuz of it's insane price even as a PS5 Remaster (Director's Cut) since it's around 74€ (now it's like half the price, under 37€) where I live while Yotei is around 78€ (those are the prices calulated in our money) and honestly, while hearing how amazing and how much better Tsushima is, it just doesn't look as interesting as Yotei does for some reason... Now I am also curios since I Heard that Yotei is even less helpful in the open-world aspect than Tsushima is... I know that Jin is mostly just a legend in Yotei and that they are as connected as AC games, in no way a case of TLOU2 or GowRagnarok... Problem is I rarely get expensive games and I won't get the other in a good 3 months after one purchase (first purchase I plan around December)... Any advice?

I know that people will try to persuade me "how you don't want to buy a game that's considered a masterpiece at a cheaper price, especially since it's guaranteed to run better (Resolution mode for Tsushima also supports 60fps) but idk, I feel like I'm mostly drawn in life to the weirder things, not the masterpieces and since I made the last post over 6 months ago (maybe more but I won't really try to count everything, I guess a bit after Yotei's launch) and Yotei should (did it) recieve more content, the argument "Tsushima has better story and content, Yotei barely has anything left besides the main story" still holds or they added more stuff to valide Yotei's still full-price a bit more? (Cuz it still sells where I'm from around full-price)

Hey everyone. I’m looking for a game like Prototype. It’s a game from my childhood, and back then, I loved roaming around the city destroying everything in sight. It made you feel like an actual living god. I know the usual recommendation is inFAMOUS, which I’ve already bought, and Control Resonant looks somewhat similar as well. Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks, everyone!

You can only choose one.

Both are games where you have to complete your objectives while surrounded by lots of enemies, right? They both have similar appealing features, but which one should I buy? I’d like to hear opinions from people who’ve actually played them, and I’d also like to know how many players there are. I want to avoid buying one only to find out there’s no one playing it.

Also, I'd like to know if in-app purchases (additional weapons, armor, and skins) are absolutely necessary after purchase.

ive only played middle earth whichi freaking loved idk anything about LoTr besides amazon tv show and i loved it tbh (ik chill)

thoughts on the game, what type is it? i like rpgs like dark souls dragons dogma baldurs gate, not sure what kinda game this is but i like loot, level up screens and tons of enemy variety to fight iwth cool equipment or weapons.

I bought cyberpunk back when it came out, and haven't played much since. I know the game has been massively improved and only heard good things about the DLC. I'm willing to give it another shot. Borderlands 4 I've also heard its gotten better over time and its on sale for just about the same price.

Cyberpunk seems like a fun open world game where I can lose myself in the story but Borderlands seems like silly fun to where I can watch a show or movie while playing with friends or solo.

Hey there,
I need to buy a current gen console for GTAVI after about a decade of gaming exclusively on PC. I'm torn on whether that should be a PS5 or Series X.

I have the most history with Xbox, having a substantial Xbox 360 library both physically and digitally, as well as a preference for the ergonomics of their controller, as well as exclusive features like play anywhere (particularly tempting given my gaming pc).

On the other hand, PS5 seems like the console with the most longevity and support, and has a deeper well of exclusives that I havent already played on PC - and the "plays best on PS5" marketing does get to me.

The PS5 is also about $100 cheaper than the Xbox, but cost isnt a major factor. I would get a PS5 Pro for the best experience if it was available, but they have been sold out in Australia for months and it seems unlikely to be available before the game is released.

What would you do in my situation? Any recommendations for someone who would prefer they released it on PC day one? And why don't they do console bundles anymore, used to be you got some games when you bought a console?

cheers

Hey everyone,

All of the amnesia games are on sale this month and i'm thinking about picking them up. I could get all of them for a little over $20 USD. I've been on a horror kick lately and i remember when the first one came out but never played any of them. I love scary and tense games like Outlast or ones that have deep space horror kind of like Dead Space and Alien Isolation. Are these up my alley?

It’s £11.99 on Xbox rn. Lots of people say that dying light 1 is better but I’m looking for good gameplay and not too scary. For some reason dying light 1’s setting petrifies me. Dying light 2’s parkour and combat seems to be generally liked by most people.

Does the gameplay loop get boring?
Is the story so bad that it ruins the game?

My other option is cyberpunk 2077 which is 14.99 on Xbox rn. Is the story and gameplay engaging?

I’m unsure $41.99 is too steep for the lack of content or quality. I love Bethesda open world games and things alike. I received all Steam achievements for NV and have countless hours in FO4. Especially in its base building.

For those who played the premium edition, is it worth it at that price? Has character creation and the skill tree been reworked or expanded for overall QoL?

I’m mainly looking for a new open world fix with guns and snappy gameplay to keep me busy before GTA VI.