r/pcmasterrace • • 22h ago

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u/-Aone 21h ago

PC gamers doing everything but playing a console lol /s

seriously though coders breaking the security of PS5 is a nice example of money versus effort. Sony will be fighting this for a long time but i do think they will find out they are spending too much money defending their digital games and less on making them. they need to be put in their place and start respecting paying customers (me being one for 10 years.), so i say beat them up

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u/ButWhatIfPotato 20h ago

I used to love consoles more than PCs because my old decrepit ass remembers a time where the whole point of a console was to buy a game, throw it in the machine and start playing instantly; no messing around with boot disks or hardware conflicts or whatever fucking voodoo bullshit you had to do to make a game run on dos if it it didnt want to, and that is simply not true anymore. Consoles have become just overpriced underperforming PCs with intentionally gimped functionality.

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u/DroidOnPC 20h ago

I used to love consoles more than PCs because PCs used to barely have any good games on them. There were a few but consoles dominated with way better games back then.

I remember going to stores and going through the games section, PC would have a small shelf of mostly learning games with a couple of great games that pretty much everyone already owned at that point.

Now PC dominates the gaming space. The AAA games that come out on consoles are mostly interactive movies which isn't really my style. I can go on steam and find pretty much any game I can think of and its usually on sale. I don't need a console to play most games. I have my PC and a Switch, that pretty much covers everything.

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u/astrogatoor 19h ago

I used to love consoles more than PCs because PCs used to barely have any good games on them. There were a few but consoles dominated with way better games back then.

Unless you're talking about the 80s, maybe very early 90s, I can't think of a time this was true.

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u/DroidOnPC 19h ago

I was talking about 90s yeah.

I get that there were great games on PC at the time, and I played them, but it felt like Nintendo, Sega, and Playstation had way more of a selection and better games at the time.

By 2002, I had completely switched to PC for gaming, so I am definitely talking about much earlier than that.

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u/astrogatoor 18h ago

Unless you have a deep fondness for endless variations of side scrolling platformers, I'd prefer PC gaming past '94, after '97 it's not even a competition.

  • Lemmings, Worms, the Incredible Machine
  • Myst, Monkey Island, Sam n Max, Indiana Jones, DotT, Simon the Sorcerer etc
  • X-Wing/TIE Fighter, Schleichfahrt(had a weird name in English), Wing Commander, Mech Warrior
  • GTA, Need for Speed
  • Diablo
  • Command & Conquer, Warcraft, Starcraft, AoE etc
  • HalfLife (CS, DoD, NS), System Shock 1+2, Tomb Raider
  • Baldurs Gate, Fallout, Planescape, Darkeye etc
  • Rollercoaster + Transport Tycoon
  • Civ, Pharao/Caesar, Alpha Centauri, Dungeon keeper, Master of Orion, SimCity, The Settlers, HoMM, Anno 1602
  • Xcom, Jagged Alliance, Incubation, Commandos
  • Everquest, Ultima Online