Decline The era of PC gaming is OVER! (weird role-reversal)

[Skinwalker]

The decline in mainstream gaming has led to an interesting phenomenon: there is no longer any real reason to spend thousands of dollars on a high-end (or even medium-end) gaming PC, unless you're a brainless coomer for Nvidia (does AMD still exist?) and Intel. And Microshit.

This is coming from someone who has been a PC gamer-only since the days of Sega Dreamcast (PS1 was the last console I had owned, played several games on my friend's Dreamcast, then got a gaming PC and never looked back). Until Nintendo Switch and PS4 Pro.

Why haven't I bothered getting a new gaming PC (and neither should you) in the last half a decade? Simple:

1. Any AAA game is simply not worth it just to play it on max settings. Graphics have stopped advancing substantially and it was never worth chasing after the latest and highest specs anyway. In fact, there is now a noticeable regress in terms of graphics quality, many new AAA games look worse than their predecessors from several years ago.

2. WOKE TRASH!

3. Denuvo has made piracy non-viable (not impossible, just... harder and more annoying), so you don't even get the benefit of a one-time investment and endless free games, like before. Spends thousands on a gaming PC, then keep giving money to Steam like a cuck, lol. No thanks.

4. "But what about my dreary greyscale colorblindness autism simulators like ATOM or Undertrail or whatever?!" you might ask. Fair point, but you don't need even a medium-end, let along high-end PC for your indie nostalgia crap. Those can run on my grandma's toaster.


In conclusion, getting a new gaming PC is a colossal waste of money, unless you're a cuck who luvs lesbian transniggers lecturing white males on how oppressive they are, or too stupid to realize that 90-100% of the games you play don't need an expensive PC.

So, your options are:

A. Old/low-end PC (within reason, obv).
B. Steam deck.
C. PlayStation 5 (fuck xbox).
X. Nintendo Switch, if you like their exclusives. But really, this one is more of a complement to the first three options.

 

[normie]

 

[Dr Skeleton]

I've been using the same budget laptop with a GTX 1650 for years and I've had no issues with running anything or graphics settings, but I mostly play older games or indie stuff, at most something like the Pathfinder games. I just use a TV screen when I want a larger display.

 

[The Decline]

Still not a reason to get a console instead though.

 

[Beastro]

The age of the laptop has arrived!

All the convenience of the console with all the decent older PC ganes to play!

 

[Malamert]

You spend thousands of dollars on high-end hardware to run OLD and GOOD games at ridiculous resolutions, eradicating any and all traces of aliasing and at insane framerates to give yourself nonstop orgasms at just how smooth everything is.
Furthermore, you use that overkill hardware to mod those games with obscene amounts of TASTEFUL graphics mods and/or demanding gameplay mods.

 

[GrainWetski]

Still not a reason to get a console instead though.

Obviously not because they're even worse since you don't have any actual good old games to play and you can get a good enough PC for the new trash if you so desire for the same price as the fagboxes..

Nothing's changed, you're still fucking retarded if you own a console post PS2.

 

[spectre]

Haven't checked in a while, but emulation is also quite resource intensive. If you swing that way of course.
So there's that one final reason to throw some monies at your PC, so it rightfully becomes the machine to end all machines.

 

[ds]

The age of the laptop has arrived!

All the convenience of the console with all the decent older PC ganes to play!

Portable gaming was a mistake - if you can't carry a CRT somewhere you don't deserve to game there.

 

[Iucounu]

I've asked myself how GPU makers (like Nvidia) could allow this to happen.

Graphics have stopped advancing substantially

Isn't it GPU makers -- and not game devs -- that used to create all the special effects that drove sales of new GPUs? God rays, wet surfaces, volumetric smoke, ray tracing --I recall each one of these effects showed up at roughly the same time in multiple games, because GPU makers provided the tools to devs. But these days it seems GPU makers are no longer able to come up with new eye candy, instead they rather sell cards to cryptominers and AI devs.

2. WOKE TRASH!

If GPU makers cared about the gaming market surely they wouldn't have allowed the woke rot to take hold in the first place? GPU makers should also be powerful enough to oppose any agenda that say Blackrock might push. Literal assassinations of opponents are not unheard of in the world of business when this much money is at stake. They could also have financially supported non-woke gaming journalism that actually benefitted gamers.

 

[Morgoth]

Deep stuff.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Nothing's changed, you're still fucking retarded if you own a console post PS2.

Playstation 3 had several games that were either exclusive to the PS3 or at least not available on PC:

• Soul Calibur IV (2008, Namco) is a good fighting game only available on console
• Demon's Souls (2009, From Software) is the first Souls game and still the best; also remains a PS3 exclusive except for the PS5 remake
• Yakuza 3 (2009, Sega), 4 (2010), and 5 (2012) were all released on PS3 but had revised re-releases on PS4 in 2018/2019
• Flower (2009, ThatGameCompany) is an artsy pseudo-game worth experiencing once as an experiment
• Dark Souls (2011, From Software), though it had a PC port the next year becoming Codex GotY
• Ico (2001, Sony) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005, Sony) were re-released as a compilation on the PS3 (2011) with slightly improved graphics from the original PS2 versions
• Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (2012/2013, Capcom), though it was finally ported to the PC in 2016 becoming Codex GotY
• Dragon's Crown (2013, Vanillaware) is a beat-'em-up with RPG elements never ported to PC or anything else except a handheld device

And the PS3 also functions as a blu-ray player.

 

[The people of Duckburg]

You've correctly realized that there's no reason to build a high-end gaming PC today. What makes you live up to your title is that you somehow spin that into an excuse to buy consoles instead, and Sony consoles at that. All your points apply to consoles as well. Graphics? Dog shit there too, except you have even less ability to turn off awful effects that blur out the screen. "Woke trash"? It's fucking Sony, the ones that have been at the forefront of pushing those movie games propaganda pieces. Sony and censorship have been synonymous for years. Nintendo aren't much better, either, and Microsoft are Microsoft.

Denuvo? Yeah, it's horrible, and anyone that has ever bought a game with it is objectively subhuman. But how is the console piracy scene doing in comparison? I haven't been keeping up with it, and I think the Switch does have some capabilities (unless I'm confusing it with emulation), but I have no recollection of hearing of PS5 piracy. Same thing with Steam. It's bad, but how is replacing it with Sony or either of the others any better? And we do have decades worth of games to pirate on PC still. As for the Underrails and other small studio games, they don't require high-end PCs, but why should that be a reason to buy a console? Consoles typically don't have games like those, anyway.

The levels of mental gymnastics on display here border on body horror. You list problems, then go on to say that the solution is to pick an even worse option. Here's your solution: high-end gaming PCs are basically pointless, so stick to your low-end or medium PC and play the old or non-demanding games.

 

[Kev Inkline]

In other words, in the OP, a poorfag seethes he cannot afford a powerful pc to play the same woke slop he'll be playing on a PS5 instead.

 

[Skinwalker]

In other words, in the OP, a poorfag seethes he cannot afford a powerful pc to play the same woke slop he'll be playing on a PS5 instead.

Nice projection there, cuck. I don't play woke slop, and nothing that I have on my list will benefit in any noticeable way from a "powerful pc".

 

[Skinwalker]

Denuvo? Yeah, it's horrible, and anyone that has ever bought a game with it is objectively subhuman. But how is the console piracy scene doing in comparison?

There is no console piracy scene. You just accept the fact that you'll be paying for each game you play, the same as on PC pretty much (any worthwhile AAA game has denuvo). The point is that the one huge advantage that the PC used to have (pay once, then get things for free) is now gone.

 

[ds]

any worthwhile AAA game

Any what now?

 

[The people of Duckburg]

Denuvo? Yeah, it's horrible, and anyone that has ever bought a game with it is objectively subhuman. But how is the console piracy scene doing in comparison?

There is no console piracy scene. You just accept the fact that you'll be paying for each game you play, the same as on PC pretty much (any worthwhile AAA game has denuvo). The point is that the one huge advantage that the PC used to have (pay once, then get things for free) is now gone.

There are plenty of advantages beyond piracy. And piracy isn't dead, either; even if it's less convenient or common, it still exists, even for newer games. This is such a stupid point that I can't even imagine how you thought of it in good faith. If you don't like what PC gaming has become, why would you support systems that have all the same disadvantages, on top of being more locked down?

 

[Skinwalker]

There are plenty of advantages beyond piracy. And piracy isn't dead, either; even if it's less convenient or common, it still exists, even for newer games. This is such a stupid point that I can't even imagine how you thought of it in good faith. If you don't like what PC gaming has become, why would you support systems that have all the same disadvantages, on top of being more locked down?

How is it MORE locked down? You have a smaller entry fee, and then pay for each game, the same as on PC. What do you imagine happens when you play a game on Playstation, Mr. Sony manifests in your room with chains and a ball-gag?

any worthwhile AAA game

Any what now?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/list-of-games-that-are-worth-buying-playstation-5-for.149417/

 

[Ol' Willy]

skinwanker ousted as a disgusting pleb

 

[The people of Duckburg]

How is it MORE locked down?

If daddy Sony says your game isn't getting released on PS5, it's not getting released on PS5. If Valve says your game isn't getting released on Steam, there are alternative routes the publisher can take. Not to mention everything else you can do with a PC that is impossible or inconvenient on a console. Or the tons of indie/doujin (I think that was the term) games, mods or romhacks available on PC.

How is a console not more locked down than a PC? Do you genuinely not have any connection to reality, to make these claims?

 

[Skinwalker]

If daddy Sony says your game isn't getting released on PS5, it's not getting released on PS5.

Name one example that isn't worthless shit. You can't.

If Valve says your game isn't getting released on Steam, there are alternative routes the publisher can take

That's a false analogy. Played Bloodborne on your PC yet?

 

[The people of Duckburg]

Ah, yes, the "nothing Sony censors would have been good anyway" defense. Yeah, I'm done trying to reason with you.

 

[Skinwalker]

Ah, yes, the "nothing Sony censors would have been good anyway" defense. Yeah, I have no examples to support my case.

Aw, come on, try your best. Try and claim that if I got a PS5, I'd be horribly missing out on Starfield , and...

And...

AND...

???

 

[Crispy]

And yet somehow the PC gaming industry just keeps on growing and growing.

I think it's perfectly valid (and accurate) to complain about the quality of computer games within the last ten years, especially AAA games, but there can be no denying that there's still something obviously driving the industry. And it can't be exclusively e-sports.

Is it gurl gamers like the report claims? I seriously doubt it. Most of them spend their money on streaming equipment and lighting and high-res cameras to be camwhores. I don't think many female PC gamers are interested in a truly top-end gaming rig.

Is it RPGs? Doubtful, unless you count Baldur's Gate 3, which doesn't require a particularly powerful PC to run fairly well.

FPS? I guess the Modern Warfare games are p. popular but I'm not into them personally.

DOTA and other RTS? I doubt that's it.

Flight sims? The newest MS Flight Simulator requires a true beast to run at top everything, but it was just released a month ago or something.

Anyway, complain all you want, Liberal, but unless you give in and have your friendly neighborhood Crispy build you a nice, custom, high-powered rig, you're still going to be stuck outside, looking in, with your stupid tongue all over the window drooling over what you either can't have or deny yourself from enjoying. At least you've got your precious (outdated lol) PS4 Pro waiting for you at home. Enjoy.