GymWolf
Member
I was not talking about hardware, just the tinkering.
I do some tinkering because i have to, not because i like the process.
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Greg Miller Hates PC gaming, So Should you?
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I do some tinkering because i have to, not because i like the process.
Warnen
Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
Mr. PlayStation
Member
PC is cool if you have the time and resources to understand it all and make it work!
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TheContact
Member
That tweet just comes off as ignorant. Even if you're not a person that likes to mess with configuration options, they're completely optional. "automatically detect settings" has been in PC games for decades now. Even if you don't like building computers, you can buy pre-configured ones. Even if you don't like windows, you can install SteamOS and use a controller. His tweet comes off as "options are bad, but you do you".
Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
My xb1 crashes games way more often than my pc; it's not even close.Also
People really need to eat some member berries from time to time.
TaroYamada
Member
Honestly it kind of squares with the fake nerd persona, so this isn't surprising and I'm unsure why we'd care.
In fairness though, we're here commenting on it.
In fairness though, we're here commenting on it.
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Knitted Knight
Banned
If you like AAA exclusives, you ain't gonna find them on PC. It's all about multiplats there. What reason to switch? Certain types of gamers are just not made for PC Gaming. And that's fine.
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Warnen
Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
As the OP I don't really care what his opinion is, just find it Kinda funy (lol) that someone that does game shit for his job would tweet something like that.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
He also loved the Avengers game before it launched.
teezzy
Banned
Pedro Motta
Member
Blink and it's 4 pages already...THIS IS USELESSSSS!
bender
What time is it?
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Well if you have seen his recent views on the upcoming election he's at least consistent in this regard.
diffusionx
Gold Member
My point is that thinking about it in terms of the hurdles you need to overcome once in a blue moon is too pessimistic. Yea maybe downloading a Xinput wrapper on Github is a pain, but that also means the PC lets you play a really old game on a controller it never was designed for, and you don't need to remaster beg for the right to re-buy it to play it. Yea sometimes drivers fuck up or whatever but it also means you can customize your hardware how you want and run games far beyond console.
Like I ran into issues getting System Shock 2 to run in ultrawide on my monitor at 60fps. I could say, well PC gaming amirite. Or I could say, I am trying to play a 23 year old PC masterpiece on my current PC on my current monitor, both of which didn't even come close to existing when the game came out. I still need to figure that out btw...
The people who say, "oh PC is too much of a pain in the ass" really only look at the downside. Which makes sense for the normies, but for people who care enough about vidya to post on a forum like this or twitter? It's kind of weird.
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bender
What time is it?
teezzy
Banned
DarkestHour
Banned
Just proves how dumb he is if he can't figure out a PC. They're really fool proof now. My five year old and nine year old kids know how to use a computer and I didn't have to teach them anything. They go on Steam, Roblox, Epic store as they wish with no problems.
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Deleted member 17706
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It does not surprise me that a petulant narcissistic manchild who thinks he can lecture people on what is morally just and what is not would also hate PC gaming. These are not the kind of people that like to think very hard.
Soulblighter31
Banned
Resources as in being different than a 500 dollar ps5 with 80 dollar per game and a 60 dollar subscription so you can use the online aspects along with the cost of a tv to play it on ? Cuz thats fucking expensive what i just wrote here
Fitzchiv
Member
Fuck me, those of us who remember PC gaming in the 90's - the sheer terror of seeing what kind of hostile, dismissive and sometimes violent reaction time your Pentium 2: 350hz with a Voodoo 2 card rammed in it would have to a seemingly harmless and untaxing game - will appreciate that PC gaming is a huge amount better now.
Does it offer the benefits over console that make what little extra hassle there is worth it? Not sure really. Isn't it just limited to the odd play with a resolution slider?
Does it offer the benefits over console that make what little extra hassle there is worth it? Not sure really. Isn't it just limited to the odd play with a resolution slider?
jigglet
Banned
Yes it's so different these days. It was so buggy like 20 years ago. Windows was just utter shite in the late 90's and early 00's. Also back in the day, every time you joined a new server in CS, you'd need to download the anti cheat for that particular server, now it's all unified under Steam.
Also hardware is so much easier to deal with now that harddrives don't have the whole master / slave concept (not that it was hard to begin with but it's just gotten even simpler...plug and play).
Edgelord79
Gold Member
I don't understand this. I can't even remember the last time I had an issue with a game. It's literally been years.
Guess I've been extraordinarily lucky.
Guess I've been extraordinarily lucky.
childish and stupid
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Last issue I had was with Metal Gear Rising, as connecting the PC to my TV via HDMI made the game run at 24fps for reasons I could not comprehend.
5 minutes of googling later the issue was solved, so yeah, that soy guy is a prick.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
Greg Miller you are a MORON
BacklashWave534
Member
Greg Miller is nothing more than another soy soldier with a micro penis. His actions in betraying his best friend for likes and retweets tells you all you need to know about him. His opinions matter even less to me then the morons in Hollywood.
YuLY
Member
Oh look, its our favorite shill. I cant take this guy seriously since the Marvel's Avengers game marketing. He is literally a shill, his insight into games is laughable and all he can spew these days is his political agenda, like you couldnt tell from his attire. Definition of a soyboy.
FeldMonster
Member
I don't know who this is, but I too hate gaming on a computer. It is just not for me.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
I wonder if the “iPad” generation where devices just work are going to hate PC gaming more than us because they lack basic troubleshooting skills?
Having to create boot disks (because RAM was holy shit expensive), knowing how to deal with IRQ conflicts whenever you got a new sound card or something, and learning how to navigate a DOS prompt were all just standard things you had to know to game on PCs. It got easier later on when you didn’t have to call a support number and all you had to do was search for a solution on the internet.
Like you said, modern PC gaming has been an absolute joke certainly since Windows 7 was released.
GymWolf
Member
Multiplats are also AAA games and 95% of what comes out every year the last time i checked.
and you don't even have a case about console exclusives being the only games with a certain budget\technical prowess in a world where rdr2 (and many other games) exist.
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Bolivar687
Banned
So yeah it just happened. Signing in for the first time it froze when it asked me to log in to my Activision account. I then lost all control of my mouse and had to Ctrl+alt+delete to get it working again but it locks up as soon as I exit task manager.
Works fine after restart.
Warablo
Member
Him and Colin are fanboys.
PC is easier than ever, I used to some what agree with him, but now days its so much easier.
My buddy had a problem with Escape From Tarkov and had to edit some of the files just so it could launch properly because of a update from the devs fucked it.
PC is easier than ever, I used to some what agree with him, but now days its so much easier.
My buddy had a problem with Escape From Tarkov and had to edit some of the files just so it could launch properly because of a update from the devs fucked it.
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Azurro
Banned
I like the performance possible in PC gaming, however I dislike that there's no development for high end equipment. I mean, you spend 2000€ and once you turn it on you play CS:Go, that football with cars game or console ports with sliders set to the right. It's a shame.
The other thing that makes me dislike it is the culture of PC gaming, it's just so childish that it turns me off. It feels like a hobby for kids in their early 20s, with the RGB, the racing chair, the xtreeem aesthetics, the bragging and constant need to tell everyone else how great your rig is. It's just childish.
The other thing that makes me dislike it is the culture of PC gaming, it's just so childish that it turns me off. It feels like a hobby for kids in their early 20s, with the RGB, the racing chair, the xtreeem aesthetics, the bragging and constant need to tell everyone else how great your rig is. It's just childish.
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
You talk about those as of they were their own genre or something.
A game beign exclusive does not mean it's better or has more value than other games. It's just that, exclusives.
Also you have all the Xbox exclusives, and even some from Playstation (although they are much more rare, but that could change in the future).
We agree in the last part tho. There is people who absolutely despise using a computer so it's fine if you don't like PC gaming. Just don't tweet that you hate it because of drivers and FAQs and shit, because you'll be labeled as a little bit stupid.
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