Me too. I think Corsair is the closest you're going to get with that, but even then they still put LED's where they don't belong.
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Who started off the 'EXTREME GAMER!!!!' peripheral/gear aesthetic
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Me too. I think Corsair is the closest you're going to get with that, but even then they still put LED's where they don't belong.
QuantumZebra
Member
Clean as in horridly tacky?
On topic - I'd say it began with Nintendo and the peripherls/"playing with power!" - but really went kicked off in the early 2000s when stuff like Disturbed, Linkin Park, "xtreeeeme", Mountain Dew!11 etc... was going on... the apex? I guess Geoff as the Dorito Pope, and RAZR / FATAL1TY stuff going ham.
These aren't ony for gamers and were intially targeted towards professionals who easily spend 12 hours on a PC.
Dude! If you have to ask you must be a noob.
So I just bought a Dell S2716DGR and looked online about reviews for it (I'm posting from it now) and discovered that apparently, review publications seem to think Dell's style is 'boring.'
Well fuck you, I want this:
instead of this.
I love Dell's cramming of G-sync, 1440p, 144hz into a monitor that looks as normal as can be.
Well fuck you, I want this:
instead of this.
I love Dell's cramming of G-sync, 1440p, 144hz into a monitor that looks as normal as can be.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Why does a fuckin monitor need to be Predatory?
Acer's Predator shit is hilarious:
Also, ASUS have a really awesome monitor with 4k 144hz HDR G-sync (ROG Swift PG258Q) coming out soon but for some fucking reason it projects a red LED thingy onto the table:
Why?
Acer's Predator shit is hilarious:
Also, ASUS have a really awesome monitor with 4k 144hz HDR G-sync (ROG Swift PG258Q) coming out soon but for some fucking reason it projects a red LED thingy onto the table:
Why?
Like we already had a hard enough time convincing people our monitor purchase was worth it.
Wesley-Sigma
Member
lmao, Gamer Food.
Not only do I find eating while play games to be putrid, but that is the sort of thing that people would cling onto.
'Muh gamer fuel.'
Not only do I find eating while play games to be putrid, but that is the sort of thing that people would cling onto.
'Muh gamer fuel.'
Herb Alpert
Banned
OMG gamer food! I didn't know about that lol
petran79
Banned
Gaming drinks are even worse. Though gaming cigarettes and ashtrays would be cool
CadetMahoney
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CaviarMeths
Member
Dell and Logitech are where I'm at. Great hardware with nice, clean designs. And I don't mean that Alienware garbage or the G-series Logitech with the customary sharp angles and pointless LED lights. I mean your dad's office PC peripherals Logitech.
I'm a grown ass man and I want my desk area to say "modern office" with a little bit of "home studio." I don't want it to say "WAKEMEUPINSIDE.png"
I'm a grown ass man and I want my desk area to say "modern office" with a little bit of "home studio." I don't want it to say "WAKEMEUPINSIDE.png"
irrotational
Member
What about the Amiga power cruiser!?
It's supposed to help with eye strain
Far from it. Cashews are incredibly calorie-dense.
SirPinkyNose
Member
It blocks blue light which could be harmful to your eyes.
I'm wearing a pair like that too but mine look like normal clear glasses, only have some small prism effect.
butzopower
proud of his butz
Tron.
sixteen-bit
Member
f.lux IRL
PeskyToaster
Member
It sucks when you're trying to build a computer and it's all red and black. Luckily you can find things in different colors though. I like nice clean white or black colors like most modern electronics. You won't see an Apple product with some weird red and black monstrosity apparently designed by the forces of Chaos.
mere_immortal
Member
I love Fractal's cases for the understated look.
They still have all the awesome shit inside to make building easy and efficient, but they're nice and simple on the outside.
blankempathy
Member
Still way better than normal "gaming" foods or crap full of sugar. Plus they'll keep you full longer. Also that table is fugly.
Right answer. This guy started this shit.
So, regarding this point: some "gaming" branded gear is functional, or just made this way to distinguish it from its "professional" counterpart
To my understanding--
1. those expensive gamer chairs are actually super comfy
2. Some people have designed gaming desks with see through panel with a "modular" build, which is mostly a hobbyist/enthusiast project
3. Gaming glasses are dumb, but supposedly work. That said, you can just do the same thing with software.
4. Gaming headsets do work well and the avg. consumer would prefer a black/red/green/blue headset with mic than a bland earpiece made for teleconferencing (professional vs. normal products, as I said earlier)
5. Gfx cards are definitely also part of the pro vs. regular consumer aspect. A Quadro wouldn't function nearly as well as a regular gtx1080.
6. Cases are just like choosing a car, some people have really gaudy taste, what can I say
7. Gaming mice are super functional dude don't get me started
8 and 9. Yeah these are fucking dumb
10. Gaming keyboards are also super functional, esp. if they're mechanical. I'm sure everyone's aware of that one tho
As far as who started it... well, misinformed marketing teams in peripheral companies I guess
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Missed this topic last year but want OP to know images of Gaming Routers interspersed with Revengeance lyrics may be my favourite thing this week.
UserDoesNotExist
Member
This isn't in the same ballpark as GAMERZ, it's an electronics fetish (which I also share.)
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I am dying at the Metal Gear Router. Thanks, OP.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
This is why I appreciate Bitfenix cases.
This is mine:
And this is the one I just made for my house mate:
Tasteful, clean designs that don't stick out and are really easy to build too.
Then it's Dell all the way for monitors.
This is mine:
And this is the one I just made for my house mate:
Tasteful, clean designs that don't stick out and are really easy to build too.
Then it's Dell all the way for monitors.
JonnyDBrit
Member
I think it was a particular trend of the late 1990s/early 2000s to think of 'technology' in terms of bright, harsh colours against a black background. Films like the Matrix helped to propel this notion, and it seems to have stuck around primarily by being an industry standard.
It feels telling that you can find a 3DS in just about every colour imaginable, but with PC cases it's mainly black or white with highlights. Just went through Scan's full list of ATX cases - as I would like a better housing for my parts at some stage - and I found about half a dozen that had an actual colour as the majority of the case, out of hundreds.
Goes back to the NES days at least.
Sega really solidified it with their ads in the US.
Extreme gamer! stuff was well-established by 1990 with Video Power
It's funny that Nintendo invented the pseudo analog stick of the PSP, forgot about that controller already.
Yeah, I edited the OP. I was exaggerating and forgot about that sentence I threw in there.
Vital Tundra
Member
The "gamer" peripherals o fall kinds is super dumb and it doesn't look to great. That being said If I had some "gaming" hardware sponsorships I would sell out full force.
I don't think Razer is too bad these days, I have this setup and as long as you don't go crazy with lighting it's about as subtle as a Macbook,
It's funny that game players still embrace the completely ludicrous designs shown in this thread.
How do you find the razer notebooks? I'm looking to get a windows based laptop soon (selling off a highly specced MacBook Pro) and i'm wanting a windows laptop for development work I do, I would also like to be able to play some games.
Like some people said already, any laptop which has any form of Nvidia graphics card in it looks like cheap tack...
Also, this fucking guy....
GAMING TOASTER
Laughable man
I find the razer laptops to be egregiously expensive, but if it's in your budget, by all means? There's also the EVGA laptop iirc.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
It's a big problem. You see the design language across the manufactureres;
Many of them are indefensible, and that is a shame because some of them are also outstanding. I think I can count those I don't think are awful on one hand, and that is depressing. Because these logos are carried on the products and they make it more difficult to have their stupid ugly ass designs.
I like the Logitech redesign. That to me, went from being the ugliest logo of all time, to one of the best electronics logo.
I think Alienware also gets away with the mark because of the alienhead form. There is soemthing simple about it, that doesn't make it look as dated as it contemporaries. And in the same token, I think the current Alienware design language as with Alienware 13 and Alienware 15, is actually quite nice. It's very in your face, but the industrial design lines are made with more confidence. I like it.
I think Corsair gets away with it too, but you see it runs into the same problems as the other manufacs gaming line; It's horrendous. Acer Predator and Razer as the tribal Monster-energy-tattoo-above-my-ass are just the worst.
I have to stop here. I think there are more awful ones from back in the day. the old pc graphics card boxes and motherboard packaging. those were goddamn insane.
The better ones / less awful / not as offensive / okay
Many of them are indefensible, and that is a shame because some of them are also outstanding. I think I can count those I don't think are awful on one hand, and that is depressing. Because these logos are carried on the products and they make it more difficult to have their stupid ugly ass designs.
I like the Logitech redesign. That to me, went from being the ugliest logo of all time, to one of the best electronics logo.
I think Alienware also gets away with the mark because of the alienhead form. There is soemthing simple about it, that doesn't make it look as dated as it contemporaries. And in the same token, I think the current Alienware design language as with Alienware 13 and Alienware 15, is actually quite nice. It's very in your face, but the industrial design lines are made with more confidence. I like it.
I think Corsair gets away with it too, but you see it runs into the same problems as the other manufacs gaming line; It's horrendous. Acer Predator and Razer as the tribal Monster-energy-tattoo-above-my-ass are just the worst.
I have to stop here. I think there are more awful ones from back in the day. the old pc graphics card boxes and motherboard packaging. those were goddamn insane.
thesaucetastic
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Alienware is a subsidiary of Dell.
MehsterChief
Member
A room full of this shit is the ultimate and best way of contraception out there.
This one. I remember it started in the early-mid 00s with Fatal1ty as a natural evolution of the packaging of video cards.
The Xtreme 90s fad was more of a grungy, rock and skateboarding thing with a certain type of color palette and typography. This GAMER stuff has an edgy neon techno Matrix feel to it. In fact, I'd say the Matrix trilogy and early Internet edgelord culture spawned this crap. The timeline fits.
PaulBizkit
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The gaming chairs look nice but the rest is just ridiculous. Having something like the gaming router in the OP is fun the first ten minutes...
Anyways, i'll contribute to the thread:
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What a crazy crazy mouse...
No, wait, that looks cool.
Anyways, i'll contribute to the thread:
What a crazy crazy mouse...
Just googled 'riced out pc' ...
No, wait, that looks cool.
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