Lol. Just Lol At The Nintendo Switch.

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Putty: Mar 21, 2013; HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

1 hr in and i already see a giant airplane/zepplin thing oin the sky which makes me assume Beedle has become the technological tyrant of this cold world

# ? Mar 3, 2017 23:33

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happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

I heard its a $350 flash game.

happyhippy fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Mar 3, 2017

# ? Mar 3, 2017 23:37

Kirk Vikernes: Apr 26, 2004; Count Goatnackh

Philthy posted:

Unlike some diehard “PC or nothing” enthusiasts, I don’t harbor any innate hatred toward consoles. Heck, my earliest gaming memory is of playing Super Mario Bros. until midnight, after my dad came home with a Nintendo tucked under his arm when I was five. I enjoyed the Xbox 360 so much that I burned through five of them. (Stupid Red Ring of Death and disc read errors.) And sometimes—in my darkest hours, when I’ve been battling borked drivers or broken PC ports—the streamlined allure of consoles still whispers to me.

“Come, friend,” it hisses in my ear. “Embrace the dark side! We have sweets, and simplicity, and you’ll never have to worry about hardware upgrades.” And I have to admit, the idea sounds damned appealing in those bleak times.

But then I boot up XCOM 2 or one of PCWorld’s top 10 PC games of 2015—few of which made it to consoles—and that temptation instantly dissipates. Sure, consoles have their strong points, but PC gaming offers so much more. How do I love thee, PC gaming? Let me count the ways.

1. Cheap games

Not to be that guy, but I’m a family man on a budget. The less cash I have to shell out for games, the better. And PC games are far cheaper than console games, for a fine reason: Consoles are walled gardens, while game stores on the PC have to compete for your money.

The result? Origin’s wonderful “On the House” freebie program, and delectable Humble Bundles, and Green Man Gaming’s perpetual 20 percent off vouchers, and those glorious, glorious Steam sales. On the PC, publishers regularly give away superb older games to drum up interest in imminent sequels, as we saw Need for Speed, SOMA, Dragon Age, and Sniper Elite’s developers do recently. It’s great!

And before you console enthusiasts say you get free games every month, stop. You don’t. You get games with your monthly PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live subscriptions, which isn’t the same thing at all. Speaking of which…

2. You don’t have to pay to play multiplayer games on PCs

Yep, that about sums it up. Yay for competition!

3. More types of games

You’ll also find a wider variety of game types on PCs compared to consoles. Not to keep beating the same drum, but the PC’s open nature helps here, as the comparative ease with which developers can whip up a game has led to an absolute explosion of indie titles on the platform. (Steam added roughly eight new games per day in the first seven months of 2015, PC Gamer reports.)

Don’t worry about missing out on big games, either. The days of widespread console exclusives are over. Very few of the triple-A games released lock themselves to consoles now that development costs are so high and all three big consoles pack AMD hardware similar to what you’d find in a (budget) gaming PC. Not releasing a PC version of a triple-A game simply doesn’t make sense for third-party game publishers, who don’t have a stake in a particular platform’s dominance.

The superb strategy game Endless Legend is PC-exclusive, relies heavily on keyboard and mouse controls, and can frequently be found for as little as $10.
But the reasons extend beyond the ecosystem alone. Keyboards and mice offer speed, accuracy, and complexity benefits that controllers simply can’t match. There’s a reason the Counter-Strike and Civilization series exploded on PCs, but fizzled when they attempted to leap to consoles: Handling them with a controller just isn’t the same.

The inherent advantages of a keyboard and mouse have led strategy games and simulations to carve out a niche on PCs. Witness XCOM 2 and Cities: Skylines, two notable recent PC exclusives.

4. Play how you want to play

Which leads me to another beautiful aspect of PC gaming: You can play your games however you want to play them. Many PC gamers swear by the keyboard and mouse, but you can just as easily play many games with a gamepad if you’d like—sacrilege, I know, but I often do just that after typing for work all day. Or you can go really nuts and embrace dedicated peripherals like racing wheels and HOTAS setups. (Sims are another big PC niche for this very reason.)

New year, new inputs: Corsair K70, Razer DeathAdder, Steam Controller, Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas X flight stick pic.

Playing Elite Dangerous with an Oculus Rift VR headset strapped to your face and a flight stick in your hands truly feels like you’ve entered another universe, but the game features KB&M and controller support, too. PC gaming is all about choice and flexibility, and choice and flexibility are always wonderful things.

5. As real as you want it to be

That choice and flexibility extends to the hardware inside your PC and the gaming experience itself. Pricey multi-GPU rigs with cranked-to-4K resolutions and every setting maxed out snag all the headlines on Reddit—hey, tricked-out PCs are pretty darn sexy—but there’s no need to break the bank to be a PC gamer.

The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 tend to play games between 720p and 1080p resolution (which makes sense, as most TVs fall in that range) at 30 to 60 frames per second, with graphics comparable to medium-to-high settings on a PC. You can build a gaming computer that checks all those boxes for roughly $400, albeit sans the cost of Windows. Then again, Linux gaming is brighter than ever if you don’t want to splurge on an OS—or, if you compare the price of Windows to the cost of Xbox Live or PlayStation Plus, the OS pays for itself in just over a year.

Or you can go all-out on 4-way SLI graphics cards.
On the flip side of the coin, you could drop a thousand dollars on your graphics card alone if you want eye candy that’s borderline life-like, or create a gloriously monstrous multi-monitor setup, or be slightly more reasonable and build a gaming PC that falls somewhere between the extremes. Single-monitor 2560x1440 gaming at 60fps is the current PC gaming sweet spot, in my opinion, though shooting-game fans sometimes aim for a 1080p monitor capable of 120Hz to 144Hz for faster reaction times—neither of which consoles are capable of.

But that’s what’s so great about PC gaming: You can choose any hardware setup you like to fit your preferences and budget. If you want to stick to e-sports games like Dota 2, League of Legends, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, you can even get away with skipping a discrete graphics card in favor of one of AMD’s more powerful APU options, which integrate compute processors and Radeon graphics on a single chip.

6. Mods

You can’t play Grand Theft Auto as a demented, fire-loving version of Woody from Toy Story on your Xbox. You can’t experience the manic joy of Just Cause 2’s multiplayer mod. Nor can you enjoy all the care, love, and polish poured into the community-created Half-Life 2 update, or bask in the thousands of Skyrim tweaks available.

~~You can do all that and more on a PC.~~

~~Mods make a game your own, opening up ne~~w adventures and/or fixing issues that developers neglect. They’re a massive part of what makes PC gaming great—and the overwhelming majority of them are free. (There’s the beauty of an open platform again.)

The Woody mod for GTA4. Don’t look into his eyes.
Don’t get me wrong: PCs aren’t necessarily better than consoles. They’re different. A lot of people just want to sit on a couch and play a game after a long day of work rather than worrying about updates for drivers or Windows. Consoles scratch that itch. Again: Choice is wonderful!

But between the cheaper games, hardware flexibility, and mods, the choice is a no-brainer for me. I can’t quit you, PC gaming, and I’d never want to—even if you do frustrate me from time to time. I love you for better and for worse.

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# ? Mar 3, 2017 23:54

Putty: Mar 21, 2013; HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

new zelda is really fun and good so far, although if you are a hardcore hyrule nerd that wants more ocarina of time you'd best look elsewhere

# ? Mar 4, 2017 00:05

Mulaney Power Move: Dec 30, 2004

does playing my snes emulator with a $20 gamepad i got with a giftcard count as autistic pc gaming? am i doing this right? i want to be an autistic pc gamer.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 00:06

a misanthrope: Jun 21, 2010

Mulaney Power Move posted:

does playing my snes emulator with a $20 gamepad i got with a giftcard count as autistic pc gaming? am i doing this right? i want to be an autistic pc gamer.

no make more death threats

# ? Mar 4, 2017 00:18

Infidel Castro: Jun 8, 2010; Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice

Mulaney Power Move posted:

does playing my snes emulator with a $20 gamepad i got with a giftcard count as autistic pc gaming? am i doing this right? i want to be an autistic pc gamer.

Write a 5000 word diatribe on how the emulator you use is cycle perfect and how every other SNES emulator is inferior.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 00:23

Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

Mulaney Power Move posted:

autistic pc gamer.

Seems redundant.

Source: Me, I play games on my pc

# ? Mar 4, 2017 00:29

Exioce: Sep 7, 2003; by VideoGames

I bought some good games for the Wii U thinking I might get a Wii U but now I'm thinking prices won't drop too much for the Wii U and I should forget about the Wii U. So, how is CEMU for emulating the Wii U? And will I miss not having the tablet that comes with the Wii U?

Wii U.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 00:38

The Brown Menace: Dec 24, 2010; Now comes in all colors.

the new zelda looks really good and fun btw too bad its on a trash console with nothing else going for it

thats my lukewarm take

# ? Mar 4, 2017 00:57

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

The Brown Menace posted:

the new zelda looks really good and fun btw too bad its on a trash console with nothing else going for it

thats my lukewarm take

The Wii U is good though

# ? Mar 4, 2017 01:02

a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

Ol Cactus Dick posted:

The Wii U is good though

yeah, for me to poop on

# ? Mar 4, 2017 01:09

Moon Atari: Dec 26, 2010

The switch struggling to handle a fairly graphically simple game made by the people most familiar with the hardware is a pretty big warning sign about its odds of getting anything other than nintendo first party exclusives and indies that are available everywhere. Also in Australia the price of this thing is insane. $460, not including all the peripherals that are virtually a necessity.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 01:16

Maya Fey: Jan 22, 2017

Moon Atari posted:

The switch struggling to handle a fairly graphically simple game made by the people most familiar with the hardware is a pretty big warning sign about its odds of getting anything other than nintendo first party exclusives and indies that are available everywhere. Also in Australia the price of this thing is insane. $460, not including all the peripherals that are virtually a necessity.

isnt that the case with everything related to videogames in australia though? here the Switch is slightly more expensive than a ps4 slim

# ? Mar 4, 2017 01:18

Heath: Apr 30, 2008; 🍂🎃🏞️💦

Exioce posted:

I bought some good games for the Wii U thinking I might get a Wii U but now I'm thinking prices won't drop too much for the Wii U and I should forget about the Wii U. So, how is CEMU for emulating the Wii U? And will I miss not having the tablet that comes with the Wii U?

Wii U.

SM3DW, Bayonetta 1/2 and WWHD justify the system and there are plenty of good cheap Wii games

For real SM3DW is the best Mario game in a very long time by leagues

# ? Mar 4, 2017 01:53

Caesar Saladin: Aug 15, 2004

the wii U is not meant to be your primary console, but an additional luxury console meant for only the most discerning video game players who can appreciate the finer things

# ? Mar 4, 2017 01:58

Kirk Vikernes: Apr 26, 2004; Count Goatnackh

Heath posted:

there are plenty of good cheap Wii games

Cursed Mountain, Conduit and the regular Nintendo fare like Mario Bros and Zelda are all good. Probably forgetting a few others but the Wii had quite a few good games among all the shovelware.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 01:59

Haptical Sales Slut: Mar 15, 2010; Age 18 to 49

I bought the game for Wii U and I play with a pro controller I already had and it saved me $400. I think the switch is a dead gay console to push Wii U software sales.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 01:59

a misanthrope: Jun 21, 2010

Moon Atari posted:

The switch struggling to handle a fairly graphically simple game made by the people most familiar with the hardware is a pretty big warning sign about its odds of getting anything other than nintendo first party exclusives and indies that are available everywhere. Also in Australia the price of this thing is insane. $460, not including all the peripherals that are virtually a necessity.

no one cares about australians though so

# ? Mar 4, 2017 02:06

Exioce: Sep 7, 2003; by VideoGames

Heath posted:

SM3DW, Bayonetta 1/2 and WWHD justify the system and there are plenty of good cheap Wii games

For real SM3DW is the best Mario game in a very long time by leagues

I have all of these and more on the Selects range. Not that I have a 4K monitor (yet), but I read CEMU can render 4K with graphics packs. That's pretty cool and is kinda swaying me to pass on the Wii U. The only thing I'm gonna miss is the eShop Wii game ports such as Metroid Prime Trilogy, Kirby's Adventure, and Pandora's Tower. On the other hand, I do have a few eShop codes from that Humble Bundle...

# ? Mar 4, 2017 02:11

Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

Heath posted:

SM3DW, Bayonetta 1/2 and WWHD justify the system and there are plenty of good cheap Wii games

For real SM3DW is the best Mario game in a very long time by leagues

Also Captain Toad Treasure Tracker is fun to play on the toilet if your Gamepad has the range.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 02:28

a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

It seem that the console is poo poo, but zelda is very good, a good launch title can move systems

# ? Mar 4, 2017 02:42

Teikanmi: Dec 16, 2006; by R. Guyovich

Where is the precedent for that tho

# ? Mar 4, 2017 02:44

SLICK GOKU BABY: Jun 12, 2001; Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls

a bone to pick posted:

It seem that the console is poo poo, but zelda is very good, a good launch title can move systems

I think you're supposed to have more than 1 though.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 02:47

Putty: Mar 21, 2013; HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

zelda breath of the goonbeast is very good

one of it's most magnificent aspects is that it uses little to no wiiu fablet features. There's literally no nintendo gimmicks outside of aiming the bow using the gyroscope (which is optional) and apparently people are aiming better with it

a few downsides. The touchscreen does jack poo poo even though it would be good for menus and you can only display the game on one screen at a time. you can play with a pro controller using the tablet as a screen

# ? Mar 4, 2017 02:49

a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

Teikanmi posted:

Where is the precedent for that tho

the n64

# ? Mar 4, 2017 02:51

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Exioce posted:

I have all of these and more on the Selects range. Not that I have a 4K monitor (yet), but I read CEMU can render 4K with graphics packs. That's pretty cool and is kinda swaying me to pass on the Wii U. The only thing I'm gonna miss is the eShop Wii game ports such as Metroid Prime Trilogy, Kirby's Adventure, and Pandora's Tower. On the other hand, I do have a few eShop codes from that Humble Bundle...

CEMU is a long way off from being able to play much of anything, like years.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 03:00

Infidel Castro: Jun 8, 2010; Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice

a bone to pick posted:

the n64

The N64 was a good system that was undermined by Nintendo's idiotic corporate decisions that alienated almost every third party developer.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 03:04

a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

Infidel Castro posted:

The N64 was a good system that was undermined by Nintendo's idiotic corporate decisions that alienated almost every third party developer.

it was a piece of poo poo but it had mario64 so everyone wanted it

# ? Mar 4, 2017 03:13

Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Exioce posted:

I bought some good games for the Wii U thinking I might get a Wii U but now I'm thinking prices won't drop too much for the Wii U and I should forget about the Wii U. So, how is CEMU for emulating the Wii U? And will I miss not having the tablet that comes with the Wii U?

Wii U.

Idk it's worth having one tbh and I'd get it now while everyone is offloading theirs. There's a huge backlog to work through and I'm gonna keep mine for the next long while for couch co-op stuff

You need the gamepad to adjust system settings and initially set up the console so yeah it's kind of required

# ? Mar 4, 2017 03:32

SLICK GOKU BABY: Jun 12, 2001; Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls

a bone to pick posted:

it was a piece of poo poo but it had mario64 so everyone wanted it

It also had Goldeneye, which is the best james bond game ever made.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 03:33

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

eric posted:

You switch directions and buy a PS4.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 03:51

Hail Mr. Satan!: Oct 3, 2009; by zen death robot

Infidel Castro posted:

The N64 was a good system that was undermined by Nintendo's idiotic corporate decisions that alienated almost every third party developer.

Lol yeah cartridges in the age of cd roms how amazing

# ? Mar 4, 2017 04:04

Bad Llama: Jan 2, 2007; pwnerer

They should port that Zelda game over to a real console

# ? Mar 4, 2017 04:08

Teikanmi: Dec 16, 2006; by R. Guyovich

a bone to pick posted:

the n64

Had the best graphics and arguably the best games of that gen tho

# ? Mar 4, 2017 04:23

Irradiation: Sep 14, 2005; I understand your frustration.

Yes thank god for the PSX using CDs so 90% of the disc space could be taken up by lovely FMV.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 04:23

Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

Teikanmi posted:

Had the best graphics and arguably the best games of that gen tho

Oh yeah, I liked playing games that looked like there was a fine layer of petroleum jelly on my screen

# ? Mar 4, 2017 04:34

a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

Teikanmi posted:

Had the best graphics and arguably the best games of that gen tho

wipe the nostalgia off those rose-tinted goggles

# ? Mar 4, 2017 04:46

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Handle with Caution; Nap Ghost

I'm thinking about buying a switch cause the new zelda looks pretty good

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Alan_Shore: Dec 2, 2004

Sega Saturn was the best system of that generation but I was the only person to have one and I just feel so sorry that everyone missed out on the best arcade games and RPGs that's all

# ? Mar 4, 2017 05:45

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