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Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
PC gaming = best gaming. That's already been established and everyone with half a brain knows it. Unfortunately, I've been seeing a disheartening amount of console fail sentiment being spread around Imp Zone lately (not gonna name any names, buuuut... You know who you are.) I think it's time you all got a nice little reminder on who the top dogs in the gaming world really are. Here's just a handful of the sheer loving epicness the PC game development community has given us lately:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/265930/ So you've heard of simulator games, right? Basically games about simulating things like farming, trucking, etc. Yaaaawn. But wait... What if someone made a game about simulating a... Kehehehe... A GOAT?!! AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The goat uses his long tongue to flip around and do crazy ninja poo poo LOL

http://store.steampowered.com/app/327890/ This is a lot like Goatsy (popular nickname for Goat Simulator) but it's even crazier-just try to wrap your drat head around that for a second. You finished? Get a load of this: instead of playing as a goat, you play as a piece of bread. BREAD. That's right, you thought bread was just for making some fairly chill bacon sandwiches? Think again. I loving love PC gaming so much holy poo poo :allears:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/391540/ Nothing special here... aside from the fact that it's the highest critically rated game of all time, blending art and gameplay in a way never seen before. I was hesitant to include this because it really is more than just a 'game' per se- to describe what Toby Fox has done to raise the bar of independent game development in any literal terms is borderline demeaning.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/434260/ The goal of this game is to touch mayonnaise. El. Em. Ef. Ay. Oh. Need I say more? For less than a dollar, they're practically giving this stuff away! I'd like to see the brain dead corporate drone shills at Micro$hit provide such a bargain- then again, they'd have to make a console with the correct RAM first :rolleyes: like THAT'S ever happening.

And get this... That's just a taste. The tip of the Iceberg. There's hundreds- HUNDREDS of epic games just like these on our Based God Gabe Newell's godlike gaming platform, Steam. Let the console kiddies have fun with their Cock of Poopy, Mario Bros kiddie crap and Bloodborne (guess what else is 'bloodborne'. AIDS haha) True gamers know where the real action is. I'm happier than ever to have spent $1,500 on a fairly loving badass rig to play these games. PC Master Race HOIPE!

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Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
Manletendo

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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I thought this was showing upcoming PS2 To PS4 games and my heart skipped a beat

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

program666 posted:

this is great but where is the screenshots of your specs and guts? (guts is how we the master race call the interior of PCs lol a bit of lingo there)

gently caress yes. PC Master Race :hfive:


What's wrong kiddo? Jelly?

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Pablo Gigante posted:

I applied for an Amazon store card today and they approved me so I think I'm gonna put together a gaming PC lol

Welcome to The Master Race.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/331200/

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Lol

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
This forced auto update to Windows 10 is causing my computer to stutter every 4-5 seconds at all times, making gaming impossible! I'm trying everything to fix it! PC freaking Master Race baby! Hell yeah!

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
The 'popular new releases' tab of the Steam Store is always filled to the brim with excellent stuff. You should seriously check out everything in it, every day, or hell, every hour, if you can. Blessed be Lord Gaben.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Bill Barber posted:

They need to hurry the frick up and port all these to PS4 with trophies or whatever the gently caress they're doing. No reason there shouldn't be like 100 PS2 titles available instead of just loving Parappa2 and some other jap poo poo.

Most good PS2 games are 'some other jap poo poo'

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

ColoradoCleric posted:

I've been playing day of defeat source and wondering why ww2 shooters aren't a thing anymore

I can't believe that thing isn't A Thing anymore. Like, is this A Thing now? Having this thing not be A Thing anymore is A Thing? Smdh.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
Console human being: :downsbravo: hruuuurrerrrrrrr I likea da Bloohborn! I like da Nintondo HUUURRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool-headed PC Master Race Representative: I'm sorry about you condition. All I can do is recommend immediate Rig construction, followed by Steam account creation.

Pissy pussy console bitch: :downsbravo::downabravo::downsbravo::downsbravo:

Cool-headed PC Master Race Representative: While I'm at it, allow me to recommend some games which really take advantage of the PC platform. Goat Simulator. Terror Lab. Deadly Premonition HD. Undertale. There's Poop In My Soup. Payday 2 plus DLC.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
I have the AVGN movie on there but I haven't watched it yet.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
*visibly shaking* Yeah you're all free to, haha, take your pissy pussy consolefag sentiment and gently caress off. *growls*

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
Gaben used Praise Lord Gaben on My Wallet! It's super effective!

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
amazing haul ahead!

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Lol. Norm Macdonald FTW

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A848xpsDJbw

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
What's In A Name: Gearbox Software [update]

If you looked at the Joystiq calendar, you would have seen a bright red circle drawn around today with something like 17 little smiley faces around it. Sure, that was in part because it's taco salad day in the cafeteria, but also because we couldn't wait to share this new What's in a Name with you. 

So, straight from boss Randy Pitchford, check out the totally epic story of how [Randy says] Gearbox Software got its name.

"This is interesting because I've never been asked about how we got the name 'Gearbox' before, but there is a bit of a story to it. Given everything that's happened over the past 10 years or so, the story seems a little hard to believe now that I'm telling it!

"The story begins when, and don't ask me what led to this, Gabe Newell and I were in New Orleans together and we decided to get on one of those river boats to cross the river. As chance would go, it turns out we accidentally got on a cruise boat instead of a crossing ferry. But, we made the best of it. The food was pretty good and there were gambling tables there with dealers and other players and so we got into a little poker game. It was like Maverick or something – playing poker on a river boat near New Orleans. But we were playing poker, which, as you know, is a form of gambling. Can you see where this is going?

"People that know me well know that I love playing poker. It's a great game about making decisions with incomplete information, but where the decisions affect the outcome. So it's a lot of fun and it's really helpful in learning how to separate the challenge of making best decisions from the reality of results since even the worst decisions can be rewarded and the best decisions can be punished when non-deterministic and/or unpredictable factors are involved. So I like to play poker whenever I have a good opportunity. But from the experience I had with him, I don't think Gabe had played a lot of poker before that night.

"Anyway – while we were playing we were discussing what we should name our respective video game development companies that we were starting up. After some crazy and dumb ideas made their rounds, we started realizing that something cool for a video game studio would have something to do with engines and machinery. We started going through the parts we could think of to come up with the BEST name along those lines and a few good ones were passed on before we agreed that the best and almost perfect name for a video game development studio along those lines was "Gearbox" – it's sticky and simple and gears are cool things that have both an art and a precision to them and it's generally a nice, short but really cool word.

"The more we thought about it, the more sure we were. But since we both sort of came up with it together through the talking and thinking we were doing together, it wasn't clear which of us could claim it to use. So we decided that the poker game would help us work out which of us would be able to claim the rights to the name – whomever knocked the other player out of the poker game or ended up with the biggest stack would win the Gearbox name for their studio.

"I quickly called my partners back home that I was doing the start up with and told them about the Gearbox name and the gambling I was involved in that was going to decide who got the name and, after they put me on hold for a few minutes, they came back and said that I had better win that name or I shouldn't even bother coming home. So the stakes were then really raised for me, so to speak – I had to win the poker game or it was all going to be over for our studio.

"The game lasted for a while with the usual ups and downs. Even though I was a far better player, before our wager started Gabe had come to the table with a HUGE stack and I bought in for almost nothing. I was able to build a nice sized stack, though, and kept taking chips from other players at the table until my stack was actually a bit bigger than his for most of the night. I just needed to stay up and wait for my opportunity.

"After about four or five hours of play, that opportunity came and the showdown finally happened. The funny thing is that the hand that decided it wasn't that significant of a hand as far as Hold 'em Poker goes. It wasn't one of those Royal-Flush-Over-Quad-Aces kinds of hands that you see in the movies. I still remember the hand, though I'm sure Gabe wouldn't remember. The hand was top pair over middle pair. I was playing AK suited and he was playing K9 off suit (a hand known as "Saw Mill"). Obviously I tried to build a bit a of a pot pre-flop and got a lot of callers before it was Gabe's turn to act and astonishingly he came over the top with a massive over-bet. His action isolated us down to just the two of us in the hand, which gave me a HUGE advantage in this situation (I mentioned that Gabe hadn't played a lot of poker, right?). Anyway, the board came K-8-2 mixed suits and we were both pot committed so, of course, the money went in.

"The next two cards were blanks, which is what the expected results were when I got the money in. I had him covered, so that knocked him out of the game! I did it! By knocking him out, I won a lot of chips, but more importantly I won the wager and with it I won the name 'Gearbox.' We got to keep the whole, big awesome Gearbox and Gabe had to settle for just being the Valve.

"No hard feelings, though. We still worked together later when Gearbox did Half-Life Opposing Force and Half-Life Blue Shift and and Half-Lifefor Dreamcast and Half-Life for PlayStation 2 (a lot of Half-Life stuff between Valve's first and second Half-Life game). I guess Valve didn't want to spend any of their own time on add-ons or bringing games to the PlayStation. But I think that stuff was fun to do and made our customers really happy and made some money to help us build our studio and made them some money to help them fund the continued development of Half-Life 2, so that was a win for everyone. But getting the Gearbox name – well, that was only a win for us. Gearbox Software is ours. Watch this: Gearbox Software®. See that little ® symbol? That means Gearbox Software® is registered with the US trademark office as belonging to us ;)

"And, if you can believe it, that's the story of how Gearbox Software® got its name!"

– Randy Pitchford, CEO and co-founder, Gearbox Software®

See, what'd we tell you? Epic, right? We'll be back next week with another entry in the series, but we're not sure we'll be able to top Gearbox anytime soon. Here's hoping.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
Update: Valve has informed us that Randy and Gabe didn't meet until after Valve had shipped Half-Life, making Randy's story seem ... well, unlikely. We're trying to find out what happened right now.

Update 2:Well, we just heard from PR and they confirmed that the story is a fabrication. Pitchford is apparently going to get in contact to explain what happened. We can't wait to find out his excuse for taking advantage of our Pollyanna-esque faith in the inherent goodness of people, and, by extension, telling tall tales to you, the people who are buying his games.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
Actually my favorite Randy Pitchford article is the one about him going to a game development conference shortly after the Aliens Colonial Marines fiasco and doing a three card monte trick on stage before talking about how people who con gullible tourists are actually very good and provide the people they're scamming with entertainment value and that the media unfairly maligns them.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Finally got my new rig up and running.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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http://store.steampowered.com/app/428690/

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/466170/

PC games are so incredibly advanced that they can play themselves at this point. Are consolefags even trying anymore?

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
Nice... Someone went ahead and made this cheap little game to derp around in while waiting for the Summer Sale to kick off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/485890/

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Retarded_Clown_ posted:

So ive been a consoletard my whole life and finally got my mind freed thanks to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/wiki/guide#wiki_console_gamers_are_not_the_common_enemy._modern_consoles_are

Once you realize how stuoid consoles are and how they offer nothing of note (besides "muh exclusives") youre ready to ptake the plunge into the Master Race.

drat it feels good to be PC Master Race.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

In Training posted:

I just decided i should get rid of all my stupid loving cards and get afew dollars before the new sale but now you cant use the market unless you download an additional, separate steam app and give them two phone numbers. epic Valve, PC gaming FTW.

elf help book posted:

and they broke the chrome extension that lets you list everything at once so you have to do it one by one and after you do that, you have to approve every listing you made in the app individually

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
The PC is the Master Race, and deserves no less then to be regarded as such. That's 'what the gently caress' m'kay?

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYbI1gMSb615C4SJcSGFLqYQyDUtMJi7S

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
Goofus fosters his mental illness by cobbling pop culture references and corporate hero worship together to create an Internet subculture based on slightly cheaper video games

Gallant fosters his mental illness by crafting elaborate theories about MGSV chapter 3, Kojima Productions and Konami and PT on r/NeverBeGameOver all day

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Both

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Lmao

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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https://mobile.twitter.com/TurtleRock/status/750857139950800897 PC MONSTER RACE HYPE!!!

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

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Black Baby Goku posted:

Remember the beta? Lol

The only part of that I had any fun with was picking the monster and playing it like a stealth game. Now they changed it so that most of the vegetation is gone, all the maps are brighter and every hunter has that trap dome so combat is basically all the game is lol

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Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
I would not play Evolve even if they paid me to.

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