/v/ - Video Games

Not many of those exist on /v/. You'll have fanboys for their brands, but they will have played games on their PC before. I can't imagine any self-respecting poster having a computer only being able to browse 8/v/ but not game in any way, shape or form with it, or worse choosing not to.

That aside, old hardware has its own charm to it. I can understand purism from that perspective, and sticking to consoles from that point. Sticking with a brand is often ingrained in childhood. You saw the ads, the other kids playing and it was only natural for you if you only owned a console and never played games on your PC.

I wasn't one of those kids as I had computer, console and handheld games as a kid so I consider myself lucky.

>>13667607

most of the time it's

<childhood

<consoles

<pre-adulthood/retard

<pc

<adulthood

<idort

Because Amiga was better.

Intel trash get out, m68k all the way.

>>13667711

/thread

My computer's old as fuck, like 8 to 9 years old. and with that age, it runs a little bit like shit.

>tfw you've played incredible games on both PC and consoles with amazing console exclusives

>tfw you know there are amazing exclusives people will never play simply because they are too poor/stubborn to get the hardware or even use an emulator

>tfw emulation is great but it will never be the same as playing on original hardware as it was released

>only have a PC

>start working in my career

>six months later I own all* the consoles and a top of the line PC

xbox has no games the PC doesn't already have. Zero reasons to buy one.

>>13667607

>To people that only play games on console and avoid playing games on PC, why?

I don't play strictly on console, but here are my biggest reasons why I often shy away from PC gaming:

>Shitty PC ports that are the same (If not worse) than the console versions

>Every minute update to anything breaking the game

>Having to learn how to navigate the command prompt (For one of many reasons)

>Spend dozens of hours trying to get a game working "perfectly" **just to find out that you made the performance even worse*

>Windows XP is still the boss when it comes to having the largest compatible library of games to play (7 is just a meme for anyone who plays the shit beyond 2011)

The amount of games I've played where these are not a problem are in the minority. The one biggest advantage consoles had over PC is the "plug-in-play" setup of playing games that will never change despite how much time passes (And, co-op). However, everything over the past years in gaming has sought to destroy that.

>>13667711

>adulthood

>idort

Adulthood is >none

What you're thinking of is manchild. At best, adults might play something like candy crush.

>>13667957

>Windows XP is still the boss when it comes to having the largest compatible library of games to play

lolno. XP is where Microsoft not only broke compatibility with DOS but with Win9x too. Its absolute garbage. No wonder you spend dozens of hours trying to make games work under it.

>>13667964

Fuck off, Quentin.

>>13667924

>consoles have had the clear advantage in games.

Keywords: have had. Now that they're all x86 and have as much power as a cheap ass emachine pretty much the only reason consoles exist is either custom hardware like what nintendo's been doing (switch/wii-u/wii), contractual exclusives, or the console-war marketing scam. Pretty much the only one of these that isn't jew shit is nintendo.

>>13667976

>XP is where Microsoft not only broke compatibility with DOS but with Win9x too

DOS I know about, but which 9X games because there were a few games I was reading up on where XP was the last OS any of the games worked properly on.

>>13668009

There were a lot of 9X games XP killed, but they were mostly sick and dying, anyway. Like all the old WinG stuff. Doom's Windows port is probably the best known WinG game.

Loyalty to any platform is retarded. Consoles are terrible but PC is just as bad. PC games are usually badly made ports of console shit, and you don't even get a physical copy of the game for the same price. PC has advantages with emulations and solid older titles, that's about it.

>knowing the basics to mantain your car

<this is a skill required and completely normal

>knowing the basics to mantain your computer

<omg nerds, i'm not a hacker

Yadda yadda, consoles are "plug and play", so normalfags being normalfags

>>13668051

So, everything after the final release of MS-DOS has been one blunder after another that just snowballed into what we have today. Out of curiosity, when did Macintosh computers start failing to do their job?

>>13667991

Nintendo is just as jewish as anyone else in the game industry, you're delusional if you think otherwise. Just because Switch finally gets a game tomorrow doesn't mean you have to suck Nintendo's dick.

>>13668074

>when did Macintosh computers start failing to do their job?

The '80s. All through the '90s they were pre-emptive multitasking even a decade after NT, OS/2, and Linux so any bug in anything could lock up the whole machine. I even had to use them in CS in '96 as terminals to UNIX systems. Imagine how stupid you'd feel being a CS neophyte-greybeard working on a mainframe remotely on some bootloader code when suddenly "quack!" and everything freezes. "quack!", and people start to look your way, girls are staring at you, your amazing code mostly obscured by a finder window that is stuck not rendering, "quack! quack!". They're all laughing at you now, formulating in their mind the tale they will tell of the computer scientist too stupid to use a mac once social media is invented. "It's locked up!" you scream, but the quacking is too loud now, drowning out everything but the roaring laughter in the room. QUACK! QUACK! QUACK! echoes behind you as you jump from the second story balcony, knowing you can never return to that computer lab again.

>>13668158

No, I made it through college before turning men into beta faggots was popularized. My college experience involved having sex while playing Quake and going to a demoscene party with two girls I later had a threesome with.

Traps are gay, anon. It's Jewish as fuck and you need to realize what they're doing to you.

>>13668074

>So, everything after the final release of MS-DOS has been one blunder after another that just snowballed into what we have today.

To be fair, Windows 9x had to die. Or do you think they could maintain the separation between 9x for home and NT for businesses, forever? It was more logical to move everyone to the more modern, reliable system.

>>13667726

>was

For how long do you want to live in the past?

>>13668084

I wasn't sucking nintendo's dick. I was just saying custom hardware warrants a console more than simply forcing games to be on your system for no reason other than sheckles. Although we all know the reason they're doing custom hardware in the firstplace is for sheckles and not to make decent games.

Because every console game is eventually a PC game.

I've always been an idort using pisstastion and pc. Because the bone never had any game that I wanted to play maybe apart of one or two that didn't justify buying it

I use my console to play games everywhere due to my job so I bring it along…..otherwise I play pc laptop the few times I'm at home because I only use strategy games so performance ain't my interest

Because i don't need to be unsure wether or not i can run the game i just bought.

But sure, everything made before 2012 i pirate.

95% of what I play is on consoles (PS4, Saturn, PS2, etc.) I still play games on PC. I think everyone plays games on PC, which is why I consider it ridiculous to level an accusation at anyone on 8ch at all that they don't play PC. Although I tend to come across a lot more bad games on PC, it's the only place where I can play doujin games as they are released.

>Modern consoles

Its isn't even loyalty at this point, its just the fact that all the 6 modern games are there along with the decent autistical ones.

Not only that but you can play the shit you missed out easily and everythings free.

Theres so many games I don't even bother with modern consoles, that and their games run like shit because optimization is a lost art apparently

I don't consider playing older consoles being an idort, idorts are faggots that will waste their disposable revenue on more than one modern platform, thats where the term comes from.

Fuck 7th/8th Gen and fuck your 1&d1 cuckchan template thread OP.

t.idort till 2007

>>13667607

I have a preference for offline games stored on physical media, because: 1) I don't have to worry about authentication servers going down in the future, and 2) I like having a collection on my shelf to sort and look at and show off.

That's why I mostly play console games. That said, I do play some PC games, but they're almost all exclusives. Right now, I have the GOG versions of: System Shock 1 & 2, Deus Ex 1 & 2, Thief 1 & 2, VtMB, Arx Fatalis, and Dark Messiah. I might have a few others. I plan on getting Gothic 1 & 2 as well.

People like me are the exception on /v/, though.

>>13668281

whats eating semen actually going to do to you?