/games/ - Video Games

You're surviving off a playstation plus subscription that strictly limits you and tells you what to play. If you're not a programmed cuckold 'You will own nothing and be happy' type of person (as you seem to be), then consoles generally mean actually paying for expensive games. Old jailbroken consoles can work but the libraries of consoles are still weak.

Additionally, you probably have no comprehension of how much nicer it is to play a game on a large, high resolution monitor at a high framerate. As a wizard, the PC is my main tool of life, so having a nice one significantly enhances my daily non-gaming activities too. Your $80 PC is for browsing i suppose, but you dont include what you paid for peripherals, monitor etc. At that price, are you writing these messages on a 300x300 screen?

>>60406
>If you're not a programmed cuckold 'You will own nothing and be happy' type of person

I quite literally finish a game and never play it again for most games I play. Why would I spend $80 NZ on Final Fantasy VIIR or some first person shooter game, when I can just play it during a month on my $13 per month subscription? If I really want something, I'll go to the store and buy the physical media. I'm critical of streaming services, but the Playstation one is the one that makes the most sense and they're generous with the quantity of titles you get. As soon as there's nothing on there I want to play that's new, I'll cancel it.

>>60406
>Your $80 PC is for browsing i suppose, but you dont include what you paid for peripherals, monitor etc. At that price, are you writing these messages on a 300x300 screen?

The peripherals I've had for 13+ years at this point. I don't even remember when I got them, they still work fine.

>>60405
>You're surviving off a playstation plus subscription that strictly limits you and tells you what to play.
it's got 100s of games, it's enough to keep someone busy for a long time , I'm currently using it to play through the Yakuza series which is like a ten games alone

>>60406
>Additionally, you probably have no comprehension of how much nicer it is to play a game on a large, high resolution monitor at a high framerate.
can't miss out on something you don't care for
playing at 1080p and i couldnt care less about 4k. my monitor is supposedly 144hz but i wouldnt be able to tell what a damn difference it makes in most games

it's better to be satisfied with less/what you already have than to perpetually worry over upgrading when you can't be arsed staying up to date with the latest tech fads

that just sounds like retarded ignorance, I have more fun playing PC games with a mouse and keyboard, I use my PC all day so it makes sense to spend a lot of money on it, why would I buy something cheap when it's essential to my lifestyle

>>60405
Nice, nice nekopic. It is fun to emulate old games on an old computer. Thank you for saving a dusty old system from the bin. The gods of obselesense sile upon you!

How much does a ps plus subscription cost? Wouldn't it compound over the years? It's still probably cheaper to get a budget pc and pirate stuff not to mention that a pc can do other things than gaming. Isn't ps4 pretty old hardware anyway? Doesn't sound comparable to a new 2000 dollars pc setup.

>You can't really get a good GPU for less than $400 at the moment
not true. you can use old ass gpus when you stick to 1080p. you can play moderng ames with 1660s for like <$120 used

>>60424
>How much does a ps plus subscription cost? Wouldn't it compound over the years?

$15 NZ a month which is like $8-9 US a month. But I don't really see myself having it in a year's time as I'd have basically played everything I want by then. You basically only keep it to play a release you want, it's probably cheaper than buying off steam in all honesty. Pirating I still do but mostly for older releases, typically abandonware like Rise of Nations : Rise of Legends.

>>60426
Hum, didn't know this. I'll keep on shopping around.

don't know where to post this… has anyone used a ps5 controller? how do they compare to ps4 ones?

Just get a Xbox Series X and game pass, honestly that's all you need to play games for cheap for like 5 years.

If you go all out for a PC you will play the exact same games but spend much more money doing so.

>>60447
They are alright. I use them all the time now, but I think I still like the older design more. Dualsense feels a bit more weighty than dualshocks.

The technological gap between PC and consoles has closed enough that for the average person the cost-benefit analysis favors getting a console. The PS5 has a graphics card that is more or less the equivalent of an RTX 2070. On the PS5's release, the RTX 2070 alone was just as expensive as an entire PS5.
The days when getting even a budget gaming PC marginally more expensive than a console guaranteed you significantly better graphics and performance are over. You can even play console games at 4k or 60fps these days (on some games both).
Same goes for PC exclusives; these days it's the other way around. All the cool exclusives are on console, the only exclusive to PC is indie shit you can play on your mom's laptop (with some exceptions).

I don't even own a console, but it's easy to see the appeal. The only reason to get a gaming PC is if you're some turbo autist that wants to play the latest games at 144fps in 4k with everything on ultra settings, and you're willing to pay a premium for it.

>>60504
Uh, what cool exclusives? Microsoft legitimately has none and Sony is just gay shit movie games.

>>60523
MicroSoft has Flight SImulater and Teamfortress 2

I bought a $1000 mid-range PC in 2011 (usd), and I upgraded the graphics card in 2014 for $200 and 2017 for $400. I can still play all the latest games. I haven't run into one that I can't. Currently playing Armored Core 4. It also handled 99% of the VR games I've thrown at it, the one exception being Phasmophobia since it's made by an amateur indie dev. $1000 with another $800 in upgrades/replacements is still a big number, but I've got 12 years out of it so far and it's still going. CPUs really haven't come all that far in recent years.

>>60781
>CPUs really haven't come all that far in recent years.
This is true. The big hurdle is that they're capped by their size. CPUs will need to be bigger now if they wish to be faster. The only change to tech in the past decade has been CPUs featuring integrated graphics hardware and near realtime emulation of formerly GPU-only processes, but even the most powerful GPUCPU doesn't compete with a midrange standalone GPU.

>>60504
consoles dont do true 4K or 2K, it's all upscaled from 720p or 480p and at a point where most normies won't know the difference

>>60504
>All the cool exclusives are on console
Name 3 cool console exclusives

>>60793
well there's bloodborne… and…

>>60504
The controls are completely different. Mouse especially compared to joystick is a big difference because you can pan much faster and more controllably. You have many more buttons which can be mapped to stuff on PC. Graphics aren't everything.

Spent 3000$ from my neeting fund which in this country could have covered 8~ months of living all on my own doing nothing but gaming.
140FPS+ for competitive shooters or bust.

>>60409
High frame rate monitors aren't a meme.
you can't see more than 60fps but you can feel it. It moves so smooth that its like it's 3D. like you can reach inside the screen.
gaming keyboards on the other hand are a meme and are for aesthetics only.

>>60405
My $200 PC is a refurbished Windows 10 office PC and the internal graphics is enough to play any PS2/PS3-era game on high settings. That's all I want, as I see few modern games that are worth playing, on PC or console.