I give you this nightmare fuel before departing to the sleep dimension:
PC Master Race
A tale of two platforms
I had an unexpected conversation with a co-worker this morning, he had to ask me if I have ever played a game called “Skyrim”. :trollface: I wouldn’t expect him to know as we belong to two different platform worlds, me on PC and him on Playstation. He originally played the game on PS3, therefore it wouldn’t make sense for him to know that I’ve ever played it.
Things got really interesting when I introduced my character to him (via screenshots I have saved on my kindle), and the first thine he says is “Ohhh you play on PC”. Then he wanted to know what level I was, then he told me about how his brother’s level is up in the hundreds. Then out of nowhere he gave me an interesting opinion; the console version is better because it forces you to play the correct way… I thought that was an odd way to word it, especially considering this is a single player game that can be played in any way they choose. I even pointed that out, yet he felt that the PC version gave people an unfair advantage because mods and cheats. What took his brother forever to accomplish could be done on PC in just a few keystrokes according to him after two days play. I mean I tried to imagine this from his perspective, and all I could think of was someone at gun point telling him to mod his game or else. :rick:
At the time of writing this I have over 800 hours clocked on Skyrim, and many times I’ve had to start over due to corrupted saves. I remember trying to play it as vanilla as possible when I first started and couldn’t really get hooked into it (damn TF2 and L4D2 kept getting in the way!). Then when listening to two friends of mine go on about it forever (you know who you are) I decided to do a little mod searching before making a fresh character. One thing lead to another and that’s how I ended up with my character, an eternity of dreams and nightmares surrounding it, and more than a few people thinking I put my face in the game for some weird reason. :melon:
To me Skyrim is a personal journey, even without mods there are so many ways to play, to find yourself or a character of your own creation to explore, and modding is just another layer on top of some nice vanilla ice cream. Somehow my lore unfriendly setup couldn’t save me from reading all kinds of books and absorbing knowledge like one of my favorite Daedric princes. Who knew that by becoming a cyborg ninja with dragon wings and a pogo hammer I would get wrapped up in this game for hundreds of hours and multiple lunch breaks? Meanwhile there are people that think mods only cheapen the experience and claim that if you install more than X amount of mods you shouldn’t even play… While I lean towards PC, and probably always will, I’m not going to attack someone for playing the same game on another platform. I know I’m not going to change their mind, and I know they’re going to be happy playing it the way they want to. He can have his dragonborn and I can have mine. :happy:
Though for shits and giggles I wonder what would happen if I introduced him to gamerpoop…
Current impressions of the DMC1 PC Port
One of the games I wanted to get for my new old PS3 was actually an HD Collection of the Devil May Cry games, but literally the day I was looking on Ebay for them I heard news from one of the sites I follow that a PC release was planned. Now that it’s here I’ve taken the time to finally play it… outside of an emulator. :trollface:
I’m making a faithful attempt to play them in the proper order, and so far I’m noticing some bugs compared to playing it in an emulator. In the start of the first level there is an ambient soundloop of the wind off the ocean, and it cuts out for a moment before it restarts which it isn’t too big of a deal, but it kinda (and I hate being one of those people) breaks my immersion. How come the sound is better in PCSX2 than in this port? I don’t see how this could have been overlooked when porting it over. Another small gripe I have is with the screen resolution, because apparently in 2018 some companies still feel that 1080p is the biggest resolution necessary. Fortunately this can be fixed easily by editing a text file.
Of course it doesn’t break the game for me, but like I said it’s pretty annoying. I’m hoping for Capcom to patch these issues or wait for the fan community to work on the fixes and higher resolution textures, as the textures in game are not in HD and upscaled instead.
Other than those gripes DMC1 still remains to be quite fun, and is definitely a better port than their first PC port ever of DMC3 they did, this is at least playable out of the box compared to the early days of Japanese ports. I’m sure with some modding it’ll turn out fine. :melon:
Gaben wants everyone to play nice… together on all platforms
It doesn’t surprise me that Gabe Newell would want PC and Console to play with one another:
It’s a dream that Valve honcho Gabe Newell seems to share. A member of the PCMasterrace subreddit by the name of Eternifity sent the Gaben an email asking him to “open the gates for cross-play gaming.” The benefits of doing so, he said, would include increased community sizes, fewer platform-exclusive games, and increased freedom of choice when purchasing a gaming system. “Opening up multi-platform multiplayer gaming is the next step to a better gaming community,” he wrote.
This has been evident since Portal 2 where PC, Mac and PS3 users could play together. Still, it would be interesting to see how well that would play out.
Today I defused a console war between two co-workers of mine… by declaring myself the winner.
One of my co-workers came in to buy the new Tom Clancy game for his XBox One, and my boss is a PS4 user. He started trolling him about how PS4 is the superior platform. So I raised my hand and said “You both lose, PC Master Race FTW” and they couldn’t argue. :v Although my boss for some reason thought PC Gaming wasn’t popular. Which is true, it isn’t popular…. among people who don’t know how to mod. You know, console users.
I also heard today about a guy my father knows. He built him a high end PC for video rendering a couple years back. i5 2500k processor and I can’t remember what type of GPU… but I know it’s an NVidia, a powerful one. He happens to also like playing Skyrim… on console. That was a lot for me to take in first thing in the morning while eating my breakfast. Turns out his reasoning was because he didn’t like the idea of using a keyboard and mouse instead of a controller. And modding? That’s really hard too because apparently you have to use torrents. Yeah I don’t know what he’s smoking either. Sure isn’t what I’ve been smoking.
I can understand someone playing Skyrim on a console if they couldn’t afford a PC to play it on, but when you have an extremely beefy expensive build and continue to resort to the console version because a keyboard and a mouse are too hard that is just astonishing. Mind blowing, simply mind blowing.