Going back to basics: leaving PC gaming for consoles

I've put in a fair bit of thought as to downgrading my PC and just picking up a Series X... I probably would, but I have a heavy preference to kbm over controller.

Edit: since some of you are so inclined to sound smarter than you are? I leave this edit for you.

I clearly mean lack of kbm support in games. Yes, we all know that Xbox has KBM support. It has for a while now. Doesn't mean every game does.

 

Console gaming has always been about simplicity, and it's definitely nice to install a game and just have it work.

Now that we've finally hit consoles that can attain stable 60 FPS I think it finally hit the sweet spot for performance AND stability.

I love my PC but when I want something to just work, i'll use my Xbox SE X
Best name btw micosoft love it


edit: Reminds me, I helped my sister and her fiance build their first-ever PC for Christmas/new years and the very first game they installed and tried to play was Soulcalibur VI. So we launch it...and it black screens and does nothing. And I just exclaim "Welcome to the glory of PC gaming"
Turns out the game refused to load because we had no audio device connected. That's such a perfect example of how fucking stupid PC gaming is sometimes. It makes no god damn sense, it's like everything is held together with scotch tape and bubblegum.

 

It does. It's the games that decide if KBM works. I know there's a few titles, like Call of Duty... But I play Apex Legends.

 

the ps5 better than pc

surely you jest?!!

 

Devs have to implement it, and most devs don't bother.


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I have been moving in the opposite direction. Always been a console guy and only played certain games on PC that weren't available on consoles, or some cases where I got the game much cheaper in a sale on PC than the price on console, but now that I finally have a PC capable of [email protected] and [email protected] gaming (even [email protected] depending on the game) I find myself preferring the PC version of most games for improved graphics and/or performance.
But I feel your pain. I recently got a HP Reverb G2 (VR headset that just came out) and I've been having constant issues with crashes and lag that I'm pretty sure are down to bad drivers, or bugs in SteamVR for Windows Mixed Reality. It kind of ruins the experience because I can't just sit down and enjoy VR for a few hours, I'll be restarting SteamVR or rebooting my PC multiple times because something crashed and it won't work again without restarting. I swear I spend more time rebooting and troubleshooting (to no avail, might I add, I've tried every suggestion I've found online and ones people told me personally and it's exactly as bad as it was on day 1) than actually playing the games. It's especially annoying because I have to take the headset off every time in order to use the mouse/keyboard so it takes me completely out of the zone. I hope these issues get ironed out soon as they do seem to be software issues.
I haven't had issues like that with PC gaming in general though. Generally it works well. Though I couldn't get the *a-hem* totally legit version of Persona 4 Golden I grabbed to work at all. Just a black screen. Not sure if that's just a bug in that particular version of the game or I would have the same issue regardless.

Maybe some people are fine with it, but I don't see going "all console" or "all PC" as viable. Some games are just not available on console, others are not available on PC. And some games that are available on console are really much better played with mouse and keyboard (or they are just too demanding to run well on consoles) - on PC you always have the option to use either KB&M or a controller, on consoles you only have controllers, unless you get some device that emulates a controller using keyboard & mouse but they just don't work the same as native mouse support.

I love Nintendo and their games and that is the main reason I play consoles, but games designed for PC and ported to consoles generally just work better on PC. Of course you also have games designed for consoles and ported to PC where it might be the other way around and there could be more bugs or hardware incompatibilities in the PC version, locked framerates so that you can't take advantage of the more powerful hardware, and stuff like that.

PCs definitely come with a lot of problems, but figuring out solutions to issues is kind of fun too and the issues are usually minor ones that don't ruin my day or impact my experience in any major way.

 

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Playing first person shooters with a controller feels like ass so I'll stick with PC. Not to mention no mods.

 

This and the EGS giving away Star Wars... Why are they news?
This one should be a post in the forums, and the other is... not worthy, as they are giving away games for quite a while.

Slow news day, perhaps?

 

Wow, good thing no one ever claimed for this editorial to be news then, huh?

 

I honestly can't stand PC gaming. I play some games on my PC but overall, I find PC gaming to be more work than reward, and the cost of constantly needing to update one's hardware not worth it. If there's something I enjoy about console gaming is that chances are higher that any game I buy for my systems is going to work, unless that game is Cyberpunk.

 

Console convenience is great. Although the only game systems I really use are the 3DS and the Oculus Quest 2. Everything is so nice and simple. Download a game, update it, play it. Never any issues. But they really just don’t have the customization or nearly as many options as PC does, which is why I prefer PC. But then PC is... unreliable when you don’t take proper care of everything. And sometimes it’s unreliable just because it feels like it- then you freak out and it fixes itself the next day ;w;
I used to be a huge keyboard and mouse person. But I found over time that I much prefer controller now.
There’s also the fact that you can pay to upgrade your PC and let yourself do more things-
On console all you can do is what the publishers allow you (unless you jailbreak your systems. But it can lower stability and you often risk bans) And it doesn’t improve the limits of what your console can do. I’m the type of person who loves making things the best I can.
And while I can’t afford hardware upgrades often- the customizability and software/all the options still allow me to get a majority of the newest games to a decent performance level on a three year old laptop.

That’s likely a Windows MR issue. It was never... even close to perfect. Functional, but straight SteamVR or Oculus has always had less issues.
Or if you have multiple GPUs- it’ll automatically set itself up terribly. So you have to fix it.

And for P4G-
Well black screens like that are common if you get a bad copy. Or if someone didn’t... ‘un-legitimize’ it properly. It instantly worked fine for me.

 

We've basically reached unification where gaming PCs and consoles are concerned. Thus PS5 is certainly not devoid of its own set of "quirks" and problems that would normally be associated with PCs. I've had games crash on me, I've had Demon's Souls uninstall itself twice when I eject the disc, and there are still performance issues with games like Maneater. Before it was patched, some unfortunate souls even bricked their PS5s just by putting the console to sleep while playing Spider-Man.

Not to mention the QoL stuff such as lack of 1440p support, and playing voice chat audio through your controller speaker if you don't use a headset.

Even despite all this, PS5 has given me a pleasant experience so far, but is it superior to gaming on PC? Nah. If Sony decides to add support for all competitors' controllers, support for 1440p, and backward compatibility for at least PSX/PS2, then maybe we'll talk. As-is I can't even retire my PS2, it sits up right against my PS5 on the desk.

 

Sir this is McDonalds, are you lost?

 

And even with 409 mods Skyrim still isn't fun