PC Gaming is Slowly Destroying Itself

I just think the content creators on youtube etc have finally figured out like 24 hour news, negative/angry content gets the most views/engagement as it provokes an emotional response from the viewer. This then makes companies take less risks and we end up where we are now. Hardware is overpriced when taken from a pure bill of materials cost vs what they are sold for but Nvidia have proven to their shareholders that the professional market are willing to pay those prices so nvidia probably have to justify to them its worth even having a gaming segment at this moment in time as they make so much money from the professional cards.

I dislike upscaling as much as anybody and don't know how anyone can say with a straight face it looks better than native at 1440p. I've not come across a single game that does. Now if you ask is the drop in image quality worth the uplift in performance? 9/10 the answer is yes.

As for posts you see around saying how they are playing that latest game 4K maxed out, with maximum this and that but DLSS perforemance, They're playing at 1080p... to me, suddenly a 2k GPU to play at 1080p doesn't sound so great.
 
Anyone who unironically uses the term "woke" or "DEI", particularly about a videogame and when there are two other topics on the front page of this subforum for frothers to lose their minds over, is not presenting critical thought. It is utterly pathetic.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
Anyone who unironically uses the term "woke" or "DEI", particularly about a videogame and when there are two other topics on the front page of this subforum for frothers to lose their minds over, is not presenting critical thought. It is utterly pathetic.
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Maybe take a look at this video if you don't think the Woke culture has infected some of the game dev studios.

 
PC gaming has only got more and more popular over the last decade. I remember when people were talking about it dying off to consoles but the exact opposite happened. With the ps5 'pro' now advertised at almost the price of a half decent PC and the Xbox brand on its way out, PC is only going to get more popular. The fact that PS invest so much in porting their games to PC now speaks volumes imo.
 
I played Star Wars: Outlaws for 47 hours. I can't remember a single "woke" thing about it.

Posters in the actual game thread seemed annoyed that they had to play a somewhat ugly character, but then the people who posted the most in that thread didn't even play the game.
 
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I played Star Wars: Outlaws for 47 hours. I can't remember a single "woke" thing about it.

Posters in the actual game thread seemed annoyed that they had to play a somewhat ugly character, but then the people who posted the most in that thread didn't even play the game.
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You play as an outlaw yet can’t steal from anyone other than the police.

Can you kill random NPCs or animals?
 
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Joxeon said:
You play as an outlaw yet can’t steal from anyone other than the police.

Can you kill random NPCs or animals?
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I take it you haven't played the game, because you can literally steal from pretty much every bystander going, using your pet nix.

And yes, you can kill animals in the game.
 
willhub said:
PC Gaming has been dieing for over 20 years now
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it really is crap now though.
looks at the games released in 2004 then look at the games released in 2024 or 2023 or 2022

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games are getting more bland and toned down than ever and fewer big games are being released because all the studios that would still be releasing games got bought out by EA etc and then basically dissolved


2012 is probably when everything started to go down hill
 
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Well the game doesn't have load screens when you leave the major towns, so most of it is 'open World'

You can't steal much. It's either cash or grenades or security cards.

You can't randomly run around killing innocent people I don't think, but I'm not a psycho so I never actually tried it.
 
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As companies fall, new smaller companies will grow. It's always been this way in gaming.

Most games I play seem to have begun as indie games tbh. Satisfactory, Rimworld, No man's sky, astroneer, Bannerlord etc.
 
Raumarik said:
As companies fall, new smaller companies will grow. It's always been this way in gaming.

Most games I play seem to have begun as indie games tbh. Satisfactory, Rimworld, No man's sky, astroneer, Bannerlord etc.
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Satisfactory is an absolute belter (excuse the pun), looking at the release schedule for the remaining part of the year I dont see anything there topping it for me and I'm 90% certain it will be my game of the year now.
 
Raumarik said:
As companies fall, new smaller companies will grow. It's always been this way in gaming.

Most games I play seem to have begun as indie games tbh. Satisfactory, Rimworld, No man's sky, astroneer, Bannerlord etc.
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Exactly. Looking at my recently played:

BG3
Dave the Diver
Deadlock
GTFO
Satisfactory
Forever Winter

The only one of those which could potentially be claimed as full of "DEI and wokeness" is BG3, and I'd love to hear the mental gymnastics required to argue about how dumbed down the storyline in that is :cry:
 
arknor said:
it really is crap now though.
looks at the games released in 2004 then look at the games released in 2024 or 2023 or 2022

www.imdb.com

Advanced search

www.imdb.com www.imdb.com


games are getting more bland and toned down than ever and fewer big games are being released because all the studios that would still be releasing games got bought out by EA etc and then basically dissolved


2012 is probably when everything started to go down hill
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2004 is possibly the best year in gaming history to be fair.

2025 could be a very good year. February alone sees the release of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Civilization 7, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Avowed, Monster Hunter Wilds and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii :eek: Beyond February, there are a bunch of huge titles which are supposed to release next year (e.g. GTAVI, Fable, Ghost of Yotai, Metroid Prime 4), though inevitably some will slip into 2026 (and there will also be some unannounced games which launch in 2025).

But yes, things have certainly slowed down. Many video games are just bigger, shinier versions of what we were playing 15-20 years ago. Development costs have risen. Development times have gone up. On the flip side, we now have a successful self-publishing indie game scene. That wasn't really a thing 20 years ago. For a game to be successful, it needed distribution of physical media and possibly certification for console platforms. And that meant getting a publisher. Now you can self-publish your own creation onto Steam without too much bother. And that opportunity has lead to some incredible releases over the past few years.
 
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BS!

People have been saying this for 20 years, yet GPU desktop sales are still going up and every games publishers now has PC as their lead platform because it's the only platform that's growing


If you're gonna claim PC gaming is dying, bring the proof! Steam is setting new record peak PC user numbers every other month! Dying??? Please!
 
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