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Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? (www.pcgamer.com)
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[+] -13 points 2 years ago (27 children)

I don’t understand why I would buy a PC when I can get a PS5.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    It has a library going back 30+ years.

    It is useful for other things.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    I don’t play old games. I don’t even play PS4 games on my PS5.

    I have no other use for a desktop PC.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    You're not going to play any of your PS5 games in 5-10 years? You're happy with some of your games aging out of your library?

    You do you, but you might be an outlier.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (14 children)

    You're not going to play any of your PS5 games in 5-10 years?

    No, I only ever play through a game once. After I finish the main campaign I’ll never touch it again.

    Why would I play a game I already played when I could play a new game instead?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Sounds like what you enjoy are shallow, linear story games. To each their own, of course. Glad you're happy with what PS5 offers you in that regard. But the industry has a lot more to offer than that.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    How are story games shallow? They are much deeper than the next generic multiplayer shooter. I happen to like stories in all forms, books, movies, series and video games. Video games are unique in that they allow you to be part of a story. For me the story is the single most important thing of a game. Often I simply play games on easy or story mode, mainly to keep up the pacing of the story.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I never said story games are shallow. But if the games you like are ones where you can feel like you've experienced all the game and the story has to offer in a single playthrough then they are, by definition, shallow. Even a great movie is worth watching multiple times of its story has any appreciable depth. Video games, even more so since there should be more to the story to experience.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even a great movie is worth watching multiple times of its story has any appreciable depth.

    That sounds more like a you problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I guess it's possible you are correct and like the bulk of people who have ever studied film, literature, and art more generally are wrong. That seems unlikely. More plausible is that it's common for people to experience a given work multiple times and get different things out of it.

    That's not even accounting for the "Reading Lear as an old man hits differently than reading it when I was a teenager" factor. That is, who you are changes over time and that affects how you experience art.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

    Roguelikes.

    Roguelites.

    Chess.

    Deck builders.

    More broadly, games with different narrative choices (eg: Witcher 2 has two mutually exclusive middle acts).

    And also more broadly, games with different mechanical choices (eg: many RPGs).

    There's also games where the process itself is fun (eg: Tetris).

    Also, as many humans have imperfect memory, after enough time has passed a game may feel fresh playing it again. It may also land differently playing it at a new stage in life.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    I hâte to agree with the other person here, but I'm a big roguelike fan and I rarely dust-off one that I have played before. I go through a period where I play a game quasi-exclusively until I burn out, then I will probably never touch it again.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't think that's especially common for roguelikes. I played a lot of crawl: stone soup and it was pretty common for folks to go for a win with every species, god, and class.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I would still do that, to an extent. But not if I've stopped playing that game for months.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Out of curiosity, what about games that update? Crawl gets a new release like every six months where they often make big changes. New gods, species, other changes (like when they removed food, or added shapeshifting talismans)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Hmmmm. Not sure I've been in that situation too often. But honestly, as a young parent, my gaming time is very limited. Even if there is an important update to a game I've played in the past, chances are I've got my eyes on another game I've been waiting to play instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Roguelikes.

    Roguelites.

    Chess.

    Deck builders.

    Not my cup of tea.

    More broadly, games with different narrative choices (eg: Witcher 2 has two mutually exclusive middle acts).

    I kinda like it that it makes my decisions in the game more impactful. If you're going to go back and play the other option anyway, then it kind of makes the decision meaningless.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    For self-hosting / drawing / video editing or other useful things that you can do with a PC? You can also play FPS with keyboard & mouse

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    For self-hosting I have several Linux and *BSD machines, but that’s server-grade hardare, not gaming hardware. None of those machines even has a GPU.

    Drawing I do on my iPad Pro, for everything else I have a MacBook Pro. If I got a desktop PC it would only be used for games, I have no real need for non-server PC hardware.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The 79,900 games available on steam vs 7,200 on PS 4/5.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure why I'd want a PS5 when there are zero games that interest me on it, and most of PC games I do want have very modest requirements. A Steam Deck is overkill for most of them.

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