People often find it odd when I say I don’t play PC games, but it seems rather complicated (and also expensive) to me.

I mean, I enjoyed it back when I had friends with PS, but I never had to set up anything myself. Searching around it seems rather… overwhelming, and I don’t know if it’s actually the case.

  1. PC seems most versatile, and with the prices, I considered piracy, but I would need a separate computer for security. Hell, I wouldn’t even trust the device firmware on it afterwards.
  2. So I considered maybe paying the amounts, but I went to check some games and lo and behold, kernel-level anti-cheat. Great, so pirated games might even have less malware in the end.
  3. Since I’d need a separate device anyway, how about getting a PlayStation. With a disc drive, I want to be able to go future proof and fully offline. Well, about that… apparently it needs to verify the disc drive online. For what? It’s a BluRay drive, either it works or it doesn’t. And then I heard another shitty thing, “most games are released almost unplayable and need updates right away”. So they just release Alpha quality software on the most permanent medium???

So that just sounds like shitty experience no matter what. How is it actually? I’d expect consoles to be least buggy and fully future proof.
The only thing I ever had was a $4 NES bootleg console from AliExpress, Contra was glitched out and Battletank unplayable because they forgot the select button, but ok, $4.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    May i add a weird take?

    Atari flew under the radar with the re release of its VCS…it is basically a gaming laptop you plug into your tv or a monitor. Its highly customizable and can run windows or Linux, and has its own atari os built in for atari games. I love mine and im mostly using it as my media center pc and light gaming machine, and its a steal at $130 for a used ebay one.

    Many people put an emulation linux os on them too.

    It will run ps1 and ps2 games easy, likely also Xbox og. Runs a lot of my steam games too.

    However, a game like last of us and gtav are going to take a hell of lot more power than the vcs. If you can leave those games off the table, the vcs can do a lot.