I have been playing PC games since 2001 and started building my own PC several years later. My main source of information were the PC magazines(remember those?) that were in sheer abundance back then.
I don't build PCs on a regular basis so just imagine the amount of time and money spent on magazines whenever I decided to do an upgrade. One time I spent over six months just catching up on the latest CPU and motherboard tech. Nowadays I can easily keep track of the latest ...
No wonder Steam Guard asked me the same thing over an hour ago. It usually asked that whenever I'm away from particular device for a long time or using a new device. I have been using my main PC for days and even bought some games from the Quakecon Sale just yesterday so I was confused why it asked for authentication.
I didn't realize there might be another hacking attempt.
@allacosta
Nope. Gaming is what it is due to consumer demand on every platform, not just on consoles. Sure, consoles have a bigger install base but where do you think MMOs and F2Ps come from? Before it's popular on PS4 and XB1, those game types were forged on the PC and mobiles.
Where do you think dying genres come to stay alive? The survival horror genre was dying during the PS3 and 360 days but thanks to indie devs it found a safe home to evolve on the ...
“Low-status and low-performing males have the most to lose as a consequence of the hierarchical reconfiguration due to the entry of a competitive woman,” reads the report. “Higher-skilled (i.e. more dominant) males do not behave in this manner as there is no need for them to reinforce their dominance to maintain their attractiveness.”
It sounds like they're not inherently sexists but more like butthurt at everyone. Low-performing gamers lashing out, dumping their frustrat...
Well, the patch is finally available for the PC but it's only over 2GB in size. I assume it'll be unpacked into 7GB.
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Note to everyone: They should've put the satire tag or warning just as the article or post is put up, not long after people have voiced their reactive opinions. Some people may caught on the satire from the very beginning, some don't.
I was in the middle because I am aware that Coffee Stain did made Goat Simulator as a satire but couldn't be so sure and earlier there wasn't any big warning sign telling me of satire like the one that pop up in th...
Consider that they left the PC version still in a buggy state so that you can buy the supposedly superior console version. The money PC gamers threw at their version is being used to make a better version for consoles.
It's ironic that Coffee Stain can get away with selling a still buggy game to great acclaim while Rocksteady have to pull out their game from a whole demographic of gamers to fix it. I mean just look at the article- they practically used the PC bugs and gli...
I hope they would follow it up with FOV Police. I find games at 30FPS to feel weird but tolerable most of the time. Most games with small FOVs, however, usually make me dizzy initially and then nauseous if I kept playing.
Renaming/personalizing each of your team member, leveling them up, arming them appropriately to enhance their survivability and combat effectiveness. Apart from a much more in depth customization thanks to latest gaming tech it sounds like pretty much what I have been doing with my other tactical, squad-based strategy games before this.
One of my early favourite squad game was Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy. I picked only the best trooper and kept using them over and ov...
I changed the Withcer's hair style and add a little bit of facial hair so now he looks like John Wick.
"Warner Bros. Interactive has taken full responsibility for the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight failing to meet the company's own "quality standards."
Failing? I don't think AK for the PC was even considered for their "quality standards" considering they simply gave it to an external dev(the same dev that also botched the launch of the previous Batman game) mere weeks to port it.
@cfc83
I have spent some time pondering at some of the decisions TW3 threw at me. It happened in TW2 and again in 3.
One the best part of the missions is the ability to revisit some of the characters from completed quests and get an update on their life. That little feature made the quests feel alive and not just some way to grind for XPs. I'm still looking for the old woman cot's because I persuaded her to take the orphans that took her chicken(that ...
I used to pirate because legit copies for PC games weren't sold in my place. Even today there's very few places near me(the nearest one is in city 3 hours away) that sell them. Legit console games however are in abundance thanks to the last and current gen's hard to crack DRM but they are very expensive.
Steam made everything much more convenient to be a legit buyer. Last year I nearly went back to piracy for one brief moment because Metal Gear Revengeance was ban...
Sure, the cheaper stuff might be turds like the very cheap wireless keyboard+mouse combo that bricked after several months but the higher end hardware is where Logitech shines.
I bought a Logitech G700 mouse a couple of years ago and it got flung hard several times but it still functions. Around the same time as the mouse I bought a G930 wireless headset and it too received a lot of beating because I carry it around a lot but still perform as expected.
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@Ezz
Agreed. I see Skyrim as having a bit too much in a lot of aspects compared to TW3. My character can do almost anything I want like pickpocketing, become masters of different weapons, become a weapon smith or armorer, learning a lot of spells, and sneaking around to name a few.
I didn't care about the struggles of the people in Skyrim(I see them as XP dispensers) but I listened intently to each and every character I met in TW3. In Skyrim I ran off the...
I am currently writing this reply on my gaming laptop from my hotel room. Minimize the browser I'm using now and there's my Steam Library with all the 101 games waiting to be clicked.
I don't see what's so hard about PC gaming.
As for the times wasted due to unoptimized games the answer is simple and easy - Don't pre-order or buy upon launch. Wait a little while longer, play other games in the meantime or buy during Sales. I bought most of...
The 12 people working a huge open-world game is the issue while the mere weeks given is a force multiplier that made the end result even worse than it should be.
They spent over a year promoting the game but then gave 12 people from an external studio to port the game to the PC version. What do you expect will happen?
If they gave the PC version the same amount of time, money and resources as the console versions, what do you think will happen?
They outsourced the game to 12 people to make the PC port. Enough said. No amount of AMD Furies can run a game properly if the dev and publisher don't even care about the PC version.
It's all about control in a closed garden. Bethesda is the one who pushed for paid mods on Steam and they seem to be looking for a way to extend that into consoles. Since the Steam paid mod scheme failed, Bethesda need to start small with the paid console mods they're trying to add.
Also they can't have consoles only have fan made maps while the PC get all sorts of free mods thanks to the modders' own tools to help them mod hence the limitations/parity. What&#...