general Unofficial Gaming Masterthread

[Brony Number 42 10,072]

I got some NES games from Kickstarter. My old NES still works.

[Stardust 641]

I play on pc lots of random stuff I guess haha.

I also play switch just playing through pokemon sword.

Feel free to add me on steam (in bio)

As for fav gaming moments idk I remember when I was young I had so much fun with pokemon mystery dungeon though!

[Jesse Terrence 2,969]

I always have a big laugh at those silly pc "master race" dummies. Bragging about their huge machines and argumenting is cheaper when the hardware itself is times more expensive than your mid tier game console and most games run the same on both console and pc anyway. Spending so much to waste it on games. Maaaaan, with such big computers I would be running big models and solving huge equations rather than just play gta 5 with mods.

Honestly, aside from the generic rts games and modding, it seems pointless to buy a gaming pc if you're only going to use it for gaming. Consoles use less resources for runing a game, anyway. OS eat up far too much from a gaming PC and the industry loves resource leaking on PC games, so you're likely to have to spend half the budget of your gaming pc in about 4 years if you want to keep yourself up to date on a PC. Besides, initial costs are also far lower on consoles than on PCs. Even if you were to built a low tier gaming pc, the low tier consoles are still cheaper and most come with bundles.

Having said all that, I myself prefer to keep my PC separate from my gaming nowadays. Back in college I had emulators and old games on my laptop, but mainly because I couldn't have a console where I was living at and some days I had awful dead hours in my schedules, and playing old games when I had no schoolwork to catch up to was good and didn't eat up too much of my time (you can't carry around a console just like you can't carry around a desktop pc, lol, thus, not having to take a bus ride of 1 hour to use the break time to play at home and then another bus ride of another hour is downright ridicule).

Either way, as for consoles, I have the 3 baddies of the moment, though not on their most expensive presentations. A switch, a ps4 and a xbox one. I found myself liking the xb1 more than the other two due pricing on multiplatform games on the digital stores. In mexico, nintendo is the most expensive out of the three for digital purchases, and its console-tied policy around here makes it worse -you'd need to buy the game once again if you change of switch, in case of theft or upgrade, for instance-. Ps4 is the second on prices because they use their imaginary dollar without letting the user know how the convertion is at the moment. They always display prices on dollars, but their dollars don't equate to real life dollars out of the USA, and they are usually a 10% above on the convertion rate of the country. They also have plain higher prices anyway. In mexico's microsoft store you'll find most multiplatform games to be around 5 dollars cheaper than the playstation store prices, and that without taking in consideration the convertion rate which is usually lower than the one used by sony, so you end up buying the same game but around 15% to 20%  cheaper on xbox. Also, xbox's online services are cooler on many aspects, and more with the ultimate game pass which also has the microsoft rewards program. You see, not only do you get 2 games that need the suscription to work like on ps4 with the ps plus, but on xbox you get 2 retrocompatible games that don't require of the suscription to work. You can cancel and you'll keep the older xbox/xbox 360 games they gave you. That's how I got my hooves on Castlevania Symphony of the Night (xbox arcade version) and on both lord or shadows and even on Bayonetta. The gamepass ultimate is a nice rent suscription which offers you about 100 games that feature both xbox exclusives, high tier indies and several multiplatform hits. If you're not interested on buying a lot of games but still wanna play them or you want to try a game before purchasing it, gamepass lends you a hoof and you can even get a discount of around 20% of games on said catalog so when they are no longer on the gamepass catalog you still had the chance to buy the game for way less. Finally, the microsoft rewards program is a thing that rewards you for playing gamepass games and getting achievements. They give you points you can later on convert on suscriptions or even balance to buy games on the digital store.

Yeah, xbox might not have the most exclusives nor the best exclusives, but is nicer to the customer and there's a bunch of good multiplatform games to play on it anyway.