PC Master Race: What Are Your Thoughts?

[WWE907]

Almost every gamer knows about the huge stain on the reputations of PC gamers known as the "PC Master Race". I am personally disgusted with the PCMR nerds, calling console gamers "peasants" just because of the system on which they choose to play video games (does it even really matter?). What are your thoughts on them?

 

[mika haka]

Cant be considered a master race when I need to spend 2 days reading forums to get a game to work.

Until they grasp plug and play they will always be behind.

 

[Downhill Dino]

There are a small few who do take up on the elitist attitude, but the master race is more so just a thing between other PC gamers then it being directed towards console users. It does matter quite a bit because of what the player's priorities might be. There are a lot of factors as to what system a person would prefer to use. I play on both and personally I prefer PC.

 

[Terronium-12]

Cant be considered a master race when I need to spend 2 days reading forums to get a game to work.

Until they grasp plug and play they will always be behind.

Tell me you're joking, I beg of you.

As for the OP, there are idiots in every camp.

 

[Akira AC]

Master race, nah. Being a PC player myself I've seen the disadvantages like poor optimization, lack of releases and some annoyances with drivers and system configs that some games require to run, and mapping controllers can be a bitch sometimes.

Elitist PC "master race" guys are as much of douches as PS or Xbox fanboys. Each community has it's own douches, PC elitist tent to be the douches of the PC player-base.

PC has it's advantages over regular consoles, but is down to personal preference (nowadays however it seems more convenient than what consoles seem to offer, for hardcore gamers and such).

 

[dice1998]

Until they grasp plug and play they will always be behind.

If only Microsoft operating systems after Windows 95 had Plug and Play capabilities.. Ah, how that would make a perfect world..

 

[mika haka]

Tell me you're joking, I beg of you.

As for the OP, there are idiots in every camp.

No im not joking at least when I buy a game on a console it will work.

I have many a pc game gathering dust due to bugs. I would rather have a working game than none at all.

 

[Terronium-12]

No im not joking at least when I buy a game on a console it will work.

I have many a pc game gathering dust due to bugs. I would rather have a working game than none at all.

You need to elaborate as you're misusing PnP in an oh-so-critical fashion.

If a game is bugged for whatever reason, that has nothing to do with PnP. If you have to spend any extended amount of time getting a game to work with your hardware for whatever reason, that has nothing explicitly to do with PnP

 

[Wardez]

Wow Mika, just wow.

That's like telling a guy, "Why do you like to tinker in the garage on your project car?! You're SOOOO behind man, just buy a new car. When I buy my Hyundai Sonata, I know it will work. I've had a bunch of cars I just sold off as soon as they gave me trouble, GET WITH THE TIMES M8"

Really?

Anyway, on to the topic...

Dude, it's a freaking joke. PC master race was a joke starting on 4chan's /v/ board. The only people that take it seriously and actually consider themselves superior are mentally estranged. Everything has its own +'s and -'s, we all know that. Don't get sour over a meme, no one actually takes it seriously that knows what it's really about.

For some serious laughs though, 'cause ****, it IS funny after all, check out http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace

Just check out the stickied post at the top of it

I'm noticing that a lot of screencaps about a uninformed peasant dissing the master race and I see that a lot of you instantly start trash talking them. Unless they are a obvious troll, I suggest responding to them in a neutral tone and explain that they are misinformed on PC gaming. Think of it like this, if you convince them to look into PC gaming, you just might add another member to our race. Thanks for reading. PRAISE GABEN

Like, are you serious?! You're gonna take THAT^ to heart?

It's just comedy people, lighten up.

 

[Sharky.]

Being a PC player myself I've seen the disadvantages like poor optimization

Ironically(?) I find that tends to be as a direct result of consoles, namely when games are developed for console first and are rather lazily ported to Windows at a later date; while I love the game to bits, the first Borderlands title was a notoriously half-assed port - you couldn't use your mouse wheel in menus (Page Up/Dn instead), FOV was locked to 60, certain areas ran very poorly due to no/very little optimisation (T-Bone Junction in the General Knoxx DLC springs to mind) etc.


As for "glorious PC gaming master race", there are three camps. Those that genuinely believe that anyone who games on a console are the scum of the earth, those that say it just to wind console gamers up - in the vein of saying Battlefield is better in the comments of a Call of Duty video - and those that say it (mostly) in jest.

It goes without saying that the first lot are idiots.

 

[Techy]

Personally, the "PC Master Race" notion is going more towards a comedic side than anything. Sure, PC gaming does rule over console gaming in several aspects, but there are some individuals out there who consider gaming as a minor hobby than anything so building their own gaming PC is negligible.

No im not joking at least when I buy a game on a console it will work.

I have many a pc game gathering dust due to bugs. I would rather have a working game than none at all.

Yeah, there are some games that fail to run properly unless you can find a fix for it. But I don't think it has anything to do with PnP, and most of the time problems of that nature usually exist in old games.

 

[mika haka]

When a PC works its miles better but you all have to face facts. They very rarely work and you have to spend time fine tuning things. That is not fun.

I would much rather just put in the blu ray and away I go, than spend days fine tuning.

 

[Joey D]

I find PC games better, more varied, and better looking that console games. Plus content delivery like Steam makes buying and managing games really nice too. Consoles have their positives, but I'll stick with a PC any day.

When a PC works its miles better but you all have to face facts. They very rarely work and you have to spend time fine tuning things. That is not fun.

Games tend not to work when the end user doesn't do simple things like update drivers.

But I've been PC gaming for years and I rarely encounter a game that doesn't work.

 

[dr_slump]

Let's beeter not start talking about the average PC gamer.

 

[Wardez]

When a PC works its miles better but you all have to face facts. They very rarely work and you have to spend time fine tuning things. That is not fun.

I would much rather just put in the blu ray and away I go, than spend days fine tuning.

The most I've had to do is install new drivers, and that takes about 5 minutes. And it's not necessary.

I don't know anyone that has had to fine tune forceably just to play a PC game, only those that like fine tuning as a hobby. It's an option, not mandatory.

The only thing I can think of that your problem is, is that you're technically challenged, and find it hard to install games and work PC operating systems.

 

[Akira AC]

When a PC works its miles better but you all have to face facts. They very rarely work and you have to spend time fine tuning things. That is not fun.

I would much rather just put in the blu ray and away I go, than spend days fine tuning.

F1 2013, I install it and voilà, it work, with a 360 controller plugged in via PvP. I can still say the same for ArmA games, BF3, BFBC2, even the beta for BF4 worked right away.

Even though I mentioned that games needed some tweaking, that's referring to games probably older than 2010, nowadays is down to ... having a PC controller and a decent set-up. Games will work as they would from a console, so I'm failing to see the point here.

 

[Sharky.]

They very rarely work and you have to spend time fine tuning things.

That's news to me, I always install the latest Nvidia video driver after it finishes silently downloading in the background and my games work first pop. My computer never wants me to fine-tune things, am I doing something wrong?

 

[Terronium-12]

When a PC works its miles better but you all have to face facts. They very rarely work and you have to spend time fine tuning things. That is not fun.

I would much rather just put in the blu ray and away I go, than spend days fine tuning.

If you prefer consoles then that's wholly acceptable, but "they very rarely work" is not a fact.

 

[mika haka]

The issue is that I need to fine tune things. Considering games are developed for the windows operating system there really is no excuse for it. Game developers have gotten lazy these days and would rather just patch things afterwards. PC gaming suffers more from than this than consoles.

 

[Joey D]

The issue is that I need to fine tune things. Considering games are developed for the windows operating system there really is no excuse for it. Game developers have gotten lazy these days and would rather just patch things afterwards. PC gaming suffers more from than this than consoles.

Not really, poorly developed games are poorly developed games no matter what piece of technology is used to play it.

And you don't need to find tune, you just update your drivers occasionally and you're all set. It does all the "tuning" for you, all you have to do is click the Next button.

 

[Wardez]

@Mika
Can you come up with some examples, stories, history? Evidence?!

You're driving mah nuts.

 

[mika haka]

But you dont need to update drivers on consoles.

Trust me consoles sell more for a reason and that is number 1 on the list.

 

[Joey D]

But you dont need to update drivers on consoles.

Trust me consoles sell more for a reason and that is number 1 on the list.

You still need to update the console's OS and you still need to update the games.

And PC's sell better than consoles purely based on the fact PC's just do more and non-gamers buy them.

 

[Akira AC]

The issue is that I need to fine tune things. Considering games are developed for the windows operating system there really is no excuse for it. Game developers have gotten lazy these days and would rather just patch things afterwards. PC gaming suffers more from than this than consoles.

PC games (as it turns out) tent to have the more stable releases and developer feedback, on consoles some games need wait for certification to apply a patch, while in PC they can do it right away.

Besides all games nowadays take in count the computer in which is being installed to set up it's graphical features.

 

[Techy]

The issue is that I need to fine tune things. Considering games are developed for the windows operating system there really is no excuse for it. Game developers have gotten lazy these days and would rather just patch things afterwards. PC gaming suffers more from than this than consoles.

Crysis 1 on steam had a problem for me because the files steam downloaded was for 32 bit machines only, & I have a 64 bit machine. With this case I did have to look around and find 64 bit files to run the game, so it was a bit dumb to do something like that when I expected it to run seamlessly in the first place. But I felt that to be more of a distributor error than the dev's fault.

 

[mika haka]

No games sell much more on consoles than PC's for a reason.

 

[Terronium-12]

The issue is that I need to fine tune things. Considering games are developed for the windows operating system there really is no excuse for it. Game developers have gotten lazy these days and would rather just patch things afterwards. PC gaming suffers more from than this than consoles.

What is this fine tuning that you keep going on about? I've been in the PC scene for about ten years now and I've never had to fine tune anything unless the game had it's problems to begin with.

But you dont need to update drivers on consoles.

Trust me consoles sell more for a reason and that is number 1 on the list.

Ever heard of a firmware update?

And, no, that's not the number one reason consoles sell more, which by the way is becoming less and less of a big deal than previous years.

 

[Joey D]

PC games (as it turns out) tent to have the more stable releases and developer feedback, on consoles some games need wait for certification to apply a patch, while in PC they can do it right away.

And if for some reason the developer doesn't patch it, someone, somewhere will develop an unofficial patch for the game to fix everything.

 

[Wardez]

You still need to update the console's OS and you still need to update the games.

And PC's sell better than consoles purely based on the fact PC's just do more and non-gamers buy them.

Yeah exactly, mandatory system updates happen all the time. At least on PC those are totally optional, but they still also come in at more frequency, so it's totally left to the consumer when they want to budge and install all that. So having more control is a bad thing in mika's eyes.

 

[mika haka]

Yeah exactly, mandatory system updates happen all the time. At least on PC those are totally optional, but they still also come in at more frequency, so it's totally left to the consumer when they want to budge and install all that. So having more control is a bad thing in mika's eyes.

No. The point is that I need to go through hoops on a PC just to get my game to work.