PC gaming?

It is true that console peasantry is a popular topic here, but relax, brother, for we know #PCMR is the true way.

I play more on pc than consoles.

There was a time in the late 90s-early 2000s that I did about a quarter to a third of my gaming on my PC, but those days are long gone. Between changes to the industry, the improvement in console game quality, big screen TVs, and the types of games that are being made, I'm much happier with my PS4.

PC here too

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"Unlucky 13 wrote:

There was a time in the late 90s-early 2000s that I did about a quarter to a third of my gaming on my PC, but those days are long gone. Between changes to the industry, the improvement in console game quality, big screen TVs, and the types of games that are being made, I'm much happier with my PS4.

And then you get a PC and project 4K onto a wall and realize you've been doing it wrong. :tongue2:

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

There was a time in the late 90s-early 2000s that I did about a quarter to a third of my gaming on my PC, but those days are long gone. Between changes to the industry, the improvement in console game quality, big screen TVs, and the types of games that are being made, I'm much happier with my PS4.

I can easily play my PC games on my projector screen.

i am happier with the options on PC. And as many video games as I buy (a crapton), you can typically find games significantly cheaper on PC. RE7 is a perfect example. $60 on console.... If you look, it's as low as $34 on PC.

Edit: Plus you can't play Factorio on a console (yet I guess). That game is brilliant.

What are some of your current favorites? Anyone big into MMORPG?

"danmarino wrote:

What are some of your current favorites? Anyone big into MMORPG?

Used to play a lot of WOW. Was in a regular raiding group and all. Then stopped after Pandaria. Loved the story of Garrosh and the whole Pandaria expansion. Then it all fell apart for me.

Factorio!

Civ 6

Astroneer

Just some of the crap I've been playing.

I would be very, very interested in Civ 6 if I could get it on a physical disc and play without an internet connection. And if my laptop wasn't four years old and seemingly near death, lol.

Civ 6 runs well on my 5 year old mac. For what it's worth ;)

PC here as well. I plays FPS, Adventure, and Indies on it mostly. Have a PS4 for the exclusives.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

I would be very, very interested in Civ 6 if I could get it on a physical disc and play without an internet connection. And if my laptop wasn't four years old and seemingly near death, lol.

You definitely can, I bought a physical copy at launch (of course I just used the code to download instead of the cd to install).

"Stitches wrote:

You definitely can, I bought a physical copy at launch (of course I just used the code to download instead of the cd to install).

Oh you can? I can't seem to find them in stores anywhere, and Amazon only sells the digital version. Gamestop claimed that they could get it for me, then realized that they couldn't. And after the initial forced anti-piracy download, you can play completely offline? And never install any other programs (like Steam)?

2K store has the physical copy:

http://store.2k.com/store/Tk22k/en_US/pd/productID.2124010900

You have to keep Steam installed, but you can play offline after you play it once while connected.

"Not So Fast wrote:

2K store has the physical copy:

http://store.2k.com/store/Tk22k/en_US/pd/productID.2124010900

You have to keep Steam installed, but you can play offline after you play it once while connected.

OK, thanks man. I bookmarked that. This might seem a strange question, but keep in mind that I haven't bought and kept a new PC game since Windows XP. Will Steam just sit there in the background and do nothing, or is it sending data back to them? I worry about it bleeding my bandwith allowance dry, bit by bit. Years ago, I tried to get another game, and after installing it, it continued to try to communicate to the servers, and used gigs worth of data in just a few days. I deleted everything, and haven't tried again since.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

OK, thanks man. I bookmarked that. This might seem a strange question, but keep in mind that I haven't bought and kept a new PC game since Windows XP. Will Steam just sit there in the background and do nothing, or is it sending data back to them? I worry about it bleeding my bandwith allowance dry, bit by bit. Years ago, I tried to get another game, and after installing it, it continued to try to communicate to the servers, and used gigs worth of data in just a few days. I deleted everything, and haven't tried again since.

Steam doesn't do telemetry, if that's what you're asking. It will only download updates automatically if you select that option, and it won't download very many updates to begin with unless you're on the beta update channel. You shouldn't be concerned.

I happened to actually find a physical copy of Civ 6 in a Target yesterday, so based on the recommendations you guys gave me, I picked it up. Started installing it at about 8:30 last night and it finally finished at close to midnight. Used up almost 4 gigs of data in the process, but a lot of that was installing the Steam program, and then downloading all updates for the game. Hopefully, thats the worst of it. I wonder if I can turn off all auto updates? Haven't actually played the game yet, will try later on.

I just bought Civ 6 off of Steam this past Sunday. I've yet to start playing it.

Played a few hours of CIV 6 last night. I've played the series for more than 20 years, but hadn't played a new one since the expansions to CIV 4 came out about a decade ago. (I've been playing that one since then).

This one is a BIG departure from the previous games I'm used to, and there will be a big learning curve. I tried one game on the default difficulty setting (Prince), and was demolished not by other civs, but by barbarians. It was brutal. Then, I moved the difficulty down one level, and played a fairly long game, but was decimated eventually also. Later, I moved it down to just one step above the lowest setting, turned barbarians off, and am treating it as a long tutorial about how to play the new game.

There are so many differences that its a new experience and a big challenge. It seems that you just aren't able to create as many cities as in previous versions, and you're going to have far, far fewer military units. My general MO of peace and isolation until I can out-tech the rest of the world might be difficult to pull off. Also, tech trading seems to not be a thing anymore, and the other civs seem far less interested in trading resources, so my whole master plan will need to be reworked.

And no surprise, my 4-year old Windows 7 PC is good enough to meet the minimum specs and run the game, but not nearly fast enough to even run the graphics at a medium level, so I miss out on all of the extras with the world leaders, but it is what it is.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

Played a few hours of CIV 6 last night. I've played the series for more than 20 years, but hadn't played a new one since the expansions to CIV 4 came out about a decade ago. (I've been playing that one since then).

This one is a BIG departure from the previous games I'm used to, and there will be a big learning curve. I tried one game on the default difficulty setting (Prince), and was demolished not by other civs, but by barbarians. It was brutal. Then, I moved the difficulty down one level, and played a fairly long game, but was decimated eventually also. Later, I moved it down to just one step above the lowest setting, turned barbarians off, and am treating it as a long tutorial about how to play the new game.

There are so many differences that its a new experience and a big challenge. It seems that you just aren't able to create as many cities as in previous versions, and you're going to have far, far fewer military units. My general MO of peace and isolation until I can out-tech the rest of the world might be difficult to pull off. Also, tech trading seems to not be a thing anymore, and the other civs seem far less interested in trading resources, so my whole master plan will need to be reworked.

And no surprise, my 4-year old Windows 7 PC is good enough to meet the minimum specs and run the game, but not nearly fast enough to even run the graphics at a medium level, so I miss out on all of the extras with the world leaders, but it is what it is.

I probably won't start a game until this weekend. I haven't played Civ in probably 10 years. I really liked it back then and because it got good reviews here and on Steam I went ahead and bought it. Sounds like I may have a pretty big learning curve initially. lol

Thanks for the review!

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

Played a few hours of CIV 6 last night. I've played the series for more than 20 years, but hadn't played a new one since the expansions to CIV 4 came out about a decade ago. (I've been playing that one since then).

This one is a BIG departure from the previous games I'm used to, and there will be a big learning curve. I tried one game on the default difficulty setting (Prince), and was demolished not by other civs, but by barbarians. It was brutal. Then, I moved the difficulty down one level, and played a fairly long game, but was decimated eventually also. Later, I moved it down to just one step above the lowest setting, turned barbarians off, and am treating it as a long tutorial about how to play the new game.

There are so many differences that its a new experience and a big challenge. It seems that you just aren't able to create as many cities as in previous versions, and you're going to have far, far fewer military units. My general MO of peace and isolation until I can out-tech the rest of the world might be difficult to pull off. Also, tech trading seems to not be a thing anymore, and the other civs seem far less interested in trading resources, so my whole master plan will need to be reworked.

And no surprise, my 4-year old Windows 7 PC is good enough to meet the minimum specs and run the game, but not nearly fast enough to even run the graphics at a medium level, so I miss out on all of the extras with the world leaders, but it is what it is.

-There is an actual tutorial.
-Barbarians are hard, but I really don't mind. It's a nice change, though bad spawns sometimes screw you.
-I pretty much turn religion off.
-You can do tech trading, or joint research or whatever.
-As to military size, I feel like I got mine pretty big the one time I was going for domination. I didn't finish before a tech victory happened though.

"Stitches wrote:

-There is an actual tutorial.
-Barbarians are hard, but I really don't mind. It's a nice change, though bad spawns sometimes screw you.
-I pretty much turn religion off.
-You can do tech trading, or joint research or whatever.
-As to military size, I feel like I got mine pretty big the one time I was going for domination. I didn't finish before a tech victory happened though.

OK. thank you. I must not have gotten to the point where tech trading was an option yet. I got to about the year 1500AD in one, and was surprised that no matter which leader I talked to, even one I had an alliance with, it just never showed as a possibility.

I feel like the units take so long to build that I'm cheating myself if I make them instead of city improvements. I'm used to a typical unit taking 3-5 turns in a normal city, maybe 10 in one with poor production. So far, they take 10-12 in a good city, and 20-30 in a poor one. And instead of having 3-4 units per city by the time Im at about 500BC, I'm lucky to have one in each. With the rampaging hoards of barbarians that I encountered in my first game from the very start, I was overwhelmed fighting those guys off almost every turn.

Stitches, thank you for the tutorial suggestion. I guess I thought that I didn't need it, but it was very helpful. I learned some things that I had no idea about otherwise. I'm also now more convinced that the difficulty levels are all set higher than they used to be, and thats ok. I just have to find my own comfort zone.