/ch3/ - Video Games

Trying to think of a 1997 console game that was as buggy, unfinished, and broken as the original Fallout. Maybe some shovelware Playstation racing game?

>>14184
Based El Presador says it how it is.
But the truth is that PC games are still better, this is a simple fact.

>>14187
Die Hard Trilogy

>>14184
biblical

>>14183
Handheld/Portable > All.

>>14312
I alwaya liked the cpu candidates more anyways.

>>14312
How do you even play handhelds comfortably?

>>14333
I know what you mean, I can only play lying down at home, with my wrists resting on my body. I try playing them in public places, but I'm not gonna pretend it's very enjoyable, you can never really tune out the world.

>>14336
This, my favorite way of playing is lying down, arms to the sides resting on the couch or bed, it's very comfortable. Outside I mostly sit while laying back a bit, legs crossed, relaxed, not as good, but it does the job.

>>14333
I hold them up to my face, guess it doesn't work for all people
>>14390
This also works.

>>14183
There are good console games, rouge for example.

>>14407
I'd even go as far as saying that there are more good console games than good PC games.

>>14408
No, doesn't seem the case. Not only in quantity, but quality too. Mainframes and consoles faded out of computing popularity by 1990s nearly entirely. All future development in the field was for terminal emulators on personal computers and many went beyond terminals. As much as rouge is a masterpiece for it's age, something like CDDA is decades ahead due to decades of continued development more it received. Same goes for Empire and numerous 4X available now - from Aurora to Stellaris. And there wasn't a precedent of
indirect management games like dwarf fortress or rimworld for example.

>>14188
He did eventually end up converting to the PC master race.

He's still a straight-up beast either way, though.

>>14415
It's over….PC won…

>>14425
Gigachad Liberation Army

>>14426
Is he related to the guy who voiced the soldier from TF2?

>>14426
PC always wins.

>>14474
>>14184
It's over…
I told you so, I was telling you so 15 years ago.
PC won, you were playing the PC experience scaled down to a console with Gaylo and Cock of Doody.
Both started off on PC, both were FPS games, both got stupidly popular due to being social experiences.

Except in 2002 you were a "nerd" for talking with other bros over the internet.
PC has been ahead since the late 90s, you were just too poor and dumb to get it.

And now, I get to play my backlog and my mods while watching AAA consoletrash burn.
Pure MetaLudoKino!

>>14475
>PC has been ahead since the late 90s, you were just too poor and dumb to get it.
I'd go even further and say the early to mid '90s. Strategy games were really starting to hit their stride, and then you had Wolfenstein and Doom games kicking off the FPS genre as we know it. I like old console games and all, but even as a tiny kid I found the late DOS and early Windows games more engaging overall.

>>14476
Early 90s they were on par with consoles.
Late 90s, they got ahead, visuals, sound and streamlining, not to say I don't love many of those early 90s titles, but much like the late 80s, they still had many hardware limitations that weren't up to par with dedicated gaming hardware like consoles.
Sound was a real issue, especially on the lower end models, plus action games with performance handcaps on the game engines themselves.

That wasn't the case in the late 90s and both 2D and 3D games shat all over their console counterparts with few exceptions.

>>14477
>performance handcaps
lol, meant hardcapped performnace

>>14475
Even back then people simply played games on both their PCs and preferred consoles. Not sure why the device wars took off so quickly by the time late millennials and onwards started being everywhere online.

>>14475
PC = Master Race, confirmed.
Straight from the former "Trey Brotherhood" CEO and founder himself.

>>14479
In the 2000s Microsoft literally paid journofucks to shit all over PC gaming so they could push the Xbox to investors and consumers alike.
They pushed the PC experience on consoles while simultaneously trying to kill the platform as a meaningful gaming system.
The Vista and GFLW fuckups were bad enough, and they pulled the plug and focused solely on the 360 while paing their mass media friends out the ass to shit on the competition, be it PC or the Japanese, it was some insane unhinged fucking shilling and most didn't see through it.

It's how all this PC vs Console animosity started in the first place.
Half the internet "arguments" just dispelling myths and bullshit pushed by corporations.
And now it's bitten Microshaf in the ass, always nice to see after thy set back gaming a decade and a half with their bullsit.

The whole reason why AAA isn't dong numbers anymore and we're getting good mid budget games again, is because it's not being carried by fucking Microsoft money anymore.

>>14477
Hardware issues notwithstanding, I found what was on offer on PC in the Windows 95 era more engaging than what console games had. I was really into strategy games as soon as I was old enough to know what I was doing though. Consoles didn't have very much on that front relative to what computers had, or at least much that was conspicuous. I discovered games like North & South and Herzog Zwei in the 2000s, but it's not like they were smash hits or anything. Those ones in particular never got much appreciation from the public despite being great competitive two-player games. I'd also say they filled a different niche than PC strategy games.

>>14495
What's your favorite strat game anon?

>>14498
I don't know if I could pick just one.

I'm mostly an RTS fan. These are probably my all-time RTS games in terms of gameplay and replayability, in no particular order:
>Command & Conquer - Combined Arms
>Company of Heroes with Blitzkrieg Mod + Historical add-on
>Kohan: Ahriman's Gift
>Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots/Extended Edition

For the DOS/early Windows era, I like Z, the first two WarCraft games, Castles II, and Dune II. Z and Castles II would probably feel the nicest to a modern audience, but I love the aesthetics of Dune II and the original WarCraft especially. People today might find them tedious, but I love the atmosphere and still revisit them every so often despite being more of a skirmish guy than a campaign guy. I like Command & Conquer and Red Alert for similar reasons, although I feel like the gameplay is superseded by games like Combined Arms. If you sent me back to the late '90s, I'd rather be playing Dark Reign. It didn't have the cool presentation of Command & Conquer, but it had things like unit queuing that made it feel less antiquated for skirmish and multiplayer play. I haven't played it in a long time, but I remember it being fun. Command & Conquer might be my favorite game series overall though. If you can't tell from some of my choices, I helped contribute a few suggestions to that /vr/ DOS game list back in the day.

Some other games deserve honorable mentions. Populous: The Beginning is unique and has some nice twists on the typical RTS formula. I've also always loved the way Stronghold: Crusader combined city-building mechanics with an RTS game. Warzone 2100 had some interesting features, like the modular unit types and auto repair command. And even if I prefer the presentation of Rise of Rome and find the second game more well implemented, Age of Empires III is probably my favorite Age of Empires game.

At some point I need to give the Celtic Kings games a try. I think they might be up my alley, since someone on an imageboard once told me that Kohan sounded like it to them.

For turn-based strategy games, I used to love Civilization IV but over time grew to hate the combat system and just find that aspect of it tedious now. My favorite turn-based strategy game is probably the fheroes2 version of Heroes of Might and Magic II. Heroes of Might and Magic III/VCMI is better balanced and has some nice additions, but I don't find the combat as fun or the aesthetic as pleasant. I would love it if there was a game that was basically Civilization IV but with the battle system of Heroes of Might and Magic.

The Advance Wars games were fun, but I don't find myself in situations where I feel like playing something like that.

I also have some GOG releases I bought but still need to try, like the first two Age of Wonders games, Alpha Centauri, and Master of Magic.

Bros, I want to build a PC now…

>>14507
"her" shoulders look a bit broad bruh

>>14508
Let me BTFO you there real quick

>>14509
Poozach?
I kill it!

>>14516
You're too poor to own a PC poozach, begone ye goblin

>>14510
>>14507
is she some kind of hapa criatura

>>14522
You can see her parents in the childhood picture. Event staff or professional cosplayers wouldn't have looked like that even back then. What's interesting is that her mother also doesn't look like a strictly Japanese person, the facial structure and the obesity makes me think it's some kind of diasporic Chinese/SEA hybrid who migrated to Japan and married a gullible Hispanic weeb.