Ok. I've mostly been a PS user, since all the way back to PS4 (although I was like under 10) and I even have the Vita (probably one of the dumbest purchases I've made) along with the PS4. But, I got the PS4 for the right reasons: I play Madden when it's not complete shit, MLB The Show is my summer timekiller, Infamous is a decent series, I've played all Uncharted games and Kingdom Hearts is still one of the best games I remember playing and the only way I could play those was on ps4.
Getting ready for college, I found out some of my courses actually require you to have your own laptop in class, so I decided I'd heard enough about Steam to get a laptop that can game (860m, 4710hq, you can probably name the laptop, but I found one with a 500GB SSD option).
I've had the laptop for basically a year and a half now and the only game I actually played during that time was Vanishing of Ethan Carter. But I saw steam as a platform to buy games I can't get on ps4. I got Stanley Parable, but had touchpad issues that I only recently resolved. I still bought cross-platform games on PS4 because of habit, like GTA, Fallout (regretting going PS4 digital on that one now), Witcher 3 and even The Witness more recently (didn't know that was on steam as well).
I eventually picked up more games, like a game called Serena I still haven't touched and the 2010/2011 Need For Speed Hot Pursuit reboot (I've actually played NFS for like 5 hours). For the most part, everything I've played runs fine, but hiccups from time to time (I keep different objects I'd normally throw away, like a tic-tac 200 pack bottle so I can prop up my laptop for breathing room whenever I use it).Finally, yesterday, on a whim I got Just Cause 2 during the ubisoft sale. I change my settings to what I think is good (but I don't know much about that yet), and for the first time I've probably ever seen playing a game (I turned on shadowplay just to see how it ran), my FPS went well over 60. It hit 140 at one point. But the performance of my laptop on a 6 year old game wasn't the point. It finally clicked that I have access to everything (as long as it is compatible with my version of windows). I finally realized that, when I say goodbye to my laptop and upgrade to a better one or attempt a desktop build, I will still have my games with me. I realize what pcmr and other pc users see when they see consoles.
Like... Why should console players have to hope that NCAA 14 gets voted as 'backward-compatible' (only Xbox is doing this) in order to play it on the latest Xbox when a current PC can switch between NFS, Portal, Rocket League and Fallout 4 no problem? Why did Microsoft of all companies short users on HDD space while making an upgrade literally impossible (if you replace the HDD, the Xbox has no way of loading the OS)? Why does the Xbox take like 70s to load up in 2016 (I have A 2TB 7200rpm in my PS4 that I thought was fast until I started restarting my computer on ssd in under 30s). Whats the point of having a 720p tv with a PS4 (college student) and having it down scale when I can set my resolution on PC to the same tv to 720p for a dramatic boost in FPS? On second thought, why is my laptop's mobile GPU gaming nearly on par on the higher resolutions with a set of consoles that is supposed to last like 5-10 years? Like, holy shit.
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