Current Events > i feel like i'm still waiting for this console gen to start in terms of games

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starfield was supposed to be it but then, oof, it wasn't

EVERYTHING else i've been interested in playing since 2020 has been cross-gen

Gotta wait for Star C....
Unrecord, yep that's the one....

Yeah, I don't really get the point of console generations anymore. There's no reason to buy the new console when console makers demand devs make their new games available for last gen consoles too.

Not to mention that requiring games to work on last-gen consoles means they can never actually optimize for the new hardware, so the new consoles' versions of the games don't even look or play significantly better than the old ones' versions. Why even bother making a new console at that point?

Was Forspoken the first non cross gen game of the current gen?

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Seems like every single big game is horribly buggy on PC on release (and for quite a while after). I guess if you don't plan on buying anything for 6 months after release, then sure

Will_VIIII posted...

Was Forspoken the first non cross gen game of the current gen?

Returnal, Deathloop, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Beyond, Astro's Playroom, Demon's Souls Remake, The Last of Us Part I came out before Forspoken, from what I can remember, and I'm probably missing a bunch

_Blur_ posted...

Seems like every single big game is horribly buggy on PC on release (and for quite a while after). I guess if you don't plan on buying anything for 6 months after release, then sure

Honestly, most of the "horribly buggy" releases are overblown in terms of how broken they actually are. Not all of them, of course. There have been some absolute trash-tier PC versions. But the vast majority are minor problems that are either fixed by patches within a few days or by modders within a few hours.

And the existence of a modding scene for most games also gives an added benefit for PC. Modding alone often makes waiting a few months before picking up a game mean you get a straight-up better game than consoles got.

"kinda crazy growing up on an internet where the male:female ratio was like 100:1 at best and nowadays social media is entirely girly-pops and i hear a female voice in every single FPS lobby lol
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ya lol and it's wild how much girls get shit on in those lobbies too

I play a lot of Valorant and make friends with a lot of girls just cus I don't get weird or spew misogynistic bs

Aristoph posted...

Honestly, most of the "horribly buggy" releases are overblown in terms of how broken they actually are. Not all of them, of course. There have been some absolute trash-tier PC versions. But the vast majority are minor problems that are either fixed by patches within a few days or by modders within a few hours.

And the existence of a modding scene for most games also gives an added benefit for PC. Modding alone often makes waiting a few months before picking up a game mean you get a straight-up better game than consoles got.

Good to know this stuff. Been out of the PC loop for a while so I'm definitely going just on what I hear. And I do want to dip my toes back into PC gaming soon