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    kingpotato reacted to DC in Community Chat #1   
    Cool stuff, I am just watching the NFL Wildcard playoff games this evening. Quiet day, got a haircut this morning.
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    kingpotato reacted to Shagger in Console vs PC: which do you usually prefer?   
    Honestly, you're being ambitious there. I know of no new Laptop with a dedicated GPU for less that $600 (I assume US dollars is the currency you mean). Trust me, I was shopping for a laptop not even three months ago, so I have a good idea what the market is like right now. You really have three options;
     
    1) Find one with an APU that could handle some games, but expect to only run very low end stuff (your post implies you have a laptop already, and will probably have integrated graphics)
    2) Working to increase your budget (Save, work extra hours, sell some internal organs ect)
    3) Look at second hand models (A risky area, but you can get good deals there with a bit of luck).
     
    Even for lowest level gaming, in 2020 I would not wish to see anybody settle for less than a GTX 950 or equivalent at the very least.
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    kingpotato reacted to Crazycrab in Console vs PC: which do you usually prefer?   
    Let's do a rough add up:
     
    A Gaming PC for gaming and work with all the hardware and software necessary for a streaming set up, about $1000 minimum.
     
    A Console and a reasonable (but not gaming) laptop, $350 + $250 = $600.  If you want to stream using the desktop app or web browser istead of the console app you'll need a capture device, $600 + $100 = $700.
     
    Your still MILES away from the truth.
     
    None of that is really relevant anyway, your talking about someone who games professionally as a full time job.  Whether it be a Twitch Streamer, YouTuber, Reviewer, Journalist or whatever. I would expect someone in the position to by default to have a decent PC and most if not all the consoles to maximise the range of their content and support their income.  The rest of us are talking about the other 99% percent of the world that game and maybe stream a little as a hobby. Most people who's job doesn't directy involve gaming don't need a PC for browsing the web, checking their email of producing documents. A reasonably priced laptop or tablet and a smartphone are more than sufficient.
     
    Gaming on a PC is more expensive than a console and I don't even mean that in a derogatory way.  There are advantages to a PC, I'm simply stating that cost is not one of them.
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    kingpotato reacted to Shagger in Console vs PC: which do you usually prefer?   
    Sorry, but that's not entirely accurate.
    Going back to the 80's, 90's and into the 2000's, PC 's (Personal Computers) were all designed as a utility for what you described as the "routine work" with some capacity for playing games on them. However, and very recently, PC's changed. And they changed because they had to.
    The utilities these large, impractical and expensive devices became more accessible on newer devices like cheap laptops, tablet computers and phones. Even offices began using more efficient servers with connected workstations rathen than individual computers. The Utility PC, us pretty much dead.  
    Gaming PC'S, or at least as we know, are also comparatively new. Obviously, PC gaming itself is not new, but the technology that defines them today exsist because gaming is why and how PC's stayed relevant in this modern age. The utility capacity for PC's is not lost, so technically @skyfireisn't wrong, but it's not really an advantage anymore. The point is you don't need a gaming PC when a simple notebook or even tablet can do the utility work just as well, so that doesn't sell PC's anymore. The only thing traditional desktop computers still exist for in 2020 (and most of the previous decade) is gaming. The expensive, arbitrary luxury that is the Gaming PC.
    It's also perfectly possible to stream from a console as well, so I really don't know you said that. And combine a simple laptop with a game's console and you would have the bases covered and it still cost less than a gaming rig, making PC gaming still more expensive.
    @Crazycrabtouched on how PC game deals don't make the platform much more affordable these days either. It's just not as good as it used to be with digital console games having more competitive sales and the advantages of physical media, but there's another factor. People have lost the difference between cost and value. Value us defined buy the individual as to how much said product or service is worth to them, so each to their own to define it. Cost is simply what one parts with for that service, it's a simple fact that cannot be debated, and that's whare the PC has a problem.
    Yes, it's very possible to draw better value out if the fact PC's do still have better game deals and the fact you don't pay to play online. However, you only get that extra value back a little bit each time you buy a game, so to offset the significantly higher cost of the hardware, that means buying a lot of games. That COSTS more money, even it it may offer more VALUE, see the difference? For someone who would buy a few AAA titles and exclusives a year, that would just not be worth it.
    In conclusion, the PC is more expensive. By miles.
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    kingpotato reacted to The Blackangel in What games were you obsessed with as a kid?   
    😐😑😐
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    kingpotato reacted to Shagger in Ask Crazycrab   
    Let's just say he contagious and leave it at that.
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    kingpotato got a reaction from Executor Akamia in Last Game Played   
    xD my bad its already there, I just checked, Thank you.
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    kingpotato reacted to Crazycrab in Console vs PC: which do you usually prefer?   
    I'm sorry but that is simply not true.  PC's are FAR more expensive than consoles to buy and upgrade and you save next to nothing in the cost of buying games.
     
    New releases are maybe £5 to £10 cheaper but useually not even that.  The deals you get Steam sales or whatever aren't any better than XBox Live or PSN either, not to mention used games and services like XBox Game Pass.  Even if the games were legitimately and consistently cheaper on PC in the current climate of publishers relaying more on recurrent user spending models like DLC and Microtransactions the upfront cost barely matters anyway.
     
    In this day and age the only way that PC gaming is cheaper that consoles is if your pirating.
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    kingpotato got a reaction from Executor Akamia in Last Game Played   
    I found out about those secret bosses after I had already gotten the 3DS version, otherwise I would have purchased the ps4 version, also I wanted to play the DLC  King of Cards which I think its a prequel as to how King knight became well.. King xD
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    kingpotato reacted to Executor Akamia in Last Game Played   
    That is correct! Although I'm pretty sure that's only the case for the Shovel of Hope campaign; the other three playable knights don't meet them.
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    kingpotato got a reaction from Xianders in Recommend Multiplayer games   
    I told you xD I dont really use the laptop for gaming since its not mine, I mostly play on my PS4. Speaking of that I just found out that Destiny 2 is free to play on PS4 so I will try that.
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    kingpotato got a reaction from Xianders in Would you like to be a Witcher?   
    I loved the Witcher 3 game, but hell no, I dont want to be a Witcher nor be near the Witcher world , that shit is dangerous 😆

    o' valley of plenty❤️
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    kingpotato got a reaction from Executor Akamia in Last Game Played   
    Got it 😆,I have it on 3DS, its an awesome game, Right now I'm stuck at the stage of Treasure Knight
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    kingpotato reacted to The Blackangel in Games that you would like to see ported on the Nintendo Switch   
    If we're listing specific titles I'll throw out a few:
    NES---
    Blaster Master
    Legacy Of The Wizard
    A Boy And His Blob
    Clash At Daemonhead
    Excitebike
    Marble Madness
    SNES---
    Blackthorne
    Illusion Of Gaia
    Ultima The False Prophet
    N64---
    1080 Snowboarding
    Conker's Bad Fur Day
    Hexen
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    kingpotato reacted to Alyxx in Games that you would like to see ported on the Nintendo Switch   
    Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4
    Saints Row 2 (preferably as a HD remaster) and Saints Row IV
    Ion Fury (it's been confirmed but I still want it)
    Borderlands 3
    Half-Life 2 + Episodes
    Overload
    Forsaken Remastered
    3D Realms Classics
    Duke Nukem 3D
    Blood: Fresh Supply
    Max Payne 1-3
    Quake 1-4
    Mass Effect Trilogy
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    kingpotato reacted to Xianders in Would you like to be a Witcher?   
    I mean become the same witcher as Geralt of Rivia in the same Temeria or Redania. To be honest, I'd like to be a spook for a day, but not more. Traveling and look for orders and all the time to hear in your address how ugly you are. Although you can get used to everything. What do you say?
    P.S. Toss a coin to your witcher...😂
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    kingpotato reacted to Crazycrab in Who's excited for PS5?   
    HOLY SHIT GUYS!  At CES 2019 Sony Just revealed......
     

     
    THE LOGO!!!!!!!
     
     
     
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    kingpotato reacted to Executor Akamia in Last Game Played   
    Plague of Shadows is literally just Plague Knight’s story mode. 😄 So if it’s Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove you have, you have access to all four available stories. And Shovel Knight: Showdown, depending on what platform you’re playing on.
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    kingpotato got a reaction from StaceyPowers in Do other gamblers in RDR cheat?   
    I honestly dont think so, I mean I have found some NPCS that always have better cards than me, but I think it has to do more with the algorithm of the game, basically some NPCS are programmed to always win a match, so probably thats why some of them always have better cards, but I dont think they are cheating on purpose. 
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    kingpotato reacted to The Blackangel in Illogical things in video games   
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    kingpotato reacted to Shagger in Console vs PC: which do you usually prefer?   
    I'm sorry @StaceyPowers, but even this very question grinds my gears. There's swings and roundabouts, but just asking said question implies console and PC gamers have to agree that there's an overall advantage to one or the other and I hate that. I'm a multiplat gamer, and could do into detail about the differences between the platforms and make clear how I feel about them, but why? Nobody would learn anything.
    The only thing I'm willing to dedicate myself to is that PC fanboys are the worst, but I still dread the social media garbage we're inevitably due from console fanboys with the next generation over the next few months.
    Like I said, there's ups and downs to both consoles an PC's, but what really matters to me as a multiplat gamer is games. So, just play fucking games!
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    kingpotato reacted to SaucyPastaTho in Physical copies of games with only a code inside   
    I have no idea why they do this. When I bought minecraft PS VITA edition physical came with a code I was trying to figure out what the whole point of manafacturing cases with no disc and just a code. Makes no sense whatsoever.
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    kingpotato reacted to Executor Akamia in Last Game Played   
    Those were fun fights. The Plague Knight boss fight is actually my favorite in the game.
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    kingpotato reacted to DC in VGR Member of the Month - December 2019   
    Congrats @Shagger! I've awarded 500 Points to your account.
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    kingpotato reacted to skyfire in Games you are planning to get on 2020   
    On android mobile, I wish to get League of Legends Wild Rift. 
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