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Gamers, how complicated is it to play games? (setup question) (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 week ago by user224 to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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People often find it odd when I say I don't play PC games, but it seems rather complicated (and also expensive) to me.

I mean, I enjoyed it back when I had friends with PS, but I never had to set up anything myself. Searching around it seems rather... overwhelming, and I don't know if it's actually the case.

PC seems most versatile, and with the prices, I considered piracy, but I would need a separate computer for security. Hell, I wouldn't even trust the device firmware on it afterwards.
So I considered maybe paying the amounts, but I went to check some games and lo and behold, kernel-level anti-cheat. Great, so pirated games might even have less malware in the end.
Since I'd need a separate device anyway, how about getting a PlayStation. With a disc drive, I want to be able to go future proof and fully offline. Well, about that... apparently it needs to verify the disc drive online. For what? It's a BluRay drive, either it works or it doesn't. And then I heard another shitty thing, "most games are released almost unplayable and need updates right away". So they just release Alpha quality software on the most permanent medium???

So that just sounds like shitty experience no matter what. How is it actually? I'd expect consoles to be least buggy and fully future proof.
The only thing I ever had was a $4 NES bootleg console from AliExpress, Contra was glitched out and Battletank unplayable because they forgot the select button, but ok, $4.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No one says you gotta play games coming out today.

If you only want to play single player, want it to be cheap, and have a great library of games to play.. .Pick up a used PS2 or Gamecube. PS2 lets you play both PS2 and PS1 games, gamecube..if you can find a gameboy adapter for it for cheap, also opens up gameboy/gameboycolor/gameboy advance games. real versatile.

Should be able to find one used online/garage sale/classified for cheap. games are abundant, cheap, and amazing.

anything older is starting to get expensive, and anything newer will typically be always online/online drm checks/etc.

Especially true with how AI is absolutely ruining hardware prices atm, with ram costing as much as goddamn video cards.

Course, thats assuming you want to play on the actual hardware, setting up a retropi for SNES/NES/Genesis/ETC is also viable, bit more fraut trying to find the roms nowadays, though. is the best, most affordable option if you want to play PS1 or older, though.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I dont even like most new game personally. Been going back to all my genesis, n64, ps1, ps2, og Xbox games. In a lot of ways, they were better and more fun. Xbox 360 started ruining it with online and microtransaction data stealing slop.