Just the way that whole thing was worded sounds so... creepy.

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My SNES still works to this day. Same for my N64, PS2, and 360. I have 60 mb/s and updates download in the background. It kind of is fairyland. I can still play Super Mario Kart to this day without worry of incompatible drivers, GPUs, OS’, or motherboards.

I got to ask, because wow: You have a 20 year old rig (which I’m assuming means 20 year old parts and everything since you put an age to it) that can still play the latest games you’ve purchased without issue? What kind of games do you play?

lol, that was the point. You’re so caught up being in defense mode you missed the rhetorical point in my question. PC rigs absolutely need to be upgraded—just like consoles do—after so many years to keep playing the latest games on high/ultra settings (same principle for consoles, but not in ultra settings as you…

Yup. Hell, I see an example of bias right here towards PC gaming talking to you.

D+ troll attempt, Greyname.

Games like CS:GO, WoW, and LoL aren’t my cup of tea but I won’t lie: I love watching clutch CS:GO plays on YouTube.

Setting up Xbox Live consists of plugging an Ethernet cord into the back of the console and entering your credit card number. If you have more problems setting that up than building a rig/updating drivers then I have to seriously question your input on the matter.

Thank you for your rational response to my post! A lot of PC gamers replying to me here have been saying these cheating/hacking problems are no where near as bad as sites such as Kotaku seem to make them out to be.

Is a gaming PC eight years later still acceptable to play the newer games (those games eight years later) on “Ultra” settings without having to upgrade the GPU or anything?

Solid input! I take what you said with weight considering how long you’ve been playing games and owning so many previous consoles.

It shouldn’t have to be that way... But on the flipside, when some developers try and curb it you wind up doing what From Software hear is doing. Wish there was an easier, more reliable way to fix this on the PC gaming side.

You’re probably right. It’s just most articles you see on gaming sites focus on the issues about PC games and it tends to skew my (and most assuredly others’) perceptions about the PC platform.

More often than not, with articles on gaming sites talking about PC games, there are a few bad eggs in the PC community that go out of their way to troll with the old, overly-used “PC master race” comments. I know most PC gamers aren’t like this. My post was a jab at the few who are as those few people are the most…

Thank you for a mature rebuttal against my post. It was a nice counterpoint to read. I was afraid I’d have angered a lot of PC-only players but I’m just speaking from an outside viewpoint from all the recent Kotaku articles about PC gaming.

Between hackers, cheaters, shoddy PC ports and its accompanied glitches/issues, lack of PC-specific options in many titles, and the cesspool that is Steam Greenlight the “superior race” sounds anything but fun; it sounds exhausting.

Not only that but SMB3 has some of the best art direction for any NES title. And me personally, I like the art style of SMB3 better than SMW. Its so colorful, vibrant, and full of life. They made beautiful pixel art with such a limited pallet and I greatly respect that for those reasons.

I would have loved if you had linked to the source of this information so I could see some of these images/sprites mentioned.

Patrick Klepek: Let’s ruin our memories of a great game together.