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I know GOG asked third parties to compile this list of games to have on the sale, but it strikes me as odd to have a list of games labelled "PC Master Race" when half of the games on there are console ports, and not even good ones at that. While Crysis and Planescape are obvious PC classics, right underneath them are Fallout 3 and NV, games that notoriously had bad graphics on release due to being held back by consoles, poorly supports mouse and keyboard, and are filled with things to make it easier on console users, but harder on PC users. The only remotely decent thing the PC versions bring to the table is modding. And holding a game up on users fixing it after the fact isn't exactly a great showcase of what a good PC game is like. The rest of the list is similarly second hand, hand-me-downs from the consoles. There's even Braid, an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive for a long time. How is that even remotely a PC game?
THOSE BASTARDS! :P
My biggest problem is more the repeating of games on various lists. As much as I loved Hollow Knight, it'd be nice if it wasn't on half of the lists. Same with The Witcher 3. I get they're more of a promotional thing so people go "Oh, Hey, I like Gamespot! What games do they like?!" but it still feels really same-y looking through the lists.
Also I'm offended and I demand an apology for GOG using the term "master race".
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BmB: I know GOG asked third parties to compile this list of games to have on the sale, but it strikes me as odd to have a list of games labelled "PC Master Race" when half of the games on there are console ports, and not even good ones at that. While Crysis and Planescape are obvious PC classics, right underneath them are Fallout 3 and NV, games that notoriously had bad graphics on release due to being held back by consoles, poorly supports mouse and keyboard, and are filled with things to make it easier on console users, but harder on PC users. The only remotely decent thing the PC versions bring to the table is modding. And holding a game up on users fixing it after the fact isn't exactly a great showcase of what a good PC game is like. The rest of the list is similarly second hand, hand-me-downs from the consoles. There's even Braid, an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive for a long time. How is that even remotely a PC game?
The PC master race is a lie fed to the masses. Today there's mostly the PC gaming untermensch.
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BmB: I know GOG asked third parties to compile this list of games to have on the sale, but it strikes me as odd to have a list of games labelled "PC Master Race" when half of the games on there are console ports, and not even good ones at that. While Crysis and Planescape are obvious PC classics, right underneath them are Fallout 3 and NV, games that notoriously had bad graphics on release due to being held back by consoles, poorly supports mouse and keyboard, and are filled with things to make it easier on console users, but harder on PC users. The only remotely decent thing the PC versions bring to the table is modding. And holding a game up on users fixing it after the fact isn't exactly a great showcase of what a good PC game is like. The rest of the list is similarly second hand, hand-me-downs from the consoles. There's even Braid, an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive for a long time. How is that even remotely a PC game?
They were literally picked by PCMasterRace. We don't tell our partners what to pick :)

But either way, Fallout 3 and New Vegas are still good games and have a place on PC.
Post edited October 01, 2018 by Linko90
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tfishell: Also I'm offended and I demand an apology for GOG using the term "master race".
I am offended and demand an apology for you demanding an apology.
By the way what happened to Yathzee? I doesn't seem puts out any work lately.
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Linko90: But either way, Fallout 3 and New Vegas are still good games and have a place on PC.
All Bethesda games are showcases for why PC versions are superior. Console players are forever stuck with their vanilla versions (in varying quality *shudders at the though of playing Oblivion unmodded*) while we can have hi-res textures and models, effects, not to mention the mods that fix thousands of bugs, fix balancing, add tons of new content for free to the point where they become whole different games - thinking of TCs like Nehrim or the mods that turn Skyrim into a true winter survival game.
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Linko90: But either way, Fallout 3 and New Vegas are still good games and have a place on PC.
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toxicTom: All Bethesda games are showcases for why PC versions are superior. Console players are forever stuck with their vanilla versions (in varying quality *shudders at the though of playing Oblivion unmodded*) while we can have hi-res textures and models, effects, not to mention the mods that fix thousands of bugs, fix balancing, add tons of new content for free to the point where they become whole different games - thinking of TCs like Nehrim or the mods that turn Skyrim into a true winter survival game.
Without any shadow of a doubt, modding is the key reason I enjoyed any of the Elder Scrolls or Fallout games from Bethesda, as much as I did. Sometimes I feel quite humbled by how many clever and creative people there are, making so many great mods for free, given my own lack of knowledge about how to make mods. As you would imagine, Nexus is one of my favourite sites.
Post edited October 01, 2018 by HeathGCF