Yeah they are terrible and let's add any console fanboy who think one console is best and all other ones are garbage.Bat Vader said:
Which I'm having to deal with as my step bro has been brainwashed into thinking xbox is king of everything.
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Which I'm having to deal with as my step bro has been brainwashed into thinking xbox is king of everything.
I've seen what mods can do and its great that people have the freedom to do these things (usually, anyway), but looking at the games I play it's about as relevant as Shigeru Miyamoto liking gardening, which, no wait, that's actually totally relevant to my interests because Pikmin. What I'm trying to say is that's it's perfectly possible to game on your PC and have a great time doing to without ever trying some mods.Charcharo said:"Look, I'm not saying modding is useless, it absolutely isn't, but don't overrate it. Especially not in this day and age when people have the tools to create and publish their own semi-professional games."
I am not overrating it. It is AS important as games. It IS games. In fact, I am underrating modding. You are underrating it even more it seems.
The second sentence is strange though. I dont get what it has to do with modding, except that some of those games started as mods. The good ones...
"Yeah, like I said, relevant to communities surrounding certain games."
Seems like it is directly or indirectly relevant to all of gaming.
"The games I play (mostly adventure games, small and quirky indie stuff) don't attract a modding crowd."
And that is fine mate. We all have tastes.
"Or am I doing PC gaming wrong by not really playing many of the PC masterrace's darlings?"
No mate, you are not doing wrong. You are playing the master race's darlings (if what you said before is true). You are just not knowledgeable on modding, you havent experienced its incredible power and potential. That is fine
BTW I think you have to give console gamers some credit, too. While they aren't released often, there are games that encourage users to get creative. Little Big Planet would be a great modern example.
While I appreciate that sentiment, and share it to a degree, there are a LOT of mitigating circumstances today in regards to game software distribution that make the situation far more complex than one might think.Bat Vader said:
Platforms like Steam, et al, provide more than just a digital store front and varied levels of DRM. They also provide a wealth of services to developers and the end-users that, under other circumstances, might be logistically or financially unfeasible for the developers and publishers to accomplish on their own. Automated updating, content hosting, matchmaking, social networking, server hosting, international distribution, etc.
The games themselves being limited to one platform or another is more often than not a choice of the developer or publisher of a game rather than because of the demands of the platform owner.
What I'm saying is, when it comes to a developer wanting to include certain features and services (ones that believe the end-user may expect) into their game, it makes more sense, financially, to utilize a platform that has these feature-sets and services built into it.
So, again, I appreciate and share your sentiment, but the situation is complicated.
he's at the annoying teen age and based on what I've heard from his friends there the main cause of it. It duesnt help he plays nothing but skyrim or minecraft and refuses to try and play them without using glitches and exploits due to difficulty.Bat Vader said:
it's gotten to the point that I don't even care because I'm tired of helping him when he refuses to try and learn and get better and if you say anything its oh well I don't fucking care attitude.