The Biggest Issue With PC Gaming - TommyKay On What Stops People From Playing PC Games

[@heirofwesteros]

Game devs dont give a fuck these days and assume that everyone is running a RTX 3070 or better

[@voyager9959]

If you ask me, the corpos (corporate execs) and shareholders are the main culprits. Everything is so... corporate now. Money, money, buy, buy, buy, spend! Spend! Spend! Soulless and pumped out of a factory (look into development teams being worked like horses, and even horses receive better treatment nowadays). I agree with Tommy, which for the most part comes due to having grown up around the same era. It pains me man, seeing how the "youngsters" (I'm not even 25 yet, not trying to sound like a boomer) of today grew up with a vastly different environment in games. Sigh.

[@tylerallen7617]

Think the biggest problem is that companies don't optimize their game properly, all you have to do is look at the reviews on elden ring

[@kubli365]

It's a widespread problem in contemporary software development.

[@kaiwojcik7640]

The world is massive, I am grateful my gtx 980ti can even run it

[@Spiffy35]

they do optimize their game. only for Sony.... but that just brings up possible things such as, confusion between other companies working together to make a great experience for one person. imagine that. 10,000s of people made the game to be playable on one console for that one person. now they have to do this internationally with other companies and consumers. its just a big spectrum of things were communication/workspace is key. idk maybe im jsut high and talking out of my ass.

[@RocketMonke69420]

The truth. The reason why games can run fine on Playstation/XBox and run like shit on pc is 99% optimization. Probably because there isn't one company behind pc gaming and because there isn't one pc but many different variants. I would love for microsoft to bring out a standardized pc they could sell like the playstation with multiple budget options. Imagine what games could be if they were optimized for the high end pc.

[@kaiwojcik7640]

@@RocketMonke69420 Microsoft already has Xbox, Linux is probably the closest to be able to fully optimise games

[@rramos117]

Tommy is right. When Pokémon RBY hit USA in 1996-98, every kid I knew begged their parents for Gameboy Color. There was a shortages in stores, you had to reserve ahead of time. One time my classmate made another kid cry because he did the Missingno glitch on Zanzibar Island, it legit ruined his 100 hr save file. Then the nuns and principal banned Pokemon at school b/c it was the “Satan’s little monsters” 😂

[@GAMER123GAMING]

what

[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

I miss physical manuals. I still visit second hand shops and buy physical copies with their manuals; shit's just interesting.

[@gamesnig]

Same. I hate that most of new games just come with no shit all in the name of ecology, while in reality its just to save them a buck.

[@AtlanticaVI]

The biggest problem with PC gaming is that Hoi4 doesn't immediately come with Equestria At War installed

[@จตุพรจันทสุรวงศ์]

I played GTA VC on PC @12-18 fps when I was ten and it was a blast. Nowadays if the game run slightly below 60 I feel like throwing up.

[@starzapbg3014]

I remember somewhere around 2nd grade there was this kid in my class whose parents had a bit more money and he came one day with a PSP, I remember how cool he was and all, it felt surreal, after that day at one point I don't remember asking my father for it, but he bought me a PSP from Germany, but it was the edition that had no internet, I did not even know there was multiplayer up until like a few years later. Good times.

[@CT-cd3lc]

I had a similar Expierience with Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Man, it felt so magical when i get an okayer PC from my Uncle and i could play it finaly. It would always crash befor, and i felt so bad. But when it worked it was the world for me.

[@dave2009ization]

The Gameboy was the first console I owned and I had only one game, MegaMan 2, because we were to poor to afford games back then.

[@evilemuempire9550]

My first real game was Rise of Nations, my dad had it and was playing it on this shitty PC from like 2005, I remember watching over his shoulder entranced, great memories playing that game

[@andreferreira5789]

Same it was such a good game glad its on steam today

[@Spiffy35]

i just remember my parents playing Golden eye with their friends in the living room and having the best time of their life..... and these people played risk religiously.

[@kristiann8676]

Markoni, are you going to make a video about the prologue campaign from Warhammer 3? I realize that you made a video about the demon prince already, but I feel like the prologue was good content and could be cool. This could also be a video for tony on his channel, but I just wanted to say that your warhammer video was very good and I want more ;). Love the content, keep it up :).

[@1992zorro]

I will never forget arriving at school on the Friday morning with everyone had Red and Blue with their one single color game. I arrived with Yellow that was multicolor game and had the most popular Pokemon walking behind you. The age of Pikachu had begun.

[@ricktickb00m]

Used to roll my TV into my brother's room and put it back to back with his TV and play Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 for hours on end

[@cookiecracker2]

In 2013 I played age of empires (1996) on a computer with Windows 95 and 96 and I had to switch between them, because for whatever reason one of the operating systems would not run correctly so I used the other one. I played age of empires on 16 bits. I could only see blue, red, black, and some greens. I did not have purple, or yellow. And I loved the game, I had no clue what I was missing. When I saw age of empires 2 and 3, and I saw company of heros 2. My mouth dropped. I could not believe all the detail and textures. Those were the days haha.

[@hairsstandonend]

Why does Tommy's life plain replicate mine. Apart from being a successful streamer that is...

[@mountainmoss6391]

same

[@tyskbulle]

Same generation Same amount of nerd

[@IAmWarden.]

My first game ever was Crash Bandicoot 2 for the Game Boy Color Advance in 2006, What’s your first game?

[@afrofantom6631]

i played assasins creed black flag on my mums laptop with 4 gb ram and integrated gfx, 20 fps with a tiny box for a screen, shit was still fire tho. One of my best memories of all time.

[@FrostByte112]

I remember being hyped for Black and White. (indeed, whatever happened to Lionhead studios?) It was great, and my pc was good enough, just. But I was too poor to buy it and had to hack it. Back in t hose days, illegal games had allot of content stripped to save disk space. So that's my memory of Black and white.

[@bruhbruh6389]

From google search, it appears that Lionhead studios get bought by Microsoft and closed it in 2016. Sad tbh

[@Victor-xb9mf]

I used to play a game about Robin Hood in my family's pc almost 12 years ago. Sometimes the disc didn't work and so I wasn't able to play. I had to gamble the posibility of playing in the computer eveytime i wanted to.

[@siongalaxy8175]

2:49 yeeees axis & allies enjoyer

[@BreiiisBreiiis]

Black & White is really based, I also loved it as a kid.

[@sarcharasticperson442]

0:43 wow didn't know they made a game about micheal jackson

[@HackerArmy03]

This is true. The reason why the most popular FPS or MMO goes to Asia and if you take a look at the games, they're so... OLD in terms of quality. But that's because they're mostly the games majority of the people here in asia could play on their old laptops or local computer rental shops. Also the reason why a bootleg cheap Chinese knockoff copy of both LoL and Dota 2 (Mobile Legends) is so popular here in SE Asia still.

[@mine9120]

every paradox game ever:

[@sadhungrybutatleastimhones1862]

Again, profit ruins the whole thing. Instead of letting nerds decide what to implement, you have some business people who are unattached to the actual game and just want the numbers play out in a certain way. I mean just look at Battlefield 5 for example. Imagine you're a game designer or a programmer and you're finally working on "BF1942 part 2", this was THE game. Then instead of spending your time creating actual content, fixing bugs or finishing it in the first place, you're told to implement tons of paid content and are put under enormous pressure because marketing calls the unfinished game a "pre-release". How depressing that must be.

[@Ak92029]

Boomer glorifies shitty old games