So I was browsing YouTube after I got home from college and I came across a video from "The Know" channel from Roosterteeth. I don't particularly like the channel do to its "hip shit" look but I do like to watch "The Patch", one of the Roosterteeth podcasts. Occasionally they do say some dumb shit, but I enjoy it most of the time. Well, the video in question was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REDZBV2hLXc
I knew it was entirely overblown, and the title pretty much highlighted how desperate "The Know 'nothing' " show was to get some news down to meet their quota. Such a big video attracted many haters and instant thumb downers, but I committed a cardinal sin. I read the YouTube comments. By Stallman's beard, The console peasants were in the PC hating flux. I saw many Neckbeards fight the glorious fight, to no avail. I stared at the chaos in horror. Tears fell down my face as I witnessed this abhorrent massacre. To reclaim our glory, I thought of how I experienced my entrance to the Glory and Honor of the PC Realm. To drink from the Fountain of Gaben and breath the free air of GOG, I was free. Such horrors such as talking to some poor sap in India over Microsoft fucking me over by locking me out of an account for no damn reason was now a distant memory. I thought, "What do these lost souls not see?" Then, it occurred to me. People are just getting dumber. The PC is not a simple closed machine; it is a complex machine. Tons of people need help plugging in fucking AV cables because they "don't know how", even when the damn cables have color coding. In my youth, I was raised on the Sony PS1. A system that boasted mere 32 bit graphics drew me into where I am today. I was fascinated over its ability to draw complex (at the time) polygons and breathe life into the 3D world as something aesthetic and not experimental like "Star Fox". In this small console, I was absorbed into the world of Spyro. A purple dragon with a simple goal, beat the bad guy. Simple enough. Now considering that that was 16 years ago, the games today for console are bar none....Shit. Such simplicity and love was within those 3 PS1 Spyro games. Insomniac Games make a priceless pearl to me. These games never took themselves too seriously; it always was an enjoyable experience beginning to end. Since I installed ePSXe, I can relive such happy moments at my tender age of 21.
My console experience was bright and fun. Many years later, I was introduced to Sly Cooper. A little game on the newly released PS2. Again, another beauty that wasn't too serious, had a coherent story, and has high replayability even to this day. Throw in 2 more sequels that added to the enjoyment along with Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain. Such art isn't here today. Nintendo to me is still the most original of the "big 3", but Sony and Microsoft died years ago. Simple and to the point was the golden gate of media, yet such knowledge left their minds. The bottom line entered their callous, greed wrenched hearts. Some would say it was always there, and they would be correct. But no one is perfect. Business is business after all. Bobby Kotick has been universally hated since 06 for his insane "Milk the Cash Cow until it's dead" plan, but the truth is, it worked. He was tasked as CEO, the main economic boss. He did what was needed to be done. Please the shareholders. He saw the incoming game bubble, and with that came his time to shine. In 2009, his plan went to effect. MW2 was released to a influx of millions of players who sought it. Crushing the movie industry's highest box office launch record. It was fun, but really broken. To tell you the truth, that is what was so fun about it. To face and destroy mere 12 year old's in virtual battle, listening through the headset of their eventual pulmonary edema incoming warmed my heart. A mere year later Call of Duty: Black Ops was released. So quick a launch we questioned what was the actual point? Sure, it was developed by a different studio Treyarch. Why so quickly? We all assumed that everyone was "Call of Dutied" out and everyone sought something new and innovative. Nope, Black Ops sells millions and crushes its predecessor's record. It was an OK game, but it did not deserve the insane dogmatic worship and praise it was given by the likes of IGN, GameTrailers, and Kotaku. It boasted a slightly modified version of MW2's multiplayer, which was fine at first, but then gradually turned into nothing but a grind fest with little or no payoff. This Kotick idea spread like wildfire, and drowned out the last remnants of the simple and to the point with only small portions of surviving games. My made my decision in 2011. I must leave this utter shit hole of closed-sourced, tightly controlled prole feed. I was no stranger to the PC Master Race. My family had only one laptop to share, so playing Command and Conquer: Generals was a near slide show playing on a i3 4Gb Inspiron laptop. Another game series I was familiar with was Roller Coaster Tycoon, excluding the mediocre third installment. A simple game, again never took itself seriously. Fallout, Fallout 2, Xcom, and many others hid in the shadows of the entertainment world, yet shined more brightly than other console game out there. In 2012, I used nearly every penny I had from my graduation money to build the rig I am using to write this memoir. No more selling an arm and a leg to purchase a subpar Gamestop preorder that only resulted in disappointment. No more unreliable services and gimmicks. It was all nullified the moment I installed Steam and browsed GOG. I understood the power, the efficiency, and the value of this brave new world I ventured into. I have bought from Steam and GOG with their sales and purchased 120 games the same price as 5 AAA games for consoles that have little or no value behind them. If every game I bought on PC were all the normal 59.99 fuck your ass wallet price, then I would have spent $7200 plus my rig cost. Which is around a whopping 8100 dollars. That's a good used car price, not a damn game setup. I drank from the Fountain of Gaben, I breathed the air of GOG. There is no going back to such hell I see the console world became. I have left that world behind. I have released myself from their constraints. Many of us were the commenters of this video, but we have seen the power of Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. We have changed for the better, but those who reject the actual validity of our dogma are lost forever. They can only save themselves from the vampiric fangs of Sony, and Microsoft. Nintendo is still safe....for now. To the reader of these memoirs of a console gamer I say breathe easy and relax. Our time is coming. This console bubble will not last forever; the PC will. Withholding innovation destroys the withholder. It's their money, and when their regret comes, we will be happy and content.
"With Counsel, We Conquer"
Best regards to you all
TheDigitalSoviet.