2019-03-01_PC_Gamer___40_US_Edition

YOUR REVIEWS

I’m replaying

Skyrim for the 50th

time with the

intention of getting

every achievement

for a second time. I

have a problem.

Kristian

Presumably your

problem is that

Bethesda still hasn’t

released The Elder

Scrolls VI.

Hitman 2!

Especially as you can

play Hitman 1 levels

through it too.

Catching up on two

games at once.

LeXmas Tree

Stay away from Phil’s

leaderboard scores

or else he will be sad.

I’m playing MGSV,

and it’s the strangest

gaming experience

I’ve ever had. Not

sure what that

means? Neither am I.

Dani

Sometimes horses

are just on fire, OK?

It’s fashion.

Playing through

Diablo III since I

picked up the

Necromancer. I forgot

how fun it is to play an

arcade-y lootfest.

Thomas Helms

Any ARPG that

doesn’t feature a

massive wizard laser

is a waste of time.

Bought Monster

Hunter World, and

I’ve been having a

blast, it’s fun hunting

down well-designed

monsters to collect

materials and build

cool-looking gear.

Cutteredge

Pour one out for our

bro, pukei-pukei.

Better Together

I started PC gaming this

time last year, and PC Gamer helped

me to decide ehich laptop to buy.

I’m having a blast playing FPS

games. PUBG has been my go-to,

especially with my Lebanese friend.

I also play Fortnite with my Greek

friends. Far Cry 5 and Assassin’s

Creed Odyssey and Dishonored:

Death of the Outsider are my side

games when I’m offline.

It’s been a wonderful year, and

I’m confident 2019 is going to be

great. My biggest thanks for the

never-ending supply of information

and reviews. Keep being amazing!

Ahmed

Phil: Things got a bit heavy in this

month’s Send, so here’s a nice email

from Ahmed about how great PC

gaming can be. Let us know your

hopes for PC gaming in 2019.

As consumers
Let me start by saying thank you. I’ve
been a subscriber since I could read,
and I convinced my mother to sell
her Apple Mac for a Pentium III so I
could play Baldur’s Gate. You guys
have always been my go-to.
This has been bothering me for
some time now, and something has to
be said. Let me preface this with the
fact I understand there is a time to
complain. However, it seems to me
that comment sections and forum
threads have become full of entitled
kids and man-children that seem to
love to have a cry about everything.

As consumers, our vote and

biggest say is our cash. Yet the trend

seems to be to make our own minds

up about what a game or product

should be, purchase it under a false

presumption, and then proceed to

moan and review bomb. The culture

on Twitch, YouTube, and the like has

convinced us it’s OK to be entitled,

vitriol-spewing douchebags looking

for the next bandwagon to jump on.

Stop. Do your research, form an

opinion, and then use your

purchasing power to make a point.

In the day and age of anti-loot

box, anti-microtransactions, and

anti-paid-for-DLC, it astounds me

that these ‘opinions’ seem to totally

contradict sales. And you expect a

publisher to care that you’re upset

when they hit target!? Appreciate and

enjoy the things that work for you.

That’s why we game. Support the

companies that embrace your ideals

and if you don’t like something, keep

your cash in your wallet.

It still pains me to think about

Titanfall 2. The critically acclaimed

campaign with ultra-smooth

gameplay that gave us free DLC, only

to have no player base because we’re

all hypocrites. Before you cry, look in

the mirror. You’re likely more part of

the problem than you realize.

Jarryd

Phil: The nature of online discourse is

certainly broken. There’s an ugly relish

with which the next target for outrage

is pounced upon, and distressingly

little thought ever given to the

individual developers affected.

And yet, I still feel it’s too simple

and neat to dismiss everyone who

complains as ‘entitled’ or ‘whiny’. The

industry has changed a lot over the

last decade. We once laughed at

Oblivion’s horse armor for being such a

cash grab. Now, horse armor would be

celebrated for not being pay-to-win.

Some are angry that gaming isn’t

just for them anymore—that

publishers have found a new, more

mainstream audience. But it isn’t all

gatekeepers raging against the dying

of the light. AAA games demand more

of your money and time, and that isn’t

for everyone’s benefit.

There are no easy answers here. My

advice would be to ignore the people

trying to whip you up into an outrage—

don’t get me started on the idea that

your only worth in the player-creator

relationship is as a ‘consumer’. Don’t

be afraid to have a voice, but use it to

praise the things you love, not just

condemn the things that you don’t.

H O T

MAIL

Ahmed is a newcomer

to PC gaming.

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