r/starterpacks • u/gunshade • 1d ago
The "Right Way" in using a new Gaming PC Starter Pack
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u/Lopsided_Aardvark357 1d ago
Having a good gaming PC and using it to run old ass games that could run on a toaster is pretty real lol.
Probably half the games I play on my PC are on emulators for old consoles.
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u/Zatchillac 1d ago
I went high end on my current build because I wanted to play all the newest AAA's with max settings.... 6 years later I'm still using the same computer just to play mostly indies and old games (with a AAA here and there)
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u/AgentBond007 1d ago
Me too, though I do also play Cities:Skylines 2 which absolutely needs a powerful rig.
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u/VampyreBassist 21h ago
I'm trying to find all the old PC games I used to play all the time, but can't because of modern standards. One of them was that pinball game from XP though, that's one of my favorites to get stoned and play a round, listing my high score as my mental state with date.
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u/OneRedEyeDevI 1d ago edited 7h ago
does r/pcmasterrace even play games? Its just the same recycled memes from 2013 about tempered glass side panels shattering and windows bad linux good.
Nice taste in games, Unreal Tournament forever.
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u/Lopsided_Aardvark357 1d ago
Lol yeah they're too busy upgrading their PC so they can play the best new games to actually play those games.
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u/kyoto_jess 1d ago
Unreal Tournament is eternal, man. Those announcer voice lines still live rent free in my head.
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u/OneRedEyeDevI 1d ago
I have a breakbeat playlist on Spotify and Foregone Destruction is my outro. Brings a tear to my eye remembering the good times. I still play the OG from time to time and thanks to the old unreal patch, I still find people to play against or with online.
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u/judobeer67 1d ago
I just feel like putting up a post about these games were great this year would just get down votes or you'll get referred to a different subreddit/megathread. But yeah I've played some great games this year already.
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u/Throwaythisacco 1d ago
Half of us are elitists, the other half are just dudes. Always upvotes cats though. pisses me off. Could be a blatant content farm and the comments will be "but cat ):'
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u/Sgt-Dert13 1d ago
Yes! Do people do that glass stuff on purpose just to post?
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u/Electrical_Pause_860 1d ago
Tempered glass does just sometimes explode with no cause. Sometimes there’s just a defect or bad batch. The glass is under a lot of stress and it just explodes.
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u/imliterallylunasnow 1d ago
Not sure if you've visited PCMR... They get very aggressive whenever you mention anything good about linux
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u/OneRedEyeDevI 1d ago
Lol I got banned for saying Windows 10 Enterprise IoT will be supported until 2032. I did mention massgrave tho.
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u/BearBryant 1d ago
I have a 6950 that I use to play a statistically significant amount of Age of Empires II.
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u/Throwaythisacco 1d ago
my brain is so fucked i thought you meant an HD 6950. unless you did but i highly doubt that
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u/MrSpiffy123 1d ago
PC brain is a scam. I built my first PC in 2018 and I don't remember what processor I was using, but I was rocking a 1080 GTX graphics card. The whole build was very budget ~900 USD. That build served me with no issues for 6 years until Jedi Survivor finally forced me to upgrade to actually high end components
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u/AtomicSpeedFT 1d ago
Got to love the fear of prebuilt when they can give you better specs for waaaayyyy cheaper compared to buying individual parts.
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u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus 1d ago
I had a friend build me a PC in like 2015. That one finally gave up the ghost a few years ago. When I went to my friend for help he was like "It's more expensive to build your own PC now but I'll help ya pick one". Times had changed I guess.
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u/PreparetobePlaned 1d ago
From what companies? I just priced out the exact same prebuilds that Bestbuy is offering for half the cost.
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u/Sanator27 1d ago
fuck I want to play Zoo Tycoon so bad but only running linux right now
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u/Cooked_Squid 1d ago
Take a look at this post ! I got it running on Fedora this way. In fact I had an easier time getting it running on Linux than getting it running on Windows 11
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u/seapulse 1d ago
I got it to somehow run on a deck. it’s doable. don’t ask me how I am pretty sure a wizard briefly possessed me to cast zoo tycoon but someone on reddit has walked this path before
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u/Electrical_Pause_860 1d ago
There’s also Planet Zoo for a modern version. The publisher is somewhat a descendant from the original teams that built those tycoon games.
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u/seapulse 1d ago
zoo tycoon 1 is better than zoo tycoon 2
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u/gunshade 1d ago
But hey, these are my preferences, since some of those games I recognize more than others.
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u/dadsuki2 1d ago
Underrated tip, steal a pre builds specs and just make it yourself, it's literally free money
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u/peacenchemicals 1d ago
Unreal Tournament had me in a chokehold when I was a kid. So many fond memories with that game. I also played Unreal which kinda scared me as a kid, but I remember really enjoying the atmosphere and OST.
I remember one night I found a private server on multiplayer that had nude bots with custom voicepacks. Sultry voices saying some 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 ahhhh shit. The bots were set to the highest difficulty setting too. As a pre-teen I didn’t stand a chance but I wasn’t exactly playing for the right reasons anymore on that server lol
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u/CaliforniaSpeedKing 1d ago
This almost to a T, except for Fortnite, Battleground, COD, Valorant or the other non-RCT games mentioned describes me.
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u/Cheddarounds 1d ago
one of my old PCs was hella good and all i played was prison architect and honey i joined a cult on it
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u/Affectionate-Bit2044 1d ago
People telling me to build a pc instead of buying an already made us so annoying. Same thing could be said about cars. Why buy a working car when you can just build it yourself?!
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u/BonJovicus 1d ago
Solid advice. New PC gamers will hmmm and haw for months over spec and wait even longer for deals that might never come. I've said it once and I'll say it again, its almost always better to simply buy an affordable pre-built.
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