# PC Gaming general discussion (Gaming PCs, game sales, news, etc...)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** video-games-e-games
**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885 "2021-10-21T07:39:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 30
### Author:  [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/585 "2023-11-04T15:41:31Z")
I have NOT bought a NEW desktop computer in over 10 years.
So I have looked at the PCs recommended in this thread and looked at PCs at my local Wal-Mart the first thing I noticed is NONE of the PCs have built-in optical drives(i.e DVD and/or Blu-Ray drives).
Are they not a thing anymore? Are games and software only available for download now?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/586 "2023-11-04T16:12:42Z")
> [@dorvann](#):
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> Are they not a thing anymore? Are games and software only available for download now?
Pretty much, yep.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/587 "2023-11-07T03:59:59Z")
Pretty good Microcenter bundle (cpu, mobo, ram) going on now for $500 if anyone is in the market and has a local store:
[https://www.microcenter.com/product/5006599/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d,-msi-b650-p-pro-wifi-ddr5,-gskill-flare-x5-series-32gb-ddr5-6000-kit,-computer-build-bundle](https://www.microcenter.com/product/5006599/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d,-msi-b650-p-pro-wifi-ddr5,-gskill-flare-x5-series-32gb-ddr5-6000-kit,-computer-build-bundle)
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/588 "2023-11-10T15:43:12Z")
Well, this is interesting: **Valve is working on a new Steam feature that will let you hide all those weird sex games from your friends**.
> **[Valve is working on a new Steam feature that will let you hide all those...](https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-is-working-on-a-new-steam-feature-that-will-let-you-hide-all-those-weird-sex-games-from-your-friends/)**
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> Or any games, but who are we kidding?
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/589 "2023-11-10T15:50:29Z")
I don’t have any friends on Steam. Or any weird sex games, for that matter.
I see them in the store from time to time but I don’t understand them. From what I can gather most of them are little more than digital graphic novels with the occasional dialogue choice that I doubt has much if any effect on the “gameplay.”
But clearly there is a paying audience for that kind of stuff, so good for them I guess.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/590 "2023-11-10T16:23:10Z")
Oh no no. There are many branching story lines and positions to choose and speed of thrust and location, and sometimes you get to fuck your sister if it was made in Japan and …
I mean… yeah, me too, I don’t play those disgusting things.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/591 "2023-11-10T17:04:13Z")
Huniepop, from probably going on ten+ years ago now, was a fun satirical take on the anime dating game formula with terrible personality characters, amusing dialogue and some fun Match 3 style gameplay (assuming you like Match 3 games). But it also had your naked anime stuff so it’s the one game I can think of with a legitimate “I play it for the plot” angle on a sex game. Everyone on my Steam friends list can just live with knowing that I played it though; it’s not as though I’m Steam friends with my mom.
Back in the day I’d be in game sale threads and places would have bundles of terrible anime visual novels with “Blackmailing My Lust-Crazed Sister” and “Mind Controlling My Mother Into Servitude” which was a big bunch of “No thanks” from me. Invariably, you’d have a couple posters smugly saying how _tame_ those games were and if we only knew… Sorry, weirdo dude, I’m not going to feel all bad and vanilla that I drew the line somewhere well before non-consensually doinking my immediate relatives.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/592 "2023-11-12T18:09:43Z")
Whoever is naming Call of Duty games needs to be taken out behind the woodshed and shot.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/593 "2023-11-13T16:00:05Z")
Yes reusing game titles is highly annoying. Mortal Kombat, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Doom, God of War, Hitman. COD Modern Warfare 3 seems particularly strange, apparently it’s the same characters are the first CODMW3 but different plot?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/594 "2023-11-14T05:18:52Z")
The [Game Award nominees](https://thegameawards.com/nominees/game-of-the-year) are up if you feel like browsing and/or voting. You can log in to vote with a Google, Facebook or Twitter account; no need to make a special account for the site.
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### Author:  [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/595 "2024-01-03T03:09:24Z")
A human finally broke Tetris, with a score of 999999:
> **[13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Ever Beat Tetris](https://www.404media.co/13-year-old-becomes-first-person-to-ever-beat-tetris/)**
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> 34 years after its release on NES, Blue Scuti has become the first human to ever reach Tetris' Kill Screen.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/596 "2024-01-03T04:49:34Z")
> **[34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen”](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/someone-has-finally-beaten-nes-tetris/)**
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> BlueScuti forces the game to crash after 40 minutes and 1,511 lines.
A bit more detail here. It’s not about the score, folks have been maxing out for years. It’s rather about forcing a crash by playing for too long. Very interesting stuff! I didn’t realize that Tetris had never been beaten; I thought the level 29 kill screen just looped forever and was as close to beating it as anybody could get.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/597 "2024-02-25T22:39:24Z")
[Something is very wrong here…](https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/36911/SALE_SALE_November_2023/)
> DEVELOPER: [Hede](https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Hede&snr=1_5_9__2000)
> PUBLISHER: [Hede](https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Hede&snr=1_5_9__422)
> Buy SALE SALE November 2023 BUNDLE (?) ~~$11,999.40~~ $74.40
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/598 "2024-02-25T23:03:55Z")
Appears that all of their titles were originally about $9.99, then about a year ago they raised the prices of everything in their catalog specifically so they can discount it 99%, so it ended up being --surprise!-- exactly the same as the price it was before.
Just look at the price history of one of their games on SteamDB: [https://steamdb.info/app/1902260/](https://steamdb.info/app/1902260/)
Price history for all of their games is the same. Looks like a Russian-based “developer.” Probably full of malware and a money laundering scam to boot.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/599 "2024-04-04T21:42:20Z")
Oh, dear Og! Somebody made a sexed-up open-world game set in the Old West and called it _Deadrock Redemption_.
No link because, y’know, NSFW. The trailer I saw on Steam featured a cum shot before I went elsewhere.
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### Author:  [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/600 "2024-04-05T12:22:46Z")
Some days, we should just nuke us all from orbit…
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/601 "2024-04-05T12:54:17Z")
It’s the only way to be sure.
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### Author:  [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/602 "2024-04-12T19:49:18Z")
I was a bit tired of COD zombies so I fired up Planetside 2 after about 5 years or so. Lots of new vehicles and mechanics as far as I can tell , pretty empty though and so it’s pretty much spawn die rise lather repeat as I am not at all good. Still seems stable and entertaining, just about 8 years too late to have maintained any traction .
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/603 "2024-04-17T20:04:24Z")
I used to play Planetside 2 a lot, but the new systems don’t seem very fun to me. Luckily you can still mostly play the old way and ignore the new stuff.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pc-gaming-general-discussion-gaming-pcs-game-sales-news-etc/952885/604 "2024-06-02T21:40:33Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> [Mafia 4 Reportedly In Development, Being Built In Unreal Engine 5 | Pure Xbox](https://www.purexbox.com/news/2022/05/mafia-4-reportedly-in-development-being-built-in-unreal-engine-5)
There are rumblings that the first official _Mafia 4_ trailer will appear on Friday, 7 June.
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