3rd world PCs are holding back games more than consoles but no one wants to admit it

>>714124409 (OP)
>free game that already runs on toasters
I don't think that's the reason

>>714124409 (OP)
That's from the inflation of cosmetics in shitty online games.
Detail has to be dialed back when you have to load several thousand unique textures and models at once into ram.

third world pcs run tf2 pretty well buddy

>>714124409 (OP)
the right looks better
also it fits the spy's character better, he would look after his guns and not let the paint chip off like that

Hats and the spaghetti code are holding PC gaming back.

Valve merged v_model and w_models to lessen the amount of work on their own end for weapon releases (only need to make one model) and as a clearly wrong approach to optimizing the game when it was a combination of hats not being properly optimized (low LoD models basically don't exist for most/all hats so if they're in your visible area they're rendering everything all at once, there's that infamous story about an old summer hat having more polys than tc_hydro, as in the map) and the 32-bit client reaching its limit
>>714124806
i actually do agree a cleaner finish is better for spy, plus he's a james bond reference and nothing bond would be kitted out with is ever seen soiled or in bad nick

>>714124409 (OP)
>target audience is holding back product made for said target audience
maybe you are not the target audience? why are you complaining about something not made of you?
have you tried playing games you like(visually)?

>>714124409 (OP)
>using the ruger logo on the grip
never noticed before

>>714124409 (OP)
Something fundamentally changed this console generation because now all PCfags do is complain that their console ports don't run on their ancient computers. And that something is Nivida ruining GPU prices by constantly trying to sell to anyone besides people playing video games.

>>714124409 (OP)
i do not fucking care about these meaningless micro details that add nothing to games
fuck off already man

>>714124409 (OP)
Left looks better and runs on 1000x shittier PCs than right.

>>714124409 (OP)
How do you even get the 2007 version in current year. Fake as fuck image.

slap my hand

>>714125338
archive.org

tf2trannies are such a sad joke

>>714125429
RAPED and GAPED by the great bot purge

>>714124409 (OP)
TF2 runs significantly worse than it did at launch so that comment makes nos sense.

>deva are too lazy to make graphics settings
>this is juan deag's fault in the favela

>>714124771
whoosh

>>714125602
Going by TF2 Classic it seems to run about the same to me. Granted my specs are so beefy there's basically no chance any iteration of TF2 would ever run badly.

>>714124409 (OP)
>Gamedevs deving games for 3rd world pcs instead of consoles
what?

>>714124990
They did it so they could implement skins into the game without having to do the work twice for every model.

>>714124409 (OP)
>expects me to believe that people now have worse PCs than back in 2007
What happened with TF2 since 2007 again? Remind me on what consoles the game launched

>>714124409 (OP)
i dont want to talk about it because i have a high end pc . fuck off, poor

>>714124695
spbp
its funny watching people join in tf2c (based on a 2008 build of tf2) and comment about how much better the game looks and how much better it runs than live tf2
they don't realize that no, thats just what tf2 used to actually look/run like back then and the mod authors didn't do shit to it.

I use a Steam Deck

>>714124409 (OP)
>3rd world PCs are holding back games
Historically every game in the past 10 years was being downgraded for consoles. You cannot revisionist history your way out of this one consoletard.

>>714125121
Anyone who posts this stupid picture has a 2smart4u passive-aggressive smug retard take. every time.

>>714124771
That's the point, numbnuts

>>714127287
>expects me to believe that people now have worse PCs than back in 2007
This isn't actually that surprising of an idea. Cheaper hardware now is almost always worse than better hardware that's old, and the industry has done a lot to shave off performance to the minimum level in order to sell for cheaper.

>its the PCs fault
no its valve adding five billion cosmetics over the years TF2 used to look better AND run better on worse hardware i've owned and since upgrading it's worse in every regard because of shitty fucking strange particle effects

>>714124409 (OP)
Graphics aren't holding games back meaningfully anymore. There's no difference in what you can depict in a 2015 game vs a 2025 game. Making it look better doesn't matter.
When /v/ USED to say consoles were holding games back, it's because used to be stuck with endless corridor shitgames instead of anything complicated or interesting. Consoles got Gears of War, PCs got fucking Crysis. They're meaningfully different games in their detail and the freedom they give the player and the layers of interaction present.
This stratification has long since evaporated, both because most people on PC is a consolefag retard that doesn't care, and because consoles are powerful enough to do whatever in a practical sense now.