#you might as well ask why the pc port of batman arkham knight was such a shitshow when mortal kombat 11 ran without a hitch

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Okay so I could be wrong, but I think Harley Quinn was the first one of these big adult animated shows based on what is ostensibly an "all-ages" franchise. Like Batman can be dark and edgy and broody, but he's also a comic book character beloved by children the world over y'know. Batman is equal parts The Brave and the Bold and groundbreaking Alan Moore graphic novel.

Harley Quinn turns that into something where everyone says fuck and there are jokes about blowjobs and fucking and shit, and we got that fiasco about Batman not being allowed to talk about giving head to Catwoman. It was pretty well-received, and it did the whole "adult cartoon" thing without the trappings you might expect from Family Guy or something.

So with that established, imitators followed. Marvel tried the same format with a MODOK show (which they cancelled, possibly to make room for the CGI human head balloon in Quantumania). There was apparently a Deadpool show in the works that would tread similar ground, but it got cancelled. Masters of the Universe got a grittier sequel/reboot series called Revolution that upped the violence and the stakes of the conflict for an adult audience.

More adult spins on all-ages/kid-focused franchises have been coming out ever since Harley Quinn hit it big, and while quality is mixed (people fucking HATED MotU:R, though granted there was a bunch of dumb alt-right horseshit in the backlash, while MODOK was apparently pretty okay), there's been a fairly consistent niche of these sorts of shows since 2019.

So then Velma comes out to universal disdain, being a show that's irreverent to a fault - it throws characterisation out the window for the sake of being snarky. It feels less like a Velma show and more like a show that banks on Velma calling people skanks and incels as the source of its humor, in its reception if not the actual content of the show. From what I've seen, it's considered the nadir of this "adult animated retool" trend compared to Harley Quinn's peak.

Scooby-Doo is a franchise that's owned by Warner Bros.

Batman is also a franchise that's owned by Warner Bros.

How in the flying fuck did the same company get the same trend so right, and then proceed to get it so wrong?

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20 Ways Console Gaming Is Better Than PC Gaming

http://www.rantgizmo.com/2015/03/14/15-ways-console-gaming-is-better-than-pc-gaming/?imported=true#slide_41

And it’s one of those lists where each item is on a separate page because muh ad revenue...which doesn’t work when you have an adblock running so lol

20. AAA TITLES

..of which the PC also gets. Outside of console exclusives like the Halo or most of the Metal Gear games, the triple A titles that come out on consoles also come out on PC. The Assassin’s Creed games, GTA, Mass Effect, Bioshock, etc.

Let's face it, big-name video game companies put more focus on AAA titles in console form. What usually winds up happening is that AAA games get ported onto PC without really taking into account the proper adjustments needed to make the game work. The result? Games that have poor performance when compared against their console counterparts.

Actually very few games have a hard time getting ported into PC. For every Batman Arkham Knight, there’s at least 5 games that were ported over to PC without issue. The reason the bad ports are so memorable is because ‘game port was a disaster’ sticks with you a lot easier than ‘game port had no issues’.

19. CONTROLLERS

The vast majority of PC gamers use their mouse and keyboard to play their games, and while there are controllers now for PC, these are cheap knockoffs of XBOX models. If you like carpal tunnel, feel free to go mouse and keyboard, as gaming marathons of using WASD (to move) and the mouse (to look) will seriously mess you up.

Indeed, there are cheap controller knockoffs that aren’t as good as the XBox controller. That’s why sitting on top of my PC case is an XBox controller than I can freely use with whatever games it’s compatible with. Personally I’m not the best at using a mouse and keyboard for most games and rely heavily on the controller. 

but here’s the thing. On PC, you can not only use a controller, but you can use any controller you want. XBox, Playstation, and heck people managed to make their Wii remotes work with their PC.

So now with that new information, what this point actually comes down to is “PC gamers have the option of only using a mouse and keyboard while us console gamers are only allowed to use one controller. Suck on that, mustard race!” 

18. TELEVISION

What sounds more comfortable, lounging on a couch with your video game on your TV or sitting hunched over in front of a computer screen playing that same game? I rest my case.

The couch sounds nice, so it’s a good thing that it’s possible to connect your PC to your television and play games like that. 

17. UPGRADES

If you have an Xbox One or PS4, you can be certain that the game you are playing was created with its abilities in mind. As was stated earlier, PC games (especially the big name ones) tend to get ported over. What this spells for PC gamers is disaster as they then may have to go out and buy a bunch of upgrades (graphics card etc.) to play the game properly. This update issue also applies to the next slide...

Let me tell you a little story. 

I’ve owned the same laptop PC for half a decade now. I bought it because I wanted to keep playing video games but was going to move to a dormitory which if you’ve heard the horror stories, you know has as much space as a North Korean prison cell. Suffice to say, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to set up a console and even if I could, with everything going on in my life, it would have been too much to set one up anyways.

So I bought a PC gaming laptop and it served me well since 2012. It was even able to play Fallout 4 on medium settings. Now the one game it wasn’t able to play was Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and that was the point where I realized that the computer was starting to get out of date. 

Now if I had bought a proper rig from the start or built it myself as I’ve done recently, I could have fixed that issue by just buying the parts I need upgraded and replacing the outdated parts. I wouldn’t need to but all the parts from scratch and set things up every time one aspect of it falls behind.

That’s the situations console gamers are in and always will be. You can’t open your console and replace outdated parts and heaven help you if one piece of machinery dies, you’ll probably have to buy a new console entirely. 

Even though the PC needs to be upgraded, and rarely at that, the fact that you only need to replace one thing rather than the entire thing all over means you’ll keep getting the most out of your hardware for a long time. 

16. COST

All of those upgrades cost money, and while buying consoles is not a cheap endeavor, once you have the unit it is going to last you for years. Unless you are telepathic, as a PC gamer you do not know what games coming down the turnpike may push your system too far (thus causing a need for more upgrades).

I’ve always been the kind of person who if I buy something expensive, it’s something I use almost every day. I play video games almost every day so the price wouldn’t bother me too much. Getting good frame rate and graphics on the PC isn’t too hard. If you have an older PC, most of the time you might have to adjust your graphics down to console levels. Unless you’re the kind of person who absolutely needs the best hardware every time the latest comes out, you’ll be playing pretty well for a few years before you decide it’s time to upgrade just as I have. 

15. PATCHES

Any patches needed to update your gaming experience for consoles are downloaded automatically. Not so with PC games. In that case, you have to download and install these patches manually. Boo.

Not only is that false, as on Steam updates are downloaded automatically, but even if that were the case how hard is it to press the ‘ok’ button when a popup comes up asking if you want to download the patch? 

I love how the background image for this is lines of code

As if to imply that downloading patches on PC is something that requires you to understand coding. It’s not. Again, at worst a popup will appear when you click the game saying it’s outdated and needs a patch and you just click ‘ok’. Maybe you have to type your password in. Big fucking whoop it’s as easy as logging onto Twitter. 

14. EXCLUSIVE TITLES

Be honest, would you rather play ARMA III or Halo Reach? PCs have exclusive titles...but they pale in comparison to the exclusive games on consoles.

I’d love to play Halo on PC but Microsoft are greedy fucks. You shouldn’t be touting console exclusives as a reason consoles are better than PC, you should be opposing them. If you’re a PS4 user but want to play Halo, tough shit. You’re going to have to buy a whole new console and go through all the business of setting up and plugging in. It’s not just something that affects PC gaming. 

13. HACKING AND MODDING

Without a doubt hacking and modding occurs with online console gaming, but it is much more rampant in PC gaming. At worst you will have to worry about Distributed-Denial-Of-Service attacks on servers (like the Lizard Squad attacks on PSN) for console gaming. With PC gaming you never know what you can expect, you'll be lucky just to get DDOS'd.

Raise your hand PC gamers: how horrible was the last hacker you’ve encountered on an online match? Was it so bad you only wished you could have been DDOS’d in place of the sheer inhumane shit the hacker did to you?

Oh, wait? It was just a sniper on TF2 using an aimbot? You got the enemy team to kick them? Oh, ok. Never mind. 

There’s hackers on PC and there’s hackers on console. Anything super sever is going to be super rare because the vast majority of people are just playing online to play video games and not cause trouble. 

12. QUICK ONLINE GAMES

It takes no time at all to find a server to play on when you go online with your console. The same cannot be said with PC games.

On console games, they typically use a matchmaking system. I remember that when I had a console and at times it could take several minutes to find a match. One of the reasons I hated the Meet Your Match update for TF2 was because it incorporated a matchmaking system that was like consoles where you had to sit around and wait for a match to be found rather than just scrolling through a server list and picking one yourself. 

Finding a game on console can be anything but fast. I’d rather you spend your time advocating for a better system of finding matches in general than trying to claim that playing the waiting game is somehow superior to anything PC has. 

11. GRAPHICS

Naturally consoles have superior graphics capabilities compared to PCs. You would need a PC with an extreme amount of upgrades to match the same level of graphics found on the PS4 and Xbox One.

As I’ve said earlier, even a meh-ish PC that was built a few years ago is able to hold up to consoles. This is simply false. 

10. MEDIA OUTLETS

While it is not fair, the fact remains that video games receive much more attention in console form from the media (both gaming sites and mainstream media). It should be noted, however, that coverage can be both positive and negative (like when Kotaku and other gaming "news sites" threw the entire gaming community under the bus based on straw-man arguments...really just to divert attention from their own journalistic failures).

#GamerGate 

The thing about video game journalists is that they’re obsolete. You’re able to get as good of an understanding or better from watching a review of it on Youtube like TotalBiscuit or a let’s play of it. But props for being pro-gamer in the face of the shitheads at Kotaku. 

9. EASIER SET-UP

Consoles are much more friendly for the less tech-savvy in terms of set-up. It's a fact.

If you’re building a PC from scratch, yes. Of course actually putting the parts together is going to be more difficult. But if you’re buying one pre-made, it’s about as easy as consoles. For my own PC, there’s wires from the rig connecting the mouse, keyboard, and hdmi cable to the monitor. There’s also one wire going from the rig and one from the monitor going to an outlet. It’s no more complex than connecting wires around with consoles to a TV. 

8. MORE DEMAND

There is simply more demand for the console game market to push out units quicker. If the game is multi-platform, it is pretty much guaranteed that consoles will get the game first (Grand Theft Auto 5 is a great example of this).

Most games that come out on consoles tend to also come out on PC at the same time. Unless you’re an impatient child who can’t wait a bit longer for a game to come out, this shouldn’t be too difficult. 

7. FUTURE

Game developers as a whole treat consoles as the future, not PCs. This does not seem to be shifting any time soon.

How so? What do they say exactly? Consoles have existed for gaming since the 1980s and are nothing new. 

6. CONSOLES ARE FOR GAMING

The reason why consoles are better than PCs for gaming is simply this, consoles are FOR playing video games. Look at it like this, a smart phone may have other capabilities (like internet) but its ultimate purpose is communication. In the same manner consoles have other features (Netflix apps etc.), but their main purpose is to play video games. For PCs, the converse is true. Games are a tacked-on function, not a primary function.

The PC I built was made specifically with gaming in mind as was the laptop PC I owned before that. In any case, even if PCs aren’t made exclusively for gaming, that doesn’t mean they’re worse for gaming than consoles. PCs still handle graphics, frame rate, and customization better than consoles. It also ruins your point when you mention that consoles are shifting away from gaming only which is something PC has achieved from the start. On the same machine I could play a video game, post on Tumblr, watch some porn, and then watch some movies. 

If it was found out tomorrow that Trump’s tiny hands could assemble nanomachines better than the equipment actually used to assemble nanomachines, companies would start shifting their designs toward being more like his hands. 

5. PC MASTER RACE

If you ever want to have any sort of participation in the gaming community, get ready to mix it up with these snobs. Everything is a spitting contest with them, and deviation is heresy. They don't just disagree with you, they question your mother's virtue. If you thought the kids on XBox Live were bad, you haven't seen a thing. Remember, these are the troglodytes that brought us GamerGate.

Oh you were so close with the video game journalist stuff and yet, you fall so far away. 

Where were you during the console wars? Like in the 90s it was between Nintendo and Sega and they actively took potshots at each other in their own commercials. “Sega does what Ninten-Don’t” is just an official version of the “PS3 has no games” memes. For every gaming system, there will be assholes and while the whole “PC Master Race” thing can get obnoxious, it’s certainly no worse than the crap console gamers spit at each other. 

4. CENTRAL MEDIA CENTER

Plug your console into the TV and you've got all your media right there, no sweat. Streaming apps, movies and music, whatever you've got. You don't have to mess with another device like a Chromecast. Right out of the box, your console is already a media hub. PCs have to cobble something together and hope for the best.

I want to watch movies, Youtube video, porn, write a blog post, then a note to an online friend, and of course, play video games. What’s easier? Using a computer with a mouse and keyboard and access to the internet that I only need to pay for once or using a console where trying to type things in is a chore and you have to pay for the internet twice, once for the actual internet and the other for the console to be able to access it. 

Steaming can be tricky, from what I’ve heard because I haven’t done it before, but there’s gotta be good guides on how to do it and easy set ups. Literal goddamn children are able to set up livestreams. 

3. THERE'S A WIDER COMMUNITY

Most of your (normal) friends have consoles, because they're more prevalent in mainstream society. If you want to play with the hardcore crowd, they're there. But if you just want to have a casual game with a regular person who won't call you names spelled with punctuation, that won't happen with PC games. As well as everything in between. Being more social with more people is a good thing.

Jokes on you, pal. I don’t have any friends. 

But weren’t you just mentioning in your 5th point that when playing console, you run the risk of having some kid insult your mother? Like XBox Live has the stereotype that you’ll run into a kid saying he fucked your mother. And if consoles are made for gaming, would that not more likely attract the hardcore crowd than something not exclusively made for gaming? And even the premise of having more people around means it’s more likely you’ll run into assholes. 

You can have plenty of casual games on PC. Nothing about the system means you can’t play games for the sake of fun.

Also apparently a bunch of friends owning gaming PCs and playing together isn’t normal...as opposed to a bunch of friends owning consoles and playing together. Indeed...

2. IT'S A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD WHERE SKILLS ARE WHAT MATTER

So in other words, a more hardcore mindset which previously you said could only be found on PC.

When you play on a console, you only have to worry about getting beat by another player -- not a better machine. Play on a PC and you might be going up against some weirdo that dropped ten grand on a computer since they don't have to spend it on a girlfriend. Play on a console, and it's skill vs. skill. Not skill vs. disposable income.

I like how vitriolic this guy is getting. First friends who play PC together aren’t normal and now PC gamers have no gf. It’s true for me, but aren’t you the guy who claimed that PC is the platform where you’ll get these kinds of insults? 

Just like on consoles, with PC having a good internet is usually the defining factor rather than how expensive the rig is. No idea where this guy got this information but it’s wrong. 

1. IT'S MORE CONDUCIVE TO BEING SOCIAL IN THE REAL WORLD

Couch, TV, friends.... add some snacks and beer, you've got yourself a good time. Consoles have and will always be better for playing friends in the real world. PC gamers sit by themselves with their own terminal, alone. You can't have a few friends over for a Madden tournament if all you have is a PC.

What’s a LAN party?

This article was dumb.