Reddit user pedro19, creator of the /r/PCMasterRace subreddit
we're a serious group dedicated to the serious and clear advantages of PC over other work and gaming devices, whose only and arguable advantage are artificial restrictions put in place so as to squeeze gamers out of their money. In April 2011 I grabbed it and changed its original meaning, creating a subreddit dedicated to the glory that is to play (and not only) on PC. Who actually prefer games that are temperamental to get running and that have complicated keyboard interfaces, just because it discourages new or 'casual' players who will in some way taint the entire community with their presence. People who invest in expensive gaming PCs and continually spend money to make sure the tech in their brightly-lit tower cases is up to date. "It was intended to be ironic, to illustrate what I perceived at the time to be an elitist attitude among a certain kind of PC gamer.
Croshaw explained that his initial intent in referencing Nazi Germany's master race ideology when he coined the intense term Glorious PC Gaming Master Race was to poke fun at an elitist attitude he perceived among some of The Witcher 's PC playerbase at the time of The Witcher 's release, who had complained about the PC release of the game being possibly negatively affected by the console port of the game: In 2008, comedic writer Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw employed the comedically extreme term "Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" in a Zero Punctuation video-review for the role-playing game The Witcher for the online gaming magazine The Escapist. What quickly becomes obvious is that Witcher is very much a PC-exclusive game, which are typically designed to be as complex and unintuitive as possible so that those dirty console-playing peasants don't ruin it for the glorious PC-gaming master race. Popular imagery, discussion, and media referencing the term also commonly describes console users who prefer consoles over PCs as "console peasants" and people who play on PC as the "Glorious PC Gaming Master Race".
In current parlance, the term is commonly used by PC enthusiasts both to describe themselves as a group, as well as their belief in the superiority of the PC platform in comparison to consoles, often citing features like more advanced graphics, higher framerates, free online play, wider variety of games, backwards compatibility, modifications, upgradability, customization, lower cost-over-time, open standards, multitasking, and performance. On the other hand, if I can customize Henry's appearance, I'd probably be able to deal with Henry the protagonist.The PC Master Race (abbreviated PCMR), sometimes referred to by its original phrasing as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race, is an internet subculture, internet community, and a tongue-in-cheek term of superiority for PC gaming used among gamers to compare PC gaming to console gaming. Again, I'd recommend the game to anyone, but I have a unique story I want to tell. I think The Witcher is probably an amazing game! One of the best games in the last fifteen years from what I hear, but customization matters so much to me that I won't get it. I REALLY appreciate the historical setting, realism etc, but there are so many games to choose from, that I'll focus on the games that cater to the things that matter the most to me.įor example: There is a probably a briliant My Little Pony game circulating, but the setting and characters have so little interest to me (personally,) that I wouldn't pick it up.
Everybody has their preferences in games. I will still buy the game, but lack of customization pushes it towards the bottom for me. If I wanted to customize charecters I would play Sims or something. Origineel geplaatst door Billy The Kid:Really, people are that pissed off because you can't make your charecter look the way you want? No wonder why gaming is such crap anymore.