Should I get a Steam account?

Gabe has a pretty based take on piracy so I have good will toward valve. The orange box is a must and it will run on literally anything.
 
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It's not like it costs you anything other than a minute of time to just sign up and download the client. Even my boomer dad has Steam and GOG accounts, and I'm pretty sure his PC is still running Windows XP.
 
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Yes for the reasons listed above. Also, you can score some freebies every now and then. This thread stays well updated with freebies, usually provided via Humble Bundle, and some of the members are nice enough to give away extra codes.
 
Follow up question, what emulators should you get? And how does game emulation work?
 
All the cool kids have Epic store nowadays, skip Steam., it will follow the dodo and close soon. I've also heard some great things about uplay.
 
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NO. why would you pay money for video games when you can just pirate them instead? and if you do want to buy games it's always better to get a DRM-free copy.
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Follow up question, what emulators should you get? And how does game emulation work?
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Emulation General Wiki

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If you want to game on PC these days, it's a requirement. For older games, get a GOG account. Steam versions of old games can be iffy. For example, Freespace 2. Need to know your specs first before I recommend any games.

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Depends on what you are looking for in emulation. There's the less accurate ones like Kegafusion(Genesis), Visual Boy Advanced(GBA, GBC, GB), and snes9x. A lot of the newer emulators focus on accuracy, so they will have higher system requirements.

I'd recommend getting an Android tablet and throwing Retroarch on it. Much easier than downloading individual emulators from sometimes shady sites like CNET.

If you decide to download them individually, always make sure to get them from the developer's site. There's often improved forks of popular ones like Visual Boy Advanced. Do not get them from CNET and friends unless that's the only option.
 
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Yes for the reasons listed above. Also, you can score some freebies every now and then. This thread stays well updated with freebies, usually provided via Humble Bundle, and some of the members are nice enough to give away extra codes.
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Site for free game watch: https://www.epicbundle.com/week.php

If you get a steam account (which is free as you know) you'll probably end up like the rest of us.

Hundreds of games/dlc and a shitty completion rate :)

Epic games account (not to be confused with epicbundle) is giving away free games every week. They have been doing this since they put up their store.

You can get some sweet games...if you check every Thursday/Friday...farming simulator 19 is still free until they switch on 2/6.

I have like 58 free games from epic and never spent a dollar there. Good games too.
 
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albertbrown26 really strikes me as someone who doesn't quite know where they are or what they're doing and may or may not be on a hefty dose of prescription medication
 
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With Valve having an almost complete monopoly on the PC market, they've gotten lazy over the years. Because of that Steam isn't quite the perfect store it was a decade ago. Many parts of it haven't been updated or supported in years, and forcing auction-style microtransactions to access basic client functions like friend limit increases and chat effects is gay as all fucking hell. Since the refund system came into effect the sales are shittier and shittier every year, to the point that I haven't actually made a purchase through the Steam store in years. The developer support is still great of course, and you'll find great prices through things like Indiegala and Fanatical thanks to Valve's code generation policies.

If there's nothing that jumps out at you as a must play, then don't force yourself to use it. GOG 2.0 is a dream and handles old games far better, and a lot of the biggest games have their own launchers. That said however I'd be willing to bet there's something out there you're going to want to play through Steam, in which case it's still one of the best services in town.

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PPSSPP is the apex of emulators right now. Even if you're not interested in the PSP catalog you can still run all sorts of other shit through it. Dolphin is also very feature heavy and almost a mandatory program at this point, but PPSSPP is a Swiss army knife for the lazy and it'll run on almost anything you throw it on.
 
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PPSSPP is the apex of emulators right now. Even if you're not interested in the PSP catalog you can still run all sorts of other shit through it. Dolphin is also very feature heavy and almost a mandatory program at this point, but PPSSPP is a Swiss army knife for the lazy and it'll run on almost anything you throw it on.
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Yeah, no joke, PPSSPP + old emulators for PSP makes for a better general emulation frontend on PC than dedicated shit like Retroarch, because Retroarch is so buggy and full of the most autistic design decisions that it's impenetrable to anyone without enough autism to be declared legally disabled.

Though SNES on PSP never hit 100% compatibility and a lot of games still run slowly on it, so, that's a hairline fracture in its usefulness.
 
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While we're talking Emulators, what's a good one for DS emulation? Every one I try for Pokemon has floor-tearing capabilities.

Re: the OP, Gog and Steam are generally the Meta. Epic games is trying to buy loyalty, but a lot of the base is like Piss Clam further upthread.

But buy games, not launchers. What games are you interested in playing on PC?
 
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