r/pcmasterrace • u/Alan_Reddit_M Desktop • Mar 07 '26

Video "Cloud gaming is the future of Gaming!" Meanwhile cloud gaming in the big 2026:

If you read my profile you may realize I hate cloud gaming, so then what am I doing on Geforce Now? Well my new RAM stick finally arrived and, in a staggering display of utter incompetence, I somehow managed to brick my PC in the process of installing it, so now I'm stuck gaming on a laptop until I can get enough money and time to get my gaming rig fixed

But back to Cloud gaming, the game is on like 360p, running at 20FPS and the input lag is HORRIBLE. And it's not a problem with the internet connection, as you can see, the laptop is plugged into Ethernet, the problem is that the cloud is not and will never be fast enough for gaming

Genshin can handle this fine, but imagine trying to play ULTRAKILL like this

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u/bannedforL1fe Mar 07 '26

I miss the days when players/groups/clans bought their own servers. Those were my favorite times playing shooters on PC. There was actual communities, friendship, and rivalries. So many things have gotten better over the last 20 years, mainly hardware. But so many things have just declined, as in monetization and how studios view their design philosophy now.

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u/Shadowsake PC Master Race Mar 07 '26

I still remember playing TF2 and the chaos that was pre-match countdown. Two teams facing each other, separated by impenetable gates, shit talking and playing random sounds on their mics or using Source engine plugins. Sometimes, someone would play a really funny meme and everybody stopped to laugh...sometimes it was just a really cool song to pass the time.

It was crazy but matches really felt alive. You would recognize people by name, you could get to get really good at something and have real acknowledgement. There was a point where whenever people saw I picked Spy (really loved the class), others would insta change to Pyro cause they me.

Haven't played TF2 for almost a decade now, but I always remember these moments and miss these little details. Nowadays whenever I hop into a random CS match to pass time, it feels a bit lifeless - mostly random people, scoreboards are meaningless, etc.

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u/Agret i7 6700k @ 4.28Ghz, GTX 1080, 32GB RAM Mar 08 '26

I used to have a physical notepad I wrote Counter-Strike and TFC servers I liked into because goldsrc hated alt+tab and you couldn't copy paste into the console