PaigeFTW: My First PC and Me
Labor Day weekend marked a major milestone for me: I built my first gaming PC.
Well, technically, I just held the flashlight while my boyfriend did all the actual labor, but I was present and I paid for the whole shebang.
For years I resisted, arguing that my consoles were more than sufficient for my gaming needs. And they are, really, because my beloved JPRGs rarely if ever come out for PC. Final Fantasy makes its name on PlayStation, after all, not Steam.
But in the end I was won over not by gaming, but by necessity: My eight-year-old laptop was finally creaking to the end of its lifespan, and a tablet just wasn’t cutting it for me. My boyfriend offered to build me a computer, so I decided I might as well make the investment for the best.
The build was pretty smooth, he says, though we did run into a crisis point when we powered up and nothing worked (eventually traced back to faulty RAM, so it’s temporarily running on just 8 GB instead of 16). I’ll admit so far that I haven’t played anything. I’ve mostly just marveled at a computer that doesn’t take 15 minutes to start up. This column is really just a preview of columns to come.
But I have installed a few titles to get started on when I have time:
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which I wanted to play before I spent 200 hours on The Witcher 3, but my computer could only load a frame at a time, so … I had to give up and go into Geralt’s world blind.
The Last Remnant, which I originally played on Xbox 360 when it came out a million years ago. I never finished it because I heard they were coming out with a remastered version for PC. Years later, I can finally play it.
