you know those game consoles on like aliexpress or whatever where it's like
100 games in one but only two of the games are worth playing and they're
illegal copies well that got us thinking
could we do that except good
yes we can but to do so we're gonna need a couple of things first we're gonna
need a powerful gaming pc the size of a
game console check then we're gonna need some games that
don't suck so we called up the crew at gog.com and they agreed to hook us up
with drm free copies of the 500
top selling games on their store plus the dlc for all of those games which
needless to say is a list with some real bangers
so uh let's do this shall we wait there is a twist on this one when
we finish building the rig we are going to give it away with all of
the games pre-installed to one of
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so some of you are probably wondering why the best console is a pc
you must be new here the first benefit is of course
intergenerational compatibility some of you might not know this but gog.com used
to be known as good old games because of their extensive catalog of classic games
that have been tested to ensure that they'll work well even with a modern pc
running Windows 10. and that right there is one of the reasons that a pc is so
great you can play anything from modern aaa titles all the way back to
ancient classics like hugo's house of horrors if you want all right so we've
gone with an rog strix b450i gaming why don't you kick us off with the rationale
for our motherboard choice here it's compatible with this CPU it's the mini
itx version that ASUS has that
if it's in the case this works with it
so here we have a ryzen 5 3600
it's a 6 core goes up to 4.2 gigahertz um i think it only costs 280 bucks it
might even be less now like 200 so yeah it's a great deal yeah and because all
ryzen processors are unlocked there's really no compelling reason that we can
find other than bragging rights to go with one of the x series skus so you
just go with the regular one you overclock it a little bit and you have a
great time well actually i don't know how much
overclocking we're going to be doing on this because this right here is our
cooler this is the nhl9a
am4 so this is knocked to us super low
profile AMD cooler that as you can see
is only about as thick as like
a standard 25 millimeter fan and a half
and our rationale here was of course that we needed something that would fit
in a case that's only about as thick as
3 25 millimeter thick fans not even
but still adequately cool our CPU when i say adequate i mean adequate i don't
mean like overclocking yeah if you want to do overclocking
we have actually a new thing with Noctua coming soon
yeah yeah get subscribed if you want to see that yeah for sure
i'm just going to get in here i guess then hey yeah we could just double team it double clean it well this is kind of
weird i thought the am4
um spacing was offset i must be thinking of thread
ripper now that is a compact six core
gaming machine now one of the arguments against a pc is that they're expensive
and if you're buying all new stuff or if you're building a bit of a
showcase piece that you want to give away and have someone actually feel
lucky for getting it um that is definitely true like this two terabyte
pci express gen 4 m.2 SSD that can do
over 4 000 megabytes a second both reads and
writes probably not necessary for your garden variety gaming pc but
with some second-hand hardware or some compromises to our pricier components we
can easily get things down to a very
reasonable level besides once you get past the upfront
cost pc gaming gets downright reasonably
priced even with our system here which
is over five hundred dollars more than a current gen console
that's only seven games at about 70 bucks apiece and if you want to play
just the latest aaa games i can't help you that much
but if you're willing to play games that are a little bit older
heaps of the games on this list will regularly sell for 50 to 70 off and
their prices are already cheaper on pc sorry about that compared to consoles
for instance hollow knight which is a two-year-old game currently costs 35
on the nintendo switch and although it's worth every penny of
that on pc you can pick it up for 15 bucks and it's been on sale for as
little as nine that means if you own a pc and you purchase hollow knight you
can basically get a t-shirt like this one at lttstore.com
for nothing uh oh this one probably does need the heatsink actually
yeah it's going to need either this heatsink or this one's probably fine
that's a spreader not a sink so the heatsink will actually cool the
drive whereas the spreader is only going to help with short bursts which
realistically is all it'll usually see but
while we are installing 500 games on it
i think we might wish we had the heatsink now input options are another
great argument for pc someday sony might figure out that some
gamers like uncharted but hate the dualshock controller
but until then of course there's a pc on a computer you can use any controller
you want a keyboard and mouse or even something else entirely
so our case and power supply choices were pretty straightforward we love the
dr zebra sentry for its tiny tiny size and also its ability to still
fit a pretty dang powerful machine and then Corsair
the 600 watt power supply is again very
very small and capable of outputting 600
watts of power which is far more than we're going to need
i would expect even with capacitor aging this thing is going to last longer than
this computer would you know it's just a computer it's not a
airplane yeah i guess no one dies if we don't do
this correctly no one drives screws in at an angle like i do and of course one
of the other key benefits of gaming on a pc is that it's a pc
computers can be used for all kinds of things like game streaming video editing
cad music creation and so much more so
why don't we get our graphics card installed yeah we went with the 2060 super it has
about the same amount of power as a 1080 yeah so it's not like you're going to be
struggling to play the vast majority of the games in this library but it's also
way more power efficient so we're not going to be struggling to cool the
bloody thing like we did last time we crammed the top end graphics card in
this case yeah so first you got to do one of these
right angle pci express risers go ahead and pop that puppy in there
then we throw this bad boy in here
then i think we actually do need to remove this top panel up here
i could be wrong though because i think it's got extra clearance for bulky
graphics cards let's see
move this up a bit man that is a compact machine just
something about efficiency just turns my crankshaft you know
turns your crankshaft yes we didn't even need any cable ties or anything this
thing is freaking awesome so here's our finished pc we set out with a
few goals one is keeping it console sized and good enough looking to be in
the living room number two was to have decent performance but without going
absolutely crazy because we wanted to show you guys something that has a
pretty solid price to performance ratio and finally
well price performance ratio we wanted to go
overkill on the storage because we wanted to have enough high speed storage
for all of our games and those 500 games
are gonna take up about 1.2 terabytes of
space so i guess without further ado we should
probably get to insta how the hell are we going to install 500 games
so fortunately someone on github
created some code that will download all of your games
for you off of gog oh the only problem is that like it's
from github so so no user manual included yep we were
only able to get it working on Linux but that doesn't super matter so we're going
to have all of them installed onto our server then we'll just drag it onto this
and last that i checked it had been running for two hours and guess how far
it had gotten ten percent
180 of 500 have been initialized
it hasn't gone through that bit yet it's gonna be a while
so we'll see you guys again on thursday yeah
so it's been two days and they're not quite done yet yeah
there's still 536 gigabytes left of the
1.8 or so terabytes of total stuff that
we had to download now the good news though is that we've already got about
300 plus games so we figure that's enough for us to go through and try some
of them out and then by the time we actually ship out the pc which you guys
can find details for how to win at the link in the video description uh it'll
have everything loaded up and we'll be ready to go uh now is also probably a
great time to shout out good old games for hooking us up with this because
while they didn't sponsor the video or anything um it's alex's understanding
that uh what's the guy's name arthur uh arthur from gog.com uh actually had to
go through and contact all these publishers to get permission to do this
i think they also had to add every single game in this to the account individually
which given how long it took me to install 166 games
probably took them a really long time thanks
so why don't we have a look at some of the games we've got so this is fun i tried to do a quick search
for obs and um
yeah the start menu is basically broken because of how many games we have on
this so should we start with our canon of steamworks and magic obscura sure
this looks like a very old game raised by snake handlers
i need a sword ah this ring seems pretty good
so it's an rpg
you just killed a dog it's a wolf you're a monster it's not the same thing
we're not promising that every gog game is going to be like
up your alley you know i want to have a look at what we have
there's a lot of really big games in here alan wake age of wonders one two
and three assassins creed
bioshock the lesser bioshock thief one to three
terraria cross code is fantastic dragon
age origins is in here crusader no remorse
i bought this game at london drugs when
i was about 10 years old and i wasn't able to play it
because my computer couldn't run it that's rough
actually no it was the sequel wow this is something it's an old game okay
so what are the animations on or off
whoa difficulty level no regret no regret
okay i don't even know what the controls are like
what what the oh geez you just
they really throw you in there that was it okay all right new game let's try
mama's boy space bar space bar the arrow
keys rotate you so you like walk like
that oh you can back off while you sh while you have your gun drawn though
yeah you know what i actually didn't miss out on much i don't think
far cry far cry 2 wasn't as good okay i'm
sounding like an old person well the first one was great second one wasn't that good so speaking of games at london
drugs um i remember seeing the leisure
suit larry games in the land of the lounge lizards
contain some elements of plot which may not be appropriate for some children
how old are you what happens if you say like 12.
to verify you were which is not a mountain range
well a and d are sort of both correct depending on uh
you know how am i supposed to know this
is this like part of the game or is it actually going to lock you out if you
miss another you can't possibly be 33.
oh my god come on
see you're a kid you have got to be kidding me
that's actually fantastic painkiller postal 2
prince of persia oh my god we're playing redneck rampage
this game is so bad what
oh wow no this is a real game brandon this
soundtrack though
where the hell do i go how the hell do i get through here
should we just give up yeah i kind of think so well
so long oh wow the whole witcher series yeah i'm trying to think oh warcraft 2.
there's rayman have you played this game before i have yeah i don't know i don't
believe this guy i want to be rayman tough beans
do we want those things are they good yeah
oh we're able to hit things now great what the heck
keep up losing you're like actually the worst person to play games with
no way Jake oh yeah that is true
jazz jackrabbit two this is unskippable
also i mean no wonder video games had
the stigma it's a party mode yes local play split screen no way
oh wow this is not great
this level is gigantic where you at dog
hey there you are
i can't tell where you are on my screen so i'm using yours what the heck
wait so when we get hit do we shed diamonds
oh so i'm winning now for news and updates visit jazzjackrabbit.com okay
please tell me this is still up oh no
jazz epic games you can get this back online
for us does cuphead have multiplayer i think so yeah how do i
i died
okay i want to try again i think i can do better than that
oh geez dang it are you dead again yeah dang it
partner
all right um
if you just sent me a message he thinks that they've blacklisted our ip which
might have been why this
didn't work are we rolling on this
yeah i guess we'll have to call them up yeah
hey we're not actually trying to ddos you
you gave us a lot of games yeah it's just it's not a distributed denial of
service it's just a regular denial of service 10
gigabit internet okay so last game cross
code it's objectively excellent you're gonna love it
everyone who gives it a fair chance will love it i guarantee it
and what's objectively great too is
the console pc now i want to acknowledge
that you know what most of these games don't have a great
two-player couch multiplayer experience something that more traditional game
consoles are known for and of course many of the console exclusives that
people are so passionate about are not available for our console pc but
we do have this gigantic game library it was both silent and high performance the
entire time we used it and well for the one of you who wins it it's
gonna be free oh yeah what else is free
the witcher gog is giving it away free if you sign up so that's cool yeah so
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so we're going to keep this for a little while before we give it away don't we