Sometimes I wonder what the thought process behind the gaming aesthetic was. RGB (*if tunable) itself is fine and adds a nice opportunity for personalization, but are those tacky fonts, crystal-facet enclosures, and overall showiness just tasteless or do any gamers actually prefer that look?
Generally I’m not a fan. Personally I like cold, unassuming industrial stuff.
Something like
OR
You might like the aesthetics of https://sharge.com/
Wheres the first img from btw?
Can’t remember =\ may have to reverse search it
I would prefer basic, subtle, black. I don’t want rainbows and lights. I’m very function over form.
I’d also rather play a game on medium settings where it runs flawlessly and doesn’t make the fans go hard, than at high settings with worse performance.
yeah i like the gamer aesthetic
I turn that shit off asap. I’ll put cool stickers on my case or use a low backlight for the keyboard but otherwise why would I want a bunch of distractions from the screen?
I am but a single humble meatbag that enjoys games and can’t speak for all gamers, but I generally dislike the typical “gaming rig” aesthetic. I don’t want RGB lights. I don’t like ostentatious looking cases or accessories. I do find it tasteless, to reuse your term.
No sleight on those that do though. If that’s your style, then enjoy it!
I liked the transparent/translucent electronics trend of the 90s and early 2000s, the transparent blue PS2 and green original Xbox models were great.
The modern gamer RGB aesthetic with RGB everything and the jacked up PC cases? I hate it, I think even the light bar on the PS5 is too much. And the new Xbox, I don’t even know what it’s called series something, it looks terrible.
the transparent/translucent electronics trend of the 90s and early 2000s
I’ve been feeling nostalgic for this look lately. I really like how it emphasizes the artificial nature of the device in question and invites you to think about how it works and how it was put together - while minimalist electronics do exactly the opposite, almost as if you’re embarrassed about owning it and want to pretend that it’s not there.
Personally I prefer for my computer to be an unasuming silent black box that sits under my desk. I go out of my way to remove any lights that I can. RGB for computers seems like lowering for cars. Some people like how it looks but at the extremes it gets really impractical.
I don’t like the aesthetic but a lot of my stuff is “gaming” branded for functionality reasons (eg high refresh rate monitor; mice with extra buttons; the mech kb I wanted happened to be gaming branded but I would’ve bought a keyboard with same specs and price that was not gaming branded). The gaming aesthetic is a bit weird when you think about it.
I’m pretty sure the trend didn’t come from nowhere, although like every other fashion most adherents wouldn’t have necessarily chosen it in a vacuum.
Whether that makes the preference less valid is an interesting question of it’s own.
On the contrary. I want my device to be as out of the way and unobtrusive as is possible.
Some gamers do. Like most humans they are attracted to bright, flashy patterns of colors. (most animals actually are). But most mature gamers I know, would rather put some money in better equipment, than flashy colors. So, gamers are as different as the rest of us. Some are caught by the hype, some are not. You see it in cars too. Some like bling, som focus on the actual car.
Me? I like RGB in my keyboards backlight. I don’t like it to flash, but I like to make it an orange/reddish color, because that’s easy on the eyes, when using your computer at evenings or nights. That’s about it.
I do the same but with blue lights on everything. No patterns, color-changes, or whatever - just everything on a low, static blue
I’ve been a PC gamer for 32 years now. I do enjoy having a clear side panel. I’ve had one for 22 years. That way you can show off whatever you have inside. I don’t use RGB or any kind of lighting. I just think clear electronics are cool, you can see how they are made.
Fuck no. It’s all disgusting.
I just want rainbow transparent tech back. Let me feel like I am still in the early 2000s.
back in my day those were case mods. i disable that shit immediately
I bought RGB crap once. It stayed on while the PC was in standby mode. Never again.
