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[Gamerforlife]

I've said this before, but for me, real video games are console games. Now let me clarify. I know there are great games on PC and that it is a great format for games, but it's just that when I think of video games I think of consoles. All my gaming nostalgia is tied up in console gaming and when you look at gaming in our culture, so much of it is console games. When you mention games to most people they think of Mario, Sonic, Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto, Halo, Donkey Kong....all console games. They just have a larger presence in our culture aside from a few PC games like World of Warcraft and all that MMORPG stuff

Also, I just love how consoles for many years existed SOLELY to play games. That's not true so much these days, but it was true for many years. I have always loved that about consoles. They were gaming machines. When I look at a console, I think video games. When I look at a computer, I think email, facebook, internet surfing etc. In a weird way this makes me enjoy games more on console because I feel like I am playing games the way they are meant to be played. Playing a game while sitting in front of a desk and holding a mouse in my right hand just feels wrong. I feel like I should be checking my email or something, not playing a video game. It just FEELS wrong

I just don't view PCs are gaming devices. They are just machines that HAPPEN to be able to play games but it's not a PC's raison d'etre and that makes it a little less fun to play stuff on a PC for me. Don't get me wrong though, I have played some great stuff on PC like Lucasarts adventure games or Starcraft, but the experience of playing games is just always more fun and satisfying for me when I playing something on a console. I think I have a very japanese point of view in this respect as PC gaming is barely existent over in Japan

[J T]

I like consoles better when they are dedicated gaming machines that run smoothly and quickly every time. The newer consoles are kind of bogged down by some of their added functionality in my opinion. It was easy enough to hook up my laptop to me TV, so I use that for streaming netflix and all that, so I don't really need my game machine to do that. I like the old consoles though because you hardly have any load times and you just jump right into playing without having to go through startups and flash screens and passwords and all that.

I like having lots of functionality too, but that just seems more the domain of PCs in my mind. If I want to play online, chat, patch and modify the game, etc. I just would prefer to do it on a PC which is designed to do everything, gaming included.

I only became a PC gamer though because I needed a laptop, so I figured I might spring a little extra for the nice graphics card. Then I found out Steam and GOG games are cheap, and I was fully sold.

[JordanPlayer]

My computer needs a costly and time-intensive upgrade to play anything made in the last 12 months.

This used to be true, however the rapid pace of technology has slowed a bit. Combine this with the fact that consoles are the main video game focus; graphics in games just aren't being pushed like they used to since only the PC will benefit after a certain point. I built my PC nearly 3 years ago and it still plays current games perfectly fine and hasn't had any hardware upgrades. You could pop in a newer graphics card for a few hundred and it would last a few more years.

To me it feels like FPS and RTS games are built for PC. I understand that tons of FPS games have arrived on consoles; but if you have ever seriously gotten into FPS games with keyboard and mouse there is just no going back. The controller is "good enough" but it just doesn't have the same precision. I don't think there's even a debate about RTS; it's always been best on the PC and usually requires a major interface/control overhaul to arrive on consoles. Aaaaand if you really wanted you could get a controller for your PC... people make this sound hard but it's really just plugging it into your PC and installing a program.

[D.D.D.]

I like both but I gave up on PC gaming a long time ago. I still play older PC games but the constant upgrading really got tired. I can deal with every 5 years or so for a new console but I just don't want to deal with configurations, physically installing stuff, etc.
I play console games to just play and that's it.

[J T]

I like both but I gave up on PC gaming a long time ago. I still play older PC games but the constant upgrading really got tired. I can deal with every 5 years or so for a new console but I just don't want to deal with configurations, physically installing stuff, etc.
I play console games to just play and that's it.

I feel like the need to regularly upgrade your PC has gone down a lot in recent years. The change in graphic capabilities with each new graphics cards isn't the "leaps and bounds" kind of difference that it used to be because things are kind of leveling out. Also, companies are designing games to be payed across both console and PC, so they don't push the boundaries of the PC as much as they used to as when PC was more of the top dog.

I've been playing on the same laptop for several years and I can still play most of the new games that come out, and my machine definitely wasn't a top machine when I bought it. It may not be worth the investment to get into PC gaming if you are buying your PC just for gaming, but if you need a new PC or laptop anyway, then it's definitely worth the extra few hundred it will take to make it gaming capable.

[ZeroAX]

My question is, for all the "jokes" on the internet about the "PC gaming snob elite", why are these threads always started by people who prefer console gaming? Not talking about this thread, but in general the attitude in console heavy sites (which is 99% of English speaking gaming sites), where many console fanboys need to bash on PC gamers. (who knows, maybe they're that desperate to see their console become the ultimate gaming machine)

Anyway, totally different beasts, totally different games, totally different value. Just please, no more "I don't game on PC cause they are hard to set up/ I need a 1500$ PC to play games(ffs with half that money you get an uber gaming PC) / I need to constantly upgrade my PC to play the newest games", cause those problems are waaaaaaaaaaay outdated and you just look misinformed. And there's nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't present it as a fact.


Just have to say, if you want original games at great prices the PC is where it's at.

[Balasubbie]

Interesting note: Every PC gamer, without exception, that I grew up with has made the jump to console gaming, and again, every one of them, without exception, went with an XBox.

[ZeroAX]

Interesting note: Every PC gamer, without exception, that I grew up with has made the jump to console gaming, and again, every one of them, without exception, went with an XBox.

Probably cause when Microsoft entered the console race, its only connections with 3rd party developers were with PC game developers.

[Erik_Twice]

Main reason for me is money. Console gaming is a lot cheaper with the average brand-new console costing $300 to $400 and the average gaming PC costing $1200 or more.

Nobody pays 1200 dollars for an "average gaming PC". In the PC section of this forum we just helped Frizz.Master to get a computer with triplehead support and the total price is 360 pounds.

I never paid more than 500€ for any of me computers either.

In the end those who said that they need to upgrade their computers every years are simply misinformed and wrong.

[D.D.D.]

I like both but I gave up on PC gaming a long time ago. I still play older PC games but the constant upgrading really got tired. I can deal with every 5 years or so for a new console but I just don't want to deal with configurations, physically installing stuff, etc.
I play console games to just play and that's it.

I feel like the need to regularly upgrade your PC has gone down a lot in recent years. The change in graphic capabilities with each new graphics cards isn't the "leaps and bounds" kind of difference that it used to be because things are kind of leveling out. Also, companies are designing games to be payed across both console and PC, so they don't push the boundaries of the PC as much as they used to as when PC was more of the top dog.

I've been playing on the same laptop for several years and I can still play most of the new games that come out, and my machine definitely wasn't a top machine when I bought it. It may not be worth the investment to get into PC gaming if you are buying your PC just for gaming, but if you need a new PC or laptop anyway, then it's definitely worth the extra few hundred it will take to make it gaming capable.

I know the "need" has gone down these years but it still doesn't take the upgrading factor completely out of the equation. I'm sure your laptop plays a lot new games just fine but perhaps it's an OCD factor for me that needs to play games at their best possible quality rather than something less.
There are just too many things to upgrade or replace in PCs that have made consoles all the more appealing to me in the last 10 years. I played the upgrading game for too long. If I had a decent video card in my new PC (i5 [email protected], 4GB RAM, SSD OS drive) I know it'd be fine right now for many games but by the time another few years have passed, it won't just be the video card that needs upgrading and that is reason enough for me to stick to consoles.