PC GAMING IS BEST GAMING

[Madame Adequate]

All dose 4Xes.
All dose sim/management games.
All dose grognard games.
All dose wargames.
All dose tactical games.
All dose mods (Hello Kaiserreich and Crusader Kings 2: A Game of Thrones and Elder Kings )
All dat Morrowind w/Grafix Extender.
All dose Good Old Games.
All dat emulation.
All dat Dorf Fort.
All dat Aurora.
All dose WRPGs.
All dat Planetside.

PC is mustard race; consoles need to ketchup.

[Shiny]

There are pros and cons to both console and PC games. The big pro for PC to me is that it's cheaper. I prefer playing shooters on PC, but I find playing racing, some sports games, and fighting games on PC too difficult.

[Slothy]

So 7/13 console exclusives, and not all of those are first party.

Actually, if you want to get technical here, of the 7 console exclusives you named, all of them except FFXIII-2 were either made by a first party development studio, or published by a first party company (if nintendo's footing the bill for development, I'd say it's really no different than if they did it themselves really since there's no chance it will be on another platform).

Which actually lends some credence to my point. There aren't many games being released by third party developers under platform independent publishers that are exclusive any more, and I don't expect that number to grow any time soon. If anything, I see it shrinking even more as more Japanese developers become familiar with PC development and have an easier time porting things from systems like the PS4 to that platform. It really is just getting harder for most third parties to be in the AAA game space without casting a wide sales net, and with the success of platforms like Steam and more standardized PC style consoles, getting into that PC space is only getting easier for everyone, even companies that traditionally weren't in that market.

I'm not saying console gaming is going to up and disappear and be irrelevant next year or anything, only that many of the barriers making PC ports difficult in the past are just up and vanishing now.

[Pike]

I went through a heavy console phase from about age... 9-ish to age 17-ish or so (I played on Commodore 64 before that), and while there were some absolute gems back then, I just can't go back now that I'm all PC. I've tried to get into consoles a couple of times since then and I just fail miserably, especially now that they're adding all this fancy stuff like internet access and hard drives and memory cards and trout that I don't wanna set up.

PC is straight forward, you can play with either a controller or a mouse, and you can emulate most of the old console gems. Also it's where all the best strategy games and WRPGs are and those are basically my two favorite genres.

<33333333 PC gaming

[Madame Adequate]

Yeah I'm the same as Pike - I used to be HUGELY into console stuff but now it's almost a chore compared to the astonishing convenience of the PC. I can switch between games from a dozen different systems in seconds, and all of it without losing the ability to browse the Internet/chat/etc. There's not many games I want to play that I ultimately have to go to a console for.

[Loony BoB]

I feel sorry for people who let the platform dictate what they play.

[Madame Adequate]

Oh I agree, whenever people's playing options are constrained by their platform of choice I just shake my head sadly and wonder why they don't just magic up a conversion of every other game ever for the platform they do have

[Del Murder]

I think people choose the platform based on what they play rather than the other way around. I like platformers and JRPGs and those have typically been better on console. I also like action games and WRPGs and those have typically been available on all platforms. I'm not really a big fan of FPS, RTS, or MMOs and those are typically better on PCs. That's why I'm a console boy 4 lyfe.

[Bolivar]

There are no console alternatives for the top tier strategy games. There's really no reason to play a WRPG on a console. Single player shooters are better and there's a plethora of reasons why competitive games of all genres are best on PC. Games are unfathomably cheap.

That's about it, though.

Obviously consoles have a ton of advantages that pwn PCs as well. From someone who's always spent a ton of time on both sides of the fence, I'll let you in on a little secret: Steam really isn't the Gaming Promised Land PC gamers say it is. Did you know there's no way to increase font size in Steam? Or in Valve games like Dota 2? And we're running these things on high resolution monitors, considering we're PC gamers to begin with. Valve exhibits just as much face-palming stupidity as the rest of them, we're just more tight-lipped about it because of how comparatively tiny the Steam community is.

There's nothing like playing a game with a controller on your couch. Mouse and keyboard doesn't work there, I've tried. Sure, you can plug in a controller, not all games support them. Some of the ones that do only support a certain kind (XInput). And have fun editing the .ini config file from your couch when you can't get the right resolution to work on your favorite older game.

PC gaming has a lot of perks. It also has a lot of headaches. Oh, and no Valkyria Chronicles

[Pheesh]

I'll let you in on a little secret: Steam really isn't the Gaming Promised Land PC gamers say it is. Did you know there's no way to increase font size in Steam? Or in Valve games like Dota 2? And we're running these things on high resolution monitors, considering we're PC gamers to begin with. Valve exhibits just as much face-palming stupidity as the rest of them, we're just more tight-lipped about it because of how comparatively tiny the Steam community is.

Is...is that it? Steam is bad cause you can't change the font size?

[Madame Adequate]

I'm sorry but if that doesn't prove that Steam is the nefarious work of a demon so vile Satan exiled him from Hell, I don't know what to say. *snip*

God, MILF, you can't just ask people that. -Shlup

But I wanted to know

[Pheesh]

I don't know yet, there's a massive line

[DMKA]

I find it funny that PC MASTER RAAACCCE gamers find it necessary to go out of their way and desperately attempt to prove to everyone else that their platform of choice is really superior, and 99% of the time they go on about one thing and one thing only: "HEY GUYS LOOK HOW HIGH THE RESOLUTIONS OF THESE SCREENSHOTS ARE!"

I could go out of my way to explain why I find playing on consoles a preferable, more pleasurable experience, but I'm too busy having fun actually playing games, unlike the proud master race.

So uh...yeah, enjoy being "superior".

[Pike]

I could go out of my way to explain why I find playing on consoles a preferable, more pleasurable experience, but I'm too busy having fun actually playing games, unlike the proud master race.

Uh... I play games for fun too? Like what is the point of playing a game if not for fun

[Pheesh]

Pfft, no, you're probably just alt+tabbing out of the game every 5 seconds so you can tweak all your graphical settings and lord it over console gamers, damn elitist PC 'gamer'.