I have always wondered of what the VGChartz community thinks of PC gaming and Steam.

For me, I use Steam and have quite a few games from the summer sales.

I play more on Steam than on any other console(3DS comes close, though). Unfortunately since my desktop PC's motherboard fried I can only play on my notebook so the experience is kinda disappointing, but, anyway, I have over 40 games on my Steam account, it's IMO the best place to buy games since you can get some big discounts a few months or years after the game's release.

PC gaming is and will always be the best gaming experience for multiplats. Framerate, resolution, control response, etc... Unfortunately, in order to have a PC able to run the games to come (The Witcher 3, for example), you have to spend quite some money.

And as for Steam... I absolutely love them, but dem sales man... My wallet cries everytime.

PC Gaming is awesome. I've recently bought a new PC and playing all the new games at Ultra/High settings is absolutely amazing. My only con with PC gaming is the fact that after a few years, you're hardware gets old, and without the optimizations the consoles get, the games will have low framerates, which ruins the exprience for me.

As for Steam, there's absolutely nothing to be said. it's an amazing service. Cheap games and no paying for online.

I used to be primarily a PC gamer with consoles on backup from mid-'90s until late '00s. In about 2010 stopped PC gaming for the most part except for the occasional exclusive or classic games. Cheating is outrageous and all over the place. Also, at least for shooters, I feel that using the mouse and KB almost leads to a plateau where a huge group of people in a given community basically become the exact same maxed out level of talent and it leads to every game becoming a twitch "who saw who from behind first" spam war. Nowadays I prefer the more casual setting of the console primarily. Also, call it what you will, but I think playing shooters with a controller is much more challenging and leads to better multiplayer and actually dying in singleplayer. It is somewhat difficult to get a comfortable setup in a living room in front of 60 + inch TV's as well, IMO.

That being said, PC gaming is awesome in some ways. Games run better, they look better, they are cheaper to buy. The communities generally have more dedicated followings and far less children. There are many mods that are so great and fun they dominate the original released games. There are more games that use dedicated servers so the communities last longer. Backwards compatibility is not an issue and generally will go back forever. PC hardware can be overclocked. There's more but those are main points I can think of...

It's meh. I don't hate it, I just prefer simplified gaming. I wouldn't like to regret buying an AMD graphics card when certain games performs better with an Nvidia card. Or that some unknown error won't let a friend connect with me on Warframe, while I have to do the missions with rushers.

Steam is good with all the sales and discounts, but it's not for me. I've played most of the heavily discounted games on PS2/PS3 already, except the exclusive MOBAs and MMOs I'm not interested about.

Extremely more relevant than many would like you to believe, but if you don't have a powerful enough PC, its no place for AAAs. As a platform, its strange because it has such a wide spectrum, from computers that are basically calculators to super computers, even smartphones are more or less closer together when compared.

Watch_Dogs nearly melted my GPU at 15 fps, while Skyrim for me runs at a smooth 30, with mods and all that jazz.

Steam is a place for new developers, indies and big developers to show off their best efforts, it gets far more content than the consoles can dream. But it has issues...

As Killinger said, dependent on your machine, it's filled with 'Early Access' unfinished games charging you for it, there seems to be little in the way of Quality Control over the games released too.

On PC gaming as a hold, I think it's good, helps push the consoles to develop better technology to keep up at least. Just a shame the community is filled with elitists. :P

This aid, I have bought 1 PC game ever, Witcher for like £1.70. I've only ever (still do only ever) played Free Weekends, Freebies and Free 2 Play games on PC (My laptop ain't handling most modern games at minimum so why bother).

I'm interested, the problem is if got into it I would want a PC that offered significantly better graphics than a PS4 (as in 1440p60 in demanding AAA titles), and the cost of building a machine that can do that, plus a decent monitor is much more than I'm willing to pay, even though once you've made that investment, buying games is often very cheap

Of course as the consoles stay static and PC hardware improves, this will improve the further into this gen we get, but right now I can't quite afford it (still on PS3 and Vita right now)

I would very much like to play Total War though :)

Steam serves a great purpose as a general store covering many publishers/devs for all types of games, I don't think anyone (other than the businesses themselves) can complain about the sales which are tremendous. Beyond that, I'm not particularly a fan of one company having total control over it. But, I've got plenty of Steam games, indies and high budget titles, alike. I think Steam is basically where I go for indie titles, AND, for titles I didn't think were worth $60 originally, but wouldn't mind putting in 5-40 sometime down the line.

For the games I do think are worth $60 though, I tend to retail/preorder.