5 Reasons PC Gaming Is Better Than Consoles

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pezus said:

F0X said:
5 Reasons Why Console Gaming Is Perfectly Fine

1. I like to own games physically, as opposed to owning the license to play them if I've been a very good boy.

2. I hate having to fiddle with graphics setting. On consoles, you know what you're going to get. On PC, figuring out how to best run a game is comparatively complicated, especially if one doesn't want to spend much time or money finding a PC that does virtually everything.

3. A lack of centralization. PC is like hundreds of mini-platforms built into one, and some good games simply aren't available through normal, highly reliable channels. Steam doesn't have everything... yet.

4. Piracy. If there's one thing I hate, it's people who either don't want to pay to play, or are unwilling to play the game on the platform it was designed to be played on. To me, that's pretty shallow. I'll accept a few exceptions, but for the most part, I despise the rampant piracy on PC.

5. The community. Every PC community. Even the nicest communities I've seen are dominated by people who don't deserve to be within a few miles of the nearest computer. Though to be fair, the Xbox community isn't much better. :P

1 Reason I Play PC Games Anyway

1. Mods.

1. Easily solved by cracks. If I ever run into trouble, that's what I'll do.

2. That's so appealing to me. Then again, I like fiddling around with everything I have.

3. True enough. This is one thing that can annoy me a bit, especially what EA did with Origin.

4. I don't see how that affects your enjoyment of PC gaming though. Wii and 360 have pretty rampant piracy too.

5. I've found most PC communities to be more mature in general than on consoles, although elitism is pretty prevalent in big multiplayer games (SC2, Dota and so on).

1. Easily solved by... illegal methods. I'd rather wait until international law catches up to the digital age.

2. I can see some appeal there, but usually I just want the game to run well. If an "Autoset" feature becomes standard, in which the game automatically makes the graphical settings so that the game runs at a consistent, player-specified framerate, I would be as pleased as punch.

3. Origin is a key example, but generally speaking not having a catch-all hub to play everything is annoying. If Minecraft came out on Steam with all the features the platform provides, I would buy it a second time because of the easy voice chat solution. But not every game I want comes to the platform I want. Which is, incidentally, a console issue as well.

4. Ties into what I said about the community. If there's a greater amount of pirates on PC, it's definitely not going to make me feel better about the platform.

5. Truth be told, any very popular multiplayer game will have it's bag eggs. But honestly, there's a special circle in hell for elitists. Pretending to be a smarter, more mature person through display of gaming prowress? That's idiotic. The best PC communities I've seen are for niche games, which aren't necessarily more fun to play from my experience.

Now, I like PC gaming in general. It has a sort of Wild West, every man for himself charm which is both its greatest strength and weakness. It has a leg up on consoles in some ways, but I think there still is a place for consoles in the hearts and minds of gamers.