What a load of bull crap. You completely ignore the fact that you can play most console games on PC anyway (and even more with an emulator).

I'll take it from the other angle:

You can't call yourself a true gamer unless you've exhaustively played PC games at some point in your life. On the other hand, you could spend your whole life playing console games, and you've never seriously played an RTS, or a traditional style RPG, or a FPS with proper controls, or an amazing user-created mod (e.g. Counterstrike), you can't seriosuly call yourself a videogamer. You can perfectly game on PC and forget about consoles, but not viceversa. If you ignore PC gaming, you miss too much.

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See what I did there? I didn't even mention the graphics advantage.

That the most ridiculous post I have ever read.

I'd sacrifice any console games company for Blizzard any day. Does that tell you something about the quality of PC gaming?

it tells you where your loyalties lie.

For me, Nintendo >>>>>> Blizzard.

However Blizzard is still amazing and I own all their games.

because you can use mods and hack the shit out of games to fly across the map and shit

Why I like PC Gaming more is most likely I grew up on PC gaming...

The only console I owned growing up was a nintendo that broke... but I always had a PC. From playing the first Wolfenstein along with games like Doom, Kings Quest, Tex Murphy etc. Getting the Warcraft 2 battle chest etc. PC gaming was always great!

I even played death match Doom and Decent with a 28.8 modem where you would need to dial your friends house, and I was still in elementary.

Or using a map editor to create Wolfenstein or Doom maps. Which was a hell of a lot of fun.

If I grew up playing more console games I probably would have liked playing consoles more. It's just one of those things... now that I'm older I realize people just like things they're used to but it doesn't make it better or worse. The best for you is what you enjoy most.

PC gaming brings you the best experience because the grafix are better, and sometimes the controls (FPS and RTS).

But it's a hazzle installing and making PC games work. One out of three games will give u lots of trouble before it works properly (doesn't auto-install to the right catalogues, wants to auto-patch even if u dont wanna, needs updated grafix/sound drivers etc).

mods?

Going into the console and typing in a simple command does that :P

It is. I tried the latest beta version and Final Fantasy X runs very well on it comapred to the latest official release where it might run okay in a certain spot and the frame rate takes a dive and the game plays in slow motion (think slow motion frame rate drops in Dynasty Warriors for example).

I don't get his opinion either.  Every genre that's on consoles is also on PC.

There are entire genres either not on consoles or play like shit on them.  (Simulator management games like Baseball Moghul and RTS as examples.)

Yesterday it made me sad this thread exists. Today it makes me angry.

There are many , MANY types of games and communities behind PC games that console users could only dream of. Not long ago, people used PC gaming as a benchmark for up and coming genres and video game trends. You are both a sad and naive person if you can't understand why people like PC games.

Do you like your Halo? Thank every single FPS released on the computer that inspired game developers to try and push the envelope.

Do you like your Fallout 3? Thank Fallout 1 +2 + Bethesda's success on the PC platform.

Do you like your (insert genre here), because chances are its roots are tied into the PC platform.

The truth is that both PC games and console's have their place in the market. You can't say that only console games are true gamers, because honestly if you think that ,you haven't seen the amount of hours people have sunk into games like World of Warcraft and Everquest. You can't say that only console games have a good community; Games like neverwinter nights 2 are carried by a strong fan base and constantly created player content.

If your as old as me (mid 20's,) you can still remember a point in gaming history where all of the best graphical experiences were to be had on the PC.

And lastly, you are completely ignoring several genre's of video games if you can't understand why people are frothing at the mouth over Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3. Lets see how many copies SC2 sells before you keep running your mouth about the death of the PC platform.