Mods, and the fact that to play with anyone more than 20 metres away from you, you have to pay something every month.
Steam sales
It wasn’t any specific game for me. I grew up with a PC and always saw how much more they could do than any console. And when I discovered emulation, it was pretty much over for anything that wasn’t PC.
Similar. Had a Colecovision when I was a kid, followed by a second hand Commodore Vic-20. Hands down the Colecovision had better graphics, but all you could do is play the games you bought or shared. Next was a Tandy 1000 TX, and I don’t think I ever looked back.
I did have an original Gameboy, that I bought with my own money, and that was pretty cool, but still it was simply a matter of playing the games they sold you. In the shareware scene of the 90’s, even the Gameboy was horrendously limiting.
For me it’s never been a performance issue. Most of the time I’ve been using old PCs, and the latest console would technically be more powerful (back to Colecovision vs. Commodore Vic 20). It was a matter of flexibility and variety.
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I’m not particularly fond on the idea that PC is “superior to console”. I just don’t own a console because:
- The games are cheaper
- It has retro compatibility built in
- I can justify spending money on parts to my PC because it’s also the tool I use to work with.
Simulator games. The whole RTS genre.
A lot of deep genres are impossible to port to work with a controller. Sadly, this nowadays means that a lot of those games don’t see a lot of good entries.
There’s no such thing as the superior platform. The pc vs console war is long dead
If I enjoy a game, it doesn’t matter whether its on pc, my phone, or some console. I’ve had a blast with the ds and the wii (still my favorite consoles to date), Ive also had a lot of fun on pc.
It’s M/KB vs controller now lol.
And it’s obviously M/KB since controllers need aim assist to be played with. Controllers can still have their merits for certain genres though, don’t get me wrong. They’re both tools with different purposes that just happen to be able to do the same thing.
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Any game because I like modding.
To me, strategy games, mainly the real time ones. Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, Warcraft, Rise of Nations. Not only that, a large number of games had online multiplayer (which I never played back then because dial up), with every player on their own machine and screen!? HOLY SHIT!!!
Oh, even better than any console for the longest time, a significant number of PC games could be SAVED ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME.
Then there was emulation, where even old '95 computers could easily run the majority of SNES/Mega Drive (Genesis) games and back.
Back in the day a pc was easier to get than an Xbox. I just had to figure out which $60 pci video card was good for games then boom, better gaming and in glorious 1024x768. Then I figured out pc games can have mods and that was the end of consoles for me.
Any game released for a past console generation whose PC version still just works on modern systems. I like my classic console collection but I’m not jumping through hoops to connect an old console to a modern display. I just play the PC version or possibly even emulate. Yeah, Windows can be a chore at times but Steam Deck brought 90% of console convenience to PC games.
PC is superior in many ways, and console is superior in some others. It depends on what you value. The only reason my wife plays on PC is because I helped her get everything set up, but she didn’t need any help at all to play on the PlayStation. If you just want to play games and don’t care about tweaking things or getting the best graphics, consoles are better because they’re simple. I like to tweak and tinker and get the best graphics I can and play with mods, so I’ve always been partial to PC.
Warframe. Played once on PS4 for a couple hours and thought, meh. Played it on PC and poured 800 hours into it. Mouse, keyboard and high refresh rate make a night and day difference in action games or any game that requires camera movement. And that something consoles will never have no matter how much they improve.
Binding keys to talk shit in chat on TFC. Hitting k and having “Pullllll” drop into chat after bouncing someone in the air with a rocket and finishing them with a shotgun blast was peak gaming.
