The Best Thing About PC Gaming

sure STEAM games are cheaper.Probably because its all digital distribution ...BUT you dont own them.I hear you can download them and put on disc but how? AND games today are on blurays. Are we supposed to buy bluray burners and discs? Im not being negative nancy here..im just say..STEAM is ok,but nothing beats having physical media.

@VanDammFan: PC gamers use external hard drives to backup their games, when you can have all your games on one HD discs are pointless and transfer rates are ridiculously better. 1TB - 3TB drives can go for ~$50-$90 which 2TB can hold 40 50GB games or 80 25GB games, as size is extremely variable so is the quantity of game you can hold. As I just showed the saving from 5 games already almost paid the cost of the backup HD for those games including any future ones.

So what is the point of discs for PC users? If a physical disc breaks you are out the game, for PC you just re-download it. And as somebody who has gotten DOA discs before and lent games to have them returned scratched or even gashed, the digital medium is a much easier way of managing games. Every game I own digitally in a single location with easy access and little to no wait time.

If the trillion to one chance that something ever were to happen to Steam, yes their could be a problem. But that is where GOG comes in, games purchased from GOG are DRM free so if they were ever to go belly up the games have no need for anything extra and can be played without issue.

So many great things about the platform, but overall library is easily the most important aspect to me.

Too many good games coming out all the time. Many games and types of games that you would never find on a console. Even the games you will find on consoles typically perform better on PC. The extensive list of "backwards compatible" games to choose from. The emulation.

It's a double edged sword for me. PC just has too damn many games to play. If I took off work for the rest of the year I still probably wouldn't be able to catch up on everything.

Modding goes such a long way too though. I started playing with the Infinite Heaven mod for MGSV yesterday and it completely breathes new life into the game. It washes away a lot of the nitpicks I have with the game while at the same time enhancing the aspects I enjoy. You just can't customize your experience like that on consoles.

Well, I didn't even know he was a troll.. :I

Coming from a troll, it's at least laughable!!!

There's nothing worth refuting in Tushar's comment, because building a pc with a console in mind...ends the discussion!!!

Pc gaming was never about that, didn't you figure it by now??? If so, so you are doing it the wrong way!!!

Pc gaming is far more expensive on the long run, anyone building gaming pc knows that, so keep dreaming it's not...

I have been building them for 30 years, to care about someone else's opinion, and even taking into consideration the games prices, it's not even close!!!

Lol!!!

fact 1 : no 600 bucks pc can last ten years, how many upgrades since 2005? // Give us your pc config since and let's calculate with the average prices!!!

fact 2 : witcher3 on steam 60 bucks, 34 on psn, and you have used games market. But whatever rocks your boat!!! //Over all, pc games are less expensive but not to the point to negate pc hardware costs.

fact 3 : I said 50X5 which stands for the last five years, and if you have all sony's systems, you can get 72 games/year.

To make things even easier, with a 400 bucks consoles for 5 years, how much money did you spend on your pc hardware wise , these last five years??? // I know ten years life span is too long, let's settle for five years.

I'm waiting.

How am I a troll?

By calling others trolls!!!

The best thing about PC gaming is the games - Duh! There's more of them, more variety, and backwards comparability. There's such a small selection of exclusive games on consoles, and most of the good ones are multiplats, and of those the best version is often the PC version.

Graphics. Never having to worry about X game being dynamic resolutionized is great.

That's a tough choice but if I have to boil it down to one it would be the games.

First you give me a link/reason to why I shouldn't build a PC with console in mind.. or stop with your fallacies.

If you were really building PCs for more than "30 years", you would've known that PC gaming was clearly about the games in the past (and the present).. Even this poll confirms that. Yeah, go tell over 70 Mil + gamers on steam that they know nothing about PC gaming because they are gaming at console levels and that you're right.

And refute this guy's point ^ first, and @GarGx1s..

Let's see, some games I've bought over the last year

Mad Max, 2 days after release - £13

GTA V, pre-ordered - £24

Assassin's Creed Syndicate 2 weeks after release - £14 (it was cheaper on release day at £13)

Fallout 4, pre-ordered - £22

Batman Arkham Knight with full premium contents, pre-ordered - £24 (yeah, I'm a mug)

Might and Magic VII, 1 week after release - £20

I could go on but I'm sure you get the picture.

Anyone who thinks Steam sales are the only place to get cheap PC games really needs to learn how to use google.

Edit: Just had a look and I can get Tomb Raider pre-order for £20