Why PC gamers are PC gamers.

PC games are just more addictive for a longer period of time, plain and simple.

I will still be playing Diablo 3 HEAVILY a year after its release. Halflife 2 is still on my drive and played 10 hours a week (DOD:Source), and I've had it for more than a year. Larger communities, player mods and maps, it just all adds to an already long shelflife.

It really has nothing to do with graphics, as much as some hermits will brag about their rigs, and how well it plays Crysis, even though they themselves never play it, instead spending most of their time playing the much easier to run COD4 or CS: Source.

Consoles have very few games that are like that. MGS4 is a great game, GREAT, but 2 months from now, it will be collecting dust. GTA4 is already collecting dust. The only games on consoles that have that kind of longevity are first person shooters, and they are typically better on PC with the keyboard and mouse interface.

With Diablo 3 coming out, I take a look at a Diablo clone like Marvel Ultimate Alliance made for consoles. This is a console game, and you can tell because at level 99, you max out nearly all your abilities, meaning there are no builds really involved in making a character. You just pick the best skills and max them. There are no skill trees to add complexity, and no real gear to speak of that adds flavor to specific builds. Worst of all, when you are leveling your main 4 guys, the mutlitude of guys sitting on the sidelines not being used? Yeah, they are going up levels too, taking even more replay value out of the game. It was designed to be beaten as quickly as possible and then tossed aside, like most console games.

I technically have access to all the systems now, I own a PS3, 360 is on longterm borrow from my buddy in Iraq though I have owned many (RROD got 2 of them), Wii is my live-in girl's. The only thing I use ANY of them for is to plow through the exclusive titles they get once or twice a year and to play sports games. My PC is my gaming workhorse.

This is my rant, like it or not, its the truth from my perspective and probably the perspective of the vast majority of hermits out there. PCs are expensive, but they are good at squeezing every last drop of playability out of a game before we discard it. We buy less games than consolers because ours last longer. As to whether that savings adds up to the cost of our rigs over what a console would cost? Who knows, but to me, its worth it.

Funny thing is PC games don't last very long for me unless my friends on Xfire play the game too for a long time such as in the case of BF2/CSS. The only reason I'm a PC gamer is because I grew up with PC gaming instead of growing up with consoles.

Hell the last console I owned before the PS3 that I bought 2 weeks ago was Sega Genesis. PC gaming is just too good.

right..pc games have lasted MUCH longer than any console game...like you said in 3 years people will forget about halo...but on pc gamers sill dont forget CS 1.6, games like Stalker will still remain in pc gamers minds, just like Diablo, Starcraft, Half life, and Even Doom.Pinkyimp

Even the game you mentioned, Halo. WILDLY successful console game with, at least for consoles, unprecedented replayability, but what consolers don't understand is that PCs have libraries of games that are just like that.

Even our singleplayer games like the Total War series or the Civ games have insane amounts of replayability.

I was done with MGS4 in 4 days....four. I can't remember the last time I spent only 4 days on a AAA worthy title on PC.

it depends on the game. Maybe more are on just PCs, maybe not. Things like extra mods and maps are okay, but I can't say that they've really helped prolong my own experience to infinity and beyond (except for Half Life 2, the only game where mods actually made that much of a difference IMO).

personally, the most addictive games I've played would be Soul Calibur 2 (GC), Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA), Stepmania (PC), and Audiosurf (PC). the ones that stick in my mind forever are usually the ones with less attention.

Or is it because mast majorities of people dont upgrade every gen of computers like they have to with consoles? durrrrrrrr.LOXO7

PCs actually don't have "gens".

[QUOTE="LOXO7"]Or is it because mast majorities of people dont upgrade every gen of computers like they have to with consoles? durrrrrrrr.IgGy621985

PCs actually don't have "gens".

ouch ! :lol:

The reason i've stayed with PC gaming so long is that I love the open-ness of the platform, the ability to do almost anything.

And of course, the game communities still last the longest ;D It's quite amazing how a 10 year old game (starcraft) is considered a sport in Korea :/

Ok so your telling me which games I'm addicted to, sweet. Now you can start purchasing my games for me! :D

I'm still playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on my 360 from 13 years ago, do I exceed the qualifications of a PC gamer?

I mainly play strategy games (right now Settlers 2 NG (+addon) , Anno 1701 , Civ4 (+addons) and CoH . So its not like I have alternative to PC . Right now I have also instaled Stalker, Red Orchestra and Witcher also type of games that are hard to find outside PC

why PC gamers are PC gamers? $$$

why I'm not a PC gamer? no $$$ :cry:

lol jk.

But even if I had money I would still prefer consoles because that's just my opinion. Of course, weather you're a PC gamer or a console gamer, it's mainly just opinion.

I'm still playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on my 360 from 13 years ago, do I exceed the qualifications of a PC gamer?

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dude that game is epic. i don't blame you. it's a true classic