Faith in the PC Master Race dwindling

In truth I really don't understand this religion based on platforms. Different games requires different platforms.
I'm both a PC AND a console gamer. I play on PC when I satisfy my historical strategy need (Crusader Kings 2, Total War, Europa Universalis, Caesar).
I play on console when I'm playing the typical AAA thid person adventure game because I just enjoy the controller there.
There are no PC-master race or console peasant, there are only gamers with different tastes and desires. Platforms are only tools used to satisfy that desire. Each tool is better suited to satisfy a particular gaming desire.

This entire discussion about PC-master race and console peasant is just a toxic talk that need to die soon because determining the worth of someone based on what platform he/she plays on is utter idiocy.

i ve always been a pc gamer, but played only 4-6 games the last 20 years. I m an old fuck and i ll never bother getting used to controllers, fuck controllers.
I played consoles with friends, never could stand the latency impression i got. Maybe it s not the case anymore ? Sure was in 2010.
Also i wldnt felt free with console hardcopies and even monthly access fee ! Wtf, it s allready hard to convince myself to pay for a game

and i dont care about graphics, smoothness (i m a 30 fps at best) or modding mostly, though i mod a bit

What makes console players inherently superior?  Sounds a bit racist buddy.

The ability to play Blu-Rays isn't a console-exclusive capability.

You can plug a controller into your PC.

Choosing to play without mods is not an advantage.

So what exactly were you trying to say anyway.

yes, but we can forgive your choices peasants !

Still waiting for MEA for the Nintendo GameCube. I'm tired of buying new stuff.

Well, I don't like the dichotomy between between PC and consoles. I think consoles are great, MicroSoft and Sony are doing a decent job and at times I honestly feel like having one for the console exclusives alone (such as Destiny). But for me it is not worth to buy such a device to use it occasionally. If I had more time and money, I probably would have both current gen consoles and a PC. But you know, things are not that easy.

My reasoning for choosing a PC is that I like to play games, chat, call people, listen to music, surf on the net, watch porn and complain on BSN all in one machine, just alt-tabbing between tasks. I just love the utility offered by the PC. Besides that, the investment between a general purpose PC (which most people have) and an average gaming PC is not that much. Many people out there have an i5 or even an i3 which is more than capable of 60 fps gaming, yet they use it for Netflixing or whatever. Just add a $170 graphics card and a $40 power supply and you have a gaming PC more potent than any console. For me that just kills any reasoning to have a gaming console. Unless, of course, money and time were not limiting factors.

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_{(you CAN play Blu-Rays on a Blu-Ray player, which is likely hooked up to your TV where the console would be...)}

I'm going on five years without a PC upgrade. That's a console generation.

No one has to worry about whether or not their PC is up to spec since anything released since 2011 will run games on par with the current consoles at minimum. The cons against PC gaming come in getting the parts together, not having a singular warranty, and maybe having to fiddle with graphical settings if the auto-detect doesn't get you the performance you expected.

Games use multiple control inputs these days and you can play blu-ray's on a PC too, so that's not a con.

On the flip side, games are cheaper on average when buying brand new, games go on sale more often, and you don't have to pay to play online, so you recoup your cost compared to a console, especially if you buy a lot of games brand new.

There's give or take on both sides. There's a $200 premium on PC gaming to match or exceed console performance because units aren't subsidized and assembled wholesale, but lower prices on games and whatnot equalize things to where it's nowhere near as bad or expensive as people make it out to be just because the loudest people are spending $1200 on something that really won't need to be upgraded for nearly a decade.

The games you play don't require PC, they require a specific form of input that. while it works on consoles, isn't all that popular since it wasn't traditionally in use. Any other reasoning on either side of the argument is clock full of melodrama.

In general I expect any game that's multi-platform to work decently well on both and for the most part they do in my opinion. In recent memory the only game I can think of off the top of my head which I had complaints about the PC port of was Dragon Age Inquisition, where I felt like the tactical camera was blatantly designed for twin thumbsticks and while usable on mouse/keyboard it wasn't a good feel.

Really though, as fun as it is to make PC master race jokes no one platform of gamer is "superior" to another and the whole notion that somebody is better based on what platform they play on is ridiculously absurd.

Personally I prefer PC and keep a Xbox 360 controller handy if I ever run into a game that plays better on controller and thanks to USB ports being a thing it's all very easy to set up. I like just how much I can tinker with my games and my operating system(even if Windows is being a bit more restrictive these days, it's still better than any console OS). That and I have pretty much unlimited backwards compatibility. Any old game that has issues running I can either tweak until it works or find something like a DOS emulator to make it work.

Of course if somebody prefers console, all the more power to them. Some people prefer the simplicity of consoles "put in disk and play" because no tweaking means not having to spend 2 hours making sure a game actually runs properly first.

In the end just play on whatever you enjoy.

Plus the fact that I work from home and need my PC so my top of the line PC upgrades every few years count as a "work expense" come income tax time also helps =P

What Cyonan said.

As to the preferred platform and "master race" -


Do you even macro, bro?

I can understand people being more cautious than they should be anyways with PC versions after last year which had so many AAA titles being broken and sometimes even unplayable at launch. On the other hand - and this might seem very strange to some if not most people - as far as PC versions go I have actually more faith in EA titles than in titles from other big publishers. As far as Mass Effect goes I expect there to be bugs, probably even a lot of them. But not just on PC. And with the Frostbite-Engine I also expect the game to perform very good overall on PC at the same time.