Mods, and the fact that to play with anyone more than 20 metres away from you, you have to pay something every month.
Counterstrike and day of defeat mods.
Getting a whole new game for free was something out of this world at that time.
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.
Most games that have free online play 😌
Assetto Corsa with Content Manager, Shader Patch and SOL and of course RSS car mods
Steam sales
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.
Any game because I like modding.
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.
The Orange Box
Diablo II for sure
Probably the original Call of Duty. Mouse aim is just easy mode!
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.
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.
I agree. We can celebrate what makes the PC platform great without turning it into a competition.
Mostly all the indies I could play on PC that just straight up aren’t on consoles.
Some of them have been ported over but an example: I had almost 500 hours on Deep Rock Galactic when they first announced it for Playstation…
