Trolling aside, we live the new Golden Age of PC Gaming

Factually, we do.

PC Gaming exclusive genres are far from being dead, but were thriving as never in the last couple of years. Last gen, we got tons of RTS, turn based strategies, management heavy strategies, MMOs, MOBAs, horror, click-&-point adventures, indies. Even space sims got resurrected.

And a lot of console-exclusive genres such as fighting and platforming moved to PC as well.

Factually, in the last 8 years, PC got the biggest ammount of games in gaming history ever. Only last month, there were 40 games released on PC. And the thing doesn´t look slowing down.

It´s funny but there were more stragegy games than jrpgs or even fps.

If PC was dying, shouldn´t PC exclusive genres be dying too, but they actually grow in numbers as never before.

Before we had Diablo 2, today we have Diablo 3, Path of Exile, Torchlight, Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, Grim Dawn etc.

We have more simulators as never before.

More games with unique gameplays.

More city builders strategies as never before.

Only complete whiners don´t see that.

If there is one PC game that gets dumbed down, there are like 5 games in the same genre ready to replace it.

Even regarding multiplats PC started to outsell consoles.

I miss strategy games.

Do we live in a Civ game all of a sudden

in a nutshell

it's a bloody good system, yeah.

...then go play them?

supreme commander is awesome. almost time for the traditional christmas game of it.

totally agree. when the golden age of petitioning and pining for ports of console games came to fruition, so did pc gaming.

You're dam right!

Factually speaking this thread is correct.

• The most played genres on the planet are PC genres. (MMO/MOBA)
• The most competative genres, and the only true competative scenes are PC ONLY
• Most games total. Most high scoring games total. Exclusives included.
• The most players of games are on PC. STEAM alone has more concurrent than xbla/psn combined.
• Best version of multiplats bar none.

For a Console-Kiddy to disagree will be completely his or her opinion, in which case they should Blog it.

what in the **** are you talking about

but can you play GTA V?

I want more!

Nerd! but this is PC, so I'm sure there are plenty right around the corner

Who cares?

Besides, we will. In the meantime we got liek 1,001 game sot choose from. On next gen consoles you got 6.0 and 7.5 AAA games ot play I guess :)

More people play BF 4 on consoles than pc. Not surprising.

No that's no surprise at all.

More people eat fast food than real food.

Sums up eveything! :)

well, if we sum up last gen consoles, too. But PC as a single platform has the biggest number of BF4 gamers.

Oh yes that's true. PC is the most popular platform for BF4.

lol

I think it's actually a pretty rough stretch of very poorly optimized games the past few months, maybe longer

Yeah, I hope it's not a trend. AssCreed 4 running like horseshit on even dual Titans (TB's setup) while looking pretty crappy doesn't look good. Then again, it is Ubisoft and when has Ubisoft ever made a well optimized AssCreed game>?

BF 4 isnt the equivalent of fast food. It's arguably the best mp shooter on any platform.

Consolites are split up between gens and manufacturers. Not fair to compare pc numbers to one specific console. PC gamers have one choice for BF 4 while consolites have 4.

Might want to reread what I said because thats not what my post means

and they say Hermits are the ones who barge into threads with this kind of crap

with gabe newell in charge of pc gaming, it's not the golden era. it's the golden arches.

@acanofcoke said:

Sums up eveything! :)

rofl

PC is the most popular platform for Battlefield 4.

'Gamers' have 5 platforms to choose from.

What's unfair is combining the sum of gamers across several consoles.

so that's a no?

Golden age?

I disagree, PC gaming has been rather weak this year. Games flop and disappoint both left and right, in fact the most memorable experience I had from a PC game that came out this year was a 20-30 minute long demo of a game that wont come out till summer next year. Still, PC beat the consoles this year again, but it certainly was nowhere close to being overly impressive.

how is it fair to combine 4 platforms against one?

I guess I'm not seeing the same stats as you: PC has the most amount of players, not a single system has more players than PC :S

he's combining all of the consoles

He is putting all the other platforms against one. It says a lot really.

I know, that's always the consolites excuse. Just combine every single console and perhaps, just perhaps it might beat out PC with amount of players, amount of games, amount of exclusives, amount of high scoring games, ...

it's really the only reason to come to system wars.

Dont know what you mean then since it's the same game on next gen consoles.

If you want to play on a pc you have one choice, want to play on console you get 4 choices. Simple really.

Comparing a platform thats been completely monopolized like pc to individual consoles is unfair. If MS monopilzed consoles then it would be a fair comparison.

it's really stupid actually.

Meh MMOs suck now, WoW just cannibalized the entire genre player base then turned it into casual garbage.

I really havent been enjoying the trend of F2P and indies on PC these days. Combined with relatively stagnating graphics and PC devs going multiplatform and I actually find it much more difficult to get excited about PC gaming compared to 5-10 years ago.

How have PC graphics stagnated exactly ?

Computers have been monopolized by MS, consoles havent. If there was one console version and one pc version then you'd have the perfect comparison.

and even then its more difficult than all console games.

Says alot.

planetery annihilation is coming soon and you can get early access on steam

Wat. That makes no sense.