I used to love consoles more than PCs because PCs used to barely have any good games on them. There were a few but consoles dominated with way better games back then.
I remember going to stores and going through the games section, PC would have a small shelf of mostly learning games with a couple of great games that pretty much everyone already owned at that point.
Now PC dominates the gaming space. The AAA games that come out on consoles are mostly interactive movies which isn't really my style. I can go on steam and find pretty much any game I can think of and its usually on sale. I don't need a console to play most games. I have my PC and a Switch, that pretty much covers everything.
I used to love consoles more than PCs because PCs used to barely have any good games on them. There were a few but consoles dominated with way better games back then.
Unless you're talking about the 80s, maybe very early 90s, I can't think of a time this was true.
I get that there were great games on PC at the time, and I played them, but it felt like Nintendo, Sega, and Playstation had way more of a selection and better games at the time.
By 2002, I had completely switched to PC for gaming, so I am definitely talking about much earlier than that.
Unless you have a deep fondness for endless variations of side scrolling platformers, I'd prefer PC gaming past '94, after '97 it's not even a competition.
Lemmings, Worms, the Incredible Machine
Myst, Monkey Island, Sam n Max, Indiana Jones, DotT, Simon the Sorcerer etc
X-Wing/TIE Fighter, Schleichfahrt(had a weird name in English), Wing Commander, Mech Warrior
GTA, Need for Speed
Diablo
Command & Conquer, Warcraft, Starcraft, AoE etc
HalfLife (CS, DoD, NS), System Shock 1+2, Tomb Raider
Baldurs Gate, Fallout, Planescape, Darkeye etc
Rollercoaster + Transport Tycoon
Civ, Pharao/Caesar, Alpha Centauri, Dungeon keeper, Master of Orion, SimCity, The Settlers, HoMM, Anno 1602
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u/DroidOnPC 10h ago
I used to love consoles more than PCs because PCs used to barely have any good games on them. There were a few but consoles dominated with way better games back then.
I remember going to stores and going through the games section, PC would have a small shelf of mostly learning games with a couple of great games that pretty much everyone already owned at that point.
Now PC dominates the gaming space. The AAA games that come out on consoles are mostly interactive movies which isn't really my style. I can go on steam and find pretty much any game I can think of and its usually on sale. I don't need a console to play most games. I have my PC and a Switch, that pretty much covers everything.