Poll: PC gaming, your thoughts.

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dooner11

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Im sure if someone asked this question (pc vs console) on any other website, the results would be way different though. The Escapist is all about hardcore gamers which usually comprises PC players. Most of us are here instead of anywhere else because we feel at home with other pc people.
 

vede

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PC gamer almost all the way.

"Almost" because I love me some retro games on the Wii's Virtual Console, even though Nintendo seems to only be releasing games that hardly anyone knows about. I would love to be able to play FF1 (my favorite in the series) legally.

I play PC games because not only can I play mainstream games, I can find and play little open-source indie games that no one knows about, and I can even try to develop games myself. I also love the mouse for its amazing functionality for action-oriented games, and the keyboard for me is great. It is a bit complex, but everything is easy to reach and doesn't require me to contort my hand in strange or painful fashions.

I don't really like all the malformed hunks of plastic that are modern game-pads. I prefer the simplicity of the NES controller. Or maybe the SNES controller. I mean, people are born with an innate sense of how to use the NES controller. There's A, B, Start, Select, and a D-Pad. It's as simple as it gets, (while retaining functionality) and you've still got thirty-five combinations with A, B, up, down, left, right, up-left, up-right, down-left, and down-right. Then you can use Select during gameplay to toggle things, so there can be effectively seventy different options. Do you seriously need more? That's more controls than I use on most PC games!