Why do PC gamers get so much hate

[SantoUno]

Well if you keep reading threads on the site every day you should see. Every day I read posts by asshole PC gamers that refer to console players as 'consoletards' and saying that every multiplatform game is better on PC and that PC controls are always the best and that PC has always been the superior machine and consoles have been a joke in comparison and more and more bullshit that absolutely infuriates me. Not to mention that PC games don't really seem to have some sort of fanboy stereotype. For example a ton of PC gamers always flame many 360 users because of Halo 3 and call them fanboys and say that all 360 gamers are Halo fanboys and yadayadayada.

If you were primarily or exclusively a console gamer reading these forums you would understand because it depends on point of view.

As of now, most of the above people who posted give that sort of vibe.

Can I call it? - ok I will...

The above quote is the steroyptical anti-PC gamer console-kiddie.

I'm not trying to insult you good sir, I'm merely trying to point out the irony.

Also - PC controls are better for everything. why? because if you're playing street fighter (which is next to impossible on a keyboard) you simply plug in a controller...

How is that stereotypical PC hater? I don't hate PC gamers, just the elitist and high-and-mighty ones. Everything I mentioned is from posts that I see all the time, I didn't generalize all PC gamers like that, and why the hell do you say console-KIDDIE? I could call someone PC kiddie and it wouldn't make sense so I don't understand why you would say that

And no offense but you just proved my point by saying that PC controls are better for everything. That is just your opinion, it's not fact, yet so many PC gamers always make that stupid statement over and over again like if it is a fact.

 

[Sneaklemming]

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How is that stereotypical PC hater? I don't hate PC gamers, just the elitist and high-and-mighty ones. Everything I mentioned is from posts that I see all the time, I didn't generalize all PC gamers like that, and why the hell do you say console-KIDDIE? I could call someone PC kiddie and it wouldn't make sense so I don't understand why you would say that

And no offense but you just proved my point by saying that PC controls are better for everything. That is just your opinion, it's not fact, yet so many PC gamers always make that stupid statement over and over again like if it is a fact.

But it is fact.... I don't see how you can possibly dispute that fact...]

Probably for the same reason that console gamers get so much hate; some bizarre notion of brand loyalty, familiarity with what one uses the most, and the perception that the gamers from the other faction are "elitist assholes".

If PC Gamers vs Console Gamers were a summer blockbuster, this would be the part where one of them says "We're not so different, you and I."

Then they team up to fight tabletop pen & paper gamers.

Yanno I can see it now, and there would be a tragic ending, where the video-gamers are massacred by the table-top gamers in an ambush that the traitorous Bioware fanboys led them into...

 

[dududf]

Console fanboys/somethings get a hard on when they see PC gamers, due to our unique sexiness but they try to hide it by hating us.

Yup yup.
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In all seriousness, they don't like us because we feel entittled to things they don't have. That and we look down on them from which is perceived as "Elitism".

Not my fault I hate dislike all of you whiney Live people XD

I play on both the PC and consoles, I'm breaking down barriers dammit! Does this mean I get to be an ambassador?

Naw, but you can become our Religous deity.

All heil Shewolf!

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Console fanboys/somethings get a hard on when they see PC gamers, due to our unique sexiness but they try to hide it by hating us.

Yup yup.
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In all seriousness, they don't like us because we feel entittled to things they don't have. That and we look down on them from which is perceived as "Elitism".

Not my fault I hate dislike all of you whiney Live people XD

This man has summed it alllll up

 

[Aesir23]

Console fanboys/somethings get a hard on when they see PC gamers, due to our unique sexiness but they try to hide it by hating us.

Yup yup.
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In all seriousness, they don't like us because we feel entittled to things they don't have. That and we look down on them from which is perceived as "Elitism".

Not my fault I hate dislike all of you whiney Live people XD

I play on both the PC and consoles, I'm breaking down barriers dammit! Does this mean I get to be an ambassador?

Naw, but you can become our Religous deity.

All heil Shewolf!

I'm a deity? Sweeeeeet.

It makes you a hybrid, not an ambassador.

I have a similar issue; I have windows installed on my Macbook Pro (and i use it for games etc.) but instead of it "being the best of both worlds" and putting me in with PC 'clanboys' and Mac douches, I am instead cast out by both sides... for even trying to distill the purity of each mal-aligned position.

Dammit, I can't seem to escape being a hybrid. First my own nationality and now my gaming preferences. Curse the hybridism.

 

[dududf]

Console fanboys/somethings get a hard on when they see PC gamers, due to our unique sexiness but they try to hide it by hating us.

Yup yup.
______________________________________

In all seriousness, they don't like us because we feel entittled to things they don't have. That and we look down on them from which is perceived as "Elitism".

Not my fault I hate dislike all of you whiney Live people XD

This man has summed it alllll up

Please tell me you're being sarcastic, I was joking around and didn't even go into detail @_@

Console fanboys/somethings get a hard on when they see PC gamers, due to our unique sexiness but they try to hide it by hating us.

Yup yup.
______________________________________

In all seriousness, they don't like us because we feel entittled to things they don't have. That and we look down on them from which is perceived as "Elitism".

Not my fault I hate dislike all of you whiney Live people XD

I play on both the PC and consoles, I'm breaking down barriers dammit! Does this mean I get to be an ambassador?

Naw, but you can become our Religous deity.

All heil Shewolf!

I'm a deity? Sweeeeeet.

You're Throne in the heavens Await, My Leige.

 

[Aesir23]

Console fanboys/somethings get a hard on when they see PC gamers, due to our unique sexiness but they try to hide it by hating us.

Yup yup.
______________________________________

In all seriousness, they don't like us because we feel entittled to things they don't have. That and we look down on them from which is perceived as "Elitism".

Not my fault I hate dislike all of you whiney Live people XD

I play on both the PC and consoles, I'm breaking down barriers dammit! Does this mean I get to be an ambassador?

Naw, but you can become our Religous deity.

All heil Shewolf!

I'm a deity? Sweeeeeet.

You're Throne in the heavens Await, My Leige.[/quote]

My first order of business will be to make my younger siblings my slaves >_>

 

[Jekken6]

I'm a PC and console gamer.

 

[Deleted]

They're called elitists because a lot of them are. Simple as that.

 

[Dreyfuss]

Actually both stereotypes are completely accurate. Your problem here is that there's not actually anything WRONG with being elitist.

and why the hell do you say console-KIDDIE? I could call someone PC kiddie and it wouldn't make sense so I don't understand why you would say that

Of course it wouldn't make sense, kiddies don't play PC games, they play console games.

And no offense but you just proved my point by saying that PC controls are better for everything. That is just your opinion, it's not fact, yet so many PC gamers always make that stupid statement over and over again like if it is a fact.

It IS fact. PCs give you a choice of any control scheme you want. That is an indisputable, objective advantage over consoles.

I can plug any controller I want into a PC, how is that not better?

 

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[Dreyfuss]

The cold, mechanical keyboard is no match for the soft, loving embrace of a controller. Just grabbing those two potruding, curved handles, pressing it close to my abdomen, and giddily losing all control button-mashing my way to victory until I'm laying there, exhausted but proud of my handiwork, reflecting on the deed that has been done...

...there is no other comparable satisfaction.

I beg to differ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOIiAws2Tw Watch it all, his reactions are priceless.

That video was recorded before the pistol grip was released, here's a video of that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PS_vu-WBb0&#t=4m

 

[Raptoricus]

Console gamers are jealous. That's why they keep insisting that PC games shouldn't have features that console games don't (see MW2). If they can't have those features, then nobody can.

They could just buy gaming PCs themselves, but of course they believe that the price tag for a gaming PC starts at $1000 because they don't have a clue about PCs.

Pretty much this, console users seem to think that buying a new gaming PC will cost them more than a new console, well, I will admit that it will cost a bit more, but not much compared to consoles at release prices, as long as you build your own. (And no, building a PC is not hard, just make sure that you do a little reading before you do it, you'll find everything you need to know online, it's not hard). And if you get into the modding scene, you'll have endless hours of fun.

It's also worth noting that even if you build your own gaming PC, it's still a pc so you can do LOADS more with it than a console. For me for example, I'm a programming student, so it's what I work and play on, there's also all the 3D moddeling software, photoshop / gimp, music making software, all that fun stuff.

 

[CHangedUsername]

Glorious PC Gaming Master Race.

Filthy small minded peasants

That is all

 

[Big Max]

Whys is there so much hate on console gamers from PC gamers?

Evidence: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.156962

Works both ways around. People just seem to have this hate for people with something different to them.

 

[Raptoricus]

The cold, mechanical keyboard is no match for the soft, loving embrace of a controller. Just grabbing those two potruding, curved handles, pressing it close to my abdomen, and giddily losing all control button-mashing my way to victory until I'm laying there, exhausted but proud of my handiwork, reflecting on the deed that has been done...

...there is no other comparable satisfaction.

I beg to differ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOIiAws2Tw Watch it all, his reactions are priceless.

That video was recorded before the pistol grip was released, here's a video of that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PS_vu-WBb0&#t=4m

Jesus christ that looks awesome.