PC Games more Addicting than Console Games?

[Stone]

The PC is definitely, of course, lacking in 2d platformers, but I'd put up Crack dot Com's Abuse against any console platformer - it's one of the best games I've had a chance to play.

[maruchan]

Pc games are boring as hell.. i play them for five minutes before i quite...i quite on them.. their fun for about five minutes before.. say this boreing.. and unistill and never think about it again..

[NeoZeedeater]

cigs, this is what mean by variety in PC gaming. There are many genres, not just three or four. Examples:

Turn-based strategy - Civilization, Disciples, Heroes of Might and Magic
Real-Time strategy - Warcraft, Homeworld, Command and Conquer
Strategy/RPG - Freedom Force, Magic and Mayhem
Action/Strategy - Battlezone, Uprising, Enigma

RPG - Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights
MMORPG - Everquest, Anarchy Online, Asheron's Call
Action/RPG - Diablo, Throne of Darkness, Dungeon Siege


Single-player FPS - Aliens vs Predator, Medal of Honor, Jedi Outcast
Multiplayer FPS - Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Tribes
FPS/Adventure - No One Lives Forever, Deus Ex, Thief
FPS/Strategy - Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, SWAT 3

Survival Horror - Alone in the Dark, Nocturne

Graphic Adventure - Syberia, Monkey Island, The Longest Journey
Japanese-style Adventure - Eve Burst Error, True Love

Third-person Action - Max Payne, Heavy Metal:FAKK2, Alice

Sports - High Heat Baseball, NHL 2002

Mech Sim - Mechwarrior, Heavy Gear
Space Sim - Independence War, Freespace, Echelon
God Sim - Black and White, Dungeon Keeper 2
Flight Sim - WWII Fighters, Combat Flight Simulator
Various other sims - The Sims, Theme Park

Pinball - Pro Pinball, Thrill Ride Pinball

Shooters - Techno Sylph, Baroque Shooting, Platypus, Tyrian 2000, Kamui, Raycrisis

Fighting - Card Hunter Sakura, V.G. Max, Metal and Lace 2, Sango Fighter 2, Queen of Heart '98, Guilty Gear X

Arcade-style racing - Need for Speed, Moto Racer
Racing sims - Formula 1 Racing

Platformers - Erachacha, Manhattan Project, Lightweight Ninja, Lars the Wanderer

Puzzle - The Alchemist, Mindrover, Puyo Puyo 2

Plus there are lot more console-ish games if you explore Korean and Japanese PC gaming. PC games have their import scene too.

[Tracer]

Always...

The PC games I play are ususlly online games so I play those for much longer - while some of the may be attributed to the 'at attention' style one must play in with PC games, PC games or PC style games on Console have held my attention for just as long. Halo and Morrowind are prime examples and odds are I probably would have played Neverwinter Nights more were it on Xbox (yeah I would).

I definitly play PC more, but I own far fewer PC games than I do console games.

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[cigsthecat]

"2D platformers and vertical shooters? So you mean there hasn't been any games you've liked since 1998? (just kidding)

Why do you limit yourself to just a few types of games? You are only depriving yourself of a lot of enjoyment...."

You'll notice in my original post I listed a lot more than the 2 types of game you mentioned. And to be quite honest, if I played nothing but shooters for the rest of my life I'd be a happy man. That's pretty much where my collection is going anyway.
I don't limit myself at all, I just don't play games I dislike. And I dislike a lot of things.

"If he only likes 2D platformers and shooters, I'm just surprised he hasn't already given up on gaming completely a long time ago."

I don't know where you've been, but 2D shooters come out all the time. This past year has been especially good, and there's a ton of great stuff on the horizon. Then add up all the older games I've yet to play and I'm pretty much set. 2D platformers are increasingly rare these days, but the GBA does have quite a few.

"cigs, this is what mean by variety in PC gaming. There are many genres, not just three or four. Examples:

Turn-based strategy - Civilization, Disciples, Heroes of Might and Magic
Real-Time strategy - Warcraft, Homeworld, Command and Conquer
Strategy/RPG - Freedom Force, Magic and Mayhem
Action/Strategy - Battlezone, Uprising, Enigma

RPG - Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights
MMORPG - Everquest, Anarchy Online, Asheron's Call
Action/RPG - Diablo, Throne of Darkness, Dungeon Siege


Single-player FPS - Aliens vs Predator, Medal of Honor, Jedi Outcast
Multiplayer FPS - Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Tribes
FPS/Adventure - No One Lives Forever, Deus Ex, Thief
FPS/Strategy - Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, SWAT 3"

I see what you mean Neo, but all I see up there is 3 genres. It's all the same to me. And unfortunately out of your list I only see 2 0r 3 interesting things. The reason I don't play PC games is simple- there's so much more out there that fits my tastes on consoles that frankly, PC gaming is a waste of my time.

MechDeus: Thanks for the suggestions.

[Compass]

PC games are generally more addicting for me. Stuff like Torment, Thief Gold, The Longest Journey suck me in like nothing on consoles (though I love console games too and sometimes one [Xenogears, for example] will rival the PC-addiction level but it's rare).

[Kentaochstoffe]

Multiplayer games on pc are more addicting than single player on consoles, i hardly ever play mps on console, because there arnt that many good ones if you dont like fighters and sport games. Infact the last one i can remember really digging into was goldeneye.

Singleplayer games are the same imo no matter what format.

[RoleTroll]

10-15 years ago, I didn't like PC games and I didn't like them when ported to consoles.

However, I think PC games have much improved. For example, I would much rather play most 16-bit RPGs than Wizardry or Eye of the Beholder. But the new RPG games like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights are fantastic, totally different and better.

Playing a great strategy game like Advance Wars on the GBA and seeing the way that consoles have unthinkingly and shamelesslly moved away from 2D is another reason I'm interested in trying WarCraft III.

I won't say PC games are better (yet), but they've definitely closed the gap in my mind.

To paraphrase Ford, "Have you played a PC game... lately?" If you didn't like the PC games in the past, it may be time that you try again. Much has changed in the last 10 years.

[Triple Lei]

(Didn't realize it was okay to bump threads this old... ok.)

cigsthecat mirrored my thoughts exactly, and said it far better than I ever could.

And I hate to quote a guy from GameFAQs, but this quote is a couple of years old, and as far as I'm concerned, still holds up:

Originally posted by SwisherNOWblunts:

Don't get me started. Okay lets play one of the 20 different Quake 3 engine games. Oooh or one of the 20 different Half-life engine games! And you can get this great new game, but you will wait 6-8 months for a patch to be released to make it playable. Oh internet play! I shot 63 different people! How far did you get in the game though? I shot 63 different people! Constant expensive upgrades and maintenance. For the price of a new Intel chip you could buy an entire PS2! And I can't stand the thought of getting far in a game and having Windows crash all over you. Seen it too many times to start myself. PC gaming is crack for the upper class kids.

...quoting a guy from GameFAQs isn't grounds for banning, is it?

[xS]

PC games are generally very addictive because of the genres they happen to be in. There are few substiutes for games like Civ 2, CounterStrike, Diablo, or NWN on consoles. Dynasty Tactics and few others are a few that I can think of.=\

However, I still think that consoles gaming is infinetely superior to PC gaming. It's much more dynamic and covers more of the genres that I enjoy.

Arcade gaming>Console Gaming>PC Gaming> Portable Gaming IMO.