AskingForTrouble 5 Yrs
5 Yrs
I've come to accept that there is no one gaming platform that is entirely free of flaws, although people still have their preferences. I'm not trying to start a console war, I just want to gauge this forum's tastes and interests.

For me, it's the PC. I wouldn't consider myself an initiated member of the "PC Gaming Master Race," though; I'd just as soon grab a modern console if my funds and situation allowed for it.

I used to be a big fan of the Wii and the PS2 before I went to college for the first time, though the majority of my gaming experience was still tied to the PC platform. It started with Lego Star Wars and Maple Story, eventually evolving WoW and CS:GO (of those four now I only play CS:GO).
Sabeckaz 4 Yrs#
4 Yrs#
My first console was a PS2 and is probably the console I've put the most hours into. Nintendo DS is a close second, I've had some excellent memories with that one. As for now I mostly use a PC but I aim to return to console for the next gen and keep my steam account around for sales and multiplayer.
DeadGreenhouse 3 Yrs#
3 Yrs#
I like my gaming machines full tilt- either all fuss or no fuss. There's a certain morbid enjoyment I get out of constantly being frustrated, tweaking screens and settings. I think that's why I gravitate to PC- games either work right away or take 3 hours of fudging around with menus and .ini files.
7 Yrs#
7 Yrs#
I prefer the PC over everything else. I'll even go as far as emulating console games that I own the game and console for just because I'd rather play it at my PC.
tastyyogurt 5 Yrs#
5 Yrs#
My first console I remember was the NES. After that, I basically stayed with consoles, even up to today. I've never owned a good PC to play PC games other than small games that I got from the library from time to time. Consoles were just what I always grew up on, and I never really saw one as better than another. Nintendo had Mario and Legend of Zelda, SEGA had Sonic the Hedgehog and Streets of Rage, Playstation had a ton of great titles, and so on.
2 Yrs$#
2 Yrs$#
My PC is my main squeeze and where I play most of my games. Hoping to build another one in the next year or so since this one is like... 6 or 7 years old now, and I think it's getting about time to get my build on again.

I do also enjoy my consoles and their exclusive games, and my handhelds for when I'm on the go, though.
gamemaster1991 4 Yrs#
4 Yrs#
I'm a big fan of the PS2 and if my controllers kept working, that would be my system of choice. While the Gamecube and Xbox are nice and all, there are just more games on the PS2 that I fell like playing AND I can play PS1 games.

Recently, I've gotten into more Xbox360 games. The PS3 has nice games too but I found the 360 controller more comfortable and I had to keep deleting old saves off my PS3 just to play new games unlike the 360. The Wii is nice too, but I don't always feel like playing a game with a gimmick and the games that use the "Classic NES style" is uncomfortable at times due to the placement of the B button on the bottom.

Honestly, I just play what I feel like at the time. Sometimes it the Xbox, sometimes it's the PSP, sometimes it's an Atari 2600. All sestems have there ups and downs and that's why I play so many. The only one I don't play is PC (aside from Katawa Shoujo and the Merry Gear games) due to not having a powerful pc to play them on.
Humlon 6 Yrs#
6 Yrs#
PC with a gamepad is the best IMO.
Lord of War
2 Yrs$#
2 Yrs$#
Quite obviously the PC. Most of my teenage years I played games using the PC. I had my Game Gear with only a few games and was lacking the patience to beat them. Also I had my father's C64 when I was 9 or 10 years old and loved to play games with it but that came to an end after it broke down. So in the end I only played PC games.
In fact I hadn't owned any consoles beside the Game Gear until the beginning of 2008 when I was suddenly the webmaster of a Kingdom Hearts Website without ever played a Kingdom Hearts game (don't ask!)... As you might guess I became a fan of the series and that resulted in a wide range of new consoles needed. So Kingdom Hearts was kind of the most expensive series for me... Even the costs for the website are peanuts in comparison.
6 Yrs$#
6 Yrs$#
Replying to Sora1248
Yeah, my list is reminiscent of that...

NinjaRic 5 Yrs#
5 Yrs#
I'm a big handheld guy - I've gotten into PC gaming a lot more since I got a laptop with an actual graphics card, but I still prefer having the game wherever and whenever. I had a DS at launch, and played that (along with the Lite that replaced it) as my main console for most of high school. I picked up a PSP late on, which opened me up both to its library and to the libraries of all the old systems it can emulate. And since buying a used Vita in September/October, that's been my main handheld.
8 YrsF#
8 YrsF#
I tend to go in waves. When a new console generation comes I get excited and play there until the graphics of PC start to far exceed them, then I switch back to PC. Seems to go in 2-3 year cycles.

I was PlayStation 4 exclusive for 2 years, then went heavily into PC. Currently, I've switched to primarily Xbox One and exclusives on PC and PS4. When Scorpio comes out, it will be my main for a few years.

Majority of my real friends game on Xbox One.
Terricule 6 Yrs$#
6 Yrs$#
Choosing PC feels like cheating to me, because it only does EVERYTHING.

If I had to choose otherwise, it'd be a tossup for the PSP(Vita by extension)/Wii. I love handhelds and the PSP had a large variety of games. As for the Wii, i'm a sucker for lightgun/pointer controls. Wagglan not so much.
6 Yrs#
6 Yrs#
I do the majority of my gaming via PC. I am close to pongsifu as I will buy a game for my PC that I already own for a console because I would rather play it at my PC. I really should configure things in such a way that I don't do that...
Anyhow if a game is I want is exclusive to a console I will do that (I own all of them aside from a switch now) but if it has the option of PC that is where I play it.

Not only do I prefer PC control schemes most times, but I also prefer sitting at my desk vs on the couch, find it more comfortable for long gaming sessions.
jmdoane42 4 Yrs#
4 Yrs#
For awhile there was a time when most console games were getting ported to PC, and the ports were really good, and Steam sales were incredible. All that came together to make PC my favorite platform. But lately the ports have been slipping again, and the Steam sales are just "meh". By default I find myself trying to get a game on the PS4 first, because I know it's going to work.
NinjaRic 5 Yrs#
5 Yrs#
Replying to Everdred
Majority of my real friends game on Xbox One.

6 Yrs$#
6 Yrs$#
Replying to Humlon
+1 for PC with a gamepad because of it's flexibility, though I am pretty taken with my new PS4 Slim :)

I've played games on 'real' computers since the '80s, from Sinclair Spectrum to Commodore Amiga to Windows PCs to Macs. I became a bit of a PC enthusiast and spent a small fortune over a decade or so building countless boxes for gaming and media production, trying to perfect the sweet spot between small size, high power and low system noise. I shudder to think how many times I maxed out my credit card. I currently use a 27" Mac (2012 model), booting into Windows 10 for gaming, because macOS is very poorly optimised and games run like dogs in tar.

I have become a moderate fan of consoles though, for their relatively hassle-free environment and system exclusives... In 2004 I got my first, a Nintendo GameCube, primarily for Metroid, Mario and Zelda - having been introduced to them by my GF at the time. I still have it and still love it. But since then have also had:

- a PS2 (I only really bought it to play Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus)
- a Wii (too gimmicky - I'd rather just press a button to swing the Master Sword, thank you very much.)
- a couple of Xbox 360's (too noisy and too Microsofty)
- a PS3 Slim (a good all round device, well used over the past 7 years, but too underpowered for too many games).

I fairly recently got a PS4 Slim, and I have to say I'm pretty gobsmacked how such a powerful little thing can output such amazing stuff without hardly making a noise itself. It's quite possibly the gaming box I always dreamed of, and the DS4 controller is the best gamepad I've ever used.
6 Yrs$#
6 Yrs$#
Replying to JernauGurgeh
macOS is actually very well optimized, just not necessarily for things relevant to playing games, e.g. power use/battery life. It's had some glaring problems for approximately forever though, like the video drivers being pure, unmitigated garbage. They don't really seem to care much either. My friend found a reproducible crash bug in one of them and even submitted a fix for it from the open source ones Intel provides on other platforms, and they just ignored it. Legend has it that to this day (5-6 years later) they still haven't patched it.
For me it's Xbox but primarily for controller, never got on with PlayStation, just didn't feel right in my hands. Nothing against the console at all, in fact exclusives alone seem like a major draw but at the end of the day I made a decision and stuck with it.
5 Yrs$#
5 Yrs$#
PC, 100%.

I'd probably even prefer my commodore over my consoles. I just don't like controllers. Console game has 15 keybinds and I can't think of buttons to put those keybinds on. While on PC a game might have 50 keybinds and I just think there isn't enough. It's also way easier to control cameras in games using mouse, especially since I use double inverted camera controls (Vertical and horizontal) on a controller and some games don't have a support for such thing.

And then there's the fact that PC is the platform I grew up with.
CelticLion17 6 Yrs#
6 Yrs#
Which ever machine has games that I'm into. I go where the games go.
Replying to Farzeer
Ah, the Commodore! I started with a Commodore in '82. Recently I bought a faulty Commodore 64 that had been hollowed out and rewired to connect to the PC so that it functions as a 'real' C64 when using the appropriate software :)

Mostly I'm a PC person because I've got way too much stuff for it, and also I like multi-monitor simulations (flight, space, etc) with yokes and throttle levers and buttons and switches and stuff, or ultrawide-screening games like Morrowind or Skyrim, which the consoles didn't do.

But I tried out and gamed on heaps of handhelds and console when they came out, except for the Playstation range. I've only just bought a PS2 so that I can try out games that I never played back in the day. My friend bought an Xbox One and 1 game. For the same money I bought a used PS2 and 22 games, so I feel like I won :)

So, PC for sure, but I just got Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance in the mail, which never came out on the PC, so that should be fun too.
GazDavis11 3 Yrs#
3 Yrs#
Only really started getting into consoles later on in my teens, I had a Sega Saturn for a while then moved onto PS1, PS2, PS3 which I still currently use and the PS4. The ease and comfort of playing in my lounge on the sofa coupled with the fact I have a young family means that's my 'go to' platform. Don't have the space for a dedicated PC nor would I want to sit upright in a chair at a desk playing games. I also have a VITA which I use when on holiday and away with work from time to time
Cl0udy 3 Yrs
3 Yrs
I prefer the PC.
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