Why do console gamers sometimes act so smug when comparing themselves to PC?

Why do console gamers sometimes act so smug when comparing themselves to PC?

PC gamers have access to thousands of great games whether they're exclusive, multiplat, emulated, old, new, obscure, famous all the way back to the 80s all through emulators, the entire Steam and GOG libraries and countless other distribution services. I mean, when it comes to games, it feels like console gamers can only resort to the oens that get the largest marketing budget in order to make themselves seem like they've even got a shot against PC. Gaming PCs are also functional computers on the latest hardware that can run just about anything at very good quality, and the vast customization involved lets you select your own price, sometimes even cheaper than the average console. What do console gamers get? Paid online, ports, sports and nothing but shit with big marketing budgets? Give me a break.

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Because pc has shitty indie games. Checkmate, PC gaming """"master""" race.

The question isn't "Why does x do y?"
The question is "What do I do when x ys?"

The answer is ...AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh

A post containing the words "console" and "PC" should warrant a ban.

Inidie games aren't an inherently bad thing, there is a reason they're popular nowadays. Because there are tons of good ones with developers putting out fresh new ideas. You can't flat out ignore games because they're indie, that's retarded. But even if you can't stand American indie games the Japanese indie scene is steadily growing and there are tons of great accessible games to try out.

We get tv, fun games, basically no hax, and basically everything else a pc can offer past some web apps and more selection of games.

I don't understand why people are so full of spite. Just play what you want. I play console for some and pc for what I can't get on console. So what? Why does it matter to someone else? Have you nothing better to do?

Indie games can be great though.

but frustrating console kiddies with logic is the only good thing left on this board user

>We get tv, fun games, basically no hax, and basically everything else a pc can offer past some web apps and more selection of games.

You're horribly downplaying the amount of features on PC. and
>TV

Because if it weren't for console games being ported to PC as an afterthought you would have nothing. You'd still be stuck playing amateur-made indie games and spreadsheet simulators.

Because the playstation only has the highest quality games, right?

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consolfags are exclusively shitposters

I wish I had the spongebob image that showed patrick how many shits their clam baby takes and those shits covered with PC game titles that console still doesn't have or that were ports from PC TO consoles. Xcom 2 is a big example. Other examples of great PC games are any RTS, Stalker series, the total war games..the PC has a limitless library of games that run better on it than any console and yet people still shit on PC gamers because of brand loyalty . And I'm responding to bait.

>the only games in existence are the ones I know about

Cult inclusion, probably.

See, because nowadays PC branding isn't really relevant to your high-end user. Most brands are either focused towards businesses with prebuilt machines or are only specific pieces of hardware, like Intel and AMD. None of these brands really encompasses PC gaming as a whole. When you build a new PC, you're not associating yourself with those specific manufacturers. You don't really even mention them unless you start talking specs. When you discuss games, the idea of PC gaming is a wide swath that includes many different machines, many different genres, and many different kinds of people. There's no definitive PC gamer, and owning a PC doesn't really inherently include you in a specific group.

Meanwhile, consoles are branded. You buy a PS4 or an Xbox and you're now a part of the cult. You watch the commercials and think, "yes, that's me, that's what I'm included in." You associated everything about yourself, your personality, your likes, with this brand. You are part of a group now that you own a console. You see an ad for a new game marketed towards your console, and you think "this is for me." You see an ad for a new game marketed for the other console, and you're bound to feel vitriolic hate. "Those guys aren't anything like me," you think.

But when console gamers are forced to interact with PC gamers, smug is all they have left. They mock a PC gamer because they're a part of something more and PC isn't. They have a group to identify with that's backed by billions of dollars in advertising. To them, PC is a false collective that doesn't really exist. There's no marketing to confirm PC gamers as a legitimate group.

For console gamers, they have to feel like they belong. And PC gaming would never give them that.

OH, and I forgot the entire warcraft series, starcraft, the entire xcom series, grand strategy, rythm games, some indie titles..

This entire post is a smugpost

neck yourself, saged.

>Because if it weren't for console games being ported to PC as an afterthought you would have nothing.

There's way more vidya out there aside of the AAA garbage Activation shovels every which way.

Because we have Bloodborne and Demon's Souls. PC has nothing.

People who spend big money on something have this weird need of letting everyone know how great and amazing their shit is, they get defensive when someone dares to say something negative about it or if they talk about something that's superior in a way, they need to justify their choices no matter the cost.

Console fanboys have this tendency of defending their "exclusives" and their "cool features" because they have either an emotional attachment or they feel the need of justifying their expenses, and that's perfectly fine, different people like different things, it sucks when people start flinging shit at each other for their choices, but it's not like it's a new thing, just look back at the days of the SNES and the Genesis, people have been arguing about this shit for years, and they aren't going to stop, ever.

Just be the bigger man and accept that other people have different tastes, just ignore the annoying shitposters/vocal minority.

>Muh bludborn and red ded!

I have way too many video games to play to get hung up on two of them.

PC gamers don't need to engage in this shit because it's obvious to anyone with half a brain that it's the superior platform

Whenever a console cuck tries to get under my skin I just laugh

Console gamers don't make as much money and aren't as tech savvy. They know their platform is inferior and they're insecure about it.

>Console fanboys have this tendency of defending their "exclusives" and their "cool features" because they have either an emotional attachment or they feel the need of justifying their expenses


Consoles are cheap and don't need to be defended but when some clown who spent $3000 on his 4k gayman PC wants to come a long and tell me how much better he is because he can run assasins creed and far cry primal at high settings I like to shut him up and tell him western AAA multiplats are shitty games and he fell for the PC gaming meme because not a single PC exclusive takes advantage of his spe and he relies on console ports for games

People only post shit like this to trigger people. If you haven't gotten this through your head idk what to tell you

>tfw still remember being bullied by amigafags
Never expected my platform of choice to rise up to become a breeding pool for elitists.

What I said can also be applied to pc gamers, I've just ran into more people defending consoles, pc memers are usually to busy masturbating over their specs and resolutions so I don't really pay much attention to them anymore, guess I should've worded the post better, my bad.

>Why do console gamers sometimes act so smug when comparing themselves to PC?

>acts smug when comparing himself to consoles

kys

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Because Sup Forums isn't a place to discuss video games but to justify your purchase so you can feel less insecure.

Why is a board for and about vidya enthusiasts so clueless about anything vidya?

>What I said can also be applied to pc gamers, I've just ran into more people defending consoles, pc memers are usually to busy masturbating over their specs and resolutions so I don't really pay much attention to them anymore, guess I should've worded the post better, my bad.

That's only true this year, in 2016,2015,2014 and earlier PC users were the most cancerous shitposters on the board, constantly console bashing, performance and frame rate shaming, graphics shitposting, constantly telling people consoles are shit because they can run western AAA at better settings.

Only when Japanese exclusives started dropped did they begin to shut the fuck up and when console keks started posting Ps4 Pro images asking clowns to show them better looking PC games for $400 did they start to shut the fuck up.

PC users are okay now though, for the most part don't shitpost anywhere near as much as they used to but boy when the ball was in their court they made sure to smash try and bash console peasants to pieces. Bloodborne put them on suicide watch, Nioh dug their grave.

Now is the time for console cucks to tone it down a bit though since they technically won the game wars and PC users are stuck playing old DS and PSP ports

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>I can't face reality.youtube

I call it liek it is. Master Race had been growing strong sing the late PS2 days and it was a full on rape train with no brakes after last generation right up to this year when people began to realize PC Master Race is a meme

Look at it, look at the short-sighted little bred and fed consumer shill zombie. He's not kidding he's completely serious and actually thinks he has a point.

I'm not reading your screencaps by the way. I'm just explaining to you why PC user incited console bashing has died down this year specifically and why it was so prevalent before allowing them to be the most cancerous fanbase on Sup Forums for a long, long time. Calling me names changes nothing.

Oh look it's one of the 20 daily mustard inferiority complex thread we get every single day, how quaint.

>When it was PC that could gloat, they gloated all the time, they were relentless
>But now consoles have the upper hand, but they shouldn't gloat though, that's bad!

Kek okay man, a nice balanced argument there

That is honestly really fucking interesting and I'm very sure it's true on some level, whatever level that may be.

"Consoles make the user feel like they belong to a group" is pretty much undeniable, and the idea that they get some kind of comfort from 'belonging' is very interesting.

>I'm not reading your post so that's why argument
Little fella please, you are not even equipped to have an intelligent discourse about video-games, their history and the medium as a whole. And everyone can see it in your post, you are console-wars: the shitter. One of millions of intellectual bottom feeders, nothing special at all.

Someone has to be the bigger man in this situation otherwise it just ends in cycle of never ending shitposting. PC users couldn't take during their time but we can ad we should. The only one who can end console wars is the one who's winning

As I said before, calling me names has no effect on me, try and be more creative with your ad hominem and I might be interested in reading what you have to say?

Why do pcucks spend so much time talking about their hardware instead of playing all those games

Only going back to 2014?

Look I have been gaming since 1990. My first game was supaplex followed by mario on the NES. My favorite game was Golden Axe which I actually encountered in the arcades. I loved Ultima back then and warcraft 1.
I had every console ever conceived and had a kick ass PC back then. To this day I see no reason to compare PC's to consoles. My PC's earn me money while my consoles spend that money.

The PC platform is much more than just a gaming platform, it is an education machine. It is a business helper. It helps you with taxes and expenses.

Consoles are user friendly (at least they were before PS4.) I love how I just need to put my disc into my PS2 and it runs. I prefer cartridges to cd's but either will do. I hate buying games without a box and manual. I hate digital downloads and only get them when they are super cheap.

Basically are we comparing PC from 1990-2010 to consoles or are we comparing PC's to modern Consoles that are more like PC's than consoles.

Personally I think that consoles should go back to what they were like before. I loved the feel of the Saturn, N64, SNES, PS and GameBoy. It felt like a product that anyone could use not like a fancy home appliance. I loved my SEGA GENESIS, the games and their boxes felt and looked cool. Nowadays it all feels and looks cheap. The game industry needs to up its game. Things are looking pretty bare bones.

Cause PC Master race is about specs and parts. It is about how you put together your machine and how you have VMware running a CentOS

>and the idea that they get some kind of comfort from 'belonging' is very interesting.
That's just the moronic masses syndrome. If you are incapable of thinking for yourself you need someone else or something else to lead you on. Tell you what to do, tell you what to believe and tell you what to think. Ignorance is indeed bliss.

As I said before, calling me names has no effect on me, try and be more creative with your ad hominem and I might be interested in reading what you have to say?

5 minutes. Enough to piss you off but not not actually do anything.

You are wasting your breath on a intellectual dud, a teenager that grew up with the 360/ps4. He has no idea what he is saying and nothing that comes from him is his own thought. Hell he doesn't have a single thought of his own, yet.

I get your point, but your point also literally said "Consoles have only recently been winning". So you're essentially saying PC players gloated for years on end and, eh, that was okay.
But console players absolutely should not gloat at all. Even though it's only recently they could gloat. They should instead remain silent and not be smug about it.
In a few years, sure. But ultimately there never will be an end to this conflict anyway (unless for some reasons consoles/PCs cease existing).
People will always have different tastes and shit.
If/when PC gets back into the lead, and let's say console players never gloated at all, the only people that would care that console players were the "bigger men" would be the console players, who'd hold onto it and try to tell themselves that they're still the real victors on some wierd moral highground.

>Morons buy consoles.
Makes perfect sense.

I was comparing the way PC fanbase has harshly acted towards consoles users for the last decade and have basically tried to destroy them to ensure PC is the main gaming platform via mass brainwashing through hardware and exclusive shaming but ultimatey failed.

Otherwise I generally agree with most of what you've said. I think you may have a bit of notaglic attachment to older consoles and formats like cartidges because everything about that era of gaming was literally magical but in knowing that I am still quite content with how modern consoles are too and their flaws to me are inconvenient at best but not inconvenient enough to push me to PC gaming.

I love PC gaming and see it as a seperate gaming platform with it's own set of values and library of games but most people who really want PC to be the poster boy of huge 4K AAA games just to me don't get the point of PC gaming and have no respect for it's library and the type of genres that are unique to the platform. Running console ports at high settings is cool but then get effectively blown the fuck out by an optimized console AAA exclusive like to me that's consoles purpose type of thing

Anyway I'm just ranting at this point, don't mind me or this post

Consoles needed to add more features to make them seem more useful, they are not just that game machine anymore, people watch Netflix on them, people buy games on them and browse Youtube on them, it makes them more appealing to the average consumer, I honestly prefer the old "put in game and then play" rather than the current "put in game, select user, navigate menus, update, play" we have going on these days.

Printing manuals and making cool boxes is expensive and uses up space, people just aren't into the whole reading a manual thing anymore, it saddens me since I loved reading them before playing a game.

Current gaming is boring, but it makes profits.

>5 minutes. Enough to piss you off but not not actually do anything.
No permaban, it's just a console-wars thread, it's not a valid thread to begin with aside from the fact that the 'PC is not a console and was only ever included in the console wars by the idiotic console peasants to not feel excluded.
The initial PC Masterrace was literally exactly used for that, to taunt the dumbass consolefucks from the sidelines while they fling shit at each other. It was meant to be ironic.
That it turned to be a passive aggressive reaction is no one else's fault but console shitters for including the PC into their bullshit.
All the fucking problems the vidya has can all be followed back to 06/07 when it all went downhill with the introduction of the barebone PC's for illiterates you insane brats call consoles these days.

Because consoles always had the best exclusives and always will

Console wars are for kids or literal retards that limit themselves to a single platform. For any reason.

Dam you're probably right, bring the bigger man is probably the short term solution. I just want the console warring to stop, consoles and PC can co-exist peacefully, they both bring unique software to the table and that's what should matter. It's the hardware and frame rate and spec wars that only place barriers between people and enjoyment of vidiya and I hate that, especially the ''60FPS and literally anything less is unplayable'', one of the most cancerous meme's.

Console
>put disc in
>play game

PC
>buy multiple parts that cost $1000 for a decent build
>have to manually put together all the components
>keyboard is uncomfortable and confusing since 95% of the buttons have no input on the game
>you have to replace all your parts every 1.5 years as the graphics cards become worse over time and run worse
>have to install a video game license rental service like Steam
>have to play $60 for recently released games but have no benefits as physical copy
>there are constant updates for games slowing down the chance of playing the game
>games constantly crash and run into compatibility problems
>Nvidia gimps their cards with Gameworks to make you buy their newer hardware
>try to play some indie games but most are uninspired rip offs of older SNES games I played
>try a early access to literally alpha test a game with barely any content and runs poorly
>can't let my friends borrow my games without jumping though huge obsoletes and even then we can't play each others games if the other is playing a different game at the time
>try to play older games from my childhood on N64 and PS2 emulators
>try to plug in my controller to use for more comfortablility but it requires multiple drivers and constantly rebind the controls every time I switch games
>download emulator for them but they take a while to get the right settings and even then the games run poorly and are missing textures and other graphical glitches
>try to play older PC I heard from others but the run into compatibility problems and constantly crashes when tried to play
>try to play a fun looking multiplayer game but the game is filled with hackers and childern and young teens constantly spouting memes
>try to play split screen with my friends but hardly any games supports split screen and is a hassle to set up
>start playing less and less and go on Sup Forums and shitpost more about games even ones I never even played

What is the point of PC gaming?

Actually this

I see it more as what happened to Sup Forums as a whole, we had posterse a few years ago who would call out people being retarded, saying by acting like that, you only bring in the real idiots. And now it's gone from ironic shitposting to tradition, and because we have been doin it for years, why shouldn't we stop? I don't like what Sup Forums has become, people need to start thinking for themselves and creating OC. This rut of dead memes will only bring this site to a close.

The whole exclusives deal always seemed like a lame marketing technique that should've died when the PS3 and 360 arrived, it limits the possible profit of a game for the sake of selling more consoles, it makes sense, but it's lame.

pseudo-intellectuals are the worst

can you two kindly kys?

The problem is that their whole Sup Forums experience is shitter wars, they don't know anything else, they don't know that they are just copying other dumbass kids. It's an endless echo-chamber of kids parroting kids with the same never ending idiotic phrases that can not even be called memes at this point. You can't even differentiate them from bot posts. They are one and the same.

The only way out of this is a banwave.

Perfect example of a passive aggressive console shitter that should get a permaban.

Thanks for the demonstration there buddy.

>I don't know how to use a computer

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another shitty open world game

What PC gaming brought to the industry:

>Early access DLC
>Broken releases
>Youtubers
>Twitch whores
>13 year old brazilian kids to online gaming
>Beta build sold for 49,99+tax
>40GB patch
>GPU wars: AMD vs Nvidia
>Spyware software mandatory

See what you are doing is the complete opposite of helping. You just acknowledged his post as valid by answering to his straw man.
The right thing to do is not reply at all or simply let him talk to himself.

So Nintendos entire software offering shouldn't exist? Games like Bayo 2, Spiderman, Bloodborne, gravity Rush, Xenoblade 2 should not exist?

Exclusives allow good games to be made, Valve doesn't do shit besides csgo skins, fuck that.

Isn't it the same exact as pc gamers gloating about 4k 60fps againts consoles?

PC
>download game from Steam/Origin/GOG
>click play
>play game

Console
>go to Gamestop
>buy "new" game
>game box is opened, all the bonuses taken out and covered in stickers making the box worthless as a collector's item
>accidentally forced to buy a PowerUp rewards membership
>get home
>put game in console
>download a 50GB day 1 patch
>download takes all day since consoles have shitty bandwidth
>have to install game because playing game off of Bluray is too slow
>finally play game
>can't play multiplayer, have to pay for online first
>pay $60 plus tip for PS+ or XBLG
>game runs at 24fps, have to upgrade to PS4 Pro or Scorpio to get better performance
>buy PS4 Pro
>can't run games at higher resolutions on 1080p TV since console devs can't into downsampling
>buy 4k TV
>game actually runs worse since console can't run higher resolutions effectively
>image looks blurry since game is upscaled
>have to rebuy any old games you want to play since no backwards compatibility
>play nothing but yearly sports games and FPS rehashes since those are the only games that console players buy
>realize that skill is irrelevant on console FPS since every game has massive auto aim
>experience horrible input lag due to TV and wireless controller

What is the point of console gaming?

It's funny, because go ahead and take a look on steam. Not only do you get the "weebshit" that you hate so much, but it also comes with horrible western indie games, unfinished ALPHA early access games, greenlight fucking GARBAGE, extremely mediocre RTS games that nobody plays, countless shitty MMORPGs that nobody plays, thousands of free-to-play garbage that nobody plays, and countless micro transactions and DLC for said games.

Oh, look its a thread where Sup Forums uses their brain for once.