Reasons to Love the PC Games

1. Cheap games

The less cash I have to shell out for games, the better. And PC games are far cheaper than console games, for a fine reason: Consoles are walled gardens, while game stores on the PC have to compete for your money.

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Origin’s wonderful “On the House” freebie program, and delectable Humble Bundles, and Green Man Gaming’s perpetual 20 percent off vouchers, and those glorious, glorious Steam sales. On the PC, publishers regularly give away superb older games to drum up interest in imminent sequels, as we saw Need for Speed, SOMA, Dragon Age, and Sniper Elite’s developers do recently. You get games with your monthly PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live subscriptions, which isn’t the same thing at all. 2. You don’t have to pay to play multiplayer games on PCs

3. More types of games

You’ll also find a wider variety of game types on PCs compared to consoles. (Steam added roughly eight new games per day in the first seven months of 2015, PC Gamer reports.)

Don’t worry about missing out on big games, either. Very few of the triple-A games released lock themselves to consoles now that development costs are so high and all three big consoles pack AMD hardware similar to what you’d find in a (budget) gaming PC. Not releasing a PC version of a triple-A game simply doesn’t make sense for third-party game publishers, who don’t have a stake in a particular platform’s dominance.

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The superb strategy game Endless Legend is PC-exclusive, relies heavily on keyboard and mouse controls, and can frequently be found for as little as $10.

Keyboards and mice offer speed, accuracy, and complexity benefits that controllers simply can’t match. The inherent advantages of a keyboard and mouse have led strategy games and simulations to carve out a niche on PCs. Witness XCOM 2 and Cities: Skylines, two notable recent PC exclusives.

4. Play how you want to play

Which leads me to another beautiful aspect of PC gaming: You can play your games however you want to play them. (Sims are another big PC niche for this very reason.)

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PC gaming is all about choice and flexibility, and choice and flexibility are always wonderful things.

That choice and flexibility extends to the hardware inside your PC and the gaming experience itself. Pricey multi-GPU rigs with cranked-to-4K resolutions and every setting maxed out snag all the headlines on Reddit—hey, tricked-out PCs are pretty darn sexy—but there’s no need to break the bank to be a PC gamer.

The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 tend to play games between 720p and 1080p resolution (which makes sense, as most TVs fall in that range) at 30 to 60 frames per second, with graphics comparable to medium-to-high settings on a PC. You can build a gaming computer that checks all those boxes for roughly $400, albeit sans the cost of Windows. evga quick disconnect water cooling

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On the flip side of the coin, you could drop a thousand dollars on your graphics card alone if you want eye candy that’s borderline life-like, or create a gloriously monstrous multi-monitor setup, or be slightly more reasonable and build a gaming PC that falls somewhere between the extremes. Single-monitor 2560x1440 gaming at 60fps is the current PC gaming sweet spot, in my opinion, though shooting-game fans sometimes aim for a 1080p monitor capable of 120Hz to 144Hz for faster reaction times—neither of which consoles are capable of.

But that’s what’s so great about PC gaming: You can choose any hardware setup you like to fit your preferences and budget. If you want to stick to e-sports games like Dota 2, League of Legends, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, you can even get away with skipping a discrete graphics card in favor of one of AMD’s more powerful APU options, which integrate compute processors and Radeon graphics on a single chip.

6. Mods

You can’t play Grand Theft Auto as a demented, fire-loving version of Woody from Toy Story on your Xbox.

PC games have been there in our growing years. They have been much easier to play than any other games. When I was small the gaming consoles were not there. This does not mean that I hate the gaming consoles. I play them too but I find more joy with the PC games. Although I agree that consoles are a little convenient to play because it does not need upgrading from time to time so that the games can be played on it.

The reasons I love these games are as follows:

• Well, truly speaking PC games are a lot budget friendly. So, they are a lot affordable than the gaming consoles. You can never regret buying them feeling that you have spent some extra bucks on them. The facilities of the gaming experiences they offer are total value for money. Plus the games offer much more interesting features which keep one's interest in the matter.

• In the PC games, you can easily play the multiplayer games. • With PC you can be sure to get more types of contests. Whether it is a bigger game or a smaller one you will get all on the PC. Nowadays very few games are there which only release on the consoles and becomes limited in its boundary.

• Another thing of the PC gaming is that with a mouse and keyboard you get more speed than anything else. This has made the games to definite their niche in the PC.

The PC games thus give you flexibility and choice. By this, it also means that the PC can be designed or added with certain features that allow the console games to be played on them.