• NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️@fgc.network
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    7 months ago

    @alessandro They both do different things well.
    Consoles play games. That simplicity is slept on until you spend an hour or more trying to configure a game on PC or diagnose a persistent “crash on launch.” No modularity but cheaper initial cost.

    PCs offer modularity, multiple controller types, mods, and free online multiplayer. Also better, faster adoption of things like higher framerates. Also offer higher performance and increased modularity at the cost of higher prices.

    Both have advantages

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    To me, strategy games, mainly the real time ones. Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, Warcraft, Rise of Nations. Not only that, a large number of games had online multiplayer (which I never played back then because dial up), with every player on their own machine and screen!? HOLY SHIT!!!

    Oh, even better than any console for the longest time, a significant number of PC games could be SAVED ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME.

    Then there was emulation, where even old '95 computers could easily run the majority of SNES/Mega Drive (Genesis) games and back.

  • Nora@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    This may sound like heresy, but I think some games are better on handheld consoles and some are better on the PC. Really depends on the vibe you’re wanting.

    StarCraft for example. Definitely better on PC, almost impossible to play on console.

    Mario Kart or Zelda or many of the Nintendo games. I just either want to play them with friends or just chill on my bed and play them. Sure you could make some kind of PC setup to work the same way, but consoles are very user friendly.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I played through the entirety of Hollow Knight on my Switch on the commuter train.

      Now the Steam Deck exists and I could do the “PC” equivalent of this. But honestly the Switch is a bit lighter so given a game that runs fine on both I’d probably still pick the Switch.

      Also I have played Mario Kart and Smash Bros 2 player in the middle of nowhere, using the detached joy cons. It doesn’t happen often, but it has happened. I have a small adapter that mimics the Switch dock well enough to have it go into TV mode, and I sometimes carry that and an extra pair of joy-cons.

      • typhoon@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        the Switch is a bit lighter

        The Steamdeck needs an alternative version smaller and lighter. Hopefully we see a variant like this in the future releases