The Lame Gamer

PC versus Consoles! A debate rocking the gaming community since ages! Let’s have a go at it. Bear in mind what you read further shall be “RAW”. As RAW as uncooked meat! RAW with the arrogance of a PC Gamer who looks down upon the Console peasants as inferior beings. Because it shall be portraying how stupid and ignorant console gamers are. How crappy consoles are! How valid and apt the terms “Console Peasants” and “PC Master Race” are! Now if you are a console peasant reading this, be ready to have an epiphany about your stupidity. I am a true blue blood PC gamer and “I’ma be shuttin’ yu console gamurz up”.

I was in 4^th grade when I purchased my first gaming console. The PS2! Yes I was naïve back then. Pardon me for this sin that I committed because ever since, I am trying to get rid of the taint this act of mine had inflicted upon me. Having broken my controller within a month of having purchased the console, I have had that waste of money locked in my cupboard ever since. Thus, began my ride of PC gaming. Wait a sec, you weren’t here to read my nice flowery history! Nor was I here to write it! TIME TO PWN CONSOLE PEASANTS!

The consoles as a whole are an insult to computing and its advancements. They are just a cheap product of marketing which stupid noobs and illiterate fools have given into to spurn an industry out of nonsense. I mean you are spending 50k to play games on your couch at 30 fps on 1080p. Just wow! Now before you go ahead and yell at your screen while reading this that I am a stupid person who knows nothing and slap some figures of some Call of Duty game running at 60fps 1080p (and bear in mind, this is the highest specs any game can run at, PCs go above 4k surround setups at 100Fps ) and some other AAA title running at 1080p 60fps ( there aren’t many but yes you can go Google them and yell at me again because obviously you have nothing on the tip of your tongue because chances are that you are no geek like a PC gamer i.e. you are a peasant :P ) a vast majority of the games still run at 1080p 30fps with low textures, no anti-aliasing, low shadows, low tessellation, etc. and many like watchdogs run at 900p *laughs hard*. Also at 30Fps you get too much input lag by PC gaming standards but I’ll cover this point later. Now you’re probably opening a game on your console which has great graphics according to you (pff, console graphics suck), clicking a picture of the graphics settings page and posting it in the comments furiously typing that “All settings say high you fool”, I will have to say that first, you have low standards when it comes to graphics and second, you are stupid. Of course every game developer will say that they are the highest settings because that’s the max your crappy console can have! Now, let me elaborate on why your standards are low.

THAT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEVER PLAYED ON A PROPER GAMING PC AND HAVE RAMBLED ON FOR AGES THAT “MMEH MY CONSOLE IS AWESOME YOUR COMPUTER SUCKS! “ BECAUSE NOT ALL COMPUTERS ARE MEANT TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES! Most people just buy a PC off the shelf for productivity work. Now, go to a person who has a PROPER Gaming PC (You need to understand the difference between a Gaming PC and a computer that can run games. Every PC can run games but not every PC is a Gaming PC). Now if you go and see GTA V on that PC versus GTA V on the console, you won’t notice much of a difference. I mean of course it will look better on a PC ( if you say it looks the same, I will find you and not kill you but hurt you and give you a visiting card for an eye doctor because it DOES NOT look the same ) but I will agree that there won’t be a massive gaping difference. This is because Rockstar made a very poor port of the game for the PC. Go see a game like Watch Dogs on a PC or Far Cry 4 or any game which is not a horrible port. Even Battlefield 4 or Bioshock Infinite will do. Believe me those graphics throw the console out of competition with a flick. Run those games at minimum 60fps on 1080p and compare the input lag on a PC with a console on such games. You will probably be awed by it because there is much less input lag on a PC and you have never experienced that on a console! It is like YouTube at 720p 60fps and normal 720p. YouTube on 720p looked fine but after 720p60fps, there is no going back to normal 720p. Same way, input lag on consoles might feel alright, but once you experience the very little input lag of a PC, there is no going back. Pair it with a G – Sync enabled or a FreeSync enabled monitor (if you don’t know what this is, this is a variable refresh rate technology the GPU giants have implemented to smoothened game play) to blow your mind over how much smoother the game play is on a PC. Such technology will never be available on a console, because your Television screens won’t support it.

 

A typical console pleb. You can't play on a PC from a console couch!

You are probably yelling back at me right now saying that such Gaming PCs cost above 100k. Of course they do but the thing with PC gaming is that it is scalable according to the size of your wallet. You can play ALL computer games on any Gaming PC costing from around 30k. The thing is, that the Graphics will yet look better on a Gaming PC costing 40k than a console costing 40k. Don’t believe me? Go check out how to build a console killer Gaming PC for the Price of a Console on YouTube and have a look at some benchmarks and graphics settings at which the benchmarks were run. You will automatically believe me then (provided you are not a thick headed individual in which case I can’t help you).

So now we know that you can build a gaming PC at the price of a console and it will give you better graphics than a console. Now, let’s see how high end gaming setups stack up against a console. Consoles have only one offering at a single price point. With PCs you can choose how much you want to spend. A high end gaming PC does not only look “freakin’ attractive” but is also extremely powerful. It can Run games at higher resolutions which much higher frame rates (if you say that our eyes can’t see above 30 FPS nor tell the difference between 30 FPS and higher frame rates, I shall find you again and not kill you but hurt you and give you a visiting card for an eye doctor, but this time with a brief biology session on how our eyes can see way above 30FPS ). Also, you get a LOOT of controller options with a PC. You can choose any mouse/keyboard combo which suits your games and play style, pick up a joystick from a large number of options for Flight Sims, a racing wheel for obvious reasons, etc. You can pick up special gaming chars (yes, they do make a difference) or make a triple monitor setup for surround gaming. You can pick up 144Hz refresh rate monitors, 4k monitors and pretty much what exactly you want once you enter the high end enthusiast level PC gaming spectrum. You can even get super enthusiast grade stuff like a gaming cockpit! PC gaming is so much more flexible! Get what you want and can afford! Consoles don’t offer any such options. You might argue that such setups are very expensive but of course a Lamborghini will be more expensive that a cheap sedan. Now don’t come and argue saying that a Lamborghini is a two-seater while a sedan can house 4/5 people in it (for you folks who keep saying that I can play on a console with my friends at home while on PC I have to play online with them or just single player ). PC gamers have LAN parties. Everyone can their own rig and anyway, what’s the point of playing games like COD/Halo split screen (ugggh)! You know where your friend is hiding and can directly shoot him defeating the full purpose of the game. Playing Racing games split screen is also stupid, you purchased a big TV for a reason, not to cut it up into split screens to cram more players. And for games like FIFA and PES you CAN attach multiple controllers to a PC and hook your PC up to a TV instead of a monitor. Oh and I forgot, A KEYBOARD MOUSE IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN A CONTROLLER IN FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS. IT IS MUCH FASTER AND ACCURATE THAN A CONTROLLER IN EVERY SCENARIO. DON’T GIVE ME YOUR USUAL NONSENSE THAT ONCE YOU GET USED TO A CONTROLLER, IT’S THE SAME. IT IS NEVER THE SAME. EG: YOU CANT DO A 180 degree FLICK SHOT IN COUNTER STRIKE WITH A CONTROLLER. YOU CAN’T ADD MORE BUTTONS TO YOUR CONTROLLER FOR KEY BINDS. 

Speaking of Counter Strike, let’s talk E-sports. Be it your 18 million dollar Dota 2 tournaments or the ESL Counter Strike championships, E-sports is FUN! It brings a whole new level of skill based and team gaming into the picture. Most of the E-Sports tournaments are based on PC gaming only. There are extremely few Console based tournaments on an international level. Also Counter Strike >>>> Call of Duty (no auto aim/aim assist/blah blah in Counterstrike people! Pure skill! ). But we will leave this argument for another day (-: .

Also, PC games are cheaper than consoles (I know this is a crappy argument because most people spend a shit load of money on PCs any way, but “Just sayin’ :P “). Now if you say that we can’t play Console exclusives on a PC, I’ll say that you can’t Play PC exclusives on a console. If you say that you don’t want to waste time building a gaming PC yourself (which is very simple and there are numerous guides available on how to do it), you get pre-built Gaming PCs too. For every price point. In the end you will always need a PC at home for computer related work, so you might as well have a gaming PC at home. If you say you can watch Netflix and do other such stuff, on a console for which you prefer it over a PC, you have probably not heard of a web browser on a PC. If you say we can record our game play and share it with our friends easily, you probably haven’t heard about the Xbox app on Windows 8/8.1//10. It has all the functionality you say your console has, and even more than that. If you say that Xbox live or PSN is awesome and that is why we love consoles, I’ll ask you to Google what Steam/Origin is. Plus, we don’t have to pay extra for any kind of premium membership on these networks, you buy the game on a PC and you can play online, just like anybody else who has purchased the game. If you say that you like a controller over a keyboard and mouse, you can attach it to a PC but I can’t attach a keyboard/mouse to a console without a third party solution with an even higher input lag. If you are into online gaming on a console, chances are you are connected to your Router wirelessly which increases your latency while with a PC, you will probably have an Ethernet cable connecting your PC to your router. Those who say that a PC isn’t portable, y’all haven’t heard about ITX computer builds. (small factor computers of the size of a console). 

In the end, PC gaming is just superior to console gaming in every aspect. I have probably missed a few more points on why PCs are better than consoles but I think you have gotten a fair idea about why we call ourselves the PC Master Race and them, the Console Peasants. Got any counter arguments? Hit me up in the comments section!

- Jugal Gala

A Geek