What made me a PC gamer. I was almost 9 years old. My dad bought a 386 and a shareware version of doom. This was in 1993... Doom ran in like 9 fps lol. Now I am 40 years old and have 7950x 3d, 64GB of ram, 4k OLED LG C2, ASUS STRIX 4090, and a steam deck. How times have changed haha...
4 simple reasons why I went from a Nintendo fan to a pc gamer: modding is, 100000x easier, internet piracy (sue me, but I don't have a lot of money), access to more games & keyboard+mouse controls just feel better overall compared to controllers (hot take ik)
Internet piracy is fine if you don't overuse it. If you have no money to buy a game, it's an argument to pirate it now and buy later. If the game isn't sold anywhere, you can pirate it with ease. If pirated version runs and plays better than "lisensed" one (like old GTAs) then you can pirate it. But if you have enough money and still pirate every non-multiplayer game including indie and A titles with prolonged support cycle, well, you better check your values then.
i dont care if people pirate AAA stuff because the people behind it get plenty of money already but if you pirate indie games its a bit more of a deal since you should pay them if you have the money but if your just looking for a fun game then idc its your life
I've been PC gaming all my life, but only for strategy games. It wasn't until 2015 that I finally built my own PC from the ground up, primarily made for ALL gaming. And after spending $3,000 on the perfect rig, I stumbled across Stardew Valley... I felt pretty dumb building a monster rig only to play a game that could be run on a toaster 😅
2006 for me with Test Drive Unlimited, bought my first GPU (nvidia GeForce 7900GS) and slapped it in my HP m7000 pavilion, I quite literary never played console again.
Older PC gamer here. I love this kind of video. We don't have any games in common other than DOOM and emulation, but somehow we have the same feelings and enthusiasm for PC. I dabbled playing on the PC a couple times as a kid, but I thought quality on consoles overall was better. But that all went away when I played on an ACTUAL gaming PC in the early 00s (back when it was very expensive) playing the orange box for the first time. Portal made me lose my mind, then Half Life 2, and then I had to know what the older PC games I had would look like on better hardware, then I was obsessed with emulation because I wanted all of my games in the same place.
Let's see... 1. Minecraft - Especially modded. I can't go back to vanilla anymore 2. CoD WaW - Custom zombies is great (and it's even better in BLOPS3) 3. TF2 4. CSGO - CS has always been shit on console After the 360, I had the choice of PS4 or PC. I went PC and never really looked back. Built first PC in 2015. Ever since then, I have made computers my career. Went and got a bachelors in ComSci and now work as a systems technician for a decent size local company. So in a way, building that first PC has made me more money than I could've ever have spent on it lol
Modded minecraft, that's what got me into pc the most. It was at the end of the ps3 era and I just didn't see a reason to continue paying for next gen.
When I was a little kid all we had in our house was an SNES/SEGA Genesis bootleg until around 2004. After that, my parents bought a PC which came with a bunch of games installed, like GTA Vice City, Star Wars Jedi Academy, NFS Underground, Max Payne 2, Serious Sam, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, Far Cry, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Unreal 2 (which is mediocre but for me it was mindblowing at the time). After experiencing all that, there was no way I was going back to consoles.
Started with NES with an old XT to toy with, moved to PC exclusively around the 486/PSX era... came back for the gamecube to straddle the line.... and now all PC as I watch the current gens.
Doom 2016 and Wolfenstein The New Order make total sense. I've played through Doom 2016 on PC, but I didn't take full advantage of mouse and keyboard. However, I recently played Dead Space from back in 2011 and that part where you had to shoot the asteroids was always awful with a controller, so I switched to the mouse and whooped it's ass.
My old consoles started giving up on me like my ps1 and dream cast and I really wanted to play some of my old games found out about emulators on PC and haven't looked back since PC for life now
When I was a kid, the only console we had until around 2010 when my parents bought a PS2 was my dad's NES. But we always had a PC for as long as I can remember. When I was around 3 or 4 years old, I used to play jump start circus and green eggs and ham. We also had two scooby doo games, "Showdown in Ghost Town" and "Jinx in the Sphinx." Then, when I was about 6 or 7, I discovered browser mmos like club penguin and poptropica. when I was around 9, I learned that you could emulate nes and genesis games on the pc and my mind was blown
I’m an old head so Doom 93 is what got me hooked. My uncle had a pc and I’d stay at his house and play for hours when I was a kid. My parents would never buy a pc in the 90s. So I’d install quake , unreal ect on the PCs in the lab at school. Finally got my own in 03.
Doom 2016 is pretty much the perfect version of the game. I originally played it on Switch, dying constantly at 30fps on Hurt Me Plenty difficulty, but made it through. On PC, I switched to Ultra-Nightmare and because of the high fps and m+k controls, I actually found it easier.
My first gaming experiences where on a Commodore 64. We had a SNES and N64 in the Family, but since my dad needed a PC in the mid 90`s for his work, it was just natural for me to game on it. Never really looked back. Got myself my first PC a couple of years later and had the pleasure of playing the first Half-Life and Unreal Tournament back when they where still new-ish and played a truckload of mods for both of them. Even went to a bunch of smaller LAN-Parties back when those where still a popular thing.
Indie games along with AR and CRPG's my favorite games on pc. The Witcher 3 on pc was great for the longest time because it was the only way to experience the game at above 30fps, which made it so much better.
I played shareware Doom, Quake and the three Marathon games on a Macintosh G5 when I was younger. I went back to PC when I got one from my dad in 2013. GTX 660 with a i5-6600k, got Metro: Last Light for free with it. It was a blast even with the awful framerate. It wasn't until around 2016 when I got a 1070 that I started playing mostly on it (I stopped playing Destiny 1 on my PS4 because my friend group abandoned it)
Flanker 2.0 and Enemy Engaged 2 made me a PC gamer. Sort of. Those are first games my dad bought for our first PC. Then there was Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Fallout, Gothic, Morrowind also was about the same time... but the game that blew my mind and which was a PC game to the bone was Space Rangers (and Space Rangers 2 was even better). That's one of the few games I keep getting back even today. Another game that I visit occasionally is Left 4 Dead 2, and even though it was a multiplatform game, it's currently available only on PC, still have an impressive player base here and it is a definitive way to play it with all the features available.
doom 2016 was one of my first games transitioning to pc as well, i had just played it on the xbone then built my pc and experienced 200fps with 120fov maxed out and never looked back
Interesting. In my case there is different games from your list. I became a PC player back in the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007 at 13 years old age. And my very first PC was a gift from my brother for my birthday. Before that, I started my gaming path with 8 bit Nintendo Entertainment System console, NES for short and then jumped to Sega Mega Drive that is also known as Sega Genesis. So after Sega console, I made a jump to a PC platform and I'm there still. So let's talk about the games that made me a PC gamer. And those games are GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, WarCraft 3, Quake 2, Quake 3, Counter-Strike 1.6, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Serious Sam games and lot more. Sure, GTA was not a specifically a PC game because it is available also for consoles but still, I played them first time on PC and that is why I consider them for myself as a PC games. But, the most impact for me as a PC player did a series of games that were never released on consoles back then, until now. And I'm talking about S.T.A.L.K.E.R series. Made by our developers from Ukraine, I played the heck out of those games, man. I still remember all of them as a back of my hand and I still enjoy them, despite the fact that they are games of their time. So if you ask me to name one game that made me a PC gamer, I would almost 100% say that S.T.A.L.K.E.R series did. And there is a lot of other games that were never released for consoles. Or were released but a lot later and was originally PC exclusive titles. I would name them but my comment is as long as it is, so I rather save it for the list that I'm planning to make for myself, since some of them requires a conformation of, were they really originally the PC exclusive games or not.
First pc in 1988... definitely kept going back to console, Final Fantasy was a thing. The current generation is the first time I haven't bothered with a new console at all.
Technically I've been a PC gamer my entire life but I didn't become exclusively a PC gamer until 2015. But if I had to pick a handful of PC games that really got me into PC gaming it would be: 1. Age of Mythology. I'm talking the original game back on CD. Yes, I've been playing Age of Mythology that long. It was legit the first strategy game I ever played. 2. Dragon Age Origins. I first played DAO on Xbox 360 and the party command system on that game for console was an unholy abomination to the point I really fucking despised the combat system on console. I'm just lucky a friend suggested I give it another go on PC because the PC version wound up being one of my favorite games of all time. 3. Oblivion. Be honest, people. How many of you are capable of playing any Bethesda game unmodded? Especially Oblivion with those damned psychic guards. I know I'm not. 4. Crusader Kings 2.
Main reason I got into PC was over covid just before the crazy price hikes with the chip shortage. I wanted to play more than just what was on the console and didn't want to pay for online (I can thank Rags and his videos for that). Played Custom Zombies on Bo3, the Doom reboots, and the Halo campaigns all on PC and seeing the difference when at 1440p at 144HZ compared to console was just a new world. They felt like new games even though I had already played them before. Then for multiplayer I got into Rust, Valorant, and Insurgency Sandstorm. I've always wanted to play Battlefield on PC but I'm waiting for one to release that isn't broken at launch, I played Bad Company 2, Bf4 and Bf1 on console but want to get into one on PC.
I switch to PC back in 2019 I had experience a lot of PC gaming in the early 2000s on a windows 98 PC and during my high school years a friend of mine had PC and I always knew PC was superior but for some reason I wanted to stick with consoles mostly because I already had a lot of games and achievements. But one afternoon out of nowhere i just decided to just buy a PC, I got the pieces built it, and honestly, I never looked back and probably never will.
For me it was Half Life and Deus Ex and Quake 2’s demo. I played Half Life, and Team Fortress Classic and Counterstrike (before Valve owned it), on my family’s Dell PC. It was trash. At like 15 fps when playing online on a 12k modem. I was there for day one of the Steam Store back when people hated it. But for me it wasn’t that PC offered better quality or frames than console. Clearly I wasn’t getting the benefit of that, lol. But what it did show me was that I could have these advanced experiences that we just did not have on console at the time. It showed me that PC had the potential to push well beyond console and when we did get a PC port, like Doom, it was watered down because console hardware couldn’t hang. I’ve never left consoles behind, I’ve always been on all platforms. Except the Switch, I have a Steam Deck but I have been a holdout for the Switch 2 for years now. Will try it then. There are definitely benefits to each depending on the player, but considering how much console players obsess over graphics (and now higher framerates) many of them would be happier on PC I suspect. And probably why PC gaming has outpaced console for new player growth for a few years now.
Witcher 3 is my favourite game of all time. I sunk 450 hours into it and it was worth every second. I won 3 copies of it on PC, Xbox and PS. It's paced so well have just gives you random side quests out of nowhere because a question mark shows up on your map, you are super close so you go investigate and 2 hours later you are still playing the side quest. Better yet is some NPC will reference that side quest 20 hours later in the game which was a completely optional side quest. CDPR were wizards when they made that masterpiece. I ruined gaming for me for about 2 years. Anything I picked up was mediocre at best. I have a new rig now and think I'm going to revisit it and enjoy the ride again. Mass Effect 2 is my second all time favourite game. There is a lot of ME2 DNA in Witcher 3. Decisions mean something and change the narrative often. Sometimes 15 minutes in or 5 hours in. The sex was pretty good too ;) Sunk 1round 100 hours into that one with all the DLC they released. I highly recommend playing the definitive edition that came out a couple of years ago.
Switched to PC gaming back in 2021. The best decision I've made. Much better ecosystem, mods, emulators, free online, Steam, and more control of graphics settings. I don't have to limit myself to playing at 30 fps. Console dudes need to open their eyes and see that PC is the way to go. I think I'll be a PC gamer for the rest of my life.
I got into pc gaming when I i tried Warcraft Orc v Human then Warcraft II then I tried WoW at one point I talk about buying a p s three, then I realized the pc, i'm playing on beats the crap out of that, and I never looked back
I just got my first pc this February, and i just sold my Xbox last week. Aside from a few games i don't currently have the money to buy again, i have no regerts
I built my first pc in 2018 and never looked back mods all the although I wanted a PC since like 2011 when MXR was showing off Skyrim mods and "I was like what you can do that with games on pc!"
@thetechnosaiyan he's specifically said in a video he was gonna give it a chance. So im here to comment on every video to hold him to it Still no response. So maybe I'll bug him on his stream
No specific games made me switch. I just wanted all the freedoms that the PC ecosystem offers. I guess I can say that I was really enticed by the concept of emulators. If every game were backwards compatible on every new console, I'd probably would have been too busy to make the switch.
For me it was Minecraft. My school had a Minecraft server back during lockdown and all my friends were playing on it, and I wanted a way to socialize. So I pulled out my dad's old work laptop, bought java edition, and hopped on. I played for months, at 25 fps. Eventually I found a good deal on a gaming laptop (yes I know gaming laptops suck) and used that for a few years. Last year I was in a Fortnite match playing with some friends when one of them complained about not being able to sell his desktop, I offered to buy it, and now I'm a full time pc gamer and have not looked back
0:10 "i got disappointed by the eighth generation of consoles and i tought i could do better on pc" this is PCMR are the plague of PC gaming, you all are consoles refugees.
What games made me a pc gamer? Good bit of switch releases (especially acnh going to that after new leaf was such a letdown) a xbox owned studio being fired after making a amazing game (tango works), and Sony, I don’t gotta say much about them, everyone knows how Sony is, basically, all consoles are taking advantage of their brand loyalty
For me, it was Team Fortress 2, it was my first Steam game. I started as a teenager that was just playing with friends, but as time went on, I collected more games in my Steam Library and became more and more accustomed to playing my games on computer, and now basically everything is here. I got a PS4 for Bloodborne, and got Ghost of Tsushima as a gift from a friend, but now that GoT is on PC, I rarely touch this thing at all these days. Please, Sony, stop holding your biggest moneymaker hostage, you braindead greedy cucks.
I was playing PC since my dad had me on his laps pressing forward in NFS:PU I guess. Never had a console in my life. On a topic of the video, damn the person in Wolf section is playing bad. He definitely needs some heavy aim training
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, Doom 3, Doom 2016, Doom eternal, Re 2 and Re 4 remakes made me a PC gamer. That and how shitty ps5 was that I refused to ditch my ps4 slim.
Black Ops 3 custom zombies only made me a PC player. As a zombies fan I had no idea custom maps existed on PC. I saw you tubers playing some of them and legit thought the maps.were made especially for them and their channel.
I remember I got my PC in 2021 after my dad got a gaming PC for his own job and after seeing it I knew I wanted a PC and I don't regret buying my pre-built PC.
I became a PC gamer in 2016. I was halfway into the PS4 cycle and was getting tired of all of the 3rd person open world action games (and I like that kind of game but damn Sony was making too many of them). It was clear to see that Sony was changing (for many reasons) and not the Playstation I liked from PS 1-3. Gaming for me on consoles at that point was getting boring. To note I did try PC gaming in the 90's and I absolutely hated it. It was something definitely for people who had a technical inclination for this and I wasn't one of them. There were no websites or youtube type sites at the time showing tutorials or giving advice on this. 2014 I started to watch a lot of PC vs Console vids. And of course trying it out in the 90's I had a lot of skepticism on what the pro PC players were saying at the time. I started to watch a youtuber named OhnoItsAlex and he was talking about being a PC gamer since the 90's and acknowledging how much easier it was to get into than it was in the 90's. From that point I asked a lot of questions for that 18 month stretch of time. I was almost fully on board to switch but for me It came down to 2 reasons for me to fully pull the trigger. On top of all the great things PC has to offer (Cheap games, customizability, emulation, freedom of the platform, better graphics etc.......) The two things for me was modding and the fact I can hook up a PC to my TV in the living room. I don't know how many vids I watched on modding and seeing games almost fully transform into something different or better through mods and being able to game on it in the living room on my 55in 4K tv with a wireless KB+M and controller while sitting on a comfy recliner. 8 years later still going strong and still loving the shit out of this platform, never going back to consoles. On a side note, playing single player FPS games on PC is so much better for the reason that a setting called FOV exist. I never knew coming from console until I used this for the first time. What a difference..... that and turning off Motion blur.
To me, it's not about specific games making me a PC gamer, it's about WHAT you Can do if games come to PC. And I won't stop mentioning emulation. I love iconic franchises from all consoles of the past!
Hey Joe, H1Z1 wasn't originally supposed to be a BR. It was originally supposed to be more similar to DayZ or 7 Days to Die. It went down the stupid path though. It should have stayed a zombie survival game. I wanted to play it, then I heard it became a BR.
I finished building my PC in 2019 First games I played was Portal 1 and Terraria I tried using kbm controls on CSGO but didn't like it. I use controller exclusively and PC is still 10x better than console due to the freedom you get, I love emulation I cant imagine a world without that I still use 2016 hardware and 1080p. Don't listen to people who say you need £3000 to build one. You only need to spend what you're comfortable with. I don't use crappy T-AA and artifacted ray tracing bs which you are forced to use on consoles
2018 for me was kinda splitting my time too then I played Witcher 3 on pc and I was sold then double sold when I found out how to use mods. Then for fps apex and MW 2019 all three blew my mind on pc gaming and I have a mid rig
agree 1000% on witcher 3 i tried it multiple times on console and when i switched to pc i picked it up cause cheap and it has become one of my favorite games. I think its partially frame rate and also partially it kinda just feels clunky with a controller at least to me. Also doom while i liked it on console it is definitely a game that is made for pc not console, i just feel bad for the poor souls that try to play it on the switch.
got my first gameing pc in 1998 but my first pc was a 486 pc from the yr of are lord 1993 lol the fist game i played on pc well it was not really a pc was lemmings
I always wanted to be a pc gamer since I played Dune on that shitty PC my father had Man, Im hoping to play games on pc And to rig Nintendo fanboys by emulating Nintendo games, like I'm playing Earthbound in an emulator right now Complain Nintendo fanboys, I do not fear your cries
Wolf New Order is the goat but it sadly doesn't work very well with modern hardware, I still have my old PC with GTX 1070 and the game runs constant 90 FPS but on my current PC it is just not good
Got the steam deck 2 years ago, switch has been collecting dust ever since. (Guys I'm joking, my switch is in a switch case at the bottom of my Jean drawer, because if the joycons get exposed to air for too long they start drifting)
I've always been a PC gamer, grew up playing wow on shitty laptops and got my first actual PC(pentium g4560 1050ti) in 2016ish and i could never swap to console. Ryzen 7 9700x and a 7800xt with a high refresh rate 1440p monitor. WITH a secondary monitor. How could i ever want to play on a console
I just moved over here because I was getting more and more frustrated with what Sony was doing to PlayStation, that I decided to make PC my platform going forward Had a Steam account since at least 2016, but only got a proper gaming PC about 2 years ago
For me it wasn't any game that pushed me to PC gaming, it was emulation, the fact that I diddn't have to buy or get repaired my old PS2 to enjoy a game I really liked in childhood again. Emulation bypasses all exclusivity and I was fascinated by it. Then I learned about the backwards compatibility and mods and then there was simply no going back. Today is almost 4 years since I built my PC. Looking forward to upgrading it in a couple years.
For around the same time, but Ps4 censorship on thier anime like games, when before they didn't care, bad mod support on Skyrim and Fallout 4 on both consoles and bad performance on some games I wanted freedom from all the restrictions on consoles and i wanted to play everything past and future without rebuilding or hoping for backwards on consoles. I have a large 360 and ps3 collection and on 360 not everything is backwards and ps4 is not backwards 😢
I was buying old prebuilts and just putting some better parts in over time. Before the coof really hit I was buying all the parts I needed to finally build my own. Love my baby, does exactly what I want it to, modded minecraft with a billion mods.😂 But seriously I have a ton of games to play now, unlike the ps5.
What made me a PC gamer. I was almost 9 years old. My dad bought a 386 and a shareware version of doom. This was in 1993... Doom ran in like 9 fps lol.
Now I am 40 years old and have 7950x 3d, 64GB of ram, 4k OLED LG C2, ASUS STRIX 4090, and a steam deck. How times have changed haha...
4 simple reasons why I went from a Nintendo fan to a pc gamer: modding is, 100000x easier, internet piracy (sue me, but I don't have a lot of money), access to more games & keyboard+mouse controls just feel better overall compared to controllers (hot take ik)
Internet piracy is fine if you don't overuse it. If you have no money to buy a game, it's an argument to pirate it now and buy later. If the game isn't sold anywhere, you can pirate it with ease. If pirated version runs and plays better than "lisensed" one (like old GTAs) then you can pirate it. But if you have enough money and still pirate every non-multiplayer game including indie and A titles with prolonged support cycle, well, you better check your values then.
i dont care if people pirate AAA stuff because the people behind it get plenty of money already but if you pirate indie games its a bit more of a deal since you should pay them if you have the money but if your just looking for a fun game then idc its your life
mouse & keyboard input lag is lesser than joysticks, and they are cheaper.
I've been PC gaming all my life, but only for strategy games.
It wasn't until 2015 that I finally built my own PC from the ground up, primarily made for ALL gaming. And after spending $3,000 on the perfect rig, I stumbled across Stardew Valley...
I felt pretty dumb building a monster rig only to play a game that could be run on a toaster 😅
Got my first gaming PC in 2018, I also never looked back.
2019 for me
Started in 2020 for me
Geeze you guys are kids haha. I started to PC gaming in 1993.
2006 for me with Test Drive Unlimited, bought my first GPU (nvidia GeForce 7900GS) and slapped it in my HP m7000 pavilion, I quite literary never played console again.
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Older PC gamer here. I love this kind of video. We don't have any games in common other than DOOM and emulation, but somehow we have the same feelings and enthusiasm for PC. I dabbled playing on the PC a couple times as a kid, but I thought quality on consoles overall was better. But that all went away when I played on an ACTUAL gaming PC in the early 00s (back when it was very expensive) playing the orange box for the first time. Portal made me lose my mind, then Half Life 2, and then I had to know what the older PC games I had would look like on better hardware, then I was obsessed with emulation because I wanted all of my games in the same place.
My first PC was a Atari 800 XL, at that time I was also playing on consoles. My second PC was in 2002 and I never touched another console after that
Guys, I doxxed joe
He lives in Seattle
im gonna pull up and have him play on a ps5 pro
@@TheWitch297 now that's just evil. you gonna make him pay for it too?
@@i-donnt-like-pickles every single penny. disc drive as well
How dare you?
Actually I think he mentioned where he is now, at least near. Not actually IN Seattle, just FROM Seattle. Lol
Let's see...
1. Minecraft - Especially modded. I can't go back to vanilla anymore
2. CoD WaW - Custom zombies is great (and it's even better in BLOPS3)
3. TF2
4. CSGO - CS has always been shit on console
After the 360, I had the choice of PS4 or PC. I went PC and never really looked back. Built first PC in 2015.
Ever since then, I have made computers my career. Went and got a bachelors in ComSci and now work as a systems technician for a decent size local company. So in a way, building that first PC has made me more money than I could've ever have spent on it lol
Modded minecraft, that's what got me into pc the most. It was at the end of the ps3 era and I just didn't see a reason to continue paying for next gen.
average console refugee (aka PCMR), builds a expensive pc and only plays the same game for being popular and claims pc is better.
When I was a little kid all we had in our house was an SNES/SEGA Genesis bootleg until around 2004. After that, my parents bought a PC which came with a bunch of games installed, like GTA Vice City, Star Wars Jedi Academy, NFS Underground, Max Payne 2, Serious Sam, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, Far Cry, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Unreal 2 (which is mediocre but for me it was mindblowing at the time). After experiencing all that, there was no way I was going back to consoles.
Started with NES with an old XT to toy with, moved to PC exclusively around the 486/PSX era... came back for the gamecube to straddle the line.... and now all PC as I watch the current gens.
Doom 2016 and Wolfenstein The New Order make total sense. I've played through Doom 2016 on PC, but I didn't take full advantage of mouse and keyboard. However, I recently played Dead Space from back in 2011 and that part where you had to shoot the asteroids was always awful with a controller, so I switched to the mouse and whooped it's ass.
My old consoles started giving up on me like my ps1 and dream cast and I really wanted to play some of my old games found out about emulators on PC and haven't looked back since PC for life now
When I was a kid, the only console we had until around 2010 when my parents bought a PS2 was my dad's NES. But we always had a PC for as long as I can remember. When I was around 3 or 4 years old, I used to play jump start circus and green eggs and ham. We also had two scooby doo games, "Showdown in Ghost Town" and "Jinx in the Sphinx." Then, when I was about 6 or 7, I discovered browser mmos like club penguin and poptropica. when I was around 9, I learned that you could emulate nes and genesis games on the pc and my mind was blown
Doom 2016 is the game I play to test out new headsets. Doing a runthrough of that game is the perfect stress test
honestly emulation got me into PC Gaming especially the ps3 era games
I’m an old head so Doom 93 is what got me hooked. My uncle had a pc and I’d stay at his house and play for hours when I was a kid. My parents would never buy a pc in the 90s. So I’d install quake , unreal ect on the PCs in the lab at school. Finally got my own in 03.
Doom 2016 is pretty much the perfect version of the game. I originally played it on Switch, dying constantly at 30fps on Hurt Me Plenty difficulty, but made it through.
On PC, I switched to Ultra-Nightmare and because of the high fps and m+k controls, I actually found it easier.
My first gaming experiences where on a Commodore 64. We had a SNES and N64 in the Family, but since my dad needed a PC in the mid 90`s for his work, it was just natural for me to game on it. Never really looked back. Got myself my first PC a couple of years later and had the pleasure of playing the first Half-Life and Unreal Tournament back when they where still new-ish and played a truckload of mods for both of them. Even went to a bunch of smaller LAN-Parties back when those where still a popular thing.
Indie games along with AR and CRPG's my favorite games on pc. The Witcher 3 on pc was great for the longest time because it was the only way to experience the game at above 30fps, which made it so much better.
I played shareware Doom, Quake and the three Marathon games on a Macintosh G5 when I was younger. I went back to PC when I got one from my dad in 2013. GTX 660 with a i5-6600k, got Metro: Last Light for free with it. It was a blast even with the awful framerate. It wasn't until around 2016 when I got a 1070 that I started playing mostly on it (I stopped playing Destiny 1 on my PS4 because my friend group abandoned it)
Everybody's tale of ascension to the Master Race is fascinating to hear.
what made me a pc gamer 2016 when i played senran kagura on pc and skull girls i was hooked every since
Built my first PC JUST for Overwatch when it first came out. Never looked back.
Flanker 2.0 and Enemy Engaged 2 made me a PC gamer. Sort of. Those are first games my dad bought for our first PC. Then there was Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Fallout, Gothic, Morrowind also was about the same time... but the game that blew my mind and which was a PC game to the bone was Space Rangers (and Space Rangers 2 was even better). That's one of the few games I keep getting back even today. Another game that I visit occasionally is Left 4 Dead 2, and even though it was a multiplatform game, it's currently available only on PC, still have an impressive player base here and it is a definitive way to play it with all the features available.
doom 2016 was one of my first games transitioning to pc as well, i had just played it on the xbone then built my pc and experienced 200fps with 120fov maxed out and never looked back
Interesting. In my case there is different games from your list. I became a PC player back in the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007 at 13 years old age. And my very first PC was a gift from my brother for my birthday. Before that, I started my gaming path with 8 bit Nintendo Entertainment System console, NES for short and then jumped to Sega Mega Drive that is also known as Sega Genesis. So after Sega console, I made a jump to a PC platform and I'm there still. So let's talk about the games that made me a PC gamer.
And those games are GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, WarCraft 3, Quake 2, Quake 3, Counter-Strike 1.6, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Serious Sam games and lot more. Sure, GTA was not a specifically a PC game because it is available also for consoles but still, I played them first time on PC and that is why I consider them for myself as a PC games. But, the most impact for me as a PC player did a series of games that were never released on consoles back then, until now. And I'm talking about S.T.A.L.K.E.R series. Made by our developers from Ukraine, I played the heck out of those games, man. I still remember all of them as a back of my hand and I still enjoy them, despite the fact that they are games of their time. So if you ask me to name one game that made me a PC gamer, I would almost 100% say that S.T.A.L.K.E.R series did. And there is a lot of other games that were never released for consoles. Or were released but a lot later and was originally PC exclusive titles. I would name them but my comment is as long as it is, so I rather save it for the list that I'm planning to make for myself, since some of them requires a conformation of, were they really originally the PC exclusive games or not.
First pc in 1988... definitely kept going back to console, Final Fantasy was a thing. The current generation is the first time I haven't bothered with a new console at all.
Technically I've been a PC gamer my entire life but I didn't become exclusively a PC gamer until 2015. But if I had to pick a handful of PC games that really got me into PC gaming it would be:
1. Age of Mythology. I'm talking the original game back on CD. Yes, I've been playing Age of Mythology that long. It was legit the first strategy game I ever played.
2. Dragon Age Origins. I first played DAO on Xbox 360 and the party command system on that game for console was an unholy abomination to the point I really fucking despised the combat system on console. I'm just lucky a friend suggested I give it another go on PC because the PC version wound up being one of my favorite games of all time.
3. Oblivion. Be honest, people. How many of you are capable of playing any Bethesda game unmodded? Especially Oblivion with those damned psychic guards. I know I'm not.
4. Crusader Kings 2.
An often overlooked game i would put on the level with Doom 2016 os Titanfall 2. That game is MEANT for pc
Main reason I got into PC was over covid just before the crazy price hikes with the chip shortage. I wanted to play more than just what was on the console and didn't want to pay for online (I can thank Rags and his videos for that).
Played Custom Zombies on Bo3, the Doom reboots, and the Halo campaigns all on PC and seeing the difference when at 1440p at 144HZ compared to console was just a new world. They felt like new games even though I had already played them before.
Then for multiplayer I got into Rust, Valorant, and Insurgency Sandstorm. I've always wanted to play Battlefield on PC but I'm waiting for one to release that isn't broken at launch, I played Bad Company 2, Bf4 and Bf1 on console but want to get into one on PC.
I switch to PC back in 2019 I had experience a lot of PC gaming in the early 2000s on a windows 98 PC and during my high school years a friend of mine had PC and I always knew PC was superior but for some reason I wanted to stick with consoles mostly because I already had a lot of games and achievements. But one afternoon out of nowhere i just decided to just buy a PC, I got the pieces built it, and honestly, I never looked back and probably never will.
For me it was Half Life and Deus Ex and Quake 2’s demo. I played Half Life, and Team Fortress Classic and Counterstrike (before Valve owned it), on my family’s Dell PC. It was trash. At like 15 fps when playing online on a 12k modem. I was there for day one of the Steam Store back when people hated it. But for me it wasn’t that PC offered better quality or frames than console. Clearly I wasn’t getting the benefit of that, lol. But what it did show me was that I could have these advanced experiences that we just did not have on console at the time. It showed me that PC had the potential to push well beyond console and when we did get a PC port, like Doom, it was watered down because console hardware couldn’t hang. I’ve never left consoles behind, I’ve always been on all platforms. Except the Switch, I have a Steam Deck but I have been a holdout for the Switch 2 for years now. Will try it then. There are definitely benefits to each depending on the player, but considering how much console players obsess over graphics (and now higher framerates) many of them would be happier on PC I suspect. And probably why PC gaming has outpaced console for new player growth for a few years now.
Got my first gaming PC in 1987, it wasn't until Diablo II and then FFXI that I never looked bavk
Witcher 3 is my favourite game of all time. I sunk 450 hours into it and it was worth every second. I won 3 copies of it on PC, Xbox and PS. It's paced so well have just gives you random side quests out of nowhere because a question mark shows up on your map, you are super close so you go investigate and 2 hours later you are still playing the side quest. Better yet is some NPC will reference that side quest 20 hours later in the game which was a completely optional side quest. CDPR were wizards when they made that masterpiece. I ruined gaming for me for about 2 years. Anything I picked up was mediocre at best. I have a new rig now and think I'm going to revisit it and enjoy the ride again.
Mass Effect 2 is my second all time favourite game. There is a lot of ME2 DNA in Witcher 3. Decisions mean something and change the narrative often. Sometimes 15 minutes in or 5 hours in. The sex was pretty good too ;)
Sunk 1round 100 hours into that one with all the DLC they released. I highly recommend playing the definitive edition that came out a couple of years ago.
Switched to PC gaming back in 2021. The best decision I've made. Much better ecosystem, mods, emulators, free online, Steam, and more control of graphics settings. I don't have to limit myself to playing at 30 fps. Console dudes need to open their eyes and see that PC is the way to go. I think I'll be a PC gamer for the rest of my life.
I got into pc gaming when I i tried Warcraft Orc v Human then Warcraft II then I tried WoW at one point I talk about buying a p s three, then I realized the pc, i'm playing on beats the crap out of that, and I never looked back
I got my first PC in 2022. Never got to grips with mouse and keyboard, and I likely never will because playing on keyboard hurts my left hand.
Yoooooooooooo Ring of Elysium mentioned. I fucking loved that game dude
I just got my first pc this February, and i just sold my Xbox last week. Aside from a few games i don't currently have the money to buy again, i have no regerts
I started on a Pentium 2 PC in 1999. My favourite old games were Half Life and all its mods/spinoff, Quake 2 and SIN.
I built my first pc in 2018 and never looked back mods all the although I wanted a PC since like 2011 when MXR was showing off Skyrim mods and "I was like what you can do that with games on pc!"
Hey Joe did you play Horizon yet?
I don't know if this is sarcasm but he hates horizon.
@thetechnosaiyan
he's specifically said in a video he was gonna give it a chance. So im here to comment on every video to hold him to it
Still no response. So maybe I'll bug him on his stream
Doom, the og version.
Went to a friends house in 7th grade. I saw doom and it was insane and awesome.
No specific games made me switch. I just wanted all the freedoms that the PC ecosystem offers. I guess I can say that I was really enticed by the concept of emulators. If every game were backwards compatible on every new console, I'd probably would have been too busy to make the switch.
For me it was Minecraft. My school had a Minecraft server back during lockdown and all my friends were playing on it, and I wanted a way to socialize. So I pulled out my dad's old work laptop, bought java edition, and hopped on. I played for months, at 25 fps. Eventually I found a good deal on a gaming laptop (yes I know gaming laptops suck) and used that for a few years. Last year I was in a Fortnite match playing with some friends when one of them complained about not being able to sell his desktop, I offered to buy it, and now I'm a full time pc gamer and have not looked back
Hey PC gamer, please make a video about userbenchmark.
0:10 "i got disappointed by the eighth generation of consoles and i tought i could do better on pc" this is PCMR are the plague of PC gaming, you all are consoles refugees.
What games made me a pc gamer? Good bit of switch releases (especially acnh going to that after new leaf was such a letdown) a xbox owned studio being fired after making a amazing game (tango works), and Sony, I don’t gotta say much about them, everyone knows how Sony is, basically, all consoles are taking advantage of their brand loyalty
Hope to build a pc next year
For me it was red dead redemption 2 and cyberpunk that made me switch to pc
More than half if these are just shooters. I was hoping a metroidvania game is on there or a roguelite or an JRPG.
Half life 2 Gmod mods in general got me into pc gaming
Last console I had was an Atari 2600
My First gaming PC was in 2015 so I can play GTA 5 and I never looked back
For me, it was Team Fortress 2, it was my first Steam game. I started as a teenager that was just playing with friends, but as time went on, I collected more games in my Steam Library and became more and more accustomed to playing my games on computer, and now basically everything is here. I got a PS4 for Bloodborne, and got Ghost of Tsushima as a gift from a friend, but now that GoT is on PC, I rarely touch this thing at all these days. Please, Sony, stop holding your biggest moneymaker hostage, you braindead greedy cucks.
I would love to switch to pc
Only if I had enough storage
Quake 3 and Wolfenstein Enemy Territory for me
That was highschool for me. I started to PC gaming when my dad brought a 386 in 1993. I was OG doom in 1993 when I was a kid.
It was CSGO and TF2 and MC for me
I was playing PC since my dad had me on his laps pressing forward in NFS:PU I guess. Never had a console in my life.
On a topic of the video, damn the person in Wolf section is playing bad. He definitely needs some heavy aim training
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, Doom 3, Doom 2016, Doom eternal, Re 2 and Re 4 remakes made me a PC gamer.
That and how shitty ps5 was that I refused to ditch my ps4 slim.
DOOM 2016 and Dying Light is what got me into pc gaming more
Black Ops 3 custom zombies only made me a PC player. As a zombies fan I had no idea custom maps existed on PC. I saw you tubers playing some of them and legit thought the maps.were made especially for them and their channel.
wolfenstein 3d was when i too truely jumped into pc gaming... and now i played it recently on a steamdeck at 60 fps... i couldnt belive it tbh
I remember I got my PC in 2021 after my dad got a gaming PC for his own job and after seeing it I knew I wanted a PC and I don't regret buying my pre-built PC.
15:19 sad that runs outdated engine
I became a PC gamer in 2016. I was halfway into the PS4 cycle and was getting tired of all of the 3rd person open world action games (and I like that kind of game but damn Sony was making too many of them). It was clear to see that Sony was changing (for many reasons) and not the Playstation I liked from PS 1-3. Gaming for me on consoles at that point was getting boring. To note I did try PC gaming in the 90's and I absolutely hated it. It was something definitely for people who had a technical inclination for this and I wasn't one of them. There were no websites or youtube type sites at the time showing tutorials or giving advice on this.
2014 I started to watch a lot of PC vs Console vids. And of course trying it out in the 90's I had a lot of skepticism on what the pro PC players were saying at the time. I started to watch a youtuber named OhnoItsAlex and he was talking about being a PC gamer since the 90's and acknowledging how much easier it was to get into than it was in the 90's. From that point I asked a lot of questions for that 18 month stretch of time. I was almost fully on board to switch but for me It came down to 2 reasons for me to fully pull the trigger.
On top of all the great things PC has to offer (Cheap games, customizability, emulation, freedom of the platform, better graphics etc.......) The two things for me was modding and the fact I can hook up a PC to my TV in the living room. I don't know how many vids I watched on modding and seeing games almost fully transform into something different or better through mods and being able to game on it in the living room on my 55in 4K tv with a wireless KB+M and controller while sitting on a comfy recliner.
8 years later still going strong and still loving the shit out of this platform, never going back to consoles. On a side note, playing single player FPS games on PC is so much better for the reason that a setting called FOV exist. I never knew coming from console until I used this for the first time. What a difference..... that and turning off Motion blur.
Counter Strike Made me a PC Gamer
To me, it's not about specific games making me a PC gamer, it's about WHAT you Can do if games come to PC. And I won't stop mentioning emulation. I love iconic franchises from all consoles of the past!
Hey Joe, H1Z1 wasn't originally supposed to be a BR. It was originally supposed to be more similar to DayZ or 7 Days to Die.
It went down the stupid path though.
It should have stayed a zombie survival game. I wanted to play it, then I heard it became a BR.
Wasn't Sneaky just playing Doom as well in his background footage 😂
Makes me want to try it out fr
I finished building my PC in 2019
First games I played was Portal 1 and Terraria
I tried using kbm controls on CSGO but didn't like it. I use controller exclusively and PC is still 10x better than console due to the freedom you get, I love emulation I cant imagine a world without that
I still use 2016 hardware and 1080p. Don't listen to people who say you need £3000 to build one. You only need to spend what you're comfortable with. I don't use crappy T-AA and artifacted ray tracing bs which you are forced to use on consoles
2018 for me was kinda splitting my time too then I played Witcher 3 on pc and I was sold then double sold when I found out how to use mods. Then for fps apex and MW 2019 all three blew my mind on pc gaming and I have a mid rig
Banger video man
SCP-087? That's a flashback and a half
agree 1000% on witcher 3 i tried it multiple times on console and when i switched to pc i picked it up cause cheap and it has become one of my favorite games. I think its partially frame rate and also partially it kinda just feels clunky with a controller at least to me. Also doom while i liked it on console it is definitely a game that is made for pc not console, i just feel bad for the poor souls that try to play it on the switch.
got my first gameing pc in 1998 but my first pc was a 486 pc from the yr of are lord 1993 lol the fist game i played on pc well it was not really a pc was lemmings
I always wanted to be a pc gamer since I played Dune on that shitty PC my father had
Man, Im hoping to play games on pc
And to rig Nintendo fanboys by emulating Nintendo games, like I'm playing Earthbound in an emulator right now
Complain Nintendo fanboys, I do not fear your cries
Wolf New Order is the goat but it sadly doesn't work very well with modern hardware, I still have my old PC with GTX 1070 and the game runs constant 90 FPS but on my current PC it is just not good
Got the steam deck 2 years ago, switch has been collecting dust ever since.
(Guys I'm joking, my switch is in a switch case at the bottom of my Jean drawer, because if the joycons get exposed to air for too long they start drifting)
I've always been a PC gamer, grew up playing wow on shitty laptops and got my first actual PC(pentium g4560 1050ti) in 2016ish and i could never swap to console. Ryzen 7 9700x and a 7800xt with a high refresh rate 1440p monitor. WITH a secondary monitor. How could i ever want to play on a console
I hated h1z1 so much.
I play on pc since 2007 when I got my first pc and never had PlayStation or Xbox. We are not the same 😂
TF2 and GGXrd.
The fact that i got DOOM 2016 for free on Steam thanks to alexx's chat is just
*chef's kiss
My only reason was mods for Stardew Valley...
I just moved over here because I was getting more and more frustrated with what Sony was doing to PlayStation, that I decided to make PC my platform going forward
Had a Steam account since at least 2016, but only got a proper gaming PC about 2 years ago
For me it wasn't any game that pushed me to PC gaming, it was emulation, the fact that I diddn't have to buy or get repaired my old PS2 to enjoy a game I really liked in childhood again. Emulation bypasses all exclusivity and I was fascinated by it. Then I learned about the backwards compatibility and mods and then there was simply no going back. Today is almost 4 years since I built my PC. Looking forward to upgrading it in a couple years.
For around the same time, but Ps4 censorship on thier anime like games, when before they didn't care, bad mod support on Skyrim and Fallout 4 on both consoles and bad performance on some games
I wanted freedom from all the restrictions on consoles and i wanted to play everything past and future without rebuilding or hoping for backwards on consoles.
I have a large 360 and ps3 collection and on 360 not everything is backwards and ps4 is not backwards 😢
Games that made me a PC gamer: Minecraft Java Edition🗿
Yay 33 seconds!
Bye? What happened to toodles? 😀
Have a gaming laptop and my biggest criticism is that the pc community is 10x more toxic than console.
Have you played cod on a console?
@ yes and yet somehow pc community is worse than that.
LMAO what ? There's nothing more toxic than xbox live lol
10:13 brawl better
I was buying old prebuilts and just putting some better parts in over time. Before the coof really hit I was buying all the parts I needed to finally build my own. Love my baby, does exactly what I want it to, modded minecraft with a billion mods.😂 But seriously I have a ton of games to play now, unlike the ps5.
Pc fanboy