Why you should be a PC Gamer (opposed to your other gaming platforms)

Read carefully this isn’t a guide suggesting reasons to delve in the world of PC Gaming, I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone, but if you already are a gamer and want to try something different this is for you.

PIRACY

Speaking about piracy on the internet is regarded as a taboo, frowned upon web forums and such but we all know that your uTorrent is loaded with cracked Games For Windows games, the Radiohead discography, and that one model from the Suicide Girls that makes you go crazy. Piracy enables the user to gain access to the full released product for a fraction of the price, how could you not like that? I have no fear of the police bursting through my door and arresting me, and do you want to know why? The influx of kiddie fiddlers, murderers and the crackers putting the game up on the internet in the first place occupy police time. I’m sorry but if your game, however long you spend developing it, and how many millions of dollars you’ve poured into it doesn’t feature some kind of multiplayer or co-op functionality I’m heading straight to btjunkie, pirate bay and isohunt all at the same time (hey it’s the 21st century) and stealing your game.

Oh and don’t get me wrong Assassin’s Creed II, you’re swell an’ all, but I don’t think it’s worth it for me to spend full price on a game and feel like I’m missing or should be getting a larger experience out of it.

MODDING, TWEAKING AND TRAINERS

Max Payne 2, Just Cause 2, Half Life 2, they’ve all got something in common (no it’s not the number 2 hanging from the end of them) they’ve all got large community support gathered behind them because of their modding capabilities, from simple nude patches to full blown conversion mods, the community has poured their love into them, where else would I be be able to find a multiplayer game where I’m disguised as a plant waiting to kill my enemies by unleashing a blast of energy upon suicide. Trainers are simple .exe files most likely designed by the same hacking group “l33t h4x m45t3rs” who put the game up on the internet in the first place, these files allow the user to tick a couple boxes and cheat without having to press up, down, left, right, turning 360 degrees, then writing “fuckballs” backwards, trainers are really awesome because they give you a lot more freedom for example instead of typing a cheat that would give you $1000 over and over a trainer would let you define your own values (in layman’s terms typing 99999999999999 until the box is full)

STEAM

Steam is possibly a godsend to most PC gamers, working like an electronic passport steam allows you to purchase games, and have them linked to one account accessible from everywhere including Linux and Mac, if this sounds like the new wave of DRM hell that’s currently inbound, you are sadly mistaken, Steam sheds light on many indie developers, giving them a chance at marketing their products, steam also acts as this super program that keeps all games updated and ready to run, and with the new Steam Cloud technology we will be able to access our keybinds and save games anywhere, ain’t that awesome? Plus Steam is compulsory in order to play games such as Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

MAKE IT PRETTY

PC Gaming is awesome, because you can enjoy games the way the developer envisioned (having the greatest graphics, sound and performance) because you are not tied down to the same specs for 10 years like the PS3 or XBOX. if you feel you’re not getting the best performance spend some money on maybe a new graphics card, CPU, ram or motherboard.

So there it is, if I wasn’t anymore disappointing, a guide to be an awkward Ikea chair bound sweaty virgin (!)