Shareefruck
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I'm calling the false equivalence between the two an exaggeration, not the fact that these more prominent games are being used to represent the quality of the platform. The games listed were far MORE at the forefront of PC gaming than Call of Duty or Madden were ever at the forefront of console gaming. Starcraft, Minecraft, and Half Life 2 were not merely popular crowd-pleasing junk-food that didn't leave much of an actual mark like Call of Duty or Madden-- For the most part, the PC games listed are treated like actual revered and remembered cultural touch-stones alongside Mario and Zelda titles.That was his point, I believe. It's an exaggeration to characterize console gaming as Madden and Call of Duty, just as it is to characterize PC gaming as grindy, online time wasters. That's being as unfair to PC gaming as PC gamers sometimes are towards console gaming. I understand your point that there tends to be more charm found in console games than PC games, but I don't think that it's fair to compare what you like best about consoles to what you like least about PC. That's like a PC gamer praising the PC because it produces deep titles like Civilization and Pillars of Eternity and knocking consoles because they produce yearly-regurgitated titles like Madden and Call of Duty. If you want to compare what you feel are the worst examples of PC games, perhaps the worst examples of console games would be a more fairer comparison.
Keep in mind that the original comment I made was simply "I do abhor the types of games that are typically associated with PC gaming, though", not anything to do with condemning the entire platform or the best of the platform.
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