Does PC have the biggest library of games you can play offline and online?

[froggyboy604]

Yes, I think PC has the biggest Library of games which you can play offline and online since a lot of the older games made for Windows XP and older are still backward compatible with a lot of newer PC operating systems like Windows 7, and Mac OS X.

Plus, there are a lot of free games, web based games, flash games, web browser games, cloud gaming games like Onlive or Gaikai, etc you can play for free online.

There are also a lot of operating systems for the PC like Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, Solaris, MS-Dos, and more which all have games made for it.

 

[Ikram45]

Yes, PC does have the biggest library of games. Almost every strategy game comes out on PC instead of other gaming consoles !

 

[froggyboy604]

Indeed, playing Real Time strategy games like Warcraft 1-3, Starcraft 1-2, Age of Empires, and Comand and Conquer is difficult on a console to play because a mouse is easier to use to select your troops, and the shortcut keys are faster then buttons and button combos on a console since there are so many keys on a keyboard you can use to control your troops, and vehicles.

 

[Ikram45]

Indeed, playing Real Time strategy games like Warcraft 1-3, Starcraft 1-2, Age of Empires, and Comand and Conquer is difficult on a console to play because a mouse is easier to use to select your troops, and the shortcut keys are faster then buttons and button combos on a console since there are so many keys on a keyboard you can use to control your troops, and vehicles.

I agree, it is just impossible to play gamesl ike Red Alert and/or Generals on consoles. I imagine console being too slow for strategy games compared to PC.

 

[Levin the Wind Sage]

Ogre Battle worked on the snes .
Really there's no question to it given that anyone can make a game and make it avable.
Then there's the fact of emulation, meaning you can play pretty much anyhting 10+ years old.

 

[froggyboy604]

Indeed, if you count ROMS for Sega, Nintendo, Sony, and other console brands being emulated on the PC as PC games then the PC will have an even more massive library because of emulating/roming console games on a PC Operating System like Windows, Linux, and Mac.

 

[Yoshi]

Indeed, if you count ROMS for Sega, Nintendo, Sony, and other console brands being emulated on the PC as PC games then the PC will have an even more massive library because of emulating/roming console games on a PC Operating System like Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Sega has a bunch of old SEGA games on Steam, which is just an emulator with a ROM of the game. I believe that the PC has, and will always have the biggest library of games, simply due to the fact that a console is nothing more than a watered down cheap computer, and anything the console could do, the PC could do the same, if not better.

 

[froggyboy604]

I wonder if PS3 and Xbox 360 games will be remade for steam and other online marketplaces for PC in the next few years when most newer PCs can handle playing 360 and PS3 games on a PC.

 

[Ikram45]

I wonder if PS3 and Xbox 360 games will be remade for steam and other online marketplaces for PC in the next few years when most newer PCs can handle playing 360 and PS3 games on a PC.

It might be difficult or even impossible to see their exclusive games on Steam!

 

[Naiwen]

I can't pronounce myself on this, as I've not played the two, not into pc gaming.

 

[froggyboy604]

It might be difficult or even impossible to see their exclusive games on Steam!

Indeed, but Halo 1 is on the PC, so I can see at least Microsoft making remakes of the Halo series on PC if enough PC gamers want all the Halo series for PC. I can imagine they might look even better on most newer PCs because of better video cards, and other computer parts.

 

[Yoshi]

Crysis 2 looks MUCH better on PC than it did on the 360. Games in general are played on low settings for consoles, that way they can pull the FPS that they get.