Are PC games video games?
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I tend to think of them as the same thing. I began playing video games on computers around 30 years ago. Some were very elaborate (3 dimensional world). But I switched to console games such as Playstation because sometimes these video games contained viruses. These viruses would not only effect the games but also destroy work on my PC. So I just separated the two - games on one platform, work on the other.
Many video games today are mirrored both on PCs and on consoles. Some computers have accelerated processing capabilities that allow them to be much more advanced and dynamic than any console can provide. So a P.C. game might run circles around a console if one owns a very advanced computer. This can become a factor is simulators (such as flight simulators) and RPG type games.
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Computer games and video games are exact synonyms for all intents and purposes. Mobile games is a third near synonym for the previously mentioned terms.
As Jimmy alluded to, a console is just a type of computer.
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Well a bunch of games are cross console, like you have console versions of Skyrim and there is a PC version. I also play league of legends, which is only on the PC IDK how they would convert the controls to a console controller. IDk I consider league a video game like the games I play on console, except that one I can only play on the PC. That said I mostly play just one player kind of games on console, league of legends is really the only multiplayer game I play regularly.
Admittedly I don't even know why half the time, I am not great at that game....but its fun, you get rewards and well the champions are cool at least a lot of them so hard to move away from it after playing 5 years even though I am not a fan of some of the more recent changes. But its a game I just cannot let go of, also I have probably spent more than 100 dollars on various events, champion skins and such. One of my last games pretty sure everyone was at least 5 years younger than me...they were talking about doing papers for college or HS, and then of course they all whined and b*tched at each other the whole game. Me being 30 and not doing any school s**t was just kinda thinking, why do these people gotta be so petty just play the game like an adult...but I have to remember half the people on there are practically kids compared to me.
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I hardly consider those video games. I think phone game is more accurate since a phone isn’t a computer or console. Most phone games are boring in my opinion.
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I hardly consider those video games. I think phone game is more accurate since a phone isn’t a computer or console. Most phone games are boring in my opinion.
A phone really is a computer though although games intended for them usually are intended to be able to be played in small doses unlike console and PC games.
I find at times the games that don't appeal to gamers get treated as though they're somehow not games which is utterly absurd.
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Many video games today are mirrored both on PCs and on consoles. Some computers have accelerated processing capabilities that allow them to be much more advanced and dynamic than any console can provide. So a P.C. game might run circles around a console if one owns a very advanced computer. This can become a factor is simulators (such as flight simulators) and RPG type games.
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PC games and console games are both video games. Like Kiprobalhato said, a console is just a computer made specifically to play video games on.
Some definitions for "video game" I found,
Many video games today are mirrored both on PCs and on consoles. Some computers have accelerated processing capabilities that allow them to be much more advanced and dynamic than any console can provide. So a P.C. game might run circles around a console if one owns a very advanced computer. This can become a factor is simulators (such as flight simulators) and RPG type games.
Not all arcade games are video games. Arcade games that don't have screens such as those prize winning games aren't really video games.
ALL PC games are video games.
All video games are PC games.
I don't use the term computer games in general. It's kind of an outdated term but. In general PC games are games that you play on your pc. As people have pointed out Alot of games now are cross-platform console & PC.
Mobile games (Games meant to play on your phone but also your tablet as well) are becoming more popular but generally aren't meant to take up much time.
Console games are games meant to be played on console (Typically home consoles like an xbox or a play-station but also can refer to handheld games)
There are also handedheld games
also whatever game console it's on Games.
Xbox games or PS4 games and what not.
But yes all of these are video games
It gets a bit more complicated when you got to arcade games.
Some are kinda borderline.
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