[Vampyr]

In addition to what BaB said, it also has to do with making bad ports - having control schemes that aren't mapped to a keyboard/mouse very well, or having settings that make a game play worse on a PC.

I'm actually more of a console gamer myself - I like to sit down with a controller and play a game on a system where I know I don' have to worry about requirements and such.

However, I do play PC sometimes, mainly through Steam, and the amount of bad ports out there has just really begun to aggravate me. You really have to go out on forums before buying any PC game and find out if it's any good on the PC or not.

For example, Transformers War for Cybertron was on sale on Steam a few days ago. I had heard it was a great game, and in the thread where the deal was posted people were going crazy about how good it was. Finally, before I bought it, I saw a comment about how it was a horrible PC port and basically unplayable on PC. Several people reiterated this, and all the people commenting about how good it was were like, "Yeah, I played it on a console."

This just reinforced what I said in another thread on here about how different systems should have different scores in reviews. It sucks to read a review of a game recommending that you purchase it, only to check the comments on the review and find that it's unplayable on the PC. You have to wonder how many people they trick into buying games this way.

Another example is Alpha Protocol. I bought this on a Steam sale a few weeks ago (only paid $5 so I'm not really upset about the money), but it was literally impossible to play on PC. The game had mouse smoothing turned on by default, and you couldn't disable it. What this resulted in was the inability to accurately aim the mouse - it made it feel like the mouse was moving along a grid. This is a setting used in console games to make aiming with a controller easier. They just never bothered to take it out of the PC port.

What BaB said about the graphics not being up to par is true, but my computer can't run games at a higher setting than an Xbox could anyway, so that part doesn't concern me as much (although it will when I get a newer PC!). What bother's me is lousy control ports, menu's that aren't built with a keyboard/mouse in mind, and settings that make the game unplayable.

Rage is another example. It just came out a few days ago, and the texture "pop ins" are so bad on the PC that it's virtually unplayable. Runs fine on consoles.