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will persist.The thing is, real gamers come in all types
The Entertainment Software Association has found large percentages of the population gaming, including Baby Boomers in the US
And, that range covers everything from young gamers duking it out in online battle royale games to older gamers playing poker alone on their
real PC gamers that show how broad the culture really is.Shirley Curry, the 'Skyrim Grandma.'(Image credit: Shirley Curry)The famous Shirley
with over 748,000 subscribers and over 14 million views at the time of writing
endless world of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
otherwise today known as 'Jablinski'.(Image credit: YouTube)Celebs have gaming hobbies, tooA few years ago, the world got to see the widely
beloved Terry Crews join the PC gaming fray when he publicly announced that he was building a gaming PC
ongoing acting career.Beyond his celebrity, Crews still has a family life, and he decided to build a gaming PC to share the hobby with his
He picked up an X99 motherboard to slot in an Intel Core i7-6800K and 32GB of RAM
Eventually, Black did upload a Lego Star Wars video as well as a stream with PewdiePie playing Minecraft.Regardless of whether they play
publicly, we can count many celebrities as PC gamers.Farming Simulator 2019 in action.(Image credit: Google)Gamers reliving realitySkyrim
still others out there silently enjoying PC games on their own
But, plenty of PC gamers enjoy a calmer experience that lets them live a small slice of reality they might otherwise not have access to
Think of Flight Simulator, Train Simulator or Farming Simulator
All of these put players into a unique position to dive into realistic experiences that still take them out of their day-to-day life.Games
action.(Image credit: Bethesda)The faithful moddersShirley Curry is actually a great example of another type of gamer: the long-term,
faithful gamer who sticks with one game for a long time, using mods to keep the game fresh
Some games strike a deep note with players and offer enough to do to keep them around for years
Massive open worlds, like Skyrim, often manage this level of retention.But, even a game that offers hundreds of hours of content can only
hold the hearts of gamers for so long in its vanilla form
The gamers who use mods can add entire new worlds to their games, add new weapons and equipment, and change the way the game world works to
There are also mods that can overhaul the sound and graphics for almost every asset in the game, breathing new life into it even as the
graphics of the vanilla version age
The use of mods can let these gamers stick with one game, steering clear of the latest fads, as they simply occupy the game world they love
or wait ages for the next one to arrive (as many are doing for The Elder Scrolls 6).FarmVille 2 is one of the most popular browser games to
date.(Image credit: Zynga)The overlooked browser gamersOne thing most would assume is essential to PC gaming is a gaming PC
But, there are so many games available to gamers that require little more than an internet connection and modest hardware
Browser games make the hobby accessible to many gamers, and they can even entice users who would otherwise have little to do with games.It
Games like Sonny 2 rank among the best browser games, with lengthy stories and compelling gameplay
Armorgames lists Sonny 2 as having over 25 million plays since it launched in 2009 (I personally put probably as many hours into this game
as I put into any turn-based RPG in the past decade)
And, newer games are still getting millions of plays
Some browser games even serve as a starting point for franchises, such as Meat Boy and N.Kids can jump online to play a bit of Agar.io while
adults hop on for some card games in the browser
into a browser-based golf game.) And, these PC gamers are so easy to overlook, as they may well be playing quietly in the library or on a
actually prefer to have Motion Blur turned on in their games
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