that's supposed to be part of the charm of the game. I didn't like it, but yeah, that's a feature.

WTF?!! You gave quoting credit to UK_John! I was the sexually deprived psycho that came up with the analogy. I demand justice!!!
That was a slap to the face and sir I demand satisfaction. I thereby accept your challenge to a gentlemen's duel. Tomorrow at sunrise.

PC gamer wants to play his original 15 year old PC game called 'XYZ': Goes to the shelf, gets the game, gets the CD out, puts i in his PC, installs it (via DosBox maybe) and plays it. That's how close his connection is to that 15 year old PC game he has maybe played more than once from when he was 20 to now he's 35. Just like15 years ago this PC gamer will tell you he's playing 'XYZ'. Period.
Console owner wants to play his original 15 year old game called 'XYZ' and he maybe has to find and plug-in his old console to play it on. 15 minutes later he's playing the game, and when asked will say 'I am playing XYZ on my (whatever) console.he will be proud he still has this old console, and will proudly state on forums (I have seen them!) how they played whatever game on their 'original (whatever) console'.
This is what makes a PC game. You get it off the shelf, install it and play it (emulator or not). The machine doesn't really get in the way of that. With console, to a much larger degree, the console will be part of it.
I know we have the Live services and I know we have console emulation. But I feel there is a closeness to older PC games that is just a little more distant on console.
It's such a shame that console seems to be the future of gaming more and more and on PC less and less.
What PC and console gamers do seem to have in common is a dislike of modern shallow games and many are now, either through the Live services on console or through emulation (DOSBox) on PC turning their back more and more on modern gaming and playing retro games more and more. The success of G.O.G. is the epitomy of this.

You're an idiot