Dorks vs IGN

[A Black Falcon]

I've only ever heard them say "id", and that's how it's called today so that's the name.

Then you never played a Keen game. It's uppercase in all of them (well, uppercase or with a capital I and lowercase d... and Keen 1-3 aren't a good example because the ingame font is all caps... but the logo is caps too. :)). And in the 'About ID' page in Keen 1/2/3 (their first game), it says ID Software and under it 'We're In Demand''... :)

Doom didn't play very differently from Wolfenstein 3D, it just looked better and was a bit faster. Go back and play both games.

Similar gameplay, sure, but with much better graphics, more varied weapons, environments, enemies, etc., multiplayer (that's a big gameplay change!), etc...

PC Gamer gives just about every half-decent shooter an 80% or higher. They score that genre way too high.

Or maybe a lot of them are decent?

There aren't nearly as many incredibly good PC titles as there are console ones. Unless you really love flight sims.

The difference is slight and, as I said, PC games generally take longer to play or have more options for extending their life than console games, so that difference is irrelevant.