What is your gaming platform of choice and why.

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Pc windows xp, not sure of the brand though.

Why? Because everything else I tried stinked imo.

Windows 8 can't even run old game maker games anymore and all consoles I've tried in my life failed to keep me amused for longer than a week.

I don't remember precisely what kind they were, again this was months ago, and I had written them off due to pricing.

I am currently on Xbox 360. I only started gaming a year ago and chose a console to save money (wasn't sure I would enjoy gaming) and also avoid any configuration hassles from a PC.

I am now bored with it, having not done any gaming in a month. I am considering migrating to a PC in order to take advantage of mods and all the latest graphics.

When I buy computers I like to reach toward the higher end in order to extend their useful life (My current PC is 10 years old and still going strong; it is just architecturally obsolete.) I have found a really honking model with a 780 graphics card for $2000, and if I can also find the bucks I may go with it. The problem is that for professional work I also need a new Mac. The new Mac's start at $3000, so some tough choices may be in the offing.

Or, I could also just forget about gaming and do more needlework.

You could take that gaming rig and turn it into a decent Hackintosh. It would probably violate Apple's TOS though.

Speaking of which, I know this is off-topic, but for someone with an interest in alternative computer architectures, would a PowerMac G5 be a good place to start? I know that Apple no longer supports it, but I'm thinking that if I were to get one, I'd stick Ubuntu on it or something, and boot into OS X mainly for playing older Mac games.

Another problem for PCs, for me, is the lack of exclusive epic style games. If I was going to spend a good amount of money on a gaming PC, I'd want it because it has games I can't get on console. No one will deny that a PC can run multiplatform games better than a console, but a console can run multiple games I want to play that a PC can't. Most people, when they list PC exclusives, list MMOs and other multiplayer games and I would simply never play any of those. I'm an aspie. I don't want to socialize with people in real life or in a game

Like I mentioned earlier on though, a gaming PC can be used for much more than just gaming. You can create content, load user-created mods, and even play a whole host of different games made for other platforms, thanks to emulation.

Emulation that technically doesn't need a gaming computer specifically to play them though, and the emulators for 3d consoles are crap for any number of reasons, not the least of which is compatibility and programming. Honestly, emulation isn't even a good reason to buy a gaming pc, especially when those consoles are easily accessible and fairly cheap to buy.

Maybe cheap and accessible for you, but for myself, I find that console collecting can take up a lot of money, time, and space. Most of the console games I'm interested in are on older systems that are easily emulated, so it's much more convenient for me to play games made for the SNES, GBA, Sega Genesis, PSX, etc. on my PC than on the actual, dedicated hardware. Now, I like having access to real hardware, don't get me wrong, but I don't really have room for it at the moment. As for newer systems, I play what I can, and for the games that don't work, I just kind of accept that they are hard to emulate.

Yeah, I understand that, as I'm often the same way. Oh, I'll DO multiplayer games like MMOs and such, but if they were all that PC gaming offered, I wouldnt bother with it.

When I talk about the extreme selection of games on one of these, I'm speaking mostly of single-player stuff, since that's what my own collection mostly consists of. There are *lots* of exclusives here that will never, ever make it to consoles. So.... very.... many. But with consoles, the games sorta come screaming at you, as the publishers do absolutely freaking everything they can to shove them in your face as much as conceivably possible. With PC gaming though, you often have to do a bit of looking around for yourself, as it rarely works that way, even with larger games.

Not to mention that more and more console games actually get ported to the PC these days.... it's getting to the point where, if it's a major franchise on consoles, there's a decent chance it exists on PC as well..... and is probably better on it, with enhanced graphics and things like modding that simply cannot be done on any console. Wheras PC to console ports are still quite rare, as alot of PC games simply would not be viable on consoles (like pretty much any RTS).

Though I've no idea what "epic style" means. If you're talking "high budget" blockbuster sorts, yeah, they're there, though I personally tend not to give a damn and just buy whatever seems entertaining at the time regardless of that.

I think I can relate to this. I got into gaming primarily to gain knowledge and experience in an area of pop-culture that might give me an interest in common with others, and hence provide a possible topic of conversation that could make social chit-chat less awkward. It has succeeded in that.

But I also had in mind that MMO's might provide me a new and hopefully more enjoyable venue for interacting with others. In that regard the results have been disappointing; I find working with others in a MMO is about as annoying as interacting in person.

It seems that no matter where I go, there I am.

My preferred form of multiplayer is still LAN with PCs or splitscreen/"couch" multiplayer with consoles, but over the last few years (really when I started playing TF2), I've found that playing games online can be rather enjoyable. I almost never play anything "seriously" online though, as I've never gotten into any MMOs, and the only time I've ever joined a clan was around two years ago when one of my IRL friends started one half-heartedly. As well, even though I've played strategy games and RPGs with my friends over LAN, online 99% of the games I've played have been various FPSes. I just find that they're much easier to jump into than games in most other genres, and they usually have fairly dedicated communities.

I go with Windows/Linux dual boot, with Windows being the main gaming engine. It has the most game compatibility of any OS, and I love mods.

Been using Windows pc the longest for fighting monsters rpg

Civilisation, Age of Empires, Heroes of Might and Magic, Drakensang, Doom, Shadowrun Returns, Tons of Star Wars Games, Anno, Deponia, Battlefield series (The one that was released for consoles before, was because of the technical lack of consoles horrible reduced from 64 players to 24, its simply not the same game.), Age of Wonders, Starcraft, Total War, The Settlers, Thief, and a gigantic bunch of Adventures that needed too much time for mentioning... ^^

For me its quiet opposite, all that is released on consoloes, is either anyway worser presented then in the comparable PC version, or its something I dont play anyway (J-RPGs O_o), or its something that is not really that unique to me. (The last of us: Zombie Survival Games were not really that rare during the last time.)

So its less about single games I miss, that can be easily replaced by other ones, but more about the complete lack of genres that I miss. Tactical, strategy, simulation games are hardly existing on consoles, because of them not really being playable with a gamepad, FPS genre is existing but lacks propper possibilities of aiming in all games because of the lacking mouse, Adventures would work fine on consoles I think, still more then 50% are not available for them, whyever...

There is simply nothing on a console, I could not play on a PC as well, but complete genres I love, that I cant play on console. (And additional unlike PC no possibility to choose between controller/keyboard + mouse.)

I was never a fan of turn based strategy games, but really liked RTS. Unfortunately, that genre has really declined. If I had a gaming PC, I'd probably pick up StarCraft 2, but other than that, there really aren't any I'd be interested in. Most of the games you mentioned are older games and I've already played them. Loved the AoE series. I just don't feel inclined to build a $1,000+ PC and have to set it up in my bedroom (possibly a unique situation I'm in) just to play the same games I can play on my $500 Xbox One on my big screen TV sitting in my comfy recliner.

Normally recliners are movable, so I use a very similar kind (an expensive chef-chair I got secondhand for free from my earlier boss) before my PC. I personally dislike playing games on big televisions, it is simply way more comfortable to me, to see everything at once high detailled on a smaller screen, while big screens force me to wander around with my eyes to see all details. (And I dont see the need to play console games on a high detailled big screen, only to mention how bad console graphic is. ^^ )

In general, if you have a newer television (5 years -) you can easily use that as display for your computer as well. Friend of mine plays his PC games in general on television on big screen. So the only thing you need to find a place for in your living room, was the PC-shell itself.

About the older games, most I mentioned are series, so there are always released new games of that.

And I dont know, where people always seem to hear of that 1000 USD + myth. My partner and I buy one new system every 4-5 years (and simply using the older one as well, depending on the games each of us actually plays), and it always has been less then that. Normally it was around 800, and additionally you must think of that PC games get reduced in price far earlier then console games, so many of them cost some months after release only half of what they still cost for console. So if you dont need to buy every game at once, but only your absolute favorite ones, depending on the number of games you play, console isn´t that cheap, as people think. What the system might cost less, you pay in exchange for the games.