I felt the same way until TF2 came out. This game is SUCKING MY LIFE AWAY again and I love it!

The computer for FPS and RTS, and some RPG. The console for adventure, sports and RPG aswell. That's how I see it. I cannot for the life of me understand how someone can appreciate an FPS with joypad over mouse+keyboard. No friggin way..

And like herothezero mentioned, there's the flexability of the PC platform, like mods and such. Worth a ton.

I'm pretty much a console gamer. For PC gaming, I only play Counter-Strike. I have other games (Supreme Commander, World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2), but I'm not into those games as much as I thought I would be. For me, it's hard, if not impossible, to keep up with how the PC platform advances. Staying on top of whats out and about is hard. With console gaming, everything just a bit simpler (except with this generation - having to deal with HD stuff). No drivers to worry about, no installation issues. Just play. Being more into fighters, racers, jrpgs, and action adventure games also makes me more inclined to game on a console than on a PC.

I must be too old, because don't find myself particularly engrossed in any console game (some X360 experience). I dropped probably nine hours into STALKER this weekend, and I've already played that through once, but changing of mods makes it a different game--something I can't do on the console.

I can see where sports games would be great on a console, but the auto-aim and sloppiness of controllers turns me off to any FPS, and forget about any strategy games like CivIV (not that upcoming hatchet job port) on a console.

My first, and only console was a Super NES. And then I got hardcore into PC (RTS and FPS). But lately, over the past 4 years, I've been gaming less and less. Gone from part time to full time, and I spend a lot of time on the golf course and playing paintball, and catching up on tv shows. (somehow I missed 10 years of Stargate. What kind of geek am I?) Now I only game for a few hours at a time.

Then I housesat/catsat for a friend for a while, and he had an xbox 360. Playing GoW, Crackdown, Dead Rising were very fun, and if I ever get the extra cash, I'd pick up a 360. Of course, I'm in that transition phase between student/real job, and I don't have a tv, but I do have a 2407. So if I play xbox, I'm still sitting in front of my monitor.

And here's the funny thing. I've always driven better with a keyboard than with an analog stick. Always. Can't explain it, but I'd much rather play racing games on my PC with a keyboard.

FPS games are fine on consoles. I've been an avivd PC FPSer for decades, since Wolfenstien 3D to FEAR.

In the early days, Wolf, Doom and Duke3D keyboard ONLY was king. When Quake, Half Life and Unreal came out, it took me a while to get used to Keyboard and MOUSE. Infact I rejected it at first. I thought it was annoying to use the mouse, felt like I lost control, but I got used to it and now I'm a pro.

After playing Halo, it was a little weird using the console controller. But I got used to it to the point I kick ass in Halo 2 and Gears of War.

A console controller doesn't have the precision of a mouse, but it has it's advantages in FPS games like Splinter Cell.

I have been a Hardcore pc gamer for a long long time shuning those who even tried to compare a pc to a console. Now as console graphics get better and the spiking costs of gaming pc hardware. I am ready to get an xbox 360 as my first console since nintendo. I will probably never leave my pc gaming behind forever, but at least buy the xbox for the great games it has and use my pc for those deathmatch/RTS gravings.

Aside from Supreme Commander, I'm right there with you. I could also have saved a ton on PC purchases if not for that.

of course, I started with a VIC20 (which due to its cartridge nature I treated like a console with some typing features) and an Atari VCS

I been a huge console convert these past few years too. The last PC game I remember spending serious amounts of time on was FFXI.

Once I started on the Dreamcast it was downhill for PC gaming from that day forth. These days I have my Nintendo DS, Gamcube, Wii, PS2 and PSP to keep me occupied. Going to get a PS3 soon when MGS4 arrives.

That's what happens when your passion becomes your job. After awhile you just start associating the idea of work with entertainment, and you start to lose track of what really made you like it in the first place; all you end up seeing is the work, or the feel of work, or the notion that you should be working.

Entertainment helps you escape from reality; a job makes you realize how much you're tied to it. The two don't mix well at all. You either need to completely remove yourself from the fact that you sit in that room everyday working mentally, find a different sort of job, or perhaps a different room with a computer in it so you can associate one with being the "office".

I believe there is a psych term somewhere in here for what you're experiencing, I just can't remember it at the moment.

This is why I got out of networking. I found myself hating something I liked doing more and more the more I did it.

Nice post Geoff. Consoles have been calling to me. The new ones are too expensive so I'll have to wait or else pick up the old Xbox. I still love me some FPS on the PC though.

First order of business is convincing the wife to let me get an HDTV.

I came from the other side to PCs. Then again I'm a relative young 'un to some on this site.

My console history goes something like: NES, Game Gear, Game Boy, Mega Drive, 32X, Saturn, a massive hiatus, then an Xbox, and I first got interested in PC gaming ... probably somewhere in that hiatus.

Frankly I'm a little burned out on new stuff right now. I've seen nothing the Next gen consoles can do other than make more pretty (thank you in order throughput-computing-before-their-time processors) and finding new games for an Xbox is like finding needles in a haystack.

The Wii intrigues me, but none of my friends have one, and I don't know that I have the money for one atm.

Right now, I'm playing old school stuff like CS, and Geometry Wars on my PC (top score of 1.3 million btw Geoff :-P go hunt down some videos on google, one or two top 100 million :o ).

I feel your pain Geoff about spending too much time in front of computers already and I too have eyed consoles like the XBOX 360 with couch envy but like willyolio, I like to play FPS and RTS games and these just don't work well on consoles sadly. I wish they did.

I may break down and get my first console still for other games, but I have yet to see enough games that I really want to play (and in truth, I haven't had the chance to look).

I've also heard alarming failure rates on the XBOX 360, so I'd want to check this out more before taking the plunge....

FPS and RTS are two of the main types of games i play, and i find neither playable on consoles. right now i only have a PS2, and that's because it's got loads of RPGs.

Damn, you just more or less mirrored my gaming experience as well. I did own a Playstation but PC gaming was always far better. Since the Xbox I've shifted to about 90% console and 10% PC gaming. I love my wireless controller, plasma screen and ultra comfortable couch. Plus these days I typically ony have time for maybe 30-45minute gaming sessions if I'm lucky. With PC games it usually takes that long for me to start getting into it.

I haven't touched my PC for gaming in probably a year... coincidentally, when I got my 360. It just works. Same reason I went to a Mac for my laptop. I have no real reason to upgrade my desktop anyways, so it will probably remain a PC unless I pick up a used Intel iMac in a few months.

Consoles have issues too, a la 360 rrod's and firmware patches that can brick consoles.

I think 2 genres that consoles will have issues with are FPS and RTS, however the Wii's control scheme may be more conducive to those games, although mouse precision is hard to beat.

My first console that I owned was the xbox 360 elite the week it came out. I honestly haven't gamed on my PC since (apart from tower defence and other flash-based games).