Welcome, brother :P

PC > All

PC's that are good enought to play games at top quality cost thousands of dollars.

 Oh, snap.  Remember you can always use your old key board, mouse, etc.  And most off the shelf pc's have slots for ram and PCI-EX16...  You can upgrade your current system to be a good games system for less than
$150

(Was that good?  That was my first time.)

VenfolderVGI said:

Issues with PC gaming are:

1. Lack of Plug and Play gaming

Don't care about this personally, but I see why others care.  It isn't hard to learn, but it can be intimidating and will hold back PC's

2. Requsite seating position requirements due to interface and screen size limitations.

Many flat screens have DVI inputs now or some GPUs have HDMI/VGA/Component output.  I know people who Sit at the couch with a Keyboard and Mouse Tray or a controller and play on their HDTVs.  Satuday I was at a lan party, playing Battlefield 2, each commander was at a set up like this.

3. Distinct lack of Japanese style games compared to consoles.

Yeah. There are some, but you are mostly right.  Lost Planet, Resident Evil 4 (probably 5), Final Fantasy XI (New MMO).   There are some really good ones, but not many.

4. Ease of pirating software makes development on the system often less than profitable, and in some cases, can ruin a company. 

Then buy a PC and support developers. :)

 1) Don't worry, with consoles now requiring installs and patches, they soon will be losing this advantage.

2) Any modern PC can be connected to any Modern TV with ease. Add in a wireless keyboard and mouse, or a 360 controller if you'd prefer, and you've got yourself a full blown media centre for your home theater.

3) I'll give you this one.

4) I've always found pirating console games much easier. Sure there is the overhead of getting it modded, but once that is done its just "Plug and Play" (see point 1 :P). PC games on the otherhand require new cracks for each update, or images to be stored on the hdd.

Don't get me wrong, PC gaming still has its disadvantages to consoles and vice versa, but the gap between them is becoming smaller. 

Welcome to the club steven. Add PC gamer to your sig, since you are now among the proud elite! (No, I don't really think PC gamers are elite). Got a Steam ID yet?

Oh, and since we seem to have assembled all the site's PC gamers in this topic, be sure to check out Audiosurf.

I gotta get on steam, but I have been really busy playing single player Crysis and Bioshock. I have it downloaded, but I don't think I registered yet.

Edit: I am sloth787 on EANation and stevenjazz787 on Gamespy.

I'm not big on Crysis. It was gorgeous, but extremely generic. It was far more linear than they tried to tell us it was. Go to Korean camp, kill people or sneak through, repeat ad nauseum. Kill some aliens at the end. The dialogue and plot was so awful it was comical. It's too bad those great graphics and physics couldn't have been in a good game. Anyway, if you didn't play it on your consoles, be sure to get CoD4 (You and I can play online some!). Of course The Orange Box is a must buy.

Nothing beats a keyboard and mouse. I gave up playing any shooters on my computer when I bought my PS3, because I am trying to force myself to adjust to a controller. It's going okay I guess, but it just can't compete with the PC.

That is really my problem right now. Too many games.

I wanna get:

COD4
Orange Box
Universe at War
World in Conflict

I am also considering:
The Witcher
Sins of a Solar Empire
The new Dawn of War expansion, but I need to rebuy the originals, I lost my discs.
(I don't do Piracy)

Then there are all the games coming out.
Warhammer Online and Conan being the biggest conundrum.

Just too many games (plus my Wii and DS too)