Well, I've played PC games throughout most of my life, but it was never anything serious. I just played them if I could. So Doom, Tie Fight/X-Wing...lots of stuff. But I guess the most distinct point was when I bought a used GeForce 3 card off Ebay so I could buy Battlefield 1942 and GTA3.
More recently, it hasn't been a game but the nature of the PC. I like putting them together as it makes me feel as if it's my own. I like setting it up as a media center. So that's all cool, but in terms of gaming, it's the move towards digital distribution. You see, I don't mind buying cheap $5-10 games off of PSN. But I feel like tieing my future game purchases to hardware that I have no control over and will be dropped by the supplier after several years is a disturbing trend. At least with a PC, you can play any game in last 20 years basically and know it will work. But you can't pop a SNES cart into a Wii.
I guess I just can't accept having don't my games dying the day my console dies. If my PC dies, that sucks, I buy a new part (or possibly a whole new one), and all of my games work again. I'm not writing off those other platforms completely, but I'm being much more careful about which platform I buy a game on, if given the option. If I think I'll use local co-op, use the console. But if not, get it on PC and have it for a long time.
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