Welcome aboard, you have joined the right side of the force :-D

Your PC Elitist Monocle should be arriving in the mail shortly....after you complete Planescape:Torment and the 2 Fallouts.

I never really played it on an Xbox other than online, (I don't own one). I was always more into Timesplitters though talking of a console FPS.

I first discovered PC gaming after I got my first PC many, many years ago. My old Atari 2600 was still better than it at the time, so I pretty much stayed with gaming on consoles only through the NES and Sega Genesis years, then I got a "real" PC. Suddenly PC gaming was a different experience and it was actually good. I never stopped playing consoles, but my gaming budget was now divided between PC games and console games. With the coming of this current generation of consoles, PC games became a larger part of that budget, since I like chautemoc, did not get a warm fuzzy feeling from any of them (and still don't). I still buy the occasional used game for my PS2, but the majority of my gaming is now PC only.

i've historically been a pc gamer since age of about 4 or 5... recently obtained my first console and have been playing it probably in a 1:3 ratio to the PC. I have nothing against console games, i just never had the funds to get a console and my dad always had an up to date PC. Now-a-days I tend to pick the system dependant on the type of game. Sports games and fighting games on console (or adventure), and RPGS (mostly), FPSs (mostly), RTS games on PC.

I was a console gamer when I was young. As I got older I started playing PC games, but I still play console games as well.

I too started as a console gamer... on good old Videopac then I moved to Comodore 64 and finally to PC.

I still play my Sega Genesis and Nintendo Game Cube so I'm not a PC purist.
But I got my start on an old Compaq playing Keen 4.

I started out as a PC gamer at the age of 5 and grew up with it. Only console I ever really got into was the PS2 and that wasn't major. Killing hordes of evil in doom, kicking around heads in blood, slashing my way through the dungeons in Diablo, solving puzzles in hexen, nailgunning my way through quake and the list goes on. I can respect what consoles do but it has never been worth the investment, in fact the only reason I own mine is my parents bought me one for Christmas.

I have not only never owned a console, I have never played a single game on one. Because I vowed never to buy a game with DRM again, I was thinking a lot about getting a console recently. But I realize that with my backlog of unplayed games from GOG, and because GOG will doubtless eventually come out with more great games that eat up gigantic amounts of time (HOMM2 !), it could be years and years till I ran short of games and needed to really consider getting a console.
As it is, the one I considered most strongly was the Playstation 3, because of the quality blu-ray player mostly. But the games I love most are RTS's and turn-based strategy games. RTS's supposedly aren't that good on consoles and anyway a huge online community is vital for them, and PS3 supposedly is inferior to XBox for the online community size, so ... I guess there's really very little reason for me to get a console at all, even though I've vowed never to buy a game with DRM again.
Lucky for me GOG came along. I've got cheap gaming for years to come without dropping a dime on a console.

you don't have many friends outside the internet do you? consoles are for local multiplayer.

I'm just a gamer. I also don't do DRM, so PC gaming in the last couple of years, before GOG came along, didn't have much to offer. There were a few notable exceptions, but for the most part PC gaming is a DRM wasteland.
The consoles I've owned:
Coleco Vision
NES
Sega Genesis
Sega Dreamcast
Nintendo Gamecube
Nintendo Wii
XBox 360
Nintendo DS
I do own two gaming capable PC's, one desktop and one laptop.
The last month or so I've been mainly playing GOGs on the PC. I'm currently near the end of POP Sands of Time, and also playing Disciples II. When i finish Sands of Time, I'm going to get the new Prince of Persia (DRM Free). On Wii I'm playing Shaun White snowboarding (with the balance board), and on the XBox 360 I'm playing EndWar, which is an RTS with great voice control.
Oops, this turned into a "what are you playing?" post. But in summary, I'm a lifelong gamer who is pretty neutral between the PC and consoles, but I don't do DRM.
Oh, I also have a pinball machine. Elvira and the Party Monsters.

Unfortunately the tide has just turned on DRMs in consoles. There have been some wins (non-region-encoded PS3 games, for example), but all current console platforms now sell games or unlockable game content digitally, which is tied to your username and/or console ID.
Your decision to stick with GOG is wise, and I think that you'll always find your RTS experience better on the PC anyway.
Actually I'm almost the other way around - I bought a PS2 a few years ago with a couple of gun games. I switched it on, played a game, and switched it off. No patches, no wondering where my saved games were stored, no controller card IRQ conflicts.
My PS2 has since been accessorised to share the joys of SingStar, Guitar Hero, and DDR with my friends.
I wouldn't touch the controller to play a real game though :)

That's a limited vision to say the least.
I also am a lot older than you apparently. When I was growing up, nobody had consoles, and I saw no reason to ever get one after that, since the PC had plenty of games, and of the type I liked, with what I often thought were better visuals and control schemes. When I'm with friends, the last thing I want to do is play a video game. That's what I do when I'm not with friends. With friends if I'm playing a game, it will be poker. I see no reason to change that now. Your mileage may vary, but whatever.
I don't mind DRM on consoles because they are locked onto the console itself. They can't affect other things besides game playing, which DRM on computers can.
Yeah, RTS's are by far what I've gotten most into on computers, and the reports are pretty universal that those are much better done on PC's. Unfortunately, I will probably have to give up my favorite gaming genre forever now. Since I don't do FPS's (motion sick), I'm pretty much confined to turn-based strats and maybe something like Diablo 3, when that comes out.

wow, your post got fubar'd