Here’s what I like to do: build or buy (whatever, it’s OK to pay for convenience, and Fry’s will assemble it for $60) a capable, mid range machine for $600-$700. It will play whatever you want, promise. Then incrementally upgrade components as they age out, and-or as you can afford to. You get the joy of new…

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Skyrim SE runs great on my Alien X51 (gtx 950, 8mb RAM). It’s in my living room. If you want the couch experience consider a Steam Link ($50, a lot cheaper than a new PC).

I’ve never understood the willingness to put dozens of hours into the game but not the two minutes to lfg. I lfg’d 2 or 3 times, which led to friends, which led to an awesome clan that is always raid-ready. Very small time commitment with huge rewards: set aside the annoyance for just a few moments JUST TRY AN LFG.

This.

Game of the millenium.

Red Faction: Guerrilla, because I felt like part of something.

The WiiU is the first flagship Nintendo console I passed on in 30 years. Seems like an OK decision so far.