The last time I was into gaming was probably back in the early to mid-2000s ...
I'd enjoyed the usual stuff beforehand, Doom, Quake, then onto Q3A, Unreal Tournament and so on. Half-Life, 2, Counter Strike. FPS is my kinda thing.
I was given a PS3 a few months ago and it sat there as a BD players as I'm not much into gaming today, but curiosity got the better of me and before I knew it, I'd bagged the COD back catalogue, MW/2/3, Black Ops/2/3, Battlefield/2/3/4, Bad Company/2, Killzone 2/3 and was proper back in my groove!
I resurrected Steam on my Mac and found my Orange Box physical purchase could be honoured and so Half-Life 2/Team Fortress 2/Portal all sorted ... and fired it up on her Windows laptop to muck about with Crysis and so on.
That led to installing Steam OS on an old Dell E6440 which isn't actually a bad machine. With 8GB RAM and an SSD drive, those little speed improvements translate to HUGE gains in FPS for CS:GO. I'm running 1280x720 with most set to low, but it's entirely playable.
I am hankering after a significantly better laptop for gaming now ...
I don't want a desktop PC. I've been iMac since the end of the '90s and just don't have the desire for another box and another monitor. Laptop will do just fine.
I'm rather hoping eGPU or Graphics Accelerator boxes really take off as a concept, once a unified and high-bandwidth connection is landed upon by the industry. I rather like the idea of a light(er) laptop, which I can click into a box at home that does all the graphics grunt.
From the virtual world, this is a well established concept - when scaling for ESX, you talk in terms of IOPS, boxes of compute, memory and storage. I don't see why the concept couldn't slide over to the desktop where all that extra processing grunt, cpu, gpu, storage, even memory could be sitting in an external box to beef up any system.
So, gaming ...
FPS for me! Very much enjoying CS:GO which I was delighted to find has all the maps I was used to under CS Source some 15 years ago. What fun! Now I also see Quake Champions (Q3A reboot) and Unreal Tournament about to have a re-issue.