The games I've been seriously interested in (or if you will, addicted to, playing heavily for years and years) since moving from Atari computers
to Micro$oft are:
Tigers on the Prowl / Panthers in the Shadows
Myth: The Fallen Lords / Myth II: Soulblighter / mods
Space Empires III / Space Empires IV Gold modded
Combat Mission (all)
Dominions PPP / Dominions II, Dominions 3
At the minimum, they all want a mouse, and not some retarded console controller. Keyboards are nice to have, too. Even the action games I've been moderately hooked on work better with keyboard and mouse, or joystick, than a console spaz blob.
Consoles are mainly a lame way to abuse customers and the art of computer gaming for crass corporate exploitation, in my opinion. Sort of good for some action games for kids, and to keep kids off the computer, but not much more except a big annoyance for gamers with eldritch tastes like mine.
PvK