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spectrumsa-z:
One of the greatest tragedies of my life was that I never owned a console of any sort.  Not a gameboy or a crappy old nintendo or anything.  I played PC games such as Doom, Duke Nukem and Warcraft, but my parents never let me get a console.   As I got older, I just stuck with PC games.  The most recent game I was really into was Diablo II.  That lost its appeal after a while, and I stopped playing even PC games.    

Having never owned a console I really know nothing about them, but I have enjoyed the console games I have played.  
So here's my question: If I were to buy one console, which would the best/most capabilities and a great selection of games to play with it, what would you reccomend?  Also, should I start out with maybe a console that's less complicated?  

Thanks for your time.

Hustler:
If you're only gonna own one console, the PS2 is definitely your best bet, because it also plays PS1 games, which means not only does it have a gigantic library, but most of those PS1 titles have gotten really cheap by now.

A few suggestions from a wide variety of genres:

-Duke Nukem: Time to Kill (you mentioned the series, so you ought to like this; even though it's in third person, I'd call it the best of the whole series)
-Final Fantasy Tactics
-Final Fantasy 7
-Resident Evil 1, 2, 3 (to a lesser extent) and 4.  Maybe Code Veronica too, if you have the disposable income.
-Metal Gear Solid (but NOT 2)
-If you're into wrestling games, the WWF/WWE Smackdown series is pretty good, there's a ton of PS1 and PS2 installments.  I've only played the first three, but they were all good, so I imagine the newer ones are too.
-The Grand Theft Auto series, especially the ones on the PS2.  The 2D ones were fun, but much more shallow.
-Red Dead Revolver
-The Warriors
-I'm not a big sports game fan, but my friends and I have had loads of fun with NHL Hitz 2003, so I can recommend that one
-Spider-Man 2
-X-Men Legends (either the first or the second, but if you want to go online, the second's probably a little more enticing)
-Final Fantasy Chronicles
-Worms Armageddon
-Armored Core or Armored Core: Master of Arena

For some more suggestions, this is my game collection.  Note that a lot of my Xbox games are also available on the PS2 without any major differences.  I figure with the giant library, as well as the large number of quality games (especially on the PS2 side), plus one of the better controller designs, the PS2 would make a good first system for you.

Sarcasmorator:
I'd agree on the choice of system — the PS2 has the most and best variety of games, no doubt about it — but it looks like a lot of the games Hustler recommends are PS1 titles. So I'm gonna throw in some more suggestions:

Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance: The gameplay's stellar, even if the story gets real weird, and this edition has lots of bonus content. And it's cheap.
Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence: Again, lots of bonus content, including the original Metal Gear games from the 80s. It's a prequel to MGS1 and MGS2.
Final Fantasy X and Dragon Quest VIII, great console RPGs that take very different approaches.
God of War, and I cannot stress this enough.
Resident Evil 4
Katamari Damacy and We (Heart) Katamari
Soul Calibur III: THE 3-D fighting game to have on PS2
Guilty Gear X2: THE 2-D fighting game to have on PS2
The entire Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank series
Beyond Good & Evil
The Prince of Persia series
War of the Monsters
Guitar Hero: Great if you like music. Or fun.
The Shadow Hearts and Shin Megami Tensei series are good off-the-beaten-path RPG series (and in case you haven't played a console RPG, do not expect the freedom of a PC game in most cases).
Mercenaries: It's about the best blow-it-up action game I've seen, and it plays like GTA.
Silent Hill 1-4: The premiere horror series on consoles.
And the PS2 versions of the Splinter Cell games are good, I hear. Pass on Ghost Recon.
EDIT: And Shadow of the Colossus; can't believe I forgot that one.

Hustler:
Yeah, most of my suggestions were from the PS1 days, partly because they're the cheaper buys now, and partly because I just liked the PS1 library more than the PS2 one.  If it wasn't for the backward compatibility, I'd have been pretty disappointed with my PS2.

jhocking:
I would agree about ps2, but am leery of making any game recommendations because my taste in games is kinda oddball.  That said, I definitely concur with suggestions like Prince of Persia, Jak & Daxter, Beyond Good & Evil, and Katamari Damacy.  One suggestion I'd add is Dark Cloud 2.

Incidentally, do you have any emulators?  You can play a lot of old consoles on PC via emulators.  I would recommend downloading emulators for NES, Super NES, and Genesis.

my top 5 nes games (in no particular order:)
Mega Man II
Legend of Zelda
Mario III
Final Fantasy
Kid Icarus

my top 5 genesis games:
Shining in the Darkness
Shining Force
Desert Strike
Road Rash
Mortal Kombat

I didn't own an SNES so I'm not as familiar with its games, so I'm only doing a top 3:
Zelda III
Super Mario RPG
F-Zero

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