So what have I missed in PC gaming that is good?

PS2 emulation is pretty much sorted. Does not require overclocked triple cores as it did in '09/'10 - assuming you have a core i5 rig or higher.

You need to dump the bios and that has also become a trivial process:

as for games, GTA IV is a definite one to get on PC. Here’s my random posts on gta4: