Since it’s almost Christmas… 
In no particular order:
- Sonic Adventure / Sonic Adventure 2: Battle / Sonic Heroes / Shadow the Hedgehog (GameCube): I haven’t played a Sonic game since the first 2D ones on the Megadrive, and I miss the blue guy. I think I’ll start with the first two, which are already Player’s Choice games, and can be bought cheaply.
- Doom 3 (PC): I’ve only tried the demo, some months ago, and my PC is too slow to play it properly. But I’d like to play it in full when I get new hardware, a couple of months from now. I know a lot of people were disappointed with the game, as they were expecting a rocket-fest such as multi-player Quake, and Doom 3 is more of a horror game - but I’m curious about it.
- X-Men Legends 2 (GameCube): loved the first one - the 4-player mode was great! I want more of it.
- Mario Superstar Baseball (GameCube): one more for the post-lunch gaming sessions at home.
- more tactical RPGs (several systems): after “discovering” Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, I want more. Most of them are for the GBA, it seems…
- an RTS (PC): probably Age of Empires III, but, again, I need to upgrade my puny PC first…
Looking at that list, I realize an interesting fact: that after being a computer (8-bit, 16-bit, PC) gamer for most of my life, my tastes have slowly been turning to consoles more and more. I still play and enjoy PC games, but most of them are older ones - and, except for Civ 4 and the R:TW expansion, I haven’t bought any recently. I guess that would change if I had a more powerful PC, but… I don’t know. Not only do console games not have compatibility problems or hardware requirements that cost an arm and a leg to fulfill, but they’re… different. And they still feel “fresh” to me, while PC games increasing feel like what I’ve been playing all my life. Maybe I simply needed a change.
But it’s a fact that, for the past few months, I’ve been spending much more time on the GameCube than on the PC.
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Playability. It all comes to this after a few decades of gaming. Where else you can find the playability we are used to in the 8bit gaming? PC games are all about strategy and FPS (wich is a good thing when you’re not used play anything else) but play a Mario or a Sonic and BAM you’re caught up your entire life… I’m a sucker for japanese games, they still keep the old formula I love so much. And then there’s the hardware problem as you said, in a console you’re playing something developed to play specificaly in that platform… no fuss no huss, just insert and play, although something tells me that’s going to change with XBOX 360…
Cool list, i think you should try out “Kya Dark Lineage” its a great game that not everyone knows about, its is a little bit similar to beyond good and evil.
here is wikipedia’s article for kya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kya:_Dark_Lineage