Instead just buy something he wants to play so you can play it together. Or at least talk about it.
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Sit down with them on their new gaming machine and sign them up for Steam or GOG. While they are doing that, slyly buy Steam or GOG credits on your phone and gift them to your buddy. Have your buddy go through the automated recommendations and gently inform your buddy whether a game is worth their time or not. And then watch as they add games to their wishlist thinking that they are going to pay a bunch for it.
I mean, they will eventually. No one in the MPCR escapes spending a fortune on their wishlist.
XCOM 2
I watched the Ahoy video for XCOM and decided I wanna try it. Then I saw that I already own a copy on epic, but I bought it for steam anyway.
The best game ever made is Baldur's Gate 3, so that's what I'd give if he hasn't played it. IDC what kind of games he usually plays, that's what I'd give.
Game bundles like from Fanatical are a good start. You can't return them if you have issues, but they're great if you haven't played any of the offerings given.
A similar thing would be Xbox Game Pass, but that very much locks you into their ecosystem, and they're clearly done investing into worthwhile games.
Or I guess a Humble Bundle subscription.
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The DOOMs
I thought the old homeworld games were great. Kind of RTS in space ships. They're old now but still good.
Tormented Souls was really good
Might consider getting something that only plays well on keyboard/mouse. Factorio comes up off the top of my head. Shooters also generally translate poorly to controllers, so perhaps that?
The Sonic Racing games are the best counterpart to Mario Kart available on PC. Sonic Racing Transformed is the best of the 3 games (and bundles the very first game) but sometimes gets confused when switching up controllers, so you must delete the config file, so maybe because of that not the best introduction to PC. Team Sonic Racing is a bit less good but that input bug is gone.
Total war: Warhammer 3? Baldurs Gate 3? Maybe those are available on console as well..