"It might take few minutes to play with wine config and winetricks but if you're playing games you have the time to waste anyway."
I completely disagree with your assignment of value here. Playing games is fun. Configuring wine is an incredibly frustrating, bash-your-head-against-the-wall-repeatedly process that is commonly measured in hours, not minutes - if it works at all.
Try http://www.playonlinux.com/ its a little GUI that sits on top of wine and gives you a list of preconfigured wine settings to play in a lot of modern games
Well, it has become much better over the past few years and if the game you want to play is well supported it's almost painless. Not sure if you tried recently?
I completely disagree with your assignment of value here. Playing games is fun. Configuring wine is an incredibly frustrating, bash-your-head-against-the-wall-repeatedly process that is commonly measured in hours, not minutes - if it works at all.