Headphones + mic for gaming?

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What's up, I need a headset or something. I'm new so please no meanies.

As I understand it, headsets are (in essentially all cases) inferior to the combination of headphones and a microphone. So I've been searching for headphones for a bit but damn there are so many out there. Basically:

I'm no audiophile and I am not that knowledgeable at all when it comes to audio. I seemingly can't tell the difference between MP3s (with the usual bitrates or however you say it) and FLACs. No disrespect to audiophiles but I'm not one so I just want something that sounds good to me.

I would like to both hear audio and give audio (so both input & output, e.g. headphones + microphone), and presumably the preferred way to go about this is the combination of headphones and a microphone. So (assuming that is correct), I'm looking for headphones as well as a microphone that can be easily attached to the headphones.

Now, I've used headphones with an attached microphone before, and the way it attached (on the headphones cable) just wasn't as convenient as what a headset looks like it would provide. The microphone would gradually move away from my mouth and I'd have to pull it back up. So, I'd like to place some emphasis on that I want the microphone to be conveniently attached much like with a headset (but not necessarily in the exact same way).

Anyway, the headset is mostly for gaming (mainly FPS and similar first-person games). I will of course use it for other purposes as well but nothing special so if it's good for gaming then it'll probably be sufficient for everything that I do.

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!