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Just started playing Skyrim this year.
So you’re just about finished with the character creator, then. Don’t worry, Hadvar is a patient man.
This meme makes me miss the button we used to have on the front of PCs to slow down the CPU, so that some games could be played.
I’m still using a GTX 1070. When I was building a new PC 2 years ago I had to decide whether to splurge on a new GPU. I thought about all of the games I played in the last 5 years and realized none of them were GPU intensive (the most intensive was Minecraft with shaders and that one was bottlenecked by my CPU). To this date I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that my GPU couldn’t handle.
To be fair, the 10xx series are goddamn workhorses.
I’m also on a 1070, but mine’s been trucking along since 2019. I do occasionally play something GPU intensive, but I often avoid going full MAX GRAFFICS because the laptop gets really toasty, which causes visible screen tearing due to most of the hot air being blown straight onto the fucking screen. Great engineering, ASUS, gg.
The 1070 was an amazing card for it’s time but DLSS 3 is a game changer, especially if you game at 4K. But for 1080p and below the 1070 can hold its own. I used one up until last year.
Me too! I also built around the same time and had to decide whether or not it was worth upgrading… Still going strong for 1080p. (I don’t have a 4k monitor anyway)
Ah. I’m using a 2.5k monitor. 1070 seems perfect for that resolution.
The annoying thing is when games are broken due to drivers not being updated by the company
*in 4k
Do a fucking Simpsons Hit and Run remake and I might buy that…
Can they even remake that given that Apu is a major character in it and liking him is “Wrong Think” now?
Apu is the second best part of the entirety of The Simpsons: Hit & Run, second only to Homer in his undies.
I said what I said.
Doom II, Factorio, Fallout 1-4, and Minecraft.
Who do I need a top-tier PC? The ten year old rig I build still runs them like a champ.
I love me some some Fallout 2.
So you can megabase Factorio.
Project Brutality is a lovely mod for Doom fans.
I like playing newer games which all require pretty beefy rigs. I have a weak GPU so I can’t play most new games but it does make me sad.
People I know (not PC gamers obviously) balk at the sight of me playing a PS1 game on today hardware.
“Why would you play a game that old on such a powerful computer?”
“That’s obvious, upscaling exists, and games from this era were/are more complete, entertaining and bug-free than most things released in recent years.”
“Huh… Guess that makes sense.”
Is usually how it goes anyway.
How i feel playing tomb raider remakes on my ps5.
“The Sims 2. A man with your specs?”
Fun fact: The Sims 2 is abandonware. Other than buying used physical media, the only way to get it nowadays is through piracy.
Me playing OpenTTD on my gaming rig.
It’s not a perfect replacement and single player only if that matters, but have you tried Transport Fever 2? It’s got a TTD feel with beautiful modern graphics.
a TTD feel
beautiful modern graphics
Hmmmm…
Sorry I meant a TTD feel in terms of basic mechanics, but with beautiful modern graphics.
At least it won’t be necessary to buy new hardware for the foreseeable future.
I’ll move onto the other stuff as soon as I get tired of Bertie the Brain.
I played Resident Evil 4 (the original 2005, not the remake) for the first time last year. That same year, I bought Diablo 4, Starfield, Hogwarts legacy, and a bunch of other games.
RE4 from 2005 was the only game that I thoroughly enjoyed playing.
Because most of the time, older games were made with player enjoyment in mind, not shareholders.
Eh, there’s a huge number of shovelware for every console generation, plus less than stellar titles. The thing is that, due to all the years piling up, the amount of good stuff just increases.
True, but back then games were made to stand on their own instead of being a poorly thought out monetization machine.
I mean Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing was shit, but at least they only expected you to pay for it once… and you can still play it, you don’t have to wait for a lobby to fill up before it lets you into the game, a lobby that will never fill up because no one’s playing Big Rigs: Over The Fucking Road Racing
The developers who made Big Rigs probably wouldn’t have the budget to make an AAA game nowadays. A better comparison would be indie games, and there’s more of them (or it feels like it) due to easier development & distribution. (Which does involve shovelware). Even excluding Indies, AA games without subscription models are plentiful too.
Edit: (AAA games are a better example of being worse, I haven’t played them but comparing Assasin’s Creed or Metal Gear back in the day to now is better to show the bad practices. Thankfully, like I said, there’s just a ton more games and you don’t need to play the crappy ones)
The people who published Big Rigs are still out there publishing terrible mainstream license games such as the new Kong game and the new Avatar: TLA game (yes, really). They’re called “Game Mill”, and they are exactly what their name is, and their games are some of the worst on shelves. They don’t keep any employees very long and they have them work on games before they even get an order so they can slap the license into the game last-minute.
Games from 1999-2007 aged really well. I’ve been playing Aliens vs Predator 2, No One Lives Forever and a bunch of GameCube, PS2 and Xbox games on my Steam Deck.
Steam Deck man. Such an effing win.
GameCube runs fantastic on steam deck! Still playing MVP Baseball ‘05 hitting mini game and I still suck
Make a player named Jacob Paterson. EZ home runs.
If you can deal with the extreme tedium of making an entire roster of "Jacob Paterson"s (changing letter casing here and there), you’ll be steamrolling everyone. Kinda ruins the fun of the game, but I find it really satisfying to watch >700ft home runs that clear the entire stadium and hear Kuip and Krukow endlessly call dinger after dinger. Pure dumb fun :D
That’s a good idea. I just use Jon Dowd, the white fictional dude who has the same stats as Barry Bonds lol
Additioaly if you count 2D games like classic RPG’s and platformers, games from SNES and PSX era are golden as well.
I wish I had a gamecube still so I could play this again (and again and again): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sight_(video_game)
