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Good. Fuck off with high end graphics that need a new graphics card every fucking two months. Give me a good story and gameplay.
Seconded. This is what I value in a game. You can do great storytelling and/or addictive gameplay with low poly, low res, low color palette.
In fact, I'd argue that hardware limitations sharpen creativity.
I've been rocking the same graphics card since 2021, and it still plays every new game on high settings. There are very few games that can even afford the production budget that would push a card like that or even a PS5 to its limits anyway. My most-played game is a 2D game from 2012 that can run on a cheap laptop, and the market at large is most focused on games that are so low spec that they can run on phones too.
And even if you're playing a lot of modern AAA games, the settings beyond medium are often just offering diminishing returns. I can barely tell the difference in most cases and it will still tank the FPS down by half. It's just not worth it.
People, especially those who run games on monitors with high resolution, sleep on the fact that you can easily turn AA off to get a massive boost in performance for virtually no degradation of graphics.
Which graphics card are you running ? I have a 4060 personally.
RX6800 XT. It did cost me an arm and a leg when I bought it, due to the shortage at the time, but it's lasted a long, long time.
Dam that's a prettyneayt card. So far it runs anything you throw at it ?
Yup. The only game to really stress test it was Borderlands 4, but...that's because the performance in that game sucks across the board. Even then, they put out a performance patch that helped a ton, and I can still run it on high settings with some frame gen, or a few settings turned down to medium without it.
That is not really true. I use same graphics card and upgrade it with new console cycle. Or maybe once in between.
I made that comment in regards to a lot of triple a publishers wanting to push out high graphics to a point where eventually you'll need to upgrade your card to handle the latest and greatest. I much rather decent graphics but a killer story line with good gameplay mechanics.
What in the world are you talking about...? I was using my GTX 970 for five years before I got a used RTX 2060, which I sold to my brother after two years. I'm nor running an RX 9070 XT and it looks like it'll do its job for at least 5 years.