Terraria
I’m happy with my legion go, it can handle most aaa games pretty well. And if I want to upgrade later on, I’ll get an eGpu. Modular gaming system ftw
Maybe I’m missing some important details, but isn’t an eGPU still limited to throughput of the thunderbolt connection?
I bought ps5 specifically for aaa games, never been happier, pc is for indie and ps5 ps3 and Xbox 360 for aaa
Cries in STALKER 2
Your uh… $1000 gaming PC? Isn’t that pretty much all it can play? (assuming the game is released today)
you can build decent enough pc in a 1000$ on ryzen 7700 and 64gb ram and intel a770 16gb in that budget
Ryzen 7700 and 64 GB of ram is crazy overkill for gaming. Downgrade those and get a used RTX 3080 for around $400 and you’ll have a good modern gaming pc
Me modding the 2D pixel art game with ultra HD textures, shaders, reflections, realistic physics engine, ray tracing.
Me upgrading my computer to kick ass just so I can play Old School Runescape
Hey, the GPU plugin in runelite that adds lighting effects can absolutely EAT GPU power.
Yeah it can, if I use that plugin fullscreen on my 1440p monitor, I can’t even watch YouTube on another monitor because my GPU is maxed out lmao
Me playing OSRS with 1k+ days on it, what’s other games?
Try 6000$ machine… no joke.
this failing isn’t on you though. AAA games is not what it used to be, I feel like between 2008 to 2014 game companies have all progressed and transitioned into something they didn’t use to be.
my $4k gaming PC at this point is a glorified FFXIV machine although, I do plan to play other things soon.
I mostly play indie games, but I sometimes play AAA games (Ghost of Tsushima right now) and I am glad that I have my rig that can get 90 fps @ 4k (with fsr).
It’s not because you don’t use it every single time that you play a game that it is a waste of money.
This exactly. I bought a custom build specifically for Elden Ring. After blowing that out of the water, my next most played game that year was Stardew iirc. It’s about having power for when you need it rather than always using it to feel like it has value
I feel like the last few years at least have had like one worthy game per year, which for someone with a lot of work to do and now a family, is plenty. I’ve yet to finish Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate III, and while I completed Cyberpunk, I never got around to the DLC.
I do certainly feel like between 2016 and 2021 or so, we barely got any good games. The biggest release of 2020 took a year or 2 to be decent and even then never lived up to its’ hype because what was promised was simply too much. 2021 the biggest release was Forza Horizon 5 which I loved, but a lot of gamers don’t really care for.
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2016 we got Blood and Wine for Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 (which is a good game, just not a good Fallout game). Oh and we got Doom.
2017 wasn’t that great for AAA, except for Nintendo. But we still got great games like Breath of the wild, Prey, Nier Automata, Hellblade, Hollow Knight, Undertale to name a few.
2018 we got Red Dead Redemption 2, Monster Hunter World, God of War.
2019 we got Death Stranding, Divinity Original Sin 2, Sekiro, Resident Evil 2
2020 we got Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The last of us 2, Hades
2021 is kind of a dud because of covid.
So I’m terms of AAA only 2017 and 2021 can really be considered duds. But indies released some absolute bangers between 2016-2021. For example Disco Elysium, among us, outer wilds, Stardew valley, inscryption etc.
Pixelated grass is always greener
everyone reading that probably had one in mind. i bet ill hit 75% of them with the balatro/stardew/terraria combo, though if yours is far more obscure, by all means enlighten me so i can buy it and let it sit in my backlog for years because of my own game addictions.
Gelatine and I wanna maker are cool obscure games
Celeste is also fun, but less obscure
Dead cells, factorio
Undertale
Noita, Streets of Rogue, and Dwarf Fortress are some of favorite games.
I haven’t played it, but Animal Well looks great.
It’s not a pixel game, but because it has Sims 1 graphics, I think Project Zomboid should get a special mention.
Also, zomboid used to be a pixel game
Have your heard of our Lord and Savior… balatro?
oh you mean the “The wheel of fortune is fucking rigged” simulator? Why yes. Yes I have.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with Vagante recently
I’m always a huge fan of Deep Rock Galactic, Moonring, Rimworld
Compensate by running an electron app alongside it.
I’m OK with 2D but draw the line at pixel-art. Pun not intended.
I’ll always upvote a Chaeyoung meme
Consider this, a 3D indie pixel-art game (Ultrakill)
Minecraft-alikes?
Not every pixel-art game or voxel game is a Minecraft-alike. For example Hytale is fundamentally different.
Atlyss, Pseudoregalia
I love my 3080 running LA noire.