For me the only good thing of consoles are the discs and the ability to buy/sell them. Apart of that, they just offer you some convenience, but nothing more.

Usually games for one console are not playable in 1-2 generations, you can’t install mods, you can’t upgrade the GPU or the CPU.

PC offers a lot more flexibility, unfortunately after COVID and now the AI craze, the prices of the GPUs went bananas. Not to mention that you can usually play a lot more games on a PC and the STEAM discounts and prices are much better compared to consoles.

The whole fact that NVIDIA is not allowing AIBs to send the 8GB card to reviewers is quite telling. They are simply banking on illiterate purchasers, system integrators to sell this variant. That’s another low for NVIDIA but hardly surprising anyone.

Planned obsolescence.

I think it works just fine on Linux.

What Linux distro and version do you run? Do you have proton installed and all the drivers? It should run flawlessly.

I am on Linux and won’t change to W11 for sure.

Damn, man, I admire your perseverance. 262 days of posting. Kudos!

Why do you need so many PCs or SDs? You can’t play on more than one at a time anyway.

And what makes you think, things will improve in a generation or two? I think the NVIDIA master plan is eventually for everyone to use GeForce now, AMD will probably offer some kind of alternative to that with physical cards, but most likely they will continue being overpriced.

I bought it a couple of months ago and oh boy this game is amazing. The story is really well written. I am not much of a first person shooter guy but this game is definitely worth it. The story is great, the atmosphere is amazing, it is a really well made game and especially now with the overall international state of affairs and the rise of AI, its depressively dystopian story feels even more relatable and even the fighting is fun and versatile.

In Germany the official Gigabyte shop sells those for 1141€. This is completely nuts.

Like every year, they release cards NVIDIA - 50 and call it a day. But they should realize they are the underdog here and really need to more aggressively price their products if they want to gain any meaningful market share. And it doesn’t help that their prices are falling a lot faster compared to NVIDIA.

To be honest their gaming division could have been a lot bigger chunk if NVIDIA wasn’t so greedy with their VRAM, prices and disastrous launch of the 50th series with fake MSRP, very mediocre gains against last gen and even higher prices.

Give it a go again. I am playing it for the first time right now and this game is absolutely amazing. I heard they changed quite a lot of things in patch 2.0 and we are already at 2.21. Plus how many games are receiving support so long after release. Yes, their release was a dumpster fire, but they managed to fix most of their bugs and now the game is in really good shape.

Seriously, why so much hate for this game. The game at the moment is pretty good.

It looks gorgeous, has an awesome story and a fun and versatile combat system. I am not too much into first person shooting games, but I am playing it right now and I am hooked. I think this game is easily in my top 5 if not 3 games of all time.

There are a bunch of quests when your decisions really matter.

Wow, that’s some next level of patience. Chapeau.

Nah, that was the 5070, my friend.

Why not B580? I think they are still relatively reasonably priced and I think it will serve you better?

I have had this game for ages and only played a bit at the beginning. I like that it is very detailed and has a lot of historic context. I think the Devs spent a lot of time trying to make it really close to how things were looking back then. I am personally not a big fan of the story, which in my opinion is a bit dull and uninspiring, but I like the fact that you are first complete noob, that can die by pretty much everything in the game and you slowly build your skills and become more skilled.

There are also things I don’t like. The whole combat system is very clumsy, the unlocking doesn’t work with a controller and since I am playing it on a SD, I needed to install some auto cheat to be able to break into chests. Saving is also quite frustrating, at least at the beginning. Herbalism also doesn’t work too well and is clumsy. Overall I would say it is 7.5/10 game, definitely worth the try but not a must.

Congratulations!

I am so tired of those click bait articles. Can’t they stop writing sensational titles like this and simply state the name of the game?

Honestly, I trust Steam user reviews more. So I will definitely wait to see what the reviews are there and then buy when it is discounted.

I am patiently waiting for Kingdom deliverance to get released and a couple of weeks or months to see what the reviews say about the state of the game. Then I will decide whether to buy it or not.

Another two games on my radar are RDR 1 and Indiana Jones, Pentiment and Slay the Princes but waiting for better discounts on those.

AMD is notorious for screwing their releases, they usually announce prices very close to NVIDIA, then reviewers give them subpar reviews and after a couple of months they start to lower the prices but it is usually too late and very few reviewers are updating their verdicts so people think they are still crap even though now the price is a lot more competitive making the whole package a bargain.

I don’t know why they do it that way, and I can only imagine that this hurts their brand and sales.

Isn’t “skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors” making them officially conservatives?

That’s finally some good news in the dGPU department. This GPU would have been terrific if it was released 1-2 years ago. I really hope they succeed and continue developing GPUs. We need so much a good competition to NVIDIA.

They fixed CP2077 and as a matter of fact the game is pretty good, plus they are a European company so we should support them.

I was hoping for Eskel or Letho to be honest. Ciri is a safe choice but a bit on the boring side. Eskel would have been a lot more multi-layered protagonist and dialogues would have been funnier.

Enjoy it, man. I hope you are happy with your purchase and serves you well for a long time time

Watch how NVIDIA releases plenty of GPUs with only 8 GB of VRAM next year for 300+ and claim that’s absolutely fine and the consumers should be happy. Same level of shenanigans like Apple insistence that 8 GB in their laptops were sufficient for ages.

Or simply they used an AI and set the tone in the prompt.

Not to mention that if you want to play it now, you need to cough up 99 bucks.

But yes, I trust Steam reviews more

Steve from Gamer’s Nexus is a hero. Full respect for that guy.

That’s going to be an utter disgrace if NVIDIA again releases a 300+ card with only 8 Gb of VRAM. But I think Intel will compete more with AMD who aren’t so stingy on the VRAM.

NVIDIA being greedy is nothing new. Last gen, the only worthwhile card was 4090. The rest was simply overpriced crap. I don’t expect them to make any better next year, that’s because they have almost complete monopoly on the market. And that’s bad for everyone except their shareholders.

Mad Max, a really cool and chill game and a no brainer for 2 bucks.

And it would have been great if it was released 2 or even a year ago. Now it will have a hard time competing against the new generation that’s about to be released next year. I wish them luck though. We deserve healthy competition in this segment.

Better them than NVIDIA. We should support any sort of emerging competition in the GPU market

Witcher 3 and not so distant second Red Dead Redemption 2.

The story and the world are amazing. Combat is a bit clunky but not too bad.