It doesn’t help that GPUs are stupidly expensive.

Yes, I have never played it and I played RDR II which I really liked. I think I might give it a go and refund it if it is not my cup of tea. What I really enjoyed in the second part was the story.

Yes, I understand and I can definitely relate to your situation. I have never played it before and was thinking I can give it a go and if I don’t like it, simply refund it

I can refund it on Steam too.

I also played it on 2.1 and the game was absolutely amazing. The story was engaging, and the world was absolutely stunning.

Ughhh you have UHD620. I also have a ThinkPad T14s with Ryzen 4750U and my APU should be more powerful. Do you have any luck of running the Oblivion in a playable manner?

Advanced access costs 20 Euro on top of the already overpriced price, in order to be able to play it two days in advance.

True, they should be 5050 or lower class, what NVIDIA did the last couple of years was to upgrade the class of every card 5050 -> 5060, 5060 -> 5070 etc. and as a result that increased the rift between 90 and 80 tiers of cards and make the generational performance increase lukewarm at best.

Unfortunately people are way dumber than you think.

Same with 5060Ti 8Gb. We have an extreme greediness and planned obsolescence in full force on display here.

I have the first part, but I am not exactly sold on it. I really like the idea, the historical precision, etc., but the gameplay, especially the fight mechanics are a bit putting me off to a point that I have never completed it. Is the second part better in that regard?

Nowadays games are very repetitive and grindy. That’s very unfortunate as it kills the game. Very few of them have engaging side quests that don’t feel like generic AI generated crap. So longer gameplay doesn’t automatically equate to better quality games.

Even more considering how much crippled and dead on arrival this card is. I would be seriously surprised if it is even faster than a 4060 Ti. And this VRAM configuration is just pathetic

I agree, this game is a piece of art, really well made.

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.