And nothing of value was lost

ME1 was incredible, despite some clunky annoyances and idiosyncrasies around some game mechanics.

2 was a step down.

3 was …yikes. They spent TONS of time hyping how much impact your choices would have on the final outcome of the series, and then… you get to choose the red ending, the green ending, or the blue ending.

And don’t get me started on Andromeda.

Overall, it got a lot more rails-y as the series progressed, because that’s just straight up an easier type of game to make.

but make sure you RTO so we can justify our corporate real estate!

Yeah… my last serious rebuild was in mid/late 2020, and I definitely overdid it with a 5950x. But the good news is that I feel relatively future proofed. And I found a deal (read: found being sold at MSRP) a 9070XT several months ago that I replaced my 3080FE with (mainly because I’m shifting to Linux gaming and AMD makes that easier with the drivers). I’m gonna ride this out for a few more years. And I’m gonna pray that none of my RAM decides to shit the bed 😬

Jesus christ can we please stop trying to automate art and content creation

Seriously - I never understood why it got so popular, especially considering performance and hardware issues it had (remember when it was actually bricking components in people’s machines for a while after it was released?)

Hey, remember when Baldur’s Gate 3 came out, was pretty excellent, mostly everyone loved it, and then all the AAA studios started whining that it was an unrealistic standard to be held to?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

System-core-wise, my setup is similar to yours. I also recently upgraded (arguably, sidegraded I guess?) from a 3080FE (10gb) to an RX 9070XT (16gb) that I found a deal on last month, with the intent of finally jumping ship on windows and converting to Linux for my gaming box - already got a bunch of Linux machines between a couple spare laptops and my homelab stuff, but gaming was my last major windows use case… and their market capture is frankly crumbling lately, what with how shit W11 is. I’m not planning on upgrading my setup any further in the next couple of years, because it handles whatever I want these days @1440 qhd pretty great.

I’m just hoping none of my sticks shit the bed in the next couple years, because I do NOT want to support that price point 😬

Holy shit, even in the states it’s quite bad. This is just sorting by cheapest on Newegg - either 2x32 or 1x64 DDR5 modules, no speed filters:

Yeah, the day Gabe leaves is going to be a sad day for gaming, because Steam is probably gonna get real shitty real quick. I’m sure some finance-minded jackasses will do their best to maximize short-term profit and fly the whole ecosystem into the ground at Mach 3.

So, having not played it, is C7 basically just the Civ series’s C&C4 moment?

lol this will definitely not negatively impact quality in any way. No sir.

Unless they’ve come up with some truly novel new architecture that makes training and/or inference MUCH more efficient… why? The generational creep is obviously unsustainable, and using current-style GPUs for ML applications is a recipe for obsolescence for a hardware manufacturer these days.

Huh. My days of refusing to purchase EA products are certainly coming to a middle.

HOLD ON, MY DELL LATITUDE IS ABOUT TO HIT V₁ ON ITS TAKEOFF ROLL, IT’S A BIT NOISY

That’s a rather long way of saying “population be agin’”

Japan’s been going through demographic collapse, and has been for a little bit now. Korea, too, is looking squirrelly with regard to pop age balance.

I love the part of the internet that’s just like “you’re a problem, and we’re gonna engineer around you”

It does what I want it to, and works fine for the games I play on it. I also have a steam deck, as well as a gaming machine of Theseus, and a PS4, amongst numerous other systems for various purposes and uses. I honestly think I’m going to just straight up skip the S2.

Same tbh. My OG switch is still chugging along just fine. No reason to upgrade, really.

Oh wait, so did they actually bait and switch the KS backers? Wouldn’t that be false advertising? And also, wouldn’t that mean they’re in serious trouble with KS, and liable to have a shitload of money removed from their accounts, or at least a lawsuit?

They left off a zero

Woah, do you guys hear that?

It’s the sound of nobody giving a fuck.

I genuinely could not care less, tbh. There’s not been anything I’ve found really groundbreaking in the genre for a very long time.

If we go by oldest part, I’ve got a really good KW seasonic PSU from probably a decade ago that’s still going strong. But pretty much everything else has evolved at one point or another from when that was introduced.

I’m still rolling with a PS4 Pro my buddy gave me when he popped for a PS5. Honestly not feeling like I’m missing out.

It is, however, also fair to point out that I have also built and maintained a Gaming Machine of Theseus for many, many years.

Did you close it tho?

I’m equally cautious and curious… Redemption of Li Wei…?

Nvidia doesn’t really care about the high-end gamer demographic nearly as much as they used to, because it’s no longer their bread and butter. Nvidia’s cash cow at this point is supplying hardware for ML data centers. It’s an order of magnitude more lucrative than serving consumer + enthusiast market.

So my next card is probably gonna be an RX 9070XT.

As someone who has worked in tech their entire career, it’s deeply depressing and infuriating how correct this is.

HELLO I WOULD LIKE TO ORDER A PIZZA
NO
WHY
BECAUSE YOU ARE JOHN MADDEN

This is the silliest pairing lol

lol that’s pretty hilarious tbh

Really doing your best to push me away from your hardware, aren’t you, NVDA?

Yeah, for x86, AMD APU’s are the way to go for mobile, imo

Yeah, doesn’t seem like a smart play to give up your strategic chokehold on one of the most important elements of the modern global economy

I’m playing it on the Switch 1

I guess my point is that I think of the Nintendo dynamic more charitably than I think of independent large game studios making platform exclusive titles just because some business deal was struck, simply because the latter creates the impression of vertical integration when there is in fact none.

I mean, yeah, but at the same time, a Nintendo game being a Nintendo exclusive product doesn’t seem that weird to me. If it was an external studio, sure. But it’s the same company. I agree that it’s annoying, but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable tactic if you control the vertical and you actually DO build good hardware and software that play well together, and you want to leverage the multiplicative effect there.

That sounds like a rad concept for a game. I’d be interested in it.