I don’t think a 6090 or future card will be enough for 4k without some short of DLSS or frame generation shenanigans, because by the time those cards releases, graphics would have “evolved” to a point where they will be, once again, no longer enough. The eternal obsolescence cycle…

I prefer the FE because is the only 2 slots card that will be available at launch and I don’t have the need for the extra fans and size. FE are normally on par, if not better than they AIB counterpart as long as you stick to air cooled.

I’m planning on getting the 5090 FE provided scalpers don’t ruin it (which is the most likely scenario by the way). I have a 3080 and have recently upgraded to 4k OLED, going from 3k to 4k has taken a serious blow to the FPS and I’d like to play some of the newer games at high settings and high FPS so I’m due for an update.

I have a no problem with DLSS on the games I played so far. Whichever artifacts it may have they “disappear” during gameplay. You are not counting pixels while you are playing. I know this is not the solution we want but we need to be realistic here, there is a reason why CGI can’t be rendered in real time. Certainly we are still far away from that type of quality yet the games we play are rendering in real time. We cannot afford the size and price of CGI workstations so we have to rely on these “gimmicks” to make for it.

Can you imagine a PS5, Switch or XBOX game that required a Steam account in order to play?

Whoa there, I said a small fortune not the Powerball.

Probably sell it for a small fortune I guess.

Incredible good games. I’m planning to do the same shortly.

Unicorn Overlord, on my way to my parents house for new year’s eve.

Thanks for the giveaway! I never dot into the Wasteland games so this could be a great opportunity.

Is fine with me as long as the reviews are fine.

Saw the cutscene at the beginning and thought, oh, they ditched the ugly cel shaded art style, about time! Turns out I was wrong.

…until merger layoffs hit hard.

It’s a walking simulator but it is also one of the best games ever made. In my top 5 for sure.

Any indies or AA studios really, those are the responsible for actually fun and finished products. Without them and their hits the industry will be a barren wasteland of predatory monetization and boring games-as-a-chore landscape.

Not that the Tencent conglomerate is going to be any better to the gaming industry but yeah, you are not wrong.

This is not a surprise. Big companies have been very busy for the last decade in transforming video games into glorified visual experiences which feel more of a chore than fun to play.

Still 45% slower than without RT at all.

Not even giving away it on Epic Store has helped them it seems.

And they wonder why they are flopping.

I don’t think that the people still on windows 10 are in a hurry to upgrade. I suspect that either they don’t want to or are not aware of the risk of outdated security updates. So in the end it probably will come down to whether those people need an actual hardware upgrade or not.

Right? I got to try a 350€ Nothing Phone 2a for a couple weeks, it was far better than than my current S22 which cost twice as much. So from now on my budget for new phones is going to be 350€.

I tried to play 3 when it got free on Epic Store but Jesus, it was boring and generic.

Damn it, talk about timing. I just a finished Bioshock Infinite on Steam yesterday. I mean, you can entirely disable the launcher with a single launch command in the Steam properties page but still…

I’ll take good art direction over realistic graphics any day of the week. I just replayed Bioshock infinite and for all I care it looks far better than your average AAA of choice.

I don’t know how to feel about this remake, on one side is one of my favorites games of all time and would gladly see how a remake looks. On the other side I play this game every now and then and it stills hold very well gameplay wise. The sequel also holds graphically.

That headline sounds expensive for us gamers.

The question is whether they have the intention of publishing it in Russia in the first place.

That’s a lot of porn in a single SSD.

If it doesn’t have PVP, micro transactions or Denuvo I’m interested.

To the surprise of no one. Sony has tasted the PC money and there is not coming back from it.

Yes, I understand the theory but at the end of the day I watch reviews so I don’t have to interpolate data or make guessing. If I see something like this I can clearly see that, given the same GPU I can expect that my 5900x should be around 6% slower than the 9800X 3D at 4k on average and here I can see that it is around 15% slower at 1440p which is useful for when using DLSS. This makes clear for me that an upgrade is not worth it. Those are the kind of details I want to view on reviews.

I don’t understand this line of thinking. I mean from the point of view of a reviewer and maybe some enthusiasts it make sense but for the average Joe like me with a 5900x that only play games at 4k and who is planning to upgrade to a 5800/5900 GPU when they release, all we want to know is: Will this new CPU improve my FPS? And if so by how much.

Another day, another corpo bullshit.

Coffee will continue until morale improves.

Next time the controller will play the game for us so we can do other stuff instead.

I think this summarizes pretty well the current state of video games.

Yep, the more companies you own, the more revenue you will have, even if your products are mediocre at best.

I think the term dev is a little misused here. Shithead management might be more appropriate.

They can barely maintain a single game and now after firing almost half their employees they expect to maintain 3 games? Well, I’m grabbing my popcorn…

I also have stop being interested in games because of Denuvo. Understandable.

The freedom to make a PNS account maybe?