▲ 625 ▼ Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 (wccftech.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 206 comments fedilink hide all child comments Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.
[+] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago The majority sure, but there are some gems though. Baldurs Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Doom Eternal, Elden Ring, God Of War, ... for example You can always wait for a couple of years before playing them, but saying they didn't miss anything is a gross understatement. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) It's funny, because often they aren't prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago The majority sure, but there are some gems though. Baldurs Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Doom Eternal, Elden Ring, God Of War, ... for example You can always wait for a couple of years before playing them, but saying they didn't miss anything is a gross understatement. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) It's funny, because often they aren't prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)