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Are videogames for children?

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Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
How much are you willing to pay for a graphics card?

edit: and when are you willing to spend the same(or more) amount of money for a new graphics card?
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Dont have a set budget, really, if i had to put a number on it i could save up to 700-800 for the whole setup, but willing to go further. Just want to have something to stick with so i dont need to invest in consoles again for a while
 
Psyduck said:
Dont have a set budget, really, if i had to put a number on it i could save up to 700-800 for the whole setup, but willing to go further. Just want to have something to stick with so i dont need to invest in consoles again for a while
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A Ryzen 7 5800X3D($350?) will last for a loooong time, think a console generation or more, but there are no future upgrading options on that platform(the socket on the motherboard).
When you upgrade to another CPU you need a new motherboard and different RAM along with installing windows again.

You can hop onto the AMD 7000-series, their new one, but motherboards and DDR5 RAM costs more.

So including MB/CPU/RAM/case excluding keyboard/mouse/screen we're probably at 600 now. You can buy a 3060 12GB for $250 or so and that makes it $850.
There's no need for the 5800X3D though, it's just one of the best options available but if you don't pair it with a graphics card that can keep up it will be underutilized. My point is that don't be afraid to go fairly cheap on the CPU if you're not buying a 500-600 dollar graphics card. One will limit the other when it comes to frame rate and at this point, when going for a standard 60fps, it's usually the graphics card.

Getting in on AM5 and one of their cheaper Ryzen 5 7000s might be a good idea, the motherboard you buy along with the DDR5 memory will support their 8000-series, probably 9000-series CPUs and so on. New CPUs and GPUs can just be dropped in at anytime without a total reinstall of Windows and any possible licensing woes.
 
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Finished Like a Dragon: Ishin! and while I enjoyed it I think it's replaced Yakuza 3 as my least liked entry in the franchise. Gameplay was only so-so and the story was actively annoying me by the end. Still worth playing, but a bit of a disappointment. Moving on to Gaiden and then Infinite Wealth and I'll have beaten every game in the series.
 
Anyone playing Cyberpunk 2077? I'm hours into my first playthrough and I started coming across this annoying ass crash where my game crashes everytime I load a checkpoint upon death, load a save, or if I quit to the main menu.
 
Zaragoza said:
Anyone playing Cyberpunk 2077? I'm hours into my first playthrough and I started coming across this annoying ass crash where my game crashes everytime I load a checkpoint upon death, load a save, or if I quit to the main menu.
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I had this once but it was due to outdated mods when a patch hit. Did or do you have any mods?
 
Going to start an EU4 campaign either this or next weekend, can anyone recommend a fun country outside of the major powers? Ideally not something meme-tier difficult, just a solid fun starting position for an iron man run.

EmpGulcasa said:
Finished Like a Dragon: Ishin! and while I enjoyed it I think it's replaced Yakuza 3 as my least liked entry in the franchise. Gameplay was only so-so and the story was actively annoying me by the end. Still worth playing, but a bit of a disappointment. Moving on to Gaiden and then Infinite Wealth and I'll have beaten every game in the series.
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Yakuza 3 was your least fav? I remember enjoying it a fair bit, but maybe it just hasn't aged well, and it could just be that my glasses are rose-tinted. Then again, come to think of it, I haven't played a single game in the series that I didn't actually dislike.
 
Happy Camper said:
Going to start an EU4 campaign either this or next weekend, can anyone recommend a fun country outside of the major powers? Ideally not something meme-tier difficult, just a solid fun starting position for an iron man run.


Yakuza 3 was your least fav? I remember enjoying it a fair bit, but maybe it just hasn't aged well, and it could just be that my glasses are rose-tinted. Then again, come to think of it, I haven't played a single game in the series that I didn't actually dislike.
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Of the games I'd played til now, yeah. 0, Kiwami and Kiwami 2 are all wonderful, I enjoyed just how content rich 4 and 5 were, and 6 being in the Dragon Engine again (and so much sshorter than the extremely long 5) probably made me like it more than I otherwise would. I also adored both Judgement games. 3 was fine, just because it was the clunkiest and it leaned a bit too hard into the orphan stuff it became my least liked. Ishin ended up replacing it though. I'm enjoying Gaiden so far as a more bite sized entry before diving into the massive Infinite Wealth.
 
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EmpGulcasa said:
Of the games I'd played til now, yeah. 0, Kiwami and Kiwami 2 are all wonderful, I enjoyed just how content rich 4 and 5 were, and 6 being in the Dragon Engine again (and so much sshorter than the extremely long 5) probably made me like it more than I otherwise would. I also adored both Judgement games. 3 was fine, just because it was the clunkiest and it leaned a bit too hard into the orphan stuff it became my least liked. Ishin ended up replacing it though. I'm enjoying Gaiden so far as a more bite sized entry before diving into the massive Infinite Wealth.
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Yeah, that makes sense. And now that I've thought a bit more about it it's actually a pretty agreeable take. Omitting Y1 on the PS2 and the zombie spinoff it's probably the worst. Original 2 might be worse too depending on your tolerance for tropes of that era, but it's one of my personal favorite games on that system up there with Persona 4 and the like.

Yakuza 3 definitely had some teething issues comparerd to later PS3 titles, it had cut content in the English release, the story had some rough pacing (although I can see the arguments for it being that way) and the thing pulled some real U turns here and there especially towards the end. So after thinking about it a bit, gotta agree that it's a pretty good candidate for a least favorite, again kinda giving 1 a free pass for being the first one out.
 
I'm getting real sick and tired of people DDOSing the Left 4 Dead 2 servers. It's been going on for months now, so every time my friends and I boot up the game, we get about 2-3 minutes of normal gameplay in before we have to boot back to the lobby because some shit-head is crapping out the servers to have infinite ping. This means my friends and I have to play 3rd Party Server Roulette, where we'll either get a normal server that plays vanilla Left 4 Dead 2, or get thrown into some retard's gimmick server where they add a bunch of shit no-one asked for.

Do you like infinite hordes, instant-respawning special infected, Tanks you can't set on fire, Tanks that are invincible, Tanks that throw Jockeys, Tanks that can teleport, Tanks that damage you from across the map, being bumped up to Expert Realism, and if you change the difficulty from it, we'll spawn 20 Tanks on top of you and call you a coward? No? Well too bad, because some asshole is fucking up the official servers, so this is all you got, shitwipe.

At this point, I hope whoever is doing this gets raped by a horde of angry Mexicans. I suspect that their motivation for doing it was the TF2 and Portal 64 C&D nonsense, since this started some time after that, but all your little protest has done is inconvenience normal people who just want to play video games.
 
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EmpGulcasa said:
Haha. I'm not saying it was bad, just of the ones I played at the time my least favourite. I've enjoyed every game I've played from the franchise and I wouldn't call any of them less than good at the lowest.
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All good, I was only joking (maybe). I see that sentiment often that Y3 seems to ruffle some feathers, especially when people come from 0-K1-K2. Which is strange since that is more or less my trajectory with the series. I really enjoyed 3 apart from the obnoxious blocking. Okinawa stuff was great and the ending, before or after credits, would have been the perfect place to retire Kiryu and the franchise.
 
Just finished playing through gta vice city on the steam deck. Overall a positive experience, it has been well over a decade since I last played through it so I had forgotten most of it and was able to experience it again. I really appreciated the humour, it was a different time. Yes, the gameplay is dated, but I didn’t mind. I appreciated that the pc version didn’t have loading screens between islands like the ps2 version that I originally played. I used to use the loading screen to cheese the love fist speed mission.
 
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I just recently started playing Halo Reach again, and GOD, I miss Marty's touch with the score of this series. Any time that classic theme starts, it never fails to give me goosebumps, yet, the thing is, I didn't get that feeling with playing Infinite. I keep on wondering if there's something wrong with me, and then I realize how much of the gaming industry is run by committee now, and it's like, "Oh. Right." then I go back to playing older games.
 
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I'm an angry little piece of shit and I want get mad at something.

You know all those super fancy 3rd party controllers that put Hall effect sticks in them, boasting how they are "forever gamepads"? 8BitDo Ultimate, everything that GuilKit releases?

Now, tell me, besides those pesky analog sticks, what's the first thing that goes in a device like this? Well obviously the battery, right? Enough vidya seshes and that lithium ion battery will give up and won't hold any charge.

The Microsoft Xbox controller can use dedicated Li-Ion batteries, regular AA batteries and rechargeable AA batteries. Can you guess that those "forever pads" offer you?

That's right, a built-in li-ion battery. And it's all chinkshit that's built worse than what MS shits out, so your wonderful Hall effect sticks are worth shit.

This is my main issue with people shilling gamepads like these. They solve one issue but create another, and no one bothers to make a model that solves both. Plus, they're of worse quality, especially 8BitDo. Chinesium chinkshit that feels cheap when compared side-to-side to an XSX controller.

Hopefully Microsoft won't abandon their Sebile controller that appeared in the FTC leaks and they'll pull through on the modularity promises, because it seems like the most promising controller longevity wise. More promising than anything the chinks at 8BitDo and GuilKit made up ironically enough.
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does anybody know any good latter-entry Might & Magic clones? I don't mean the grid-based dungeon-crawler thing (yes I've played Legend of Grimrock), I mean something more like a first-person, party-based, open world RPG. I adore M&M 6-8 (we don't talk about M&M 9) and Wizardry 8, but I've played them all to death, and I have a powerful itch for a new game in that vein.

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I'm an angry little piece of shit and I want get mad at something.

You know all those super fancy 3rd party controllers that put Hall effect sticks in them, boasting how they are "forever gamepads"? 8BitDo Ultimate, everything that GuilKit releases?

Now, tell me, besides those pesky analog sticks, what's the first thing that goes in a device like this? Well obviously the battery, right? Enough vidya seshes and that lithium ion battery will give up and won't hold any charge.

The Microsoft Xbox controller can use dedicated Li-Ion batteries, regular AA batteries and rechargeable AA batteries. Can you guess that those "forever pads" offer you?

That's right, a built-in li-ion battery. And it's all chinkshit that's built worse than what MS shits out, so your wonderful Hall effect sticks are worth shit.

This is my main issue with people shilling gamepads like these. They solve one issue but create another, and no one bothers to make a model that solves both. Plus, they're of worse quality, especially 8BitDo. Chinesium chinkshit that feels cheap when compared side-to-side to an XSX controller.

Hopefully Microsoft won't abandon their Sebile controller that appeared in the FTC leaks and they'll pull through on the modularity promises, because it seems like the most promising controller longevity wise. More promising than anything the chinks at 8BitDo and GuilKit made up ironically enough.
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MS controllers suck ass, the DualSense is the best controller available right now. Sony published PC drivers for it years ago, so you don't have to install a third party application like with the DualShock 3 and 4

Psyduck said:
Ive never gamed on a PC before, and ive been thinking about finally making the jump. What would you guys recommend getting? I'm open to building my own as well, just need to know what should i look for
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I made an effort post here back at the end of January about this
 
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Patrician vidya taste. Have you tried the merge mod to freshen the experience up a bit?
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I messed with it a bit, but I found it buggy and it kept crashing on me. I mean to fuck with it some more, but that's tabled for the next time I get the itch and fail to find any other way to scratch it than to play through the classics yet again (so soon, I guess)
 
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I messed with it a bit, but I found it buggy and it kept crashing on me. I mean to fuck with it some more, but that's tabled for the next time I get the itch and fail to find any other way to scratch it than to play through the classics yet again (so soon, I guess)
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I don't think there really is anything quite like those games. Give the Chaos Conspiracy mod for MM6 a shot aswell, it was pretty fun.
 
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