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Im still on ddr3 and an amd fx. I can play every game except Alan wake 2.
I dont play most aaa slop though.
I play too much path of exile for that to be acceptable sadly
The sheer glut of load zones means even a spinning disk is unacceptable. I literally saved over an hour in time over a weekend back in the day going from ddr3 to 4, and three hours over a weekend going from a spinning disk to a solid state.
And the games only gotten larger in the last few years...
Ddr3 is great! Till you have to deal with a lot of load zones. ):
You gotta get on Alan Wake 2. I've been having a great time playing it. Play the first and Control before you do and you'll see a lot of tie-ins which is pretty fun. One of the characters looks a lot like Max Payne too.
Bit cruel after they just said they can't run it 😄
I have played both previous alan wakes and control! Great games. I need to play quantum break next.
Okay good! I played Control years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I picked it back up from the beginning a number of months back and got hooked. I had a price watch on Alan Wake 2 from a couple years ago and it finally hit my target so I got it. I figured I should play through the first Alan Wake so I played it and enjoyed it significantly more than I thought I would. Now I'm probably a quarter of the way through 2 and I'm really liking it a lot. I definitely want to check out Quantum Break also.
There's a lot of AAA that isn't slop. That sounds like coping.
Would you be able to run something like Horizon Forbidden West at moderate settings and 60 fps?
Don't even know of that game.
I dont really stay up to date on super new games either tbh. I have a huge console collection so a lot of my gaming is spent there as well. Besides, I dont pay more than 20 dollars for games, so I dont buy new ones.
Also, since I refuse to run windows, quite a few scummy game companies are purposely locking out linux users with their trash anti cheat. So I wont play those games and have no want to.
Oh also I just looked up that game. I cant stand that kind of game so I would never feel the need to play it. Too much fantasy and flashiness for me. Wayy too complex to be fun for people who dont game 12 hours a day.
I paid €16 for Horizon Zero Dawn, it came out in 2017... 🤷♂️ One of the best single player games I've ever played. Runs on Linux. Played the whole game on Linux. Played in sessions of a few hours a time. I have 2 kids and played this game.
I think you are using a lot of assumptions here. But if you really don't like that kind of game, fair enough.
I'm just saying, there are a lot of high value games which are not slop. All I'm saying.
Thinking the avg lemmy user plays games that are newer then 2008 is were you fucked up.
People that use this platform basically are glorified luddites when it comes to gaming unless you go to extremely specific gaming areas. Then it's like 2018 instead of 2008.
I didn't think that. I asked if they'd be able to play it. It's an inquiry about their system more than what they like to play.
They did say they can play "every game" except one.
I was going to say I play Factorio which is fairly new until I looked up when it entered early access... :/