• wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org
      5·
      22 days ago

      Sadly, the young’uns can no longer play the 18+ restricted card game that’s explicitly got zero gambling in it. They’ll have to get addicted to real gambling in EA sports games

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      I don’t get the Balatro addiction stuff. It’s a good game, but after you’ve played it a few times it gets boring. Sure, “number go up” but it’s like people have never played a video game before. There’s so many Skinner boxes that, at least for me personally, it becomes numbing. I also don’t easily get sucked into other manipulative addicting things in other games though, so maybe it’s just something wrong with me.

      What makes you continue playing Balatro after you’ve “figured it out?”

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        23 days ago

        For me it’s 2 things :

        • Making a deck that works so well that it crushes everything.

        • Getting shit cards and making it works.

        The first one gets me hooked, the second one keeps me going. It takes a long time to figure it out, as you put it.

      • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        Playing different Antes, Decks and Challenges has kept it fresh and interesting for me: forcing me out of my comfort zone to find new combinations and strategies that works. It might help to change the game speed to 4x so it’s not so showy with the jokers and you can iterate different strategies faster. Or it’s not your thing. Nothing wrong with that.

      • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
        2·
        23 days ago

        Once I “figured it out”, I realized I was beating the decks using flushes. So I decided trying different styles like building a deck for playing straights, full houses, two pairs. I found out you can play a full house flush. It isn’t on the list of poker hands so that was fun to stumble upon.

  • Graphy@lemmy.world
    377·
    24 days ago

    What’s funny is that a new GPU alone will set ya back that amount already. I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch for 1k

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            9·
            24 days ago

            Personally, I didn’t like it. I think a lot of it comes down to two things: Do you care about the writing and the world they’ve built? If so, how critical of it are you (or alternatively, have you seen the sci-fi tropes done well).

            Starfield has some really bad world building. In particular, it doesn’t understand why we use sci-fi, and why it’s tropes are interesting. it’s to create an anologue of our world and to break it down, criticize, and point out it’s flaws and ways to fix them.

            Starfield is the least critical writing I’ve ever seen I think. The Earth is destroyed, and instead of using this to discuss us destroying the planet right now, it’s just some technobable that has no parallels. Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.

            Starfield doesn’t understand sci-fi. Fallout does a better job as a sci-fi series than Starfield does. If you’re still interested, the gameplay is also slow and boring and there’s almost no interesting stories or characters. Continue if you want, but I regret spending time on it for the price of $0, and I generally love Bethesda games and the sci-fi genre (although, as mentioned above, I think this is part of why I don’t like it).

            • hark@lemmy.world
              41·
              23 days ago

              Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.

              That sounds pretty realistic to me. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but this counts as a commentary on our social situation. Probably doesn’t make for a compelling game, though.

              • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                6·
                23 days ago

                If it were commentary, they’d talk about it. It just is, and it can’t change. They just copied what they know without considering why.

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
          7·
          24 days ago

          You might be better off with a 4000 series, unless you got a new motherboard that won’t be bottlenecked much by the pcie version jump.

          • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            24 days ago

            Unless you’re getting a 5090 the pcie bottleneck should be negligible compared to your CPU or other things.

            On pcie 3 the 4090 gets about a 5% performance penalty. I’d assume the 5080 is about the same performance as the 4090 so the hit should be similar. Unless you’re like me with a 5800x3d on a garbage B450 motherboard your CPU is probably going to be holding you back so much more than the pcie version.

            • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
              2·
              24 days ago

              My guess is that if a 4090 is bottlenecked 5% on pcie 3.0 (although I think it’s closer to 10%). Also if pcie 4.0 is double the speed as 3.0, and pcie 5.0 is double 4.0. Then the bottleneck will be closer to 10% if running a 5080 on pcie 3.0.

            • Narauko@lemmy.world
              1·
              22 days ago

              The only caveat to that is that the card must be using x16 bus speed for the negligible impact, which only the high-end cards reliably do. A bunch of the 70 series and under cards are actually x8 bus speed, and then pcie 4 actually matters. ~20% vs 5% performance loss for 8x bus cards over pcie 3.

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      24 days ago

      I feel like kinda the main reasons to pick up a latest gen gpu nowadays are energy efficiency and a warranty (although 5000 series doesn’t look all that energy efficient, we’ll see i guess)

      otherwise you can definitely get something better on ebay for cheaper

      but if you live somewhere where energy is expensive, the difference might be significant. 500w is kinda a lot lol, any difference in performance/watt will add up

      prices are going to drop when the new gpus come out and people need to get rid of their old ones, but currently with a little bit of looking i could find a ‘buy it now’ 7900 xt for $640, a 3090 for $775, and a 3090 ti for $850

      honestly these aren’t great deals you could probably find better ones

  • Zangoose@lemmy.world
    26·
    24 days ago

    Me going back to hollow knight, celeste, modded minecraft, and dead cells instead of buying new games

  • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    24 days ago

    this failing isn’t on you though. AAA games is not what it used to be, I feel like between 2008 to 2014 game companies have all progressed and transitioned into something they didn’t use to be.

    my $4k gaming PC at this point is a glorified FFXIV machine although, I do plan to play other things soon.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      23 days ago

      I mostly play indie games, but I sometimes play AAA games (Ghost of Tsushima right now) and I am glad that I have my rig that can get 90 fps @ 4k (with fsr).

      It’s not because you don’t use it every single time that you play a game that it is a waste of money.

      • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
        2·
        23 days ago

        This exactly. I bought a custom build specifically for Elden Ring. After blowing that out of the water, my next most played game that year was Stardew iirc. It’s about having power for when you need it rather than always using it to feel like it has value

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      2·
      24 days ago

      I feel like the last few years at least have had like one worthy game per year, which for someone with a lot of work to do and now a family, is plenty. I’ve yet to finish Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate III, and while I completed Cyberpunk, I never got around to the DLC.

      I’m also cautiously optimistic for 2025, it honestly seems to be a great year if not too many games get delayed or turn out to be shit

      I do certainly feel like between 2016 and 2021 or so, we barely got any good games. The biggest release of 2020 took a year or 2 to be decent and even then never lived up to its’ hype because what was promised was simply too much. 2021 the biggest release was Forza Horizon 5 which I loved, but a lot of gamers don’t really care for.

      • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        23 days ago

        ?

        2016 we got Blood and Wine for Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 (which is a good game, just not a good Fallout game). Oh and we got Doom.

        2017 wasn’t that great for AAA, except for Nintendo. But we still got great games like Breath of the wild, Prey, Nier Automata, Hellblade, Hollow Knight, Undertale to name a few.

        2018 we got Red Dead Redemption 2, Monster Hunter World, God of War.

        2019 we got Death Stranding, Divinity Original Sin 2, Sekiro, Resident Evil 2

        2020 we got Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The last of us 2, Hades

        2021 is kind of a dud because of covid.

        So I’m terms of AAA only 2017 and 2021 can really be considered duds. But indies released some absolute bangers between 2016-2021. For example Disco Elysium, among us, outer wilds, Stardew valley, inscryption etc.

        • boonhet@lemm.ee
          1·
          23 days ago

          Okay fair enough, I kinda lumped in B&W with the main game which came out in 2015, ignored Nintendo altogether because I’ve never owned a console, forgot about God of War because I’ve never owned a console, forgot about RDR2 because while it was absolutely immersive at the time and I blew 40+ hours in a single week during my vacation on it… It was somehow completely forgettable after the fact. Never liked Death Stranding too much, TLoU2 didn’t affect me because… You get the gist.

          Half the good AAA games that came out in that time period, I ignored because PS and Nintendo exclusives were out of reach to me as a PC-only gamer (at least Microsoft put their exclusives on Windows in that era - something Sony is now catching up on). Of the indie games - there’s no real marketing, I never have any idea when any particular game came out. I thought Stardew Valley has been going on for like at least a decade, but apparently it’s only been out since 2016. I never got around to playing Disco Elysium because it felt sorta time consuming and difficult to get into, though I certainly did hear a LOT about it because Kaur Kender apparently had something to do with it and he is… quite controversial, to say the least. Not to say him being involved is a bad thing - I enjoyed his books. The actual books, not the short story about kiddy diddling which got him into the hot mess he was in until it was declared that it was an exhibition of freedom of speech.

          Also to be fair, 2018 also had Kingdom Come: Deliverance which was probably my favourite game between Witcher 3 and Baldur’s Gate 3, though not the only one I enjoyed obviously.

          Maybe 2016-2021 wasn’t bad for games, but forgettable for me because my own life was, at the time, boring and ignorable.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    15·
    24 days ago
    Me with me $3000 AI laptop. 

     Copilot shit on Windows                           Console programs on Linux
  • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    23 days ago

    Your uh… $1000 gaming PC? Isn’t that pretty much all it can play? (assuming the game is released today)

    • bruhduh@lemmy.world
      11·
      22 days ago

      you can build decent enough pc in a 1000$ on ryzen 7700 and 64gb ram and intel a770 16gb in that budget

      • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
        3·
        22 days ago

        Ryzen 7700 and 64 GB of ram is crazy overkill for gaming. Downgrade those and get a used RTX 3080 for around $400 and you’ll have a good modern gaming pc

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    11·
    23 days ago

    everyone reading that probably had one in mind. i bet ill hit 75% of them with the balatro/stardew/terraria combo, though if yours is far more obscure, by all means enlighten me so i can buy it and let it sit in my backlog for years because of my own game addictions.

  • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
    8·
    24 days ago

    Me but just playing free to play games. lol

    I can’t give up the AAA quality. Hell I want a more powerful GPU just to push it

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
    8·
    24 days ago

    Normally me too, but then there’s always one game I want 60fps that I’m like wait I thought I maxed out my build pretty decently for my budget and it’s like, you can play on ultra sure but there will be so many 5 fps hiccups