Blackmist

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

At that price there would have to be some pretty compelling arguments to upgrade.

Half a generation for up to 40% more raytracing power isn't worth it.

A full generation for 2-3 times what a PS5 can do? Maybe.

Even then, there would have to be some damn good exclusives on PS6 to be worth your while. PS4 to PS5 was an easy argument, games ran at 30 pretty much all generation, mostly due to a comically underpowered CPU, and now they run at 60.

I'm struggling to even conceive of a worthwhile game that would bring a PS5 to its knees. I haven't really seen a good argument for raytracing yet. Sure, nicer reflections, more accurate lighting, but we were pretty good at faking those anyway. Cyberpunk and Metro look really nice with the RT only editions, but they were perfectly playable without it.

We should really draw a big line under RT once it reaches a certain level of power, and go back to affordability. Game devs can't put food on the table just catering to insanely high end hardware. My PC is still rocking a 1060. On the Steam hardware survey, there's only one GPU higher than the X060 series inside the top ten. Budget hardware has got to be the focus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It was made for British TV in the late 80s maybe.

It wasn't going to be done on 35mm with movie making kit. What you see there is probably the best it's going to be.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Will they collect data on you to profile you and your activities and use that in the future? Yes.

And that's why the only thing I use my VPN for is piracy. Don't really have a good reason to push anything else through it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

In fairness I doubt the NSA give a single solitary fuck about piracy and aren't about to give themselves up over a telesync rip of Beetlejuice 2.

But probably best to plan 9/11 part 2 over something a bit more secure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TVs have been available in 120Hz and VRR for a while now. Even my 2017 OLED supports 120Hz, albeit only at 1080p.

That said, I don't see the need to chase that with more expensive hardware. Any game with a choice of performance vs resolution, I find myself swapping to performance mode. I can see extra frames, I struggle to see extra pixels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure the disc drive can be saved at this point. There's big games that didn't even come out on disc, like BG3.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I'll never forgive him for what happened at Black Mesa.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm kidding of course. The average lefty can't find enough other lefties they agree with to make a circle jerk.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Shh, this is a lefty circle jerk thread.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

When you're no longer having fun.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My chemistry teacher tried to teach us a "song" to remember it.

"Hehee libeb canofnee something something piscalar"

Which is stupid, because it was just reading the first few rows of it, but annoying that was 30 years ago and I still fucking remember it. I can't even remember what I did yesterday. Fucking head full of nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

If you want the worst, it's Medal of Honor Underground.

I mean, fair play for trying to get a cutting edge PS1 game onto the GBA, but why would you persist if that's all you could do with it?

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