General Gaming Thread

[TheRejectionist]

 

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[Jormungandr]

The beauty of the modern day is that you can create the most highest definition of something as a 3D model, say, a building or a tank... and then accurately convert that 3D model into what are basically 2D screenshots of it (sprites) without a loss in fidelity. A good example is Diablo 2: Resurrected and Command and Conquer: Remastered, although the latter had the "blocky style" chosen as its artistic theme as to be faithful to the original game.

This isn't the 90's or 00's any more where the same principle has 3D models look like a few blocky pixels (e.g. Command and Conquer, Pharaoh, Age of Empires 2).

It also means an isometric, 2D game can run on limited hardware (compared to a PC or a console) without graphical issues/strain e.g. phones.

 

[Blasterbot]

The beauty of the modern day is that you can create the most highest definition of something as a 3D model, say, a building or a tank... and then accurately convert that 3D model into what are basically 2D screenshots of it (sprites) without a loss in fidelity. A good example is Diablo 2: Resurrected and Command and Conquer: Remastered, although the latter had the "blocky style" chosen as its artistic theme as to be faithful to the original game.

I will never forgive that they covered the amazon's booty. very sad.



they kinda screwed up a lot of the characters and made them pretty fugly on purpose.

 

[Jormungandr]

I will never forgive that they covered the amazon's booty. very sad.



they kinda screwed up a lot of the characters and made them pretty fugly on purpose.

They also did things like censor the harem girls' desecrated and mutilated bodies in the Palace basement.

I mean, OG Diablo II had them splattered about, pinned to walls, literally bisected from the crotch to the neck, et cetera. Resurrected? Nothing.

They even censored the fucking tomb statues so that, gasp, stone breasts wouldn't be shown.

If you're going to remaster something, do it faithfully and do not include/add anything that'd take away from the original.

Fuck woke politics in gaming and design.

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

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[Karmic Acumen]

Jedi Fallen order is 90% off on the EA app right now. Thought you ought to know.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Jedi Fallen order is 90% off on the EA app right now. Thought you ought to know.

I recommend playing on Jedi Knight mode.

Jedi Master is bullshit I can only imagine Grand Master, everyone and your mother will one shot you.

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

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[TheRejectionist]

If you want to build a new computer, I would advise driving down to your local Microcenter. The people there are up to date on the specifics of computer hardware. Tell them what you're hoping to accomplish and your price range and they're going to try to suggest different options. As for actually assembling your computer, you can watch various Youtube channels like Linus Tech Tips. Turn off the computer, unplug everything, put computer on a table, unscrew and remove cover, shine a light into the computer, unscrew and unplug the GPU, take old GPU out of computer, put new one in, screw in new GPU, plug in everything, screw the cover back on, take computer back to desk and plug it back into the monitor and wall outlet, should work. The only part that you can really botch is replacing the processor, as you need to apply a gooey substance to it (forgot the name of it), and you don't want to spill it on to the other parts of the computer.

The games listed in the OP are not graphically intense by today's standards. The Steam pages recommend using Nvidia 1080 cards, which are so old that IIRC Nvidia doesn't even produce them anymore and are thus pretty cheap. You might be able to acquire one for $100 or under. However, dealing with used graphics cards can be a hassle and they don't come with warranties, so it might be better to just buy a new card. The way PC hardware works is that the very latest stuff costs exorbitant amounts of money (Nvidia 40XX series), while stuff that is just a few years old is dramatically lower in prince (Nvidia 30XX series), and the stuff older than that is relatively cheap (Nvidia 10XX and 20XX series).

If you intend to record gameplay footage, you will want to buy at least a couple terabytes of SSD space. 4k OBS footage accumulates very quickly (1.1 gigabytes per minute for me, a 3 hour recording can take up 210 gigs). Record as .mkv files, not .mp4 files (you can remux the files later into mp4 for easier editing), so if you crash while recording, your file isn't corrupted.

Anything GTX 1660Ti and up will play those games with ease, some AMD GPU's are very very affordable within that level of power.

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You haven't been able to beat the PS5 with a custom PC for a couple of years, but now is the time for PCs to make a comeback. Here's the build you need.

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This build is pretty good but there might be other options you'd prefer, and don't skimp out on the cooling, you want a beefy air cooler (or AIO if you like those) and enough case fans to ventilate the case.

The issue with prebuilds is you never know how competently they are put together, if you get one you really need to look over it to ensure nothing is wrong or set up incorrectly.
But that is a very competent build, 3060 is a good card, intel CPU beats a 3600 Ryzen pretty handily, and so on.
But due to it being a prebuild it's a little expensive, I'm sure you can get a cheaper PC with similar (maybe even better) parts if you build it yourself.

If you know anybody who can assemble computer for you, then Logical Increments PC Buying Guide is a good guide on what are best components for your budget. It's not even that hard if you have no experience, there are tutorials on youtube... just be sure to ground yourself so you don't build up a big enough static charge to damage any components (never happened to me though).

1200? Easy, let me just go to PC part picker and I can spec something out for you in a jiffy...

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Vyor/saved/xBv4gs

Done, you can save money on the storage and RAM pretty easily, but I wouldn't recommend changing that second one. You could also drop the aftermarket cooler to save money there, but it will run hotter and louder if you go with the stock box cooler.

If you want to go this path, there are plenty of tutorials on youtube for how to put it all together, as an example:

 

[Vyor]

I would add that budget and task matters more than anything else when it comes to getting advise on this. If you want to do things like machine learning or use something like 3DSMax my recommendations will become very different than if you just wanted to game.

 

[Scooby Doo]

RIP our great Commander Zavala 😭

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

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[ParadiseLost]

This is mostly false.

G2A sellers are (by and large) not scammers, and you're as likely to get scammed on Ebay or Amazon as on G2A.

I dislike G2A, but that's because there fees on both the buying and selling side are outrageous, and they are pretty much never the best option.