This is getting out of hand. The other day I saw the requirements for “Hell is Us” game and it’s ridiculous. My RX6600 can’t play anything anymore. I’ve downloaded several PS3 ROMs and now I’m playing old games. So much better than this insanity. This is probably what I’m going to be doing now, play old games.
Edit: I wanted to edit the post for more context and to vent/rant a little.
I don’t want to say I made a mistake, but I buy everything used, and I have scored a good deal on two 27" 4k monitors from Facebook marketplace. Got both monitors for $120.
They’re $800 on Amazon used. Great monitors and I love 4k. I also bought an RX6600 AMD GPU for $100 from Facebook. It was almost new. The owner upgraded and wanted to get rid of it. My whole build was very cheap compared to what I see some folks get (genuinely happy for those who can afford it. Life is too short. Enjoy it while you can).
I can’t afford these high end GPUs, but now very few games work on low settings and I’d get something like 20 FPS max. My friend gave me access to his steam library and I wanted to play Indiana Jones the other day, and it was an “omfg, wtf is this horrible shit” moment.
I’m so sick of this shit!
I don’t regret buying any of these, but man it sucks that the games I want to play barely even work.
So, now I’m emulating and it’s actually pretty awesome. I’ve missed out on so many games in my youth so now I’m just going to catch up on what I’ve missed out on. Everything works in 4k now and I’m getting my full 60FPS and I’m having so much fun.
Remember when oblivion came out? Or crysis? They were so hard to run that they became meme benchmarks lol
And now that “gaming” is incredibly mainstream, the push to be more and more marketable by investors by pushing technology in graphics because that’s what sells.
Graphics too hard to run or not, I just want good games. And all this priority on intense graphical fidelity doth not maketh for many resources for the rest of the game and often shows a priority on PROFIT over all else.
Not buying games, for any reason, including you can’t play them, is probably the best and healthiest thing to happen to gaming since indie gaming…
So, go, play your 15 year old games. Enjoy what’s actually fun. The world will be a better place for it.
Go back further back. It is like this ever since gaming on PC is a thing. Doom, Wing commander 3, Quake III, …
You have to go back to when gaming was dominated by the Amiga and Atari ST to find a time when it hasn’t been like this.
I’d say thanks to Indie games, it is actually much easier to have a pleasing gaming life on low specs nowadays.
God damn, I couldn’t agree more. It’s been a blast playing older games, not gonna lie. I just can’t understand why I need to spend $700 plus on a GPU ONLY to be able to play something.
Because investors realized that gaming is lucrative and leads society. You think it’s a coincidence that Valve created basically the first successful digital distribution platforms and now every entertainment medium followed their model? Do you think microprocessors need to be that good on phones for Web browsing? AI compute hardware came from gaming gpu technology. The software originally made for and tested on games.
But, like music publishers trying to push the newest and latest and greatest music on us, only to have you realize that “oh yeah, 80s music actually kicks ass” and “oh fuck, 50s music WAS neat” or if you have or when you do “holy shit classical is actually amazing and lasted for literally hundreds of years whereas current pop music is constantly only like 2 years old”…
…Like music in that way, old games don’t just magically become irrelevant and bad, despite what pop culture may try to tell us. Compatibility may be the biggest issue, but a lot of old games are legitimately better than newer ones (a lot of old games were bad too). It’s all the social and technical evolution of the medium, and once you start being able to look at it that way - once that perspective and vibe catches on a bit more - I think gaming will be healthier.
Don’t spend 700 bucks. The game will still be there. Wait. Play fun things now that you can, and if when it’s economically playable for you it’s still fun, then it’ll still be fun. There are far too many games right now to even seriously consider fomo for anything but the MOST socially important games, and those are few and far between, and usually very easy to run.
You’re doing fine.
Don’t look at how much 5090s cost in like Australia or some other countries.
Absolutely spot on. It needs a personal change. A change in mentality, the way we think of entertainment, games in this case. We need to stop believing these profit hungry people and stop chasing after those “shadows” and “highlights” and every single detail in games. When you enjoy a game, you won’t even notice all those “details”. You’re not going to be running around in a game looking at trees and sunlight. I guarantee you that it all becomes blur in the background and you won’t even care about it. It’s all a collective anxiety they’ve trained us into. Chasing after those fps numbers and details is what got us hooked to their exorbitant prices and shit performance. It was somewhat a wakeup call for me, if you wanna call it that. I just got tired of stressing about my hardware, that’s totally fine and capable, not playing their shit and poorly optimized games. Then come those who defend corporations and berate you for “choosing the wrong resolution”. Why? I like 4k. It looks nice. Why do I have to bear the burden of their poorly optimized games. They ARE 100% more than capable of optimizing their games to run on 4k ON MY RX6600, but they don’t want to. They’re lazy. It won’t make them enough money. It won’t squeeze the last penny out of our pockets. They’re also listening to Nvidia. Of course Nvidia wants us to believe that games are “so good” nowadays that we need their top of the line $3000 GPU to play them on 4k. How dare we peasants play on 4k on a non $3000 GPU? Blasphemy!!! Fuck’em. At least there are still folks like you out there who understand this bullshit and don’t bootlick.
Lol you’re cute.
Also, it’s a fascinating novel perspective you’ve presented, in that our caring about fps and small details is a learned obsessive behavior. I’d love to hear more about how you think that works and came to be.