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    9 months ago

    My friend still brags to me about buying the newest top tier Ti graphics card every other year and his water cooling setup, while also saying he can’t afford to move out of his parent’s house at 30. I spent like $400 on my graphics card, which maxes out basically every game I play. You only need high specs for the very uninspired generic triple A games that get copy and pasted every year. I’m loving Balder’s Gate 3 right now without a million dollar rig.

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      9 months ago

      Just want to point out that Baldurs Gate is also a triple A game, they have 400+ people working on it. There are also many amazing triple A games out there, like Cyberpunk

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        Budget wise it is. There’s definitely great triple A games that come out that are an exception from the Far Crys and Call of Dutys. I was at least able to beat Cyberpunk on my budget with medium settings. But as a consumer, stuff like ray tracing is just a gimmick that adds absolutely nothing for me lol. It’s just something people use to justify outrageous purchases imo.

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          9 months ago

          Yea it’s great, the game has been stable for a long time now and the latest DLC is the cherry on top

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            9 months ago

            2.0 release alone is worth it, sunk another 40 hours in recently. Id say thats a fair value for my dollar, x years later.

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        9 months ago

        Didn’t Baldur’s Gate ship incomplete? Like a lot of stuff is obviously missing from the third act.

        I’ll stick with my indies. Hedon is great, long and would run on two potatoes.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah I upgrade when I need it to run a game I want to play. Recently broke 8 gigs of ram several decades after I should’ve

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      9 months ago

      To be fair if they were spending a little less on a less expensive graphics card they probably still couldn’t afford to move out but they might have a bit of a nest egg to buy groceries or something in case shit gets even worse.