If you play games that weren’t released after 2022, sure.

Or any of the shops listed at Is There Any Deal.

630 USD for me, but I almost never purchase full price games and a lot of my Steam library games was purchased on those non-shady game key stores.

I’d buy it for PC at some point.

CEO and corporate bullshit aside, it’s sad what the series became before Volition was eventually shut down. The first game could probably be described as a GTA clone, without being harsh. The second game was fantastic, at least if you disregard the flawed PC port. I played it on Xbox 360 back in the day and to this day, the cut scenes are some of the best I’ve seen in a video game. The side activities were bonkers, overall just a great game. Saints Row: The Third was pretty ambitious and I didn’t like the over-the-top scenario with aliens and whatnot. Saints Row IV was okay-ish, but lacked focus and direction. I was glad that I played it several years after its initial release for a very low price.

Saints Row as a franchise is pretty much exemplary for the game industry in this day and age. They release a good first game, which is fun despite some flaws. Then they improve on that and release a fantastic second game in the series. It sells well, so they decide to hire more people, expand the scope and make a more over-the-top third game. That still sells well, but somehow feels erratic and hollow. Then they continue the downward spiral until the suits pull the plug after five games and the studio is disbanded. Money is killing the game industry, but not the way the corpo from the article thinks.

I once playtested their MMO, I believe it was called “New World”. It sucked balls. Didn’t realize they were also trying to get going with game distribution.

Got an open box 7900 XT waiting at home. I’m trying my best to wait for reliable info on performance and pricing of the 9070 XT, but my guess is that it won’t be faster and the 20 GB VRAM would be nice. I paid 600 EUR including VAT and it sure doesn’t look like the 9070 XT will be cheaper than that or so fast that it would warrant a higher price. Even if we assume that RT performance and FSR 4 will be great.

I have a 7900 XT (discounted open box item) sitting around and I need to know of it’s the better option instead of waiting for the 9070 XT to release. “Reportedly” attractively priced? Come on, AMD. Drop some info right now.

A quick Google search tells me that a “very high” and possibly lethal dose is two milligrams, so 10 kilograms of the stuff can kill five million people.

They’re still one of the most prominent companies if you’re shopping for a mainboard or graphics card. They even have Intel GPUs in their lineup.

36 Watts idle sounds like a lot for a 5800X3D. I’ll see what my 5700X3D does, never checked that. Not in software and not at the wall.

The last game I preordered was CP 2077. Wasn’t even mad because I got a decent price for a physical copy and it was worth it for the memes alone.

I did pre-order KC:D II, but it’s the first full price big title I’ve purchased in a long while. I was hoping to have a new GPU at release, but it looks like I’ll have to wait a little longer. At least they’ll have ironed out the major bugs at that point.

The reason I preordered the game was that there’s a bonus quest, the game was 10% off and I can theoretically still cancel my preorder from Gamesplanet in case the reviews suck. It’s not like pre-orders are irreversible.

Sure, but at least the same money (adjusted for basic inflation maybe) should give you the same FPS, just in more current games.

If I just order myself a Hellhound 7900 XT, I can at least ignore the joke of a product launch that AMD currently pulling. Plus, I might be able to get a water block for that card. Who knows if and when those are available for the new gen. Thanks for your input.

I was actually considering stretching my budget to get one of the remaining 7900 XTs. Should have enough raw (rasterizing) oomph and 20 GB memory to last a while. I don’t really wanna buy a card that was released in 2022, but it would be a huge upgrade for sure.

I’m not entirely sure what to make of it. I am still rocking my Vega 56 and realized some time last year that it was time to retire it. I don’t wanna buy nVidia, so I was pretty close to pulling the trigger on the 7900 GRE. Decided to wait a bit longer because I figured that the 7000 series was more or less a 4 year old design and that it would be better to see if there was some decent progress with the 9000 series cards.

The way I’m currently looking at it is that AMD was going to offer upper midrange chips as their fastest models and ride the coattails of nVidia who, after Covid and more crypto mining demand, established insane price levels. I remember reading reviews of the Titan cards and thinking “4-figures for a GPU? That’s crazy!”. That is not expensive nowadays and I don’t like it. When I got my Vega and money was tighter than it is now, it felt like a big splurge to me. To be fair, the card is still doing fine (has been watercooled since 2018) and has been worth its money but still. I could afford a RTX 5080 or even the 5090, but I have other hobbies as well and I am just not willing to spend more than 500-600 Euros on a new graphics card.

The fact that retailers are already sitting on RX 9070s while AMD pretends to be working on software for what was always going to be an affordable new generation smells fishy. I’m sure they can improve drivers and features a bit more, but it’s pretty obvious they were in fact targeting an MSRP at the higher end of triple digits and now realize that that is not going to happen.

If I can’t find an AMD card that’s within my budget, I may just put Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on my pile of shame and see what Intel comes up with some time this year. I’ll enjoy a new bicycle in the meantime.

Haven’t played it in a long while, but I remember it to be horrible and enjoyable at the same time.

Desperados III because I somehow can’t seem to get Shadow Gambit started.

They use Arch btw.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it, but I don’t think it’s an underrated masterpiece.