After finishing the game and giving it the detailed look it deserves

I never thought it was possible to concentrate so much middle school english teacher energy into a single sentence, but here we are.

People like you defending this nonsense is exactly the issue, but you’ll never realize it.

So I’m paying thousands of dollars for a GPU to save the AAA company money?

Yes, but you deepthroating the technology is now relevant to me, because now it’s limiting my options on what hardware I can use to play the game, unnecessarily.

What’s the worst AMD card that can run it again? But it’s tooootally just because everybody has to have ray tracing, right? It would just be inconceivable to have, uh… unrealistic light rays? That’s what my game has to have to be playable these days, fucking light rays?

Yes, it stinks that AMD’s ray tracing performance is so far behind. But ray tracing is an unnecessary gimmick, and mandating it is a stupid choice. Imagine mandating your game has to have V-sync, or motion blur, or depth of field, or any of these garbage settings a sizable percentage of the playerbase immediately disables?

New AAA releases that can’t be bothered to optimize worth a damn. If those are something you just can’t do without, then sure, but it’s odd to be all doom and gloom over less than 5% of the games people will play this year lmao(15% of steam playtime in 2024 was new releases, it was a pretty even split between AAA, AA, and indie, and not every AAA game is optimized like ass).

Civ 7’s Antiquity Age is fine. A different take in many ways, but it was interesting enough. The age transitions and general gameplay loop of the following ages get progressively less enjoyable though.

It would matter if I saw a single person trying to refund the game denied. Generally, when something like this happens on steam, valve gets very lax with the refund policy - just look at what happened with helldivers 2.

There’s already mods doing it now that are absolutely doing it better than Bethesda will.

Isn’t that vaguely what the villain of ready player one does?

Yarrr harrr fiddily de dee

Using the rig from five years ago that has to play all those games on “high” instead of “ultra”, the humanity!

Occasionally, there will be a game I want to play as soon as it releases - even then, I’ll maybe wait until the last hour before release to “pre order”, just as one last fuck you to the concept.

Sorry - all it would do in regards to “countering the threat of gaming”

All it would do is force people to keep their very much still capable last gen computers lmao

Cope and seethe 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nono, you have to get wildly enraged over squints zombie boobs on a decidedly male presenting fictional character

Play a new game for a few hours on deck, and there will be a little unobtrusive prompt box asking if you agree it’s “great on deck” near the play button.

I know Steam will ask you if you agree a game was truly “great on deck” after playing - I wonder if a certain threshold of people responding with no flags it.

Do they consider frostpunk a “story rich game”? If that’s what all story rich games were like, I’d play more of them - most of them feel like cereal box toys, and I’d generally prefer just reading a book so the subpar gameplay isn’t all I’ll remember.