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Anyone else just unenthused about gaming and hardware?

It would actually help if there were any decent games released this year so far which needed decent hardware too.
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chef-borjan said:
There has never been a greater time to play PC games. Jadedness means you need to get off your butts and find the stuff that captures you. There are a LOT of games out there, so it's going to be hard... but it's well worth it.
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NONE of the interesting games released this year I am playing now or mates are playing NOW NEED a decent card. They will all run perfectly fine on a cheaper card.

Do you think any of those numerous Indie titles need a GTX1080(like I have)??

My mate even ditched his RX480 due to the silly amount he got due to coin mining and is using an HD7870XT and it seems to still run the games he wants fine,but at lower settings.

Plus there are actually one or two major games like HZD which I would want to play but I am not interested in consoles and wasn't interested in them even nearly 20 years ago.

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I remember when Crysis was released I actually felt excited to buy a decent card,but nowadays when even apparently AAA releases like ME:A can't even get character animations properly done,its a sad state of affairs.

TBH,this year I have not been enthused by any of the major releases so far. I suppose I had forgotten about PUBG,but that is technically still in development and might be released this year.
 
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chef-borjan said:
There has never been a greater time to play PC games. Jadedness means you need to get off your butts and find the stuff that captures you. There are a LOT of games out there, so it's going to be hard... but it's well worth it.
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So many great games out just now as well as what is to come. I'm really looking forward to Anthem. Looks like Crysis meets Killzone meets Horizon Zero Dawn. With a hint of Avatar and Oblivion? Yum, yum, yum!



Also have my eye set on Destiny 2 since I never played the first but this Anthem game in the jungle, oh yes!
 
I agree, i have almost exclusively played f2p games since 2007. So far 1200 in game hours on SMITE or around 1800 loaded in hours. Just find a game you enjoy and it makes it all worth it
 
passifid said:
I agree, i have almost exclusively played f2p games since 2007. So far 1200 in game hours on SMITE or around 1800 loaded in hours. Just find a game you enjoy and it makes it all worth it
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Gaming also changes big time when you can team up with like minded people. It has never been so much fun and so many laughs that 4 hours feels like 1.
 
V F said:
So many great games out just now as well as what is to come. I'm really looking forward to Anthem. Looks like Crysis meets Killzone meets Horizon Zero Dawn. With a hint of Avatar and Oblivion? Yum, yum, yum!



Also have my eye set on Destiny 2 since I never played the first but this Anthem game in the jungle, oh yes!
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Anthem is 2018 - how many of these brilliant 2017 games do we have ATM which need mega hardware power??

I think you have misunderstood what the OP is saying - why should anyone really need to spend mega money on a GPU this year when something like a GTX1070 probably is more than enough??

Even a less powerful card will probably do the job,which means all those people with GTX980TI cards,etc.

Have we had any games on the level of The Witcher 3 this year??

Even Destiny 2 is in September and do we need a GTX1080TI for that??

If anything the biggest deal for hardware enthusiasts has been Ryzen not graphics cards,since TBH anyone who has a GTX1070(let alone a GTX1080) can actually run most games at decent settings fine.
 
V F said:
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People playing competitively would probably turn down settings anyway and some of the best FPS and RTS players I know don't have top hardware,especially when with so many PC games turning the settings down actually might give you a competitive advantage since it removes cover!! :p

The fact of the matter - look at PC forums worldwide,people are far less excited about the card releases this year and the prices,than something like Ryzen or even Skylake X,especially with AMD basically missing from the top end,and mining jacking up prices.

What do you expect when someone would have bought a GTX970 or R9 290/390 for under £300 years ago and the replacement cards now are the same price and not really massively faster.

Even the sodding GTX1050TI now has climbed to £150ish again.

Even people I know in RL who I never thought cared about hardware have asked me about Ryzen FFS. CPUs are far more exciting than graphics currently.

Its not like when HL2,Doom3 or Crysis came out,where it was genuinely exciting to ditch your old card,and get a new one to enjoy the shiny next generation graphics.

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Then you add the massive price inflation of SSDs and DDR4.

I could have got a 750GB MX300 for just over £100 last year,its doubled as has many of the RAM kits.

I have 16GB of DDR4 on my desk which has almost doubled in price doing nothing.

Good for me I suppose!! :p

However,2017 would rather be a crap year for hardware otherwise,if not for Ryzen and possibly Coffee Lake.
 
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I Recently upgraded to 1440p and still run 60fps with few settings turned down on my 970 playing games like fallout/skyrim.

i was thinking of splashing out on a 1080ti to bypass the mining prices on mid-range cards, but it just doesn't seem worth it to me and with not many games grabbing my attention that require a whole lot of GPU power at this resolution.

i mean i could go 4k but then again i'd have to spend on a new monitor, and a 1080ti that from what i'v read still struggles at 4k in some games.

probably going to wait for volta and re-assess my options then.
 
Problem is pricing, gaming cards are not worth £700, nor do they cost that to produce, but it's what people want and are prepaired to pay.

Same thing happens at every market where a specific customer base has more money than sense.

The gaming pc industry will eventually kill itself by continually prioritising profit over reality. Fact is the hardware is ridiculously overpriced.

Last year I bought a 4k 55" tv and Xbox one S to replace a 50" 1080p plasma and nirmal xbox one. Instead of buying a 27" G-sync 1440p monitor to go with the overpriced 1070 gpu I previously bought.
3 free games a month with a £5 gold monthly sub.

Way more bang for buck when you consider the actual full cost of a gaming pc, periphials and monitor, especially considering the incremental improvements versus cost this last decade.
 
Bang for buck = meh.

Reading this thread is like reading a car enthusiasts forum where everyone owns a Ford Escort. If you want 4K or Ultrawide PC gaming then it's going to cost you. If you want to game at 1080p 30Hz then yea, buy an Xbox.
 
Telling you this. The majority of my friends have all gave up PC gaming, we are grown up with kids and even our kids are giving up.

And its simply because no one in their right mind with a semblance of intelligence in the normal world can see any sanity in the ever increasing prices of PC components and stagnant performance increases just to play the same monotonous games and rehashes.

My next purchases will consoles yet again, the next xbox and nintendo switch.
Currently gaming monitor pricing for a 27" 1440p G-sync is just ridiculous. As are top end GPU and 4k gaming.
 
sastusbulbas said:
Telling you this. The majority of my friends have all gave up PC gaming, we are grown up with kids and even our kids are giving up.

And its simply because no one in their right mind with a semblance of intelligence in the normal world can see any sanity in the ever increasing prices of PC components and stagnant performance increases just to play the same monotonous games and rehashes.

My next purchases will consoles yet again, the next xbox and nintendo switch.
Currently gaming monitor pricing for a 27" 1440p G-sync is just ridiculous. As are top end GPU and 4k gaming.
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The facts and figures don't appear to back up your anecdotal point.

http://wccftech.com/pc-gaming-hardware-market-30-billion/
 
Yup, couldn't really give a **** about PC gaming now, came from a long line of consoles and loved PC gaming and everything about building a PC etc. back then but now, I can't wait to get back to console gaming.

This thread and many others have confirmed what I have been saying for a few years now, PC gaming is becoming an extreme enthusiast platform only, the only people that seem to be "genuinely" happy with PC gaming atm are the ones that:

1. love to bend over and let companies screw them over with their pricing so that they can wave their epeen status on an internet forum(s)
2. just like to have a fancy build and are really into hardware
3. really really really really love 144HZ/g+free sync/21.9/m+ k (of which it is only a matter of time until consoles get most, if not all of these.... you can already use a mouse + keyboard with the consoles through a separate hardware device and the xb1x has freesync 2, just need the TVs to implement the new HDMI connection and that's it)

I am seeing more and more "gamers" jumping to console now especially the upcoming xb1x. Unfortunately things are only going to get worse for the PC as time goes on, there is just no serious money/profit to be made from the PC side with regards to triple a titles, the vast majority of income for PC gaming comes from all those free to play/pay to win and big comp. games like LOL, CS:GO.

Reasons I cba with it now:

1. PC games are **** poor on release day, buggy, broken, run like ****, 90% of the titles that I have played over the last 2 years, I've to wait for 4+ months for them to be fixed and working as they should have from day 1 by which stage all the hype and interest has gone
2. Got to spend a fair bit more on a PC if you want to get the "true" PC experience of gaming i.e. 60+ FPS with more or less max settings
3. Consoles (read PS 4) has stunning exclusives
4. Graphics are barely any better than the console version, main differences usually being draw distance, shadows and aliasing and unless you have a side by side comparison where they zoom in on certain areas, you wouldn't notice these differences under normal conditions during game play
5. Don't have to faff about with settings, i.e. finding what causes huge FPS drops with little to no benefit to IQ etc. With console, you just hit play and that's it

Consoles (spec. ps 4 pro and xb1x) with a lovely OLED 4k HDR TV is the only way to "game" now :cool:
 
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Bang for buck = meh.

Reading this thread is like reading a car enthusiasts forum where everyone owns a Ford Escort. If you want 4K or Ultrawide PC gaming then it's going to cost you. If you want to game at 1080p 30Hz then yea, buy an Xbox.
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Lol. But your not paying a premium for performance, your paying a huge premium because market trends are dictated by profit and gullibility.
 
I still love PC gaming with a passion but I agree with the lack of decent game releases on all formats. On the other side of the coin hardware is lasting much longer than they used to. Most CPU's are lasting 4-5 years and GPU's 3-4 years so is that not a good thing?? My friend is an avid gamer and has only just upgraded his Geforce 750TI @ 1080p, lasted him for years.
I know people get the itch to upgrade and I am the same as it renews the buzz of getting new hardware but just enjoy what you have and all that money you paid for them. With the lack of new games around just play the old ones. I do this on a regular basis and play:

Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein
Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil 1
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 5
Bioshock
Half Life
Mass Effect Series
Dead Space Series

I could go on but all the games still look good and run great @ 2560x1440 and I enjoy them just as much as the first time I played them.
 
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