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Hardware and Tech / Re: Looking for Gaming PC Ideas

« on: November 05, 2020, 03:19:13 pm »

New Ryzen 5000 series is pretty incredible, the $300 5600x outperforms Intel's $650 10900k with better thermals and lower power consumption.  I'm going team red for my next build and I'd suggest anyone building a PC within the next 6 months to do the same.

Building your own will ALWAYS be cheaper than a pre-built, and you'll have more room for expandability/upgrades in the future as pre-builts will sometimes use proprietary parts which aren't modular.
If you give me a budget and a sample of what games you'd like to play and your target framerate/resolution for said games I'd be more than happy to put together a few parts lists for you.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Will We Still Get HD Remasters in the PS5/Xbox Series Era?

« on: November 05, 2020, 01:56:58 pm »

Definitely, I think we'll see a lot more "HD Collections" of Xbox/PS2 and 360/PS3 era games.  Seeing as Xbox Series X/S and PS5 have 100% backwards compatibility with Xbox One and PS4 respectively (save for Kinect titles and a literal handful of PS4 games); it'll be interesting to see how many developers choose to patch upgrades (4k, 60-120FPS, HDR, etc.) into their old games for the new systems and how many would rather re-release them as an "enhanced" version.  We're already seeing where Activision is charging an extra $10 for the upgraded version of the new Call of Duty, even though you can use the same disk for both Xbox One and Xbox Series X.

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General / Re: Which Gaming Device Do You Have The Most And Least Amount Of Games For & Why

« on: May 10, 2019, 01:44:27 pm »

Most: PC (Steam sales)
Most Console: Xbox 360; Best system of its generation, massive library
Least: Playstation 1; To me a lot of PS1 games don't hold up terribly well today and the good/important ones can be pretty pricey

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General / Re: Google Says 18-35 Years Old Is The Average For Gamers Today, Your Thoughts?

« on: December 27, 2018, 08:04:01 pm »

20 here, can confirm I'm a gamer.

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Marketplace / Re: Zelda Amiibo Bundle, Switch Games, and Spider-Man PS4

« on: September 16, 2018, 01:09:18 pm »

You can make a private Ebay listing which is visible only to those who have the link, and post it here.

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General / Re: Video game name frustration. (Rant)

« on: September 15, 2018, 01:59:39 pm »

Many a night I lay awake pondering what Microsoft will name the next Xbox.

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General / Re: Will you ever embrace digital games?

« on: September 10, 2018, 04:26:53 pm »

The hundreds of games in my steam library say yes, but only for PC.  I still prefer to buy console games in physical form.  For retro I still enjoy owning the physical carts but play emulators for the convenience & tuning options.

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Off Topic / Re: What do you like to do with money?

« on: September 10, 2018, 03:21:27 pm »

Valve knows...