Same

[dukeofdummies@lemmy.world]

I'm always a huge fan of Deep Rock Galactic, Moonring, Rimworld

[fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah it can, if I use that plugin fullscreen on my 1440p monitor, I can't even watch YouTube on another monitor because my GPU is maxed out lmao

[someacnt@sh.itjust.works]

I see that you bought expensive hardware just for modded minecraft. That shit's no joke.

[someacnt@sh.itjust.works]

I don't like the picture

[simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Your uh... $1000 gaming PC? Isn't that pretty much all it can play? (assuming the game is released today)

[pemptago@lemmy.ml]

Playing different Antes, Decks and Challenges has kept it fresh and interesting for me: forcing me out of my comfort zone to find new combinations and strategies that works. It might help to change the game speed to 4x so it's not so showy with the jokers and you can iterate different strategies faster. Or it's not your thing. Nothing wrong with that.

[sulgoth@lemmy.world]

Dead cells, factorio

[secret300@lemmy.sdf.org]

Holocure rn for me

[drstevebrule@mander.xyz]

I've been having a lot of fun with Vagante recently

[drstevebrule@mander.xyz]

Once I "figured it out", I realized I was beating the decks using flushes. So I decided trying different styles like building a deck for playing straights, full houses, two pairs. I found out you can play a full house flush. It isn't on the list of poker hands so that was fun to stumble upon.

[sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Also, zomboid used to be a pixel game

[wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org]

Sadly, the young'uns can no longer play the 18+ restricted card game that's explicitly got zero gambling in it. They'll have to get addicted to real gambling in EA sports games

[bruhduh@lemmy.world]

you can build decent enough pc in a 1000$ on ryzen 7700 and 64gb ram and intel a770 16gb in that budget

[umbraroze@lemmy.world]

I don't think I even remember what "AAA" games I bought last year. Uh... Baldur's Gate III and Train Sim World 5. That's about that.

Thing is, I didn't play much of those either! I have an absolutely gigantic backlog! And in December I got somehow addicted to Skyrim again. It never ends

Best and awesomest and most profound game experience I had last year was Chants of Sennaar, and even that technically came out in 2023.

[alp@lemmy.zip]

I don't think those games AAA. Baldur's Gate 3 is in the border between being AA and AAA, but Train Sim World can't have that much of a development cost, no?

[umbraroze@lemmy.world]

Well, I suppose they're less "AAA" and more "Games With Actual Noticeable Budget". Simulators aren't exactly mainstream these days, yes.

[narauko@lemmy.world]

The only caveat to that is that the card must be using x16 bus speed for the negligible impact, which only the high-end cards reliably do. A bunch of the 70 series and under cards are actually x8 bus speed, and then pcie 4 actually matters. ~20% vs 5% performance loss for 8x bus cards over pcie 3.

[tonytonychopper@mander.xyz]

Ryzen 7700 and 64 GB of ram is crazy overkill for gaming. Downgrade those and get a used RTX 3080 for around $400 and you'll have a good modern gaming pc

[from_d4rkness@lemmy.world]

you're right! hmm, I wonder how many pixel art games there are that have eventually evolved into a different form like 2.5D or even 3D

[ephera@lemmy.ml]

There were a lot, back when 3D graphics became a thing in general, because companies felt like they'd get left behind, if they didn't somehow make their games 3D.

But yeah, these days, I don't think this happens much. 2D rarely translates well into 3D, because the whole gameplay works differently. And while 2.5D doesn't have the same problem, it's also a lot of effort for what's essentially just a different art style.