Same

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

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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.

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Also, zomboid used to be a pixel game

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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

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

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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.

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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?

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.