Same

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The game is crazy, you don't need to even remotely care about Holo Live. It's a bullet heaven (mob hell), and each character has unique abilities and attacks.

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If it's just for gaming, you really don't need the absolute top of the line in terms of CPU. I can't think of a game I've ever played that maxes out my CPU on all cores.

Unless you're also using it for CPU-specific and intensive work outside of gaming, you won't gain much from spending more money.

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For the pixel art.

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I enjoyed it.

The criticisms are valid, but I still think it was a fun time.

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CPU bottlenecks start happening long before task manager reads 100% CPU usage. Any time a pipeline flush happens and your CPU is sitting there waiting for data to make its way through you're going to feel it.

Also if you're spending 5000 why wouldn't you get the best?

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I love my 3080 running LA noire.

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Consider this, a 3D indie pixel-art game (Ultrakill)

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Me with me $3000 AI laptop. 

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Mr. Zeus

every AAA game in recent years sucks and most of them are scrapped before they're finished

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I feel like the last few years at least have had like one worthy game per year, which for someone with a lot of work to do and now a family, is plenty. I've yet to finish Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate III, and while I completed Cyberpunk, I never got around to the DLC.

I'm also cautiously optimistic for 2025, it honestly seems to be a great year if not too many games get delayed or turn out to be shit

I do certainly feel like between 2016 and 2021 or so, we barely got any good games. The biggest release of 2020 took a year or 2 to be decent and even then never lived up to its' hype because what was promised was simply too much.

Cethin

I don't get the Balatro addiction stuff. It's a good game, but after you've played it a few times it gets boring. Sure, "number go up" but it's like people have never played a video game before. There's so many Skinner boxes that, at least for me personally, it becomes numbing. I also don't easily get sucked into other manipulative addicting things in other games though, so maybe it's just something wrong with me.

What makes you continue playing Balatro after you've "figured it out?"

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I find it fun

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Remarkable how none of that is true.

Elden ring, Baldurs Gate 3, Helldivers 2, Wukong, Marvel Rivals... List goes on, and that's just 2024. You .ight not like some genders, and that's fine, but there are good AAAs.

Also, with the number of AAAs reaching the shelves, what do you mean "most are scrapped"? Sure some games get cancelled from time to time, but saying that's most of them is just fantasy...

Cethin

Personally, I didn't like it. I think a lot of it comes down to two things: Do you care about the writing and the world they've built? If so, how critical of it are you (or alternatively, have you seen the sci-fi tropes done well).

Starfield has some really bad world building. In particular, it doesn't understand why we use sci-fi, and why it's tropes are interesting. it's to create an anologue of our world and to break it down, criticize, and point out it's flaws and ways to fix them.

Starfield is the least critical writing I've ever seen I think. The Earth is destroyed, and instead of using this to discuss us destroying the planet right now, it's just some technobable that has no parallels. Also, when fleeing Earth, they don't try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn't an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can't change anything and no one wants to either.

Starfield doesn't understand sci-fi. Fallout does a better job as a sci-fi series than Starfield does. If you're still interested, the gameplay is also slow and boring and there's almost no interesting stories or characters. Continue if you want, but I regret spending time on it for the price of $0.

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Minecraft-alikes?

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2 of those games are from 2022 and 2023

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With how much Factorio I've played, I'm down to less than $0.10/hr with the Space Age expansion. I'm nowhere close to done.

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Terraria

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Not every pixel-art game or voxel game is a Minecraft-alike. For example Hytale is fundamentally different.

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I mean, i do know AER. But it's not pixel art.