Alot of Hardware talk, What about Games

[jre84]

I notice in LTT and many other forums constant talk about hardware in console sections as well as PC sections. Its interesting but why is no one on the web talking about actual games. I have like 300 games from pre 2013 and like 2 games post 2013 because their are no games available for me to buy, what games are you playing and why does my steam store show lawn mower simulator/goat simulator/and marble golf but nothing like GTA or Just cause or other AAA games. it's like a ghost town and no ones mentioning it. but yeah its nice having a bugatti for grocery shopping.

[Hinjima]

6 minutes ago, jre84 said:

I notice in LTT and many other forums constant talk about hardware in console sections as well as PC sections. Its interesting but why is no one on the web talking about actual games. I have like 300 games from pre 2013 and like 2 games post 2013 because their are no games available for me to buy, what games are you playing and why does my steam store show lawn mower simulator/goat simulator/and marble golf but nothing like GTA or Just cause or other AAA games. it's like a ghost town and no ones mentioning it. but yeah its nice having a bugatti for grocery shopping.

At the moment I am putting thousands of hours into Hell Let Loose!

These are the games that I currently play.

Hell Let Loose

Forza Horizon 5

The Last Of Us Part 2

World Of Warcraft ( since 2005 )

Assetto Corsa ( Can't wait for Assetto Cors 2 this summer! )  Full Simrig.

EA SPORTS WRC

IRACING

Helldivers 2

Replaying Mad Max

Dave The Diver

Palworld

And Deep Rock Galactic Survivor.

 

Yes, I play all of these games currently.  Hell Let Loose being my main game right now.

[SpookyCitrus]

There are gaming specific subforums here that focus on games. But it's mainly a troubleshooting/hardware forum. I mean it is Linus Tech Tips. Not Linus Game Tips.

 

As for game recommendations there are plenty of new games post 2013 that can be recommended. Make a post in the actual game subforums, PC Gaming and Console Gaming(which this is posted in) are the two where you can ask for recommends or post about specific games. 

[jre84]

ok thanks guys.

 

I have forza horizon 5 and a few games post 2013 like god of war, but their just doesnt seem to be the same quality or quantity. I know baldurs gate came out and won game of the year at IGN but maybe im just getted old and jaded, or just jaded but it seems like there is very few AAA games. like cmon Dave the diver? like what happened to the 100-200 good games per decade.

 

also yes I realize it's LTT I mentioned it was the case in other places also, but yeah I hear ya.

[Hinjima]

26 minutes ago, jre84 said:

ok thanks guys.

 

I have forza horizon 5 and a few games post 2013 like god of war, but their just doesnt seem to be the same quality or quantity. I know baldurs gate came out and won game of the year at IGN but maybe im just getted old and jaded, or just jaded but it seems like there is very few AAA games. like cmon Dave the diver? like what happened to the 100-200 good games per decade.

 

also yes I realize it's LTT I mentioned it was the case in other places also, but yeah I hear ya.

Whats wrong with 'Dave The Diver?

It has an overwhelmingly positive feedback on Steam out of a whopping 88.000 reviews!

No PC game on Steam gets that much praise from grumpy gamers if its not good.

Its actually a damn solid game that takes a lot of inspiration out of early 80's and 90's sidescrolling games.

I love it.

 

[jre84]

if all you saw was horses and carriages would you not wonder? I mean yeah sure they get the job done but really? also dave the diver does actually look good but looks like a indie game.

[Zando_]

1 hour ago, jre84 said:

it seems like there is very few AAA games

A lot of really big titles are live-service now, so they continually update the game instead of releasing a new title in the series. If you want more traditional AAA games, FromSoftware still makes those. Their current titles are Elden Ring and Armored Core 6, Elden Ring is getting its first DLC this June. I haven't gotten into AC yet so I don't know too much about that.

 

Also lots of AAA titles are absolutely massive now, taking years upon years to create, and given current corporate/management behavior they often flop on release, or just don't live up to their massive expectations (Starfield did this, it's not bad it's just... not great either, and it was expected to be so). So you've likely ignored the ones with a bad reputation, thus it feels like there's less games coming out.

[thrasher_565]

well the problem is we switched from hard core gamer game that was made for the hard core to games made for casual player. as much as you might thing that hardcore gamers there lots of them well sales have never been hier since the change. that and people dont play with barbys or lego anymore they play with some tech like phone or tablet. so the market is largely that phone games... a game like flappy bird were millions played and had more fun then $500 million dollar games...

 

consoles have gotten better and well games can be played on both these days... both with keybord and controllers and some times cross play.

 

also people are poor can cant afrod games... i mean like $70+ for a switch game is nuts... people are not getting payed more.

 

tripple aaa games killed them selfs do to micro transactions.

 

but you can find a good game here and there thow so not is all lost atleast.

 

atm im playing mindcraft but want to get back in to gaming i got all the good switch games and many games i need to play on consols like secret of man/ evermore and taranigma thats been on the bucket list for some time...

atm steam wont work on w7 so cant play that till i get my pc built witch is in the making for the past 10 years...

my 1080 and 6600k plays all the games i want to... its sad but that it.

 

there were some good games but they fuged it up...cyberpunk, ea starware for get what it was called, 76...starfield, halo... diablo 4...and many more like cod. ya that might fex em down the road but ive moived on.

 

blizzared is dead, bathesda dead, ubsoft lots of there stuff dead...ea dead. pokeymon dead...new world dead...

 

 

Edited February 29 by thrasher_565

[jre84]

oh ok thanks for all the replies. I was wondering what happened I guess that makes more sense, I play free games also because they are often times better than paid for example real racing 3, 1000s of hours of racing vs the few hours of forza motorsport. I was thinking something else as to why games are not coming out the way they used to, censorship but I was off on another tangent. thanks again. any games you would recommmend i buy? I m into just about anything but prefer racing.

[thrasher_565]

5 minutes ago, jre84 said:

oh ok thanks for all the replies. I was wondering what happened I guess that makes more sense, I play free games also because they are often times better than paid for example real racing 3, 1000s of hours of racing vs the few hours of forza motorsport. I was thinking something else as to why games are not coming out the way they used to, censorship but I was off on another tangent. thanks again. any games you would recommmend i buy? I m into just about anything but prefer racing.

ya i forgot to add thing like well they also have to make games to fit other place like china and there a huge gaming around the world that we dont no about like in indea. mexeco. and well most use phones or low power pc as most are poor. but its changing slowly. indea is sapos to over take the us thow i dont see how maybe they mean in people?

 

anyway point is they do things in games to pleas many crowds.

 

as for racing iu dont no i heard there kinda slow these days. there i racing but i dont no. i think i heard something about grandtrismal on ps but i dont fallow most games these days.

[Zando_]

1 hour ago, thrasher_565 said:

well the problem is we switched from hard core gamer game that was made for the hard core to games made for casual player.

Never switched. Games were originally made for mass appeal. We got more niche games thanks to that casual consumer success making games a viable industry.

1 hour ago, thrasher_565 said:

that and people dont play with barbys or lego anymore

They do. I assume you're not hanging out with kids all day, they very much do still play barbie and legos (I have a bunch of younger siblings and a niece and nephew).

1 hour ago, thrasher_565 said:

atm steam wont work on w7 so cant play that till i get my pc built witch is in the making for the past 10 years...

Windows 10 will run on the same hardware as Windows 7, and it'll bring DX12 compatibility with it which depending on implementation, may help your hardware run games better. It can be run unlicensed if they killed the W7 keys working for W10 thing.

1 hour ago, thrasher_565 said:

also people are poor can cant afrod games... i mean like $70+ for a switch game is nuts... people are not getting payed more.

 

tripple aaa games killed them selfs do to micro transactions.

Yep. I get the MTX for live-service/online titles that have constant server/content dev costs. But most companies get far too greedy with MTX. The MSRP increase for new AAA titles is silly too, they complain about development costs, but they're the ones making the budget for games so massive to begin with. And the ones firing loads of devs every few years (think of the added cost of bringing on new people and training them to do the thing you already had someone for, just because you wanted this quarterly report to look good).

1 hour ago, thrasher_565 said:

there were some good games but they fuged it up...cyberpunk, ea starware for get what it was called, 76...starfield, halo... diablo 4...and many more like cod. ya that might fex em down the road but ive moived on.

Yeah. CDPR CEO admitted the execs made the choice to push it out when they knew it was not ready. I assume you mean EA's Battlefront reboots, the 2nd one did get the MTX toned down after launch and a lot of work was done, so it's a very good game now, but as you said that's after many folks moved on. Starfield seems to be more a case of over-ambition rather than corporate greed. They really cooked themselves trying to go for the massive planet count, instead of a nice well-sized hand-crafted world which is what they excel at. I'm waiting for mod support so they can fix the issues I have with the game .

 

18 minutes ago, jre84 said:

any games you would recommmend i buy? I m into just about anything but prefer racing.

Elden Ring. I adore it, and I don't like overly hard games. It gives you a ton of tools to scale difficulty for yourself (summons, OP weapons, leveling up a bunch, summoning another player and laying on the ground while they 1v1 the boss for you) and a horse to just run away and come back later if something's too tough.

 

Helldivers 2. Phenomenal 3rd person co-op PvE shooter. The developers seem to have their heads screwed on right. There is MTX but it's fair (stuff doesn't go away to try and scare you into buying quick), and you can find the premium currency in missions so if you wanted to you can just play the game enough to afford all the stuff you want. Tis how I have the armor bits I liked, haven't spent a dime on the game above the $40 entry price (also very nice vs the new $70 standard).

 

For racing, if you haven't tried them already, any of the Codemasters Rally games. I would recommend a wheel though, I don't have one so I didn't get as much fun out of it as I would have. They are very, very well crafted games in terms of vehicle handling, and they'll run (or at least Dirty Rally did, Dirt 4 should as well) on a Dell business laptop with a dual-core low power i5, so their "Codemasters" name seems well earned.

 

Spintires (the original one) if you want to poke about driving heavy trucks through mud. I tried Snowrunner on gamepass and its fun too so worth a look at. Apparently the mud physics and truck details are worse in it, but I didn't play long enough to notice stuff like that.

 

Red Dead Redemption 2 if you haven't played it already. Very good cowboy game, the best parts are actually the character interactions, not the shooty shooty. Online is barely even on life support, but I hop on every now and then just to poke around.

 

Ubisoft games . They're bloated and can be eh quality, but you can get them on sale pretty often for like $5 or less each. I've enjoyed Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint (after turning the silly rpg stuff off in Breakpoint). And I had fun in the newer AC games (Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla). They're less assassins creed, more adventures in X or Y historical period, but I like 'em. Haven't finished Origins but it seems the best crafted so far, Odyssey gets a little too big, and Valhalla is comically large. I got tired of playing it and still had multiple DLCs left barely touched (a roguelike mode, 2 new country dlcs, one where you play some entire storyline as Odin, etc). The best AC game I've played so far is Unity though, I actually got that free when the Notre Dame burned down (AFAIK the most realistic model of the Notre Dame is the one in AC Unity, so Ubi gave it out for free in memory of it). I've had fun in the Far Cry games too, though 3 was my favorite of those.

 

The Metro series if you haven't played that already. I like post-apoc stuff a lot and it's done very well.

 

I don't have a ton of really new games to suggest other than Helldivers as I did above. I don't play many indie titles, and I got into PC gaming in 2017 or so, so I've mostly gone back and played older AAA titles.

[jre84]

awesome stuff, I have rdr2 just havent dipped in the water yet. I will check out hell divers thanks a million. also thought about assassins creed series, I might check that out with ubisoft game pass. and code masters rally games because it would be pretty rad if I could do 4k/120 with my rtx 3060 in any of those games, funny thing is I have grid and forza and love them but never gave rally games a go. thanks again, also would you recommend anything like fortnite or blizzards overwatch? are they any good and out of the 4 main f2p fps ones which is the best in your humble opinion?

[Zando_]

11 minutes ago, jre84 said:

also would you recommend anything like fortnite or blizzards overwatch? are they any good and out of the 4 main f2p fps ones which is the best in your humble opinion?

I tried Fortnite once 5+ years ago, I think it's changed too much for me to have any useful info on it. Some friends play it together and they seem to have fun, so it's worth a shot. They have a no-build mode too, so you don't have to compete with an 8-year old building the Taj Mahal right in front of you the moment you fire in their direction. Overwatch ehh... the whole Overwatch 2 thing seems horrible from what I've seen. The game was bleeding players before, and 2 added more problems AFAIK so I don't think it's doing so hot. A couple coworkers play Warzone 2.0 (its F2P) and they keep trying to get me into it, but battle royales aren't really my thing so I just mucked around in normal PvP because I got the Modern Warfare 2019 and 2022 games for free (one with a code from a friend who got it with their GPU IIRC, the other I got when I bought my ARC card).

 

Poking through my steam library, if you're at all interested in RPG/MMO games, Star Wars: The Old Republic is F2P. I believe you need to pay to really enjoy the MMO bit, but I've always played it as a singleplayer RPG, the stories are quite good (It's by Bioware, before their goofy stuff with Andromeda/Anthem). I believe I did pay for the premium sub for a bit because I wanted some of the perks, but it's not required to enjoy the story bits, it was just a nice-to-have. The Imperial Agent storyline is especially lauded as a really good one. I had fun with the Agent, my regular good-guy Jedi, and playing a morally grey-ish Sith (not downright "kill people for the fun of it" evil but still a Sith). Poked around as a Republic trooper too. Apparently they just moved to a new developer though: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775530/star-wars-the-old-republic-broadsword-bioware. I haven't been on in a while so I don't know if anything changed vs when Bioware was running it. Last I was on they had just updated a bunch of the class system to make it easier to pick and choose what you wanted for your character IIRC.

 

I don't really play many other F2P games, I mostly like open/semi-open world RPG or sandbox games, those are usually too expensive to develop to hand 'em out for free. I get lots of them on sale for very cheap, as I noted above I'm late to the party so they're "old" games now and thus get discounted deeply. I did play Genshin Impact for a bit, it's a pretty nice game but it very, very much wants to get money out of you as it is a gacha game (basically play the lottery for new characters, you can get some for free but most are locked behind the gacha system).

 

If you have a bunch of storage space and want to sink a bit of time into learning how to get mods to work together properly, there's always the ole Bethesda games (Skyrim and Fallout 4 especially) that you can get on sale for extremely cheap, and fix them up into... really anything you want at this point. Some madmen even got cars working in Fallout New Vegas.

[jre84]

I don't mind paying I spent I think around 10 000 on games so far. bought most at 40-50. Thanks for all the input its really overwhelming, I'll check out old republic I'm into the starwars esque games, I tried fallen order it was impressive but it didn't draw me in to get more than my feet wet. I was thinking of buying hell diver but with my 3060 it might struggle on my 4k tv. I have a pretty wonky setup using my gaming laptop as a desktop and my tv as a monitor, it all feels and is an afterthought. Im going to check out a few of your recommendations and play around with them for a bit and if you have any others let me know, thanks again.

[Zando_]

9 hours ago, jre84 said:

I was thinking of buying hell diver but with my 3060 it might struggle on my 4k tv.

I play Helldivers 2 at 4K with a 2060 Super, I have everything on med/low and resolution scaling down a couple notches, it still looks great and runs very well. If it's a laptop 3060 then I'm not sure how it compares to the desktop 2060 Super.

[ender23]

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