That, afaik, has more to do with the nature of streamed asset games vs small fixed areas. For a game with a small fixed level, you can load all the assets into memory and it’s all immediately available to the engine once the level starts. However it may take a bit to load, hence a loading screen. As such, once it…

9th gen would be DDR4.

Your CPU is okish, but at least above min spec. Your GPU on the other hand is technically below. It’s slightly worse than the 1070 ti) and with only 6GB of VRAM you may suffer if it fills up and overflows into RAM. That also comes with extra CPU overhead when that happens. (8 seems to be ideal for the most part). IDK…

Exactly. This isn’t 2010 when they were just starting to take off for consumers and were expensive as hell. A 2TB drive can be had for under $100. There is absolutely no reason a gaming PC should be running on a spinning drive these days, even as a secondary drive. HDDs are great for cheap, large storage. Beyond that…

It’s not a matter of saturating the bus. It’s a matter of how seek and load time for textures etc. affect the game. Spinning drives take a long time to locate data, and if it missed it, it has to wait for the platter to come back around again. While this doesn’t seem like a long time in human terms (15-20ms, maybe…

FWIW AMD has publicly said Bethesda is welcome to include DLSS if they desire.

A mix. The AC mechs are definitely more agile...it’s kinda like being in Strider at all times, unless you go super heavy. That said, I haven’t run across anything that’s like playing as an Ogre or Legion, and frankly I wouldn’t want to be that slow here. I’d say ability wise though TF Mechs are more balanced, but it’s…

I’ve found the game quite fun, and this is my first AC game. That said, this isn’t a slow strategic ‘pick your opening’ kind of game. It’s very aggressive when you’re in combat. If you try to hide and poke at things you’re going to lose. If you’ll notice a lot of complaints about the first boss from the first mission…

“Playing the long game” - Challenge accepted.

People? no. Fandoms? absolutely. These are mostly joke listicles but they do touch on things the fandoms often find divisive.

I guess. At least in the places I frequent I see WRPG more than CRPG. RPG kinda just lumps every together, which is fine.

Nothing wrong with the term JRPG. They’re pretty distinct from WRPG’s in general, and that’s fine. TBH, I probably find them to be more enjoyable overall because they don’t take themselves super serious all the time, even if the plot isn’t always the best.

ouch, not even close. (I assume this was sarcasm) I more or less remember how to play the base game, but I don’t think I could do the modern version as I haven’t played in probably 20 years.

TBH, I’ve been playing since Gen 1, and aside from the Charizard, Movie, and Digimon thing, I’ve said all these things at least once.

Because the consoles have only been partially backwards compatible at best, historically (Wii to GCN and Wii U to Wii). The handhelds have a much better track record overall. So...it depends on which side they fall more on. Also depends what architecture the new system uses. If they stick with something based off the…

I suppose. Like I said, if they’re happy who am I to complain.

On one hand, play whatever you enjoy. As long as you’re having fun and it’s not at the expense of anyone else, who cares? On the other, buying a console (or PC) just to play a single game, and only that game...I just can’t wrap my head around it. I tend to play whatever seems fun at the time, though I can absolutely…

Eh, it’s mostly that people are in general, incapable of having a discussion online anymore. At least one that doesn’t devolve into name calling, shoddy arguments, and shit flinging. A lot of people have this an obsession with being right or correct even if there isn’t a right or correct in the situation.

Eh, depends on what you’re looking for. Isekai is still in for sure, but there are some that are pretty good, and some that are pretty awful. The ones I’ve found to be rather unwatchable tend to be the ones with absolutely insane powercreep, or where the MC just seems to magically solve everything without relying on…

We’ll see. The last game that supposedly used it (Forspoken I think) saw basically no difference. If they were using the tech you’d think they’d tout it a bit. The fact that they just said SSD and not NVMe SSD or similar leads me to think they aren’t. Of course, things may change before launch as we’re still a few…