BO1 is at least coming to PSPlus in PS1 form. I’m expecting it to feel very rough.

It’ll give a small boost to load times, but a nvme SSD can at least be taken with you when you eventually upgrade the mobo/CPU/RAM combo. A 2TB drive can be had for £120 or so.

I’ve got more or less the same setup myself as your PC and it’s getting very creaky on newer titles. I honestly just use my PS5 for those atm.

I think I’d update the mobo/CPU/RAM first if I had your exact setup, but the GPU wouldn’t be far behind. You could run games with task manager open to see if you’re maxing out your CPU or GPU and take it from there. Depending on the games you play, it could be worth doing the GPU first.

Just make sure your PSU supports it, as those newer GPUs can be hungry.

If I did I’d probably have lots of little satellite offices in various regions to make that easier.

I have lots of bills that are less than that every month, and yet somehow I can’t just say they’re not worth paying…

Probably one of the VR ones.

Phasmophobia is tense and mostly because you can die and get no points, but there’s plenty of VRChat horror worlds as well. The quality varies wildly though, and you often face the worst VR horror of all: awful frame rates.

Those fucking dummies…

It is optional isn’t it?

Minibeard is there for if you get stuck. The puzzles just aren’t really hard unless you’re really not used to games at all.

Honestly the hardest part was the rhythm and bubble shooter sections at the end.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

RDR2 was long as fuck.

8K on everything is pure marketing BS.

And it’s going to be competing with the Ghost of Tsushima sequel.

For me they’re different enough to not really be in competition, but they felt the need to issue a statement about it, so they’re obviously a bit worried.

Not that I’m that interested in either. Give me that Soul Reaver remaster baby. Inject that shit into my veins.

That horrendous AI Muskthing will haunt my dreams…

I honestly think it’ seven more important to have an adblock on a phone.

The amount of pages that on mobile are an advert covering the top half, and a give us your data prompt at the bottom seems to be nearly everything these days. At least on a monitor there’s room for the content.

World of Warcraft’s pet capture system was actually very similar to Pokemon, including better traps with better chances of success.

Probably because nobody was using it.

307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.

I could never get on with the weird shaped triggers.

At that price there would have to be some pretty compelling arguments to upgrade.

Half a generation for up to 40% more raytracing power isn’t worth it.

A full generation for 2-3 times what a PS5 can do? Maybe.

Even then, there would have to be some damn good exclusives on PS6 to be worth your while. PS4 to PS5 was an easy argument, games ran at 30 pretty much all generation, mostly due to a comically underpowered CPU, and now they run at 60.

I’m struggling to even conceive of a worthwhile game that would bring a PS5 to its knees. I haven’t really seen a good argument for raytracing yet. Sure, nicer reflections, more accurate lighting, but we were pretty good at faking those anyway. Cyberpunk and Metro look really nice with the RT only editions, but they were perfectly playable without it.

We should really draw a big line under RT once it reaches a certain level of power, and go back to affordability. Game devs can’t put food on the table just catering to insanely high end hardware. My PC is still rocking a 1060. On the Steam hardware survey, there’s only one GPU higher than the X060 series inside the top ten. Budget hardware has got to be the focus.

Tim may have had enough money personally, but it’s always nice to not have to shut your studio and fire everyone if you release the odd stinker.

Quite a few years ago now I went to my nan’s house for Christmas.

My cousin, I think he was about 13, had got a £50 Steam voucher for some games. Him and my other cousin who was a couple of year older went to Steam, swapped the voucher for something, and then took that to a gambling site. I don’t know if they’re still a thing. It was something to do with Counter Strike drops I think. Heavily advertised by YouTubers who ran them, with a bunch of videos showing them winning. The sort of thing they’d be sent to prison for in any right thinking society.

They took that £50, put it in, and clicked. The younger one went “what now?” and the older one just went “oh, nothing. It’s gone.” A couple of games worth of money, gone. For nothing.

He looked like he was about to cry, and only didn’t because he was going through that acting tough phase.

He’s an accountant now, and plays crown green bowling. I like to think that was a relatively cheap lesson in why not to fuck around with gambling.

The problem is that everybody sitting around that table thinks they’re skilled enough.

I stopped playing WoW because it didn’t value my time. There is a limit to how much you can spend on WoW. Sure, you can buy gold, but it honestly won’t help you that much. The upgrades come from the weekly content, mostly.

And then there’s the mobile stuff where whales rule the day.