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[+] -135 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why do people bother with PC gaming again? Never had a poorly performing game on my Series X. Even Cyberpunk 2077 ran perfectly on launch, I only experienced few minor graphical glitches once in a conversation with an NPC.

Feels good man.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    • fan patches
    • backwards compatibility stretching back ~50 years
    • indie games aren't always on consoles
    • fewer subscription fees
    • hardware can be cheaper over time depending on details
    • games, especially older games, can go on sale for deep discounts
    • piracy
    • can avoid supporting megacorps like Microsoft and Sony

    Just off the top of my head

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  • [+] -38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But blockbusters always seem to have performance issues.

    I have my series X for those major releases and my ROG Ally for indies. Gaming has never been better for me.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’m assuming PC gamers generally understand the required specs. If that is not the case, then that explains why every single AAA release has the same complaint without fail.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    The settings targeted on PC typically far outstrip what consoles can do. I'm targeting modest settings that are still better than what a console can do in those blockbuster games, and it still runs better than on consoles. They just don't scale as well as they should when you continue to crank the settings up.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Even Cyberpunk 2077 ran perfectly on launch,

    Liar.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Seriously... I've never had any other game crash on PS5 so much that it stopped popping up to ask if I wanted to send a crash report. It was still fun and I couldn't stop playing it, but it crashed every half hour.

    I don't believe for a second that it was magically perfect on Xbox.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It more or less did on the Series X. A lot of the clips people posted showing the really bad performance and bugs were from the original 2014 Xbox One or the Series S. On the Series X, it performed very well and I think I had it crash only twice in a 70 hour playthrough, in my own experience playing 2077 on my own Series X.

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  • [+] -21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    On the Series X? Absolutely it did. I had some glitches with objects floating in cutscenes and that one cyber implant that didn’t work. Put 90 hours in.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ran perfectly

    had some glitches

    ???

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago

    I don’t usually expect absolutely no glitches on my open world games so for me that’s basically perfect. I did grow up playing hundreds of hours into an unpatched Xbox 360 version of oblivion so maybe I have more tolerance than most to minor shit like that. It didn’t even affect gameplay, it was just floating objects

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