I mean, it doesn’t feel great giving my money to Bethesda, but at 3.99 for the base game, I’m gonna risk it. I have all of the previous games (well, maybe not Fallout Tactics? Not sure.) and will take a look at 76. If I absolutely hate it, I can probably get my four moneys back from Steam.

Also, about Valheim: I will look at the game and may purchase a copy, but it seems to be entirely different from Fallout. I’m not choosing my games by gameplay mechanics (I don’t know if they’re similar), but setting and world. That’s where Fallout is pretty special.

I remember there being mods for it. The loading screens are somehow tied to the capped framerate (yeah, really), which you can remove.

I’m gonna trust you and buy the base game now.

God damned Millenials don’t even know about Crossfire and SLI smh

You gotta ask “Why do we need traffic lights?”. The answer is “because of motor vehicles”, so I don’t think cyclists should be disadvantaged by something that is not required because of them.

Right. Attempted to check it out when I was still rocking my Vega 56, the game refused to start.

Also, fuck Bloom. It’s bad enough that my eyes are starting to do it at night, I absolutely don’t want that in video games.

My previous card was a Vega 56, which cost me 399 €. I was lucky to get one during launch week, at MSRP despite the mining craze back then. It was a fantastic card in retrospect and lasted me more than 7 years with my 1440p/70 monitor.

I now own a 1440p/144 monitor, so my target framerate at the same resolution is a bit higher than it used to be, but I’m happy with somewhere consistently between 60 and 90 fps. The replacement for my Vega 56 is a 7900 XT (didn’t wanna wait for the 9070 XT earlier this year), which still is not a proper 4K card if you’re after High or Ultra settings. It does 1440p very well, but it absolutely is not a huge leap in technology compared to Vega. I got it for 600 € open box, regular price (after two years on the market mind you) was more like 700-750 € even right before the new gen dropped. I know everything’s gotten more expensive between 2017 and 2025, but an 80 % price increase for a card with a smaller die size and regular GDDR memory is insane. After all, both Vega 56 and 9070 XT are pretty much comparable in their market position when they were introduced.

I’ve ditched AAA gaming as a hobby before for several years, until the announcement of Fallout 4 made me build a new, potent system. If the “been there, done that” feeling returns when I play new releases in the future, I’m not sure I can find motivation to pick that hobby up again further down the road. Ever increasing hardware cost and capitalist enshittification of the games industry might kill it for good as far as I’m concerned.

Even at MSRP and 0% markup, those cards are too expensive. A mid-range GPU shouldn’t cost as much as (or more than) CPU, mainboard and RAM of a good, but affordable system combined.

What?

laughs and cries in 7900 XT with 20 GB, but FSR 3

I’ve crossposted it for ya.

If you play games that weren’t released after 2022, sure.

Nothing wing with Skoda, buddy.

Or any of the shops listed at Is There Any Deal.

630 USD for me, but I almost never purchase full price games and a lot of my Steam library games was purchased on those non-shady game key stores.

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