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  • Got modded Silent Hunter III working today, was a pain in the arse honestly. The game (despite being from 2005) doesn't support resolutions higher than 1024x768 I believe, so I had to install a modpack and that was pretty finnicky itself. Aaaaaand now I have to deal with potentially the steepest learning curve in a video game of all time, the controls are nuts. This'll be fun.
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    SolidStateSurvivor
    SolidStateSurvivor
    Read that as "Silent Hill III" and was so fucking confused thought it was some sort of mil-sim overhaul for it lul
    Kana
    Kana
    I dont even bother with PC games pre 2014 because every single one of them freaks out completely on 4k Monitors. PC Master race my arse. Console games are run fine on any screen
    das boot is so FUCKING awesome
    i love it: the rumbling of the supercharged diesels, the aggressive seas, the sheer testosterone of it all
    i wanna blow up a steamer rn
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    ALAAAAARRM!!!
    alCannium27
    alCannium27
    IIRC the young gestapo officer lived
    So nobody survived at the end
    LiraTirsoCaduceo
    LiraTirsoCaduceo
    >this is the average German's day
    They do NOT suffer
    I decided to kinda just ditch my Xbox and make do with the low-end PC I have for games. This is Farming Simulator 2017, running on a dual-core 15w i3, with integrated graphics, and 8GB of RAM.
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    Does it look like shit? Absolutely, but at least I'm not locked to 30 FPS for once. It actually runs locked at 75, which is my monitor's refresh rate. I love how I can finally install all of the cool mods I've been missing out on, there's a lot more freedom + I can multitask unlike a console. Will likely just sell the Xbox to help me pay for a better PC later on.
    Andy Kaufman
    Andy Kaufman
    @omnidisplay I always say that PS3/360 era graphics are completely fine and we could've stopped there with the graphical fidelity and focus on cool physics instead. Like maybe one more generation if you really need to but that's it.
    Would also help with the inflation of file sizes. Dark Souls was 4GB small. Elden Ring + DLC around 100 GB or so. Sure, open world vs not so open world but still. Skyrim's special edition is just 12GB.
    Haswell
    Haswell
    @omnidisplay For me those graphics have an "aura" around them, they feel magical in a way because of how they're similar to films like Toy Story 1 in terms of quality. Hell, I think "Toy Story graphics" was actually a selling point for a lot of games a long time ago.
    I dunno. The colors look nicer too.
    omnidisplay
    omnidisplay
    I dunno. The colors look nicer too.
    Some good colour theory and lighting (as in composition) will always best more technically advanced graphics.
    I think a great example of that is this, the HL2 RTX demo.

    Wow what a creepy foreboding area, with strong shadows to segment stuff out...
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    You know would make it better? Unleashing a miniature sun in the area, with enough warmth to start a fire.
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    feeling kinda jealous of my parents ngl
    they got to live through pax americana (early-mid Gen X) and will very likely die right around when things really go down the shitter
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