Since the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield have come out, I’ve been budgeting to do a big upgrade on my PC with an AMD 6800 xt and a fancy new 1 TB SSD (which is the first game I’ve ever seen that requires an SSD) just so I can run the game in all it’s space epicness.
What was the game that you were so excited for that you made the jump to upgrade your PC to the next gen of hardware? New or old!
For me, it was Cyberpunk 2077. I wanted to run around Night City with ultra graphics and raytracing. Too bad it launched in such a badly optimized state.
God of War for single player games and Apex Legends for multiplayer.
I had never been a playstation guy but really wanted to play the new God of War and knew for a fact that my computer was not good enough. I used to be into Apex for a good couple years and could barely run it. Had to turn everything all the way down just to hid a semi decent FPS.
Now I don’t even play Apex but I’m glad I got to play God of War on the highest settings and enjoy the game to the fullest. Still one of my favorite games and I’m definitely gonna get Ragnarok when it comes out on PC
I assembled my current workstation with an RTX 3080 to coincide with Cyberpunk 2077 release.
Now I was lucky I bought it right before prices got gouged by scalpers, and to this day its considered a high end PC. 2 years with 0 issues and easy customization.
In hindsight that piece of trash scam of a game was a blessing in disguise.
Sekiro - This was January 2020 so the timing was perfect just before covid hit (in my country). Back then I just had the opportunity to build one so I didn’t think twice cuz I wanted a gaming pc since forever.
I had at the time so many games in mind for years and also in my backlog, so it was incredible to finally build one and play all of them during the lockdowns lmao
Me too, Sekiro and Elden Ring. Both great games
Do not buy parts for Starfield until it releases and reviewers report in.
I most recently upgraded due to no mans sky constantly struggling. But upgraded enough to get cyberpunk and path tracing. With it being out for iver 2 years when i upgraded, those hardware targets were known.
This machine should cover me for starfield though.Starfield is unknown.
Half Life Alyx convinced me to finally build a PC. Street Fighter 6’s minimum specs convinced me to upgrade.
The game that fully got me into this PC madness was the glorious Battlefield 3 in 2011-2012.
Before that I had dabbled somewhat into PC gaming, even changing a graphics card and what not, but I was still rather clueless about it… Until EA and Dice dropped this fucking megaton into the unsuspecting world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FktL2pu2wENowadays, that gameplay above? It merely looks decent. But back in the dying days of the PS360 generation? That shit looked BANANAS, let me tell you. It was, legitimately, like a generation and a half of visual improvement. We couldn’t believe it, it was fucking insane. And that, combined with the start of the golden era of PC and the disastrous aging of PS360, meant that I HAD to get a PC, like a decently built from scratch, purpose-built-for-gaming PC. So I started getting informed and saving for the components all throughout 2011 so that I could be there for BF3 day one on the ground floor.
I ended up saving around 450 euros, and this was back in the day when 500 bucks got you an pretty good computer. I got a Radeon HD 6850 and a Phenom 955, and the latter is still working to this day back in my family’s house. Every buck and minute of research was worth it, and it even led me down the road of getting into IT as a profession. I have so much to thank to whoever were the people that made that reveal look so sick lol.
Skyrim back in 2011, and Cyberpunk 2077 more recently.
Control got me to build a new PC. I had an average laptop before, but sold the laptop and built a PC with a 3080 in it for the sweet raytracing. Managed to pick the 3080 up at RRP before all the Crypto boom started, so I was stoked! Still going very strong after almost 3 years.
Dwarf Fortress
Alyx.
Back in the day, Cube World… RIP…
During the pandemic I had a power surge that torched my motherboard and power supply. I didn’t want to have to spend the inflated costs to replace my PC so I just sold my GPU and bought a NUC for a couple hundred dollars.
I used GeForceNow to play PC games on my phone or TV now. Works out for me. I have a PS5 for games that I want a local experience or aren’t available for GeForceNow. Pretty much any game that doesn’t fall into those two categories such OOTP can run on the NUC. Not a bad setup if you have the connection for it
While I just needed an upgrade in general ( Went from a 1060ti/i7 8gen to a 3070ti/i7 12gen), I was in the middle of God of War and the improvement was incredible. Didn’t realize how much better games could run. 😅
Star Citizen. Later refunded as it is a hot mess.
