I think if someone’s new to gaming the best thing they can do is get a crappy desktop, play all the classics, and then when they find they’re really hyped for a game their system can’t handle, just buy a 5 year old graphics card and install it. Easy peasy, dirt cheapy.
What people think of as the necessary hardware to play games these days isn’t. It’s only necessary to play the 0.01% of games that are new AAA releases with poor optimisation. And guess what? Those games all suck shit anyway!
I am of the firm opinion that computers have been good enough to play nearly anything you could want to play for 10 years. Except for Factorio megabases and intensive simulations. But first person shooters? Platformers? RPGs? We’ve reached the limit of what computing power can do to make a game more fun. And we reached it a long time ago.
I think if someone’s new to gaming the best thing they can do is get a crappy desktop, play all the classics, and then when they find they’re really hyped for a game their system can’t handle, just buy a 5 year old graphics card and install it. Easy peasy, dirt cheapy.
What people think of as the necessary hardware to play games these days isn’t. It’s only necessary to play the 0.01% of games that are new AAA releases with poor optimisation. And guess what? Those games all suck shit anyway!
I am of the firm opinion that computers have been good enough to play nearly anything you could want to play for 10 years. Except for Factorio megabases and intensive simulations. But first person shooters? Platformers? RPGs? We’ve reached the limit of what computing power can do to make a game more fun. And we reached it a long time ago.