Your video game hot take(s) thread

[NerfedFalcon]

That's the one I was talking about. That lily pad is the worst.

Oh. Guess I forgot about the lead-up with how bad the actual level itself is, and the fact I probably only did it once.

 

[Gordon_4]

There's a major controversy in PC gaming right now with the upcoming release of Nvidia's 5000 series graphics cards that they are so reliant on DLSS that what they're selling you isn't hardware it's AI generated fake frames.

To me the problem isn't so much "fake frames" but the fact that they're artificially limiting the capability of the 4000 series cards to make them look significantly worse than the 5000 series by locking dlss 4 to 5000 series cards.

The reality is that the 5000 series cards are not significantly enough better than the 4000 series to be considered a new generation of cards. Their performance is similar to when Ti cards come out in the middle of a generation with a performance boost to the same architecture. The main performance boost here is software enabled, and this same software could and SHOULD be available on the 4000 series cards, but isn't because very few people would bother with this generation of cards if they were being compared to the 4000 series straight up.

Mayhaps aside from just being stupid and greedy, they were banking on the not insignificant amount of people who didn’t bother upgrading from the 30 series or, God help them, the 20 series cards. Because against those, the uplift is probably more noticeable.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Mayhaps aside from just being stupid and greedy, they were banking on the not insignificant amount of people who didn’t bother upgrading from the 30 series or, God help them, the 20 series cards. Because against those, the uplift is probably more noticeable.

Idk about that, if I had a 3000 series card I wouldn't upgrade to the 5000 series. The 4000 series wasn't much of an uplift from the 3000, and the 5000 isn't much of an uplift from the 4000 (not counting the new version of DLSS). I predict that the 3000 series cards are going to be sticking around for a while, especially the 3080 and 3090, like the people still running 1080s 4 generations later. The 3090 still has significantly more vram than even the 5080.

 

[Gordon_4]

Idk about that, if I had a 3000 series card I wouldn't upgrade to the 5000 series. The 4000 series wasn't much of an uplift from the 3000, and the 5000 isn't much of an uplift from the 4000 (not counting the new version of DLSS). I predict that the 3000 series cards are going to be sticking around for a while, especially the 3080 and 3090, like the people still running 1080s 4 generations later. The 3090 still has significantly more vram than even the 5080.

Yeah, Intel Arc looking MIGHTY tempting right about now.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

Just catching up on some reviews and responses to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 reminds me of some of the positive reception of Dragon's Dogma 2 and how basically it seems like some folks are defending jank, and when a game wipes hours of play time or wacky things happen because of bugs or incomplete design but it's actually good because that's how games were on the PS2 or whatever.

So my hot take it: jank is bad, polish is good, and it's actually ok for games that come out today to feel and play well, have clear objectives for the player, actually work, save your progress, and feel like it's recent.

 

[BrawlMan]

Just catching up on some reviews and responses to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 reminds me of some of the positive reception of Dragon's Dogma 2 and how basically it seems like some folks are defending jank, and when a game wipes hours of play time or wacky things happen because of bugs or incomplete design but it's actually good because that's how games were on the PS2 or whatever.

So my hot take it: jank is bad, polish is good, and it's actually ok for games that come out today to feel and play well, have clear objectives for the player, actually work, save your progress, and feel like it's recent.

I usually don't mind jenk as long as it's not too in the way nor messes with the save file. But yeah, this has always been a problem with certain gamers, or those in the youtube space reviewing older games since the mid 2000s. Even the ones that defend is usually have no other option but to concede or say just wait for the patch update, because not everybody will be playing this until it's fully completed. It's why I refuse to get Slitherhead, Even though it feels like a "janky PS2 game". Wanted: Dead sucked because it was janky and difficult for a lot of the wrong reasons. Some people praise it for being a 7th generation throwback game, but that honor deserves better and goes to Evil West. The game that is popular and has almost no jank at all.