Note: By AAA gaming, I mean you buy the latest titles for your PC and play them there exclusively.
From the years of 2007-2016, I was a AAA pc gamer. If I wanted the latest Batman, Far Cry, Asscreed, Fallout, ect, it was a purchase I made for the gaming PCs I had at the time. Now, I never had the absolute latest and greatest, (although my GTX 460 in 2010 was as close to the sun as I got and it was close) but I could confidently run anything.
2017 is when I transitioned over. My gtx 660ti had powered through Fallout 4, TW3, Wolfenstein the New Order, Far Cry 3, parts of Deus Ex Human Revolution, all of the Bioschock games and hell even Dreamfall chapters. Just Cause 3 was the first game that gave me pause, then Mass Effect Andromeda cleared up any lingering hopes for another year of acceptable performance. Worse, I didn't have the free capital to make the complete system jump I needed. So I focused on smaller and older games and my PS3, while biding my time for a PS4 slim sale. The sale happened and with some gift cards I got one for $150. That's my AAA machine now and my gaming life hasn't suffered. I've done a lot more interesting things with that $800 than run at max settings and enable super sampling AA. I've got a giant library and multiplayer, indie and older games and I'm never going back to the AAA pc gaming cycle. Enjoy your RTX 2080tis.
So, if you've left the AAA pc gaming world, what was the final straw? Was it a game, a life event or just a general drift from gaming?
From the years of 2007-2016, I was a AAA pc gamer. If I wanted the latest Batman, Far Cry, Asscreed, Fallout, ect, it was a purchase I made for the gaming PCs I had at the time. Now, I never had the absolute latest and greatest, (although my GTX 460 in 2010 was as close to the sun as I got and it was close) but I could confidently run anything.
2017 is when I transitioned over. My gtx 660ti had powered through Fallout 4, TW3, Wolfenstein the New Order, Far Cry 3, parts of Deus Ex Human Revolution, all of the Bioschock games and hell even Dreamfall chapters. Just Cause 3 was the first game that gave me pause, then Mass Effect Andromeda cleared up any lingering hopes for another year of acceptable performance. Worse, I didn't have the free capital to make the complete system jump I needed. So I focused on smaller and older games and my PS3, while biding my time for a PS4 slim sale. The sale happened and with some gift cards I got one for $150. That's my AAA machine now and my gaming life hasn't suffered. I've done a lot more interesting things with that $800 than run at max settings and enable super sampling AA. I've got a giant library and multiplayer, indie and older games and I'm never going back to the AAA pc gaming cycle. Enjoy your RTX 2080tis.
So, if you've left the AAA pc gaming world, what was the final straw? Was it a game, a life event or just a general drift from gaming?