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BAGS FLY AT NOON: Apr 6, 2011; A Soft Nylon Bag

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

yo there's that goon with cancer who is struggling to pay for her treatments and literally survive

but op bought an xbox

and made a thread to brag about it

It�s cool. When you buy an Xbox they make you submit your most recent tax return showing your charitable donations and if it�s below a certain amount they won�t even sell it to you.

# ? Apr 4, 2022 14:23

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# ? May 10, 2024 03:53

Big Beef City: Aug 15, 2013

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Yeah, all the consoles are in an incredibly awkward place power-wise, even the Series X only has a middling amount of games capable of 4K/60 FPS without severely compromising on something.
The worst part is that the ray tracing on consoles is just terrible and not worth turning on either, which is because they're patently incapable of handling it even at a moderate level. Looking at the reflections in AAA games using it on console always looks like pixelated poo poo. You're basically better off leaving it disabled, especially since the reflections are often all you get and you don't even get the lighting part of the deal which is what really makes raytracing shine. Metro: Exodus looks absolutely insane with everything pumped up.

A big appeal of consoles was not having to deal with this poo poo, you never felt like you were compromising on anything, you got the version of the game you got and that was it - there was a uniformity to it that made it appealing and kept you from fidgeting about whether or not your setup was giving you a suboptimal experience, but now you have to choose between something that plays like poo poo or looks like smeared vaseline because of how stark the difference between 1080p and 4K is, (which is often what the split between Performance/Quality modes is), and that makes it even worse than a PC in the end because instead of being able to make more optimal choices about what you want to sacrifice visually for better performance, you now have two extremes that never feel like the compromises are being made in the right places.

But all the marketing talk of 4k has forced developer's hands and now they HAVE to toss in those options which often aren't even really 4k, so they couch it in terms of "Quality" which usually ends up in some mutant resolution between 1440p and 2160p, often utilizing dynamic resolution scaling to account for FPS jerking all over the place.

The systems probably would have been fine if we just shot for a baseline 1440p and built games around that, but now you run into hosed up optimization issues as well because it's pretty often that the Quality and Performance options have huge discrepancies when it comes to things like frame drops, and developers have to really mush the graphical options to force it into either hitting a solid 60 at a lower resolution, or somehow force out 30 at 4k. Typically first party AAA games don't have that problem, like all Sony's major titles designed outright for that particular console like TLoU2 feel pretty good on either option, but Elden Ring is basically dogshit on either option no matter what system you have.

I actu ally can't tell the difference

# ? Apr 4, 2022 15:15

Tarkus: Aug 27, 2000

All this talk of consoles reminds me that there is a console version of Rust and it looks loving sad.

# ? Apr 4, 2022 16:09

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

yo there's that goon with cancer who is struggling to pay for her treatments and literally survive

but op bought an xbox

and made a thread to brag about it

Not sure what your point is, OP. What's the logic here? Ban video game purchases until cancer is eradicated?

# ? Apr 4, 2022 16:51

Tarkus: Aug 27, 2000

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

yo there's that goon with cancer who is struggling to pay for her treatments and literally survive

but op bought an xbox

and made a thread to brag about it

Did you know that 99.6% of "poor" households have a refrigerator?

# ? Apr 4, 2022 16:52

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

I am turning myself in to the police.

My crime?

Maintaining a Crunchyroll subscription despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.

# ? Apr 4, 2022 16:54

bradzilla: Oct 15, 2004

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

yo there's that goon with cancer who is struggling to pay for her treatments and literally survive

but op bought an xbox

and made a thread to brag about it

durrrrr

# ? Apr 4, 2022 16:56