Die Shrink 111: What Caused & Killed the PC Gaming Renaissance?
Added 2023-11-03 17:00:07 +0000 UTCWe discuss the Post-Renaissance Era of PC Gaming, and ask the question: “What ended that "renaissance" era?” And for that matter, what confluence of factors caused it?
0:00 Fumbling Around, Black Friday Relevance, The Argument for Intel ARC
15:26 How pricing, stability, and products have changed in a decade
33:20 What caused the PC Gaming Renaissance?
53:05 What ended the PC Gaming Renaissance?
1:02:38 Is PC Gaming better, or worse, than 10 years ago?
1:21:08 Are there good games anymore?
https://www.pcworld.com/article/465513/amd_radeon_hd_7970_ghz_edition_review.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-hd-6670/
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-titan-gk110-review,3438.html
https://www.techspot.com/review/464-modern-warfare-3-performance/page7.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/2jwnoa/question_from_a_console_gamer_thinking_about/
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1735jxe/is_pc_gaming_becoming_unaffordable_relative_to/
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-480.c268
https://youtu.be/YHtpEymk89k?si=h3Papv4KVJb6NMPY&t=339
https://youtu.be/Qsoql-gN5EM?si=8_nGzbgs40VAZTOq&t=483
Comments
Correct. In fact, Crysis was basically that same situation too. People would try to scrounge something together for $1000+ that could play the game at "almost 60Hz" with a 1050p resolution on High or something...and that was accepted. It honestly wasn't until the GTX 580 and HD 6970 that you could really play the game well, and even then I'd argue the 7970 is what finally maxed that thing out at 1080p60 Extreme 5 years after it came out lol
Moore's Law Is Dead
2023-11-06 18:35:37 +0000 UTCI'm not old enough to have experienced it myself but gaming in the early 90s seems to be even more extreme of an example of how much better things are today. Reading about them today for games like Wing Commander or Ultima 7 it was expected that you couldn't play them with the highest settings on the hardware at the time of release and had to wait a generation or two to max out settings.
Fabian Destouches
2023-11-04 07:00:30 +0000 UTCGreat stuff here. However, you two speak of Reddit in the past tense as giving bad advice. Nope! Reddit is worse than ever IMO. The sheer amount of users and the sheer amount of ignorance just keeps growing daily. I don't really trust Reddit for much of anything...lol. Thanks guys!
M.T.
2023-11-04 06:36:55 +0000 UTC
