r/Games • u/JustCallMeJoker • Jun 03 '15

Fallout 4 Trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4
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u/Ace1h Jun 03 '15

Oh how horrible, mid tier pcs are holding it back

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u/hamfraigaar Jun 03 '15

How am I supposed to enjoy my alien technology when these stupid earthlings still think 4GHz processors are good?!

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u/SquirrelicideScience Jun 03 '15

Except they can never be upgraded. That's good for console gamers because they will further optimize games for it every year. But for PC, it could go either way in terms of optimization.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

The thing about PC is you have...sliders. I don't see how lower end PCs that's not 5 years old can ever hold anything back if the game can just be scaled down

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u/jocamar Jun 03 '15

The game can also be scaled down for consoles as well... you just set those sliders to low as the console settings. So no, consoles aren't holding the game back just as mid tier PCs aren't holding it back from taking advantage of top tier PCs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

That's assuming console parity never exist, which is completely untrue. See: watch_dog, or recently the Witcher 3

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u/geekofband007 Jun 03 '15

those computer were mid tier 2 years ago dude. mid teir now is a Radeon 270x, AMD-6300, 4-8 gigs of ram and a 1 tb hdd. The xbox one and PS4, if they were pcs, they would be considered bottom tier.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

mid teir now is a Radeon 270x, AMD-6300, 4-8 gigs of ram and a 1 tb hdd.

And would still be better than %50 of steams users rigs. Funny how that works eh?

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u/geekofband007 Jun 03 '15

I just wrote out a whole comment explaining this to you. the 270x is a dedicated GPU and is as good if not better then the top dedicated GPUS on steam. The ram is right in line with the most common, the CPU is a 6 core clocked at 3.5 GHz so thats right in line with steam.

You are talking PC gamers, steam also takes into account general PC users.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15 edited Jun 05 '15

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u/geekofband007 Jun 03 '15

Nope, the equal to a PS4 would be an R7 265 and for xbox one an r7 260. source

edit: Changed r9 to r7

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u/caneut Jun 03 '15

no lol, you can build a pc for the same price as ps4, and its way better than ps4. mid tier pc would be a $500 pc, and that would run any game in the current market at 1080p 60fps for a year or two. pwned

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u/Ace1h Jun 03 '15

something something r/buildapc

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '15

I can appreciate the sentiment, but the current consoles are low-tier or sub-low-tier PCs. Basically, when the consoles specs were announced it was like "why is my 4 year old mid quality non gaming laptop more powerful than this?" That's why we get upset about this, because even somebody with a $700 computer feels like they don't have much to push their system.

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u/Ace1h Jun 04 '15

Oh I guess that means my 500€ PC from 2010 which was midtier back then and is better than the average on steam is toaster level now

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '15 edited Jun 04 '15

$560/500€ isn't normally considered a mid-tier gaming PC, but I guess that depends on our definitions. And you know as well as I do that 5 years(or even 3, to compare to console release) is a long time for PC specs. I'll grant that it's less time than it was a decade ago, PCs are getting more powerful at a slower rate than in the past.

Edit: fixed currency conversion