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What game encouraged you to make your new PC, or upgrade? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by AlienAliena@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Since the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield have come out, I've been budgeting to do a big upgrade on my PC with an AMD 6800 xt and a fancy new 1 TB SSD (which is the first game I've ever seen that requires an SSD) just so I can run the game in all it's space epicness.

What was the game that you were so excited for that you made the jump to upgrade your PC to the next gen of hardware? New or old!

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[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Three main phases.

  1. A long time ago was EverQuest. Some online friends figured out you could take the beta exe file testers got and distribute it to others, who could run and get the updates. So I tried it out and got to see the world of Norrath. At one frame every five seconds. Turns out the integrated graphics wasn't going to cut it, so I got my first ever graphics card, a lovely Riva TNT. Wow, the difference.

  2. It was time for a new PC anyway, so along with getting the best I could afford, I had to have a new game to test it with, right? That was back when you could get a free Halo CE along with a Windows purchase, and I had been following the Halo development videos so it was a natural choice. My computer's first sounds were the opening menu soundtrack.

  3. Current PC, again it was time for a new one since the last was #2, and if you know the dates for Halo that was "ancient", although it had done well for most things I had thrown at it. The game that I already had been playing but wanted an extra boost was Elite Dangerous. Not only did I get an upgrade in graphic card, CPU, memory, etc., but I obtained several used 24 inch monitors in order to have three screens, something I couldn't manage with the previous PC/card.