it's free, but it comes at a cost of being terrible

but it aint good either ;p

depends on your needs and tech knowledge

for the average person, it's terrible just because of the knowledge needed to use it

as a gamer its a but of a hassle to get things running

I haven't tried the new steam stuff with it thou, I hear they made some good improvements

I actually prefer Mac, but it comes at the cost of being very expensive and also it doesn't really do games very well

you could do hackintosh, but it will never work properly

ag nee sies man, go away with that mac bs lol

not even close, the reason why Windows is so huge is because Microsoft got in there first and managed to convince a bunch of companies to use their OS instead of Mac or Linux

Gaming on Linux won't be a problem for long with the recent release of Proton

yeah I hear most games work with it

I see the price/performance ratio of nvidia's new RTX cards are terrible

Yeah and little to no effort on behalf of the devs. It's literally doing reinterpretation of dx with gl and vulkan, and vulkan is pretty decent, especially with valve involved to make this work.

10 - 15% increase for double the price of a 1080ti

Meh i don't think RTX would really pickup this gen, it's still experimental and no games yet to actually test. But performance wise it seems to be progressive at least.

I think it will take another generation of cards before ray tracing tech matures

no point jumping in on first gen tech

they are extremely good at neural networks and machine learning so I think those guy's are at least happy with them

Yeah i think it will likely go towards that this gen, maybe here and there will be someone bragging about their games, but yeah right now it seems like Nvidia has to show off RTX, and don't want devs to show it off without them, so I'm under the impression that RTX is used for marketing, but not really ready for the market.

another thing is I think ray tracing is 100% only a single player thing. In multiplayer games you want to see the enemy clearly. Shadows are the first thing you disable

Lol true that, only reason i like console mp is because i know that my opposition see what i see and how i see it lol, really weird how people disable effects to make it simpler to spot their opponents... Cheap hacks lol

until everybody has a RTX card and the games force everybody to use it you will be at an disadvantage

Yeah, really need those options that force settings in competitive gaming. Just my 2 cents, but i hardly play competitive anyways, so I'm not bothered, no local UT fans that i can find that enjoy a good arena shooter

the new quake is also a disappointment. i'm not a fan that each char has different armor/hp and abilities

old school quake was pure skill based. nothing to do with the char you chose

Yeah, I'm not a fan of that either, want to put my skills to the test, not the have artificial skills integrated.

UT4 is also kinda straying, which is dissapointing, changing weapon functions and even including unnecessary weapons, so that's ticking me off a bit.

I'm thinking of getting Origin Access Premier when Battlefield 5 comes out

its R200 pm then you get access to all EA's games

the open beta was very fun

then it will cover Anthem's release also

Yeah i got a large steam library of games i still need to play, same with the ps4 free games i get... It's a marketing gimmick to get you to pay more really, you don't really get actually get your moneys worth unless you literally have no life and job lol so i no longer bother with these extra cash grabs.

BF5 is 20 Nov and Anthem is 22 Feb

Personally not looking forward to either, dropped out of bf after 4, and looks to me like they moving further away from battlefield for what it is to be, and becoming something else, they just keep the branding for the sales.

For me it's remake of resi evil 2, insurgency sandstorm which I'm enjoying the beta of, red dead redemption 2 and then the upcoming doom eternal. Everything else is kind meh for me now.

Doom eternal looks very fun

have you seen the trailers of Rage 2

I am just waiting for fallout76

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mNNtKzNCyg

Yeah i really enjoyed the 2016 one, it felt like doom as it should be, so also keen on eternal. Yeah I've seen rage2, but it's not really exciting me. I seem to be leaning towards the linear hand crafted experience, as opposed to the new sandbox and average experiences.

Its a fine balance to make open world games fun. Not many games have done it right. I think Witcher 3 probably came the closest to be perfect but even that had its flaws