Same

Why play expensive games when you can get addicted to Balatro

Me with a:

Ryzen 5 5800x, RTX 4060 TI, and 32GB RAM.

Plays: Factorio and Minecraft 😂

Me going back to hollow knight, celeste, modded minecraft, and dead cells instead of buying new games

What’s funny is that a new GPU alone will set ya back that amount already. I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch for 1k

this failing isn't on you though. AAA games is not what it used to be, I feel like between 2008 to 2014 game companies have all progressed and transitioned into something they didn't use to be.

my $4k gaming PC at this point is a glorified FFXIV machine although, I do plan to play other things soon.

Your uh... $1000 gaming PC? Isn't that pretty much all it can play? (assuming the game is released today)

Me with me $3000 AI laptop. 

     Copilot shit on Windows                           Console programs on Linux

Balatro got me like...

Pixelated grass is always greener

everyone reading that probably had one in mind. i bet ill hit 75% of them with the balatro/stardew/terraria combo, though if yours is far more obscure, by all means enlighten me so i can buy it and let it sit in my backlog for years because of my own game addictions.

Consider this, a 3D indie pixel-art game (Ultrakill)

Terraria

Me upgrading my computer to kick ass just so I can play Old School Runescape

1000$ PC? No shit you need to play 2D indie games!

Yep. Hexcells Infinite hasn't overtaxed my RTX 3080 yet. That may have been a slight waste of money.

Me but just playing free to play games. lol

I can't give up the AAA quality. Hell I want a more powerful GPU just to push it

Me modding the 2D pixel art game with ultra HD textures, shaders, reflections, realistic physics engine, ray tracing.

Normally me too, but then there's always one game I want 60fps that I'm like wait I thought I maxed out my build pretty decently for my budget and it's like, you can play on ultra sure but there will be so many 5 fps hiccups

I love my 3080 running LA noire.

I'm OK with 2D but draw the line at pixel-art. Pun not intended.

Compensate by running an electron app alongside it.

I don't think I even remember what "AAA" games I bought last year. Uh... Baldur's Gate III and Train Sim World 5. That's about that.

Thing is, I didn't play much of those either! I have an absolutely gigantic backlog! And in December I got somehow addicted to Skyrim again. It never ends

Best and awesomest and most profound game experience I had last year was Chants of Sennaar, and even that technically came out in 2023.

I’ll always upvote a Chaeyoung meme

I'm happy with my legion go, it can handle most aaa games pretty well. And if I want to upgrade later on, I'll get an eGpu. Modular gaming system ftw

DCSS in the browser requires top of the line graphics cards.

every AAA game in recent years sucks and most of them are scrapped before they're finished

Holocure rn for me

Diarrhea 4

I bought ps5 specifically for aaa games, never been happier, pc is for indie and ps5 ps3 and Xbox 360 for aaa

Try 6000$ machine... no joke.