Why exactly is this such a common trope in modern gaming...

Why exactly is this such a common trope in modern gaming? Just a few years ago no one complained about hardware upgrades, you bought a GPU and it was obsolete next year. What changed?

AI and economy fuckery made the hardware cost 400% more

you bought a GPU and it was obsolete next year.

Untrue shill narrative.
I upgrade my GPU roughly every 6 to 7 years.
I went from Geforce FX 5600 GT to 8800GT.
That I swapped for 560ti (and a whole new rig) in 2011.
Then I got 2nd hand 1060 6GB in 2017, and used it up until THIS YEAR (2025). Now I'm rocking RTX 3060 12GB.

The main issue with the modern day AAA industry are the bloated file sizes, insane system requirements, and the mandatory use of AI upscalers + framegen as a crutch. All caused by the Pajeet devs' amateurish use of piece of shit UE5, no understanding of low-level coding nor manual optimization, no artistic skill whatsoever.

We've gotten to a point where 10-15yo games unironically look better, run FAR better, and only take 1/10th of the disk space to boot.

I should make a poorfag bingo because all of you faggots make up the same excuses over and over again

I have no issues on my 9950X3D + 5090. Feel free to seethe harder and have another meltdown

Literal poverty tier hardware and you never even wrote a line of code lmao

file sizes

Non-issue

insane system requirements

Such as?

mandatory use of AI

Back in the day retards seethed about shadows and shaders. AI is the future whether you willingly accept that fact or not

pajeet

If you want games to be made in house again shell out for 90$ copies + tip + tax

UE5

low-level coding nor manual optimization

nigger just shut the fuck up you don't even know the basic syntax of c# lmao

Browns and 3rd worlders dominate the video game space now.

10-15yo games unironically look better

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Many such cases

Literal poverty tier hardware

Wasting money has never been a part of the master race. On the contrary. Do I have to dig out the old PC Part Picker charts?

you never even wrote a line of code

On the contrary. I had to deal with shit like Borland C++ on an ancient x386 MikroMikko wormbox back in the 1990s.
These days, I just do everything with high-end visual scripts.

Such as?

150+ GB per game.
RT requirement.
SSD requirement.
DLSS / FSR and framegen as requirement.

Back in the day retards seethed about shadows and shaders

No one did.

If you want games to be made in house again shell out for 90$ copies + tip + tax

No, I don't think I will.
The good old rule of thumb still stands: never pay over 20 bucks for a computer game.

nigger just shut the fuck up

Xhe's mad lol!1 :^)

MGSV, Witcher 3, Talos Principle, FFXV, Persona 5, and many others came out ten years ago, and indeed BTFO of modern slop.

I'll upgrade when they put out games that look better than they used to. In what universe does MH Wilds justify astronomical system specs over World? Even if we look at games that DO look good, how about the new Doom VS Eternal?

Who on earth would want to buy 3000 USD's worth of shit to go from Doom 2016 to Doom Dark Ages? How come games were running just fine on older hardware until AAA devs switched to Unreal 5? How come every new game has outsourced 80% of its production to Chennai? Come the fuck on buddy.

I'll go back to emulating another PS2 game, I have approximately 5 lifetime's worth of videogames to play that ARENT SHIT. KYS

Doom 2016 MOGS the just-released Doom graphically (and gameplay wise)

don't even interact with these retards

wasting money

AHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHA. Whites can afford to value an enjoyable experience more than a few dollars. 4k @ 240hz is worth every cent

had to deal with [insert 30 year old shit completely unrelated to the topic at hand]

Yeah thought so

150gb

Name 5 games

RT

20 series came out over 7 years ago

SSD requirement

?

Just fucking what? Will you seethe over 3D accelerators next? Maybe GPU fans? Huh? Lmao

DLSS / FSR

Both of which provide a better experience than TAA while improving performance. As of now all games still have a legacy TAA implementation

no one

Except they did and you are just old and forgot

no

Not like you could afford to anyway. I can tell you have a daily meltdown over gas prices btw

mad

That's you though, after reading every single line of what I wrote. When I see a retarded nigger I say as it is: stfu

Witcher 3

Which was such a huge pile of shit it had to be downgraded thrice just to run at consoles of the time LMAO

MGSV

Empty desert with nothing going on

talos

ffxv

persona

I don't play gookslop

games could be using processing power to make high density simulation games

waste it all on high poly models, reflection shaders, and 8k resolution

AAA died for me some time back in 2016, maybe even earlier.

I just want games worth of upgrading my hardware, there are none.

I wish games were still made by White men (that don't pretend to be women) and Japs that are actually passionate about what they do and intelligent.

People are poorer today

Try owning a monitor newer than a 2011 Dell IPS and you might be able to see the difference despite your subpar brown genetics

Yeah if he pussies out he might avoid getting raped, thought he would likely enjoy that

implying

Perhaps

SPBP
Can't we have threads without bait as the OP?

I have a 4090 myself and the only reason I don't get a 5090 is I don't think it's that big of an upgrade. People should just stop being poor

what changed

1.) the price of new parts
2.) unless you built the bitch yourself, the ability to upgrade parts is markedly shittier than before
3.) germane to the above, if you're a wincuck TPM autism makes this a triple issue

The SSD requirement really spoils your argument and shows you're knowledgeable level... Pretty embarrassing

poorfags started seeing PC as a cheap alternative due to piracy

muh poorfags

Turdworld mentality.
And you should instead give me a reason why should anybody care what you feel or think.

Whites don't have turdworld mentality unlike you, so you are not white and never will be.

4k @ 240hz is worth every cent

For watching porn and movies.
Unless you prefer playing on lows and mids, faggot.

Whites

Funny thing is even online you don't dare pretend to belong to that group, instead deciding to talk in 3rd person about it

Feel free to post hand with timestamp btw

I wish the faggot hiroshimoot would just ban all of india and china.

..what? Both of those mediums are usually 30< FPS lmao. Only videos games benefit from >120 hz outside of workflows like photo editing which just shows how clueless you poorfags have become

Lead by example by never posting here again

If you aren't a useless eater wageslave your wealth should have increased by 1000% as a baseline in the last decade.

taking internet fights this serious

passive agressive tone

Don't worry white trash like you are honorary nonwhites.

Don't lie to to yourself, you think like typical nigger or turdwolrder.
You are not white and never will be and no amount of chimpouts on internet will change that.

As I said: feel free to seethe harder

Look on the bright side - you managed to experience the blessing of being raped by a White man just like all of your ilks females

I can tell you are struggling with English ESL

Go on, attempt to call me an insult in your mothers tongue. I know you want to

useless eater

I will never understand collectivistic workist mentality, but then again i am not souless, inhuman insectoid impostor wearing human skin.

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Well, what the matter, to low iq for capcha and too poor buy Anon Babble piss?

ESL

Anon Babble is not english class, dumb teacher pet.

Just a few years ago no one complained about hardware upgrades, you bought a GPU and it was obsolete next year

Wrong. Mid range hardware was good for running new titles on high settings 5+ years later. Not to mention high range hardware didn't cost an arm and a leg.
People are right to complain about mid range hardware being overly expensive and failing to play current titles on high settings.

The internet was cool when it was a wild west place where discourse happened on forums between well-educated men with decent income. Nowadays the internet is full of indians and other turdworlders with PCs from the Obama administration, shitting up every nook and cranny of the Internet with their dogshit opinions.

Anon Babble is not your personal blog and not place to show off your subhumanity and insecurity, pathetic faggot.
So go see some some shrink, faggot.

You forgot about bots but sure.

That was never the case. A 2008 GPU could not run Witcher 3. A 2012 GPU could not run AC: Origins

Yet of course all of you are heavily underage and have no scale of time

be me

rocking a PC built during the Obama administration

GTX 750 Ti, FX-6300, 8GB DDR3 RAM

case sounds like it’s summoning demons whenever I launch Steam

hear new open-world game dropped

looks like absolute fire on trailers, 4K god traced grass physics and NPCs with actual brain cells

“MY BODY IS READY”

download 100GB

boot it up and press new game

PC makes a sound like a whale giving birth

temps hit 110°C

fans spin so hard I achieve local airlift

get 11fps, motion blur making it look like my screen is underwater

turn settings to low and get 21fps

post rant on Steam forums and my anime Discord

"how come this game doesn’t run well on my setup? it’s not even that demanding"

see social media posts of snoys getting 60fps on PS5

rage boils

go to Reddit and post screenshot of game running at 720p with textures set to 'Clay' mode

title: “Proof next-gen games are scams, consoles are holding gaming back" and get 40k upvotes within the hour

ignore the fact I could've afforded a new GPU this year if I hadn't spent all my money on vape juice

brag about being a “real gamer” because real gamer experience involves 20-minute loading screens and textures not loading in

spend 6 hours tweaking .ini files to completely remove grass and shadows from the game

get 4 extra fps as a result

give up and uninstall the game

leave 1/10 steam review with a tirade about Unreal engine (even though the game isn't using it)

go back to playing League of Legends

I will continue using a lower end PC, and I will demand that you lower your graphics settings to pander to me, or I will condemn your game as trash.

Deal with it, graphics whores.

4k @ 240hz is worth every cent

What are you playing at 4k 240hz? Minecraft? Dump all the money you want into top of the line hardware and you'll still never run new AAA titles at 4k 240fps.

Acting like retarded nigger is not trolling.
So get some self awareness, retard.

We've gotten to a point where 10-15yo games unironically look better

This is the type of overexaggeration only repeated by people who don't actually play recent games.

Cyberpunk
Indiana Jones

Then any e-sports slop runs at like 500. Feel free to seethe over frame generation or whatever yet it's the future and only getting better.

My 2011 build was running DCS World on high settings in 2017, so yes.

No wonder, that title looks like it came out in 2011 lmao

Low quality bait post.

he is so fucking low test that he is genuinely afraid to say le teh scawy bad nigger word even on Anon Babble

Genuinely beyond pathetic, go eat shit, slice your wrists and neck yourself, little pathetic faggot.

And it's so horribly unoptimized that even current gen high range hardware struggles to play it on high settings in VR.

What changed?

Games use to look better over time, now they just look the same but blurrier.

pee see gaymen isnt even an expensive hobby- it has to be foreigners complaining, right?

China would have to be using vpn to post here anyways so a range ban isn't going to do anything.

That said it's not China it's SEA as the secondary cancer here.

no refutal

I accept the concession(s) etc

underage rape victim learnt of the gamer word

Many such cases. Feel free to watch more tiktok videos of Greek statues or whatever you little goblins do nowadays

t. oldfag

No way a 5090 cannot handle that shit unless it was developed for 1 core CPUs like Crysis

Yeah as usual

raped

Legit freudian slip.

refutal

Saar, du not rediiim!

I accept the concession

Zoom zoom, underage zoomer.

muh troonsession

>gamer word

genuinely too afraid to say nigger

>t. oldfag

My sides, in that very case i am president of Anon Babble, internet and the whole world.

Wealthy or poor, the quality of modern games doesn't justify the purchases of modern hardware.
It's not just video games but the whole economic treadmill of disposable goods, for me at least

It's an antique english word used for centuries but not anymore.

Fixed you.

The oldest zoomers are 30. Let it go gramps

'teen is still seething

Many such cases. I would call you a nigger yet you sound more like a jeet. I have standards hence call you for what you are

5090 would be lucky to get more than 70fps in VR with settings on high.

Still being used in more.. exclusive sectors of society

collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/refutal

No that was a threat, only the receiver is gay

Only feral turdworlders and white trash think so.
If you fuck men you are legit, actual faggot and nothing will change that.

Post proof of hardware or keep larping, jeet.

..

And this faggot calls others esl.

fixed you

Only goth girl pussy can do that though

t. puberty stricken

Don't worry, once your balls drop you'll make a decent bottom

How about we skip the foreplay and you post hand with timestamp

Yeah it's a god given right bestowed upon the hu-White man

Still being used in severely autistic sectors of society

And so what?

t. clueless

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white

No, nope and never will be, you are and always will be nigger, honorary or literal.

It's called discussion permanence and a large vocabulary

Not that a wild animal such as yourself would know that

This.
In 2007 I bought a top of the line gfx card for $300.
Now a 5080 is $3200.

Why do you keep raping brown underage boys on Anon Babble anon?

you post hand with timestamp

No one owes you anything and no one cares what you feel or think.

literal shitflinging by feral monkey is discussion now

wild animal

No need to project, so go get some self awareness.

Yet you continue appealing for my approval. Curious yet I wont fix your daddy issues

No it isn't, despite that you keep posting

I only upgrade my PC to make better deepfakes

it was real in le my mind so it must be so truke!

This is not how it works, you are not in position to decide what is real and what is not, your feelings and beliefs have zero impact on reality.
But due your low iq and feral turdworlder mentality you cannot understand such simple fact.

wall of text seethe

Many such cases. Just a heads up: everyone can tell you are very new

they just keep jumping on my dick

It's too expensive now
A top of the line PC should not be cheaper than a single component
Sadly why I'm sticking with consoles despite my burning desire to switch to PC
I put $500 in a console its an investment for 5+ years, you put $500 into your PC you ain't getting shit.

i said so

Not an arguement.
Don't care, didn't ask.

d-don't care

lol
lmao

Feel free to concede anytime

niglet watched 1 tiktok edit of shapiro and this is the end result. many such cases, yet thankfully fewer by the day

I only use phone for banking and unlike you i don't watch braindead slop for cattle.

shapiro

Literally, a who?

Never forget that your life will never get better and will only became slowly worse and worse.
But you always feel free to cope even harder, if you are too pussy to accept such truth.

PC games have stagnated. Compare Crysis from 2007 with REPO from 2024. Do you really need to upgrade?

my hd 7950 lasted over 8 years, my 6700xt lasted less than 2 years before being obsolete
and yet games look maybe 10% better than they did in 2016. why do i have to spend another 1000 dollars for vaseline smeared lens frame generation

4k @ 240hz is worth every cent

what universe are you from where even a top of the line card can get even half of that in modern games without fake frames and fake upscaling

the made up faggot zoomer reality where everything is fictional because they have nothing

In 2010 I got a 9800gtx+ which was a mid-range for $240 or something
BAkc when I was making no money
Now I'm making money things are fuckin expensive.
Ain't that a shit.

The first uncharted in 2007 had an "unreal filter" gag after beating the game that applied a very greasy filter.
I wish this argument could just.... evolve.

Nta but I play star citizen at max settings at 4k and top out at 300fps, with 1% lows at 47fps.

Why exactly is this such a common trope in modern gaming?

Devs refuse to actually work for their paycheck and just way resources with the expectation that the consumer will cover the added demand with their wallet. This is different from in the past where they were actually making noticable improvements to the graphics which justified added hardware requirements.

Just a few years ago no one complained about hardware upgrades, you bought a GPU and it was obsolete next year

if by "a few years" you mean 20, then sure. Nobody bothered upgrading their gpu for the past ten years because there was no reason to.

What changed?

Lazy devs and nvidia paying devs to require rtx.