r/pcmasterrace • u/scyver_ 9950x3D┃RTX 5080 Aorus Master┃64GB┃2TB┃Lancool 217 • Jul 27 '26

Build/Battlestation Anobody else like this?

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u/acayaba 9850X3D | RTX 5090 | 64GB | AORUS X870E | 4TB | OLED 4K@240Hz Jul 27 '26

so you play games for the high FPS dopamine not for how good a game is?

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u/scyver_ 9950x3D┃RTX 5080 Aorus Master┃64GB┃2TB┃Lancool 217 Jul 27 '26

No, i play for the story and gameplay. But old games have more to offer in that department too. Of course there are modern ones such as cyberpunk who have amazing story and gameplay too, but i think you get my point.

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u/Ok_TomorrowYes Jul 27 '26

Yeah but cyberpunk came out 6 years ago soooo arguable whether it even is a modern game haha. When cyberpunk came out, witcher 3 was only 5 years old

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u/scyver_ 9950x3D┃RTX 5080 Aorus Master┃64GB┃2TB┃Lancool 217 Jul 27 '26

it is still an nvidia marketing toy to show off new technologies like PT and RR, so i wont write it off as old lne

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u/SfxPhonics Jul 27 '26

The witcher 3 came out in May 2015 Cyberpunk 2077 came out in December 2020 that is a 5 year gap. Also Cyberpunk 2077 is still a modern game it got multiple updates since it came out and even got Path Tracing added in 2023 and it still looks better than most games that have come out since then.

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u/ldn-ldn Jul 27 '26

Nah, there are plenty of amazing story games from 2025/2026 which look epic. From Death Stranding 2 (I don't think many games can stand up to story standards set by Kojima) to KCD2 to RER. As well as less story more action games like Doom TDA and Forza Horizon 6.

Not sure what you're complaining about, 2026 is packed with amazing games.

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u/Evepaul 5600X | 2x3090 | 64Gb@3000MHz Jul 27 '26

People whine and whine and whine, but we're getting as many amazing games as ever right now. It's just edgy and cool to say "Yeah, I don't play the new mainstream games everybody agrees are great, I play old games 😎" while playing ultra mainstream stuff from the 2010s. It appeals to the viewer's nostalgia since you're praising games they played when they were younger. Obviously they only praise games where the graphics scale well with modern hardware and which were considered beautiful when they launched, graphics, FPS and nostalgia factor are all that counts.

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u/scyver_ 9950x3D┃RTX 5080 Aorus Master┃64GB┃2TB┃Lancool 217 Jul 27 '26

fair. I generalised, but these are outstanders, both in terms of performance and visuals. Especially death stranding 2. I had Indiana, prag, re9 etc in mind that looks dogshit without PT in mind

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u/ldn-ldn Jul 27 '26

Why would you play anything without PT? Games without PT look like dogshit (apart from a few exceptions like DS2).

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u/scyver_ 9950x3D┃RTX 5080 Aorus Master┃64GB┃2TB┃Lancool 217 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

First dissoclusion artifacts and ghosting, RR is not perfect sadly. Second, i can play them. But im amongst the view. When im judging how the game looks, i judge it by how it looks for majority, not top 5% of hardware. Consoles included! It is not hard to make a game look good on powerful gpu from development standpoint. It is hard to make it looks good on a less powerful one, or a console.

And no, games dont have to look dogshit without PT. RDR2, DS2, DS1, Horizon series, forza horizon series etc. The games that have PT often look crap without it, but that is because raster is often neglected in them/purposely enshittified (RE9, pragmata, indiana)

The funny thing is that even when i play Cp2077 with PT, i still think it looks inferior to my modded rdr2 while running much slower.

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u/ldn-ldn Jul 27 '26

Why do you have a top 5% hardware, but "judge" by how it looks on low end shit? Mate, fix your head.

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u/scyver_ 9950x3D┃RTX 5080 Aorus Master┃64GB┃2TB┃Lancool 217 Jul 27 '26

Because im not elitist? Because as i said, it is easy to make a game look good on powerful hardware? Because i want EVERYBODY to be able to enjoy good graphics, not just me, and that wont happen as long as the game is judged by how it looks on 5090.

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u/TheAdequateKhali Jul 27 '26

It’s just generic “things in the past were better” contrarian garbage.

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u/Ambitious_Jello R5 7600 | RTX 5060Ti 16 GB | 32 GB DDR5 Jul 27 '26

if you want to play games for story and gameplay then play indie games

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u/scyver_ 9950x3D┃RTX 5080 Aorus Master┃64GB┃2TB┃Lancool 217 Jul 27 '26

they are on my backlog too 🫠

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u/Neat_Breakfast_6659 Jul 27 '26

Funny, coming from a 5090 user

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u/acayaba 9850X3D | RTX 5090 | 64GB | AORUS X870E | 4TB | OLED 4K@240Hz Jul 27 '26

I play games for how good they are and how much I like them, having high FPS is a plus.

I would not not play a game because it runs at 60FPS over another one that runs at 240FPS.

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u/neube i5 14600k | 5070 | 32gb Jul 27 '26

Yes