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Most aesthetically appealing Video Cards of All Time?
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littlegreenmenfromhome
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I have only looked at my video cars 2 times since I got, both times for cleaning.
It is now back where it belongs, under my desk out of site.
It is now back where it belongs, under my desk out of site.
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YesRecent GPU I had for a stop-gap for a little bit.. this fits the definition of "aesthetically appealing"..
NO RGB, no ROG LED strips.. no MSI Gaming X dragons.. just pure Radeon beauty!
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WhoBeDaPlaya
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Pure secks...
Even if the card doesn't work, the fan noise will scare up some FPS! I can still remember that fan noise...
Starseige: Tribes. That is a game I have not heard of in a long, long time!
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I'm hoping one day somebody brings back the OG game and has it available for all platforms (consoles + PCs) with full KBM support. I've been through many a sequel or 'spiritual sequel' for the original, but all have simplified the game or tried to make it a modern experience (read: extraction shooter). Well, except for Tribes 2 (especially Tribes 2 classic) - that was a solid sequel.
I just want somebody to relaunch the game, modernize it a bit, and make it available on everything (like what Bethesda has done for Quake).
sharknice
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Hi-Rez or whatever the guy calls his other studios has tried it multiple times.
Tribes 3 had a beta a year or so ago then got abandoned. Tribes Ascend was something like 2012 but didn't last long.
Tribes has the same problem as every other arena FPS. They're too skill based to become mainstream. That genre peaked in the late 90s / early 2000s. People want more to their games now. Hardcore arena FPS never make it beyond niche anymore.
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Yar, and I mostly agree with this. The one thing, though, is that the OG two games had a very strong 'base building/vehicle' mechanic that the sequels/spiritual successors never really got back to (either simplified the base building or focused on highly skilled "LT" gameplay). I always thought with the advent of survival games or PUBG/Fortnite style crafting/inventory systems - there could be a market for a game of OG Starsiege: Tribes complexity.
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I'm like LEGO Batman meaning I only work with black and very, very dark grey. So I like the non-RGB all black aesthetics cards of the RTX 50xx series from MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS, etc.
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Guy named Erez started a studio (Hi-rez) in the 00's and bought the Tribes, Starsiege, Earthsiege, etc IP. Anyway, I followed the news for a while being a big fan of all the old games. The whole thing was weird in that the guy clearly had some attachment to the IP, but had zero interest in making a Tribes game that looked or played anything like the old, successful ones. Hi-rez craps out mediocre free-to-play games as vehicles for micro-transactions, the quality of everything is pretty much what you'd expect. Tribes Ascend started out promising, but they never did bases, vehicles were bare-bones, IIRC some classes and weapons were pay-to-win gated and Hi-rez then dumped the whole thing after they realized it wasn't going to be a micro-transaction payday. Tribes 3 was an even lazier cash grab attempt. It was just arena team fights and CTF - no vehicles, no bases - a bunch of default shaders and assets from Unreal engine and they tried to sell half-assed procedural generated skin textures.
Not holding my breath for a new Tribes game to ever happen, at least no so long as that studio holds the IP. If we ever get a spiritual successor to Tribes 2, it will be under another name/IP and from an indie studio. There was one that looked promising called Midair but they made most of the same dumb mistakes as Hi-rez between Tribes Ascend and Tribes 3. Midair (now Midair 2?), dropped base building and vehicles and became more of a high-speed, skiing arena shooter that no one asked for or wanted (like Tribes 3).
Base building, vehicles, and classes in a team-based FPS with CTF. That's the formula. Just do that, make it fun, and it could print money.
/rant
Another shout out to the X800XT AIW, that card was awesome looking - probably the first GPU I owned where you could tell the engineers really cared what the finished card looked like.
I actually really like the 4090 Strix design, I should have bought the evangelion one to match my 3090, oh well lol.
The eva one is ugly af and somehow works at the same time:
Honourable mention to the 3090 eva card too which I did get (for 1300...literally $1k less than the 4090 version)
The eva one is ugly af and somehow works at the same time:
Honourable mention to the 3090 eva card too which I did get (for 1300...literally $1k less than the 4090 version)