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I'd like to test my PC a bit It must also run on Linux, either natively or through proton

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Art style, graphical fidelity, or both? Cyberpunk 2077 is probably the best looking game to test your PC right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Graphical fidelity. A good art style is a plus too

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Cyberpunk 2077 fucking nailed the aesthetic it was going for - it has short comings but the visual immersion absolutely isn't one of them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cyberpunk is good. Good game, great graphics.

Red Dead Redemption 2 also has high fidelity.

[–] c10l 3 points 2 months ago

Agree. RDR2 may not be the best test of high end hardware though, since it was already beautiful on the PS4. It’s just incredibly well optimised.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan 10 points 2 months ago

The game is absolutely gorgeous, so is the expansion. Start to finish it has an incredibly solid, interesting and suprsing plot. Just dripping with style and in universe asethic. You can really tell that the art department had a lot of fun with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Cyberpunk is great, amazing story and visuals.

[–] BreadOven 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably, I have a Ryzen 7 7700x, SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT PULSE 12GB GPU and 32 gigs of RAM

[–] BreadOven 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not up to date with my computer components, but sounds impressive.

I have to include that my comment was a joke. Not sure if you know the reference? Sorry in advance if you do.

[–] LowtierComputer 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A significant chunk of people online consider Crysis a retro game.

[–] BreadOven 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ouch. Why must you attack me so savagely. I'm hurt down to all the cracking joints I have when I run. (Joking of course, well not about the joints, but the rest)

[–] LowtierComputer 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey I feel it too hahaha. I played Prince of Persia back when he was a slow, constantly dying kid with no powers.

[–] BreadOven 2 points 2 months ago

Haha. I didn't play it, but friends were playing it at the time. I guess we all get old haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

So to update this meme to be real and current: Can it run Hunt Showdown 1896, with it's brand new Cryengine update. Spoiler alert, it's beautiful.

It also runs fabulously via Steam and Proton.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I’d like to test my PC

Can it run Crysis?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't know if it's Linux compatible but Elite Dangerous is absolutely beautiful and really sets a strong tone.

[–] random_character_a 4 points 2 months ago

Have been playing it on linux since Horizons came out.

Don't know if it's top notch graphics, but it's pretty. Audio design is sublime.

The "ocean wide, one foot deep" thing is true. It's grindy and gets boring after a while, but it's still worth it. If you are a "chill" gamer, exploration and mining don't need grinding and shallowness doesn't affect them so much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I loved this game before but ended up finding it kinda boring in the long run. It's definitely worth getting a flight stick to play, though. Learning to dock and do flips and such as I did was the funnest part by far. And when you jump, especially the first time, it gives you chills.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you've got a valve index or other high quality VR headset the immersion of that is ridiculous - especially with something like voice attack to handle the fiddly keyboard shortcuts that you don't want on your stick (like engaging the landing gear or the cargo scoop).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I did actually have voice attack and recommend that as well. I never mad the jump to VR, though.

[–] ace_garp 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every single second during a playthrough of this game had out of this world graphics.

Prepare to be amazed!

[–] c10l 2 points 2 months ago

Such good memories! This is an amazing game!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I think Hellblade 2 is one of the best looking games currently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Black Myth: Wukong

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Satisfactory can be downright gorgeous, and it's a test of the hardware. I saw elsewhere in the thread your specs are a Ryzen 7700x, 32GB of RAM and a Radeon 7700xt. I have a similar built, but with a 7900GRE instead, I run Fedora KDE on this box. I'd be interested in comparing notes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'd recommend Half Life: Alyx.

Or, you can probably make an absolute beast of Skyrim through mods.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Alan Wake 2 legit blurs the line when presenting a character; between film footage and digitizing the actor. Even the games environments blend in photographed and filmed objects. It's a masterpiece of a game, with beautiful graphics, and a fun and bonkers story.

I should be playable from Epic Games Store via Lutris or similar. Or from sailing the high seas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm not going to deal with pirating it or the epic games store

[–] c10l 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

AW2 is DRM-free. I imagine it can be run completely independent of Epic. You’d need the store to purchase and download it but you could probably even uninstall the Epic app afterwards. I haven’t tested this though, so please don’t just take my word for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Btw should I play Alan wake before Alan wake 2?

[–] Breadhax0r 1 points 2 months ago

It helps to understand some of the deeper lore, but AW2 does a good job of letting you know the important bits so it's not necessary to have played the first one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'll sail the high seas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Try Minecraft FTB mod with 4k Texture Pack and Real life shaders with 512 chunk distance.

Or Just use nuts.wad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm currently into 3D factory building games, so I would recommend Techtonica or Satisfactory.

[–] AngryCommieKender 1 points 2 months ago

Dyson Sphere Program has the dark fog now, and is gorgeous. You may wanna check it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Division 2 still holds up really well imo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any of the Horizon games, genuinely some of the most beautiful games I have ever played. Zero Dawn has some downright beautiful winter environments. And while I’ve barely started Forbidden West, that game is a step up from the from the first game from the very first moment you get control of Aloy. So pretty! I recommend watching the trailers to see more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I can confirm this game is epic, as I have played it

[–] AngryCommieKender 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dyson Sphere Program is just visually stunning, and the factory building is pretty good too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The gameplay looks pretty meh, and the game is still in early access. I'll wait for it to exit this stage of development and then buy it.