Video Game Suggestions

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A place to find suggestions for video games! For example, you might create a post looking for recommendations for a game to play with a friend, or a game that is easy to play if you just broke your dominant hand. Or you might post a list of games that let you use a whip as a weapon. A lot of rules for conduct here are pretty obvious (don't be a jerk, stay on-topic) so I'll bold the weird ones.

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Please stay on-topic: post requests for games that match some criteria you specify, lists of games with a certain element, or something otherwise relevant to helping people find games that match certain criteria.
- If you're looking to find the name of a particular game or video game series you forgot, you should go to !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com. This community is for fielding suggestions for games, not for finding one specific video game.
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Games to Really Test my 5090 graphically without marketing dark patterns or microtransactions (lemmy.world)

submitted 22 hours ago by Credibly_Human@lemmy.world to c/videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip

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I am looking for games that are visually impressive and make use of my 5090 so I can get more use out of it before it becomes second place (though I guess technically its second place to the RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell).

I have already played Cyberpunk 2077, played the heck out of it, very fun, though it has some annoyances so on subsequent playthroughs mods removed those annoyances for me which was great. This game really had a lovely skill tree customization which let you have many different play styles and the free form missions were excellent for letting you complete them in all sorts of ways.

I have also played Atomfall and just have the new DLC left to play through. Its not really that graphically challenging. It was an OK game.

I have also played Split Fiction, which is probably the absolute most fun anyone can have with another person in video game form, especially if one is used to games and the other isnt, but in other cases as well. Very relaxing and high fun to down time ratio.

Played both Robocop games as well. Ok, but not that graphically challenging.

Sort of the big thing I want to avoid is MTXs and marketing dark patterns like FOMO and especially Monetary Dark Patterns. Basically things listed on this website are things I want to avoid

For the record I play on a 4k 144hz monitor and prefer higher frame rates, like 100 ish for comfortable play without eye strain.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I try to encourage people to play the Remedy back catalogue first as it makes the story experience much better, but Alan Wake 2 is one of the more visually impressive titles of the past few years. Absolutely beautiful HDR implementation too. Hell, I bet even Control would push your hardware a bit with raytracing and everything maxed out. You should check it out too, it also looks great.

Hellblade 2 looks incredible from the trailers (I haven't gotten to it yet) and while it wasn't as well received by everyone as its predecessor I think everyone agrees it looked stunning.

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black looks fantastic, if you can play it maxed out with raytracing and all settings maxed and still hit 120 FPS I'm sure it'll be a visual feast. I only have a 4070ti but I still found it gorgeous. Even the new Ninja Gaiden 4 looks really good, but it only just came out so I haven't played it myself yet.

I found STALKER 2 to be very pretty as well when I played it.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I actually started playing control, and it is indeed the first game that regularly has my GPU pulling > than 600W, but the narrative (I feel like the world itself is made out of contrivances like they took too much freedoms even within a supernatural fictional world) and gameplay so far have left me wanting and I've kinda soft dropped the game, as in I havent made the active decision to drop it, but haven't felt like playing it in weeks.

As for AW2, epic store exclusive makes me 🤢🤮 tbh.

I don't want to install the epic store just for 1 game.

Ill look into all the others though; thanks!

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 2 hours ago

I thought Control was great, I really enjoyed the gameplay - particularly when you start getting more abilities and weapons - but I agree that the main plot and also to some extent the main character isn't the best part. For me though I really loved the world building and all the little SCP style stuff, so that kept me hooked. Plus I was already deep into the Remedyverse 😄

If you are determined to never install Epic Launcher then I recommend just pirating Alan Wake 2. YMMV if you haven't played AW1 and the rest of the Remedy catalogue but for me AW2 was not only gorgeous but in general one of the best games I've ever played. Or at least one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I'm actually in the middle of a replay of it right now, it's phenomenal.

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 4 points 18 hours ago

Minecraft Java Edition, modded, with shaders and a texture pack that's big (I'm talking probably 512x at least). That'll put your 5090 to the test, I think.

[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

ARK Survival Ascended (the new version of the game) wrecks my 9800x3d and 5080 on max settings and dlss off. Like I can't get over 30fps if I remember right.

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

This post where someone asks for old games with high GPU requirements from the pinned post of gaming suggestion requests from other communities might help you.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

See if you can hit 60FPS without upscaling in Metro Exodus maxed out at 4K.

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