Also random question. So my MacBook is approaching its final shelf life and I’m thinking about getting a gaming laptop next time around. Can anyone advise on 1) are they worth the money? And 2) if they are which one would be worth buying?
I’m not particularly bothered about being able to play everything in ultra high but I’d love to get half decent performance and be able to play games like modded Skyrim, the Xbox/gamepass catelogue etc. I feel like if that isn’t cost effective I’ll just end up picking up an Xbox down the line as well but I’d probably prefer to have a halfway competent gaming laptop for portability and to open up some different games.
Gaming Laptops are never great. They need to be big and heavy to get a decent graphics card with
some airflow into them. They still wont have enough airflow, will be burning hot running the most basic shit and cost a fortune. You could spend a grand and get nintendo switch like performance on a bulky, heavy laptop.
Or just buy a basic laptop, it'll run 5+ year old games and most indie games.
I picked up these two on a great discount today
Gravity Rush 2
The Last Guardian
Please tell me I haven't fecked up
I loved the Last Guardian. Animations are very impressive, you stand next to a chest high wall and the character will lean on it and look around. It just has hundreds and hundreds of animations for the most random stuff, i think theres probably about half a dozen chest high walls in a pretty long game but they animated the crap out of it. You lean off walls, have dozens of frames for going up a step. Same with Trico, lots of random tells that you dont really figure out what they mean for 12 hours and then they make sense, him moving his head vaguely to the left means hes hungry, i see, kind of stuff. You start to see why it was in development hell forever but its resulted in something really impressive.
I just really like the developer too and its up to their previous standard so easy to like. Well designed environment, enemies, story, music. I can see how it wont be for everyone but i loved it.