6 cores 12 threads seems to be the sweet spot, especially if your primarly focused on singler player based games.

Like others have said IPC and clockspeed are the more important factors. For example i'd rather own a quad core i3 12300 then literally any 8/12 core ryzen 1000, 2000, or 3000 series CPU.

970 is old but it's technically like 4x faster than what the last gen consoles had and they still make modern titles for those systems. My wife has my old 970 in her system and it's not bad for 1080p even games in the last 2 years. Games that are at least average optimized you'll get high (not very high) settings and poorly optimized games a mixture of medium and high.

You'd be surprised, game engines for the most part haven't really changed a ton in the last 3 or 4 years

Yeah I was surprised by the developer basically saying that a nearly 2 year old mid-range card can keep up with it. By the time the PS5 really kicks into gear (developers pushing the hardware, new game engines in full blown effect) 2060S level hardware will probably be closer to low-end then high-end by then

No most people I have encountered have played both. Your confusing which one you think is objectively better as the same as which one is your favorite which have no reflection on each other (Acura TL was nicer than my Accord but my favorite car was still the Accord).

The topic is which one is your personal favorite. IV being a better overall game/aging better has absolutely no reflection on which is your favorite. Favorite includes too many variables that don't show up on a review sheet or a breakdown

Agreed. I don't think there was a better feeling than playing FF7 in 1997. The graphics, cutscenes, new genre, open world map, plot twist, materia system. The game is so memorable in terms of characters and cities (show a fan a picture of cosmo canyon, midgar, rocket town, goldern saucer, or junon and they will immediately get instant flashbacks)

I've never seen a game 20+ years after release get talked about so much, I mean hell for almost a decade all we heard about where people begging for a remake.

Skipping it for sure. Where too far into this generation + games are still running on old engines.

90% of games i've played in the last 12 months either have been extremely well optimzed or had moderate at best requirements.

I'd rather just wait for 4000 series. Ironically I see alot of people upgrading because "new game engines are coming soon and "it has better ray tracing" but by the time both are utilized the 4000 series will be out...... (lol)

i9s look meh but i5 and i7s look solid

10 series i5/i7s will have added hyperthreading, higher all core boost than the ryzen 3000 series, and significant price decrease vs last gen

Agreed. They tried to modernize it without completely taking away from the original (that's not really something to complain about).

You obviously haven't played it if you think it's just "upscaled graphics" and that's it.......

I hope so. Last decade AMD's excuse was not having any money to put into R&D but they can't use that excuse anymore (current gen consoles sold like crazy + they got the rights to the next gen, all 3 ryzen generations have sold good, APU market was strong last decade as well).

They have money now so now it's time to actual go out and do something (hopefully they dont' do the usual give nvidia type performance 6-12 months late with same price)