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    What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    Hey all,

    I'm getting a 970 graphics card for christmas and was wondering what games will best show it off ?

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    It's between minesweeper and far cry 4
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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    BF4, Batman: Origins, The nvidia moon landing demo....and a pre-order for Project Cars maybe.
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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    I would say Far Cry 4...beautiful when the quality settings are cranked up

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    Arkham origins doesn't look that good in my opinion. Far cry 4 is a little choppy,but looks incredible.

    BF4 looks amazing, even by today's standards, as does Crysis 3 is some of the scenes.
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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    I think Elite: Dangerous looks stunning.

    I'd agree with both BF4 and FC4 as well.

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    I have the voucher for a free ubisoft game so Its between assassins creed unity and Far cry 4(The crew looks dire) Sounds like Far cry 4 is the choice there.

    I have arkham origins already so thats that covered

    Isn't bf4 mainly mp with poor sp?

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    If you have zero interest in multiplayer I wouldn't recommend BF4 as that's where 95% of the fun is - it does look very good tho!

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    It's not poor, it's just that the story is a little shallow, like most war based games.
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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    Quote Originally Posted by kopite View Post
    I have the voucher for a free ubisoft game so Its between assassins creed unity and Far cry 4(The crew looks dire) Sounds like Far cry 4 is the choice there.

    I have arkham origins already so thats that covered

    Isn't bf4 mainly mp with poor sp?
    The campaign is short, you should be able to complete it in less than 8 hours, maybe 10 hours if you play out all of the alternative endings. It has a decent amount of variety for such a short campaign though and the weapons you unlock for MP by playing it are worth having, but for me the first choice is to play MP when I have friends (mostly Hexus Platoon members) online to join up with in game but I have completed the game once and want to play through the remaining two endings for the game.

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    Far Cry 4, Battlefield 4 and perhaps Crysis 3. Its fairly inexpensive now.

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    All of those, unless you have elite dangerous, which is all you should play on it anyway

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    I'd agree with Far Cry 4, although Dying Light is coming out this month and that's one of the first Unreal 4 based games.

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    I'm currently playing assassins creed 3 on it

    I know its an old game but being able to play it at maximum resolution with all settings high is awesome. Especially as its running quieter and cooler than my previous card

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    Re: What games to best show off my new graphics card?

    Star Citizen is pretty reasonable... graphically, anyway.

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    I like the standalone Expansion (a real expansion not a ****ty DLC cash grab) for Far Cry 3, Blood Dragon. I've seen people playing it and it looks like so much fun.

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