I'm not a huge Harry Potter nerd but I started a new game on my GFs account to optimize the settings for her since she's playing on a low end rig.

Surprisingly, the game runs well with the Medium preset on a GTX 1060, i5-9100F. Put some things on high and it's still mostly a stable 60 FPS. Medium is still pretty, but I wish the TAA wasn't mandatory. It makes things blurry a bit.

As I've said, I'm not into HP that much, atleast I wasn't until this game. I only wanted to play a bit to mess with the settings but ended up being glued to the screen for 2 hours more than I wanted. There's rarely a game where I enjoy exploration as much as here. The environments are captivating and the NPCs are interesting. My character is dressed like an idiot and I love it. So, thanks Avalanche for giving a depressed guy a bit of unexpected joy.

"Yo, amigo! Post that footage on YouTube! It rocks!"

I think this is the best Codemasters arcade rally game. The cars handle well, the stages are interesting and memorable, there's a lot of cars, classes and locations. It's very accessible for new comers but gives enough space to hone your skills and grow. It's almost perfect.

However, I really don't like the Gymkhana and DC Challanges. I just wanted to rally, not do these stupid things. Those are the reason why I can't say that this game is perfect. I understand why they included the them. That was the hot new thing in the rally scene back then. Ultimately, even though I don't like it, in a way I'm glad that it's included as a piece of "rally history" and will be nice to look back on the Dirt series one day and say "Hey, remember when Gymkhana was all the rave? Even Dirt 3 had it.".

The Rally and Trailblazer stages are beautiful and they have a nice variety to them. I wish I could say the same about the Rally Cross and Land Rush tracks. Those are very same-y and kinda boring.

I also don't like that ugly colorgrading filter that PS3 era games had, but I mostly don't mind it anymore. The game is still pretty enough. The announchers are also annoying and unskippable.

I might sound like I don't like the game but I really do. None of the negatives I've listed take away from the amazing feeling of flying through the dirt in a Ford RS 200 in the straight then launching into a satisfying handbrake turn through the corner. Sometimes there are other drivers on the stage which lives up the otherwise lonely nature of stage rally.

I genuinely do not understand how this game is so hated by the gaming community. The gunplay is extremely satisfying, the graphical fidelity is impressive, the sounds are crisp, it runs well and the collectibles are fun. Yes, I know the story is crap. I haven't even touched the main missions after 3-4 hours but that doesn't mean that the game has no merit everywhere else. The only thing I hate is that I have to buy fucking rage coins or whatever if I want to buy DLCs. No option to buy it normally.

Genuinely the only F2P PvP game I ever enjoyed. It really speaks for how tight the gameplay experience is when the game is devoid of any kind of narrative personality yet I'm glad it is as it would just get in the way. It works for Rocket League, and it works for The Finals. Solo Q is surprisingly not terrible but going in with two friends has always been a superb experience so far. I'm glad I could play this game in its early days before the gaming community and/or developer inevitably fuck it up.

I've got it for free with my AMD card. I said, fuck it let's try. I installed it on an external HDD because I don't give a shit, to be honest. It ran like shit, then remembered something about it only working on SSDs. I said, fuck it, and I made space on the C drive and tried to move it through Steam. Took ages then I smelled burnt plastic. I forgot to peel off the plastic from the new AMD GPU. Canceled the moving process, turned off the PC, and peeled off the half-burnt plastic. Turned the PC back on then I said, fuck it, I have good internet so I'll just delete the game and download it again because that's gonna be faster than dealing with this broken-ass external HDD. While it was downloading, I set up Cyberpunk 2077 on my girlfriend's PC. Fucking Cyberpunk wouldn't let me lower the Textures from High to Medium. Finally, I somehow did it and the benchmark ran fine. Got back to my PC and loaded up Starfield. Touched a rock, had an orgasm, chose my pronouns, and then I realized that the mouse is weird. Looked the game up on PC Gaming Wiki, disabled the intro videos, set up the mouse properly, and then launched the game. Jumped around for a few minutes, then I realized that the game runs like shit, looks like shit and I don't even care about Bethesda games, so I uninstalled it. I'll see you when the modders fix your game, Todd!