San Andreas is 15 years old, it shouldn't be a problem on anything even remotely recent. LOL
Personally, I think it's the best one.
Yup, the concern was always more with GTA IV, and that was mostly back when I was still using a FrankenDell with mostly free and dirt cheap secondhand parts.
I like Vice City for the story, and the money making associated with businesses. San Andreas was great, for the time, for the open world playground sort of features/options. I wasn't a fan of the story. I liked 4 for its physics/gameplay (even with fewer options than SA) and fantastic graphics (at the time).
I think V strikes a good balance between them all. The driving, and certain other physics, are a little more arcadey (unfortunately), but still relatively realistic compared to everything but IV, it has businesses to profit from (though not done as well as Vice City besides in online) and the story is the best I have played since Vice City.
I disagree, Rockstar isn't taking PC play any more serious than they have in the past.
I have the distinct impression they actually hate PC players, I think most game companies who do consoles do.
I think we still agree on all of this other than a shift in focus. I agree that Rockstar, or Take-Two, or both, hate PC and/or PC players and/or have felt that PC games weren't worth the hassle. I think they're taking it seriously now because they've made a lot of money on the platform with V.
It could be much worse, like Japanese devs who either never bother to port the game at all, or do so with bizarre key mappings and/or don't even allow in-game adjustments to those mappings, and horrendous optimization to boot.
Yeah. Plus GTA. The latest GTA scales to whatever you can throw at it. Not Fortnite. Fortnite is just cool. I do not think Asus would skimp on this. It is not HP we are talking about here. Nothing is proprietary. It has their best ROG board in it. The PSU is Platinum plus. I think AIO is okay but stupid. Custom water will leak on you.
I actually love HP. I have had HPs from the mid 90s that got rained on on the side of the road that still worked perfectly when I brought them home. I have owned many (10+, of various models and years), new and used. None that I have owned have failed on me. Our school district's labs and classrooms have been full of the things, some running almost 24/7 for 10+ years straight. We had Elitebook "cows" (laptop carts) full of the things that were at least as old and the kids only managed to take those tanks down by smashing the screens. I literally never saw one fail another way. I do not like their proprietary motherboard/power supply interfaces, and ironically used to see that more in Dell than HP. I haven't ever seen it n HP outside of business class, but maybe that's changed.
Conversely, our first Dell desktops that came in to replace them (due to age/speed) had faulty power supplies left and right. Our Lenovo student laptops had hinges failing by the dozen, when Lenovo's replacement model came out, the boards and batteries were prematurely dying. The power buttons were even snapping off of the PCBs because some genius designer felt it was a great idea to solder the button parallel to the PCB with tiny solder pads, so that they were literally the only holding the button in place when pressed. The next revision, I kid you not, added some sort of adhesive or epoxy to the solder points to try to reinforce them ... they still failed from time to time.
Same crap now with Dell Chromebooks. Our first ones had failing hinges left and right, various cables that would come loose constantly because they were poorly secured from the factory. Dell even slapped these plastic, adhesive-backed, cards over the wireless antenna connectors to try to keep them from just falling off of the wireless cards. It didn't work. I had never seen such a thing before. The next revision was better structurally, but brought a slew of battery and motherboard problems ... and many connectors, while designed better, didn't even have the backing for the adhesive peeled off to help hold them in place before they were assembled at the factory, so we've got loose video and trackpad ribbon cables on them constantly.
I like Asus' BIOS options, and interfaces. I don't like how many of them I have seen with bad motherboards, although that was always second-hand, and they were usually "gaming" motherboards, so maybe the previous owners did some stupid things to them as far as overclocking, etc. I also don't like how much they cost in relation to alternative brands that I know are rock solid. It is good that that system has an 80 plus platinum PSU. I still don't like Asus, but my opinion can be swayed.