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'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

since PCs were still unbelievably expensive

Heh. I think of things as being "incredibly cheap" these days and then being the norm.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The point is PCs are much more affordable now. Not sure if it was just my country specific, but getting higher end PC in 90s was like one year of saving whole salary level expensive, while today it's like one or two months.