Prior to joining RPS and coming into a possession of an Actual Contemporary Gaming PC, I did all my gaming on a plucky Erazer laptop from circa 2014. The old warhorse has certainly had some adventures, to the point that it isn’t really a laptop anymore but a hovering debris cloud of plastic and metal, constellated by strips of sellotape, from which a moving picture may be hesitantly conjured by means of screamed insults and the careful deployment of desk fans.
Among the sicker jokes I’ve played on various editors as a freelancer is to review triple-A games on this sorrowing technological Igor, which – I swear to you – physically flinches and begins to whimper frantically when presented with any game more demanding than Far Cry 2. Thing is, I’m pretty sure I can run Ubisoft’s forthcoming Assassin’s Creed: Mirage on this hapless relic. The publisher have released minimum and recommended system specs for their latest historical throat-slitter, and they’re pretty dang reasonable.
