My rig wouldn’t be nearly as crazy as it is if I didn’t have to capture and edit video.
I’d still probably lean high end – but without having to capture or edit high quality gameplay footage, I’d probably be shooting for a Ryzen 7 and this year, a 3070 or 3080, with a max of 32gb of RAM. Nearly all of the rest of my power helps balance out the video editing end of things.
I’m working on my Control review script now, but a sneak peak I’ll share is that I think this game is going to age like wine and look absolutely unreal on the machines we’re using in 2025 or later.