@draqonin
Oh I hear you on that. I was able to upgrade my pc this year so I've got an i7 7700K 4.3Ghz CPU, GTX1070 GPU and 16GB RAM and I use SSD hard drives.
It's certainly not a super machine but it's pretty good and I run the game at 1440p at the moment. I actually tweaked the graphics settings a bit and the game really looks good I have to say. Still, with upgrades also including a new motherboard it set me back over 1000 bucks total.
When I see that they are going to run 4k graphics on the new Xbox for 499 bucks, I have to admit I feel taken the * out of a bit as a PC gamer. I really would like one of these Xbox One X machines that I can play my PC games on with mouse and keyboard....hell, for 499 it's a steal really for 4k graphics. I still have to upgrade to a better graphics card to run 4k graphics on my PC and that graphics card alone costs more than the new Xbox.
Still, I'm sure PC's will still be able to get the edge on it but man, for 499 bucks it's an amazing deal. I just never did like those controllers much.
It's rough time though I think for PC gamers. The hardware is not cheap at the moment and the transition to 4k is especially expensive. I'm lucky where I can afford a bit more perhaps but I know most people aren't that lucky. I suppose that's why I was a little surprised at BioWare's focus on higher resolutions in this game. ME:A with some graphics power (and after some patches) really does look the part. I was playing it earlier as I said and the game does deliver on the graphics for me now.
They just need to give me mission tracking for multiple quests and really the big thing that ME:A still needs is a variety of audio fixes but the game really is shaping up. It does seem though that you need to run at least 1920x1080p with high settings to really start seeing the beauty of the game, at least that's my experience now.