A little over a decade ago, I fell in love with PC gaming. I don't quite remember the exact specifications of my first build, a scrappy second-hand desktop bought from a local computer store, but I do remember how beautifully it could run Skyrim. Later, when its innards were juiced-up with a 1060 GPU from the same store, I swore nothing would ever look as good as the turquoise waves lapping against my ship in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag.
Beauty is deeply subjective and rarely permanent. But when I think of PC gaming, those wintry evenings spent chasing the horizon in Black Flag are the first and finest memories to come to mind. In amber, the Caribbean Sea still looks breathtaking.
