Above and beyond that link, the relative importance of CPU and storage can swap places between open world [a faster CPU being somewhat more important) vs. static games [somewhat more storage bandwidth dependent]. But, end of day, you want as ungodly quick a CPU and storage as physics and/or...
New system build about to happen. This one is kind of special: first AMD build since my 1400MHz Thunderbird build in 1999, so we're splurging [yes, 1800X is a waste of money] due to nostalgia.
Specs:
Ryzen 1800X (OCed to whatever I can get long-term stable @ ~1.35) on water
32GB Trident Z RGB...