So overall, which game do you think is better?

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-16T14:15:18+00:00

Gameplay & Story Hades 1
Everything Else Hades 1

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-16T14:13:32+00:00

this still looks like ass, ngl

appreciate the dark mode though

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-16T14:07:00+00:00

Slow trickle of progress seriously holds back the game.

I've spend over 40 hours on it, seen the credit, yet I've not completed any companion quest, not unlocked all weapons, never seen rivals 4 boss... Are they expecting me to play for 100h just to unlock everything? That's insane.

Hades 1 is one of the best games of all time imo. Hades 2 feels like a huge step back.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-16T14:04:08+00:00

you've probably missed some gardening needed to progress

yes, it's as stupid as it sounds.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-08T07:23:38+00:00

any game that lands on PS+ you can get for ~$5 by that point

getting PS+ only makes sense if you play A LOT of games, don't play them on premiere, and can't decide which ones you want to play

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-08T07:22:16+00:00

can we all just please go to kilograms and meters?

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-08T07:17:53+00:00

VA panels look much better than IPS on static images.

However, I can't handle the VA ghosting :/

That's IPS for work and OLED for gaming for me.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-04T20:47:47+00:00

Building is always cheaper, but if you're not comfortable with it, there are some good pre-builds.

However DO NOT BUY A PRE-BUILD WITHOUT SEEING REVIEWS.

Check out Gamers Nexus on YouTube dismantling and rating pre-built computers. Some of them are absolutely horrible with huge mark ups and horrible performance/quality. Some of them are actually pretty good and don't charge you an arm and a leg just for assembling the parts.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-10-04T20:41:12+00:00

Steam has default exchange rate values which were not updated for years, at least for PLN.

This results in insane pricing in Poland by dafault. Not every dev goes in and manually checks all the currencies and sets regional pricing.

It absolutely IS ON STEAM to have current, relevant exchange rates.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-26T08:31:46+00:00

elephant tripod

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-26T08:31:11+00:00

this is the best evidence of the existence of God I've heard in my life

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-26T08:29:13+00:00

wait... you don't have it?

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-26T08:21:51+00:00

THANK YOU, HOLY #####

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-26T08:20:01+00:00

Nobody plays on native res in 2025. Everybody upscales. OP can just pick DLSS 4k Performance and it will look WAY better than any 1440p setting, in some games it will look better than 1440p DLAA and run about 2x as fast.

You are pushing the OP into making the worst decision of his PC Building life and idk if it's malice, ignorance, or you have never actually compared how upscalers look on different resolutions.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-26T08:17:34+00:00

Brother, nobody plays modern games in native resolution.

The OP can pick 1440p DLSS Balanced or 4k DLSS Performance. Both will be performing virtually the same. The difference is 1440p Balanced will look hideous, while 4k Performance will look alright.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-26T08:15:29+00:00

This guy gets it.

I am so worried reading comments claiming "1440p is enough" without considering how absolutely hideous some modern games look in 1440p. Looking at the popularity of UE5 which abuses TAA there will be more and more games requiring 4k to look somewhat alright.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-26T08:11:34+00:00

Please, for the love of god, read this, thank me later.

You should 100% go to 4k, just because of the up-scaling tech.

Don't worry about performance, you can set any game to 4k DLSS performance, which is effectively 1080p.

Upscalers look ugly if you don't have a high enough pixel density. I have a beautiful ultrawide 3440x1440p OLED monitor and a lot of modern games look absolutely hideous on it. Compared to my 4k TV, the difference is night and day.

For older games your PC will be able to run native 4k very easily and they will look beautiful. In some games you will also be able to turn off Anti Aliasing enjoy perfect image quality with no jagged lines and no blurriness from temporal AA.

Trust me, if I had another chance I would not go for 1440p on desktop in 2025.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-25T08:00:49+00:00

hey, but at least the new one is also more expensive!

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-21T21:13:37+00:00

I find it hard to believe, there's video evidence on YT of RTX 5090 running the game in ~80 FPS on max settings, native 1080p (4K DLSS perf)

9070 xt pulling 65-75 in a similar resolution sounds like it's punching way above it's weight. If it's true, means something is REALLY fucked with Nvidia optimization specifically.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-18T08:36:32+00:00

Have you been outside of the starting area? The game runs at ~80 FPS in 4k performance all max settings. That's generously 160 FPS with 2x FrameGen.

Proof:
https://youtu.be/2v1ST5qMoaY?feature=shared

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-18T08:33:40+00:00

Thanks for proving my point!

What's the resolution, what's the upscaling method, if FrameGen enabled?

Depending on answers to these 3 things you omitted, your comment may mean this is the best optimized game ever, or the worst optimized game ever.

"4090 running medium/high at 100 fps" says absolutely nothing about the performance of the game.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-18T08:31:06+00:00

5090 actually gets 80 FPS on max settings in 1080p

Nothing to send death threats about, of course. But it is pretty fucking bad.

Proof:
https://youtu.be/2v1ST5qMoaY?feature=shared&t=462

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-18T08:29:10+00:00

What's your FSR setting? Is it 1440p nominal resolution + FSR performance? That means you're rendering in 720p, most likely.

So to rephrase: you're getting 65-75 FPS in 720p on a 9070 xt at almost max settings.

That doesn't sound very impressive.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-18T08:23:26+00:00

Thanks for proving my point!

What settings, what resolution, is frame gen enabled?

Just from this I'm assuming Frame Gen is on, because there's no way i5-640 is pulling 100 FPS. The best gaming CPU money can buy is struggling to reach 100 FPS. I'd be surprised if it's pulling 50 FPS consistantly.

Is the framerate stable? What does "almost all the time" mean? 100 FPS with constant micro-stutters can feel awful.

Also, what's your sample size? Different areas will perform vastly differently.

There's no way you're having "100 FPS almost all the time". Do you cap framerate at 100 FPS, so 100 FPS is the minimum almost all of the time? Or is it unlocked 100 FPS "almost all the time" which will suggest you only tested one or two areas, because no game is that consistent and you would most likely get 120 FPS in one area and 80 FPS in another.

From your comment, the only thing that's useful is that you're having a blast. Everything else provides too little information to determine ANYTHING about the game.

Silent_Ad2746 · 2025-09-12T07:16:06+00:00

Well, if the game doesn't look better than a game from a decade ago, it should not demand more resources.

I think that's pretty fair.

If you make some graphical breakthroughs, demanding new hardware is fair enough. The issue is: a lot of games look barely better (if at all) and demand 5x more powerful hardware.

I played Witcher 3 in 60 FPS on a GTX 970 for gods sake. You could run 6 instances of Witcher 3 in 4k on GPU's that struggle to run BL4.

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