This weekend I managed to get a 5080 for $1200... sigh. But I put that baby into my PC, the last piece of the puzzle I have been waiting for and I have a PS6 now. This is absurd graphics, I can't believe the level of detail and smoothness I am getting. I was playing Exp 33 with vasceline on the screen, and at 40 fps which I thought was great. Now everything MAX, all RT crazy shit on and max, 4k, 60fps with no drops. The game looks like a went up a gen, cause I guess I did. I tried Cyberpunk which I played before even the PC I had now, I played that at like 25fps on shit mode. I turned it all on, path tracing, ray tracing, all the tracings! Whatever magic shit they have I put on... its WILD. It becomes semi photorealistic at times and I get like 45fps with everything maxed. I can tweek a thing or two to get it to 60. This card is a beast. I now understand all these people wanting RT on everything, its nice lol.

I also started Doom, I get 90fps with everything super max so great performance. I only played 4 levels but I am not enjoying as much as I hoped. I am one of the Eternal lovers, there are those that hated the direction Eternal went with maybe they like what they did her, to me its a huge step back at least early in the game. Its too much just parrying and shield bashing into punch combos. Its a ton of punching things... in Doom. Ehh.

Dvader said:

This is such a weird place to be cause game fan me loves the return of good graphics Nintendo. Growing up they were always cutting edge and these last decades have been pretty sad in that regard. But business side me doesnt see this making much sense. It's like they saw the steam deck, see cell phones and think, ehhh people pay for high end products. But those people buying that arent the same group that get switch. They have us hardcore that buy whatever, but the switch is made up of families with kids and when you go up in price and hit a psychological barrier they dont need to upgrade for their kids when they are probably playing more on a pad or phone anyway.

I hope its a huge success and Nintendo at least tries to make more premium products but I feel the opposite will happen.

I'm kind of with you on that. I'd love for Nintendo to focus on power like the SNES days but I'm afraid they won't in the future.

Dvader said:

This game is a masterpiece. I too made it to act 3 which is just "FUCK YOU DIE!!!" nearly every optional location lol. I havent seen a game do a difficulty power creep as well as this game. You need to learn to maximize builds and the skill system to do the high level stuff and its not just one or two special bosses, its enter optional areas of super bosses and enemies. All optional too. Its brilliant.

It certainly is. Just finished the main story and wow, fantastic stuff. The freedom they give you to tune your characters and party is incredible. Still have some optional things to do and make a different ending choice. Easily my GotY so far.