Games are very lazily optimized for anything other than NVIDIA these days
NVIDIA bad and all that, but I wish that was true. If the game runs like shit, it runs like shit everywhere. What are these mythical games, that are optimized for NVIDIA in 2025?
What does that have to do with anything?
Both figures are without DLSS, FG, whatever. Just native 4k with Path Tracing enabled, that's why it's so low.
The sketchy marketing is comparing a 5070 with a 4090, but that's not what this is about.
50% improvement not enough for you?
The 4090 gets like sub 20fps without DLSS and stuff. Seems like a good improvement.
On the site with the performance graphs, Farcry and Plague Tale should be more representative, if you want to ignore FG. That's still only two games, with first-party benchmarks, so wait for third-party anyway.
I unlocked the final difficulty in Windblown. However, I'm gonna play the previous one a bit more, to get some more reps, since the stat increase for enemies seems just insane.
Then I played more Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire. While the game is good, it took me a while to get into it. I don't like getting around with the ship, it's just super tedious. When you don't enable enemy scaling, the world is also full of enemies, that are far too strong for you (I did beat some fights, the game said are probably too difficult). Now, after 25h I'm level 10, can do more stuff, and it's getting more interesting.
Finally, my friend and I continued our Baldur's Gate 3 coop run, and we just made it to Act 3. Because this is a Dark Urge run, and we are pretty much killing everything, there was a bunch of stuff we couldn't do in Act 2, so it felt a bit short (except for our month break or something), although we did spend a lot of time in combat.
It's not as elegant, but you might be able to give them some Steam Gift Cards and recommend some games.
https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/selectgiftcard
I watched the trailer and the evolution they're going with is apparently not making an RTS anymore, but an Action Roguelike. If that's the kind of evolution we're talking about, I feel we've already stuff in a similar vein (dunno specifically about roguelike though).
Eh, I don't really care about that stuff, it's all subjective. If they liked it that much, who am I to judge
I haven't paid attention to a lot of lists, but Veilguard might be the outlier here. The game seems to be really divisive. Yesterday I was in a thread on how for someone Veilguard was the last straw, and they're giving up on Bioware completely, and here the game is the fifth best of the year.
Square was really scraping the barrel for this one. "Good graphics, that you can change!"
Changing how many NPCs could be nice, and I'm probably gonna need DLSS for upscaling. AMD and Intel users might have to wait for a mod, since there was no mention of FSR or XeSS.