Hades 2 v Soni( Crosswrolds

[tp4tissue]

Gekha is buys??

Tp4 still on the fence.

[tp4tissue]

It's between hades 2, and sonic crosswrolds.

Tp4 is not buying both. Decisions.

Crossworlds seems to have decent performance, Tp4 estimates you need a 4090/5080 to get solid 4K 120fps+

Unfortunately Tp4's 79xtx falls way short. May be able to do 90-100fps @ 4k.

Hades 2 though, gpu, no problem.

Hrrm..

[tp4tissue]

The other thing to note is, the Graphics style of Sonic crosswrolds, despite using unreal engine 5,  they've made most stage elements very stripped down to go cross-platform, it's really not leveraging the capability of the engine, or PC hardware.  Extremely held back by the business model here.

[tp4tissue]

Watching the sonic game footages so far, Seems like the color mastering in game are messed up.

If feels like, they tuned it for a REAALLy high brightness.  But what we're seeing is a detuned muted version of it.

Researching further, it looks like they "removed" HDR support from the advertisement a month ago.


For testing, Tp4 cranked his TV as much as possible, pushing to 400 nits or so, the colors of the track finally come alive.


So it seems, the visuals are NOT-well-mastered , again, probably due to multi-platform /hdr/yes/no issue, resulting in lack of polish.



Hades II,  perfect colors.

[tp4tissue]

Also, sonic crossworld music is pretty jank/ messed up. It sounds like a jumble and sped up.

[noisyturtle]

Crossworlds is really good (only played demo), I think it is more fun than Mario Kart World

Hades 2 is still in development and I won't buy till 1.0

[tp4tissue]

Sonic demo, gameplay feels like,  boop , boop , booop, boop boop, bop, hrrrrrghhhh, boop, pshhhew pshew. beeeeee...

The music is what's really messing it up, most of it sounds like it's on fast forward. Feels weird, can't get into the rhythm.

The handling is more reasonable this time around vs racing transformed. 

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 is 93% sure he wants to buy Hades 2.

But fear of missing out on Sonic Crosswurl 7%.    If sonic crosswurl had 120fps, that would tip the scale further, but the 60fps limit is holding Tp4 back.

[noisyturtle]

What about POE2?

[Halverson]

Crossworlds is really good (only played demo), I think it is more fun than Mario Kart World

Hades 2 is still in development and I won't buy till 1.0

Steam says it's out as of Sep.25 though?

[noisyturtle]

Crossworlds is really good (only played demo), I think it is more fun than Mario Kart World

Hades 2 is still in development and I won't buy till 1.0

Steam says it's out as of Sep.25 though?

oh shizz you're right!

[tp4tissue]

Can't decide.

Heavily leaning Hades 2, but FOMO Son1(.

[tp4tissue]

I mean, if you really think about it, Hades 2 is vamp survivr with better graphics, and manageable dodging.

It can't be bad.

[tp4tissue]

Does hades 2 take alot of focus to play with the dodges?

[tp4tissue]

Borrowed friend's account to do some test runs of hades 2.

Ok, soooo. early game, yea it is pretty stressful.   No eyepain "yet". 

Vampire survivor caused MAJOR eye pain 4 TP, but the Tp4 believes it's mainly because of how small the elements that you need to pay attention to are.

The elements are much bigger in hades2.

Now, it still requires ALOT of focus to play well, because you have to know the enemy's projectile type and how to space yourself.


The best early build is clearly to go for the beam, cuz it's spam-able and you get the 40 units of armor while you wait which most early game enemys will not blow through.



Surprisingly demanding on the GPU if you want to run it at max throughput. The engine can pull all the jigrwattz.