Supergiant always kills it. It’s definitely still hades but feels different enough, adds a shit load more than expected, and has been a pretty wonderful time. Looking forward to the last bits of story and polish.
it’s SO bad, I don’t see any reason for it to exist when the game already plays great on PC (with the Vanilla Fixer), and it also runs on PS5 with the PS2 version
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a remaster that looks this much worse than the original
The PS2 version is surely severely compromised compared to the PC version. Even the sequel designed with the Xbox in mind had to cut back on a lot of things to make it fit on a more powerful console.
A remaster like this is pointless in the first place, it’s not meaningfully doing anything to make people play it who wouldn’t otherwise. A proper Nightdive-style remake is what the game deserves.
The fan mods aren’t exactly accessible to PlayStation players. What would you want to see in a Deus Ex remaster that a mod couldn’t do? Mods are capable of a great deal, but there’s a lot of value to having things preconfigured to modern standards out of the box.
I mean, some production value beyond upscaling would be a start. Deus Ex isn’t some forgotten brand, it definitely warrants something like the System Shock remakes. High poly models, remastered animations, and modern lighting effects would be a reason to actually purchase this over the original.
just build the most mundane things with our creativity. It always felt so amazing even when the builds were so poor in quality.
I feel this. Nowadays I don’t enjoy building anymore, because I have too high a standard for block palettes and shapes and where things should go and stuff like that. No more square houses built entirely out of diamond blocks and obsidian. No more random japanese pagodas in the middle of my base. No more bulbasaur pixel art. Now it’s way more stressful and less fun I guess. And I even if I can have fun building a single base, I never have the motivation to build anything beyond that, because there’s just too much effort, motivation, and planning required.
I remember one day watching a small youtuber, who I can’t remember right now unfortunately, building a river that passed through a giant rainbow out of wool smack dab in the middle of their base. They talked about how they intentionally stopped trying to build pretty and logical things and just decided to have fun. It was really inspiring and nostalgic to see. So I do that too when I play now, and honestly, it’s actually harder than building “good” looking things. But it’s fun.
She can be fixed? I’ve never let her live very long. I’m always so annoyed by her bigotry by the time the choice comes up that I happily let her die and have Withers make me a better cleric if I need it. I guess next playthrough I’ll leave Lae’zel in her cage so I can give Shadowheart a fair chance.
Hold on… You think shadowhearts bigotry is too much but you can tolerate Lae’zel? The girl who take every oppertunity possible to let everyone know how primitive, uneducated, and stupid they are compared to gith.
Anyhow, Shadowheart can go either way in terms of dark vs light. It’s up to you. I think she has the most character development of any origin character, if you let her.
Don’t quote me. But I think shadowheart will, on her own, make a pivitol choice regarding nightsong, depending on your choices leading up to it. If you try to do good. She will choose light on her own. If you do evil things, she will choose dark. You can manually steer her towards that decision. But if you leave it up to her. It will be a reflection of your choices so far.
Yeah Lae’zel doesn’t attack or kill solely based on race. Every character in the game is racist to some extent, I have always drawn the line at violence. Lae’zel also grows a lot and tones down the rhetoric depending on how you play. If you have sex with her and expose the evils of the Gith queen, she clearly sees the error of her ways. Now I admit I haven’t tried this so maybe someone here can enlighten me, but it feels like the same wouldn’t be true if I started as a gith and tried to fuck Shadowheart.
I guess it just boils down to the fact that I strongly believe rascists who only talk hate can be redeemed and talked out of it, while violent ones usually can’t.
You have convinced me to give her a chance next time so thank you for that. Lae’zel will stay in her cage on my fifth playthrough this winter.
I would be surprised honestly. Technology has stalled pretty hard, tariffs and hardware is not in a great spot, PS5 still looks great and honestly there’s not going to be much to sell a customer base. I could see them doing it, but it might be wiser to kick it down the road for a few years until things get a bit better, like they did with the PS3 and 360.
I remember when Hades came out and my buddy was saying it was going to be GOTY over Cyberpunk 2077 and all of us just laughed at him. I think he was on the right side of history
Some of these scores haven’t been updated from early access yet, so this number’s probably going to go higher. Might be the top-rated game of the year. I’m sure it’s well-deserved, too. I played the crap out of the EA version when it first dropped.
Heh, Hades II isn’t small at all. The bar for a “big” project has just risen to a kind of ridiculous, mostly unsustainable level.
IMO it’s a sweet spot size. Small enough to survive in a niche genre, small enough for development to not run off the rails, yet big, big enough to have a big budget and feel like a huge game.
In a world where game budgets balloon to over $300m, Hades 2 fits comfortably into the “smaller game” category. As do Blue Prince, Expedition 33, Silksong, and Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, among other top-rated games this year.
I mean, if y’all really insist, I can specify “not AAA games.” That’s the point I was making; this year’s game of the year nominee lists are going to look quite different than usual.
but it has to involve some scaling down of both the size and cost of these projects and also player expectations, who are always demanding more, more, more, and anything less, from visual fidelity to playtime to map size, is viewed as an inexcusable downgrade, especially for something like a sequel, which is most of what the industry produces now. Something has to give, and after a lot of bending, we are on the verge of this whole thing breaking.
I kind of hate that line.
It might be true with how ridiculous some gamers’ expectation seem to be, but I have to wonder if its like a ‘Twitter mirage’.
Are people looking at, like, KCD II and BG3 or even older stuff like GTA V and thinking ‘man, if the graphics aren’t better and the world isn’t even bigger, the next game is going to suck!’
I’m not… I mean, even if I adored a particular title, I’d be happy to buy expansions instead of $300m+ gigagame, and perfectly happy with cheaper graphics as long as it looks cool.
And that’s different than jank. As a good example, Starfield technically looked high fidelity and expensive, yet felt clunky and ugly.
Review embargo for hades 2 also dropped. What a month it’s been for gaming, between Silksong, Silent Hill f, Hades 2, and a couple of other big name titles releasing within a very short time frame
Hades 2 is a really fun game. Ive played it heavily on early access and even if they didnt change anything, it would still be solid. That being said, and actual ending will make this game one of the best in the year for me.
I never played this game back in the day, but in a world where it has voice acting and a PC port, this is the one I’ll likely try. I have no idea when that might be, since it’s already a struggle to keep up with game releases, but someday, for sure.
I’ve got 1,000 hours in this one over the years and the PC port is the main reason I’m getting it (eventually). Hoping it’s not too locked-down for mods, FFT’s mod community has been a vibrant one.
If it’s true to the original, I see no reason not to play the new one instead. As someone who played everything just by being able to grow up in the perfect time to experience it all, I can honestly say it’s hard at my age to go back sometimes without the quality of life updates. I just don’t have the time or care anymore to be able to, sadly.
It’s been about 20 years since the last time I picked it up, so I hope to play this one someday soon as well.
The word bangs just seems so unusual to me, we call it a fringe here. Not sure why people wouldn’t like it or what it has to do with an emo phase though.
Factoring in PS4 backwards compatibility, no not really… I got an external HDD this year and with all the PS4 games I bought but never got around to, my backlog is huge. I’m set for years without buying another game (though I still keep buying them).
At this point in the PS4 life cycle, I didn’t have access to as many games as I do at this point for the PS5 so I don’t think it is irrelevant. Platform exclusives at this point seem a bit silly anyway.
I’ve borrowed a few. Off the top of my head there’s FF7, Ghost of Tsushima, and Animal Crossing New Horizons. I also borrowed Persona 5 because I wanted to give it a try but never actually booted it up.
I requested them to stock a copy of Fire Emblem 3 Houses too but they took so long that I just bought a copy myself, but literal day my copy arrives they stocked it.
My fav tidbit about this game is the Wikipedia section “development”. I quote:
Konami felt it had become overly westernized
Bitch you the ones that took the IP away from Team Silent and gave it to western devs who had no clue what to do with it.
Now they smell there’s money to be made and are cashing in.
And they are cashing in hard. I will never buy a $80 game.
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