But yeah. Hades 1 might actually be the best “full package” roguelite I have ever played. VERY solid gameplay and an unlock system that gets you your full arsenal within the first two hours but then encourages you to learn every single aspect of that as more and more options open up. And it is Supergiant so the story ranges from laughing at the horny to leaving you misty eyed to having a full blown weep-fest during credits as you try to comprehend what you just saw while immediately contextualizing it with your own Life. All done in a way that actually takes advantage of the game mechanics which is what makes Supergiant (and Greg Kasavin) so special.
I TECHNICALLY still have the final final ending to do with Hades 1. Should… probably do that some time. But what little I played of 2 so far is already so fricking good.
I haven’t tried with a controller yet, I’m still wicked early in the game because I started to feel overwhelmed and a little obsessive. Need to make sure I can jump back into it at a time where I won’t forget to eat or drink!
I tried it a few weeks ago. Streamed it from my PC to the living room, cause I didn’t feel like getting off the couch.
It was better than I thought it’d be, but I’m not keen on doing it again, when I have KBM available. Tough to to say how much of the discomfort is just fighting my KBM muscle memory, and how much is “game fundamentally too complicated for controller”. I only had one REAL complaint about the way a particular button/input was mapped.
A couple of days ago I started it using Steam remote play to the deck, just assuming that it would suck on Deck itself. Apparently it gets 40fps on low settings on Deck which is better than I expected but still kinda sucky.
I mean I never checked the stats but the play was fine with me. im not exactly a l33t guy with a decked out tower, multi high end panels, and gaming peripherals though. Filthy casual.
I’m going to pass on some advice that a friend of mine gave me: get Apollo (a fork of Sunshine) on your computer and Moonlight on your Steam Deck. You can install Moonlight in Desktop Mode and add it to your Steam Library so you can access it in Steam mode.
It’s far better at streaming than Steam’s own streaming system. Apollo treats it like a monitor on your desktop. I have it set up so that the Steam Deck is the ONLY monitor when I’m streaming to it. You can also specify resolution in Moonlight, so I tell it to give me 2560x1440 or 2560x1600. Because of the way chroma subsampling works, this looks much better when downscaled on the Deck’s screen than simply streaming the Deck’s resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 looks GORGEOUS on the Deck like this.
(Note this is best if your PC is on a wired connection to a router with WiFi 6/6E/7 support.)
I’ve avoided being hyped for Silksong for years after realising it’s taking a long time, but Hollow Knight is one of my all time favourite games.
Not expecting this to top E33 for me for my personal GOTY, but if this is basically just bigger Hollow Knight but with a twist with different movement and combat mechanics, I’ll be thrilled.
Technically we got one with Genesis didn’t we? Unless the fanbase doesn’t count that one, I haven’t actually played the games really so I don’t know the general reception of that one.
I own the whole series but I’ve only played the first (which I loved) and a bit of the second. I dropped it since the devs didn’t seem interested in continuing from the sequel hook in the first game. Now that they are finally getting around to that, is it worth playing the rest before 4 comes out? Do the other Riders’ stories contribute to the plotline of War’s campaign, or are they all just kind of doing their own thing?
2&3 are both “here’s what the others were doing while War was chained up for a hundred years”. Their stories are set in motion because of the premature apocalypse, and will probably have implications for humanity further in the future, but there’s no impact on War directly, aside from 3 implying
spoilerhow Strife lost his guns for you to get them in the first two games
, and I don’t expect any plot points from 2&3 to come back up during 4.
As for Genesis, the main thing you should keep in mind is that it isn’t a mainline game. It’s more an isometric twin stick shooter/hack’n’slash, and the gameplay isn’t as deep as with the main games. But it’s got co-op, if you have someone to play with, and it does provide some characterization for Strife as well as showing an example of the sorts of missions the Horsemen took for the Charred Council.
Would you say any of them are worth picking up from a gameplay perspective? I know the first is a Devil-May-Cry clone (no idea what the genre is properly called) that takes heavy influence from pre-BotW 3d Zelda for its world and dungeon designs, 2 is an action game with random loot (the randomness is why I dropped it), and I’ve heard 3 described as a Soulslike, but are they good examples of their respective genres?
Calling 3 a soulslike is kinda stretching it, I think. I would say rather that 3 does exploration and upgrades similarly to 1 but has combat that’s more similar to 2. I do think they’re definitely worth getting though.
I feel that doesn’t really apply for a game that’s been playable for several years now. It’s not a triple-A preorder, it’s just the physical relase for an early-access game.
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