In this video, I go over my thoughts after having messed around with Supergiant Games’ so-called “god-like rogue-like,” Hades.
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……me not liking ALL of these liars games (no, they are NOT "indie" studio) …..
Good "review".
Awesome video. I have similar opinion to yours.
I want to try it, but I feel like I'd get crazy addicted.
A good roguelite doesn't get boring this fast And Hades bored me after about 3 or so play sessions. I played a few hours my first sitting, and then tried to launch it and play a few other times, and was just "meh". Steam tells me I spent 9 hours in it, though I think a few of those are ALT-tabbed out and watching Youtube. A great game shouldn't feel like I have to force myself to play it, and a good rogue-lite has you excited to start a new run, where-as Hades started to feel annoying and boring, REAL fast.
I prefer games in the style of bastion that are quite linear. With this one I just think that there are games I'd rather be playing such as mass effect or total war that take up a lot of time rather than going again and again on this one. I do want to give it a proper try one day but other games have just got me too busy at the moment.
I had a similar experience the first time I played it, tried three to four runs and died faster in the last run than on my first, so I stopped playing. I bought it on steam, so that was quite a while after the Epic exclusivity ended, haven't picked it back up yet. But I also am yet to really find a rouge-lite that is able to keep my interest, so that might be on me and not the game.
I wanted to try Dead Cells again when it's on sale the next time and see if that is able to keep me playing.
its a good game. a bit overrated, but good.
i never played this game and by only looking at it i dont want to either, i think the combat is too flashy for my taste and the visuals dont impress me either, the colors are all over the place and not in an harmonic way.
I gotta be honest, I always feel like roguelikes are a tedious grind, I never really enjoy them and they feel like 3 or 4 hour games stretched to like 12 to 15 hours via making me replay it over and over
it's a fine genre, I just don't like it at all
I think this is one of those games where I would enjoy the mythical elements behind it more than the game itself.
IMO, Hades is the type of game you don't "play to play", but "play to kill a bit of time". Do that long enough, there's the sense of progress, but I think the game is not meant to "be played", like a game. Just 10 minutes a day over the course of 12-24 months and that's it, I think. A nice coffeebreak game.
If that's worth the price tag, is a different thing alltogether.
8:13 You said that you get the feeling that your waisting your time… welcome to becoming an adult and coming to grips with your own mortality. I'm 38 years old myself and was a huge gamer as a kid and anytime I try to play games now that I'm older I can't shake the feeling that I could be doing something vastly more productive with my time. It is the curse of aging where we have this never ending feeling of the Grim Reaper tapping us on the shoulder. And when we are wasting time in selfish endeavors such as playing a video game we feel the tapping the hardest.
I usually don't like rogue-lite nor rogue-like games either, but the combat and risk-reward shop system was incredible. Music and art-direction were very good and the story was decent too. The only thing I didn't like was that to get the whole story you had to complete it something like 10 times. Whilst the bosses got more difficult, there just wasn't enough variety to justify that many playthroughs. They should have had 2 more worlds and halved the number of run-throughs. Was a solid 8-9 for me.
This looks like one of the many flash games I used to play as a kid. Play for an hour or so, get bored and never touch it again.
Hey, mate
I will share an idea, that sounds heretical, but there is value here, please bear with me
Imagine that you play a single player non-service game. The whole process of the game is in your processor. This means you are completely free to hack it. It seems complicated but it is super easy. You can hack most variables in the game process
Why would you do that ?
Sometimes you encounter a game which has elements you love, but aslo things that annoy you. In the context of rogue-s, this may be rng or slow progression or difficulty. In case of arpg-s like diablo, it may be the low chance to drop legendaries. Most of the time you can fix all those things on your own.
But it is the dev's responsibility to make a good game!!! Yes, of course. But sometimes you and the dev have different ideas. Would you rather love a game, or skip it?
But this is cheating, you can break the game completely and make yourself op !!! Yes, of course, if you are stupid.
There are many games you probably hate that can be turned into love affairs by tweaking a few numbers.
Hades is not roguelite and not roguelike but full roguelike because it have more content than usual roguelike and you complaint about the enemy getting harder well ofcourse the higher the lvl the harder lol duh
Same. I really don't have fun with these types of games.
Hades has a significant fanbase who hate other roguelike games. It's built different. The progression and the story make it a very different beast to a regular roguelike.
I don't think your recommendation of "if you enjoy other roguelikes, you might enjoy Hades" holds water. A better recommendation might be: "Even if you hate roguelikes, give Hades a try. It will probably surprise you".
Play Pyre if you want but it's not good…