Supergiant is the only studio to consistently deliver. Even their hands-down least interesting game, Pyre, isn’t a bad game, it’s just not for everyone. Everything else they have released has been golden.
I can’t support prepurchase. Not even for supergiant. The industry has killed that for me. But yeah, I’ll probably be there day 1, too.
They did trade-off good, impactful stories for tight, action-packed gameplay. Neither Pyre’s nor Hades’ core stories have been that interesting, despite the excellent voice acting, music, and gameplay.
The fact that they are doing a sequel to Hades immediately suggests that the trend is going to continue, because that’s where the money’s at. It’s a rather risk-adverse decision.
That’s fair. Hades wasn’t as much my jam, story-wise, as bastion or transistor, for sure. It leaned heavily on tight mechanics and beautiful art, which were also staples of bastion and transistor. So in a sense, I agree. I think there is only so much creativity you can have in a storyline based on something like Greek mythology, and so I’d like to see them return to more original plots.
Most likely it’ll be an insta purchase for me once it’s released.
Supergiant is the only studio to consistently deliver. Even their hands-down least interesting game, Pyre, isn’t a bad game, it’s just not for everyone. Everything else they have released has been golden.
I can’t support prepurchase. Not even for supergiant. The industry has killed that for me. But yeah, I’ll probably be there day 1, too.
They did trade-off good, impactful stories for tight, action-packed gameplay. Neither Pyre’s nor Hades’ core stories have been that interesting, despite the excellent voice acting, music, and gameplay.
The fact that they are doing a sequel to Hades immediately suggests that the trend is going to continue, because that’s where the money’s at. It’s a rather risk-adverse decision.
That’s fair. Hades wasn’t as much my jam, story-wise, as bastion or transistor, for sure. It leaned heavily on tight mechanics and beautiful art, which were also staples of bastion and transistor. So in a sense, I agree. I think there is only so much creativity you can have in a storyline based on something like Greek mythology, and so I’d like to see them return to more original plots.