Hades 2 - now in early access

[Kiwi Andy]

This is Hades 2

Now filled with body positivityTM

Early Access:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/Hades_II/ $29.99 USD

Hefty price but the fist game was fun and had a lot of content. Are we playing this or is it too gay even for Ancient Greece?

 

[Soup Sammiches]

Your God is in a wheelchair, mine carries a hammer etc etc

 

[jershs compensation beard]

Ffs. Guess I should have seen this coming with the noggification of some of the Greek gods in the first game.

 

[BiggestKai]

I genuinely don't get the beef people have right now for arachnophobia and fantasy wheelchairs. If they're done cool then cool. If not then I don't particularly care for it any more than I would a character with a fantasy colostomy bag or something.

As for the game itself I'm interested but once it leaves EA. I wasn't invited to the cool kids demo club.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Hephaestus being a cripple and in a "wheeled chariot" at least matches up with depictions and myth. I'm more confused by why he's fat. Like, not musclefat, just fatfat. Dude's a godly smith who works a volcanic forge. Feels like doubling down on diversity when you already had a diverse character.

 

[jershs compensation beard]

I genuinely don't get the beef people have right now for arachnophobia and fantasy wheelchairs. If they're done cool then cool. If not then I don't particularly care for it any more than I would a character with a fantasy colostomy bag or something.

As for the game itself I'm interested but once it leaves EA. I wasn't invited to the cool kids demo club.

My problem is more with the issue that they seem to have taken the wrong lessons from the first Hades. The pandering was not that games strength and in fact took away from the game more than it ever could have added.
The Achilles and Patroclus shit was eye rolling and as soon as I saw his name I knew what to expect. Everytime that whiney faggot was on screen I was taken out of the game.

On that note why would Hephaestus need a wheel chair? He has what looks to be a robotic or in this context "automata" limb

 

[Rudy Coleman]

really disappointed to see that a fat faggot was added to the game, especially considering how attractive they made everyone in the first

 

[KhorneFlakes]

GAYdes 2

 

[Asian tech support]

Hephaestus being a cripple and in a "wheeled chariot" at least matches up with depictions and myth. I'm more confused by why he's fat. Like, not musclefat, just fatfat. Dude's a godly smith who works a volcanic forge. Feels like doubling down on diversity when you already had a diverse character.

We had this discussion in the roguelike thread but it bears mentioning again: why does the crippled wheelchair bound god have a useless prosthetic leg unless the character was designed by a tranny who thought steampunk was cool and can't see the redundancy in the design?

He also has a stereotypical drag hairdo. Shave that beard off and I bet he's wearing blush and lipstick.

For anyone skeeved, check out Realm of Ink. It's basically the same game but with a hand drawn anime coat of paint. If you can get past that, it's fun. It comes out in two weeks and there's a playtest going on right now.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

call me when the game is finished and on sell for 20 bucks.

 

[Tablet County]

Hephaestus being a cripple and in a "wheeled chariot" at least matches up with depictions and myth. I'm more confused by why he's fat. Like, not musclefat, just fatfat. Dude's a godly smith who works a volcanic forge. Feels like doubling down on diversity when you already had a diverse character.

I'd think Dionysus would be the fat guy, what with all the hedonism.

 

[Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus]

For anyone skeeved, check out Realm of Ink. It's basically the same game but with a hand drawn anime coat of paint. If you can get past that, it's fun. It comes out in two weeks and there's a playtest going on right now.

Objectively better if only because the devs aren't niggers incapable of distinguishing between a roguelike and a roguelite.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Modern semitic product. One-way dieversity. Utterly Predictable. Call me when Kratos or whoever tries to take on Muhammed or Vishnu, or Buddha.

I'd think Dionysus would be the fat guy, what with all the hedonism.

Would that somehow make him pajeet-adjacent too?

 

[Sparky Lurker]

This is Hades 2


Second major Brazilian FPS after Alien Anarchy, and you can download for free here:

http://www.espacoinf.com/hades2.htm

Gameplay:

There was even a local news report at the time showing a making-off with actors using costumes:

Years later the lead devs, the Bulow brothers, went to work on one of the most famous Brazilian games of all time:

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Hades was Supergiant's shark jump for me. Transistor and Pyre were very cool and promising games and then they went and made Generic Rogue-Lite #16298164. I don't dislike Hades - it's competently made, and the art and voice acting are superb as always - but it's so unimaginative compared to their earlier works which were notable specifically for their imagination. Bastion and Transistor had the cool idea of dynamic narration that strove to feel organically reactive to your interaction with the game world - what happened to that?

the fact that their next big project is a similarly uninspired sequel to their least inspiring game tells me that they've already run out of juice as a studio. the DEI shit is a symptom of that, I think. I'll probably buy it, as I did have fun with the first game, despite sneeding quietly with disappointment.

here's a fun article that says what the Hades 2 pantheon is really missing is shit like "top surgery" scars. enjoy!

Spoiler: tangentially related sperging and lots of pictures

for the sake of spergery, I also want to point out that their art style - one of the most notable features of Supergiant's identity - degenerated noticeably with Hades, as they, for some reason, decided to generate the 2D portrait sprites by using the in-game 3D models with ugly cel shading instead of their previous (much more expressive, IMO) hand-drawn style:

 

[Asian tech support]

Years later the lead devs, the Bulow brothers, went to work on one of the most famous Brazilian games of all time:

This game is the progenitor of the best steam emote to date, :rocketrat:

If you know, you know.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

read the game will actively fuck with you for progressing to far to quickly. apparently, its so you wont miss the story and plot points.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Virgin femboy underbound Hades 1 vs Chade Brasileiro Hades 2 o grande atirador de PC Amerojank

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

Rouglites with metaprogression are haram.

 

[Fading puppy syndrome]

I don’t care about hades pls leave me alone before I get violent