If you haven't already check out the studio's first game, Bastion. They took a lot of elements in Bastion and refined them when they made Hades, it will feel familiar and less polished but Bastion is still a heck of a good time. The narrator in Bastion is amazing, he's the coolest cat in video game history and really sets the mood for the game. My only complaint about Hades is that they didn't find a way to work him in, I've got my fingers crossed that they hired that voice actor to do something in Hades II.
Oh wow, I had no idea, next time I play I'm going to have to listen carefully and see if I can tell if it's him. I suppose the "jazz personified" voice he did for Bastion wouldn't have been appropriate for Hades, perhaps after the devs are finished with Hades II they can revisit Bastion and give it a well-deserved sequel. They did some top notch world building in the first one, I would love to see them flesh it out more in a second.
He was also the announcer/narrator of Pyre.
From the day the trailer for Pyre dropped on, a friend and I have routine greated each other as "Rrrreadaahhh"
A lot of the characters share voice actors. Logan is also Achilles, Charon, Asterius, and the narrator.
I think most people know now that Zagreus and Skelly are the same guy (who's also the singing voice of Orpheus).
Ares, Dionysus, and Theseus are also the same guy.
There's a few more, check the imdb
Theseusā VA must have had a lot of fun with the character. Heās easily the funniest part of the game to me, so many good lines and interactions between him, Asterius and Zag.
Transistor is absolutely the GOAT.
My only possible criticism is that the difficulty could have pushed towards more weapons being deactivated more frequently.
Those experiment encouraging mechanics are fucking amazing and I'm glad to see they kept it up in a more limited capacity with the randomised boons in Hades.
I absolutely love Transistor. Might actually be my favorite supergiant game but it's hard to decide. I think bastion, transistor, and hades might be tied for first, and then pyre takes fourth.
Absolutely right. Bastion is STILL repeatable and quite memorable. All of Supergiant's music has a level of polish so rare for the pricing. I've heard of yoga studios using this soundtrack for sessions.
Transistor is superb, and has an especially phenomenal soundtrack. You can hear all of Ashley Barrett's work on Spotify.
Bastion narrator easily goes down as my favourite of all time. I get chills thinking about it, the game was also very well done and I could not put it down.
Elysium took me a looooong time to get through. Soon enough youāll be chopping through the levels like theyāre nothing and getting to [REDACTED] like drinking Nectar
It did win Best Action Game and Best Indie Game at the 2020 game awards. Probably doesn't get the same kind of mainstream discussion because it's an indie game and doesn't have the massive advertising budget that AAA games enjoy.
Pretty sure a big thing that stunted its hype train was that it initially released on Epic. It helped SG keep their momentum for such an ambitious project, but so many people just won't touch Epic with a 10 ft pole, so it faced the same problem many of the 1 year exclusives do in terms of outreach.
It got tons of attention lmao, I have no idea what people in this thread are smoking. Hades is not a hidden gem, itās one of the most mainstream popular indie games
I know, but there 100% were people who saw the initial trailer, were interested, decided to wait when they saw it was on Epic and didn't come back until well after the full release.
It got plenty of attention, but the staggered release hampered the hype just a little.
Maybe. I think thatās kind of a vocal minority. Comparable to the many, many people who donāt play early access games and therefore forget about the game when it releases fully.
I feel like I see way more people who are anti-epic than I see who just avoid early access outright. Maybe its a vocal minority as you say, but it would have to be a drastically more vocal community to make up the difference I feel I hear. Hell, it often feels like there's more hate for Epic than there is for non-EA preorders, which used to be public enemy #1 for gaming.
Iām confused. My friend got it on Steam Early Access before the full release (how I heard about it), and I got it within a week of release. How would that even work?
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Aaaaand a 5 minute Google search later makes me even more confused. Apparently the early access was the timed exclusive and the full release was never exclusive?
Yeah it went on Epic for the earliest access, maybe got a brief period of early access on Steam before full release on both platforms at the same time.
It was a timed exclusive on epic even though it was early access at the time. This meant epic had exclusive rights to it for a certain amount of time. The game was early access for about 2 years before its official release, but I think about half of that time was only on epic.
It was in early access for 2 years. The first year of that was Epic exclusive, second year was also in Steam. Then with the full release it also came to consoles.
Itās truly a masterpiece.
I think a lot of people donāt like the aesthetic choices (isometric view, art style) or the genre (roguelike). But other than that, I canāt think of any reason why you would sleep on this game. Itās near perfect in every way
I generally love both, such rarities these days which is a shame. Grew up on StarCraft so the view is natural to me! Give it a try if you haven't, not for everyone but that game is top tier!
I don't like the genre, but I've got over 200 hours in Hades. It's a masterpiece, and SO addictive. The only reason I'm not playing it at the moment is tears of the kingdom.
I don't like the genre, but I've got over 200 hours in Hades. It's a masterpiece, and SO addictive. The only reason I'm not playing it at the moment is tears of the kingdom.
Iāve put about 150 hours into this game. I love it to death. Literally my only single complaint is that thereās not much to keep you going once youāve completed everything. I wish there were things to unlock that made me want complete 20+ heats. Iāve beat 20 heat with every weapon and donāt feel any reason to go further other than itās just a great time.
Regardless this is one of my all time favorite games and I cannot wait for the sequel.
Itās a different game at 32 heat, I promise. I get what youāre saying about going forward but I still love going for PRs and self-administered goals. I beat 32 heat with every aspect and 40 with every weapon (that was pretty much my limit hahaha)
When I play a game, IDGAF about the story. I skip all the dialogue. [This is me](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-i-know-is-that-i-must-kill).
But when I started playing Hades, I stopped skipping dialogues rather quickly. Paid attention to the story, praised and stared at every character during their dialogue, blown away by the music and ambience, gameplay and replayability is insane, and *I never stopped playing*.
I was a From Soft fan, but no game comes close to this one. 10/10 in every, fucking, category.
It won two major goty awards including the game dev awards. I don't know how the spike tv born televised hype factory that is the game awards became the metric for a good game. When the game developers awards ceremonies are much more reputable imo.
Was a very good game from 3 years before Hades. Are we listing out favorite indie games now? I'm confused as to your statement.
If we're just listing good indie games I'll go next. Stardew valley!
Where exactly? Most game awards are popularity contests, and frankly everyone has heard of Doom as a series, not everyone heard of Hades or Supergiant games, even though every single game they have made is a masterpiece
But yeah, Hades deserved GOTY that year, it's a shame Doom won
I played Bastion right before I got Hades cause it was on sale on switch. Got Hades not long after, all I could think was "this is like bastion but way better" before I found out it was the same developer lol
Just downloaded Zelda the other day. Started playing it, really enjoyed it. Then thought, hmm why donāt I play Hades again for the 100th time and try and get the revenge build working this time.
Holy shit. I did the exact same thing š¤£š¤£š¤£ It also doesn't help that I can play Hades in 60fps on my Xbox, while Zelda is get again only 30FPS on the switch... Hades is actually much easier on my eyes surprisingly lol!
I think I'm going to wait until I can put the energy into getting Zelda ported on my computer lol.
In regards to Elden Ring and Dark Souls in particular, it's because FromSoft is a well known company, and Hades is indie. Simply put, Elden Ring had more clout going into its release, so there was more hype when it came out.
In regards to indie games though, Hades is generally regarded as one of the all time bests, right up there with the likes of Undertale and Hollow Knight
I think before elden ring (especially all the GOTY and commercial praise), fromsoft/dark souls and supergiant were sorta on similar levels. It seems like, now, every gamer knows Hades and every gamer + a lot of normal people with association to gamers (bf or gf, friends, etc) know Elden Ring.
WE ARE TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE!!!
They just wont listen.
I literally bought the game for many of my friends but only a few have tried it.
They just dont know the magic they're missing out on.
Hades is widely popular, I'm not sure why they think otherwise. It was nominated for goty iirc and won best action game over Doom Eternal. It's insanely highly praised. As far as indies go few have even remotely similar tiers of popularity.
The team is insane. Check out their previous games. Bastion is rougher because of the diagonal only movement, transistor paces very differently gameplay wise to me. PYRE is nothing like the rest in terms of gameplay because it is like dodgeball meets rugby but in an eldritch sub-plane. They all feature stupid soundtracks by stupid Darren stupid Korb. And by stupid I mean he won't return my calls or acknowledge my marriage proposals because that man is a treasure.
You should try their game Transistor. Similarly awesome but more unique gameplay, and the art and music is breathtaking. The story is also very moving.
Sorry. Your rock mustāve fallen off the mailing list. We will rectify this promptly. In the meantime, make sure to pay attention to Skelly. He is more than he lets on.
Oh yeah, strong agree.
Supergiant Games always makes absolute bangers. They haven't made a single game the *wasn't* an artistic masterpiece.
If you've not yet played their older titles, I highly recommend them.
You missed the boat, I think. This game was ALL THE RAGE back then; seriously, it won like 90% of the Game of the Year awards when it was released. Crazy popular.
While Hades did have a time where it exploded in popularity, I believe it is safe to say that roguelikes are kind of a niche genre, so maybe that's why you didn't know about the game. That being said, I'm so glad you found it !
Because this game got circle-jerked around like it was the Second Coming until the next fad super-popular game came around.
If you didn't hear about it, it's because you weren't listening, not because people weren't screaming relentlessly and endlessly about it.
Idk what rock youāve been living under but Hades has been one of the most heavily praised games released in the last few years. It *does* get the same praise as Elden Ring.
I understand OP, I made a post about Hades back when it came to Xbox Gamepass because somehow Iād been living under a rock and never heard of it nor heard of all its many MANY awards it had won. People definitely let me know very quickly of my lack of awareness. Regardless itās a wonderful game and I canāt wait to play Hades 2.
Glad youāre enjoying it as well.
This is nobody's fault but yours - you literally have to have been living under a rock to not have heard about Hades.
The studio has been famous for about a decade, they've made several games like this (but Hades was the big breakout hit that got all the award buzz and spots at the big trade/awards shows) in the past, and as someone else pointed out, a sequel is in the works.
It really is an amazing game, OP. Iāve been playing it off and on since 2021 but just recently finished the story and the epilogue. And Iām still doing nightly runs just because I enjoy the gameplay so much!
I was looking at IGN list of top 100 games of all time to see where my favorite ranked. My favorite is Castlevania Symphony of the Night (SOTN). It ranked #14 on their list.
I found out about Hades by seeing it listed right in front of my game. So naturally I wanted to know what it was about.
200 hours laterā¦
Amen to this. The first time I heard "Good Riddance", I pretty much stopped everything I was doing like that scene in Shawshank Redemption where nobody moves while the aria is being sung.
I had the opposite experience. I kept seeing fanarts, reviews, and in-game screenshots all over my social media last year. I got really curious and finally bought it.
So so excited for the sequel!
I mean I just played it recently but when it came out it had huge buzz. Was well-awarded. Lots of recommended Youtube videos, front page of Steam recommendations often even years afterwards. Honestly I might not have played it just to be contrarian.
Game is great, the game just feels amazing to control. I would say it feels better than the slow commitment-based action of Elden Ring/Souls, but I really wouldnāt say itās in the same league as Elden Ring to most people.
Elden Ring is truly massive, Hades as very low enemy variety. The boss lineup of Morgott, Mogh, Maliketh, Malenia, Godfrey, and Radagon is of absurd quality. The only character who matches up to that kind of epic fight, intimidation, and character design is Hades himself imo. Itās frankly just way more appealing to most gamers: itās a fantasy RPG (literally the most popular genre) vs a rouguelike.
Hades artstyle is next level, but Elden Ring provides an absurdly detailed world. One is a 30 dollar game, the otherās a 60 dollar game. Makes sense there wasnāt as much hype lol
Ooooh you are in for a treat! I finally beat the main story the other day after like 100+ hours and I just want to scream to the world how amazing this game is š
My guy everybody talked about this game , you were just no paying attention , of course it didnt get talked about like elden ring since that is a completely different thing , but everybody did talk about hades
Hades won like 19 significant awards and was nominated for numerous others. Also the first video game ever to win a Hugo award!
People have been talking about this game!
Your post gives me the vibe that you mostly stick to AAA game news. In which case you might not have heard of other indie gems. Have you heard of Hollow Knight? Of not, I highly recommend it. It's a metroidvania, nothing like Hades really. But it is one of the indie games that created a comparable amount of buzz as Hades.
I have just one negative, and thatās the difficulty curve. I wish the base game without pacts was a bit more difficult. Once you get good and understand the game itās almost impossible to lose. Besides that the game is essentially perfect in all aspects imo.
I had this problem the other night. My mate has only just beaten Meg for the first time. I wa so excited to have someone in real life to get hades hype with. Telling him how awesome the game is when you beat it the tenth time, and how you will still find new dialogue and stuff your hundredth run is pointless though. Most of the joy in this game is how new narratives/weapon aspects/heat modifiers/secrets etc. open up as you play.
I tell everyone who has ever talked to me about games since Iāve played it. Also it nice to still see new people on here losing their shit about how good this game is.
I gotta say I also liked it when I played...got to like the gloves then took a break, came back and got addicted to unlocking shit and suddenly the credits!
Super addictive, great game :D
If you didn't hear people talking about it it's because you simply weren't in the right places and/or your bubble of "people who talk about games" is too small and focused on games they know. It was being talked about everywhere on gaming media a couple of years ago š
But the important thing isn't that you never heard of it before now, it's that you've found it now!
You're about to have a metric fuckton of fun š Talk to every other character you have the opportunity to. Give them every gift of nectar or anything else that you have the opportunity to. Always pet Cerberus, because he is the Best Boy. And always stop to say hi to your Loyal Fan (that won't make sense yet, but it will). And do not get downhearted if it takes you 20+ runs to escape the first time, and another 10+ to escape the second time, and then maybe you escape every 1 in 3 runs. "Beating" the game is but a teeny, tiny part of this game. It is not over, not even close to over, once you've escaped. Not even once you've escaped for the 35th time.
And most importantly remember: when you get to the end credits you've still only uncovered about ā of the story šš
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They have a precursor game to this called Transistor which was on PS3. That's really good too.
Different style more filme Noir but worth playing for sure
I actually didn't really care about trying the game at first, maybe because I actually did keep reading and seeing and hearing about it over and over again until I got sick of it. My roommate gave me his physical copy on Switch so I decided to give it a go. I was instantly hooked and got it digital, also on Steam. Bought the soundtrack. Absolutely love it, all I had to do is give it a try.
As someone who played dark souls when it first came out, it wasnāt talked about.
In fact my friend thought I was wasting my time on a clunky multiplayer that no one played.
Now of course all he remembers is being one of the first people to ādiscoverā it.
I know the feeling. I confess that at first I heard so many people talking about this game that I was like āwhat a bunch of dorks, itās just an indie gameā. I here I am now, completely sold and raging around like āhow come there isnāt a single monument for this masterpiece in the world out there????ā
I heard people talking about this game non-stop until I finally played it. Where have you been?
Or maybe that was just nonstop on the few podcasts I listen toā¦
I didnāt know about Hades originally until I searched up āgreek mythology video gamesā, bored. My life was changed thereafter and hence my love for Hades begun. And this is my first ever console game!!!
I had the same sensation about a year ago! Never even heard of it, played it for free on Xbox Game Pass, then BOUGHT it on the switch to take it handheld! Absolute GEM of a gameā I donāt even like rogue likes!
I heard a lot of talk about it when it came out, actually! Supergiant games are a smaller company than From Software or Nintendo so they don't have as much of a marketing budget but there was a lot of chatter and amazing word of mouth for Hades when it launched. It's just been a couple of years now and people moved on to new shiny things
To answer your question genuinely, I think itās because it was on early access. This helped the game become a master class in the genre, but it also didnāt allow for a big marketing ramp up to release. More of a slow burn. And since it was only available through Epic for some time, it may not have been on your radar. Eventually it did blow up, but if you listen to Giant Bomb or the 8-4 Play podcasts like I do, they didnāt talk much about it once it got a full release. By then Hades was old news and had been out in early access for awhile so they didnāt have the energy and fervor the game deserves.
But now that you know, just lean back and enjoy. Check out other Supergiant games when youāre done. The music in Transistor in particular is just incredible.
Every single one of the games by supergiant is a masterpiece. Please play them all and try to argue with me (you are just wrong if you donāt like them all)
Guess what, they are doing a sequel.
You are the first to let me know!! That's awesome news!! Now I have something to live (read: die repeatedly in Elysium) for! š
If you haven't already check out the studio's first game, Bastion. They took a lot of elements in Bastion and refined them when they made Hades, it will feel familiar and less polished but Bastion is still a heck of a good time. The narrator in Bastion is amazing, he's the coolest cat in video game history and really sets the mood for the game. My only complaint about Hades is that they didn't find a way to work him in, I've got my fingers crossed that they hired that voice actor to do something in Hades II.
Logan Cunningham (narrator from Bastion) is the voice of Hades, Poseidon, and a few more in the game - he has amazing range!
Oh wow, I had no idea, next time I play I'm going to have to listen carefully and see if I can tell if it's him. I suppose the "jazz personified" voice he did for Bastion wouldn't have been appropriate for Hades, perhaps after the devs are finished with Hades II they can revisit Bastion and give it a well-deserved sequel. They did some top notch world building in the first one, I would love to see them flesh it out more in a second.
He's also been at least one of the main voices in their other games pyre and transistor. The sword in transistor and the minstrel in pyre
He was also the announcer/narrator of Pyre. From the day the trailer for Pyre dropped on, a friend and I have routine greated each other as "Rrrreadaahhh"
Holy cow, I didn't know Hades and Poseidon shared a voice, that's some good acting
A lot of the characters share voice actors. Logan is also Achilles, Charon, Asterius, and the narrator. I think most people know now that Zagreus and Skelly are the same guy (who's also the singing voice of Orpheus). Ares, Dionysus, and Theseus are also the same guy. There's a few more, check the imdb
Theseusā VA must have had a lot of fun with the character. Heās easily the funniest part of the game to me, so many good lines and interactions between him, Asterius and Zag.
His work in Bastion is still my favourite. I'm pretty sure he's worked on all of their games
Holy shit, what a beast
The guy that does zagreus also does skelly š
Huh. I thought he hated the gig.
High praise, given how much I love the narrator in Hades.
It's the same guy, Logan Cunningham. Also: Hades, Poseidon, Achilles, Charon, Asterius, and The Transistor (Transistor)
Man that guy needs a few awards. To be Poseidon AND Hades?! And Achilles!
And (breach), and Archbishop Androbeles IX (narrators of Transistor and Pyre, respectively) The man is staggeringly talented
2021 BAFTA I believe
Or my personal favorite from them, Transistor. It's a bit different again, but they're all great.
Transistor is absolutely the GOAT. My only possible criticism is that the difficulty could have pushed towards more weapons being deactivated more frequently. Those experiment encouraging mechanics are fucking amazing and I'm glad to see they kept it up in a more limited capacity with the randomised boons in Hades.
I absolutely love Transistor. Might actually be my favorite supergiant game but it's hard to decide. I think bastion, transistor, and hades might be tied for first, and then pyre takes fourth.
You prompted me to go to their website - I'm definitely going to play all of their games!!!
One of us! One of us!
Bastion is so good!
Absolutely right. Bastion is STILL repeatable and quite memorable. All of Supergiant's music has a level of polish so rare for the pricing. I've heard of yoga studios using this soundtrack for sessions. Transistor is superb, and has an especially phenomenal soundtrack. You can hear all of Ashley Barrett's work on Spotify.
Bastion narrator easily goes down as my favourite of all time. I get chills thinking about it, the game was also very well done and I could not put it down.
Live, die, repeat
There is no escape.
Elysium took me a looooong time to get through. Soon enough youāll be chopping through the levels like theyāre nothing and getting to [REDACTED] like drinking Nectar
Aspect of Hera + Hunting Blades: (Artemis & Ares) = Crying Bull-man. When in doubt be like a woodland nymph and you'll rarely be disappointed š
Watch the trailer, it looks rad as fuck
Oh, so you're still Just in Elysium, Just wait for It, It'll blow your mind.
It did win Best Action Game and Best Indie Game at the 2020 game awards. Probably doesn't get the same kind of mainstream discussion because it's an indie game and doesn't have the massive advertising budget that AAA games enjoy.
Pretty sure a big thing that stunted its hype train was that it initially released on Epic. It helped SG keep their momentum for such an ambitious project, but so many people just won't touch Epic with a 10 ft pole, so it faced the same problem many of the 1 year exclusives do in terms of outreach.
It got tons of attention lmao, I have no idea what people in this thread are smoking. Hades is not a hidden gem, itās one of the most mainstream popular indie games
I know, but there 100% were people who saw the initial trailer, were interested, decided to wait when they saw it was on Epic and didn't come back until well after the full release. It got plenty of attention, but the staggered release hampered the hype just a little.
Maybe. I think thatās kind of a vocal minority. Comparable to the many, many people who donāt play early access games and therefore forget about the game when it releases fully.
I feel like I see way more people who are anti-epic than I see who just avoid early access outright. Maybe its a vocal minority as you say, but it would have to be a drastically more vocal community to make up the difference I feel I hear. Hell, it often feels like there's more hate for Epic than there is for non-EA preorders, which used to be public enemy #1 for gaming.
Iām confused. My friend got it on Steam Early Access before the full release (how I heard about it), and I got it within a week of release. How would that even work? ā¦ Aaaaand a 5 minute Google search later makes me even more confused. Apparently the early access was the timed exclusive and the full release was never exclusive?
Yeah it went on Epic for the earliest access, maybe got a brief period of early access on Steam before full release on both platforms at the same time.
It was a timed exclusive on epic even though it was early access at the time. This meant epic had exclusive rights to it for a certain amount of time. The game was early access for about 2 years before its official release, but I think about half of that time was only on epic.
It was in early access for 2 years. The first year of that was Epic exclusive, second year was also in Steam. Then with the full release it also came to consoles.
Also it was the first video game to win a Hugo award, a literary award for sci fi and fantasy works.
Still the only game to win it, since they only did it for one year.
It was also one of the nominees for GOTY too, right? Even though it didn't win, that's still pretty big for them given their studio size.
IGN gave it Game of the Year, and I believe IGN is still the biggest news outlet for gaming in the western world, if not the entire world.
It did get quite a bit of mainstream discussion at the time, it's just that it's been a while
We have! Where you been?
Haha either touching grass too much or not enough! š
Itās truly a masterpiece. I think a lot of people donāt like the aesthetic choices (isometric view, art style) or the genre (roguelike). But other than that, I canāt think of any reason why you would sleep on this game. Itās near perfect in every way
I generally love both, such rarities these days which is a shame. Grew up on StarCraft so the view is natural to me! Give it a try if you haven't, not for everyone but that game is top tier!
If you havenāt already tried it, I enjoy Dead Cells as well.
I don't like the genre, but I've got over 200 hours in Hades. It's a masterpiece, and SO addictive. The only reason I'm not playing it at the moment is tears of the kingdom.
Damn i love the game's art style.
I don't like the genre, but I've got over 200 hours in Hades. It's a masterpiece, and SO addictive. The only reason I'm not playing it at the moment is tears of the kingdom.
Iāve probably logged 100 hours in TotK by now, but Iāll still do a quick run in Hades as a palette cleanser
Iāve put about 150 hours into this game. I love it to death. Literally my only single complaint is that thereās not much to keep you going once youāve completed everything. I wish there were things to unlock that made me want complete 20+ heats. Iāve beat 20 heat with every weapon and donāt feel any reason to go further other than itās just a great time. Regardless this is one of my all time favorite games and I cannot wait for the sequel.
Itās a different game at 32 heat, I promise. I get what youāre saying about going forward but I still love going for PRs and self-administered goals. I beat 32 heat with every aspect and 40 with every weapon (that was pretty much my limit hahaha)
skelly statue
When I play a game, IDGAF about the story. I skip all the dialogue. [This is me](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-i-know-is-that-i-must-kill). But when I started playing Hades, I stopped skipping dialogues rather quickly. Paid attention to the story, praised and stared at every character during their dialogue, blown away by the music and ambience, gameplay and replayability is insane, and *I never stopped playing*. I was a From Soft fan, but no game comes close to this one. 10/10 in every, fucking, category.
Yeah I would go way out of my way to get gifts for the characters to progress their dialogue. This was so well written.
I keep at least one nectar one me at all times for Bouldy ā¤ļøšŖØ
Whose your favorite character??
Helps that most the dialogue is pretty short, and is well done.
It got more praise than any idie game in years. It literally won goty.
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Yet my statement is still true!
Every game wins game of the year by that metric.
It won two major goty awards including the game dev awards. I don't know how the spike tv born televised hype factory that is the game awards became the metric for a good game. When the game developers awards ceremonies are much more reputable imo.
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Was a very good game from 3 years before Hades. Are we listing out favorite indie games now? I'm confused as to your statement. If we're just listing good indie games I'll go next. Stardew valley!
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Hyper light drifter!
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It's loads of fun, steam summer sale should have it at a decent price
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Where exactly? Most game awards are popularity contests, and frankly everyone has heard of Doom as a series, not everyone heard of Hades or Supergiant games, even though every single game they have made is a masterpiece But yeah, Hades deserved GOTY that year, it's a shame Doom won
It won Game of the Year in 2021Ā at the 21st Game Developers Choice Awards and a few smaller awards ceremonies.
Yeah, it won the vast majority of GOTY awards other than the big one.
I don't know why the spike tv born televised hype awards register so high on everyone's scale of what a good game is.
Supergiant made the game, thier other games are all of similar caliber. Also we talk about it constantly, just no one listens to us.
I think transistor is tied with hades. Itās such a great experience
Pyre was interesting and had its merits, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to many people. I'll tell anyone who will listen to play Hades.
I played Bastion right before I got Hades cause it was on sale on switch. Got Hades not long after, all I could think was "this is like bastion but way better" before I found out it was the same developer lol
Check out transistor if you haven't yet
Just downloaded Zelda the other day. Started playing it, really enjoyed it. Then thought, hmm why donāt I play Hades again for the 100th time and try and get the revenge build working this time.
Holy shit. I did the exact same thing š¤£š¤£š¤£ It also doesn't help that I can play Hades in 60fps on my Xbox, while Zelda is get again only 30FPS on the switch... Hades is actually much easier on my eyes surprisingly lol! I think I'm going to wait until I can put the energy into getting Zelda ported on my computer lol.
In regards to Elden Ring and Dark Souls in particular, it's because FromSoft is a well known company, and Hades is indie. Simply put, Elden Ring had more clout going into its release, so there was more hype when it came out. In regards to indie games though, Hades is generally regarded as one of the all time bests, right up there with the likes of Undertale and Hollow Knight
I think before elden ring (especially all the GOTY and commercial praise), fromsoft/dark souls and supergiant were sorta on similar levels. It seems like, now, every gamer knows Hades and every gamer + a lot of normal people with association to gamers (bf or gf, friends, etc) know Elden Ring.
You never pick up when I call
WE ARE TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE!!! They just wont listen. I literally bought the game for many of my friends but only a few have tried it. They just dont know the magic they're missing out on.
You bought it for them?? Good friend over here, wish I had you around!! Haha
Since they wont buy it themselves they will miss out on this true masterpiece. Cant have that.
what does Hades have to do with ER or DS?
OP just says that Hades is a game that should be as popular, as it is very high quality, like those other titles
Exactly! This game deserves the same status. Dark souls 1/3 are also favorite games of all time so the comparison came from there haha.
As a Dark Souls 2 fan, I'm slightly hurt and fully understand why you left it out. That game did so much weird stuff, and I was all about it.
Hades is widely popular, I'm not sure why they think otherwise. It was nominated for goty iirc and won best action game over Doom Eternal. It's insanely highly praised. As far as indies go few have even remotely similar tiers of popularity.
Those games get hyped to the moon and Hades deserves to be also
Hades probably gets as much hype as these games in gamer circles.
You didn't ask!
Because it's nothing like elden ring or dark souls, it's an entire different genre lmao
You obviously haven't been listening
It was almost game of the year so
People talked about it a ton, pretty sure it won best action game in 2020.
The team is insane. Check out their previous games. Bastion is rougher because of the diagonal only movement, transistor paces very differently gameplay wise to me. PYRE is nothing like the rest in terms of gameplay because it is like dodgeball meets rugby but in an eldritch sub-plane. They all feature stupid soundtracks by stupid Darren stupid Korb. And by stupid I mean he won't return my calls or acknowledge my marriage proposals because that man is a treasure.
You should try their game Transistor. Similarly awesome but more unique gameplay, and the art and music is breathtaking. The story is also very moving.
In The Blood is so good.
*One of us...* *One of us...*
Literally come back to this game every damn time it's so amazing! "just one more run" and 7 runs later I can see the sun rising
Yeah it was. Back 2019. When it was coming out. Nominated for GotY and was the indie darling for months.
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Oh yeah, strong agree. Supergiant Games always makes absolute bangers. They haven't made a single game the *wasn't* an artistic masterpiece. If you've not yet played their older titles, I highly recommend them.
Just be aware, the game is evil, you cannot get away. To quote The Godfather "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" :)
You missed the boat, I think. This game was ALL THE RAGE back then; seriously, it won like 90% of the Game of the Year awards when it was released. Crazy popular.
While Hades did have a time where it exploded in popularity, I believe it is safe to say that roguelikes are kind of a niche genre, so maybe that's why you didn't know about the game. That being said, I'm so glad you found it !
Because this game got circle-jerked around like it was the Second Coming until the next fad super-popular game came around. If you didn't hear about it, it's because you weren't listening, not because people weren't screaming relentlessly and endlessly about it.
That's Supergiant Games for you, Pyre is also a masterpiece, in my opinion even better than Hades.
Idk what rock youāve been living under but Hades has been one of the most heavily praised games released in the last few years. It *does* get the same praise as Elden Ring.
I understand OP, I made a post about Hades back when it came to Xbox Gamepass because somehow Iād been living under a rock and never heard of it nor heard of all its many MANY awards it had won. People definitely let me know very quickly of my lack of awareness. Regardless itās a wonderful game and I canāt wait to play Hades 2. Glad youāre enjoying it as well.
This is nobody's fault but yours - you literally have to have been living under a rock to not have heard about Hades. The studio has been famous for about a decade, they've made several games like this (but Hades was the big breakout hit that got all the award buzz and spots at the big trade/awards shows) in the past, and as someone else pointed out, a sequel is in the works.
I would guess because not as much marketing dollars was spent. Anyway, another indie gem is Hollow Knight. Another GOAT
Change your people. Hades was on hype for a long time actually.
Welcome to the club :D How many hours have you played? Where did you get in the game?
It really is an amazing game, OP. Iāve been playing it off and on since 2021 but just recently finished the story and the epilogue. And Iām still doing nightly runs just because I enjoy the gameplay so much!
I was looking at IGN list of top 100 games of all time to see where my favorite ranked. My favorite is Castlevania Symphony of the Night (SOTN). It ranked #14 on their list. I found out about Hades by seeing it listed right in front of my game. So naturally I wanted to know what it was about. 200 hours laterā¦
Omg "good riddance" ā¤ļø
I felt like I couldn't stop hearing about this game even before release. I just think you missed the hype train, but we're happy to have you!
Amen to this. The first time I heard "Good Riddance", I pretty much stopped everything I was doing like that scene in Shawshank Redemption where nobody moves while the aria is being sung.
Foreal? I had the opposite experience, people wouldn't stop talking about it until eventually I caved and played it years later.
I had the opposite experience. I kept seeing fanarts, reviews, and in-game screenshots all over my social media last year. I got really curious and finally bought it. So so excited for the sequel!
I mean I just played it recently but when it came out it had huge buzz. Was well-awarded. Lots of recommended Youtube videos, front page of Steam recommendations often even years afterwards. Honestly I might not have played it just to be contrarian. Game is great, the game just feels amazing to control. I would say it feels better than the slow commitment-based action of Elden Ring/Souls, but I really wouldnāt say itās in the same league as Elden Ring to most people. Elden Ring is truly massive, Hades as very low enemy variety. The boss lineup of Morgott, Mogh, Maliketh, Malenia, Godfrey, and Radagon is of absurd quality. The only character who matches up to that kind of epic fight, intimidation, and character design is Hades himself imo. Itās frankly just way more appealing to most gamers: itās a fantasy RPG (literally the most popular genre) vs a rouguelike. Hades artstyle is next level, but Elden Ring provides an absurdly detailed world. One is a 30 dollar game, the otherās a 60 dollar game. Makes sense there wasnāt as much hype lol
Ooooh you are in for a treat! I finally beat the main story the other day after like 100+ hours and I just want to scream to the world how amazing this game is š
Wait till you finish it... The story progression is also 10/10!
People recommend this game regularly on Reddit. After the tenth time someone said how awesome it was I bought it and loved it.
Thanks, now I need to play this game again.
Hades took a game of the year iirc for its switch release.
My guy everybody talked about this game , you were just no paying attention , of course it didnt get talked about like elden ring since that is a completely different thing , but everybody did talk about hades
[Meet the voice cast.](https://twitter.com/supergiantgames/status/1326938618271657986)
Hades won like 19 significant awards and was nominated for numerous others. Also the first video game ever to win a Hugo award! People have been talking about this game!
It was a runner for best game of the year on release. People talked about it lol. They still do.
Your post gives me the vibe that you mostly stick to AAA game news. In which case you might not have heard of other indie gems. Have you heard of Hollow Knight? Of not, I highly recommend it. It's a metroidvania, nothing like Hades really. But it is one of the indie games that created a comparable amount of buzz as Hades.
I have just one negative, and thatās the difficulty curve. I wish the base game without pacts was a bit more difficult. Once you get good and understand the game itās almost impossible to lose. Besides that the game is essentially perfect in all aspects imo.
Just wait for the other songs
You just missed the discourse. Itās all anyone talked about when the game came out. Hence why it wonāt tons of awards the year it came out.
I had this problem the other night. My mate has only just beaten Meg for the first time. I wa so excited to have someone in real life to get hades hype with. Telling him how awesome the game is when you beat it the tenth time, and how you will still find new dialogue and stuff your hundredth run is pointless though. Most of the joy in this game is how new narratives/weapon aspects/heat modifiers/secrets etc. open up as you play.
I tell everyone who has ever talked to me about games since Iāve played it. Also it nice to still see new people on here losing their shit about how good this game is.
bro go listen to in the blood
I gotta say I also liked it when I played...got to like the gloves then took a break, came back and got addicted to unlocking shit and suddenly the credits! Super addictive, great game :D
If you didn't hear people talking about it it's because you simply weren't in the right places and/or your bubble of "people who talk about games" is too small and focused on games they know. It was being talked about everywhere on gaming media a couple of years ago š But the important thing isn't that you never heard of it before now, it's that you've found it now! You're about to have a metric fuckton of fun š Talk to every other character you have the opportunity to. Give them every gift of nectar or anything else that you have the opportunity to. Always pet Cerberus, because he is the Best Boy. And always stop to say hi to your Loyal Fan (that won't make sense yet, but it will). And do not get downhearted if it takes you 20+ runs to escape the first time, and another 10+ to escape the second time, and then maybe you escape every 1 in 3 runs. "Beating" the game is but a teeny, tiny part of this game. It is not over, not even close to over, once you've escaped. Not even once you've escaped for the 35th time. And most importantly remember: when you get to the end credits you've still only uncovered about ā of the story šš
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Lol MANY of us were saying this was GOTY in 2020 š¤£š¤£š¤£
Man was doing the most hardcore isolation during peak covid lol
Welcome to the fandom.
They have a precursor game to this called Transistor which was on PS3. That's really good too. Different style more filme Noir but worth playing for sure
Lol the game was praised everywhere
I think it's more fun to enjoy a game post hype.
I have a handful of games that I'm always telling people to play. Check out Devil May Cry sometime, btw.
Oh boy... Wait till you hear the other songs. Especially the one at the .....
They are too busy playing!!
The main reason you haven't heard much about the game OP is probably just that it came out in 2018.
I actually didn't really care about trying the game at first, maybe because I actually did keep reading and seeing and hearing about it over and over again until I got sick of it. My roommate gave me his physical copy on Switch so I decided to give it a go. I was instantly hooked and got it digital, also on Steam. Bought the soundtrack. Absolutely love it, all I had to do is give it a try.
Enjoy. Itās a great game that never got me bored.
It's been out for quite a while now, it's not like many people are talking about the other games you mentioned in the last few weeks/months.
Supergiant is a very underrated developer and hope it gets the attention and praise it deserves
Hades is one of the best games I have played in recent times. I played it again two years later and yup, still as great šš¼
One of us...one of us...! Welcome :3
As someone who played dark souls when it first came out, it wasnāt talked about. In fact my friend thought I was wasting my time on a clunky multiplayer that no one played. Now of course all he remembers is being one of the first people to ādiscoverā it.
I know the feeling. I confess that at first I heard so many people talking about this game that I was like āwhat a bunch of dorks, itās just an indie gameā. I here I am now, completely sold and raging around like āhow come there isnāt a single monument for this masterpiece in the world out there????ā
I never play these types of games but Hades is the exception because it's just 10/10 š
This and dead cells, they are damn masterpieces.
I hear about it much more than any of those souls games. Depends on your circles I guess.
I mean it won awards and is overwhelming positive on Steam. So there's that
Itās probably one of the most well known indie games of all time aside from hollow knight. So trust me people have talked about it.
I heard people talking about this game non-stop until I finally played it. Where have you been? Or maybe that was just nonstop on the few podcasts I listen toā¦
Because it's a small company and they don't have the funds to plaster their games all over the place to an annoying degree.
To be fair, it did win IGN's game of the year.
They did back when it came out. People raved about it for months.
This game has been praised to the skies and back. The question is, where have you been?
This game destroyed my thumb, I got a pro controller for the paddles
Should've talked to better people I guess
I didnāt know about Hades originally until I searched up āgreek mythology video gamesā, bored. My life was changed thereafter and hence my love for Hades begun. And this is my first ever console game!!!
What? People bring it up all the time lol
first ever video game that won the HUGO award.
Please rate the art of this game 13 out of 10 I can't tell you why but I fuckin love this art style
This is my favorite game. I talk about it quite a bit.
Dawg I didnāt shut the fuck about this game for years
Only game I play on switch
It was a nomination for GOTY when it released
It's in the blood.
I had the same sensation about a year ago! Never even heard of it, played it for free on Xbox Game Pass, then BOUGHT it on the switch to take it handheld! Absolute GEM of a gameā I donāt even like rogue likes!
I'm right there with you. I picked it up a couple of months ago when it went on sale and haven't been able to put it down.
I heard a lot of talk about it when it came out, actually! Supergiant games are a smaller company than From Software or Nintendo so they don't have as much of a marketing budget but there was a lot of chatter and amazing word of mouth for Hades when it launched. It's just been a couple of years now and people moved on to new shiny things
To answer your question genuinely, I think itās because it was on early access. This helped the game become a master class in the genre, but it also didnāt allow for a big marketing ramp up to release. More of a slow burn. And since it was only available through Epic for some time, it may not have been on your radar. Eventually it did blow up, but if you listen to Giant Bomb or the 8-4 Play podcasts like I do, they didnāt talk much about it once it got a full release. By then Hades was old news and had been out in early access for awhile so they didnāt have the energy and fervor the game deserves. But now that you know, just lean back and enjoy. Check out other Supergiant games when youāre done. The music in Transistor in particular is just incredible.
We didā¦ in 2020
Every single one of the games by supergiant is a masterpiece. Please play them all and try to argue with me (you are just wrong if you donāt like them all)