• numberfour002@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m usually a patient gamer type. I think I got Hades in 2022 or 2023 on discount. I’ve also never purchased an early access game. But I’m seriously considering this one.

    Main thing holding me back is that I just don’t get to play games very much this time of year, and I probably won’t have much time again until Fall.

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      6 months ago

      If you really don’t have much time to game, I’d still say try to wait. It’ll be more fleshed out later on and perhaps out of EA(?).

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        6 months ago

        Solid point. But I want it now. I guess I’m still holding out hope that I might have some time to play while I’m traveling in the next month or so.

        Does the early access stuff sometimes stop being available? Like if I don’t buy it soon, is it something that might go away until they’re ready to do a full release?

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          6 months ago

          I’m not aware of that happening, but I can’t say for sure. Typically the games stay Early Access until they announce the official release.

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      6 months ago

      Supergiant is possibly the only company I would say do it for. All of their games are well polished and complete. They don’t believe in dlc which is great. I’m someone that is still waiting for Spiderman 2 to go on discount before I buy it. Last full price game I bought was Hades surprisingly enough.

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        6 months ago

        You’re such an enabler. I love it! Stop enabling me.

        I know I’m not necessarily representative of the average gamer, but Hades is and was one of my favorite modern games. I feel like it’s almost pointless to not buy this game as soon as I can, even if I don’t have time to play it right this moment. Have you played it already at this point, and if so, what are your impressions?

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      6 months ago

      I bought the game and played for roughly 3 hours. If you’ve seen their stream from the technical test, I got roughly as far in the meta-game as they did, but run-wise I got somewhere ~the middle of the third act. Right now I can see at least ~3-5 hours of unlockables I need to get resources for (and more is revealed after more runs/unlocks), and I haven’t tried most new boons yet.

      It’s really good. There are three things I’ve noticed are missing (animations for one interactable in the hub world, portraits for 2 characters further in). Aside from that it feels similar quality-wise to the first game, which I last played a week ago, so it’s still fresh in my mind.

      I’m sure new content will get slower soon and halt in a couple of hours, but wow is it polished already. There’s also an indication of a lot of additional content coming in the future, but that will have to wait for further patches.

    • Yrt@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      If you don’t have much time to spare I would recommend to wait a little more. It would still be a big support if you buy it at full price in fall.