"It takes a lot of getting used to, but you do get used to it"
What are your favorite supergiant Games game? (Or games with SGG vibes)
Bastion is my fav. The gameplay is challenging, world beautiful, great OST and good voice acting and themes.
Transistor had a unique combat and good songs.
Pyre tricked you to play a sports game and overstayed its welcome.
Hades is serviceable but overrated and bosses are repetitive. Also the grind.

They're still relevant?

>>716519589 (OP)
bastion is their only good game, simple as

I loved Hades but I'm saddened by the fact that they're doing Hades 2 now. I keep wanting new things from them. Guess they finally found a cash cow and are capitalizing on it.

>>716519589 (OP)
I liked Transistor but it lacked bosses. It only really had three IIRC and the big worm fight felt underbaked

>>716520074
I still replay Bastion one in a while so ig so.

>>716520464
pyre is their only bad game, simple as

>>716520652
I agree. They have a talent for making games with good worldbuilding and unique gameplay mechanics. Hades 2 is like you said, a cash cow. Would have prefered a new IP insted.

>>716520982
Pyre did some things well. The beginning was good with nerve-wreaking gameplay since winning and loseing have consequences for the rest of the game. The gameplay had some depth to it and themes and worldbuilding are on par with what we can expect from SGG. But after all is said and done, it was mid at best.

>>716520760
I dont get why they put so much effort into that game and its setting for it only be like 2 hrs long

>>716520464
Everytime I replay it I save Zulf. Even if I tell myself that I won't in the beginning of the playthrough. It just tugs on your heart strings.

>>716519589 (OP)
I think Hades is their best one, a culmination of all the lessons learned from the previous three, but Transistor hits all the right notes for me.
>>716520652
Same. I hope this was more of a one time thing just to better secure future projects. As much time as I put into Hades I haven't been curious to even look into Hades 2.

Pyre is by far their most interesting game and it would have been a complete masterpiece if casual playtesters hadn't gotten filtered and made the devs neuter all the oregon trail survival aspects.

>>716519589 (OP)
>play Bastion
>loved it so much bought other games
>never played other games for fear they will suck compared to Bastion

>>716520982
I got Pyre for free when Hades first came to Steam and I ended up liking it a lot. Odd mix of ideas but they made it work.
>>716522186
That VA they've been using since the start needs more respect. Didn't even realize it was the same guy voicing the judge guy.

>>716521895
Hades was too repetitive for me. The bosses are all the same every run and the grind (that is mandatory for progression unless you are a god-tierd gamer that never gets hit) was laborious. I get it's a rougelike and the grind is supposed to be part of the fun, but it didn't get me. The characters and interactions are fun and the art is good.

>>716520982
Pyre has best girl, all other opinions are invalid.

>>716522186
Pyre was interesting but I quit after saving my first crew member. (When it opens up and expects you to do it all over again). It was a sports game in disguise and it didn't quite connect with me after the first few rounds.

>>716522534
I know I'm not alone in saying this since it was a common comment on release, but as someone who rarely got into roguelikes due to their inherent repetition, I got really into Hades. I ended up putting some 100 hours before finally calling it quit, by that point I had done everything worthwhile.
In several ways I thought the game was genius. In a weird way I also think the story was stronger before the 1.0 release since it gave the story a lot more time to fully develop the intrigue although I was disappointed in some ways, like how Tisiphone's MURDER accusations end up being literally nothing at all.

>>716522350
Try Transistor. It's not as good as Bastion but has same-ish vibe and soul.

>>716523141
You didn't clock that it's the only word she can say?

>>716523275
It's not like you meet her outside of the boss fight so there was some mystery, considering before 1.0 we didn't know what actually happened with Persephone.

I liked Transistor, but the ending can bite me.
>DUDE, what if I lock myself forever inside this sword with my man?

>>716523638
It's a fucking zombie

>>716523141
I put about 10 hours on Hades before calling it quits (got to Elysium multiple times but fell for the minotaur). I played some rougelikes since but the one that got me to put in 40+ hours was The Binding of Isaac (with all dlc and some mods).
Oh, and FTL was a time vampire also.

>>716523692
By the end the entire world is in there.

>>716523847
Nothing a bottle of ambrosia can't solve.

I found Bastion to be very boring and felt like a really cheap game, the only stand out was the narrator and while it was good it wasn't for me

>>716522186
The oregon trail parts were the parts I cared about. The basketball shit was gay.

>>716523894
Really? Maybe I'm misremembering the story, but I thought it went
>sci-fi city is boring for its citizens
>the government uses reality warping tech to make it forever interesting
>it works amazingly
>but the government puts some citizens inside the conductor's baton for the reality warping tech (the sword)
>then everything goes to hell and the MC has to restore the city

>>716523860
I think for me part of what made me stick with it was the story. The gameplay was fun for what it's worth but I really liked the characters and wanted to know more. Great metal soundtrack as well.

>>716519589 (OP)
SG was always kinda mid. People only latched onto bastion for the narrator gimmick. And the rest of the games play similarly, but increasingly gay.

>>716519589 (OP)
I've only played Bastion and Hades, and of the two, I prefer Bastion by far. Hades was just annoying by the end -- there's still a number of sideplots I'll never see finished because I can't be arsed to complete the game over and over again after getting persephone down into the underworld. I really hate this use of roguelikes to remove the need for devs to actually plan out a coherent experience that respects your time, just slot in a bunch of breadcrumb-linked plotlines and hope the player completes them in a reasonable timeframe and fuck you if you don't, just keep doing 99% of the same shit over and over again until you've got it

I've only played bastion and transistor but I liked transistor better.

>>716524220
It's been a while since I last played it but IIRC the problem was that the citizens like the constant changes, it was the Camerata who wanted it to finally stopped. Maybe not everyone was inside the Transistor since the game keeps things a bit vague and there's no NPCs around but by the end Red and the boyfriend are "alive" but inside the Transistor.

>>716524220
It was a woman moment, Sword boyfriend tried to get her to get her shit together and fix everything.

>>716524636
I think it could also be interpreted as the city being a simulation, which explains why they can control every single detail just by having people vote for it, and the Transistor is some simulation inside the simulation.

>>716519589 (OP)
Bastion was a great experience, and Transistor was alright. The turn-based tactical mode concept was fun even if a bit easily broken.
They peaked at Pyre and everybody was so filtered by it that they were forced to go back to Bastion 3: Roguelike Edition and it sold a million bajillion copies.
Hades was the fucking death of Supergiant Games and I mourn them.

>>716525015
>they gave Pyre for free with Hades because they wanted people to play it
>nobody played it anyway
I would have also sold out and gone all in on the roguelike slop.

>>716525521
>gamers didnt want divegrass with tumbler OCs
weird

>

>>716526016
yeah, they wanted Bastion roguelike slop with tumblr OCs

I wish Transistor was longer

>>716524331
Bastion took off partly cuz of Totalbiscuit's praise (RIP TB).

>>716524457
I played Bastion like 4-5 times and Transistor once. Maybe I should give it another go. I still listen to Transistor's hummed OST and songs.

>>716525015
It's not right to call it Bastion 3, Bastion's combat was wayyy more varied and complex with way more weapons and combos you can do; not to mention the gods modifiers.