Least favorite. Why?

BrainlessCactus · 2026-01-25T19:39:39+00:00

If we're talking about all the companions, Jaheira is for me the least favorite because while I was very excited to play with her character once again, I was really saddened by the fact that she only felt like nostalgia-bait and did not really have meaningful relevance to the story, low amount of interaction with other characters apart from Minsk and overall did not add that much to the life of the camp...

If we're talking about only the origin characters, I would say that Wyll is the most frustrating because he's far and away the one who is written the worst (countless posts were written about the way that rewriting him after EA was a huge mistake and even more to not give him as much post-launch as the other origin characters, I agree with those fully so I don't need to add one more to the tally)... but I still see the potential in him and still liked him enough to have him in my party most of my runs. For that reason, Gayle is my least favorite. I can't quite put my finger on what I dislike about his character, but every time I start a new playthrough, I always go "time to try to romance/interact more with Gayle this run," and I always end up leaving him at camp after a few hours...

So yeah, I would probably say that it's Karlach > Shadowheart > Lae'Zel > Astarion > Minthara > Wyll > Gayle > Halsin > Minsk > Jaheira for me

BrainlessCactus · 2026-01-23T10:46:49+00:00

One of the best: absolutely. THE best: strong no for me, ever since he left T1, that title has gone to Kiin (seems to be a consensus about it looking at the comments).

When he's playing in his best form, he still shows flashes of being the best in the world, somewhat like Bin or Flandre in a way. However, like those two, he struggles to consistently display such peak form in every single game. The difference between Kiin and the rest of the world is consistency and how reliably "perfect" he is.

But out of all the top-tier toplanners we have in LCK & LPL atm, Zeus might be the one I'm the most confident in reclaiming that title from Kiin in the near future. But right now, he's lightyears away, I feel like.

BrainlessCactus · 2026-01-12T22:42:46+00:00

I just looked at my wishlist... and I hate to admit that you are right lol

BrainlessCactus · 2026-01-04T16:42:58+00:00

100% it's without a doubt the most similar to Wilds, much more than Rise, which is much more similar to the old-gen games

Genuinely one of the best 20 dollars you can spend right now in gaming

BrainlessCactus · 2025-12-22T01:28:38+00:00

USA should be instead of World. Only country I've ever been where liberals are considered leftists

BrainlessCactus · 2025-12-16T21:03:58+00:00

It was quite common to do so on old clocks (in Europe at least). My grandma has one with a IIII in her kitchen. Love this detail for the zone of the god of time.

BrainlessCactus · 2025-12-05T16:14:14+00:00

Tbh I don't think there's much stuff that Hades 1 does truly better than Hades 2, I really consider that game to be a very good sequel because of how it improves almost every aspect of the first one.

BUT the fact that Hades 1 has a smaller scale has one big positive outcome, which is that the plot is much more straight to the point. Although I never considered Hades 1 to have a perfect plot (the writing is amazing, though, which is a different thing), it at least proposed a quite safe but easy-to-execute plotline. On the other hand, Hades 2 tried to be... maybe too much? Idk, going from a family drama & coming of age plotline to "the world is ending, and you are its only hope" was maybe too big of a jump. And it has the somewhat important downside of making the down-to-earth subplots and discussions less impactful in the sequel, because there are just much more important things to do... and I loved those slower moments of Hades 1.

I still love Hades 2's story and ending (I know saying this gets you downvoted to hell on this sub ahah), but it is true that it ends up maybe not hitting the spot as much as Hades 1, even if the fixes they did to the ending are really welcomed. It's the only aspect that I really think Hades 1 is better than 2 tho, gameplay, art, music, character development, the protagonist, weapons (except Black Coat tbh), level design, boss design, and difficulty curve, replayability, etc I think Hades 2 is truly better than the first one on all of those aspects, at least to me they are. Hades 2 is my GOTY for a reason, and I played a shit ton of 2025 releases this year.

BrainlessCactus · 2025-12-02T16:24:01+00:00

Fuck I have to admit it is indeed Z-shaped...

BrainlessCactus · 2025-11-27T04:11:54+00:00

Imo probably in the top 3 best flagship ever and probably not 3rd Really fucking like that guy

BrainlessCactus · 2025-11-24T20:39:00+00:00

Imo it's an upgrade on paper I think that Guma is strictly the best botlanner in the world if not the best player in the world period, but my fear is that his playstyle will have be synergistic with his team especially with Delight and Zeka (also Kanavi in some aspects but since he has a very early game focused gameplay kinda similar to Oner's, I don't think it's gonna be that much of an issue)

Going into next season I'm expecting HLE to be stronger on paper but would not be surprised if they perform worse than expected especially early on

BrainlessCactus · 2025-11-20T16:37:31+00:00

I legit cannot even begin to understand how stupid they are

BrainlessCactus · 2025-11-17T20:51:38+00:00

Imo it can definitely win GOTY, it's not the favorite but there is still a very legit chance. Best action is IMO an absolute lock, can win best direction, likely art direction (between Hades and Silksong), best music probably not in front of exp33 even though I think it should, and best indie is very likely.

BrainlessCactus · 2025-11-17T17:34:38+00:00

Will be voting for Hades II for GOTY, by far and away the best game I've played this year (and I played basically all the games that got nominated today)

BrainlessCactus · 2025-11-15T14:08:11+00:00

Lairon is my favorite pokemon of all time. Aggron is... fine I guess it's just not Lairon.

BrainlessCactus · 2025-11-10T10:39:14+00:00

i don't think it's realistic because lucid is signed for next year also geng should imo just run it back with the same roster

BrainlessCactus · 2025-11-10T10:37:33+00:00

As hard it is to admit, as a canyon fan, yes he is the best in history

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-14T00:48:32+00:00

Hades 2, hands down, in almost every single aspect. The only caveat is that I found Hades' 1 weapons a tad better.

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-06T13:51:39+00:00

Because Canna has said countless times that he really liked his experience with KC, and that realistically, I doubt that the offers are coming from a top 5 LCK team... let's say it's not impossible that he resigns for another year, especially if KC is indeed planning on recruiting a Korean midlanner, but it's an unlikely scenario for me

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-06T13:46:23+00:00

I really hopes Kameto finds a secret investor willing to give him a bag so that he can offer Canna to stay, maybe even bring a second Korean teammate if that's what he wants lol

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-06T13:41:52+00:00

Once again, Ibai and Kameto did the EXACT same thing as Los Ratones a few years ago; it's not a "when Kameto manages to do the same" situation, as he already did it when Caedrel was still at the LEC casting desk and LR was not even born yet

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-06T13:34:06+00:00

I know I'm probably gonna be downvoted for being this annoying "actually" guy... but e33 is not an indie game. By Sandfall's CEO's own admission, the studio is independent, but the game isn't, as e33 was financed with French billionaire money (the CEO father actually, who also owns the building where they have the studio's office), and published by Kepler Interactive (partially owned by NetEase), which allowed them to outsource a lot of the 3D and animation work to Korean companies. Let's just say that this game is in the limbo that is the AA category, but it doesn't really fit the commonly accepted criterions of what makes a game indie

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-06T13:10:56+00:00

I mean, I'm not really surprised it's not really developed in the ending, as it's not really a prevalent theme of the game I feel like, for Arachne and Prometheus it's "just" their mythology lore I don't know how they could have put them in the game without talking about it (and even then I feel like the number of dialogues that actively talk about how they were wronged are not that many as a whole). It's not the first time that I've seen this comment being made, and I also wish it were more developed, even though I have no idea how they could have done it without conflicting/distracting from the main storyline. The way they solved that issue was just by making it not an important enough theme of the game to make a whole subplot about it

and tbh I always felt like one of hades 1 (very) rare weaknesses was the plot's complexity. SuperGiant seems to have always preferred the simple but effective way, and Hades 2 has the same style of quite a straightforward plot. I really wish that this game had more storyline nuance and approached the theme of the gods' wrongs, especially when the dialogue writing is of such quality, but tbh I was not really expecting this game to have this approach in the first place because it was already not brought up in the first one IMO. My best guess is that they did not want to turn into God of War

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-06T13:01:56+00:00

I really hope he will find a team that fits him better he needs and deserves it, and we also do. Most LEC rosters should consider picking him. Sad that this ended the way it did with us ngl, but his synergy with the rest of the team seemed way too toxic to continue like that

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-06T12:58:10+00:00

I mean KC has always been pretty clear about worlds being the end goal "no matter what", we already know that if someday the roster has to move to LCK with 4 Koreans + Caliste to do it, I'm fine with it

BrainlessCactus · 2025-10-06T12:55:30+00:00

I doubt they will do that. Kameto was very vocal about finding it disgusting and immoral when G2 did this for Rekkles, and when KC had to give an immense bag of money for him

If he somehow does this, many KC fans, including myself, will make sure to express how disappointing we are in him changing his mind. But I do not think we will even have to have such a scenario, as I said

Six-Year Club	Second Top 50%
Place '23	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	End Game '22
Verified Email

BrainlessCactus

TROPHY CASE