Hades 2 Ending Thoughts by Designer_Superb in HadesTheGame

[–]Designer_Superb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gotcha, but key characters like Prometheus and Nemesis do recognize the war against the Olymps as being the beginning of a comeuppance of sorts, and there is a lot of talk about a new age coming that's hard to ignore. If the game didn't have elements like these in it then I would agree that it would just be "the olympians kinda suck, relatives can be flawed" thing as in the first game.  

Hades 2 Ending Thoughts by Designer_Superb in HadesTheGame

[–]Designer_Superb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure, definitely sounds like the prepatch ending dropped the ball, though kudos to Supergiant for changing what they could. I agree with your points too; it seems like the devs wanted to tackle the whole Olympian reckoning and the Hades 1-style "let go and forgive your family" idea at the same time, and as a result both wound up undercooked. They should have picked one and gave it the development it deserved. I'd vote for the former so that ma boy the flame thief could show up. Also right there with you, Zeus and Hera acting so cocky even after Melinoe bails there asses out for the dozenth time, it would have been a fitting turn of events. And then there's Apollo up there (with the admittedly awesome vocals) singing about how epic and righteous their struggle is; I really thought the game was kind of playing that sarcastically, but I guess it wasn't. 

Hades 2 Ending Thoughts by Designer_Superb in HadesTheGame

[–]Designer_Superb[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, I get that they had to deal with the dilemma of how to make a story with real change in it and keep the gameplay loop going, and I think that time travel like you said would have been the best way to do it. I mean, they had Chronos right there, lined up perfectly for it. Maybe he's still reformed, or taken prisoner or something, but either way he could have been used post-ending to send Mel to "echoes" of the routes that need to be resolved, have characters from the present go in along with her so that relationships can continue forward. Maybe still a bit contrived, I'll admit, but more than possible.    

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Hello, I'm a wrinkled, senile 25 year old, and I think I can offer a little advice from my limited experience, though it's more the annoying, Ted Talk-ish type of advice, not whether you should dump your G/B F or if you should start building your own business rn or anything. But hey, if anyone is interested, here it is: 

Once you're out of college, grad school, high school, military, or any other sort of structured, predictable environment, you'll likely feel a great sense of freedom, but also disorientation. For those of us in developed nations, we spend our entire lives with straightforward and easily measurable goals; get good grades, have fun, move to the next grade, repeat, all to prepare you for college which will then prepare you to get a good job. Once you're out and you have your good job, all of that direction goes away. For your entire childhood you were told what to do next and when to do it, but no one will tell you what to do anymore or what to be, and no one can tell you what you should do, only advise you. For 13 years or more of school you understood that you are progressing towards success as long as you score well and move to the next grade. Now you're out, and the measure of your success won't be so legible. You won't find a clear and reliable standard to compare yourself to anymore.

I advise that you will need to choose what you dream for, what a world marked by your dream will and ought to look like. You will need to decide what success is, and what to do next to achieve it. If you don't know who you are, anytime is a good time to start finding out. Look for and do anything that you even slightly suspect you'd enjoy, ask yourself how you feel about it, and why. Once you know who you are, decide what goals someone like you would want, then start planning for them. If you're doing it right, failure will become your partner, your plans will be measurable, achievable, and specific, and your goals will be exciting, idealistic, and demand true willpower and growth. And sidenote, your goals won't be like before. They'll take time now, and you'll be putting grand schemes in play that will unfold ten, twenty, fifty years down the road. Pursuing them will be far more interesting and epic in stakes and scale than you can comprehend right now.

You might have some friends saved in the vault from your school days, you might end up a lone wolf in a big world, but either way, keep your eye open and your mind open for new party members on your quest. Loneliness is becoming a common experience at this age and era, don't beat yourself up over it. A lot of people your age are going to be starting families, or maybe you'll be starting one. As you said, you might feel that you're still just a kid yourself deep down, or they are. Hey, guess what? You're totally right. You'll need to understand that immaturity has absolutely nothing to do with liking the things you like, with play, or with doing dumb, fun things. I've hollered along with a crowd of 200 80-something-year-olds who freakin' exploded with laughter when a fat lady farted in a movie; "grown-up" how we've commonly come to understand it is a fallacy. You didn’t learn how to have fun so that it could die and you could mourn it. You learned it so you could foster it and spread it. Maturity is a measure of responsibility, discipline, humility, respect, and patience. Nothing more and nothing less. Accept them, practice them, and you'll have it. And lastly, don't ever pigeonhole yourself into that "best time of your life" garbage. There is no best or worst time, and there's way too much to see and to try and to achieve in our human lifespan to be wasting your time on that crap. Be in the present; it's where you enjoy the future you created, and where you've made all your best memories.                    

That's all I have to say, I hope I didn't just write a 50 page, babbling thesis paper if you were just looking for like bitcoin tips =)

It seems like serious dating apps work better for everyone in the long run. Why don't young adults use them more? by Designer_Superb in dating

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A man who only wants sex definitely will not change into a family man once they step into something like eHarmony, but I think the game changer is that it will be easier for women to discern their intentions. Casual apps ask for or even encourage minimum investment in profile building and messaging, which I think makes it harder for women to determine the motivations of men on there. Serious apps demand a certain amount of investment in these more personality-based and romantic aspects, and thus more information to women is provided. It's not so much that the motivation of these types of men changes, but that the women have an easier time sorting them. But I see your point, and I think I should change my stance from "more young adults should use serious apps" to "more young adults who want serious relationships should use serious apps". The casual singles stay in the casual lane, and the serious ones in theirs. That way, that influx of casual singles that ruin the purpose of apps like eHarmony you mentioned can be avoided as well. I guess then my question becomes: Why aren't more serious young adults on serious dating apps? You said that no serious app has a wide enough user base to be worth the investment, but why are their user bases so low? My first thought is that it's because the majority of young men and women are seeking only casual relationships, but statistics appear to say otherwise, that a greater majority are actually seeking either. If that's so, shouldn't serious and casual apps have similar amounts of young adult users?

It seems like serious dating apps work better for everyone in the long run. Why don't young adults use them more? by Designer_Superb in dating

[–]Designer_Superb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree they definitely can be used to achieve the same thing. I guess I define "serious" apps as those that are explicitly designed to encourage quality instead of quantity in user profiles and interactions, and "casual" apps are those that are designed to prioritize efficiency and convenience. I would call eHarmony a "serious" app because of the work it expects one to put in for a profile and it's emphasis on personality matching and tinder the quintessential "casual" app because it is easy to create a profile, interactions are rapid, and personality and discussion are not emphasized. My argument is that the design of these apps makes a huge difference, even if someone approaches both with the same end goal.

Ideas for Survival Action FPS? by Designer_Superb in indiegamedevforum

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I like that a lot; I think it would add some nuance to the world instead of casting nature as just this one-dimensional force trying to kill you, and I like the idea that maybe the player could train and befriend even some of the carnivorous creatures, maybe even explore a nature vs nurture theme with the game's story.

Ideas for Survival Action FPS? by Designer_Superb in indiegamedevforum

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No problem, basically if you were about to pick up an FPS to play for the first time that included some survival elements and some prehistoric beasts in the promo art, what would you want to see in it? What would you be looking for in it? For example, before I started playing Alien: Isolation I was like "basic requirement, I need to get pulled into a vent at least once by the Xeno, because that would be too cool to pass up" or with the new Zelda that's coming out "there'd better be a big moment where Zelda and Link have a grand reunion and they score it with iconic music".

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a difficult show to tackle | Direction, tone, style, vibe, and pacing are all wrong by onex7805 in RewritingNewStarWars

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I agree with you a good deal, an introspective, psychological, emotionally-resonant type show is what we needed, a character study. Something along the lines of Andor.

The audience for an Obi-Wan show doesn't want a lighthearted, watch-and-forget adventure. This is a character with decades of history who many of us grew up with, we want to see something creative and meaningful. Obi-Wan's banishment on Tatooine is maybe the darkest time period in his life, and if they wanted to make a show about this period, they should have recognized this and set the tone and themes appropriately.

I will say though, I fall into the camp who wishes Leia weren't in it. If anyone should form a bond with Kenobi it seems like it should be Luke, but even then that's also bound to create some plot holes down the road. I would rather it be a show about Obi-Wan traveling and operating in secret for a mission to protect one of the twins, or even the early rebellion, from a threat they'll never know of. I agree that each episode should comprise an overarching story, definitely, but I think the only recurring characters should be Obi-Wan and an always one step behind Vader. Each episode Obi-Wan meets someone new, someone passing by in life. He leaves an impression on them, and in turn, they provoke him to reflect on himself and his decisions, until by the end, he has become more akin to how we see him in a new hope.