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Pretty sure I finished the Hades 2 epilogue and it's kinda not worth it, honestly. The ending that you get before the credits was way more satisfying
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I think you beat Hades 2 a day or two after me, lol. I made it my goal to hit credits in Hades 2 before the new year. 1. DOOM: The Dark Ages 2. 📱 Balatro 3. Diablo IV 4. Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred 5. Donkey Kong Bananza 6. Control 7. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound 8. (Famicom Disk System) The Legend of Zelda 9. / Hades 2 (first time) 10. (Famicom Disk System) Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 11. (Famicom Disk System) Metroid 12. Dispatch 13. Metroid Prime 4 14. Metroid Prime 1: Remastered 15. / Hades 2 My thoughts pretty much echo Kyle's. I had a similar thing to the first game where I fell off hard in early access, but when it came out in 1.0 I was hooked again, especially since I got it on the Switch 2 as well as the PC. The cross save syncing wasn't perfect, but the fact that it works at all is fucking awesome. I'm still working through the epilogue stuff, but much like Hades 1, i'm kinda ready for it to be over completely. Like Kyle said, with Hades 1 you beat it around 8 or 10 times to get the full ending and that was it, but with Hades 2 you had to beat both final bosses multiple times, AND THEN you have to do a bunch of other things like get your relationship levels up with certain characters to a certain level, there are some characters that have gone missing between games and you get vague hints as to where they are after you roll credits and you've gotta do THAT. I'm still definitely enjoying my time, but I don't really know if i'll have the same urge to beat it after going through it a few more times. Just after the credits alone i've beaten the underworld boss around 8 times and i'm still not finished, so doing that for so many times in a row gets kinda frustrating.
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19.) Hades 2 I think I liked this one even more than the first one. Same general formula, but just enough added to it to keep it fresh and some fun twists to expectations here and there. I'm sure there's still a TON more to do like there was with the first one, but I hit the point where the main objective is complete and the credits rolled (which required beating the "main" end boss about 8 times, and the "other" end boss about 4 or 5 times if I remember correctly), so I'm calling that good enough though I may continue to play it for a while off and on to see where it goes from there. Only thing that was a little disappointing is they didn't swap out bosses sometimes to keep things fresh like in the first one, though with the 2 different paths you can take it makes sense. The two options kept things fresh enough that it was only a minor gripe. 20.) A Plague Tale: Requiem Jesus, this game was bleak as hell. It pretty well rivals The Last of Us 2 for being a relatively unpleasant experience in terms of story. I once described TLOU2 as "It's a good game, but I didn't have fun playing it." and I think I'd apply that to this one too. The first one could be rough at times, but it balanced out the unpleasant parts with some more light hearted stuff and had an overall happy ending. This one was just depressing nearly the whole way through and the few small "happy" moments seemed brief, and the point where the "other shoe drops" were telegraphed pretty heavily so it was hard to enjoy them. From a gameplay standpoint, much of it is improved, but the AI of the rats was way more finicky and obnoxious so it made the overall experience more frustrating which was disappointing since the environmental rat "puzzles" in the first game really stood out to me as well designed and elevated the experience there, where it definitely diminishes things here. I'm still glad I played it, but had no intention of every playing it again honestly. I'm curious to see if they'll do another sequel that leads off of the after credits scene because that could be pretty interesting, but for the time being it looks like they're making a spin-off game, but it centers around one of the better characters introduced in the 2nd one, so I'll definitely check it out. Not sure I'll beat anything else before the new year, but I'm happy I managed to beat more than 10 games this year. Stopping most of the live service shit I was playing definitely made a huge difference.
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We had a pretty good Xmas overall. A couple of long days because I’ve had this cold for a week or so and there was so much going on. I was tired Fortunately I’ve pretty well kicked the cold now. My kiddos and wife all enjoyed their gifts. Great success! I got a couple of nice bottles of booze to slowly enjoy over the course of the winter. Trying to cut back a bit these days
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Happy birthday to: Deimos (41) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Today's Birthdays - Nick (whover THAT is)
h2ojunkie replied to Birthday Greeter's topic in General Insanity
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Took the whole week off for christmas. I had my kids for most of it because all of my family came to town this year. Didn't do anything crazy, just hanging out with them mostly. Took some family photos. Spent christmas eve with my lady friend. Went on a mountain bike ride with a big group of people and had some food with them afterwards. Had dinner with her family. Christmas was pretty relaxed at my parents house in the afternoon. All the kids were excited about presents. Got my kids some clothes, legos, earings, some stone mushrooms for the girl and swords for the boy. Couple of puzzles for the family and a block stacking game. I got myself a bike light during black friday along with some clothes, so I didn't really need anything. Parents still gave me some money in my stocking.
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Today's Birthdays - Nick (whover THAT is)
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I got some new boots and a winter coat. That'll probably be it for combo birthday and Christmas gifts.
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Today's Birthdays - Nick (whover THAT is)
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I don't actually mind working the holidays generally. With working overnights, I'm home for Christmas morning anyway so it doesn't effect much on Christmas in particular, and (before I became a supervisor, at least) it meant double pay.
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Been there, shit sucks. Couldn't do a lot of gift giving this year, with my finances being the way they are. Still managed to get a decent amount of stuff for the people in my life, at least. Tomorrow we're going to my partner's mom's for their family Christmas, then on Christmas day, we're going back (just the four of us) there, then to my mom's, and then my partner's dad's in the afternoon. Should be a nice, busy day
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I work both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so that's what I'll be doing. XD Gifts for the kids this year are a bit lighter in quantity due to price of stuff, but they should still enjoy themselves.
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Bumpin’ ye olde Xmas thread 🎄 What are you dudes doing for the holidays? Give out some nice gifts?
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Happy birthday to: Nick (40) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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1. DOOM: The Dark Ages 2. 📱 Balatro 3. Diablo IV 4. Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred 5. Donkey Kong Bananza 6. Control 7. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound 8. (Famicom Disk System) The Legend of Zelda 9. / Hades 2 (first time) 10. (Famicom Disk System) Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 11. (Famicom Disk System) Metroid 12. Dispatch 13. Metroid Prime 4 14. Metroid Prime 1: Remastered I bought this back when it came out, played for a few hours, and just kinda forgot about it. In all honesty though, i'm glad I did. Playing it after MP4 just made me appreciate everything Prime 1 has to offer so much more. For one, the world actually feels like a cohesive place without needing some sort of mostly empty map connecting the various areas. The boss and it's "motivations" (for lack of a better word) are way more obvious and told to you as you progress through the game than they were for MP4, and actually made sense. My only real complaint is the Fusion Metroids you start fighting at the end of the game. Eventually they'll split into two (as if one isn't bad enough) and each one is weak to a specific weapon, so you can really only deal with one at a time. It's hard to keep track of two of those slippery bastards at once.
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My top #5 in 2025. No surprise that it’s all series that I started from the beginning and binge read. Not sure why Blue Exorcist didn't make the cut. I binged to current on that over the last few weeks. Those monthly titles (Seraph, Twin Stars, Blue Exorcist) have some beefy chapters! Both Seraph of the End and Blue Exorcist seem to be nearing the endings. Could be several months before they actually finish though.
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1. DOOM: The Dark Ages 2. 📱 Balatro 3. Diablo IV 4. Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred 5. Donkey Kong Bananza 6. Control 7. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound 8. (Famicom Disk System) The Legend of Zelda 9. / Hades 2 (first time) 10. (Famicom Disk System) Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 11. (Famicom Disk System) Metroid 12. Dispatch 13. Metroid Prime 4 Going into the game, the only review I had heard was from Giant Bomb, and their reviewer gave the game a 5/5. This game is not that. It's AT BEST a 4/5. The Metacritic rating has it about 80%, and I think that's around where I fall as well. It was an enjoyable game, absolutely gorgeous, running at 4K/60 docked, and 720p/120hz in handheld mode. It's a bit too linear for my tastes. Without getting into story spoilers, there's an "open world" desert area that connects the other main areas. The game funnels you through two of them at first without giving you choice, and then after that the game says "okay, now you can go anywhere!" Except that you can't. I tried to go to one area that I saw off in the distance, and the character you can call to give hints (or get hints whether you want them or not, and as of this current version, you CAN'T turn his help off), would tell me to go to a completely different area. After going to that area, you can only go so far before you have to get an item from there, take it back to another area on the complete opposite side of the map so that he can install it into your gun, and then go to a completely different area to use that item. There's no fast travel, and there's just about nothing to do in the main open world area. There are a few "shrines", a few powerup areas, and then a ton of green crystals. One of the things the Giant Bomb reviewer mentioned was that you should try to grab as many of the green crystals you could as you went through the game. So I did just that. You need the green crystals to unlock something that will help you get to the final area (an area you can't get to without it), but the game itself never tells you that it's absolutely REQUIRED to do. You have to get an INSANE amount of these. Every time I came across one in the hub world, I grabbed it, and it STILL wasn't enough. It's not a terrible game by any means, it does just fine as a reintroduction to the series to people who haven't played it before. Not being able to turn off the helper character is a crazy choice to make (hopefully a patch puts the option in, because there are times when he just will not shut the fuck up). The other real complaint about the gameplay is the button to jump outside of morph ball is B, but inside the morph ball it's X for some weird reason. There's a way to change it, but I learned that with about 2 hours left in the game. Like I said, it's a beautiful game, the bosses are interesting and fun to fight, but there's a lot of it that just isn't really worth it, IMO.
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17.) Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 After the years of rocky development, I wasn't expecting anything particularly stand out, so it met my expectations in most places, and exceeded it in others so I'm happy with the result overall. There's a lot of solid stuff going on in this game, but it reminds me of Dragon Age: Veil Guard in the sense that you can practically FEEL the seams in it where they had to quickly stitch stuff together because they had at best half the time they should have to make the game. Truly a "mixed bag" when it comes to the good and the bad. Story was solid most the way through, but kind of fell flat at the end a little. Gameplay was fun enough but not a lot of variety to the combat outside of the powers you can get though I still enjoyed it well enough. Side quests were pretty throw away filler until the very last set of them. Overall game was fine. It's not going to win any awards, but I had fun. 18.) A Plague Tale: Innocence This is one I had been wanting to play for a long time but never quite got around to. At this point I have both titles free via Playstation+ (along with a plethora of other games) and as I'm going to let my subscription lapse finally after having years of stored up time since Sony are being giant assholes about their subscription stuff, I have until March to burn through as many of the free games as I can before I can't play them anymore and I started here. Glad I did too as it was a great game. Fantastic stealth and environmental puzzle stuff, the story was really interesting and pretty unique, and it was a great experience all around. Only real complaint is that it suffers from the usual curse of stealth games: when you end up in combat (or are forced into it for certain boss fights and such), everything falls apart a bit as the controls and systems are not very good for it and it makes things awkward as hell. There were a couple sections at the end that were downright aggravating due to this but it's a relatively small blemish on an otherwise genuinely good experience. Will probably jump right into the 2nd one once I wrap up the few trophies I have left to get.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Shang Tsung in the first Mortal Kombat movie) at age 75
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Seriously enjoying the Mei Semones LP "Animaru". Highly recommend you folks give it a spin
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I got turned on to this artist Mei Semones and wow she and her band are a talented bunch Fun mix of jazz, indie, bossa, among other influences. The style and range of her vocals may not be to the liking of some, but even if you don't like her singing you've gotta appreciate her skills on the guitar. Born in the year 2000...! I feel old AF Also I've been playing guitar since before she was born and she could play circles around me. I've gotta practice more. Here's a set they did on KEXP.
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Lots of good stuff this week in Jump I don't have comments on everything, but a few thoughts popped into my head... Spy Fam #125 Bill is officially one of my favourite dudes now. Tonitrus Bolt is no big deal, we gotta help Mr. Henderson! Then taking out the gym coach as a 6 year old Elusive Samurai #228 It's really going to end soon Seems like we skipped a chunk of time here from the previous chapter to this one. Interesting turn for Takauji after they drove the evil spirit from his body. What will the final encounter between him and Tokiyuki be like..? Akane-banashi # 184 That last page... Master Issho seems like such an evil bastard Surely it will all be explained later in the story as some grand plan of his to ultimately benefit rakugo, but his methods seem to be rather suspect. Someone Hertz #11 I just love the vibe of this one. The two main characters are so darn likeable. Kagurabachi #102 I feel like the battle that's about to start is going to be epic. Very hyped. Could be the beginning of the end of the story. I am curious to see what happens.
