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Not a shadowdrop, but it’s only two weeks away. Sweet.
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That’s amazing news! I recently replaced hollow knight and have a long flight coming up in October, sounds like the perfect game to play.
Seven years of hype, it never going to live up too. Team Cherry did this to themselves.
Squueeee!
never got why they following is so massive. one of these super popular games that never really clicked for me. i mean it was fun but also felt run of the mill; i didn’t understand what’s so special about it.
The atmosphere. The fluidity yet sharpness of combat. The emotional attachment to the story. The absolutely gorgeous level designs.
No game will be for everyone, and it’s okay if this one isn’t for you
of course. i commented mostly to hear what people specifically like about it.
The gameplay loop was solid, but not completely original.
But the lore of the world was interesting and was dolled out fairly well. Neat little chunks of lore that felt like a reward when you get them.
Add in great art and music, and you have a game that you can build a fan base on.
Add in the free expansions and fan friendly developer, and you get a robust fan base.
Which leads to expectations for the sequel.
The Eldenring and Silksong communities’ collective mental health deteriorating bottomlessly up to the release date announcements will forever be one of my favourite parts of internet history.
Nah. Us Soul Boy Beta… anyway the Souls fans had it easy. It was the Armored Core sickos that REALLY popped the fuck off when 6 was announced.
If they ever announce a new Kings Field game, people’s heads (mine included) will explode from sheer shock and excitement.
You need more Lunacid in your life. It has a LOT of modern game design and sensibilities but feels like exactly what we remembered KF to be.
And they did a demake/prequel using the actual King’s Field game creator.
I’ve played Lunacid! It was good, but the limited equipment slots (just your weapon and two rings) meant it didn’t have the same feeling of gradual progression that Kings Field had. Haven’t played Tears of the Moon yet.
I would definitely have preferred armor but I found the weapon and spell progression to be really good up until it kinda just stops maybe 80% through ending A. Although I think making the “use it until it upgrades” explicit was a mistake since it encourages you to stick with one. Rather than learning, 10 hours in, that the starting sword was actually OP.
And entering the catacombs from the wrong (right?) direction is the kind of bullshit From aspires to. Pitch black, invisible enemies that feel like they are respawning, all just constantly rushing you from every direction as they walk through walls. And you are just struggling to find the torches while feeling like you are getting smacked with a greatsword every step you take.
I’ve heard REALLY good things about that short game where you play as a bug in a bug kingdom but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Fly Knight. It’s really fun! I have no nostalgia for Runescape, but the visual style is very OSRS.
A new Tenchu game is what we really need.
Sekiro is as close as you’re gonna get to that for now. But yes.
I was in both communities at the time… Only the OGs will remember when the only thing we had to go off of Elden Ring was a random rumor that called it Great Rune.
Waiting to see Silksong suck on release and their fanbase getting really pissed off about it.
HK fans are really toxic to anything but absolute praise for the franchise
I don’t think it will suck. It will just be “more Hollow Knight” - which is perfectly fine and what people should have been expecting. Don’t think it will live up to the irrational hype though unless it’s literally the best game ever made.
Holy crap, it’s happening!!
https://hollowknightsilksong.com/
Glad to see it DRM free on GOG.
Would you happen to know whether the “platinum” rating on protonDB is applicable the GOG version as well ? I’m gradually switching to Linux and would like to do as much as possible there (including games). Cheers
so far, I haven’t encountered a game marked platinum on protonDB where the GOG version didn’t also work
and really, unless the steam and GOG versions of a game are radically different, i don’t see why the Linux compat should be different
the only way protonDB will fail you is if a game is on GOG but not steam; protonDB (frustratingly) only lists steam games
Yes, it should work just fine. Use something like Lutris or Heroic Game Launcher.
Nice, that’s where I bought Hollow Knight. Can keep them in the same place now.
It looks fantastic, I’m glad they took their time with it and didn’t cave to release it early.
Bloomberg also did an interview with the team which is a good read.
This interview is really phenomenal. Among other things, they talk about why it took so many years to release the game.
“We’ve been having fun,” Gibson said. “This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It’s nice to make fun things.”
The lengthy production wasn’t the result of development challenges or obstacles, they said. They just needed all these years to ensure that Silksong was exactly the game they wanted to make.
“It was never stuck or anything,” Gibson said. “It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”
“I think we’re always underestimating the amount of time and effort it’ll take us to achieve things,” Gibson said. “It’s also that problem where, because we’re having fun doing it, it’s not like, ‘It’s taking longer, this is awful, we really need to get past this phase.’ It’s, ‘This is a very enjoyable space to be in. Let’s perpetuate this with some new ideas.’”
The longer development lasted, the more pressure Gibson and Pellen felt to ensure that everything was as fine-tuned as possible. They’d already spent four years on it — why would they rush now? The more time they spent polishing some parts, the more time they needed to apply it consistently across the rest.
“There’s a level of finish that has to be met throughout the entire game,” Pellen said. “All the way the systems interact, all the hidden work that pops up later on. It’s multiplicative. As you add stuff, the process of tying it all back together just increases.”
Gibson and Pellen say they’re happy that the game is finally coming out — and even happier that they will get to keep working on it, which they still find enjoyable even after seven years. They haven’t burned out or shown any desire to take a break. Instead, they’re already making big plans to add extra content to Silksong in the months and years to come.
This is, of course, what work is supposed to be. But we have lost the way.
“Feels like we’re going to ruin their fun by releasing the game,” Pellen said.
That’s so close it should’ve just announced the day it released and blown all our minds.
Apparently they have to notify Kickstarter backers in advance to prepare all the game keys, people are speculating that’s why it wasn’t a shadowdrop
I’m a kickstarter backer for Hollow Knight.
They have updated us with a kickstarter update.
They’ll be sending us surveys soon to choose our platform of choice for the game keys leading up to the release date.
I thought it was gonna be a shadowdrop to, but yeah that makes sense. Two weeks might as well be today given how long we’ve all waited!
Two weeks is essentially a rounding error at this point
Can’t help but agree.
ITS REAL!!!
Next up: Half Life 3.
Word on the street is that one is imminent too.
Welp. That put the kibosh on my “I should replay Hollow Knight, huh?”
NowI have a hard deadline for my replay of Bloodborne.
OK, never played hollow knight. this seems to be a “sink one million hours into it and git gud” game, and I have an arcade stick that I’ve been dying to use constantly on a game with.
Does hollow knight use both analog sticks? can this be played with a standard 1 stick, 8 button arcade stick?
You can do it without analog stick iirc, it’s very much designed for dpad.
It’s a melee oriented Metroidvania. Think Ori And The Blind Forest but with more insects and inexplicable frilly faux-Victorian edifices, and less pokey combat. You could play it on a SNES pad if you wanted to. I got to 100% on it back when using a cheap wireless keyboard from my couch.
I don’t know about you, but Hollow Knight’s main contribution to my household is that my wife and I still call any filigree wrought ironwork benches we see “save points.”
both sticks
no
1 sticks 8 buttons
yep, actually I use 9 keys but one of those is quick cast which really good for quick combat but it’s not actually needed since you have the same thing on the regular spell button, just a tad bit slower
Yeah, bind two to up/down on rstick and you’ll have plenty
It uses the second analog to pan the camera vertically. It’s not critical, but sometimes you will want to look around before you jump off a ledge.
you can do that by holding the left stick for a while, you dont even need the right one unless you are in a hurry
I was not aware! That’s good to know
Use the keyboard like a real gamer.
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But I don’t want to be a gamer, I want to feel like I’m playing a game at an arcade
The movement looks great! I cannot wait
I was thinking that too. Her animations are awesome
Even if they are bugs, this kingdom is ridiculously huge. I find it hard to believe that there are so many places that we never found in hollow knight, also an absolutely sprawling game.
Of course there’s bugs, it’s a sequel to Hollow Knight. It was all about bugs.
I guess it’s time to dump another 20 hours into trying to remember how to play Hollow knight and to see if maybe this time I can actually beat it
Just 20? Come on now.
I mean I don’t start over. I try to start the game I’m already 75% done with lol
