Hollow Knight - Dark Souls Metroidvania... with bugs!

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To quote Cobes: 'GodDDAAAAMMMMIIITTTT'
I love when game releases kill Steam, there's something kinda heartwarming about people's enthusiasm for a single game bringing down one of the biggest sites around.

Edit: Anyone generally impressed with Team Cherry putting a $20 dollar price tag on this? I'm sure they could have gone higher but it feels like a very fair price.
 
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Lol, game literally has 96K playing it right now on Steam alone and 40 min after release is still bringing Steam down.

Team Cherry is gonna get enough money to basically fucking around on Valve time for the rest of their lives now.
 
Silksong is the 12th most played game on steam right now and is already more successful than it's predecessor also the Steamdb website is dying because so many people are trying to use steam that it's slowing the API

The OG Hollow Knight peaked at 72,000 players.

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Steam is now loading for me again but I don't want to buy anything to check if you can still buy non-Silksong games. Launching games from my library is even acting up, probably because of cloud saving relying on the server or something
 
Do you know what does scale with demand?
Torrenting. :cunningpepe:


Morrowind: GOTY Edition said:
Bro I'm sure it's a great game but no way in hell a 2D indie metroidvania can be this good.
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It has issues but people are so starved for metroidvanias that pass minimum quality standards that some players will overlook flaws.
I personally found the first one to be boring and offering little in direction but can see how people are taken in by the art and controls.
The people I've seen most obsessed with this and other launches are NEETs.
 
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lurking for the deets said:
Steam is now loading for me again but I don't want to buy anything to check if you can still buy non-Silksong games. Launching games from my library is even acting up, probably because of cloud saving relying on the server or something
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The main site is mostly working, but if i try to go past the cart into checkout it crashes on me.
 
Can someone explain the Silksong hype to me? I don't hate Hollow Knight and I'm not trying to shit on the game or anything I'm just genuinely curious why a metroidvania side scroller has so much hype. I love metroidvania games and modern retro games, way better than big AAA titles, but there's so many metroidvania side scroller games that get released every day it seems like. And a lot of these metroidvanias are legitimately really great so it's not just Hollow Knight that was really good. I don't know it's just an odd thing to me that this specific game has way more hype than any other metroidvania that gets released today, I would have expected Blasphemous 2 to have this kind of hype but it didn't.

EDIT: I'm loving the enthusiasm people have for buying this game, I wish this was still the days of physical copies so real game stores would be having packed launch parties right now.
 
Toothp!ck said:
Hollow Knight was great because your first run through is a unique experience. The world is great and tells a good story without hours of dialog. Genuinely one of the best games of the 2010s
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today i met someone who was like 'eh, hollow knight was just okay'
Then I found out that he apparently had his first experience as an archipelago (multi-game room randomiser)... and I genuinely felt bad for him.
BullfrogBill said:
Can someone explain the Silksong hype to me? I don't hate Hollow Knight and I'm not trying to shit on the game or anything I'm just genuinely curious why a metroidvania side scroller has so much hype. I love metroidvania games and modern retro games, way better than big AAA titles, but there's so many metroidvania games that get released every day it seems like. And a lot of these metroidvanias are legitimately really great so it's not just Hollow Knight that was really good. I don't know it's just an odd thing to me that this specific game has way more hype than any other metroidvania that gets released today, I would have expected Blasphemous 2 to have this kind of hype but it didn't.
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Hollow Knight was already a great game, with incredible worldbuilding as one of it's superpowers. Silksong is a massive expansion on it in multiple ways (such as a more customisable moveset, and enemy/boss counts comparable to their full post-DLC lineup). That, and silksong was originally announced as an independent game literally like seven years ago, and was near radio silent for most of them.

People have been waiting for this payoff explicitly for most of a decade.
 
Modern AAA wokeslop: 20k players if you're lucky
Lovingly made Indie games: fucking murders Steam from the hype

Haven't played AAA for many years and I've been eating good with minimal problems, also been saving a ton of money in the process considering I rarely buy anything more than $25
 
BullfrogBill said:
Can someone explain the Silksong hype to me? I don't hate Hollow Knight and I'm not trying to shit on the game or anything I'm just genuinely curious why a metroidvania side scroller has so much hype. I love metroidvania games and modern retro games, way better than big AAA titles, but there's so many metroidvania games that get released every day it seems like. And a lot of these metroidvanias are legitimately really great so it's not just Hollow Knight that was really good. I don't know it's just an odd thing to me that this specific game has way more hype than any other metroidvania that gets released today, I would have expected Blasphemous 2 to have this kind of hype but it didn't.
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The hype is genuinely because Hollow Knight is one of the best modern Metroidvania games, if not Metroidvanias overall, of all time. The game was great to play and the world was interesting.

So obviously people want more of it. It's the same reason something like Halo 3 generated so much hype. The previous game was a masterpiece so people are hopeful this one will be too.
 
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