The hype for silken has been going so long that it’s become a meme🤡. Just because it’s not as obvious anymore doesn’t mean it no longer exists.
I have no clue what Hollow Knight is other than than individual people being pumped for this silksong thing. No advertising. No “hype train”.
Here’s hoping success stories like this shake some sense into the AAA gaming industry.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Unless someone brings it up during their next golf game, the executive class will literally never hear about this game.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I appreciate the class conscious sentiment… but this game has 500k players right now. So ~$10,000,000 in sales in 24 hours… for a game that probably had a budget under 200k.
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I doubt it was under $200k. Paying 3 devs for 7 years is likely $75-100k each per year, or around $700k on just their salaries, which they paid with their sales from HK. Then they had to pay the composer, localizers, bug testers, etc etc. it’s definitely still low budget, but not as much as the first one.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Okay lets make it 1Million budget with 10Million sales in 24h. The point remains.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s funny that Hollow Knight is also in top 20 on Steam right now with 50k players.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
There’s definitely a “hype train” and I’m not sure how you’re involved in the community at all and managed to miss it haha
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Just trying to say nice things about the game you like eh
As I said I know nothing.
Hype trains by my definition are more like what you see with Call of Duty or AAA games… where it’s fucking everywhere.
The only thing I’m seeing is organic(afaict) hollow night posts from real fans.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I don’t even like the game…or really any of this style of games where you run back and forth over the same terrain over and over and over again for hours looking for a hole you haven’t been through yet.
But I do appreciate what is essentially a relic of the past: A game that is simple, beautiful (especially on OLED), inexpensive, can run on anything, runs completely offline, and doesn’t contain any ads or microtransactions or rootkits or accounts or spyware or invasive DRM. You literally just pay for the game and get the game, which is so insanely uncommon these days for games of this caliber.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
.or really any of this style of games where you run back and forth over the same terrain over and over and over again for hours looking for a hole you haven’t been through yet.
HAAH me to.
viral.vegabond@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Hollow Knight is amazing. If you're into platformers or metroidvanias it's a must play.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I certainly was when I was younger… Good ole Game Boy Color. Glad to see older genre’s are still going strong!
Minnels@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait… Older genres? Never thought of it that way but it is true that there are some new ones. When is a genre old? 20 years, 30 years?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
The 2D sidescroller base that’s at the foundation of Metroidvanias is quite a bit older than that, though, so I think it’s fair to call it an older genre. Even though it is fairly evergreen.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Metroid (1986) and Castlevania (1986) comprise the portmanteau that is “Metroidvania”.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Hm. I’d never considered that.
I mean “arcade” games are older than most internet users. FPS and MMORPGs older than half for sure.
I know VR is technical a platform not a sub-genre but there has to be something uniquely VR that is objectively a “younger genre”.
Would Pacman VR still be an arcade game? Not sure lol.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
How long until it gets good? I spent about 90 minutes on it last week, because the Silksong hype was rolling hard and I didnt want to get left behind, but it just felt like fumbling around and nothing really happening.
Is it just not for me or did I not reach the good bits yet?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If you don’t like Hollow Knight by the time you get to the big tower in the center of the city, you aren’t going to like HK. Been a minute, but by then you should have one or two mobility skills and have fought 2 or 3 bosses.
The game REALLY opens up when you get even more mobility skills and has some of the best traversal in my opinion. And the bosses… I think a lot of the bosses are samey and meh (unless you fight the hard modes) but the “DLC” areas are REAL good.
But yeah. If you aren’t vibing by the time you are climbing the tower then you just don’t like it. And that is perfectly fine.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I would say if you're through Fungal Wastes and you're not feeling it then it's probably not for you. I usually don't recommend the city as a decision point on the off chance someone stumbles into deepnest first. Once you go into Deepnest you can't come back the same way, so you pretty much have to do a ring around the rosie and enter the city from the east. Which is a cool first time experience but definitely not for everyone.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It also doesn’t click for me at first but when it click it click. I have to spend i think about 1 or 2 hours playing it not enjoying it, and then the game just suck me in till i wander every corner of it, played it twice to get a good ending.
But if it doesn’t click, i think it just isn’t for you.
i_am_tired_boss@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
After the first boss fight. The game then removes your training wheels and you do whatever you want, in whatever order you want.
It tough at the beginning until you get the hang of it, like playing Doom on Nightmare mode.
ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’m enjoying following a walkthrough just to know where to go.
Prathas@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
For me, that point is when I’m frustrated enough by the game…
crank0271@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also, it’s punishingly difficult
lunarul@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wasn’t really into metroidvanias, but I still loved Hollow Knight and put hundreds of hours into it.