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Not a shadowdrop, but it’s only two weeks away. Sweet.
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I’m going to miss the silkposting.
Bold of you to assume it will stop
The game has a high bar to clear…
it has to be more entertaining than the silkposts and silksanity since releasing it will kill silkposting.
Nice to see that it’s launching on GOG.
That trailer looks so good, it would have been worth it to wait all these years just for the trailer.
I very much doubt you’d feel that way had they released the trailer and announced the game was coming in another 7 years
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.
They’ve barely mentioned it. Any hype is from the fanbase.
Team Cherry: Make no announcements for six years
Fans: Why are they overhyping this game?!
Squueeee!
Wow. I gave up on waiting for that game years ago.
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.
I think the soundtrack along with the challenging boss fights was the main appeal for me.
I’m into my 5th decade of gaming and to me it wasn’t anything special, good game though.
However my son who was 8ish when he first played the first game ate it up, and I think it’s sort of for the same reason we have those same pedestals for our games from that age.
It’s a genuinely good game with an engaging story AND they dangled a carrot successfully for years.
It’s one of the games that I’ve sunk too much time into during the pandemic. It’s got a special place in my heart. I think I’ve also purchased it on every platform available. It’s good. It’s tight.
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 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.
Holy crap, it’s happening!!
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
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
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
It’s happening!
Time to start playing the original finally, I guess
as someone who finally did that and am still playing through it, it’s great! i’m having a blast. sorry to the OGs since i won’t have the long wait you guys did, but im looking forward to it
A Vast Handcrafted World
What procgen/AI do to us
Also wtf its only 2 weeks away!
Edit: glad to see more npc around this time, HK is just too barren and depressing it’s always happy to run into Quirrel and Cornifer.
At least what the perception of proc gen is. I can only name one metroidvania roguelike (A Robot Named Fight; Dead Cells doesn’t count, regardless of its marketing), so this genre is probably way harder to make with proc gen. To me, someone who doesn’t enjoy Hades, it feels a lot like people only played Hades, acknowledged its proc gen is bad, and then said all proc gen is bad and asked for hand crafted levels as a response. There are so many games that are good at proc gen.
Absolutely. Procedural generation is not the same as AI generated. Spelunky’s level generation is great and the different combinations of hand-created rooms with smart rules on how they connect. Unexplored (that’s the name of the game) is a full on multi-level dungeon with puzzles and combat. Proc gen gives these games their life, but designing a good proc gen system is level design unto itself.
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.
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.
