Statistically it's vanishingly rare for games with this level of hype to match the expectations, but it does happen.
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I'm still impressed Elden Ring managed to live up to its hype, it runs like shit but damn is it a good game
No it can't. It'll probably be good, but more time doesn't always mean consistently high quality. I'm sure they've done their best, so take it easy on the poor bastards.
Yeah, they're a very small team and its clear they took on way more than they planned. But thanks for Hollow Knight's roaring success, they can take this much time.
I just want more hollow knight with tight gameplay. Gimme more insect metroidvania and I'll be happy to participate. I honestly don't know what the hype is about, it's a good metroidvania, they just have to deliver more of the same. What are people expecting? What hype are we even talking about? It's been a long wait, that's it.
Edit: If they make it a Switch 2 exclusive I'll never buy it out of spite, fuck Nintendo, long live FOSS and Linux gaming.
they semi-confirmed it wont be because they announced on kickstarter that the backers of the og game would get it free on the platform of their choice.
It’s already wishlistable on Steam. I think it’s going to get a Switch 2 release but they already confirmed GamePass didn’t they?
I doubt Nintendo would make them an offer that’d get them to turn down being on GamePass at release. It’s not that big of a game, despite those of us who know being really excited.
It's coming out on PC and will be a timed console exclusive on Switch 2.
So if you're on PS5 or Xbox, you're out of luck.
That's garbage considering it was advertised as a day one game pass game..
Oh no
I don't like feeding the hype beast. The same thing happened with Cyberpunk, where there was no physical way that the game could have met the hype.
I expect Silksong to just be another Hollow Knight, and that's good enough for me
They did also lie about it in many ways. On release, cyberpunk was nothing like what they promised continually.
Silksong, however, has had exactly no information outside a small demo, a trailer, some art, and now 6 small clips and images.
I don't know what to expect from silksong and that makes me happy. The hype train has set up a bigger world, new movement, and a few fun looking blss fights. I'm sure they can deliver on that
Same here. Give me some unique movement and platforming mechanics, an expanded world, and fun boss fights that make use of the platform and combat challenges that come about as a result of those new mechanics, and Silksong will be a hit for me. Looking forward to more of their OST, presuming Christopher Larkin is doing it again.
Another great example of hype-train beastmode is No Man's Sky. By the time it came out people were talking about it like they'd be plugged into the matrix. That's the last time I let myself be carried away even slightly by hype. I was super pessimistic about NMS compared to what my friends and people online were expecting. I was still grossly disappointed.
By the time CP77 was getting ready to release I figured it would be a bare bones looter shooter, bugged to all fuck, with a story duct taped to it's carcass. Essentially DOA. So I was actually pleasantly surprised when it was a quite fleshed out FPS RPGish shooter with the storyline woven solidly through. Still bugged to all fuck though.
It seems the community at large has been pretty damn patient waiting on it only getting scraps of information from Team Cherry. I think it'd be a safe bet that it might be a bit rough to start with but after having a tight community give productive feedback there will be an update or two that'll make it just as good it not better than Hollow Knight
After six years, if the community needs to provide feedback to get the game to good condition then Silksong will be considered a failure
That being said I think it’s going to be just fine. I don’t think it’s going to revolutionize metroidvanias though, and that is unfortunately going to upset a subset of people.
Don't think it's out to outdo itself or any other metroidvania just provide a good game. And any game is going to have some jank at the beginning especially if the development team is still only a handful of people, that's the updating that I was referring to
I think as long as this game looks nice and vaguely gestures at some deeper plot, it could be complete dogwater and still get perfect scores and be extolled as the GOAT.
I'm just gonna hope Team Cherry learned from their mistakes and impoved upon their already existing framework!
First game was alright, second will be alright.
Lmao can’t fail to live up to hype if you never release the game
I add a lot of random games on my steam wishlist, many aren't out yet. The oldest one I've wishlisted that is unreleased, by a good margin, is Silksong, back on 6/3/20. Next is Showa American Story on 1/8/22, then Clockwork Revolution (by the guys who did Wasteland 3 and Tides of Numenaria, good pedigree!) on 6/22/23. There's a fair amount more that are closer to current day. Ultimately if these games never come out, I lose nothing. If/when they do then I get a lil e-mail that lets me know, and I can be like "oh yeah I did wishlist that didn't I?", then I look at a few reviews to make sure it isn't absolute trash, and if it isn't, I buy a cool game I wanted a few years ago and forgot about.
That's where Silksong lies for me.
I feel real bad for folks who are deeply invested in it though, like brother there are a GRIP of metroidvanias out there. You are absolutely eating good in metroidvanias, don't let yourself starve while you wait for Silksong, it's only going to magnify any quibbles you have with it. Play Guns of Fury. Play Animal Well. Play 9 Years of Shadows. Play Pseudoregalia. Don't let Silksong build itself up in your head.
Silksong will solve all world problems. Cancer will be too busy playing the game to continue killing people