Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours)

I wonder what the public response will be when Silksong releases and turns out to be just a good game and not literally curing cancer and resolving world hunger.

Why Half-Life 3 can never be made.
- Half-Life 3 was already made and it was a VR exclusive. And it was REALLY good. And nobody cared.
  People like to meme. They don't like to think. Silksong will probably have a wave of "is it as good as it was supposed to be" or "DISAPPOINTED BY SILKSONG" and then just go back to being like Hollow Knight: a REALLY good metroidvania with souls-like aspects (also souls games ARE metroidvanias but...).
  Personally? I am more excited for the chuds to lose their mind once they figure out Hornet is fem.
It's definitely not going to live up to the hype. We already know what Hollow Knight is like, and we've seen a demo of what Silksong will be like from last year's E3, and... it's really not that much different. Not that that's an inherently bad thing, since Hollow Knight was already really good, so any improvement on that is only going to be better.
I worry that it'll suffer a similar fate to Duke Nukem Forever. In a vacuum, DNF isn't necessarily a bad game, but it suffered from being overhyped for years. So when it came out and just turned out to be "okay", that was the final nail in the coffin for the Duke Nukem franchise. I hope I'm wrong, though.
- Overhyping aside, I'd say that not being much different from Hollow Knight is exactly what people want. HK was amazing. If Silksong is just HK but with a different map and enemies, I'd be ecstatic.
The Silksong Guy on YouTube is probably hyperventilating right now.
The fanbase will lose their shit with anger and I'll be there with popcorn laughing at them

"We regret to inform you that we are cancelling Silksong."

"We don't know how, but Microsoft and Embracer group somehow teamed up to lay off 90% of our team."
The true silken song will be the unabashed wailing of gamers who have been edging so hard for 6 years that this game couldn’t possible have lived up to the hype anyway
I think we'd need popup crisis centers for the fans if that happens???

The fucking gall of teasing the game for a decade and not just saying what's the status rather than doing this bullshit.

"Silksong is coming together and will be released in the future. Thank you for your patience."

How to get lynched by your own fanbase 101.

We made it. We freakin' made it. I hope it's a shadowdrop because I don't wanna wait much longer.

This is a comment on a post on an announcement of an announcement

Edit: of a prelaunch probably

I've avoided being hyped for Silksong for years after realising it's taking a long time, but Hollow Knight is one of my all time favourite games.

Not expecting this to top E33 for me for my personal GOTY, but if this is basically just bigger Hollow Knight but with a twist with different movement and combat mechanics, I'll be thrilled.

2028 release date

I didn't expect this, but I honestly don't even care about this game anymore. I feel like they've squandered any hype I had by just totally disappearing for like 5+ years. all that said, if you're still into it, I hope you have fun!

"A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever"
- Duke Nukem Forever was just ok. StarCraft: Ghost got cancelled.
- well, not all delayed games are eventually good obviously. and I think it's clear my comment doesn't disagree with the sentiment.
- I don't think that's true anymore. 2025 mantra is:
  "A rushed game eventually is patched, a delayed game is cancelled forever (1 year after the Microsoft acquisition)."
Honestly, the delays have increased my hype more than decreased it. I'm not one to obsess over a release, I've played other things and enjoyed them in the interim, so I really have no resentment for the long dev cycle.
Lately my habits have been to try to avoid games for a couple months to let them get polished up anyway (I recently regretted picking up DOOM TDA at launch after they reworked combat across the whole game, and that would've been a better first playthrough experience). Team Cherry is a team I know can use time well like that, in fact, HK did get broad balance overhauls before I discovered it. They also added an astounding amount of well integrated post-launch content, so I'm excited to see just how much they've managed to create and polish Silksong with all this time, and will feel comfortable playing at or close to launch now due to these delays.

Why i am afraid to play it?! what is going on!

Almost had me, not gonna lie!

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