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CaptDust, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

ITS REAL!!!

Diplomjodler3,
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Next up: Half Life 3.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Word on the street is that one is imminent too.

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

Welp. That put the kibosh on my “I should replay Hollow Knight, huh?”

fdnomad, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

The Eldenring and Silksong communities’ collective mental health deteriorating bottomlessly up to the release date announcements will forever be one of my favourite parts of internet history.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Nah. Us Soul Boy Beta… anyway the Souls fans had it easy. It was the Armored Core sickos that REALLY popped the fuck off when 6 was announced.

Quetzalcutlass,

If they ever announce a new Kings Field game, people’s heads (mine included) will explode from sheer shock and excitement.

Coelacanth,
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A new Tenchu game is what we really need.

Screen_Shatter,

Sekiro is as close as you’re gonna get to that for now. But yes.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

You need more Lunacid in your life. It has a LOT of modern game design and sensibilities but feels like exactly what we remembered KF to be.

And they did a demake/prequel using the actual King’s Field game creator.

Quetzalcutlass,

I’ve played Lunacid! It was good, but the limited equipment slots (just your weapon and two rings) meant it didn’t have the same feeling of gradual progression that Kings Field had. Haven’t played Tears of the Moon yet.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

I would definitely have preferred armor but I found the weapon and spell progression to be really good up until it kinda just stops maybe 80% through ending A. Although I think making the “use it until it upgrades” explicit was a mistake since it encourages you to stick with one. Rather than learning, 10 hours in, that the starting sword was actually OP.

And entering the catacombs from the wrong (right?) direction is the kind of bullshit From aspires to. Pitch black, invisible enemies that feel like they are respawning, all just constantly rushing you from every direction as they walk through walls. And you are just struggling to find the torches while feeling like you are getting smacked with a greatsword every step you take.

I’ve heard REALLY good things about that short game where you play as a bug in a bug kingdom but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

C4551E,

Fly Knight. It’s really fun! I have no nostalgia for Runescape, but the visual style is very OSRS.

Batmancer,

Kingdom Hearts 3 weeb reporting for duty.

Batmancer,

And now 4…. If retirement still exists when 5 and 6 release and I am alive, it will be a fun time.

popcar2,

I was in both communities at the time… Only the OGs will remember when the only thing we had to go off of Elden Ring was a random rumor that called it Great Rune.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Waiting to see Silksong suck on release and their fanbase getting really pissed off about it.

HK fans are really toxic to anything but absolute praise for the franchise

Coelacanth, (edited )
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I don’t think it will suck. It will just be “more Hollow Knight” - which is perfectly fine and what people should have been expecting. Don’t think it will live up to the irrational hype though unless it’s literally the best game ever made.

frank, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkbylysplI

This is a great watch on the internet degeneracy of Silkposting

ClassyHatter, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)
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hollowknightsilksong.com

Glad to see it DRM free on GOG.

dvlsg,
@dvlsg@lemmy.world avatar

Nice, that’s where I bought Hollow Knight. Can keep them in the same place now.

Hadriscus,

Would you happen to know whether the “platinum” rating on protonDB is applicable the GOG version as well ? I’m gradually switching to Linux and would like to do as much as possible there (including games). Cheers

popcar2,

Yes, it should work just fine. Use something like Lutris or Heroic Game Launcher.

carotte,

so far, I haven’t encountered a game marked platinum on protonDB where the GOG version didn’t also work

and really, unless the steam and GOG versions of a game are radically different, i don’t see why the Linux compat should be different

the only way protonDB will fail you is if a game is on GOG but not steam; protonDB (frustratingly) only lists steam games

Hadriscus,

Thanks I see

ClassyHatter,
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Turns out it has a native Linux version, besides Windows and macOS versions, so compatibility shouldn’t be a problem.

Hadriscus,

Awesome. Steam doesn’t list that so I had a doubt

Klear, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

Awww, I was hoping for a new Deadpool VR trailer...

simple,
@simple@piefed.social avatar

I understood the joke but seems nobody else has hah

Klear,

That's one more person than I expected!

Also, oddly enough, I was only half-jokíng. Never played Hollow Knight, but I'm cautiously optimistic about Deadpool.

IndieSpren,

There’s at least three of us here

Suck_on_my_Presence, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

I guess it’s time to dump another 20 hours into trying to remember how to play Hollow knight and to see if maybe this time I can actually beat it

crank0271,

Just 20? Come on now.

Suck_on_my_Presence,

I mean I don’t start over. I try to start the game I’m already 75% done with lol

ZoteTheMighty,

I’m ready to bet you got lost in those mines without crystal heart. Amirite?

Gullible, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

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.

tomkatt,
@tomkatt@lemmy.world avatar

Of course there’s bugs, it’s a sequel to Hollow Knight. It was all about bugs.

chiliedogg, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

That’s so close it should’ve just announced the day it released and blown all our minds.

Coelacanth,
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Can’t help but agree.

simple,
@simple@piefed.social avatar

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

taiyang,

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!

ouRKaoS,

Two weeks is essentially a rounding error at this point

psx_crab, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

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.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

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.

TheSambassador,

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.

psx_crab,

The sudden flood of roguelike is what really killed the reputation of procgen. In the early days, it’s seen as something fresh because every playthrough is different and you have to adapt to situation. Games like binding of issac(the first release) and spelunky(the free one) pushed the boundary on how level design can be assigned randomly and still be good, then more and more game started to capitalise on this sort of design but conveniently forgot they still have to be designed to be good. To a lot of people(including me) , the fatigue set in and the mere mention of procgen is revolting, even though they might also enjoy game like dead cell or hades. Then comes the AI and people are simply too weary on all these stuff.

I’m not saying this is what prompted them to include that tagline in their marketing, but i’m not surprised if it is.

windowsphoneguy, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)
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Time to start playing the original finally, I guess

tcharney,

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

baltakatei, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

It’s happening!

Skullgrid, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)
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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?

CaptDust,

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.

BunScientist,

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

CaptDust,

I was not aware! That’s good to know

JPAKx4,

Yeah, bind two to up/down on rstick and you’ll have plenty

oyo,

Use the keyboard like a real gamer.

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

drPterodactylFromSpiderman.jpg

But I don’t want to be a gamer, I want to feel like I’m playing a game at an arcade

BunScientist,

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

dual_sport_dork,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

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.”

psx_crab,

You can do it without analog stick iirc, it’s very much designed for dpad.

kinship,

If it will be like the first it won’t be a wall of difficulty checks thrown in your way. What I liked most of Hollow Knight it was how masterly designed it was. It took you by your hand and thought every skill check you needed beforehand. You got good as you progressed. It it not frustrating as Dark Souls, it has a curve that kept increasing.

FishFace, do games w Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN

I would never have thought to try to play Elden Ring on a handheld console, never mind a Switch (2).

wry,

It's actually a pretty decent experience on a Steam Deck. I definitely prefer having a larger screen, but it's very playable.

HubertManne,

I have only played elden ring on the steamdeck and it was fine. I completed both the main and the dlc.

FishFace,

A couple of days ago I started it using Steam remote play to the deck, just assuming that it would suck on Deck itself. Apparently it gets 40fps on low settings on Deck which is better than I expected but still kinda sucky.

HubertManne,

I mean I never checked the stats but the play was fine with me. im not exactly a l33t guy with a decked out tower, multi high end panels, and gaming peripherals though. Filthy casual.

TheRealKuni,

using Steam remote play to the deck

I’m going to pass on some advice that a friend of mine gave me: get Apollo (a fork of Sunshine) on your computer and Moonlight on your Steam Deck. You can install Moonlight in Desktop Mode and add it to your Steam Library so you can access it in Steam mode.

It’s far better at streaming than Steam’s own streaming system. Apollo treats it like a monitor on your desktop. I have it set up so that the Steam Deck is the ONLY monitor when I’m streaming to it. You can also specify resolution in Moonlight, so I tell it to give me 2560x1440 or 2560x1600. Because of the way chroma subsampling works, this looks much better when downscaled on the Deck’s screen than simply streaming the Deck’s resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 looks GORGEOUS on the Deck like this.

(Note this is best if your PC is on a wired connection to a router with WiFi 6/6E/7 support.)

FishFace,

Yeah I’m probably gonna try this at some point. At the moment I only have 802.11ac 5GHz though, so not as much bandwidth as WiFi 6+.

setsubyou,
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I played it on Steam Deck and it was fine. And the Switch 2 is more powerful than that, although it also has a much higher display resolution.

TheRealKuni,

although it also has a much higher display resolution.

I was about to say 1920x1080 isn’t that much higher resolution than 1280x800, but it’s twice as many pixels! 🤯

And 4K is 4x 1080p! No wonder 4K gaming makes graphics cards chug.

Renacles, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)

Holy crap, it’s happening!!

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