Silksong also didn’t presale and by extension had no way to early download. I think they didn’t want data miners and spoilers.

It wasn’t actually the download infrastructure that crashed steam, it was the payment APIs (my cart didn’t work for a full 2 1/2 hours!)

I didn’t think that Steam was crashable at this point. Great to see that a game made and published by an indie developer is getting so much attention.

I’ve been replaying Hollow Knight this week, and despite it being years since I played, I still had the muscle memory. So I was just blazing through, I mean once you do the crazy parcore in the castle the other challenges are pretty easy

The skills do not transfer over, I’m almost as bad as I was going into the first game

So far, this game is exactly what was promised… You’re Hornet from the last game, in a new place, with a new story

It’s like playing Hollow Knight for the first time again

really. i had no idea hollow knight was that popular, for me it was just a plucky little indie metroidvania. i don’t even recall seeing much about it online in recent years. guess the fandom must have kept to themselves.

Path of pain changes a man.

I am playing the original Hollow Knight before streaming Silksong on twitch, and holy shit I have never felt this ASS at a platformer before. 90% of the time I’m falling off platforms by accident or somehow falling off and AVOIDING EVERY PLATFORM FOR NO REASON and falling all the way down. Usually into acid.

I didn’t think that Steam was crashable at this point. Great to see that a game made and published by an indie developer is getting so much attention.

This time.

Not always though. Many good to great games fall through the cracks and never make much money.

Honestly, I don’t think it will be this busy.

Silksong was the most wishlisted game on the platform, coupled with the fact they’re selling it for $20 USD

GTA VI will be a huge release, but there is no way Rockstar sells it for anything less than $100 which is going to price a huge amount of people out.

It genuinely does. I never thought I was the kind of person who could complete the path of pain. It was very painful. It took days. But I did it, and I realized I could be that kind of person if I just refuse to give up. I could be any type of person if I want it enough

Lol… Wait until you play Silksong. Hollow Knight is about straight lines and timing, if you want to be Hornet you have to learn to dance in the air

You need positioning, timing, and angles. You have to dance into their guard and hit with precision, you can hit them while dodging their strike, you have to dance in between them and the hotbox of their attack

Sleeping and stepping away helps.

Ok, like what? Got a top five they were really great but no one noticed?

Haha exactly. Celeste B sides will give you that feeling too if you’re up for more masochism.

Been there, done that. I never would have if I hadn’t experienced Hollow Knight first through…I didn’t like hard games before that, now I am undaunted

Forty five degree angles are the devil from what I’ve seen on twitch lmfao. No one is use to that yet.

Oh for sure. Those two games are peak platforming for me.

I’m loving Silksong by the way.

If hollow knight movement involved jumping up and down and dashing left/right, silksong involves moving in more of a saw-tooth pattern. Platforming and combat challenges are feeling fresh as a result.

Steam isn’t what had the issue. It was the payment processor. You can tell because multiple digital storefronts all died at the same time.

Yeah, the fandom never died. There’s just no other platformer like it, the controls are so tight and the game itself is extremely well polished

People still do speed runs of Mario 64 and ocarina of time, Hollow Knight is like… Objectively the best 2D platformer of all time. It is singular, the games that inspired it and the games that copy it don’t compare

Although so far, Silksong has not disappointed, it took forever but it’s actually living up to expectations so far

objectively sounds a bit much. i found it ok.

People always notice good games. Sometimes they just don’t have mass appeal or are marketed badly.

Okami, Beyond Good and Evil, Ico, Psychonauts, Gravity Rush, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Eternal Darkness, Vanquish, Titanfall, Rayman Origins, Alien Isolation, Jet Set Radio

There’s definitely a lot more but those are just some of my favorites.