Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Out Now — but It's So Popular It's Crashing Storefronts Including Steam
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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.
We were sacrificing people on reddit in the Hollow Knight sub in order to get the game released before I left there. I still volunteer as tribute.
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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!)
Steam pre-downloads are encrypted.
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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.
They probably weren’t expecting this much, and didn’t pre-scale the server instances. Having more capacity than you need is expensive.
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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
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.
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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.
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
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Path of pain changes a man.
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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This time.
Not always though. Many good to great games fall through the cracks and never make much money.
Ok, like what? Got a top five they were really great but no one noticed?
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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.
You better believe that Rockstar will be doing preorders as well. Those sales will be spread out over weeks, so won’t experience the congestion caused by Silksong.
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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
Haha exactly. Celeste B sides will give you that feeling too if you’re up for more masochism.
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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.
Forty five degree angles are the devil from what I’ve seen on twitch lmfao. No one is use to that yet.
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Ok, like what? Got a top five they were really great but no one noticed?
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.
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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
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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
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.
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Forty five degree angles are the devil from what I’ve seen on twitch lmfao. No one is use to that yet.
I will be tomorrow… A night of sleep and I think I’ll have it. It’s starting to click
I did think about streaming it, probably would’ve been a good way to start. But on the other hand, I want to enjoy this game for what it is
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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.
Right? You get it. It really feels like something special
I feel like I’m learning to play Hollow Knight all over again. I suck, but I know when I wake up tomorrow I’ll be better. And that’s a beautiful feeling
And I just have to say, it’s incredible that team cherry could release this game, with such intense expectations, and not disappoint. I just hope the game doesn’t end too soon
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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.
Steam frontpage was definetely crashed too.
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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.
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Cool. There’s an estimated 324k blood transfusions per day. This beat that
It’s essentially an objective measurement
