Thread 719152469

>>719152469 (OP)
i'm gonna force myself onto you

>>719152469 (OP)
I never got into this game, what do I miss out on? I hate platformers. People say it's as good as Super Metroid, but I don't see it.

>>719152510
That's basically a rape threat so I'm reporting this to the FBI, enjoy jail time.

>>719152575
in minecraft

What's the next thing /v/ is going to 'force'?

>>719152543
It's a Metroidvania
That's the game
They all play the same way

>>719152690
>They all play the same way

it didn't play like metroid for me.

>>719152731
Then it played like Castlevania

>$10 Indie game builds audience for a decade.
>Long anticipated sequel finally releasing soon.
>Anon shocked when a sizable portion of the audience gets hyped.
Does Anon think that there wasn't an increase playercount of Silent Hill 2 before the remake dropped? Or does he only think this because there was no chart to look at?

>>719152795
nope castlevania also plays nothing like metroid.

>>719152731
you didn't play the game

>>719152543
Metroidvania, twitchy combat and platforming gameplay after a while, good art, good lore. Huge map.

Nothing really mind-blowing, though the execution makes it a good game. It all comes together rather nicely.

/v/ is so contrarian that a huge game with good gameplay, lore, art, and progression sold for $20 is "meh I prefer CoD". Which really tells you all about the IQ of the average /v/tard

>>719152469 (OP)
Pretty much
Usually what happens when a bunch of streamers jump on a bandwagon

>>719152817
>$10 Indie game builds audience for a decade.
How? They were not doing anything for years. They released the game and a small fanatic fanbase kept spamming autistic no hit challenges. There was legit 0 input from the devs.

>>719153249
Thats how audiences build anon

the only souls game i like is ai limit

>>719152469 (OP)
i wonder how many people force themselves to play it right now, but can't say anything because is the type of game everyone praises and you get the fluoride stare when you say it wasn't that good, bet 90% of the shills never finished it to begin with

>>719152543
It's just a well made game in a genre known for having too many shitty games.

>>719153249
In an attention economy the rich get richer, the poor stay poor.
It starts with a good number of wishlists, there are well documented thresholds which control how much Steam promotes your game. If a game is successful, it is more likely to be talked about and shared and become more successful entirely organically. A hidden gem is much more likely to stay that way because it takes exponentially more effort to introduce it into the broader zeitgeist.

>>719152678
deez nuts in your mouth

>>719153573
People will glaze it endlessly despite being just an ok metroidvania

>>719152469 (OP)
>DUUUUDE IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER
>brb downloading it for the first time
it really do be like that

>>719153525
Building an audience implies effort. Someone like Path of exile built an audience, by releasing expansions that were good every year for years. That is building.
Shitting out a gold brick and then vanishing into the aether is not building. Its a runaway success you had little to no input in.
>>719153645
>In an attention economy the rich get richer, the poor stay poor.
True, this has been obvious for a loooong time, since old youtube or streaming platform. Hell, there is a reason why botting views is an industry in itself.

>>719153840
on the other hand, /v/ will hate everything that's popular and call it overrated

>>719152543
It's not like Metroid at all. It's one of those forced difficulty games that people pretend to like.

>>719152469 (OP)
isn't this game in fucking 2d? who the fuck plays 2d games? we got 3d in the early 90s why are you playing games in two dimensions 30 years later? is it an iq thing where you can't navigate three dimensions if your iq is less than 130?

>>719154430
fax

>>719154430
fr

>>719154119
Hollow Knight had 4 DLC releases m8

>>719153249
soulful product builds cult following, what's there to understand?
You think The Thing becoming a VHS hit over the years after release was forced as well?

>>719154957
It literally came out nowhere, nobody has heard of it until the shills kept spamming the threads on /v/.

>>719154430
it's literally just jeets with their shit tier 3rd world PCs.

>>719154995
>came out nowhere, nobody has heard of it until the shills kept spamming the threads
you mean when it released to critical and public acclaim?
When it sold half a mil copies at launch?
Or when it reached 15 million lifetime sales sold earlier this year, more than the original Mass Effect trilogy combined?

>>719154887
Free DLC btw

>>719152678
is forced fun taken?

>>719156024
We can't have 'forced fun' because according to /v/, fun things can't be fun.

>>719155595
The critical acclaim only came later, there were only two mainstream reviews of it in it's year of release