Thread 719686021

This is a catastrophe. Shadowdropping should be a crime.

>>719686021 (OP)
>fucking liars
>does math
Wait they are right?

>>719686021 (OP)
>1,713 releases slated in a month

Holy fuck it’s an absolute slopsoon, the catalog’s been being diluted at this rate for how long?

>>719686021 (OP)
>source: my ass
this doesn’t even make sense. steam gets hundreds of shovelware slop games every week. this game has nothing to do with any of that

Steam has almost 2000 games dropped like every month, jesus.

>>719686021 (OP)
Team Cherry is Evil!

>>719686021 (OP)
How the FUCK is a metroidvania nuking the market

>>719686021 (OP)
omg le heckin mexicano said it it must be true!,!

>>719686298
Because everything else is trash and no that's not hyperbole. They depend on being slightly less trash than everything else released around the same timeframe, so a single hyped indie game is a death sentence and they don't want to release anywhere near it.

>>719686021 (OP)
>.ar
milei is going to rape kiciloff, don't it?

Who cares? It's tranny slop

>>719686021 (OP)
Hollowknight isnt even good,

who gives a shit about silk song?

>>719686750
Trannies are desperately trying to push this game onto people

I dont get it
how is this game so popular?

>>719686927
It's a long awaited sequel to one of the greatest games ever made.

>>719686927
All the big streamers kept meme'ing about Silksong and clown makeup and all of their veiwers wishlisted it (no intention of buying it) to go along with the memes.

>>719686021 (OP)
I hope all those shitters are aware that people wouldn't care about their slop regardless of silksong

>>719686021 (OP)
this is the biggest confirmation that indie devs are retarded yet

>>719686927
it isnt. that's the joke

>>719686021 (OP)
It's a $20 game. It's not like GTA VI that will cost $80. If people don't buy your game because another good game came out that cost $20 at the same time, they weren't gonna buy your game in the first place.

>guys, trust me, this 3 hour DLC to a decade old indie game is totally causing 1.2k games to hold their release dates
Zoomers are fucking retarded.

>>719686175
About a decade, my man. It's why no one cares about Steam sales anymore; unlike 2012 when you could buy a game knowing it was gonna be good, Steam is now just endless shovelware and cheap copies.

>>719686431
>yehudi v. yehudi
They can kill each other for all I care.

Am I suppose to feel sad for the industry that kept making fun of how long it took for Silksong to come out?

Ahaha whoa whoa wait, are you saying that a shitload of literallywho indie game devs CANCELLED their releases just because they feared competition with this one?

>1700 releases
>'It's Silksong's fault that my game didn't stand out!'

>>719686021 (OP)
Why didn't they release their games during the 7 years of Silksong limbo? What are they going to cry about next? Releasing on the same day as GTV6?

>>719686021 (OP)
BASED! I don't care about Hollow Knight but the more indie games can push AAA companies to crash the better!

>>719686021 (OP)
>People shouldn't release good games, because think about what you're doing to other, worse devs

Oh my fucking God.

>>719686298
The industry is going full chickenshit mode because they lost any drop of touch they had with their audience
The big ones haven't released anything outside the "bellow expectations" tier or "NUCLEAR FLOP" tier in almost a decade now, the last hits of thid gen were a "outdated" Belgian RPG that took 20 decades in the oven to the point people assume it was just dead, another "outdated" french RPG made by a new studio created out of spite against Ubisoft, a fucking blackjack shitposting card game made by some random Spaniard and a kid's plataformer game Sony asked their D team to cook up as filler and release whenever without marketing
And this year they still have GTA which feels like can shadowdrop any moment and take at least three months of attention out of the competition. Sinlksong was another unexpected bombeshell, because it's like the ONLY remaining officially announced game with mainstream hype behind it

I don't care about silksong, the market or your worthless twatter thread.
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Can I play this without playing the first one?

>>719690941
Yes. This stuff has a Fromsoftware style "story", so. Nothing much to care about.

>>719691085
>no price too steep

>>719686021 (OP)
WELL CONGRATULATIONS, YOU DROPPED YOUR RELEASE.
NOW WHAT’S THE NEXT STEP OF YOUR MASTER PLAN?!

>>719691085
>fromsoftware style "story"
Minimal story is pretty standard for metroidvanias, lets be real. There are some indie ones that go for a more involved story, but they're exceptions rather than the rule.

>>719686927
artificial hype, no one cares in reality

>>719686021 (OP)
>shadowdropping
They gave everyone 2 weeks to change their release window.

>>719691424
CRASHING THIS MARKET
WITH NO SURVIVORS

>>719686021 (OP)
>Games are so mundane now that Silksong annihilates the competition by existing
Edward Newgate would be proud

>>719686021 (OP)
That's pretty funny actually, it just proves how many devs rely on the chance of their game being a FOTM that will get dropped as soon as something else becomes popular. Why even bother trying to fight something that will be popular from release.

Out of those 1000s of games each month only around 20 are worth a mention

>>719686021 (OP)
I bet the aussies would have done a real 0 warning shadowdrop if they weren't obligated to ask the kickstarter backers which storefront they wanted their game keys for first.

>>719686298
Because everybody let their guard down the second GTA6 got delayed so they weren't ready to hyperpivot when another cultural touchstone shadowdropped a release date in a fortnight.

>>719686021 (OP)
This is so overrated

>>719686250
those same indie shovelware devs are the ones pulling out of september because they are hollow fags that want to hype up silksong and be part of something.

>>719686021 (OP)
>argentina

LMAOOOOOO

>>719687931
Milei is such a clown wtf

>>719686021 (OP)
Remember when Valve shadowed droped Half-life: Alyx and killed the entire VR market

>>719686021 (OP)
>7/10 games cancelled their release

If this is actually true, that's fucking crazy. Unless your game has genre overlap, there was no reason for this.

>>719694146
The only good part about vr is the porn anyway

>>719689342
By the whinging I've seen about it, they're butthurt about the PRICE they're releasing at, like it sets too high a standard of value for indies, its hilarious

Still getting it.

>>719686298
The power of memes and hype

>high quality, hand made game
>$20
this kills the $80 shill.

>>719690941
>hollow knight fan excited to play hollow knight for the first time

>>719686021 (OP)
Lmao, silksong devs should've made a joke and delay their release as well last day, oopsie.

>>719686021 (OP)
I'm so tired of this forced meme. Thank Christ this thing releases in 1 day and now finally all those millions of people can finally play that 7 year old 2D metriodvania game with $20 worth of content they've all been waiting for, right?

>>719686021 (OP)
Le GTA of indie games

>>719694443
You're not going to be one of these people?

>>719687223
>long awaited sequel
????
>one of the greatest games ever made
?????????

>>719694243
nobody buys indies over $15 already this is such an artifical thing to complain about.

how long have you been waiting anons?

GTA6 better watch the fuck out, silksong is coming for your ass!
Xd!

I dropped HK after realizing i've played it for like 25 hours.
I'm not disabled or anything.
It was just a mind numbing slog.

>>719696006
Don't worry, GTA6 will rectify this problem by giving us 100$ as the actual standard price

It tool them seven years to make a three hour long dlc?

>>719686021 (OP)
I am honestly surprised that silksong did all that. I like Hollow Knight, it's a cool game, but I always thought it was kinda niche.

>>719696079
>25 hours
So when the credits rolled?

>>719696180
The game is easily 40+ hours long first time around.

>>719696149
Artificial hype from retards spamming at every gaming event will do that for you

>>719694162
>Unless your game has genre overlap, there was no reason for this.
Silksong has hype and it's cheap. Even people who don't normally play metroidvanias might consider buying it to see what the hubub is about. If it were closer to 30 dollars in price, then there'd be a lot less delayed games and indie dev bellyaching.

>>719696218
Skill issue.

>>719690467
>a fucking blackjack shitposting card game made by some random Spaniard
Game name?

>>719696317
Anon is probably talking about Balatro. It's not blackjack themed, but poker themed, and it's more of a deck-builder roguelite than an actual poker game

>>719696218
Only if you explore everything and do Radiance and Nightmare King Grimm. If that anon was finding it a mind numbing slog then I doubt he was invested enough to do more than the main path.

>>719696218
My first playthrough was closer to 30 hours. And thats with Radiance

>>719686298
>charge $20
>crashes the whole industry with no survivors

>>719696448
Balastro isn't made by a Spaniard tho

>>719686021 (OP)
They said that Silksong killed indies. I say it's a mercy, making them quit before the outside world can get them.

>>719686298
people are applying the movie logic that games must be consumed on release week or they "disapear". which is nonsense singe, unlike movies, don't go off the online stores. (they should imo, steam should only keep your game available for 6 months then you need to pay to reupload.)

>>719686750
>who gives a shit about silk song?
I dont know, like 90% of Steam apparent,y, which is 200 mill concurrent users

>>719696504
Or you could just play it free along with your game pass subscription.

>>719687740
>I have infinite time to waste on TWO new games
fuck off NEETshit, there are people of have a life outside the screen

>>719695506
Qrd on pic rel?

>>719697732
Sadly I don't pay the goypass toll.

>>719686927
hollow knight was good
people want more hollow knight
team cherry has been doing more hollow knight for the past 7 years
people will be finally able to play it tomorrow

>>719687223
way overshoot. if hornet wasn't popular in porn, the game would be long forgotten

>>719686021 (OP)
>Redditsong

>>719686175
Yeah, the crash can't come soon enough

>>719686927
It's this era's Duke Nukem Forever

>>719686021 (OP)
Good. The market fucking deserves it.
It's Silktember, baby!

>INDIE GAMES ARE THE SAVIOR OF GAMING, SPARING US FROM THE EVILS OF AAA PRODUCTION
>major indie game releasing
>/v/ can't say anything positive about it

Just admit you have no standards and prefer being angry and pathetic.

>>719699481
half of the thread praising the game are you stoopid

>>719686298
>>719686927
Because literally everything else that has come out the past ten years has been either utter fucking garbage or fotm/streamerbait shit that people forget about as soon as their favorite eceleb moves on.It's one of the few games in recent memory that people have actually been looking forward to with some level of optimism.

>>719686021 (OP)
>silksloppers have resorted to twitter screencap threads
reminder that HK has a peak of 20k which isn't even that big compared to other indie games of its time
only /v/ gives a shit and it will pass in a week
this is your Dragons Slopma 2 moment all over again

>>719699907
>reminder that HK has a peak of 20k
does he know?

>>719700004
shazam isn't sending his best today

>>719692459
I legitimately couldn't even tell you 5 games coming out this month even before Silksong dropped.

>>719686021 (OP)
who gives a fuck, no one even knows about those delayed games

>>719699889
Silkslop will be exactly this though.

Imagine being an indie dev so powerful that shadowdropping your game without prior notice instantly causes other devs to cuck themselves out of money just to not compete with your release.
Why don't AAA games do this? Can you imagine if GTA6 shadowdropped? It would sell out instantly.

>>719694146
There wasn't a market to kill. HL Alyx was an actual game, not just a gimmicky tech demo.

>>719700236
Relating to someone delaying their release because of your game, FFXIV delayed Dawntrail for one week because of Shadow of the Erdtree. Pretty sure that was because the director wanted to play Elden Ring instead of dealing with an MMO launch week while thinking about playing Elden Ring.

>>719699889
>fotm/streamerbait shit that people forget about as soon as their favorite eceleb moves on
So this game?

>>719687931
Average argie narco fight

>>719686298
>Great price
>Charming world and artstyle
>Requires some measure of skill to beat
They just hit the trifecta. 20$ will also massively boost their sales since all the FOMOzoomers will hop on the bandwagon too

>>719693917
The fact that dozens and dozens of threads about a game I don't care about keep popping up before it even released makes me think shilling is involved, and puts me off buying it even more than I already did

>>719700821
How do schizos like you even exist? No social life?

>>719700865
I'm not a retarded zoomer drone with a pathological need to consoom

>>719700821
>t. "the world revolves around me and my taste"

GO BACK TO TWITTER, FAGGOT

>>719700821

Totally crazy that people are on a videogame board talking about a game thats about to release. Especially one that people have been waiting years for.

>>719700821
>nooo people can't just organically be excited for the sequel to an extremely beloved game, it has to be le psyop shilling
E33 was shilled, Silksong not

>>719695848
I actually never added it to wishlist. Most likely because I knew I'd never need reminding (which turned out true enough).

>>719700821
>I am not gonna buy a game I am not interested in
>Just wanted to come tell you guys in this thread about that game I don't care about
>please notice me I am not gonna buy it
I think you are going to buy it you tsundere fuck.

>>719686298
2015 - 2025 has been a catastrophe in a lot of ways.

>>719686175
Years dude. Years. 99% of releases are just shovel ware and asset flips.

>>719686021 (OP)
I don't buy games made by and for fags. Simple as.

>>719701503
I didn't buy whatever came before this, I won't buy this, and there's nothing you can do about it

>>719686021 (OP)
but we are only 3 days into the month

GTAVI will undo all of this when it releases as the first $100 game and pivots the trajectory back.

>>719686021 (OP)
based

>>719701513
>18759 in 2024
>8181 in 2025
gaming is healing :]

>>719686298
3D ruined gaming

>>719697469
You are jewish

Anyone else who couldn't give any less of a shit about this game?

>>719702175
I care, but I care about kyoko more

>>719702175
See you in Silksong threads.

>>719697868
if you dont have time to waste on video games, you dont have time to waste on 4chan

>>719701513
>everything went to shit after 2012
the usual

>>719686175
People from 3rd countries spam games.
+ Ai

>>719686414
This.
The only games still releasing in september are ones that have the absolute, unwavering confidence from their dev teams, ones that are contractually obligated to release, and ones from devs that simply don't know any better.

No source. Nobody is going to avoid competing with a $20 metroidvania unless they were also releasing a metroidvania.

GTA6 would probably get a response like this and crash new steam releases for a month.

>>719686860
Pfft.
More like trannies malding that all their buddies in journalism and development were blindsided by Team Cherry refusing to play nice and provide their incestuous nepotism network forewarning.

>>719686927
Turns out the three or four discordfags who infinitely hatepost about hollow knight aren't representative of the majority of gamers.
Who would have guessed.

>>719699373
That's Hiveswap.

>>719702870
>GTA6 would probably get a response
steam might not exist in 2030

You doubted the skongers power.

Reddit game unironically, shant be playing shant even be pirating

>>719703330
the game about the aliens with horns and grey skin???

>>719698085
/ g/s queen. Lauriewired

>>719700821
it's literal shills, literally nobody has ever heard of the game until shills came in and spammed the board.

>>719687883
Yeah, we got asscreed 3, farcry 3, halo 4... borderlands 2... banger year!

>>719686021 (OP)
I don't get it, why is Silksong so hyped?
Hollow Knight was pretty good, but not nearly good enough to warrant this kind of reaction to a sequel.
A game missing multiple release dates also should've burned up any hype it did have by now.
Is this just self fueled hype or what?

>>719700821
Thanks for bumping the thread, impulsefag :)

>>719700984
Just a retarded millennial lardass with a compulsive need to spend every day of your life posting about things you don't watch or play

>>719704458
Because the fomo/zoomer/streamer/social media/paid advertising/not paid advertising but trannies doing it for free hype cycle has reached insane proportions for games now. Zoomers and alphas have literally made game releases and being seen being excited for game releases and consuming the most expensive pre ordered version of said release ASAP part of their personality. Really streamers have been the catalyst for this but there’s a number of aspects that feed into it.

>>719686750
>>719686927
it's zoomers shilling the slop the grew up with

All front loaded sales just like the movie industry cycle. Enjoy your $20 hyped game I guess.

>>719704729
this nigga logs on to this board everyday desperate to find stories of things failing financially or falling off or whatever because that's the only joy he's got in life anymore

>>719697868
>there are people of have a life outside the screen
good morning sar

>>719704634
That's not a millennial behavior

shitposters desperate to see it fail yet it will not and will sell like hot bread

>>719702468
this probably paid for a new yacht alone

>>719702175
I'm buying and playing it tomorrow, yet I feel like I give less of a shit than you do.

>>719694243
Reminds me of how AAA devs were whining that BG3 might set impossibly high standards for future RPGs

>>719703852
Yes!
https://youtu.be/NgxKlx5YtgA?si=BPQ4pyrAQqexedDG

>>719705098
why do you type like a zoomer?

>>719694243
>>719707379
This always puzzled me. By this logic, the same AAA devs should be crying their eyes out daily because I play free custom levels for 90s PC games that cost 2 bucks max. Just old games in general take up your time that you could be spending on new release sloppa, which is the only real reason they were trying to force GAAS and the industry opposition to SKG, so that in the future they could compel everyone to buy the new game by just disabling your ability to play the old one.
Suck my dick. Choke on it.

>>719707379
I love to see it

>>719686021 (OP)
it's not shadow dropping if it has a release date that is known ahead of time

>>719686021 (OP)
RIPBOZO
tomorrow I will sit down and enjoy what TC has been working on for the past 7 years. it's going to be good and I can hardly wait.

Im excited to see how much of a mess this board will be tomorrow
have fun with silksong anons

>>719710009
it's gonna come out and it's pretty much gonna be a hollow knight 2. nothing special. probably a great metroidvania.

>>719710009
Urinalists are going to do their absolute best to find fault with it, and you can bet your ass this board will be filled to the brim with astroturfers shilling their articles. Expect threads with a screenshot of the article and a brief summary or headline as the text of the post. Bonus points if they have a direct link to the article in the post.

>>719700065
Fucking LMAO

>>719686298
It's the most wishlisted game on steam. It's the GTA6 of Indies.

>>719686927
People like the first game and kept up the positive word of mouth for years long enough to generate a vocal community. This vocal community then made a bunch of memes about the game and with it finally actually coming out (and not being a meme about it never coming out anymore) it is generating a lot of last minute momentum (even though it had people looking forward to it already).

I actually don't really like hollow knight, but this isn't some insane, unheard of circumstance.

>>719694308
based, me too :3