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For me it’s Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I get this intense craving every few years. Will play religiously for a month or two and uninstall once I lose interest.
Nah, as much as Hollow Knight is a good game, it doesn’t have Minecraft levels of hold on humanity and never will. He will return in couple of months stronger than ever.
Yeah it’s good but minceraft has way more content potential. Even before you start piling on the modpacks.
I played a few hours of the original Hollow Knight, trying to get into it. I just…couldn’t.
I played the shit out of both of the Ori games, though. God DAMN those games are beautiful.
Just wondering, how far did you get? The begining is certainly the weakest part, Silksong does a better job on improving the general lack of movement and closedness of the map early on
Not op but I had the same issue
I think I played like 10 hours and nothing ever really clicked… I didn’t really know what I was doing, why, what was happening or really anything at all.
And I’m no new guy in gaming. Been at it since like 2010.
Idk why I didn’t enjoy Hollow Knight. It always seemed nice and still does.
I got to the mantis bosses and stalled. I came back when skong came out and found out they were an optional boss. Now I’ve finished 2 acts of the second game so I guess I’ve come a way. The second one is so much more in every way though and you probably don’t need to play the first before it but it helps.
Same, but I do love it’s lore deep dives
This is literally me right now (the minecraft thing) but its been going for 2 month :/. They actually added so much content since I last played I still haven’t explored all of it yet.
I’m having the same thing with Vintage Story, but that’s mostly because steel takes so long to make. My windmill is functioning now and counts as a room, which is good cause it’s tall enough that the temperature drops by 15° C from the ground to my work area.
I used to feel like this with Skyrim when the first snows of winter comes, but anniversary edition ruined a bunch of mods and now the cursor is a box and I don’t feel like playing vanilla or figuring out which mod is broken that I probably don’t want to play without anyways.
Difference this time is it’s Hytale instead of Minecraft
My friend group considered picking it up but one guy said it’s probably best to give it some more time in the oven… have you played it? Thoughts?
The game has more breadth than I thought it would, and the systems it does have (exploration, fighting, construction, farming) have wayyy more depth than Minecraft’s it does not feel fair to compare. There’s definitely enjoyment to be had for a while playing if the occasional random lag spike or disconnect is not a deal breaker for you.
But it’s not yet a Minecraft killer. Minecraft still has a much higher gameplay variation. In a couple years though I don’t think there will be much reason to play vanilla Minecraft except nostalgia.
Its still in early beta, I love it but I also have a higher tolerance for bugs and general unpolished nonsense than most especially for a game I have waited seven years to play.
I loved the first Hollow Knight incredibly, and I really wanted to love the sequel Silksong just as much, but the problem, you see, is that I am Not Good.
The first game had an OK difficulty and plenty of charms to help so I made it to the end, but all the first game DLC was so crazy hard I couldn’t even. And that made me sad.
I hoped Silksong would be a return to a more accessible place, but while it started reasonable it quickly got to a difficulty where I couldn’t keep up, no matter how much I tried. Way more than the original game.
So fuck you, Silksong. I love your world and I love your music and I love your vibe and I want to love you but I hate you.
I’ve recently been playing a lot of Minecraft.
It is a game that you need to practice. I spent 96 hours to get 100% in 2.5 weeks. I crashed out on more than one occasion. It’s like practicing anything. I loved getting better at it, but I understand that it’s not for everyone.
The thing that makes me upset isn’t that it’s not for me.
I accept that plenty of games aren’t for me, and that I shouldn’t play them. I’m never going to get into Dark Souls or Elden Ring, because they aren’t going to be my thing.
The part that makes me upset is that Hollow Knight very much was for me, and was a game I enjoyed and have very fond memories of. I was very much looking forward to Silksong, but the difficulty is so much higher that I can no longer engage with this world I once loved.
It feels in TV terms like watching Season 1 of a show and really getting into it, and then when Season 2 comes out, you excitedly start watching - episode 1, episode 2, but your TV somehow stops working every time you start the third episode. Or any episode after the third. Everyone is talking about how great the show is and you’ve seen clips and you want to experience it, but no matter how much you try, you can’t.
If I hadn’t seen Season 1, I’d just give up after those two episodes like “That show’s obviously not working for me” - but I have seen Season 1. I’m invested, yet now I can’t see it through.
That’s why I’m upset.
I don’t watch playthroughs myself, but maybe it would scratch the itch for you?
Good point, there’s a streamer I enjoy watching that plays games that I’d personally never touch.
If you beat hollow knight, you can beat silksong! It’s about patience and practice. I was going in and greedily getting off many hits instead of learning each boss’s fight and tells. It’s like learning how to play a difficult song. You will mess up a lot. You will repeat sections over and over. It will be a little frustrating if you let it frustrate you.
And you know what? It’s a video game. Download mods if you want to give yourself more hearts or have the bosses do less damage. We all have limited time to play games so have fun with it.
It’s about patience and practice.
Lots of people don’t want that in a video game. Which is perfectly fine because no game is going to have universal appeal.
Yeah I found I became my own worst enemy in silksong, whenever you get a new movement ability it just opens up a ton of crazy stuff you can do and for a while I was just fighting the urge to go too fast (and doing it anyway)
Exactly. Everyone wants a different thing out of video games. Mods exist to tailor that experience if you’re willing to.
Games are art, and the creators have a vision, but ultimately the players interpret the art all differently.
I’ve got a friend with a lot on his plate in the same boat, so he bought it on steam and used trainers/cheats to make himself invincible. Then it became a playable movie of sorts and he enjoyed the shit out of it. It’s a single player game, don’t let anyone judge you.
I feel like Hollow Knight’s difficulty was in the boss fights, you’d traverse pretty easily, then get stuck listening to a fucking Dung Beetle yelling “HOOOOOOOOYYYYYY!” while getting you’re ass kicked for 45 minutes.
In Silksong I’ve gotten my ass handed to me by improper platforming & random nobodies more times than I can count.
Doma doma doma!
Main thing that annoyed me that it felt like every enemy in Silksong deals two damages, so I see I got 4 lifes and think its relaxed and suddenly I am dead :(
That’s fair. Silksong is harder and more importantly much meaner game than Hollow Knight. It is still a really good game, but it’s a bit of a love/hate relationship for me as well.
whispers look up “Vintage Story”
i’m hooked
My windmill is functioning. I put the helve hammer, quern and pulverizer into a room whose floor is 2 blocks thick, starting at a vertical level of 200. I’ve gone through 5 redwood trees, and am making refractory bricks to make steel. Also need to make a ton of plaster for the a lot of the windmill. That’s on my single player world. My brother and I have a multiplayer world where we are currently prospecting for iron.
Oh I also have bees. So many bees on both worlds.
Factorio is my goto once a year thing for a month
Literally just started back up myself. Hoping to actually breach into Space Age as I picked it up when it released but just could NOT keep at it.
Space age is huge compared to what there was before and I’ve had a few runs fizzle out early
Lack of logistics before launch was one of two reasons, second was my 1 gig of blueprints had their rails invalidated
What character is holding him hostage?
Horny Silk Thong
Horselips love song
Hornt. Hornt Silkysong.
Netsong from Hornsilk
Horsong from silknet
Git Good.
Hornet from Silk Song
Silknet from Horsong
Geoff.
Song from hornet
Silk hore from net song
Hopalong from Silkfrog
Sliknet from roshong
Hornet from Silksong.
Hornet from Silksong
Hornet from Silksong
Hor net from Silksong
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Hey you, you’re finally awake.
Monster Hunter is my Minecraft, because I need a game that hates me as much as I do.
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