6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games"

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s a beta test branch on Steam that was uploaded 5 months ago, and the game has been age rated in South Korea. Yes, that game is coming. For good reason, it’s also the belle of the ball when it comes to marketing deals, so as much as it’s a meme to say maybe it’s at the next Nintendo Direct, it might be at the next Nintendo Direct. For everyone’s sake, I hope it gets its release date soon so that we can stop talking about it.

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  • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If it was at the direct, they would have rolled with the “teasers” that people invented

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That title seems like it is intended to sound extremely derogatory / condescending

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    GamesRadar has been pushing these “but where gam?” articles for some time. It started right after silksong got delayed past the original hollow knight. They seem utterly convinced silksong will be vaporware, or (more likely) it drives plenty of clicks complaining.

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    • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I wasn’t aware of that.

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• hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Six years of hype, it never going to live up too. Team Cherry did this to themselves.

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is hard to make a sequel to the best game of all time, unless it is the new best game of all time. I’m not sure the extended dev time is the dominant issue here.

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    • Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The lack of communication from Team Cherry is the only issue, and it’s the primary thing that makes me skeptical about the game ever releasing. If they were working on the game for this long, they’d at least have enough material to give us some kind of an update. It could be as small as a blog post.

      Not to imply that they owe us that or anything. They possibly are just completely disinterested in marketing. It’s a little hard to believe given the amazing trailer that they put together years ago, but it’s still possible.

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    • 50_centavos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Idk if you’re being sarcastic but Hollow Knight is far from the best game of all time. Not saying it’s not good, but to crown it ahead of soooo many better games is pretty ridiculous.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It doesn’t have to be the best game of all time. It just has to be at least as good as Hollow Knight.

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• neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I want them to take all the time they need. The more time in the oven, the better.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Only as long as it’s not in the oven so long due to mismanagement and constantly changing direction.

    See: Duke Nukem Forever

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    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Team cherry is like 4 people, I’m confident that’s not a problem.

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    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ohh uh yeah good point.

      I didn’t check, but I’d guess it’s the same small group of people who made the first one.

      Maybe at this point they are holding off to make it a switch 2 launch title.

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• Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Power to them. I’m sure Hollow Knight made them all independently wealthy. I’d be hard pressed to bother to work too hard, too.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean… basically every platform is calling it an “upcoming game”. I want to say even fricking Nintendo have put it in a few sizzle reels?

  Yes, it is a scientific fact that acknowledging Silksong adds at least another week until it releases. But it is also THE biggest indie game out there.

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• glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  are they still working on it? yes? then it will come out when it comes out. There’s enough content in my backlog to keep me occupied for another 5 years at least, and more new games release every day. I can wait.

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• PeteWheeler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My prediction is that Silksong will be a Nintendo Switch 2 launch title or something similar.

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• Bademantel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Let them cook.

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