Hollow Knight

how can one indie game on a 50k budget mog every AAA game of the last decade?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    now we wair!t for anons to say rabi rabi, ender lillies and la mulana are all better while the ori moron gets baited with "ori is an indie game"

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Modern AAA games have no soul, only lootboxes and diversity quotas

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the power of soul and passion and vision

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is hollow knight really that good? I've been meaning to play it, but the fact that is so universally worshipped on Reddit is making me weary. The only games that get that kind of adoration on Reddit are super troony ones like Undertale.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you really need to get a fricking grip anon. just play something if you want to play it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sorry troon-kun, I don't want to spend money in support of some pozzed game beloved by Reddit, and your argument for isn't particularly compelling. If you have any actual reasons why it's so good and not pozzed, I would love to hear them as I'd prefer to have my suspicions proven wrong.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          pirate it then if you care about paying so little money

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >pirate it then if you care about paying so little money
            That's actually a good point, thank you Anon.

            Its good its just not the best metroidvania that inexperienced zoomers try to make it out to be. Not even top 3. Might not even be top 5. Its the only metroidvania I have yet to replay.

            Thanks for the qrd, that makes sense.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          what in the frick do trannies have to do with hollow knight you schizo lunatic?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          i don't give a frick if you spend money, or even if you play it. you're just a fricking impressionable moron for letting the internet dictate what you do

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Lol I know next to nothing about the game, just that it's a metroidvania style apparently featuring bug knights. However I am certainly capable of noticing things and making mental connections - one of which being that most games that are overwhelmingly positive and have a total cult like following on Reddit - are usually pozzed or have some other glaring issue that the rabid fanbase bans all dialogue about. It's certainly not always the case, but when I consistently see weepy redditors talking about how the game is literally perfect and how it literally changed their life, it makes me weary about purchasing. No game is perfect - only mentally ill terminally online folks (usually trannies) will attach themselves mentally to a piece of media in that way and then proceed to rabidly defend said piece of media like their life depends on it. I mean, look at all the level of frothing at the mouth furious responses I got to simply asking whether or not it was worth playing lol.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              christ. you're too far gone

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >schizo babble
              >”I am certainly capable of making mental connections”
              Lmao. No one is frothing at the mouth about you questioning the game. I don’t even like the game that much. It was overlong and had boring movement. But you’re still a complete idiot who needs to do something else with your life (possibly end it)

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You got those responses for asking if it was le pozzed wrongthink anti-/misc/ game, which is fricking stupid. Don't turn it around and pretend like you got those responses just for asking whether the game was good or not, schizo.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So the word pozzed was so triggering that it caused you and your fellow cultists to lash out in vicious rage? Lmao. I assume the real reason was my use of the t word. Sorry you can't downvote me but that's life.

                It’s just a vaguely dark souls-like metroidvania about a collapsed society of bugs. It has zero politics in it, and the two guys who made it are pretty private. Redditers are moronic but they breathe oxygen, and I’m not going to willingly stop doing that just because Reddit does it.

                Thank you for a sane response Anon.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                schizo post
                take your troony fetish and get it out of here, sick frick

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Trying to turn this around isn't going to work, schizo-kun. You asked if a game that has zero indications of it, either from the game itself or from the devs, is 'pozzed'. The sheer moronation, paranoia and lack of self-sufficiency required for you to even ask that question is plenty of reason for people to tell you to frick off to whatever hole you crawled out of.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It’s just a vaguely dark souls-like metroidvania about a collapsed society of bugs. It has zero politics in it, and the two guys who made it are pretty private. Redditers are moronic but they breathe oxygen, and I’m not going to willingly stop doing that just because Reddit does it.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              schizo post

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I have a picture of Adolf framed in my living room and i enjoyed hollow knight.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No, it’s Souls + Metroidvania, so it gets hyperbolic praise from people fromdrone esque people. But it is still good. And you’re a dumb fricking loser

        [...]
        Jesus, I fricking hate terminally online zoomers. Go outside, you fricking shut-in /misc/ addicted moron.

        as if you need any more proof that souls trannies are reddit morons lol

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          mindbroken

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >proof
          I directly told you about the overlap, you fricking Ganker brained moron. You’re the even more pathetic side to the insufferable redditor coin

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No, it’s Souls + Metroidvania, so it gets hyperbolic praise from people fromdrone esque people. But it is still good. And you’re a dumb fricking loser

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it has nothing to do with Souls except for the whole ruined kingdom aesthetic. The combat has a LOT of mobility

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >benches = bonfires
          >you drop your currency at the place you die
          >is a glorified boss rush with over reliance on normal attacking and an i frame dodge
          >nothing to do with souls
          Sure

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >breathes air
            >drinks water
            >eats food
            >nothing to do with a troony
            Sure

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              why choose to be a Ganker npc, when you could instead have a nice day?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Exactly, why do you spend your time shitposting in threads of games you don't like instead of killing yourself?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I think the game is good. Not amazing, but good. Why are you so assblasted by a common, obvious comparison that you reveal yourself to be such a dumb, brainrotten sheep?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            save points have existed for a VERY long time. Benches are just that. The combat loop isnt dodge->attack; as I said, it has a lot of mobility either in combat or in platforming sections. It doesnt even have a stamina bar

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      jesus

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sorry troon-kun, I don't want to spend money in support of some pozzed game beloved by Reddit, and your argument for isn't particularly compelling. If you have any actual reasons why it's so good and not pozzed, I would love to hear them as I'd prefer to have my suspicions proven wrong.

      Jesus, I fricking hate terminally online zoomers. Go outside, you fricking shut-in /misc/ addicted moron.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Its good its just not the best metroidvania that inexperienced zoomers try to make it out to be. Not even top 3. Might not even be top 5. Its the only metroidvania I have yet to replay.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What metroidvanias would you say are better? Genuine question, I loved Hollow Knight and haven’t played much of the genre yet.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          nta but I loved samus return

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          NTA but Metroid Prime and Super Metroid are both some of the greatest games ever made.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Actual Metroid and Castlevania games are better. Most of the GBA games especially.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Symphony, Eclesia , Both Sorrow(Dawn and Aria)
          >Shaman King GBA games
          >Metroid Zero Mission and Fusion(need to play Dread)
          >La Mulana(haven't played 2)
          >Luna Nights and Record of Lodoss wars
          I felt like I forget someone

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s really good, but

      Its good its just not the best metroidvania that inexperienced zoomers try to make it out to be. Not even top 3. Might not even be top 5. Its the only metroidvania I have yet to replay.

      is absolutely right. Certainly a great game and worth your time, but the latter parts are a bit of a slog with backtracking.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sad that so many users on here are like this. It's like they're afraid of not being accepted into the cool club.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        a lot of Ganker and Ganker in general is impressionable kids who've been mind broken by the relentless bullshit from /misc/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nobody on /misc/ will find out that you enjoy the wrongthink games zoomer-kun

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Looking at how many seething troons angrily replied you can guess how troony the game is

      If you really want to play Hollow Knight you should pirate it

      Also the movement on this game is absolute garbage on a controller and I recommend unironically playing with a keyboard instead

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >im moronic look at me im moronic!
        >lol, look he's moronic
        >lmao owned you i was being moronic and you called me out on it!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      fricking moron

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Posts like this remind me of when Undertale came out and Ganker fricking loved it. There were shitloads of threads about how great it was until it got popular, at which point it was promptly labeled "tumblr garbage" and all discussion was de facto banned by the exact same newbie morons who were praising it to fit in only days prior.
      I genuinely cannot understand what kind of complete and utter social failure you have to be to try and fit in with the cool kids on a fricking ANONYMOUS forum. Seriously, imagine going to a place where every single thing you say is in no way tied to you unless you put a tripcode on, and still being so utterly terrified of having someone call you a homosexual that you have to self censor yourself and post nothing but things you think are "approved." I don't care if you've ever used Reddit in your life, your mentality is 100% Reddit to its core. Hunting upvotes and karma that doesn't even fricking exist because you're terrified of downvotes that also don't exist.

      Black person.

      >inb4 HURR DURR I WAS JUST PRETENDING TO BE moronic
      That's just as bad. Getting people to call you a fricking idiot isn't difficult and if that's something you strive for then I feel nothing but pity for you.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Buddy, like most of the rest of the world, I personally hate seeing your kind invade the stuff I enjoy. I don't want to have to play anything that has your disgusting lifestyle shoved in my face constantly, and I certainly won't pay for that privilege if I can avoid it. I'll trust the other Anons who posted saying it's not particularly onions and give it a try.

        Just so you know, responses like yours are the ones that cost devs money. People see this shit and they think the fanbase is mostly a bunch of mentally ill men in drag and want to avoid it like the plague.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Like most of the rest of the world
          Projection, also who gives a frick what the rest of the world thinks, you're the only one who needs to defend your own opinions
          >constantly shoved in your face
          Name a single instance where Undertale 'shoves it in your face', I'll wait
          >getting caught by the filter
          lmao
          >people see this shit and think the fanbase is mostly a bunch of mentally ill drag men
          What shit? Pointing out how contrarians are insecure gays who don't care about video games on the video game board but only about an imaginary popularity contest? Yeah, real troony opinion you've found there, newbie.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          schizo post
          take your troony fetish and get it out of here, sick frick
          im so tired of your disgusting lifestyle that consists in always bringing up your troony fetish everywhere you go being shoved in my face

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >people refuse to buy games because of icky comments on Ganker
          Congratulations anon, if you were merely pretending to be moronic you managed to play the part impeccably.
          Between your giggling fits over how many people you got to call you a moron, please consider why it all came so naturally.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Game has nothing to do with heckin brave trans persons terf-kun.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Who’s the artist? I need to tell it to kill itself.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        same, but with darksouls 2

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes it's good. And you can get it for like 6 dollars or with playstation plus so you should absolutely play it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sorry troon-kun, I don't want to spend money in support of some pozzed game beloved by Reddit, and your argument for isn't particularly compelling. If you have any actual reasons why it's so good and not pozzed, I would love to hear them as I'd prefer to have my suspicions proven wrong.

      I like HK but this is a good heuristic. Seething posts are from reddit zoomers btw.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    made by people who love games instead of employees

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why can't you discuss hollow knight on Ganker? Every thread ends up like this. the creators arent even political and quite kept away making almost no public statements.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ganker hated popular videogames

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      contrarian
      also nintendies btfo and bitter about metroid being mediocre now

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because the audience is incredibly annoying and has views indistinguishable from shitposts

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        More like you Metroid schizos won't let us have threads while you spam the same Samus fanarts everyday from your bland protagonist

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >it’s not our fault, it’s our boogeyman rivals’
          I arrest my case

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            You are not even considered rival so keep seething at HK, Metroidgay

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >seething at HK
              Where did I do that? I just said there are annoying spergs in the fanbase, and then wah lah!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I just said there are annoying spergs in the fanbase, and then wah lah!
                Get the frick out of here you fricking disgusting troll. It's hilarious how unaware you are. You'll always wish there could be a single Metroid that approaches how great HK is.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Ask me how I know you have no friends and don’t talk to your family

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                LOL nice projection. Sorry but Samus would never date you incel.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's 6 years old and there's really nothing left to discuss about it but it's also popular so it attracts nothing but shitposts. Silksong will have normal threads for a little while until it devolves into the same shit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Still funny that Toby called it on undertale, proving how predictable Ganker is when it comes to being contrarian.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What did he call? That normal people would be disgusted with his trans child protagonist? Wow, what a prediction. Who could've guessed?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nintendies specially metroidgays are mad at this game success and they can't even use the muh censorship muh movie excuse

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it was a lame repetitive flash game

    even castle crashers had more staying power than this forced memevania game

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >indie game
    It didn't mog shit
    Only trannies and homosexuals play this shit

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No shareholders.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Oh look, a Hollow Knight threa-
    And it's shit. You frickers need to stop replying to braindead /misc/Black folk.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The OP was shit, what did you expect? Pointing out that this loser

      Buddy, like most of the rest of the world, I personally hate seeing your kind invade the stuff I enjoy. I don't want to have to play anything that has your disgusting lifestyle shoved in my face constantly, and I certainly won't pay for that privilege if I can avoid it. I'll trust the other Anons who posted saying it's not particularly onions and give it a try.

      Just so you know, responses like yours are the ones that cost devs money. People see this shit and they think the fanbase is mostly a bunch of mentally ill men in drag and want to avoid it like the plague.

      has absolutely nothing of value in his life is the only potential worthwhile thing about this thread

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Alright, you have a point. The OP was shit too. Continue.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i'm enjoying it but i also scream FRICK THIS GAME while playing

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    But it's not super metroid, is it?

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hollow Knight actually took around 150k.

    50k from the kickstarter.
    A follow up from donations.
    And a loan.
    And the final stretch was the devs barely getting by every day on scraps.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Feel glad for them, now they are living the comfy life. Make game without worrying about deadlines or running out of money. Same with the ape man and toby. All just living their best life.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It also mogged Metroid Dread

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    precise controls and smart movement, good level design, good boss design, visually clean but also charming art design. just an all around solid game, just a tad overrated because most metroidvanias are EXTREMELY shit.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OP is such a fricking tool he doesn’t deserve to play hollow knight.

    Was that OK to say guys?

    Oh shit, I’m Reddit spacing…

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >a thread about a a game of a kingdom of bugs with zero real world politics even slightly alluded too
    >filled with /misc/tards screetching about trannies
    most deranged shit i've seen in awhile on here. the frick prompted this schizo shit?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >the frick prompted this schizo shit?
      feedback loops

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I asked in the last shill thread if this game has any areas that arent blue/gray/black and no one posted any proof. well?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      underground kingdom. theres greens and purples. what else do you want?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        thanks, thats all i really wanted to know and will continue playing now

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        One of the best maps ever created in video games, I fricking love it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They really did nail the atmosphere

        LOL nice projection. Sorry but Samus would never date you incel.

        >p-projection
        Lol, it’s always the same. It’s your commitment to this us vs them shitposting bit. Anyone with a modicum of worthwhile shit going on in his life wouldn’t act so pathetically for a bit on Ganker

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I'm not an i-i-incel...you have no life!
          Struck a nerve huh. You're in a thread about HK, trying to schizo post about Metroid. A game that no one except you mentioned. Keep projecting though, it's hilarious.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Silksong finally releases in June
    >every other game slated for the back half of the year delays to 2024 because they know they can’t compete

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Silksong finally releases in June
      anon don't do this to yourself...

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's called SOUL. 99% of aussies are fricking annoying c**ts but some of them are actually pretty cool.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It wasn't made by suits funding a thirty million dollar focus group filtered ad campaign, it was made by human beings who have enjoyed video games in the past and thought that they could make a fun one themselves.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't like HK simply because all the characters are bugs, awful design choice. Same reason I'm never touching bug fables even though it's likely pretty fun.
    Bugs are stupid.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I love bugs but the art looks gay.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >imagine building a pc over 1k to play this game

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It doesn't, it's just a dedicated group of increasingly annoying cultists. HK is an 8/10 indie being propped up as the second coming.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      name 3 10/10 indies that arent arcade. I'm just curious

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't hate AAA games, I just don't get as excited about them anymore. Even solid titles like new God of War still fall into a formula we've seen countless times because that's what is guaranteed to sell. Emphasizing beautiful graphics and time-consuming odd-jobs over something that really stands out as a unique product.

    Indies can be weird and creative or difficult in a way that won't be nearly as marketable to as big of an audience, but can still stand out in my mind as the more memorable experience.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Where is Silksong you Black folk AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I need it now I need it now I need it now

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    city of tears is so incredibly kino
    did the devs ever mention angel's egg as inspiration?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >did the devs ever mention angel's egg as inspiration?
      I've never seen it mentioned, but I can see the likeness

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'd guess that and/or Ghibli just by glancing at the roots of the style in Ari Gibson's past work

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes.

      The very first official concept arts of HK was way more detailed and was blatantly inspired by Angel's Egg.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Cool, got a link to any concept art?

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I want Silksong to release right before Tears of the Kingdom for max kino.
    The same way Hollow Knight did back in 2017.

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