After watching the industry destroy itself with a focus on DEI, hamfisted commie propaganda, and predatory systems designed to squeeze every penny they can from their customers, I have become pretty cynical about every new game coming out. I was definitely worried that Silksong would become a victim to this same cancer, but am happy to say that it is amazing.
I'm not that far into it, and I am in no hurry to get to the end, but I can already tell that I am going to love every minute of it. I am relieved that Team Cherry can be counted among Fromsoft and very few others who still understand what matters in a good game, and give us something that is worth every penny. Other developers are losing their minds over a game this good being only $20, and they probably have a point. Just like with Hollow Knight, they could have charged $40 or more and nobody would have felt ripped off.
I am thrilled to see them doing so well that it crashed the servers for the stores on every console and on Steam. I hope they make absolute bank and keep on killing it. I just hope their next game doesn't take quite so long to come out.
Anyway, it's nice to have some good news for a change. If you haven't played Silksong (or Hollow Knight), you should definitely pick them both up. They are as close to perfect as games can get.
Silksong had 500k concurrent users on Steam. They made at least $10 million gross.
It is hilarious that all the rent seeking communist devs are all whining that they have to make better games now.
I work with some game devs that are like that. One of them described Silksong as unfair, and as setting false expectations in the industry. It’s nowhere near the game Elden Ring is for obvious reasons, but I remember people saying that about Elden Ring too.
The only way I could see that being unfair is if the devs had an injection of venture capital or something.
Yeah. The devs I’m talking about here are also a little woke, so they have the mindset of ‘my game should sell because someone like me is making it,’ rather than ‘my game should sell because I made a good game people will like and marketed it well.’
And it's the commies that are the most likely to get venture capital for their game development.
I think it's more hilarious that the people who complained that AAA doesn't innovate go all soyface over the bajillionth samey indie platformer.
I will worry about the AAA industry being innovative as soon as they show us that they can do the basics first. They have innovated the shit out of their microtransactions, same-sex romance conversation trees, and ray-traced bump mapped frame interpolated algorithm for perfectly rendering every hair on the adams apple of every female protagonist, and none of us ever asked for any of it.
I can tell you never even played the samey indie platformer that this is a sequel for. If you had, you would know that it was a better game with more polish than any AAA game released since that wasn't from Fromsoft or Nintendo.
Saw an indie dev say it should cost 40$
They really don't have to. They'll just make more pornographic visual novel games.