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[Draugoth]

Have you been waiting?

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[kubricks]

I have not been following the news but I was really looking forward it after completing Hollow Knight years ago.
So what happened? Is it in development hell? How's Team Cherry doing?

 

[Robb]

Hope it turns out good after all this time.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

THE ONE PIECE... IS REAL

 

[Hrk69]

Have you been waiting?

Nah. I always thought that Hollow Knight was highly overrated.

 

[GloveSlap]

I played the first one late so haven't been waiting the full time. Definitely want it bad though. I think it's more the game is massive than troubled development or anything like that.

 

[Fbh]

While I'd obviously have liked for it to be out already, I'm more understanding about a small team of 3 people taking 5+ years to make the follow up to one of my favorite games vs some AAA studios somehow needing 5 years and 300+ million dollars to make some formulaic more of the same sequel with slightly better graphics than the previous game.

 

[DGrayson]

I've been waiting forever it seems. I was shocked that Tears of the Kingdom came out first.

 

[N30RYU]

Nearly 1 in 5 gamers think this game have already been released.


Just made this info from my ass like Eurogamer

 

[Mister Wolf]

When it's ready.

 

[DragonNCM]

Basically they made first game so good that they can't make sequel that will live up or suppress first one.....

 

[Mr Hyde]

It's clearly in development hell. That, or they skipped Silksong and went straight to the third entry.

 

[FoxMcChief]

They get bought out by either Sony or Xbox? That would make sense why we haven’t seen the game yet.

 

[ClanOfNone]

While I'd obviously have liked for it to be out already, I'm more understanding about a small team of 3 people taking 5+ years to make the follow up to one of my favorite games vs some AAA studios somehow needing 5 years and 300+ million dollars to make some formulaic more of the same sequel with slightly better graphics than the previous game.

It’s just a three man team still? Crazy, I would’ve thought after the commercial/critical success of Hollow Knight that they would’ve expanded a least a little bit.

I eagerly await it, but I wonder if I’ll have the chops to make it all the way through. I barely scraped through the first game, some sections were just brutal.

 

[gundalf]

I'm not even waiting anymore, hype is gone until it actually hits stores.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Basically they made first game so good that they can't make sequel that will live up or suppress first one.....

This is it I think. I loved the first game and this was announced just after I finished it. I was super excited, that was 5 years ago. Wasn't the game supposed to come out last year after the whole 'all these games are coming out within a year' crap by Xbox?

 

[Flabagast]

FYI initial release date was end 2019

 

[near]

They announced it way too early, literally less than a year after HK was ported to consoles. Haunted Chocolatier will be a longer wait if it's any consolation.

It’s just a three man team still? Crazy, I would’ve thought after the commercial/critical success of Hollow Knight that they would’ve expanded a least a little bit.

I eagerly await it, but I wonder if I’ll have the chops to make it all the way through. I barely scraped through the first game, some sections were just brutal.

The core dev team is definitely more than 3 people, at least 10 aside from contracted voice actors, game testers, translation, marketing etc. Though I doubt they would've expanded by much since then.

 

[John Bilbo]

You don't have to twist the knife in the wound Draugoth !

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

If Sony buys them, we could at least get Hollow Knight Remastered while we wait fo Silksong

 

[Bernardougf]

Basically they made first game so good that they can't make sequel that will live up or suppress first one.....

Or they became millionaires and just dont give a shit anymore... how much the game sold ?

 

[Chittagong]

If you are taking more than five years to make a platformer and your payslip doesn’t say Nintendo Co Ltd you are probably in development hell

 

[Thief1987]

some formulaic more of the same sequel with slightly better graphics than the previous game.

What they showed of Silksong doesn't even have better graphics though

 

[Paltheos]

Basically they made first game so good that they can't make sequel that will live up or suppress first one.....

Surpass* (suppress lol)

And agreed. Expectations are sky high in my (limited) circles. Any time there's any type of VG announcements, like at TGA, "Where's Silksong?" dominates the discussion. I think it's the #1 most wanted, announced-a-long-time-ago game. The stress to make a worthy sequel must be sky high, especially when you've gone so far as to fundamentally alter the player character's moveset. It's an opportunity for new ideas to flourish, but so much of the old design framework has to be tossed out.

 

[Soodanim]

It's been so long that I thought I'd missed the release and the game was old news until I realised it still wasn't out.

I'm fine with it, there's plenty to play out there and I'm sure it will be released when it's ready.

 

[Dorago]

Team Cherry were hoping to finish the game, but they all hit Australia's mandatory retirement age before doing so!

 

[ByWatterson]

May as well be vaporware at this point.

No hype. It'll come out when it comes out.

 

[Sensei]

It seems that they're still alive

 

[ShadowNate]

Wasn't there a teaser about this coming in 2024 on some Xbox presentation, or am I remembering this wrong?

 

[H4ze]

Vaporware - The Game

Change my mind

 

[b0uncyfr0]

 

[Kiya's Guard]

Tags: drama. Spot on

 

[Akuji]

how do the DLC work in Hollow Knight? I got the base game for years, thought i wait for Silksong to have a complete go at it.
Is that even how it works or is this a kinda seperate thing anyway at the end?

Please someone, try to answer this without any spoilers, i really look forward to the game. Dont know much about it besides its a highly praised game that looks like i would really enjoy playing.