This feels like cherry picking (there is probably a better pun in there). The sentiment I saw when the servers went down was overwhelming support for the Dev and the happiness that an indie game is doing with AAA games can’t; bring down steam.
What drama queens. The store was down for an hour tops. After 7 years who cares about one hour longer. It’s nice to see how much demand there is for indie games, they are the last bastion of this art form.
It broke four hours for me.
Stores were down for like an hour. Except for the super fans, most players wouldn’t have noticed.
I noticed, and did a lot of refreshing to eventually get it (over 2 hours after launch) but mostly it’s just funny and so so cool that a few Australian guys can make a game and it takes down every store. Straight badass.
They are getting charged with DDOSing these companies though.
/joke
Who was frustrated? I was psyched
I‘ve read some complains directly from people when it was happening. It‘s honestly not hard to believe that people get frustrated when a service with a good track record on availability spontaneously goes down for a few hours. It‘s okay when you say that you don‘t care though. I wasn‘t personally affected. But it did happen.
This isn’t news
No, I was more frustrated with some of the boss run backs. I kept having to down thrust bouncy things in order to avoid spikes. I was trying to find that guy to buy maps, but I didn’t know he went back to town, so I kept exploring more. I ended up losing like 200 rosary beads.
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Literally me. Explored the whole Far Fields before finding the guy just sitting on his ass in the starting area.
I should have known from Hollow Knight that the map guy would go to town, but I wasn’t thorough. I’m enjoying this game so far. The bosses feel easier than the jumping parts. I just need to remember to slow down and learn the boss patterns before I run in all crazy.
I just don’t see the appeal.
The appeal is that it‘s a great game with beautiful art that runs on just about anything for an affordable price with no modern fuckery attached.
But if metroidvanias aren‘t your thing, it‘s just not your thing. I‘m also not super obsessed with them and played the first game a fair amount but not that much; I do, however, get why people just want to be hyped for something that doesn‘t spit in their face in return for once.
But it’s not hard to find examples of similar games that don’t reach server-crashing levels of popularity. Axiom Verge, for one. Beautiful art, runs on anything, affordable, no modern fuckery. It’s also a metroidvania. Not to imply it’s a better game, but I personally enjoyed it way more than Hollow Knight.
That’s quite normal. There are so many overwhelmingly positive games that don’t interest me, I cannot count. Hades, Fallout New Vegas, Balatro, Slime Rancher, Slay The Spire are some of them. If you like a niche, hold onto that. You don’t have to play or like everything.
You don’t have to buy it! Wild concept but it’s true
And you don’t have to like it either!
Doesn’t stop fanboys from downvoting any criticism. Or from trying to inject the game into completely unrelated discussions today
No one has to like everything. Everyone has different taste, some things align with more people, some with less. There are thousands of games / books / songs I don’t like but you don’t see me announcing that to the world whenever they are brought up.
To be fair that’s just what Lemmy people do with any topic.
