• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
    40·
    2 months ago

    I loved the first Hollow Knight incredibly, and I really wanted to love the sequel Silksong just as much, but the problem, you see, is that I am Not Good.

    The first game had an OK difficulty and plenty of charms to help so I made it to the end, but all the first game DLC was so crazy hard I couldn’t even. And that made me sad.

    I hoped Silksong would be a return to a more accessible place, but while it started reasonable it quickly got to a difficulty where I couldn’t keep up, no matter how much I tried. Way more than the original game.

    So fuck you, Silksong. I love your world and I love your music and I love your vibe and I want to love you but I hate you.

    I’ve recently been playing a lot of Minecraft.

    • LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz
      12·
      2 months ago

      That’s fair. Silksong is harder and more importantly much meaner game than Hollow Knight. It is still a really good game, but it’s a bit of a love/hate relationship for me as well.

    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      It is a game that you need to practice. I spent 96 hours to get 100% in 2.5 weeks. I crashed out on more than one occasion. It’s like practicing anything. I loved getting better at it, but I understand that it’s not for everyone.

      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 months ago

        The thing that makes me upset isn’t that it’s not for me.

        I accept that plenty of games aren’t for me, and that I shouldn’t play them. I’m never going to get into Dark Souls or Elden Ring, because they aren’t going to be my thing.

        The part that makes me upset is that Hollow Knight very much was for me, and was a game I enjoyed and have very fond memories of. I was very much looking forward to Silksong, but the difficulty is so much higher that I can no longer engage with this world I once loved.

        It feels in TV terms like watching Season 1 of a show and really getting into it, and then when Season 2 comes out, you excitedly start watching - episode 1, episode 2, but your TV somehow stops working every time you start the third episode. Or any episode after the third. Everyone is talking about how great the show is and you’ve seen clips and you want to experience it, but no matter how much you try, you can’t.

        If I hadn’t seen Season 1, I’d just give up after those two episodes like “That show’s obviously not working for me” - but I have seen Season 1. I’m invested, yet now I can’t see it through.

        That’s why I’m upset.

        • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          If you beat hollow knight, you can beat silksong! It’s about patience and practice. I was going in and greedily getting off many hits instead of learning each boss’s fight and tells. It’s like learning how to play a difficult song. You will mess up a lot. You will repeat sections over and over. It will be a little frustrating if you let it frustrate you.

          And you know what? It’s a video game. Download mods if you want to give yourself more hearts or have the bosses do less damage. We all have limited time to play games so have fun with it.

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          I’ve got a friend with a lot on his plate in the same boat, so he bought it on steam and used trainers/cheats to make himself invincible. Then it became a playable movie of sorts and he enjoyed the shit out of it. It’s a single player game, don’t let anyone judge you.

    • MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Main thing that annoyed me that it felt like every enemy in Silksong deals two damages, so I see I got 4 lifes and think its relaxed and suddenly I am dead :(

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Just get a mod that alters the difficulty, there’s no cheating in single player games. I played about a third of the game until I hit my skill ceiling. I could’ve insisted on practicing and getting better and endure another 6 hours of frustration and hand pain. I love overcoming challenges and the sense of achievement when obstacles are overcome. But I also have a job and a family life that also delivers both, in a non-optional way. At some point I just want to see what else is there in the game’s content, not to struggle against a wall for hours. Now I’m near the final act and can say, it would’ve take me tens of more hours to get here that way. I ain’t got that much free time in my hands that I want to invest on a video game.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    I played a few hours of the original Hollow Knight, trying to get into it. I just…couldn’t.

    I played the shit out of both of the Ori games, though. God DAMN those games are beautiful.

  • Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 months ago

    For me it’s Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I get this intense craving every few years. Will play religiously for a month or two and uninstall once I lose interest.

    • jnod4@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Isn’t that an android game? Could never get past the first level or two deep, I miss on something

      • FunkFactory@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        The game has a few subtle mechanics that are not so obvious but more or less essential for progressing deep.

        I haven’t played in a few years, >!but IIRC it’s extremely helpful to funnel aggro’d enemies through doors. Not only does it make it easier to fight only one at a time, but you get a surprise attack/crit on the turn the enemy enters the door frame and “discovers” the player.!<

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 months ago

    Nah, as much as Hollow Knight is a good game, it doesn’t have Minecraft levels of hold on humanity and never will. He will return in couple of months stronger than ever.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 months ago

    I used to feel like this with Skyrim when the first snows of winter comes, but anniversary edition ruined a bunch of mods and now the cursor is a box and I don’t feel like playing vanilla or figuring out which mod is broken that I probably don’t want to play without anyways.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    This is literally me right now (the minecraft thing) but its been going for 2 month :/. They actually added so much content since I last played I still haven’t explored all of it yet.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m having the same thing with Vintage Story, but that’s mostly because steel takes so long to make. My windmill is functioning now and counts as a room, which is good cause it’s tall enough that the temperature drops by 15° C from the ground to my work area.