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silksong started development and released in the time it took for a multi-million dollar studio to make a gameboy game
>>737594209Concord 14
>>737594209how has it taken this long to make this game?given how it looks
>>737594209Wasn’t this suppose to come out 6 months ago but delayed just to spruce things up? That should’ve taken been like a month at most, it hadn’t gone gold until just NOW? How bad of a state was it in originally? Were they actually originally gonna release in such a state?
>>737594209It doesn't seem to be that popular, and the devs entitled whining about it needing to be successful really didn't help.It looks like it will be a good game, but time have changed since shovel knight. The whimsy of people's interest is hard to gauge.
>>737594209I honestly hope this game fails just for the sheer reason that they’ve done everything wrong. Don’t care if the game does end up being good (it won’t), they deserve bankruptcy. Besides, we got so many other indie devs they’re kinda irrelevant. You don’t celebrate grampa for shit he did 50 years ago, once he starts speaking mumbo-jumbo you ship him off to the old folks home to die
>>737594637>entitled whining about it needing to be successful That never happened. Your autism mixed with cynicism interpreted it that way.
>>737594209Why did you post Troonsky? Why did you crop the numbers?
>>737595656Yes it did.
Why is there no Youtube review that bashes the demo?
What’s even sadder is that you can tell which ones were peer reviewed by ai and/or copy pasted from their notepad app.
>>737595032>You don’t celebrate grampa for shit he did 50 years agoYes you do, even among indie devs there are beloved devs like Pixel whose magnum opus released 20 years ago. Yacht Club blew away all their goodwill but even still I feel pity for them fucking up so bad because of how good Shovel Knight was
>>737599759A good grandpa would step down, be a publisher, and pass the torch onto more devs. Anything less should fade away.
>>737594209Will heckin' Shovelrino be in this game????
>>737594209>gone goldHow, it's not even out yet, and never will be.
>>737594209>Going GoldWhatever that meansI look it up every single month Then forget about it few days later
>>737598227>triggered jeetlmao
>>737603562Do you really think games just finish and then just are magically instantly uploaded to storefronts and sent to get pressed into discs/cartridges/whatever?
What amazes me more is that the illustrator at Yacht Club seems to have made 0 improvements with their art.
She looks like she ___
>>737604553goes bankrupt!
>>737598227>over 200k views>only 9k likespanic at yacht club
It wont save yacht club
>>737594209yacht club games will shutdown in a year after this game
>>737604553bleeds funding
>>737604335I wonder what happened to this guy's game
I almost feel bad for Yaht games because they took 15 years making this furfag shit when a ragtag group of BRs made Pipistrello in a few months and it utterly mogs the absolute shit out of this game. The only hope for Yaht Games is that the furfag community support it hard.
>>737604553Donates money she doesn't gave to NGO's that do nothing.
>>737604853Nah, there's plenty we haven't shown up for even if the pandering is kind of there. Just look at pic related with Backpack Hero.It just needs that special something to really click, and I'm not sure if Mina has it.
>>737605008Mina feels really hollow. Like everything has this super sterile, perfectly polished look and yet the game has mixels and jaggies constantly, the soundscape is all fucked up, and the characters aren't likable - This on top of a really unintuitive gameplay styling.
This game is coming out too late for what it is. It would've been a smash hit in the 2010s but not now
>>737605094This. It really does not have enough of a hookAlso it's just a hard sellThe fuck is a "hollower"what a bad title
This game feels like the Indie equivalent of the hundred-million budget hero shooters that came out years after Overwatch.
kino inbound
>>737605008>It just needs that special something to really clickIt's called good bosses but modern vidya discussion is incapable of actually analyzing a boss fight. Tragic!
Honestly at this point I'm just grateful for an action-adventure that isn't just roguelite padding.
>>737605558This game will live or die on how good it's combat is, and how enjoyable it's setting is.
>>737605626So far they're both kind of a miss.
>>737604553sells lewd images of herself online to keep her studio afloat
>>737605891Hey, it worked for Nobeta.
>>737594209>>737594282Unironically, what has Yacht Club even been DOING this past decade? Shovel Knight released in 2014. Yes, they made a few rounds of DLC for Shovel Knight, but that's about it. Pocket Dungeon and Dig were outsourced. The supposed 3D sequel to Shovel Knight has only been teased and hasn't even been fully shown yet. Laughably, they're going back to the well and re-releasing Shovel Knight again at some point, but even that isn't out yet. So it has basically taken them a decade to get a small Game Boy Color game out the door. How fucking embarrassing. How are they even still in business?
>>737606008They've done a couple of spinoff titles, but a large chunk of time was spent making three large scale expansions that were almost sequels without charging for them. For that time, they basically had zero income. They floated some publishing pitches I imagine, but nobody bit because they didn't have money. During that time they had to survive and pay employees using nothing but shovel knight sales and merch. Easily one of the most expensive and insane decisions in the history of indie games. Because they've been shackled to Shovel Knight this whole time, they basically didn't have much opportunity even to work on anything else. Those expansions really wounded them, then endless porting... The period from release (2014) to King of Cards was five and a half years. Imagine that. Then in the past seven years it's been fishing for people who want to publish under them (I assume, it's what I would do if I were desperate), outsourcing spinoffs, and trying to put together a topdown adventure game with pretty decent physics. I don't think it'll pay off.
>>737594460The Evercold thread is two doors down
>>737606008pretty much every shovel knight DLC was a full game, But Yacht Club has always been slow as heck.
>>737606008buying expensive grills and selling them unused at a loss.
blm dev
Why are you guys like this?
>>737604853>MogsGo to bed, Junior.
>>737607150corny ahh unc
>>737605072This really shouldn't be surprising considering Shovel Knight inconsistent quality. I really have no clue why people found it impressive. There are people that were seriously amazed by the parallax backgrounds and how they accomplished it, as if it were some impossible task.
>>737607150I'm 38, so I'd hazard I'm at least 20 years old than you. Sorry you aren't up to date on 4chinz lingo because you're fresh off the boat from Leddit. Kindly fuck off.
>>737599759Pixel didn't stretch himself beyond his limits or shamelessly whore out Cave Story in nearly as many games as Yacht Club did with Shovel Knight.Also, sex with racist mouse kemololis.
>>737607720It's not too late for Nicalis to fuck it up. They can do whatever they want with the characters.
>>737605072>Mina feels really hollow.She's a hollower, that's the point
>>737606727WHERE
>>737604812*weeks
>>737604335This weird boomrang boy use to be in every crowd funded game for some reason.
>>737594209Can't wait to pirate this game just like Shovel Knight.
It's a zelda like right? As long as it's fun it should do well enough. I'd personally like it to look more like ALttP
>>737608558shut the fuck up you goddamn retarded nigger
>>737608721sorry about that, I'll delete my post
>>737604553is 50 foot tall
>>737599759>>737595032Creating cults around "legendary" developers and studio is retarded, and taken straight out of Japan's game industry.
>>737594582Somethingsomething Yacht Club burned too much money and nearly defunct themselves before they could get the game out, etc
>>737594582It was supposed to come out on Halloween, then it was delayed with no release date, then it finally got a vague release date of Spring 2026. It's now almost May and they're just going Gold, which means either it's going to come out very late in Spring, later than Spring, or they'll just shadow drop it.
>>737608837>>737608854I think they're vastly overestimating how many people are going to actually pay full money for this game at launch. Something like this is something that people are going to wait to pick up when it's half off or more on a Steam sale.
>>737606461But they seemed to go above and beyond the ask of meeting their Kickstarter goals. If they were struggling, they should have simplified the other campaigns and moved on.
>>737608997If the plague knight and Specter knight campaigns weren't so good, I would not be interested in Mina the hollower at all.
>>737608897I don't know what they did to the game since then, but apparently the company's solvency depends on it's success.
>>737607720one of the best follows I've made on X
>>737607150Bro embarrassed himself with this one
>>737609365Yeah, I'm sure it does, but that's my concern. They seem to be banking hard on a game that just doesn't seem like it's going to be an "I have to buy this on day 1 at full price" kind of game for most people. It seems more like the kind of simple indie title that you pick up at deep discount during a Steam sale. I guess they don't have a choice at this point but to roll the dice on it, but I would be pretty nervous right now if I was Yacht Club
>>737610280If they wanted to save the game they'd make YouTube videos that show off 90% of the bosses. Modern games spoil everything to crank up wishlists.
>>737605558Same. I'm so fucking sick of Rougelike/lites. I finally had enough of the spam the other day and outright filtered the tags from all of steam.
>>737605094it'll do numbersthe indie scene hasn't had a top-down Zelda-like equivalent of Hollow Knight like HK was to SotN and Super Metroid. BoI doesn't count.
>>737594209I'm looking forward to it.Demo took a while to click but found it a fun digslop game.Will pirate day one
>>737608475pirated shovel knight and uninstalled after 20minthank god for piracy, saved me tons of money
>>737611769The original Shovel Knight doesn't have a lot going for it outside its fundamentals, and Plague Knight's extremely awkward with the identical level layouts.Specter Knight is fun though. And King Knight is genuinely fantastic, much better than even the rest combined.If you didn't play King Knight then you didn't play the game I'm afraid.
>>737609968Shame the algorithm keeps fucking him over recently
The reception of this game on here is weird as fuck. Half of it is just ratfuckers and the other half are extremely butthurt haters wishing failure upon this game because of some BLM donation thing Yacht Club did ages ago.
>>737615981funding domestic terrorism tends to be frowned upon by the civilized
>>737615981You could argue there's a third camp where people wish Yacht Club was making a proper Shovel Knight follow up instead. We do know that they were working on a 3d Shovel Knight, but put it aside to finish Mina.
>>737615981I'm part of the crowd that wonders genuinely what the fuck they were doing for all these years and the best they can do is Zelda GBC (which look terrible to begin with)They should've had a backup game cooking alongside this absolute shitter.
>>737594282Shovel knight: 2014HK: 2017SK: three DLC releases between 2014 - 2019SS: almost an entire decade of shit posting exclusively in threads that are not about the IPNot to mention the literal death of its fandom on release. So fucking glad you shitters fucked off and stopped shitting up every single DaS and vania thread
>>737616765https://steamcommunity.com/stats/250760/achievementsI think Shovel Knight is an 11/10, but look at those completion numbers.
>>737616848For me, shovel knight as a $4.99 eshop purchase on 3DS that came with free DLC for over a decadeI dont give a rats fetid asshole about your steam chart lard assSteam exists to launch DaS PTDE and for no other purpose
>>737594209Androgynous character = No sale from me
>>737604798It may. Apparently it needs 300,000 sales from what I understand. Surely YC has enough of a following to achieve that at least unless the word of mouth is absolutely atrocious.
>>737616940Console completion records would be even lower retard. Steam tells you when a new dlc releases, consoles just update the game and say nothing.
>can't wait for you to play itdoes he know?
Play with Mina, or play ~with~ Mina?
>>737594209>furfaggot pixelshitno thanks, i'm not autistic
>>737594209It's sort of fun watching this game get developed and knowing that fucking nobody but a handful of autist spergs are going to buy it for retro-needs.
>>737616745God, this looks like utter shit. And the visibility is abysmal.
>>737598227>BLOODY BASTERD USE SIR ELON'S WEBSITE BENCHOD BITCH
>>737616745I mean it's no secret that they've been working on a 3d game. It's not like Mina has been the main project for all this time. It wasn't too long ago that they announced that they were putting their other projects on-hold to go all in on Mina.
