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Friday Fun Thread for September 5, 2025

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After seven long years, Hollow Knight: Silksong released and people could finally play it crashed Steam for several hours after which people could finally play it.

You'll remember that Dark Souls (2011) started a storm of Dark Souls buts -- Dark Souls but Scifi, Dark Souls but Roguelike, Dark Souls but Cooking Mama, etc. Of these, to my knowledge, the only pure success was Hollow Knight. (But Metroidvania.) It captured Dark Souls 1's best feature, which was a feeling of going on an expedition into the deep unknown, with no idea how to get back home. Likewise in Hollow Knight, very commonly players clear the game's tutorial zone and end up falling into a late game spiders' nest a hundred miles underground. Or swim through a hole in wall, but get lost in a complex sewer system with an abandoned city underneath. Or mess around platforming and find a secret level hidden above the cliffs of the starter village. The story, vibe, and lore were also very Dark Souls, although this is mostly because Hollow Knight just plain ripped it off.

Five hours in, I'm enjoying myself but I'm disappointed. It's ironically the exact same disappointment of Dark Souls 2. Silksong is much more linear and railroaded; the difficulty, even in these early areas, is a step up from the original, and this is mainly accomplished but lower player health, higher enemy health, and the liberal use of gank squads. And I suspect Silksong won't pull off a nifty meta-narrative like DS2 did, or at least not with such gravitas or panache.

We'll see if the game opens up once I reach the citadel, or once I finally get a freaking health or damage upgrade. Anyone else playing this? (Or any other Soulslike or Metroidvania, I guess)

That's too bad. I keep seeing these memes going around that all the remaining mainstream review sites that nobody has any respect for (IGN, PCGamer, etc) hated it. But I can't see that they've reviewed it at all, because there are no review copies. I'll probably grab it on Switch 2 at some point, unless community consensus decides that it's a completely bomb.

It's super cheap, so there's no reason not to buy a copy today. I'll be starting it in ten minutes.

I'm trying not to buy games anymore unless I'm going to play them right fucking now. The shelf of shame is just too weighty.

Currently my spare time is heavily invested in Mechwarrior 5 and it's new DLC.

I'm completely shameless in regard to unplayed games.

I have literally hundreds.

Question on my mind a lot is whether my children can, and will care to, inherit.

As I recall Steam officially does not let anyone inherit your account. But if you actually own your games because you bought them on GOG, that's what offline drm free installers are for.

Seems like a question of enforcement. How would they know I died?

Now I'm imagining my kids having to deal with this when my putative lifespan is getting so high, including future medical advancement, that it's no longer plausible. And I think, if I could take that deal I would, because it implies an acceptable future. Wonder how the monkey's paw would take effect though.

Also presumably at that point no one would care if they're pirating a 70 year old game anyway.

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