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NOT a joke this time. It's happening. It's really happening. SILKSONG IS REAL.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 101 points 1 month ago (30 children)

I wonder what the public response will be when Silksong releases and turns out to be just a good game and not literally curing cancer and resolving world hunger.

[–] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago (24 children)

Why Half-Life 3 can never be made.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (23 children)

Half-Life 3 was already made and it was a VR exclusive. And it was REALLY good. And nobody cared.

People like to meme. They don't like to think. Silksong will probably have a wave of "is it as good as it was supposed to be" or "DISAPPOINTED BY SILKSONG" and then just go back to being like Hollow Knight: a REALLY good metroidvania with souls-like aspects (also souls games ARE metroidvanias but...).

Personally? I am more excited for the chuds to lose their mind once they figure out Hornet is fem.

[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If Alyx counts as Half-Life 3, surely Opposing Force was Half-Life 2, Blue Shift was Half-Life 3, and Alyx is like... Half-Life 7 or something.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except that Alyx very clearly focuses on the core plotline rather than a side story like the expansions.

Also you forgot the coop game for the Dreamcast.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Spoilers for Alyx for all those without VR headsetsHonestly, all it’s doing is retconning the ending of Episode 2 in a slightly different way while still presenting that cliffhanger. It made me lose a lot of faith in their writers, and it will be hell to explain such a janky twist to non-VR players.

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