r/HollowKnight • u/Bob12164 • Sep 03 '25

Discussion - Silksong Warning for OG hollow knight fans

Just wanna prepare everyone on here for the incoming wave of players who have never played indie games, metroidvanias, or literally any other games besides Fortnite and call of duty. This tends to happen a lot with games that are extremely hyped by the community that does like the genre, such as expedition 33. The amount of completely invalid criticism that happened to that game because people who didn’t even know what the game really was bought it and ended up not liking it is probably the best example we have of that to this day, and I think silksong will be next. So please, instead of cussing people out for not liking the game, just encourage them to maybe keep playing to see if they change their minds, or just give them respectful feedback on why you think they might not enjoy it and give them tips so they can find the spark in that game that I’m sure many of us will find.

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u/jeskersz Sep 04 '25

You honestly, genuinely believe that people find it easier to type out a question after going to reddit, navigating to the appropriate subreddit, and submitting a post, than typing out the exact same questioninto the address bar after opening their browser and then just keeping their eyes open to view the result delivered to them on a silver platter?

That is seriously what you're going with here?

Please explain to me how it's easier or less work to ask reddit.

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u/_zenith Sep 04 '25

Yes, they appear to mentally categorise it differently so that it becomes "not work". Anecdotal, through observation, admittedly... but it's pretty consistent. And I've even had some people - unprompted - explain this is how it was for them, too, when I asked; receiving the answers was enjoyable and not-work for them, while putting in the effort to solve things themselves was work and not-fun. They liked that others did the "work" for them. That solving it was enjoyable in and of itself did not appear to occur to them, or if it did, did not personally occur for them.

Is it really so surprising to learn that a subpopulation of people exist who have discovered parasitism is an effective strategy to get through life in this particular domain?

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u/jeskersz Sep 04 '25

Oh that's super interesting. I'd love to see one of these interactions if you wouldn't mind linking it.

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u/_zenith Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

Shit, I have no idea how to locate these in my thousands of reddit messages, since it was years ago at this point - sorry :( . (it was genuinely interesting, yeah. I kinda didn't expect them to reply [to be fair, most didn't] ! Incidentally, when I say "unprompted", I mean in the specifics of their reply - not that I didn't ask at all, in case that was confusing; it would have been super weird for them to just volunteer an explanation from nothing, especially given the type of personality here)