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Well, We’ll Always Not Have Half-Life 3 (hard-drive.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Salamence@lemmy.zip to c/theonion@midwest.social

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5926297

My fellow fans of quality video game satire, I have devastating news. Hell hath frozen over. Hollow Knight: Silksong is releasing on September 4, putting a definitive end to jokes about Silksong never coming out. I repeat: one of our most enduring running jokes is dead. May all our clown gifs rest in power.

Video game comedy (and maybe the regular, non-video game kind, I wouldn’t know) is hard. It takes a lot of work to craft an observation that’s equal parts funny, insightful, unexpected, and about video games. But no matter how much this crazy world around us changes, anyone wanting to make jokes about video games on the Internet could always rely on two eternal truths: It would be funny if the mushrooms Mario ate were really drugs, and there’s one game that’s just taking forever to come out, man. In 1998, the second Penny Arcade strip ever was about how Daikatana hadn’t released yet, and the world of dumb jokes about video games hasn’t been the same ever since.

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[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

Valve has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time right now

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Many gamers have died waiting for HL3, and I might be one of them someday, too.

Hell, we all might be.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

If we are lucky!

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Silksong before GTA 6

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

And Metroid Prime 4! I've waited since the last one in 2007, and they started the hell over in like 2021 or something

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I really don't get why it became such a big deal, tbh. HK came out in 2017, so that's about 8 years between games, which is a bit long, but not "give up all hope on a sequel" long. Are people really that twisted by the CoD/2k yearly "sequels" and GaaS that a dev team taking its time for a sequel is cause for such drama and concern?

And now its release is a "huge deal", and maybe it'll live up to all the hype, but probably not, and that's ok, but people sure went out of their way to set their expectations beyond reasonable.

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Most of the histeria comes from the first year of development being fairly open with news and trailers and music and even a live playable demo, which was then followed by about six years of almost total radio silence. Since the first game took only half that time to develop, and there weren't any indicators of progress, people started to fear the game was stuck in dev purgatory. Not to mention there were a couple false release dates dropped*, and other setbacks like covid and the Unity ceo's bullshit. Eventually it turned into a meme among the fans.

*the biggest being in 2023(iirc?) when Silksong was featured in a Gamepass preview of "coming by the end of the year" games

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose this is a benefit of avoiding all marketing that I possibly can - I don't see the things that get people all riled up and frustrated/disappointed.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Just remember, we could have not had Duke Nukem Forever forever