Chinese Video/Computer Games
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AssassinsMace
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I’m always hearing the title Game of the Year thrown about. Who votes for it? If it’s industry types, i.e. journalists, that doesn’t seem likely for Black Myth Wukong.
If the executive types who are hemorrhaging money on woke stuff no one buys wants to tap into the China market they might force a vote for BM: W.
This guy is spot on. Black Myth: Wukong made a huge impact on the gaming world that goes beyond just a game from China about JTTW. The Western game industry have been heavily corporatized and policed. Their largest studios have been taken over by CEOs who just want to create the most profitable products. They particularly love those live multiplayer games with microtransactions. They also love to milk the big household titles like Star Wars and COD to no end. The CEOs hate risky projects like one-time purchase single player games and developing brand new titles. Therefore many Western games are being re-cloned or expanded until they become stale. Then they add-in those woke culture policing, their games become even more lame. The ills of the Western gaming industry is actually reflective of the general ills of their general capitalistic economy, but that is a topic to discuss at another time.
Putting aside my China bias. BM:W deservedly succeeded tremendously despite all the bad press by the Western media. Partially because of global gamers rebelling against the woke police. But mainly because BM:W is just a great game. A single-purchase, single-player game that gives a great experience. There is no magic about it. Western gamers appreciate BM:W because it is just refreshing. It presents a relatively underexplored mythology and culture in the West. There are no microtransactions or lootboxes BS. And there is no DEI messaging.
Therefore BM:W is not just impacting the Chinese gaming industry, but also the global ones. Hopefully this is a wakeup call to Western and Japanese game developers to cut out all the BS and start making proper games that people enjoy. They just need to go back to the basics. Stop the DEI nonsense, stop the political messaging, stop reusing the same old big titles, stop obsessing about milking money from players, and just focus on making good games. Hopefully the BM:W phenomenon can improve the global industry and give the gamers better games.
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Enterprising individuals in the gaming community figured out a way to add more representation to BM: W.
I like city builders, so The Bustling World, another Chinese game in development caught my attention some time ago. The artistic style of the game appears to be inspired by the Chinese painting: Along the River During the Qingming Festival (清明上河图).
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The game looks quite ambitious. There are elements of city-building, RPG, farming games, and life simulators. But BM:W was also very ambitious, so I hope that that is a sign of things to come from China.
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The game looks quite ambitious. There are elements of city-building, RPG, farming games, and life simulators. But BM:W was also very ambitious, so I hope that that is a sign of things to come from China.
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This would be a nice game for me, too. Did not expect the blood shedding sword fights though.
Rule 34 lol, even more amusing is that there is no Rule 34 on the latest western games indicating the lack of interest.
imsgine Chinese gaming and AI companies building entire worlds that don’t require coding; revolutionary in terms of gaming. I can just imagine playing an updated version of Witcher 3 with AI bots and an expanded world beyond the limits of the map.