Chinese Video/Computer Games

siegecrossbow said:

In the original novel is a country populated entirely by women too. If that’s not considered woke I don’t know what is.

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There is also another chapter where the king is a Taoist bigot who persecuted Buddhist monks and Xuanzang and his gang were able to correct his ways so both Buddhists and Taoists were equally respected. This is written during the sixteenth century when Europeans were burning witches and killing each other over the interpretation of Christianity they follow. I think China leads Europe in the woke department by well over 500 years.

siegecrossbow said:

I’ve read it back to back at least 20 times as a kid. A lot of the stuff aren’t really kids appropriate in retrospect.

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Lol the battle that transcends time and culture. What adults want kids to read, vs what kids actually want to read.

OMG!

I am so thrilled for the game. I have been seeing so much proud coverage in the Chinese American sphere.

Just for $56 million (production budget), China was able to get so much good coverage. Cultural products are literally a force multiplier, with so little investment. CGTN on the other hand spent $50 million on US operations alone, with barely any result!

Just the cope and seethe of anti-China turds is worth the $56 million I would say.

Culture Industry (Games, Movies, Music, Art, TV, Books etc, etc.) is where China can and should dominate like we do in solar panels. The advantage of having books upon books, whole canons passed down through generations is already incredible. I just hope it is treated like a strategic industry going forwards.

Index said:

Is that data actually real though?

Major souls content creators in youtube have like 200k+ views on spoilered boss fights, despite you'd guess a majority of players trying to avoid spoilers atm. Youtube is only (easily) available on western internet, so Id assume that 200k viewership represents maybe ~500k-1 mil launch in the west.

Then again maybe we have to wait until weekend for a second wind.

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Not second wind ... Perfect storm.

I'm looking forward to see how high the figures will go after this weekend ( starting this Friday night China Time) as people start to pull all nighters and the Asian wave merges into the crest from the other time zones.

While I can understand that the majority of steam players may be from China, I doubt that the non-China player numbers can be underestimated either. Wukong was topping the best sellers chart for almost 30 countries ...

Legit excited to see Wuking doing well.

Heliox said:

Not second wind ... Perfect storm.

I'm looking forward to see how high the figures will go after this weekend ( starting this Friday night China Time) as people start to pull all nighters and the Asian wave merges into the crest from the other time zones.

While I can understand that the majority of steam players may be from China, I doubt that the non-China player numbers can be underestimated either. Wukong was topping the best sellers chart for almost 30 countries ...

Legit excited to see Wuking doing well.

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Pure Cope and Seethe.

And if Chinese players are to be highlighted here, what about other games? Like literally half of the comments for Sekiro are in Chinese.

Have a look at this reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ex2cnn/_/lj38r35

OMG!

Now westerners are being taught words from Chinese lore. Someone created this fantastic website.

Black Myth: Wukong succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams. What's more amazing is that fact that this is a single player game from a country where mobile gacha games are the norm.

I hope this inspires more Chinese game makers to make single player games, and moreover, I hope this shows all game developers what they can achieve when they put their heart and soul into making a game.

wukong:2311921

siegecrossbow said:

I’ve read it back to back at least 20 times as a kid. A lot of the stuff aren’t really kids appropriate in retrospect.

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It's true when you think about it, but back when I read it the deeper level adult stuff just wooshed over my head.
Here's one, you know how Sha Wujing has a necklace made out of nine humans skulls?

The kid me would be like woah okay, so he's a man eating badass, that's cool I suppose I'm sure those a dime a dozen on this trip.

Where as you grow up later and it suddenly hits you: wait a second, this guy controls a river that you have to cross if you want to go to the west, and those nine skills are monks that wanted to travel to the west before (that's why they don't sink in the river like normal human heads, and why he collects them), and Sanzang just happens to be the 10th incarnation of the Golden Cicada, who put him up to this? Why was he demoted from the Celestial Court again? What he smashed a lamp? Hm...

Even in this game where Wukong was fighting Yang Jian at the start and he was calling Yang Jian his young nephew and a dog for the celestial court. That's actually a much more personal insult to Yang Jian than just Wukong having a go at him because he owns a dog. Yang Jian once lead his own rebellion against the Celestial Court and Jade Emperor to free his mother, until the Jade Emperor smoothed things over and "hired" Yang Jian and his army as his PMC. Wukong was saying look at you, your uncle now lords over you and treat you like his attack dog. Look at me I'm 齐天大圣, equal to the Jade Emperor and I do whatever I want, nephew.

See they don't even show that in the 1986 TV show, in the show Sha Wujing's image is sanitized

OT: You guys aren't going to like this but for people of my generation who grew up in the UK, Journey to the West is this:


We had The Water Margin as well:

Reuters now asking about this game to MFA spokesperson. Seems like they were trying to trap her into saying MFA considers the game a "culture representative" and angle for culture invasion angle but she didn't fall for and said "oh right, yeah it's based on a classic novel called Journey to the West, it's pretty cool."

Meanwhile on Taiwanese streamer channels: