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Randomuser

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Tam said:
The Journey West has made Xuanzhang look effeminate and weak. Needs constant protection and always riding on an animal.

The historical and real life Xuanzhang is the total opposite and a total chad of a monk to travel from Xian to Xinjiang, then Afghanistan and Pakistan, down to India on foot and back again, with a rigged bamboo backpack.

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The real life Xuanzhang would trigger many Indian nationalists. After all according to him, his journey to the west was probably more exciting than being in the west aka old India. When he actually got there, despite all the mystique about that place he was left disappointed when most of the Buddhist stuff was already gone and in ruins. Sounds a lot like the people today who go to India expecting great things only to be disappointed. Shows things havent changed after over 1000 years huh?

When he got to Nalanda university, despite not even using his native tongue he was so skilled with knowledge of Buddhism etc that in debating he whooped everyone's ass and soon no one dared oppose him. When a king declared his honor of winning, some brahmins were seething so much they tried to burn down the place or something but were foiled.
 
solarz

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Tam said:
The Journey West has made Xuanzhang look effeminate and weak. Needs constant protection and always riding on an animal.

The historical and real life Xuanzhang is the total opposite and a total chad of a monk to travel from Xian to Xinjiang, then Afghanistan and Pakistan, down to India on foot and back again, with a rigged bamboo backpack.

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The historical Xuanzang didn't have the Monkey King to protect him. He traveled all the way to India by himself, learned Sanskrit, brought back 657 volumes Buddhist texts and spent the rest of his life translating them into Chinese.

Meanwhile, his disciple Bianji was screwing the Tang Princess Gaoyang.
 
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Randomuser said:
The real life Xuanzhang would trigger many Indian nationalists. After all according to him, his journey to the west was probably more exciting than being in the west aka old India. When he actually got there, despite all the mystique about that place he was left disappointed when most of the Buddhist stuff was already gone and in ruins. Sounds a lot like the people today who go to India expecting great things only to be disappointed. Shows things havent changed after over 1000 years huh?

When he got to Nalanda university, despite not even using his native tongue he was so skilled with knowledge of Buddhism etc that in debating he whooped everyone's ass and soon no one dared oppose him. When a king declared his honor of winning, some brahmins were seething so much they tried to burn down the place or something but were foiled.
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I'm guessing he also knew the 'chips' offered at the ceremonial dinner weren't what you'd think they were
 
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solarz said:
The historical Xuanzang didn't have the Monkey King to protect him. He traveled all the way to India by himself, learned Sanskrit, brought back 657 volumes Buddhist texts and spent the rest of his life translating them into Chinese.

Meanwhile, his disciple Bianji was screwing the Tang Princess Gaoyang.
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Try playing FGO and their version of Xuanzang is a straight up girl that anyone would love to fork. Then again with Japan, they do that a lot of things, take King Arthur for example. To be fair though, at least they look hot because if the west did it, it would have design on looks that would both suck and be vomit inducing and even worse, be absolutely dog shit ugly and look like a complete couch potato with a very fat ass, sprouting lines out of dustborn as a catch phrase. Face it, Japans idea of history is always about turn things into hot chicks despite how silly it sounds, which emphasizes how much of a bunch of sissies they have become at this point
 
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Sardaukar20

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In the current stage of the soft power culture war between the West and China. There is just no contest.

Dustborn, a proud cultural product of the Western elites gives us this:
Racist, narcissistic, and hedonistic trash!


While Black Myth: Wukong from China gives us this:
Most non-Chinese enjoyed this as a love ballad and an interesting anime. But for the Chinese, their understanding goes much deeper. This is one excellent example of Chinese storytelling that the idiots in Disney cannot even begin to comprehend.

Enough with Hollywood or the Japanese media trying to tell our stories, we Chinese are more than capable of telling our own stories. Black Myth: Wukong has made so many non-Chinese so much more curious and appreciative about Chinese culture. It has actually gone way beyond than just a hit action-adventure game.
 
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I feel like it would be more dignified if everyone would talk more about the merits of the game rather than touting it as a sign of cultural superiority or comparative cultural competition.

On the one hand I understand why people may feel that way, because the game itself clearly has a lot of heart and detail put into it all done in a well executed manner and it is the first to do so from the Chinese videogame industry.


But also, this kind of cultural representation is also not uncommon for most AAA games of other nations and cultures and those games are not all touted as some sort of cultural "win". If anything the fact that there is so much focus on this game, it is representative of the fact that this is the first proper AAA game from the Chinese videogame industry that is culturally cohesive and competent. Whereas in reality this is likely intended to just be the first of many, whereupon such games with cultural cohesiveness really would just be considered "normal" in future.
 
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Blitzo said:
I feel like it would be more dignified if everyone would talk more about the merits of the game rather than touting it as a sign of cultural superiority or comparative cultural competition.

On the one hand I understand why people may feel that way, because the game itself clearly has a lot of heart and detail put into it all done in a well executed manner and it is the first to do so from the Chinese videogame industry.


But also, this kind of cultural representation is also not uncommon for most AAA games of other nations and cultures and those games are not all touted as some sort of cultural "win". If anything the fact that there is so much focus on this game, it is representative of the fact that this is the first proper AAA game from the Chinese videogame industry that is culturally cohesive and competent. Whereas in reality this is likely intended to just be the first of many, whereupon such games with cultural cohesiveness really would just be considered "normal" in future.
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However it is. The fact is that entertainment almost always carries with it an export of culture, values, and mindset.

The western (or Anglophone-Anglosaxon) and Japanese gaming industry has been so successful that people have just grown accustomed to this export, and it's all around everyone. It's the reason why Japanese language instruction is still more popular than Mandarin, why Japanese (everything) is considered refined and expensive.

On the other hand for the gaming world this is one of China's first cultural exports. Heck, I have some Indian people around me wanting Wukong lore, many streamers trying to dig up details.

I don't think it is a "war", or a contest of "superiority", but Chinese culture doing well abroad is a hard (and soft) win in many ways.
 
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Blitzo said:
I feel like it would be more dignified if everyone would talk more about the merits of the game rather than touting it as a sign of cultural superiority or comparative cultural competition.

On the one hand I understand why people may feel that way, because the game itself clearly has a lot of heart and detail put into it all done in a well executed manner and it is the first to do so from the Chinese videogame industry.


But also, this kind of cultural representation is also not uncommon for most AAA games of other nations and cultures and those games are not all touted as some sort of cultural "win". If anything the fact that there is so much focus on this game, it is representative of the fact that this is the first proper AAA game from the Chinese videogame industry that is culturally cohesive and competent. Whereas in reality this is likely intended to just be the first of many, whereupon such games with cultural cohesiveness really would just be considered "normal" in future.
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No, we need another 10 pages about how hot the female characters are. I think a good game can stand on its own merit without eye candy. Good looking characters is simply a bonus, not the reason I play video games.
 
Rank Amateur

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Nah dude you must be vision impaired then. Overwatch characters are mostly hot hence why the game sells. View attachment 134840
Meanwhile wtf is this shit.

No person wants to play as an avatar that makes Joshua Wong look like supermodel in comparison.

The absolute nicest thing I can say for them is that they look like Ark survival meme characters made realistic.
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This is one of those times where I'm thankful that there's no East Asian male representation.
 
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