1. The first envelope marked “通关文牒”, in the original novel, was an official document issued by Tang government to the monk Tang Sanzang for his journey to the West, asking for foreign governments’ protection and assistance, it is equivalent to passport, so if it is a game code , it makes sense, because it is your passport to the game journey. ❤ 2. the letter was written by the head developer, telling some stories and his feelings when developing this game; 3. The stamps are real stamps, issued by China Postal Services, they have collection values, please make sure there is no finger prints or stains on it😂. 4. The necklace like stuff is a wind bell 风铎, used on roof edges in ancient temples, as a decoration. 5. The bird on the pin was from an old mythology book 山海经，the bird has three legs, if you see it closer, it represents brightness, sun energy, I believe it will protect you and bring you good luck ❤ edited for typos.
You mean the RED stamp, on the white sheet of paper? > Looked like nothing, BUT as my mum worked in a Jap. Company & with that traditions,... *there is NOTHING* without importance to it, on a stamp. He fk'ed it up a bit, BUT to his excuse, he could not have known it. Simple bc he can't read it, nore knows cultural seen what a "stamp" in color red can mean in the Asian culture room. Thanks for pointing it out! o7
Just btw the little envolope with the code card inside, it saids “通關文牒” on the top. That's the noun for passport in ancient China. In the original story of Journey to the West (the story where Wukong was from), the trip starts with the Emperor issuing Xuanzang (the monk) the passport to travel all the way to the west to obtain the sacret text. So it's REALLY cool to see how they put that little detail on the envelope as a symbol of the start of the player's journey
@@hugo-pg5tv TBH it got the top spot when it wasn't free. The top 3 games on Steam are there because it caught the attention of Chinese players. It's a no-brainer to tap in to that market.
Yeah nah there are plenty of super popular games that have no multiplayer. It's not really surprising in that aspect. It's surprising because it's very good. I think multiplayer games are really only capitalizing on microtransactions instead of gameplay then you see their numbers and think must be a good game.
If this isn’t a wake up call for other companies that single player games without all the reality pushing agendas are still hot af requested on the market then I don’t know what is.
They don't care about us. They're training the next generation of consumers to be more pliant to their greedy whims. Those of us that remember a better time will die out and the corporations will win long term, and they know it.
They are sold out. They were $400. eBay sellers have them going for $800-$1900. Looks really nice but I’m not paying double or triple $ for it. They are also breaking down the set and selling pieces separately like the staff.
collector edition should include a 1:1 Wukong's golden headband. if thats included, 400 bucks totally worth it. but did't saw it from Asmon's unboxing.
@@Angelo-oct4 you either get a headband or a statue i think. I've seen a youtuber unboxing a collector edition with headband in it, he also use it in his live stream.
Hogwarts Legacy, Stellar Blade, Elden Ring, Black Myth Wukong and other such games immense success really puts into perspective how irrelevant game journalists are & how they exist in an echo chamber. They are disconnected with the end consumers. The end consumers really dgaf about their opinions & it shows in the sales statistics of all the games these games journalists have either tried to cancel or promote. The games they cancel sell millions of copies & some even become GOTY. And the games they try to hype up tank horribly with just some 200 players playing the game lmao.
They think the uglification of game characters, the removal of male and female and the insertion of DEI narratives matter. They are slowly waking up to realise not only does their core audience hate all the things they think are important but they are realising they picked the wrong industry to push their agendas and will have to go cope with their "Cosy" indie games for much smaller audiences. Big money knows DEI means failure now. Its become synonymous and undeniable at this point.
Yeah Hogwarts Legacy is legit a very good game crafted with love. The fact that games journalist did not at all care about the jobs of people who actually worked hard on such a great game makes me really want to see most of these journos get fired.
I think the easiest way to explain Wukong's popularity is imagine if Witcher 3 released but Poland had a population of 1.4 billion people. It's a game about Chinese mythology and folklore, made by Chinese people and on top of that it is a good game that had a good amount of hype before it released. It's almost perfectly comparable to Witcher 3, it is a successful game in the entire world, but it is almost a cultural phenomenon in it's country of origin.
It's successful because it's good. The Streisand effect by game-hating journalists helped popularize it too, but if it were garbage, it'd be called out as such.
This is when i wish my grnadfather was still alive, he went to china i believe in the 50s and fell in love with thier culture, i feel like he wouldve loved hearing about this game
Agreed, the physical stuff that we get over here in the West, are often pieces of paper and/or small worthless plastics. THAT Collector's Edition is something else!
These guys really know what they are doing, sending Asmond that collectors edition. God tier marketing. This move alone will boost sales in the hundreds of thousands.
I’m not sure if other devs do this for big games, but I fucking love limited edition/“legendary” copies with PHYSICAL goodies like this. Brings you so much closer to the game/studio/devs
It's interesting because one very prevalent Chinese culture quirk is that they put a lot of importance on a box when you gift stuff. I'm guessing but it might be because it is actually customary not to open a gift in presence of others so if the box is super boss you look like you're giving a great gift. It's like that for a lot of products there and I loved it. I'm glad the studio is embracing its own culture and showing us how they do it in their own way instead of trying to be like western studio and pander to the usual crowd that actually hate games. Never thought of buying the game before but with the way this studio is behaving, this is next level. I just might have to throw money their way...
In China it makes sense to do this because production is cheap there and delivery service there is like Amazon on crack. Sometimes you can get your delivery in a matter of hours ordering some goods online.
@@nsebast I can tell you for one the quality on the figurine itself is premium, maybe not 400$ premium but definitely somewhere around 1000-150. And if you add up all the other stuff and the game itself i'd say 400$ is a fair price tbh
because all those companies have shareholders that can only see as far as the next quarterly profit announcement, they would prefer to have games churned out with live service monetisation to make money.
Because they get Dividends from Blackrock and Vanguard for putting DEI in their game so they get rich and the devs dont and the players get a bad product. Also means they can liquidate the company and collect their golden handshake while the devs are left jobless.
Sort, of true. They don't look at other companies, but what other people are doing in the sphere. What's 'normal', what's pushed as what people want, etc. I don't think people realize how insulated we can be.
Something they tried to Cancel was actually good and got the attention it deserved. Hope it's lesson for Western Companies Appease customers not activists
Too bad they will never learn, give it a few weeks and they will be back doing the same shit as always.. Making mediocre games full of microtransactions..
If the journos don't like it and try to cancel it, you can automatically assume it's probably a very good game. I guess they are useful in that way, lol!
I'm still kinda mad at myself for sleeping a couple minutes too long to get the CE. It sold out in like 12 minutes. I got on the computer to pre-order, as it sold out. Now if I want to get this edition, i'm looking at around $1,600.00 on Ebay. At least I got the Deluxe Edition Pre-ordered.
Y'all are late to this. Kickstarted mmos have been selling $500+ packages to get into alpha for years now. I was pretty sure AoC was always one of them
Nope. You have to pass the westurd censors to win goty. Its a very heavily regulated and censored competition. Inb4 elden ring - it had body type 1&2 , they took blackrocks money.
@15'48" its a instrument in ancient China. That they scale down. @17'10" skinny like the Wu kong himself. Plus u have long nail. @19'50" That is the ancient chinese parchment. They used to draw or write on. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
Its always good to know that Asmon is on the right side of gaming history. The guy supports real developers who care about their fanbase, and in return, the dev notices and gives him free stuff to show off and promote the game even more. Anyone would be happy to promote something they truly like. The games always seem to end up being a banger the moment he supports the game due to the woke mob attacking these devs. Go opposite of woke, you get a GOTY
It's not that deep, he has enough viewers and thus influence that he's a no-brainer when it comes to sending gifts to the biggest streamers. I've seen how he played Lies of P that's no what I'd call the right side of gaming lmao (and I'm not talking about skill issue, but specifically about giving a fuck about what you're playing)
“Go opposite of woke, you get a GOTY” Dude what does “woke” even mean anymore? I guarantee you if an American studio made & promoted Black Myth Wukong, yall would be calling it woke/DEI until the end of time. I also guarantee you that Game Science didn’t give half a shit about being the “opposite of woke” when they set out to make this game. They just wanted to make a great game that paid sufficient respect to the most culturally significant story in Eastern mythology. That’s it. Stop injecting your brainrot American politics into everything, least of all a video game made by a Chinese studio.
@@fatcat22able This game has been on everyone's mind since they first showed it. It only got backlash right before it was gonna release. Other studios were nervous someone actually took their time on a game and put out an entire new thing to enjoy.
@@fatcat22able can you give an example of a western studio making a game similar to Black Myth Wukong and having it called "woke" so you can give us your guarantee? Woke is deliberate. What we saw in Game Science is literally the opposite of woke. It's like how you described it, they paid a sufficient respect to culture and made a great game out of it. Games focused on wokeness do not respect the culture, they more so twist it to make sure it is acceptable for current standards of politics where diversity and inclusion is involved
Developers are taking notes... hopefully. Tell the DEI people to kick rocks, and your game will sell pretty well. This game seems to be one of the nails in the coffin of the DEI push. Acolyte cancelation was another. We are winning, gentlemen.
This reignites my ire for 'Western devs.' Game Science really out here just looking to make an honest-to-Buddha good game, and that they did. None of the cynical bs we're plagued with over here. It's a very expensive collector's edition, for sure, but it looks like they really did try to load it up with a thoughtful suite of goodies a superfan would like.
Big tip: Use an app that can translate from a photo taken by your phone. That will take away lots of the guesswork when fit go through the assembly instructions.
Well to be fair, the journey to the west novel was a fantasy retelling of the actual journey undertook by a real person. Which makes this game a lot more historically solid than something like God of War
@@janusjones6519 like how GOW exported Greek and Norse mythology. I never would have thought Western Audiences would know of Jotuns and Titans, the Agoge and Spartan life and customs. The Valkyries being feared by men once again haha I’m all for it. I love all these mythologies. We all need to learn.
Honestly I couldn’t have asked for a better representation of Journey to the West. This is by far the most influential story in Chinese & East Asian culture, and as someone who has seen multiple adaptations of the original story, I’m of the opinion that this is one of the greatest tales ever told in humanity. So it makes me so happy that western audiences are finally learning about this mythology in the mainstream.
@@fatcat22able I mean sure, Journey to the West is one of the four classics, so obviously it's influential, but do you really think it's more influential than the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
The developers of Game Science used to be staff members of Tencent's game development department in China, and also developed popular products in the market. However, due to the company's interests, they had to make changes to that game. Since then, the founder Feng Ji left Tencent and founded Game Science Studio. They have been dedicated to developing products that players love and have attracted a large number of excellent developers to join the team, ultimately giving birth to the popular game "Black Myth Wukong".
Not like anybody gonna care but stamps design looks like an Immortal Sun (actual ancient relic from Sanxingdui culture from current Sichuan, super unique stuff) I wonder if it has reference in-game
Thinking about the rarity of physical items for video games now, might be a glimpse into the future of when looking at a physical item is like looking at a relic from the past.
Wow, the design of the box is so epic. It's a picture of Xuanzang , the monk - accompanied by his 3 disciples, ( Monkey King, Pigsy & Sandy ) ,otherwise known as "Journey to the West" So meaningful for a collector's items
Blizzard new boxes in 2024: *Sends you the stamps, a G.I Joe recolor as Anduin shitily, and a cease & desist in a cardboard box as the janitor drew the logo on the side*
i just got mine arrived today~ thats crazy! the best part is everything is made with great materials and quality, none like most game Collector editions, they sell it expensive but useing very cheap materials ... just sell to fans.... this one is expensive , but worth it~ no matter the figure or the scroll or ring ... chains... everything use good materials . thats so nice. you can tell they put a lot effort on it. BTW the figure can move around~ there are alot pictures online, that people set some pose with this figure , so cool~
even knowing he got this for free I don't think he's assessment of the game is cap, I don't think he can be that easily bought and honestly, the collectors edition looks amazing on its own.
If a couple $ for lunch means that much to him, you really think he will turn down sponsorship deals that are worth more than most people's salary? Naive. Of course the 20-30 videos on this clips channel are part of a paid marketing campaign.
I'm complete noob to action RPG and bought the game today. Spent two hours to kill first two bosses, which is better than I expected it would go, and all I can say is I'm utterly amazed at how good the game is. I've been waiting for such a game where I can first build up my confidence to enter true souls-like (Elden Ring for start and then Dark Souls) and this is it.
the art on the box, postcard from the steel book and scroll is the depiction of tang san zang (monk), wu kong, sha seng (sand bother) and zhu ba jie (pig brother) from journey to the west
This Black Myth game box opening was an adventure…a box within a box within a box…pretty cool Asmon. Put on on the jewelry and Asmon is now a Monke King…..Congratulations
I bought this game without being "gud" at ANY Soulslike game. I thought the mythology and folklore is new to me, so at least try it out with some effort. Sure, it might be taking me longer to get through the game unlike typical Soulslike veterans, maybe even have to grind a lil to stack ability points... But, I'm enjoying the game very much. It's a nice intro-like game to other less forgiving Souslike games, so it's more justified (to me) to keep trying, rather than "get gud" and die for 2 hours on ONE boss. The mythology and folklore is super interesting to me also. Just something about this game feels fresh and new, the same way I felt playing Hogwarts Legacy. I'm not rushing it though. I put in around 2-4 hours everyday usually and that keeps it fresh for me.
400$ collectors edition. Obviously thats the price of the figurine. That they actually made clothes for it also is really cool. Looks so good. Wouldn't pay 400$ maybe 200-280$ Its actually really high quality.
The Wall art is from "Journey to the West". It's basically a pro-buddhist narrative taking a jab at Taoism and Confucianism. It's considered one of the great classical fiction works of China- and is an often refrenced story for fiction throughout the east. (OG dragon ball is *full* of Journey to the West refrences, for instance.) Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, represents Human ability within the story- and is one of several protagonist the story revolves around.
In my opinion, the original Journey to the West does not praise Buddhism, nor does it overwhelm Taoism. It is a satire on the ruling class. Because of this, Journey to the West was once a banned book during the Ming Dynasty. For example, in Journey to the West, why does Tang Monk want to learn scriptures? Is it because he wants to learn Buddhist scriptures? This is not the case. In the original work, the real motivation for learning scriptures is because it can ensure the eternal stability of the Tang Dynasty. And it can eliminate the sins caused by the killing when the Tang Dynasty seized power.
Would be interested to see regional dynamics of their success. This game is based on the whole monkey/wukong/journeey to to the west mythology, I wonder if the massive sales numbers are China-heavy
Few things to know: 1. The Wukong 1/6 action figure made by a company call "In-Art'. They made the most realistic high-end collectible, can range from $400 -$1000. 2. The figure is expensive not because is name brand, is because they are just that high quality. $400 for the "Collector Edition" is a steal! 3. Watch some review of "In-Art 1/6 Joker Action Figure" you can get an idea how good they are at making action figure.
An ideology of destruction and nihilism will always lose eventually. Wokism lack of balance is like the fire nation conquering all other nations eventually balance will restore itself.
1. The first envelope marked “通关文牒”, in the original novel, was an official document issued by Tang government to the monk Tang Sanzang for his journey to the West, asking for foreign governments’ protection and assistance, it is equivalent to passport, so if it is a game code , it makes sense, because it is your passport to the game journey. ❤ 2. the letter was written by the head developer, telling some stories and his feelings when developing this game; 3. The stamps are real stamps, issued by China Postal Services, they have collection values, please make sure there is no finger prints or stains on it😂. 4. The necklace like stuff is a wind bell 风铎, used on roof edges in ancient temples, as a decoration. 5. The bird on the pin was from an old mythology book 山海经，the bird has three legs, if you see it closer, it represents brightness, sun energy, I believe it will protect you and bring you good luck ❤ edited for typos.
Thanks for the explanation. There are a lot of beautiful stuff in that box.
❤
@@Pigpig55 Good story, CCP agent
You mean the RED stamp, on the white sheet of paper?
> Looked like nothing, BUT as my mum worked in a Jap. Company & with that traditions,... *there is NOTHING* without importance to it, on a stamp.
He fk'ed it up a bit, BUT to his excuse, he could not have known it. Simple bc he can't read it, nore knows cultural seen what a "stamp" in color red can mean in the Asian culture room.
Thanks for pointing it out!
o7
W explanation
Just btw the little envolope with the code card inside, it saids “通關文牒” on the top. That's the noun for passport in ancient China.
In the original story of Journey to the West (the story where Wukong was from), the trip starts with the Emperor issuing Xuanzang (the monk) the passport to travel all the way to the west to obtain the sacret text.
So it's REALLY cool to see how they put that little detail on the envelope as a symbol of the start of the player's journey
And I just looked up, those stamps are a colab with the official Chinese post office, so it can actually be used as a stamp.
That's fking crazy.
that's so cool!
@@zefho6949极具收藏价值。
Someone says it's CCP propaganda, insane
点了😊
Lost opportunity. They should have sent him a T-shirt; he would have worn it for a month straight.
Month? probably closer to 3 months lol
of a bar of soap
Hold up, let me get marketing on the phone.
i like how you think
@@hellraiser666666he won't ever touch it
Somewhere, there's a Chinese Asmongold opening up a God of War collectors edition.
God of War?
yeah you know the one with kratos
@@bobbaseball But like, what is the correlation?
@@kylespevak6781 Wukong and Kratos shared pretty similar character arc.
@@kylespevak6781 Because the game also has some GoW vibe?
As a non-Chinese, I feel my Chinese ancestors course through my body when I play this game
Western people's hatred towards us Asians is so buzzing to me! What did we ever do to you? 🤔
Based.. lol
You can feel the spirit of Wukong giving you his staff. "Go, do crimes."
@@zigmus00A Did Wukong tell you to cheat, steal and lie?
@@zigmus00ASpirit of wukong gave him a tail
This set was available for pre order two months ago, limited 10000 copies. in day one, there were more than 300000 pre-orders LOL
Game Journos: It's horrible and should be cancelled
Game Science: Hold my Monkee
Reject modernity, embrace monke 🐒👏🏻
Most Game Journos are woke, hence lame!
Literally like one journalist lol
More like monkey paw lol
Hijacking this comment to say Reddit mods are lame.
Whats the most insane is that it's single player game. Almost every other game on the list is either multiplayer or have option to play with people.
Pubg is a free game too which makes it way more popular
@@hugo-pg5tv TBH it got the top spot when it wasn't free. The top 3 games on Steam are there because it caught the attention of Chinese players. It's a no-brainer to tap in to that market.
@@hugo-pg5tvpubg peak is in 1/2018, when the game is still a paid game
@@hugo-pg5tvPubg was not free when it came out.
Yeah nah there are plenty of super popular games that have no multiplayer. It's not really surprising in that aspect. It's surprising because it's very good. I think multiplayer games are really only capitalizing on microtransactions instead of gameplay then you see their numbers and think must be a good game.
If this isn’t a wake up call for other companies that single player games without all the reality pushing agendas are still hot af requested on the market then I don’t know what is.
They know this they just don’t gaf
@@cainsalem3544 hehe if they keep losing money they have to change because they're driven by money no?
They don't care about us. They're training the next generation of consumers to be more pliant to their greedy whims. Those of us that remember a better time will die out and the corporations will win long term, and they know it.
@@LS-zt8ihNo, ESG/DEI is not driven by money and Disney is currently being sued over it 😂
we hope game developers will think twice before release a game with woke agenda in there games.
As a Chinese person, I am tremendously grateful to you for covering Black Myth Wukong. I applaud you, sincerely. 😊
As an englishman, thank you for rejecting the woke virus.
This game is the biggest game in the world right now! The west is tired of DEI. We want fun and quality.
Man, what a heartwarming comment 😊
作为地球上的普通人类，我个人觉得我们的喜怒哀乐是相通的，来自中国的问候@@jayc342009
As a woman of xolor, I have nothing to say
I like how they sent him the letter in Chinese, and he just assumed it said thank you lmao
I mean pretty safe assumption to be fair. Some variation of that wouldn't be unheard of. Someone has probably translated it though
With ALL the coverage our Goblin King has given the game, it better be a thank you letter.
Like every dev letter on a collector's edition...What do you think it says 🤣
I can confirm that it actually says 'hey baldy.'
Maybe he is a secret agent from other country monitoring the streamers from the west xD
They are sold out. They were $400. eBay sellers have them going for $800-$1900. Looks really nice but I’m not paying double or triple $ for it. They are also breaking down the set and selling pieces separately like the staff.
collector edition should include a 1:1 Wukong's golden headband.
if thats included, 400 bucks totally worth it.
but did't saw it from Asmon's unboxing.
must consume product
@@Angelo-oct4 you either get a headband or a statue i think. I've seen a youtuber unboxing a collector edition with headband in it, he also use it in his live stream.
@@Angelo-oct4 Actually, there is. He just might not see it.
it's over $2000 and there are a lot of fakes now.
Hogwarts Legacy, Stellar Blade, Elden Ring, Black Myth Wukong and other such games immense success really puts into perspective how irrelevant game journalists are & how they exist in an echo chamber. They are disconnected with the end consumers. The end consumers really dgaf about their opinions & it shows in the sales statistics of all the games these games journalists have either tried to cancel or promote. The games they cancel sell millions of copies & some even become GOTY. And the games they try to hype up tank horribly with just some 200 players playing the game lmao.
They think the uglification of game characters, the removal of male and female and the insertion of DEI narratives matter. They are slowly waking up to realise not only does their core audience hate all the things they think are important but they are realising they picked the wrong industry to push their agendas and will have to go cope with their "Cosy" indie games for much smaller audiences. Big money knows DEI means failure now. Its become synonymous and undeniable at this point.
Stellar Blade is a very mid game only carried by the controversy. So you gotta thanks the journalists
hope developers, especially the western ones, would realize how little to no influence a game journalist/twitter backlash is on a game's success.
@@ggadams639mid games have their place to. Solid B titles are great to relax with. Sometimes that's all your after.
Yeah Hogwarts Legacy is legit a very good game crafted with love. The fact that games journalist did not at all care about the jobs of people who actually worked hard on such a great game makes me really want to see most of these journos get fired.
I think the easiest way to explain Wukong's popularity is imagine if Witcher 3 released but Poland had a population of 1.4 billion people. It's a game about Chinese mythology and folklore, made by Chinese people and on top of that it is a good game that had a good amount of hype before it released. It's almost perfectly comparable to Witcher 3, it is a successful game in the entire world, but it is almost a cultural phenomenon in it's country of origin.
Thank you.
Yah I think it’ll hit even higher peak players on the weekend because it’s all they’re talking about this week (judging by my WeChat)
Bingo.
As a Polish person I say fuck yeah.
It's successful because it's good. The Streisand effect by game-hating journalists helped popularize it too, but if it were garbage, it'd be called out as such.
Bro is finally happy
This is when i wish my grnadfather was still alive, he went to china i believe in the 50s and fell in love with thier culture, i feel like he wouldve loved hearing about this game
He should go again, he'll be amazed at the advancement of China. You feel like going back to a less developed world when travelling from China to USA.
@@nsebasthis grandpa isn’t alive anymore.
chinese collectors edition is like the old days. modern western collectors edition - DLC no physical stuff
Really? Ive seen a lot of collectors edition with stuff, that's the whole point.
That isnt really true to be honest. Not everything is east vs west.
Agreed, the physical stuff that we get over here in the West, are often pieces of paper and/or small worthless plastics.
THAT Collector's Edition is something else!
BG3 Collectors was fire.
I think KCD2 has a physical collectors edition and czechia is in the west depending on who you ask
Somebody gotta tell him at the bottom of the box there's a Wukong headband 😅
What he got is the collector's version. The head band is in delux version.
These guys really know what they are doing, sending Asmond that collectors edition. God tier marketing. This move alone will boost sales in the hundreds of thousands.
Asmongold popularity is entirely artificial, so your conclusion is overly estimated
@@youtubeenjoyer1743 lol... Whatever makes you feel better about yourself.
@@dustybeaver6823 sorry, i don't talk to blackrock employees
They don't need journalists politics 😂
@@youtubeenjoyer1743 lmao right his millions of followers around the world are just made up right copium on max
I’m not sure if other devs do this for big games, but I fucking love limited edition/“legendary” copies with PHYSICAL goodies like this. Brings you so much closer to the game/studio/devs
It's interesting because one very prevalent Chinese culture quirk is that they put a lot of importance on a box when you gift stuff. I'm guessing but it might be because it is actually customary not to open a gift in presence of others so if the box is super boss you look like you're giving a great gift. It's like that for a lot of products there and I loved it.
I'm glad the studio is embracing its own culture and showing us how they do it in their own way instead of trying to be like western studio and pander to the usual crowd that actually hate games.
Never thought of buying the game before but with the way this studio is behaving, this is next level. I just might have to throw money their way...
In China it makes sense to do this because production is cheap there and delivery service there is like Amazon on crack. Sometimes you can get your delivery in a matter of hours ordering some goods online.
@@nsebast I can tell you for one the quality on the figurine itself is premium, maybe not 400$ premium but definitely somewhere around 1000-150. And if you add up all the other stuff and the game itself i'd say 400$ is a fair price tbh
Wukong, BG3, Cyberpunk (DLC, not on release), Elden ring dlc. How are most studios still not learning with amazing examples
because all those companies have shareholders that can only see as far as the next quarterly profit announcement, they would prefer to have games churned out with live service monetisation to make money.
Because they get Dividends from Blackrock and Vanguard for putting DEI in their game so they get rich and the devs dont and the players get a bad product. Also means they can liquidate the company and collect their golden handshake while the devs are left jobless.
Sort, of true. They don't look at other companies, but what other people are doing in the sphere. What's 'normal', what's pushed as what people want, etc. I don't think people realize how insulated we can be.
Cyberpunk was actually pretty great in it's first year after they patched it a few times. Like 2 months after release it was highly playable on PC.
@@snazzydrewtrue, but still lacking all the promised feature that get implemented only on 2.0 version
The cockroaches just got a new mansion.
Made me laugh so hard 😂
Dude said that. 😂
Lol
True true
All jokes aside does he really have roaches ?
Something they tried to Cancel was actually good and got the attention it deserved. Hope it's lesson for Western Companies Appease customers not activists
Lets hope so.
They will never learn. The types of people they employ are too consumed by hatred.
Too bad they will never learn, give it a few weeks and they will be back doing the same shit as always.. Making mediocre games full of microtransactions..
Gee, it's almost as if cancellation does not mean anything at all when someone has made a good product.
If the journos don't like it and try to cancel it, you can automatically assume it's probably a very good game. I guess they are useful in that way, lol!
6:09 "They could've been in American and it would've been the same thing..I still wouldn't have read em." LMAO
Asmon was wholesome asf in this seeing him excited and putting on the rings and stuff was like seeing a little kid happy
5:13 the music synced so well...😌
He always does this. It’s on purpose. He knows all these songs by heart
I'm still kinda mad at myself for sleeping a couple minutes too long to get the CE. It sold out in like 12 minutes. I got on the computer to pre-order, as it sold out. Now if I want to get this edition, i'm looking at around $1,600.00 on Ebay. At least I got the Deluxe Edition Pre-ordered.
我也抢不到...
and someone will definitely buy for 1600
Imagine preordering anything.
My God. Put this against the $120 for an alpha test. Imagine paying to help test a game
What game?
@@kagar3465Ashes of Creation 😂
@@JimRaynor2001ashes of credit cards
Y'all are late to this. Kickstarted mmos have been selling $500+ packages to get into alpha for years now. I was pretty sure AoC was always one of them
@@draddadandawg3363 AoC is destined to be failed tbh
Some game journalists are going to be fuming if Wukong wins game of the year.
It's going to win game of the year just like God of War since it's based off of the actual myth of Sun Wukong and his War against the gods .
There is no competition, what other game will be goty? Wukong is the only great game this year
mai not win it because....china....probably...tho it deserves it entirelly, enjoying the game verry much
Nope. You have to pass the westurd censors to win goty. Its a very heavily regulated and censored competition. Inb4 elden ring - it had body type 1&2 , they took blackrocks money.
it doesnt deserve GOTY over FF7 Rebirth or Hades 2, thats why
The love that was put in Black Myth: Wukong is awesome, the developers actually respect gaming
Surprise surprise. Who would have thought that making games that people want actually works, instead of making games for "modern audience".
The modern audience is the real myth. A blacked myth, if you will.
Every time he opens a package, I feel like he is one step from the emergency room.
Lmao
@15'48" its a instrument in ancient China. That they scale down.
@17'10" skinny like the Wu kong himself. Plus u have long nail.
@19'50" That is the ancient chinese parchment. They used to draw or write on.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
There's something about East Asian artistry that makes even the packaging something I would mount on my wall
Its always good to know that Asmon is on the right side of gaming history. The guy supports real developers who care about their fanbase, and in return, the dev notices and gives him free stuff to show off and promote the game even more. Anyone would be happy to promote something they truly like. The games always seem to end up being a banger the moment he supports the game due to the woke mob attacking these devs. Go opposite of woke, you get a GOTY
It's not that deep, he has enough viewers and thus influence that he's a no-brainer when it comes to sending gifts to the biggest streamers.
I've seen how he played Lies of P that's no what I'd call the right side of gaming lmao (and I'm not talking about skill issue, but specifically about giving a fuck about what you're playing)
“Go opposite of woke, you get a GOTY” Dude what does “woke” even mean anymore? I guarantee you if an American studio made & promoted Black Myth Wukong, yall would be calling it woke/DEI until the end of time. I also guarantee you that Game Science didn’t give half a shit about being the “opposite of woke” when they set out to make this game. They just wanted to make a great game that paid sufficient respect to the most culturally significant story in Eastern mythology. That’s it. Stop injecting your brainrot American politics into everything, least of all a video game made by a Chinese studio.
do the Chinese know you're using their games to fuel a culture war in another country? and every big studio sends goodies to streamers dude,
@@fatcat22able This game has been on everyone's mind since they first showed it. It only got backlash right before it was gonna release. Other studios were nervous someone actually took their time on a game and put out an entire new thing to enjoy.
@@fatcat22able can you give an example of a western studio making a game similar to Black Myth Wukong and having it called "woke" so you can give us your guarantee?
Woke is deliberate. What we saw in Game Science is literally the opposite of woke. It's like how you described it, they paid a sufficient respect to culture and made a great game out of it. Games focused on wokeness do not respect the culture, they more so twist it to make sure it is acceptable for current standards of politics where diversity and inclusion is involved
Developers are taking notes... hopefully. Tell the DEI people to kick rocks, and your game will sell pretty well. This game seems to be one of the nails in the coffin of the DEI push. Acolyte cancelation was another. We are winning, gentlemen.
This reignites my ire for 'Western devs.' Game Science really out here just looking to make an honest-to-Buddha good game, and that they did. None of the cynical bs we're plagued with over here. It's a very expensive collector's edition, for sure, but it looks like they really did try to load it up with a thoughtful suite of goodies a superfan would like.
This thing has more thought and value put into it than every ubisoft, activision and bethesda premium sets in the last decade combined
60% through the game. Chapter 4. Games amazing
I love how on steam charts you can see dips in literally every game while the moment wukong released
This is legitimately the best CE I’ve seen in my life. Monke
Big tip: Use an app that can translate from a photo taken by your phone. That will take away lots of the guesswork when fit go through the assembly instructions.
Bold of you to assume he’s not too lazy to install an app on his phone
Which apps best in your opinion? ☺️
That is a really good way to export your mythical history
I was just thinking that haha
Well to be fair, the journey to the west novel was a fantasy retelling of the actual journey undertook by a real person. Which makes this game a lot more historically solid than something like God of War
@@janusjones6519 like how GOW exported Greek and Norse mythology. I never would have thought Western Audiences would know of Jotuns and Titans, the Agoge and Spartan life and customs. The Valkyries being feared by men once again haha I’m all for it. I love all these mythologies. We all need to learn.
Honestly I couldn’t have asked for a better representation of Journey to the West. This is by far the most influential story in Chinese & East Asian culture, and as someone who has seen multiple adaptations of the original story, I’m of the opinion that this is one of the greatest tales ever told in humanity. So it makes me so happy that western audiences are finally learning about this mythology in the mainstream.
@@fatcat22able I mean sure, Journey to the West is one of the four classics, so obviously it's influential, but do you really think it's more influential than the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
The amount of care they put into making that box alone is more effort than some other companies are currently putting into their entire games.
the painting outside the box and the post card are from ch19 in novel "journey to the west"
man, even the box is a better piece of art than any SBI games and i mean the very first box
Black Myth Donkey Kong is great
First time studio making a debut game which is also the 2nd most played game on steam is utter insanity.😮😮😮
The developers of Game Science used to be staff members of Tencent's game development department in China, and also developed popular products in the market. However, due to the company's interests, they had to make changes to that game. Since then, the founder Feng Ji left Tencent and founded Game Science Studio. They have been dedicated to developing products that players love and have attracted a large number of excellent developers to join the team, ultimately giving birth to the popular game "Black Myth Wukong".
Reject woke
Embrace monke
SUPPORT MONKE
RETURN TO MONKE!!!
But I don’t want to support communism.
@@nuudelz3711it has nothing to do with ccp either
MONKE
1 in 6 figurienes would be crazy. That would be worth a lot of money.
Man im so jealous. All the physical wukong products are limited in China; and i couldn't get it. And they gave u for free!
Asmongold TV's Black Myth Wukong is really popular in China, making Chinese people proud of their country's games.
Not like anybody gonna care but stamps design looks like an Immortal Sun (actual ancient relic from Sanxingdui culture from current Sichuan, super unique stuff) I wonder if it has reference in-game
this is the most people of China and America has been genuinely united since WW2
regardless of the journies trying to create a divide
the biggest unite was still Pokemon Go, but this is also pretty cool
American propaganda has made China look evil. Most Chinese has a good view on America, there is no bad propaganda on America in China.
The current price on EBay for collector edition is $1600
Yikes.
NOW THATS A F-ING COLLECTORS EDITION! Not those rinky dink electric candles that dont even come with a game or DLC packs.
The package is just jaw droppingly gorgeous. Love the scrolls of 'em old Chinese paintings.
Thinking about the rarity of physical items for video games now, might be a glimpse into the future of when looking at a physical item is like looking at a relic from the past.
14:58 Top left corner of the screen, you can see a paranormal entity
... Or the reflection of the sun off the window of a car passing by. Lol
I replayed that part to make sure it was not my pc ...
UFO
Just some passing car
You seem very happy with that Box
I love how he's so excited for the box!
Also he's happy to see this.
Just watched a grown man fumble around a box for half an hour. Takes me back to a specific video on the hub.
Asmon: “Oh my god! Look at this. It’s huge!”
Michael Scott: “That’s what she said!”
lol
This is like watching the rich neighbor kid opening his Christmas presents when you are poor.
Hi there, I think there should be a headband in the box as that's the thing uniquely Wukong's, just like the magical staff.
I would make that box into a wall decoration
Thats actually a very decent collectors addition
"This will be a bit of a struggle, hang on guys."
If only there was a clear table or desk to set it on...
😂😂my thoughts too
Wow, the design of the box is so epic. It's a picture of Xuanzang , the monk - accompanied by his 3 disciples, ( Monkey King, Pigsy & Sandy ) ,otherwise known as "Journey to the West" So meaningful for a collector's items
Blizzard new boxes in 2024: *Sends you the stamps, a G.I Joe recolor as Anduin shitily, and a cease & desist in a cardboard box as the janitor drew the logo on the side*
😂😂
lol
Bethesda should learn from Estern devs
When game developers make a good fuckin game and doesn't have to say a word.. when will they get it boys? Stay based and let the community decide.
That's awesome man, INART makes highly detailed 1/6 figures they range from 600- 1400 pretty cool gift.
Seeing a grown man unbox black myth collector edition feel like a child during christmas
i just got mine arrived today~ thats crazy!
the best part is everything is made with great materials and quality,
none like most game Collector editions, they sell it expensive but useing very cheap materials ... just sell to fans....
this one is expensive , but worth it~ no matter the figure or the scroll or ring ... chains... everything use good materials . thats so nice. you can tell they put a lot effort on it.
BTW
the figure can move around~ there are alot pictures online, that people set some pose with this figure , so cool~
even knowing he got this for free I don't think he's assessment of the game is cap, I don't think he can be that easily bought and honestly, the collectors edition looks amazing on its own.
If a couple $ for lunch means that much to him, you really think he will turn down sponsorship deals that are worth more than most people's salary? Naive. Of course the 20-30 videos on this clips channel are part of a paid marketing campaign.
@@iyziejane lol
seethe much game journo?
@@iyziejane Cry harder
That set is already worth $1000+
A collectors edition I’d actually consider buying that’s some pretty cool shit
When there is a box in a box you know it’s gona be something good.
I'm complete noob to action RPG and bought the game today. Spent two hours to kill first two bosses, which is better than I expected it would go, and all I can say is I'm utterly amazed at how good the game is. I've been waiting for such a game where I can first build up my confidence to enter true souls-like (Elden Ring for start and then Dark Souls) and this is it.
Number 2 is bloody insane ! Im happy for them.
the art on the box, postcard from the steel book and scroll is the depiction of tang san zang (monk), wu kong, sha seng (sand bother) and zhu ba jie (pig brother) from journey to the west
mainstream game reviewers who did not get that box must be fuming... LMAO!
This Black Myth game box opening was an adventure…a box within a box within a box…pretty cool Asmon. Put on on the jewelry and Asmon is now a Monke King…..Congratulations
Damn its an actual articulated figure. And not a statue.
Wow, even the box is beautiful, I would put the box for display too!
I bought this game without being "gud" at ANY Soulslike game. I thought the mythology and folklore is new to me, so at least try it out with some effort. Sure, it might be taking me longer to get through the game unlike typical Soulslike veterans, maybe even have to grind a lil to stack ability points... But, I'm enjoying the game very much. It's a nice intro-like game to other less forgiving Souslike games, so it's more justified (to me) to keep trying, rather than "get gud" and die for 2 hours on ONE boss. The mythology and folklore is super interesting to me also. Just something about this game feels fresh and new, the same way I felt playing Hogwarts Legacy. I'm not rushing it though. I put in around 2-4 hours everyday usually and that keeps it fresh for me.
400$ collectors edition. Obviously thats the price of the figurine. That they actually made clothes for it also is really cool. Looks so good. Wouldn't pay 400$ maybe 200-280$
Its actually really high quality.
That really is a really nice box. Quite a nice box.
Nah it’s a sixth scale action figure you could bend the joints and have fun posing him probably interchangeable heads and hands.
Petition for Asmon's clips editor to get a collector's edition
Man, that collectors edition is so rare, only 500 pc, and the figures made by inArt
The Wall art is from "Journey to the West". It's basically a pro-buddhist narrative taking a jab at Taoism and Confucianism. It's considered one of the great classical fiction works of China- and is an often refrenced story for fiction throughout the east. (OG dragon ball is *full* of Journey to the West refrences, for instance.)
Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, represents Human ability within the story- and is one of several protagonist the story revolves around.
In my opinion, the original Journey to the West does not praise Buddhism, nor does it overwhelm Taoism. It is a satire on the ruling class. Because of this, Journey to the West was once a banned book during the Ming Dynasty. For example, in Journey to the West, why does Tang Monk want to learn scriptures? Is it because he wants to learn Buddhist scriptures? This is not the case. In the original work, the real motivation for learning scriptures is because it can ensure the eternal stability of the Tang Dynasty. And it can eliminate the sins caused by the killing when the Tang Dynasty seized power.
In the original Journey to the West, Buddha made a big plan in order to spread Buddhism to the Tang Dynasty.
Now THATS a Collectors Edition! 👏
Would be interested to see regional dynamics of their success. This game is based on the whole monkey/wukong/journeey to to the west mythology, I wonder if the massive sales numbers are China-heavy
I don't think China uses Steam by and large.
@@SuperMooMooFarm虽然不合法 但是我们有大量的steam用户，并且因为ccp的刻意引导大部分具有强烈的攻击性😂
现阶段该游戏让所有盗版玩家群体购买steam版本。并且因为腾讯的原因各电商平台禁止上架离线共享账号。黑神话这次作为ccp对外宣传的一部分得到了大量中国官方的宣传。不好意思 我不会英文
The vast majority of the sales are from China lol, the game is massive over there.
@@SuperMooMooFarmYou'd be wrong, also like 90% of Steam reviews are not in English so...
just the collectors edition is already worth 500 US dollars. So its a win for Asmon to have bought and supported the game.
Wait.. so... the collectors edition actually has valuable collectibles in a decent quality? Wtf?
Few things to know:
1. The Wukong 1/6 action figure made by a company call "In-Art'. They made the most realistic high-end collectible, can range from $400 -$1000.
2. The figure is expensive not because is name brand, is because they are just that high quality. $400 for the "Collector Edition" is a steal!
3. Watch some review of "In-Art 1/6 Joker Action Figure" you can get an idea how good they are at making action figure.
What i love is Woke loses again just like with Hogwarts legacy.
An ideology of destruction and nihilism will always lose eventually. Wokism lack of balance is like the fire nation conquering all other nations eventually balance will restore itself.
agree wholeheartedly
Preach brother.
And stellar blade
@@renmcmanus Stellar blade buckled and censored the game
That collector's box design would've made a great PC case exterior
The most uncomfortable box opening ever, but most entertaining too😂
"It´s pretty nice box" i love that part 🤣