Since all these games cost the same amount, $60-70, it's absolutely fair to compare these games and hold them to higher standards. No one compares a Toyota to a Ferrari, because they're totally different things and are priced accordingly.
Very good point. Some of these AAA developers went from producing Ferrari every year to now producing a car with no engine and rust all over the place for the same price.
@@fluffly8935 That wasn't only if You accepted and used the key that They gives You? So, a contract in wich You didn't pay anything. The point still stands bud
"maybe there is no women in the origional story", lmao there is so many woman monsters or non-monsters, there is even a kingdom of only women. reason there isnt much women in WuKong is because this game is about the monkey not the women
People focus so much on how Sanzang and disciples make their journey westward, but ignore the fact that Wukong pissed in a jar and got Daoists to drink it
Game Science is a studio that truly makes games with love, passion, and sincerity. The two main creators of Game Science gave up their high salaries at Tencent just to realize their dream of making a good game. Since they had no investment, they first made another game "Art of War: Crimson Tide" to earn start-up capital. "Crimson Tide" is the name of the first transformation you get in Black Myth Wukong, hinting at this. It took them seven years from the idea of Wukong to its final realization. They invested their entire careers and faced the risk of not being able to repay their investment, just to make a truly fun game. They did not have any technical accumulation in AAA games in the early days. They learned everything from motion capture to scene modeling. Their first PV four years ago was just to recruit some relevant technical talents. They never expected that it would attract so many people to like Wukong. Rather than making money, they value making the game fun enough, which is why I support them.
As a Chinese, what I am most proud of this game is that it follows the original story rather than tailoring to please western world. I am glad to see Chinese game produces are confident enough to show our true culture.
I haven't played trough chapter one yet, but this game had such a cool Intro that I went and read the first couple chapters in a journey to the west. I'm planning on reading more just now before hopping onto black myth again. So far the book is really good, and wukong is starting to become my favorite character xd. I'm allso using a lot of my time in black myth to just admire the nature, scenery and the incredible structures. Love from Norway ❤
*2000:* _I go into a store to find a game._ *2020:* _I go into a game to find a store._ *Black Myth Wukong:* _Let's respect the time, mind, and wallet of our customers._ *AAA games:* _Wait! You're making us look bad!"_
"Why are this games percieved as a threat", because contrary to almost all other games, and all the companies that see them as a threat, games like Elden Ring, BG3 or Black Myth Wukong, are actually good games.
the good games keep exposing the bad companies that keep making excuses how hard it is to make a game. maybe they shouldn't go out of their way to make it harder than necessary...
The American culture produces crap, The Japanese/Asian culture produces Art The Art always exposes the crap and money is crap So money tries to hate on Art
People tend to overreact based on high online numbers, what is misleading, since it is a power of China market. Game is definitely good, but for example Lords of the Fallen was a good game as well (at least after dozen of patches lol) or Lies of P. And yet none of these games caused such reaction.
Ubisoft : Here is the technology , just make it smaller Dev: Sir that impossible Ubisoft : China built Black Myth Wukong in a Cave with a bunch of Scraps !!!!!!! Dev : But sir , im not China
Game Science formed their team with the objective of creating a single player game with no micro transactions because they were sick of it in China. Their recruitment attempts stated exactly what they were trying to build and they received tonnes of resumes because of it. Like the game is so good because top talents went to them with a dream. I suppose the game IS a fantasy come true both in game and IRL.
This is truly a rally call in the one of the worst gaming environment, Chinese players are sick of it. The developers are sick of it. So when the banner is raised people follow the ambition to break the horrible status quo. Arguably, the most important is the state gave the support, lifting the usual censorship limitation of the game. (headless monk and red blood pool is a instant nope from the government if is the usual game)
A minority who popped out of a stone, an orphan raised by the community, a survivor of the ethnic genocide war carried out by the fascist Heavenly Court on Huaguo Mountain. A victim of illegal human drug experiments in the alchemy furnace. A super LGBTQIAPDK+ person who can perform 72 kinds of diverse changes and wanders around in a tiger-skin miniskirt all day. A low-carbon and environmentally friendly vegetarian who insists on traveling by somersault cloud. A true animal protectionist who is an animal himself. A disabled person with congenital rickets. Whoever opposes Sun Wukong is extremely politically incorrect.
At 9:05 they're talking about the study that LEGO did. They wanted to see how boys and girls play with their toys. They found that when boys played with different characters (batman, superman, sponge bob, etc) the boys acted the characters out and had Batman interact with Sponge Bob in ways that they would. When girls played with the same characters, they ignored the preestablished characters completely and had them act in ways the girls would personally act and respond. This is probably why modern game characters/story are so bad cause it's all fan fiction garbage ignoring character and lore.
@@AndrewBrownK There's a reason why the Bible and other scriptures speak about being careful with women. Whether you believe the Bible or not, it was still written by actual people and they knew what happens when women are unleashed. The human race has known for thousands of years that most women will self destruct and take everyone else down with them if given the chance. It's not directly correlated but it's kinda funny to see how much things have gotten worse since women were given the right to vote. Pretty much everything has gotten worse since then, even crime is on its way back up.
@@louisnguyen6610 Evidently diversity is okay...Unless you notice it. It's okay for everyone to be different /look different/ talk different....But the second anyone takes notice and goes "oh so you like this and I like that" they all wig out and say you're a bigot. Newsflash the world doesn't care about made up crap. You can only force diversity so much. Take a look at the Olympics 100m dash. It's not like there are no white dudes because they don't practice their entire lives. It's because some people will always be faster. There are outliers but what is.....just simply is.... It's insane to think we even have to explain some people are good and bad and not as good at some things 🤦
I have no problem with DLCs as a concept. I have problems with DLCs that cost half or more of the price of the base game without an appropriate amount of content, that come out before 1 year has passed for a game to be able to stand on its own two feet, and includes content that clearly either should have been in the base game or is obviously cut from the base game (particularly lore stuff). That kind of stuff is bullshit. A DLC should feel like a genuine addition to the game that is fun for it's own reasons, and not part of a checklist for players to feel like they're playing the full game.
@@Jaimyoutubing Well DLC as expansion packs are fine. But a lot of games now are basically released unfinished or with very little content and then forces you get the DLC to have a complete experience.
You mean the 1990s. NES and SNES games were fully complete with little to no bugs and fantastic. I wish consoles never figured out how to work with the internet. We'd still be getting unbuggy games that were complete and no nickle and diming content.
DLC has been planned before the release, no matter how you want to word it they have in fact, taken content out of the game the put it behind a paywall. BEFORE DAY 1
@@JayjayYang there’s plenty of diversity. There are wolves, bears, monkeys, rats, bulls, horses, snakes, humans, bats, rabbits, birds, and who knows what else?! It’s great!!
The biggest problem for 'DEI' is they are trying to eliminate the concept of beauty and ugly, they are telling ppl that there are no ugly ppl, you all look pretty. But you know, the key to this problem is, ppl should not be defined by only their appearance but what they have done, many ppl without a good looking face are still repectful, they can also achieve great things, that does not mean that we should compliment one's beauty even he or she is ugly. As a chinese guy living in Vancouver now, I decided to go back to China after my graduation, the biggest reason is that i dont want my kid to be taught in this 'diversity, inclusity' way, i just want him or her grown as a normal guy.
they are trying to eliminate the concept of sexy female characters and the male gaze. can you sexualize ugly characters? no. female sexualization and male gaze prevented. mission accomplished.
Also: No DEI consulting firms. No modern feminism. No self inserts. No "body type A and B". No cheesy millennial/zoomer writing. No political agendas. No gender pronouns. No "made for modern audience" bullshit. No vitiligo. No brownwashing and rewriting of another cultures history for a "modern audience". No "T H E M E S S A G E" No 🏳🌈
I do like that BG3 had most of the things in this list and is still a banger game. It's like none of that actually matters if you make a good game lmao.
@@nikhilsinha7730 I mean the studio behind lies of p is korean and that was a hit, so I don't think it's as hard as people think. They just wanna make a good game
@JGWentwort877I think it's because China is a communist state and "wokies" are communist so his brain has melted that a radical left society can create something he deems "apolitical". I personally just wish we'd judge games as games.
In east Asia mobile games were the norm for years now. This really is a stand out from that market. A few of you here insulting people while you don't know shit
Just so people know. Jean D'Arc never participated in front line combat. She helped fill mortars and all that, but she never used a sword or anything, she only was a flag bearer in the front line. That was an important part of her trial, to begin with
@@sophia8376China like many of the enemies of the US make fun of western woke culture. There is an old adage: your enemies may like to lie about you but they truthfully confess your sins.
With the arrival of Wukong, we have higher expectations. I know good ones are still out there, get ur asses up just look at BMW, look! That’s exactly how it’s supposed to be done, that’s called hard axx working to make things better than ever in their power.
You'd think that but this is a Chinese game which draws a lot of its own problems. Lack of originality is usually an aspect of that. Microtransactions are heavy in China, as is repetitive game mechanics that you'd equate to mobile games.
Well Baldur's Gate 3 was a threat because it was just really fucking good. Wukong is a threat because some journalists wrote DEI articles. Not the same situation.
@@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot well if you know anything about GOTY its popularity contest and 2.3mil players on stream can give you a hint if thats a GOTY material...
@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot you're implying BM Wukong isn't a great frikkin game. Which most people will agree it is. And I think it is the exact same situation. All these games; Bg3, Elden Ring and Black Myth Wukong are all great games. And all seen as a threat. I am recognising a pattern here.
8:05 That's definitely part of it. Women and Men just play differently. The chatter shortly after was referencing a study Lego funded to find out how they can break into the young female market. They found that typically how it goes, is boys emulate the character, whereas girls make the character emulate themselves. If a boy is playing with a Batman figure, he will make it fight bad guys and solve crime. If a girl is playing with a Batman figure, she will make it dress up and play house. Even with video games you can see these trends exist. The female player base for a game rises based on a few general factors: 1.) The degree to which it is casual 2.) How much they can make their character embody themselves 3.) Is there a social aspect to the game that extends beyond its own niche player base?
I agree about video games at least. I always see studies that say that like half the gamers are women. But almost all the major UA-cam Let's play and the Streamers are males. Also for example my mother is 65 yet she plays some really simple games on the Tablet. Is she a gamer? Hell no. But the statistics say she is...
I don't know if the conclusion you draw from that study is necessarily correct. It could also just mean that boys and girls have different interests, and the batman toy just happens to cater to the boys interest more. If you gave the boy a barbie doll, there is probably a chance that he will make the barbie doll fight instead of dressing her up.
@@kidcoma1340 the study showed that for the average boy the Batman toy is Batman and he uses the toy to roleplay as Batman. Although the average girl knows who Batman is, for her the Batman toy is just a male figure to use in any capacity or role she deems fit. Note that average in most such studies is a minimum of 70% of the test subjects.
0:30 I partially disagree. Although those games have immense quality, we're in the 9th generation of consoles and half of those qualities should be expected in games in general. Chrono Trigger from SNES had 13 different endings, Suikoden from PS1 allowed you to recruit 100 characters, Black from PS2 had realistic graphics, Skyrim from PS3 has 100+ hours of great side content. If we could see this quality in games from 4, 5 generations ago, we should expect more from the current generation. Wukong is not raising the bar, it's remembering us where exactly it's expected to be. That's why companies are scared.
Think this is the wrong take. As long as the characters and their stories are interesting, there's really nothing necessarily wrong with diversity. But when the writers feel the need to include a lesbian character hitting all the stereotypical tropes... it's just so bad.
I watched Rambo for the first time in decades. Its been so long, I didn't remember the story. I sat and watched the whole thing. It's a classic film. I enjoyed it. Then I realized there isn't one female character in the entire film. Not one. Zero speaking lines. Nothing. Everyone doesn't need to be included in everything, every time.
She was queen of the Icene - a British Celtic tribe. Her husband was an ally of Rome but Roman turned on them when he died. She was one of a number of leaders of the different tribes who rose up against Rome. After the British were masacred at the battle of Wattling Street she commited suicide. There is zero evidence that she fought in combat; instead she was a political leader.
Studios just don't want to see the bar raised because then they actually have to compete. Gamers will stop eating the lazy annual release slop. We should expect Baldur's Gate 3 level quality. We should demand Wukong gameplay and story.
I genuinely believe there's a lot of talent working a mobile game studios. I'd assume people working at those kind of studios also get paid more because there's more income flowing in from all the MTXs. Also it's magic how most mobile games even run on phones, anyways. Shows talent, imo.
They also don't want the gravy train of microtransactions and live service stuff to go away because then then can't milk the same one or two games endlessly, they'll be forced to develop new content. I miss the old model of sizable DLC packs for like $15 to $30.
@@jacobasnodgrass5853 yeah i mean the money is really whats making the magic happen. Honkai impact allowed the creation of genshin and then star rail to happen. I think we are gonna have a lot more mobile game studios try to branch out to console games now.
Agree. When looking at the new Ubisoft Star Wars game for example you just see that they aren't even trying, just putting out the most generic slop possible. In Wukong on the other hand there is so much character and detail in even the smallest things. That and all the other recent great titles have put these established triple A studios in a very different light for me. We should expect way better.
Not purchasing games is the best support we, as consumers, can do to get them big companies to understand how bad their products are. They can bark all they want but at the end of the day, bad and ugly designed games will never be appealing to anyone.
If you compared a 1998 Honda civic to a 2024 Honda civic and the 2024 didn’t have air conditioning as a feature but a 1998 did people would be pretty fucking pissed.
@@gabrielhoelzle8476 Black Myth Wukong only focuses on the story and legacy of Wukong and his succesor and also the Wukong in the title is a sub title the main title is Black Myth. I think is better that it stays faithful to that universe. I think having multiple mythologies from the east or even the west is much more interesting! We could explore multiple mythologies in a style like Assassin's Creed where each game changes the time line, setting and culture of course I hope the Black Myth series stays good and keeps this quality and not like Assassin's Creed where the quality drastically drops after 5 or 6 titles. They should their their time and make a new game every 4-5 years the same development cycle they had for Wukong.
There's been this weird assumption in creative mediums found at the executive level for a long time that nobody wants "escapism." Instead, its assumed that the audience just wants to see themselves reflected in media and that it's somehow too difficult for people to insert themselves in the place of protagonists that aren't similar to them. Its why superheroes had kid sidekicks, its why anime started setting everything in a high school with teen protagonists, and its why games are currently trying to push their idea of what they want to audience to be - only they want it to reflect themselves as developers, not the actual, general audience for games. That's why this particular attempt is failing so hard. The ones who are making the decisions on games aren't reflective of the audience that plays them. And it's largely because this new crop of developers dont have traditional backgrounds. The industry has become a gathering place for talented outsiders and lgbtq+ creatives that didn't fit in elsewhere, and as a result, it is now quite an elitist and protected space. They really are reflecting themselves in these games but are ignoring the fact that this demographic makeup literally ONLY exists in their insular environment. They hate the reality that the audience, numerically, isnt demographically similar to them, causing them to actively deny it and hope that, one day, if they wish it hard enough and force feed people long enough, it will eventually become true.
Someone bringing up Joan of Arc who never fought or killed. She literally was buffing the fighting men, with her presence, giving the allure of divine providence, making them fight fiercer than would normally have without her. People taking their facts from movies, anime and tv series really makes me wonder sometimes.
@@violet_green4335 War's Unwomanly Face is a book written by a journalist that interviewed a bunch of soviet women who fought in wwii. some real shocking stuff like female medics that would hold on to the outside of tanks when moving and have to pull men out of burning tanks if they got hit
@@Rocko130185 I didn't said that there were a lot of them, but still it was 800,000 and it's a historical fact that some of them were fighting. I was just saying that there are better examples of fighting women than Joan of Arc.
I'm glad. As a chinese american, Sun WuKong was my favorite fictional character, and Journey to the west was my favorite story of all time. I'm glad the West's first introduction to this is a very highly rated good game. And I'm excluding that crappy hollywood movie they tried to make based on it that no one remembers, and I only vaguely remember exists.
Luckily I think China wouldn't allow it without hyper restrictions. Though the poor Mulan live remake suffered even still.... Disney should really be banned from touching anything at this point lol.
for the comparison thing for me at least wukong shows that (unlike everyone has been saying) that AAA games are still viable without micro transactions or shitty monetization and it's just corporate greed that's pushing these changes
10:18 In the original story, there's a whole chapter about the cast travelling to a country where there's only women😂 The women there give birth by drinking from a magic river/fountain (can't remeber exactly). WuKong's master and the pig bro accidentally drank it, resulting in them having a pregnancy (despite being biologically male and … male pig-man?) If I remember it correctly, they went through a series of trouble to get a magical abortion, and continued their journey afterwards.
yhesss all that ghensin and their family tree and yet people made a statement that the money sales by BM wukong back to chinese goverment bro you guys spent money on ghensin too and mihoyo backed by chinese goverment
@@itsyaboijack5178 If it does, I hope it's not published by Sony on PC so I can actually buy it. Not giving them my money, plus they'd probably require a PSN account for it with the way things are going.
A good chunk of the dudes I was raised with, connected with Sarah Connor in terminator 2. She got in a room with the man who created Skynet, a terminator, and the saviour of mankind, and she was the scariest person there.
Baldurs gate is surprisingly a Girls game (obviously a guys game to) but tons of girls seem to love it (probably due to all the romance options and drama)
Dragon Age was similar, though I feel the reason both did well is the same reason Japan has a VN market for woman. Basically those games tapped that same market in the west.
basically if the game made by another culture it will inject their ideology to the story, i read that japanese historian didn't even acknowledge about black samurai, and story about black samurai was written by white, but if there a black slave back then its true because the african it self that the one who had the transaction of slave
Games like this and BG3 don't raise the bar, they're bringing the bar back up to what the AAA studios used have it set to and this is a very good thing. Either the AAA studios get their act together or these smaller studios will replace them.
@@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot I wasn't comparing it against BG3 but against the AAA titles that came out around the same time as both games. I personally also played and still own both of the first 2 Baldur's Gates but not the Icewind Dale game. That series in itself was always known to be groundbreaking with it's games. BG1 was a huge deal in the D&D computer games scene since most of the games had been by SSI and of very limited quantity and even more limited content. Even certain classes were kept out of those games such as druids while certain other classes were limited in what they could actually due if they were included such as bards and rangers. Both BG3 and Wukong didn't raise any bars to new levels, those levels were already their. Nor did they raise the standards for AAA companies because those standards were originally set years ago by AAA companies. Both BG3 and Wukong only brought those standards back and AAA companies are fuming because they got rid of the people that set those standards years ago. By the way, the standards I'm talking about are quality over quantity and pushing for games to improve for setting better standards and not just graphics and other things, this can include certain mechanics too.
@@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot never compared them against each other only against the AAA titles that were released recently. They both never raised the bar to new levels. They brought the bar back to the levels the AAA industry had set years ago. They never brought new standards to the industry either, they brought back old standards that the AAA industry had in place years ago. I've been a hardcore gamer since the early 80s and I've also played many of the computer games based on D&D including BG 1&2 along with the SSI gold/silver box games and NWN 1&2. I still play BG1 on occasions, I would play the NWN games but they're not compatible with recent versions of windows.
Wukong is truly a game. You play a full passionate game made by extremely dedicated developers. You feel the labor of love here just like Baldurs gate 3. How do i know that? When a dev puts in this much detail and small little secrets then you know it's made with passion.
If an American studio made Black Myth Wukong, yall would be calling that woke because it features minorities aka Chinese people and mythology. Stop lying to yourself.
Asmon: "If you make your characters fat and ugly don't be suprised when no one wants to play them" Chatters: "roadhog?" Asmon said "Fat and Ugly". roadhog may be fat, but he's not ugly. They did a good job of making him look cool, both default skin and the cosmetics like the snowman and butcher skins.
Boudicca was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, a Celtic tribe. She destroyed Colchester, London and what is known now as St Albans. There are four references of her, and one eyewitness in Tacitus who wrote many years after the rebellion, but his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola was an eyewitness to the events, having served in Britain as a tribune under Suetonius Paulinus during this period. There is a statue of Boudicca in Westminster in London.
The biggest problem in modern western game dev right now isn't corporate greed or toxic fandom. No, the biggest problem is that most of the developers are literal communists and/or incompetent DEI hires. They subscribe to the labor theory of value, so they think they should be allowed to create whatever they want and the market should automatically reward them with sales, attention, and adoration. They view themselves as laborers putting in an honest days work, and they think this creates actual unassailable value in the form of their "products". In reality, almost no one wants their bad games, bad characters, bad gameplay, etc. And when the sales don't materialize, the devs immediately point the finger at either the "unrealistic expectations" of the executives or the "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic" leanings of the audience. At no point in time will these leftist devs ever accept responsibility for the fact that they injected their own unpopular aesthetics and ideologies into their games, and that these things are what caused the lion's share of consumers to dip out.
Also I believe there is plenty of good devs who want to make good games for the audiences working in those companies. It is just sad reality that they will get fired if they go against anything by those people... They want to do their craft, but politics win in corporations and the DEI crowd is all about politics...
Only thing I got from reading that is that this guy has no clue about economics. He took a loose shit the other day; probably blamed it on the labour theory of value. How ironic that he's so similar to the "communists" he's railing against lmfao.
If an American studio made Black Myth Wukong, yall would be calling that woke because it features minorities aka Chinese people and mythology. Stop lying to yourself.
In fact, the most handsome character in the game CG of *Black Myth: Wukong* is Nezha! He’s also a powerful deity in *Journey to the West*! A truly rebellious young warrior god with a defiant spirit, challenging authority and defying patriarchy!❤
@@mrwilson.1I don't think endings carry enough for multiple playthroughs, since this is a corridor-style game once you find something you know where it is almost always which takes away exploration from other playthroughs. That's why I think they say it.
Actually there are a ton of female character in Journey to the West. One of the major divine presences throughout the story is Guanyin, Boddhisattva of Mercy. One of the major demon they encounter is White Bone Demon, a woman that framed Wukong for murder, caused him to leave the group. There's the spider demon that seduces disciples. There's Prince Iron Fan, Bull demon's wife, who intend to seek revenge for Wukong causing her husband to be captured by heaven. Wukong also gained his immortality by stealing Queeen Mother West's peaches, and crashed her party before the journey. There's that entire plot where they went into a kingdom of only women and Tang Sanzang got pregnant drinking the magical child bearing spring. There are more, these are just the ones I can remember
You are correct. I suspect that because most of them aren’t exactly the combat type. They rely on backhand tactics. So in a combat focused game like Wukong, it makes sense to not have them.
One thing I disagree on, it is that games like black myth: WuKong raises the bar, no it doesn't they just move the bar back from the floor to its normal position
Wukong is proof the whole “we gotta keep our player numbers up” tactics and milk them for money through in-game stores to be “profitable” is just dogshit. Wukong is made just like any PS2 game. Buy it, play it, thank you for having fun. And just like that 2m+ players for the whole week who WILL be back whenever they make a new game or a sequel.
these people will call you fragile and entitled when you point out their agenda, then turn around and start crying the instant a single game that doesn't conform to their agenda is made
Games like BM Wukong, Baldurs Gate 3, Elden Ring etc dont raise the expectations, they deliever whats used to be a standard. Shitty studios nowadays just test playerbase what crap can they put out and get away with it
Baldurs Gate 3 is bad porn fanfiction written by pronoun cultists on twitter and has gender theory propaganda. Such a product never was and never will be a "standard". It was flavor of the month corporate slop for normies. So you can stop simping for Larian if you ever want to be taken seriously, and not looked at like a basic parroting shill.
1 small gripe regarding your take, games like Baldur's, Elden Ring and Wukong dont raise the bar for gaming. They show what could (and in this day and age should) be possible for modern games while maintaining respect for your players. They are the bar of what we the players deserve after the gaming industry has evolved and improved on a technological level.
Since all these games cost the same amount, $60-70, it's absolutely fair to compare these games and hold them to higher standards. No one compares a Toyota to a Ferrari, because they're totally different things and are priced accordingly.
@@jkbrwn ok let’s compare, this is the only game that tells you what you are allowed to say and not allowed to say, so imo it’s a 0/10 garbage game
They aren't priced accordingly. Toyota's deserve a higher price than those Ferrari's.
Very good point. Some of these AAA developers went from producing Ferrari every year to now producing a car with no engine and rust all over the place for the same price.
@@fluffly8935 That wasn't only if You accepted and used the key that They gives You?
So, a contract in wich You didn't pay anything. The point still stands bud
Only similarly between AC Shadows and Wukong is that both games have apes as a main character
"maybe there is no women in the origional story", lmao there is so many woman monsters or non-monsters, there is even a kingdom of only women. reason there isnt much women in WuKong is because this game is about the monkey not the women
ah... that Queen who want to marry Tang Sanzang..
People focus so much on how Sanzang and disciples make their journey westward, but ignore the fact that Wukong pissed in a jar and got Daoists to drink it
it’s not only no woman but also no man, even don’t have enough human. 😅
@@PhantasmguyLMAO!
what a menace.
Pretty sure all of the characters you see or interact with is not human
Game Science is a studio that truly makes games with love, passion, and sincerity. The two main creators of Game Science gave up their high salaries at Tencent just to realize their dream of making a good game. Since they had no investment, they first made another game "Art of War: Crimson Tide" to earn start-up capital. "Crimson Tide" is the name of the first transformation you get in Black Myth Wukong, hinting at this. It took them seven years from the idea of Wukong to its final realization. They invested their entire careers and faced the risk of not being able to repay their investment, just to make a truly fun game. They did not have any technical accumulation in AAA games in the early days. They learned everything from motion capture to scene modeling. Their first PV four years ago was just to recruit some relevant technical talents. They never expected that it would attract so many people to like Wukong. Rather than making money, they value making the game fun enough, which is why I support them.
They did it for legacy. Very commendable.
based. sorry i can't give anything more than this.
“If it’s not fun, why bother”
- Monke
Agreed
“Why dance if you can’t fart”- Mike Tyres
Embrace monke
Reggie was Monke all along?!
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As a Chinese, what I am most proud of this game is that it follows the original story rather than tailoring to please western world. I am glad to see Chinese game produces are confident enough to show our true culture.
This comment made me buy the game ❤
Isnt it amazing what embracing culture can achieve. Reject globalism
I haven't played trough chapter one yet, but this game had such a cool Intro that I went and read the first couple chapters in a journey to the west. I'm planning on reading more just now before hopping onto black myth again. So far the book is really good, and wukong is starting to become my favorite character xd. I'm allso using a lot of my time in black myth to just admire the nature, scenery and the incredible structures. Love from Norway ❤
Can you tell me, in the start Sun Wukong is he after the journey of the West or before. Also who is the main character we play?
@@sarcasticsage984 after the journey, Main character is ur self not Sun Wukong,
This is how games should be sold. Truly finished and polished, and you get the full package for one price - same as everyone. I'm buying it.
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its just another soulslike clone with no depth, got bored after watching an hour of it on twitch.
*2000:* _I go into a store to find a game._
*2020:* _I go into a game to find a store._
*Black Myth Wukong:* _Let's respect the time, mind, and wallet of our customers._
*AAA games:* _Wait! You're making us look bad!"_
lmao that sums up modern games perfectly.
That acronym made me think of the car
Well said I always say I feel like when I boot up new game I’m stuck in mall trying find the game
@@dittodemo1234 which is ironic when you consider what they are doing nowadays
BMW wants to charge subscription fees for suspension settings... they are insane. @@dittodemo1234
"Why are this games percieved as a threat", because contrary to almost all other games, and all the companies that see them as a threat, games like Elden Ring, BG3 or Black Myth Wukong, are actually good games.
the good games keep exposing the bad companies that keep making excuses how hard it is to make a game. maybe they shouldn't go out of their way to make it harder than necessary...
The American culture produces crap, The Japanese/Asian culture produces Art
The Art always exposes the crap and money is crap
So money tries to hate on Art
ad Kingdom Come: Deliverance
People tend to overreact based on high online numbers, what is misleading, since it is a power of China market. Game is definitely good, but for example Lords of the Fallen was a good game as well (at least after dozen of patches lol) or Lies of P. And yet none of these games caused such reaction.
Black Myth Wukong: Rejects the Wokeness Agenda
Wokeness Agenda: We're in danger.
Ubisoft : Here is the technology , just make it smaller
Dev: Sir that impossible
Ubisoft : China built Black Myth Wukong in a Cave with a bunch of Scraps !!!!!!!
Dev : But sir , im not China
🤣🤣
Iron man 🤣
Meanwhile in somewhere:
_ You are chinese?
_ No, sir. I'm Singapore
_ You are chinese citizen?
....
@@annassti3252 if you get a game key, dont mention Taiwan or Winny the Poo
Reject Modernity, Return To Monke!
I think you meant reject *gayness**
I'm coming home brother.
@@CGGS_0no, no, modernity
Gay was is ingrained in the Catholic Church sprinkled with a little bit of pdf
@@LudwigVaanArthans 😅
@@LudwigVaanArthansno it wasn’t stop believing the psy ops
Game Science formed their team with the objective of creating a single player game with no micro transactions because they were sick of it in China. Their recruitment attempts stated exactly what they were trying to build and they received tonnes of resumes because of it. Like the game is so good because top talents went to them with a dream. I suppose the game IS a fantasy come true both in game and IRL.
This is truly a rally call in the one of the worst gaming environment, Chinese players are sick of it. The developers are sick of it. So when the banner is raised people follow the ambition to break the horrible status quo.
Arguably, the most important is the state gave the support, lifting the usual censorship limitation of the game. (headless monk and red blood pool is a instant nope from the government if is the usual game)
Hope they consider a sequel though, I wan see more myth Chinese creatures
If that’s true, then I definitely need to support them by buying it full price 👍
The developer of Black Myth Wukong was ex employee of Tencent, he was so sick about gacha games
Hope next is Naza... @@trailvinzyl779
A minority who popped out of a stone, an orphan raised by the community, a survivor of the ethnic genocide war carried out by the fascist Heavenly Court on Huaguo Mountain. A victim of illegal human drug experiments in the alchemy furnace. A super LGBTQIAPDK+ person who can perform 72 kinds of diverse changes and wanders around in a tiger-skin miniskirt all day. A low-carbon and environmentally friendly vegetarian who insists on traveling by somersault cloud. A true animal protectionist who is an animal himself. A disabled person with congenital rickets. Whoever opposes Sun Wukong is extremely politically incorrect.
And also, Wukong is a furry
The alchemy furnace bit got me. That part always sticks out in my mind like man that must of sucked but also damn man, you are unkillable.
This made me chuckle 😂😂
> "an orphan raised by the community"
Yoo it even has communism, let's go
When did child welfare become communism?@@st.altair4936
At 9:05 they're talking about the study that LEGO did. They wanted to see how boys and girls play with their toys. They found that when boys played with different characters (batman, superman, sponge bob, etc) the boys acted the characters out and had Batman interact with Sponge Bob in ways that they would. When girls played with the same characters, they ignored the preestablished characters completely and had them act in ways the girls would personally act and respond. This is probably why modern game characters/story are so bad cause it's all fan fiction garbage ignoring character and lore.
This explains so much bad character writing literally everywhere
Watch out, tell anyone this to their face and they’ll scream and harp about the misogyny of science
Which is why we should reject modernity and just be monke😂@louisnguyen6610
@@AndrewBrownK There's a reason why the Bible and other scriptures speak about being careful with women. Whether you believe the Bible or not, it was still written by actual people and they knew what happens when women are unleashed. The human race has known for thousands of years that most women will self destruct and take everyone else down with them if given the chance.
It's not directly correlated but it's kinda funny to see how much things have gotten worse since women were given the right to vote. Pretty much everything has gotten worse since then, even crime is on its way back up.
@@louisnguyen6610 Evidently diversity is okay...Unless you notice it. It's okay for everyone to be different /look different/ talk different....But the second anyone takes notice and goes "oh so you like this and I like that" they all wig out and say you're a bigot.
Newsflash the world doesn't care about made up crap. You can only force diversity so much. Take a look at the Olympics 100m dash. It's not like there are no white dudes because they don't practice their entire lives.
It's because some people will always be faster. There are outliers but what is.....just simply is....
It's insane to think we even have to explain some people are good and bad and not as good at some things 🤦
Wukong feels like a Good Game from the 2000's full Game no DLC Bullshit and full of Fun.
I have no problem with DLCs as a concept. I have problems with DLCs that cost half or more of the price of the base game without an appropriate amount of content, that come out before 1 year has passed for a game to be able to stand on its own two feet, and includes content that clearly either should have been in the base game or is obviously cut from the base game (particularly lore stuff). That kind of stuff is bullshit. A DLC should feel like a genuine addition to the game that is fun for it's own reasons, and not part of a checklist for players to feel like they're playing the full game.
@@Jaimyoutubing Well DLC as expansion packs are fine. But a lot of games now are basically released unfinished or with very little content and then forces you get the DLC to have a complete experience.
You mean the 1990s. NES and SNES games were fully complete with little to no bugs and fantastic. I wish consoles never figured out how to work with the internet. We'd still be getting unbuggy games that were complete and no nickle and diming content.
@@Jaimyoutubing @ApplePotato You both are 100% correct!
DLC has been planned before the release, no matter how you want to word it they have in fact, taken content out of the game the put it behind a paywall. BEFORE DAY 1
Black Myth Wukong does not lack diversity. The protagonist is muted the whole time.
@@JayjayYang there’s plenty of diversity. There are wolves, bears, monkeys, rats, bulls, horses, snakes, humans, bats, rabbits, birds, and who knows what else?! It’s great!!
69th like. Good point here buddy
@@HighDiver5555 just the number we all like. Thanks man
U mean protagonist
@@LeonardLuzon haha yeah, thanks for pointing out the typo, fixed👌
I look ugly, but I never wanted to play ugly characters. Simple as that…EA, Sony, Ubisoft don’t u all just understand?
I am also not a hot woman (or a woman at all) but I like to see them in games. Super weird - how does that work?
But wukong is ugly
@@kunka592 Hot women are attractive, that's all 😂 as a guy, I like to see them in games too
It's about power and demoralization. They do understand, it is done on purpose
@@륜폐이 Wukong is monke not the same
Wukong is the first game ive bought at full price in a very long time and i dont regret it. Its so good
Good, keep supporting good games
Same and the only game I buy pre order in this last 10 years
@@JR-zm7ju No Mans Sky stopped me from Pre-ordering, but I made an exception for this game :D
@@campbell4showsame
I heard they fixed it idk tho
Compared to lots of junks even at 80. This is even way under priced
The biggest problem for 'DEI' is they are trying to eliminate the concept of beauty and ugly, they are telling ppl that there are no ugly ppl, you all look pretty. But you know, the key to this problem is, ppl should not be defined by only their appearance but what they have done, many ppl without a good looking face are still repectful, they can also achieve great things, that does not mean that we should compliment one's beauty even he or she is ugly. As a chinese guy living in Vancouver now, I decided to go back to China after my graduation, the biggest reason is that i dont want my kid to be taught in this 'diversity, inclusity' way, i just want him or her grown as a normal guy.
they are trying to eliminate the concept of sexy female characters and the male gaze. can you sexualize ugly characters? no. female sexualization and male gaze prevented. mission accomplished.
Also:
No DEI consulting firms.
No modern feminism.
No self inserts.
No "body type A and B".
No cheesy millennial/zoomer writing.
No political agendas.
No gender pronouns.
No "made for modern audience" bullshit.
No vitiligo.
No brownwashing and rewriting of another cultures history for a "modern audience".
No "T H E M E S S A G E"
No 🏳🌈
DEI is funded by Wall Street to Divide & Rule the 99%.
yeah the obsession with vitiligo is so odd
The Critical Drinker viewer spotted, opinion accepted.
I do like that BG3 had most of the things in this list and is still a banger game. It's like none of that actually matters if you make a good game lmao.
BG3 has body type and it is good game.
I am more impressed that a Chinese studio decided to take the chance to develop such a type of game, at the end of the day gamers won.
@JGWentwort877 it's not about chinese mythology its about how a chinese studios first AAA game had an extreme level of polish and gameplay
@@nikhilsinha7730 these dudes were graduated from the fking Carnegie Mellon University, of course they know how to polish a good game😂.
@@nikhilsinha7730 I mean the studio behind lies of p is korean and that was a hit, so I don't think it's as hard as people think. They just wanna make a good game
@JGWentwort877I think it's because China is a communist state and "wokies" are communist so his brain has melted that a radical left society can create something he deems "apolitical". I personally just wish we'd judge games as games.
In east Asia mobile games were the norm for years now. This really is a stand out from that market. A few of you here insulting people while you don't know shit
Just so people know. Jean D'Arc never participated in front line combat. She helped fill mortars and all that, but she never used a sword or anything, she only was a flag bearer in the front line. That was an important part of her trial, to begin with
Jeanne d'Arc*
So she has the will of D.
The One Piece is real!
So that's why the noble phantasm in fgo is just her raising a flag.....
She also was a pain in the bum for the French king
She had more followers than the king so he took down her InstaGram. ☹️
Leave the wokee, return to monkee
Luckily - China is not badly influenced by woke culture (yet).
@@sophia8376why do you think the kaiked states are trying to go to war
very funee
@@sophia8376China like many of the enemies of the US make fun of western woke culture. There is an old adage: your enemies may like to lie about you but they truthfully confess your sins.
@@sophia8376 they already achieved peak woke sort of
It’s simple. This is not a western game. All the western problems are gone.
The next step is for western problems to go away from western games too so we can have a healthy industry again.
With the arrival of Wukong, we have higher expectations. I know good ones are still out there, get ur asses up just look at BMW, look! That’s exactly how it’s supposed to be done, that’s called hard axx working to make things better than ever in their power.
You'd think that but this is a Chinese game which draws a lot of its own problems. Lack of originality is usually an aspect of that. Microtransactions are heavy in China, as is repetitive game mechanics that you'd equate to mobile games.
Too bad it runs like shit.
The devs asked for streamers to not include “feminist propaganda”
We've had this conversation before. Everytime a videogame comes out labeled as a "threat" to other Videogames. That videogame makes Game of the Year.
Well Baldur's Gate 3 was a threat because it was just really fucking good. Wukong is a threat because some journalists wrote DEI articles. Not the same situation.
@@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot well if you know anything about GOTY its popularity contest and 2.3mil players on stream can give you a hint if thats a GOTY material...
@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot you're implying BM Wukong isn't a great frikkin game. Which most people will agree it is. And I think it is the exact same situation. All these games; Bg3, Elden Ring and Black Myth Wukong are all great games. And all seen as a threat. I am recognising a pattern here.
@@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot don't forget that BG3's Larian Studios are maximum allies to the cause.
8:05
That's definitely part of it. Women and Men just play differently. The chatter shortly after was referencing a study Lego funded to find out how they can break into the young female market.
They found that typically how it goes, is boys emulate the character, whereas girls make the character emulate themselves. If a boy is playing with a Batman figure, he will make it fight bad guys and solve crime. If a girl is playing with a Batman figure, she will make it dress up and play house.
Even with video games you can see these trends exist. The female player base for a game rises based on a few general factors:
1.) The degree to which it is casual
2.) How much they can make their character embody themselves
3.) Is there a social aspect to the game that extends beyond its own niche player base?
I agree about video games at least. I always see studies that say that like half the gamers are women. But almost all the major UA-cam Let's play and the Streamers are males. Also for example my mother is 65 yet she plays some really simple games on the Tablet. Is she a gamer? Hell no. But the statistics say she is...
Women in gaming can be grouped into two broad catagories.
Pre-Sims and Post-Sims.
I don't know if the conclusion you draw from that study is necessarily correct. It could also just mean that boys and girls have different interests, and the batman toy just happens to cater to the boys interest more. If you gave the boy a barbie doll, there is probably a chance that he will make the barbie doll fight instead of dressing her up.
I’m a woman. I don’t agree at all. But don’t have time argue. Bye
@@kidcoma1340 the study showed that for the average boy the Batman toy is Batman and he uses the toy to roleplay as Batman. Although the average girl knows who Batman is, for her the Batman toy is just a male figure to use in any capacity or role she deems fit. Note that average in most such studies is a minimum of 70% of the test subjects.
In Monke We Trust
"It's only after you've played black myth wukong, you're free to raise expectations."
In Monke We Must ✊🏻
In Monke We Become
“Ape Together Strong”
If we are asmongold's unwanted children so be it!
Monke hit gods with stick. Monke make funny sound when he hit. Monke game is lit 😌
0:30 I partially disagree. Although those games have immense quality, we're in the 9th generation of consoles and half of those qualities should be expected in games in general. Chrono Trigger from SNES had 13 different endings, Suikoden from PS1 allowed you to recruit 100 characters, Black from PS2 had realistic graphics, Skyrim from PS3 has 100+ hours of great side content. If we could see this quality in games from 4, 5 generations ago, we should expect more from the current generation. Wukong is not raising the bar, it's remembering us where exactly it's expected to be. That's why companies are scared.
Very good comment. 100% agree with that
Starfield has 1000s of hours of empty planets
Yeah this is some good insight
100%
Well said
Badly written Diverse cast full of ethnicities, genders and backgrounds: 😴🤮😒
M O N K E: 😎😎😎
Master Oogway was right all along.
Think this is the wrong take.
As long as the characters and their stories are interesting, there's really nothing necessarily wrong with diversity.
But when the writers feel the need to include a lesbian character hitting all the stereotypical tropes... it's just so bad.
@@JHeezy0109 Subverting a narratives to fulfill ones personal agenda should never ever be in a game and should be banned
@@JHeezy0109 my bad, that's what I meant
BG3 , spider man 2, Returnal and Hades where bad? Damn I didn't know BG3 didn't win GOTY. Oh wait.....😂
I watched Rambo for the first time in decades. Its been so long, I didn't remember the story. I sat and watched the whole thing. It's a classic film. I enjoyed it. Then I realized there isn't one female character in the entire film. Not one. Zero speaking lines. Nothing. Everyone doesn't need to be included in everything, every time.
Well said...
"Everyone doesn't need to be included in everything, every time."
10:00 There was literally a major story arc in the story where it took place in an entire nation of only women.
he will find out when he gets to that chapter
@@yaaninjaor he won’t cause bro barely finishes games🙄
@@moisesramirez5242he finished monster hunter but the last optional boss
@@dango2917 if you ain’t beat fatalis you ain’t beat the game
@@moisesramirez5242 we gate keeping finishing games?
Reasons to play this game
- No DEI
- No Microtransactions
- Genuinely a good game
Sorry but I enjoy having free speech and not have devs tell me what I’m allowed to say
- Just_a_turtle_chad said it's a good game
@@fluffly8935 you don't have free speech in the west either.
Studios like EA and Activision "I don't get it."
@@fluffly8935if this is a sarcasm then ok
Buddicia is absolutely confirmed in history... saying she was viking is absolutely moronic
She was queen of the Icene - a British Celtic tribe. Her husband was an ally of Rome but Roman turned on them when he died.
She was one of a number of leaders of the different tribes who rose up against Rome. After the British were masacred at the battle of Wattling Street she commited suicide.
There is zero evidence that she fought in combat; instead she was a political leader.
Studios just don't want to see the bar raised because then they actually have to compete. Gamers will stop eating the lazy annual release slop. We should expect Baldur's Gate 3 level quality. We should demand Wukong gameplay and story.
I genuinely believe there's a lot of talent working a mobile game studios. I'd assume people working at those kind of studios also get paid more because there's more income flowing in from all the MTXs. Also it's magic how most mobile games even run on phones, anyways. Shows talent, imo.
They also don't want the gravy train of microtransactions and live service stuff to go away because then then can't milk the same one or two games endlessly, they'll be forced to develop new content. I miss the old model of sizable DLC packs for like $15 to $30.
Only one still doing live service right is Monster Hunter.@ignskeletons
@@jacobasnodgrass5853 yeah i mean the money is really whats making the magic happen. Honkai impact allowed the creation of genshin and then star rail to happen. I think we are gonna have a lot more mobile game studios try to branch out to console games now.
Agree. When looking at the new Ubisoft Star Wars game for example you just see that they aren't even trying, just putting out the most generic slop possible. In Wukong on the other hand there is so much character and detail in even the smallest things. That and all the other recent great titles have put these established triple A studios in a very different light for me. We should expect way better.
Not purchasing games is the best support we, as consumers, can do to get them big companies to understand how bad their products are.
They can bark all they want but at the end of the day, bad and ugly designed games will never be appealing to anyone.
Dont forget microtransactions on singleplayer games. Thanks Ubi 😂
Customers** not cOnSuMeRs
Micro transactions whales will financially support way more millions of $60 purchases.
Sad reality.
@ObiAlmightythen they didn't stay away enough,
Unfortunately the world is bigger than this online gaming community
If you compared a 1998 Honda civic to a 2024 Honda civic and the 2024 didn’t have air conditioning as a feature but a 1998 did people would be pretty fucking pissed.
Game: Wukong King.
Journos: Poop-on thing.
Devs: Sukong deez
peanutz ?
hell did i just read
@@warmanegame1530 poetry
I wanted to say this lol @@simi3241
@@warmanegame1530the best modern haiku you could ever read
I love Wukong playing it right now! I hope they continue the Black Myth series with different mythologies like Chang'e, 9 tailed fox...
Let the monkee explore all mythologies god of war style 🎉🎉🎉
@@gabrielhoelzle8476 Black Myth Wukong only focuses on the story and legacy of Wukong and his succesor and also the Wukong in the title is a sub title the main title is Black Myth. I think is better that it stays faithful to that universe. I think having multiple mythologies from the east or even the west is much more interesting! We could explore multiple mythologies in a style like Assassin's Creed where each game changes the time line, setting and culture of course I hope the Black Myth series stays good and keeps this quality and not like Assassin's Creed where the quality drastically drops after 5 or 6 titles. They should their their time and make a new game every 4-5 years the same development cycle they had for Wukong.
Uhhh... NEZHA
The next black myth is said to be about Jiang Ziya, rival of the nine tail fox.
据我所知，游戏科学公司下面还将推出--黑神话·封神榜，黑神话·钟馗
There's been this weird assumption in creative mediums found at the executive level for a long time that nobody wants "escapism." Instead, its assumed that the audience just wants to see themselves reflected in media and that it's somehow too difficult for people to insert themselves in the place of protagonists that aren't similar to them. Its why superheroes had kid sidekicks, its why anime started setting everything in a high school with teen protagonists, and its why games are currently trying to push their idea of what they want to audience to be - only they want it to reflect themselves as developers, not the actual, general audience for games. That's why this particular attempt is failing so hard. The ones who are making the decisions on games aren't reflective of the audience that plays them. And it's largely because this new crop of developers dont have traditional backgrounds. The industry has become a gathering place for talented outsiders and lgbtq+ creatives that didn't fit in elsewhere, and as a result, it is now quite an elitist and protected space. They really are reflecting themselves in these games but are ignoring the fact that this demographic makeup literally ONLY exists in their insular environment. They hate the reality that the audience, numerically, isnt demographically similar to them, causing them to actively deny it and hope that, one day, if they wish it hard enough and force feed people long enough, it will eventually become true.
Someone bringing up Joan of Arc who never fought or killed. She literally was buffing the fighting men, with her presence, giving the allure of divine providence, making them fight fiercer than would normally have without her.
People taking their facts from movies, anime and tv series really makes me wonder sometimes.
They should bring women from Soviet Army. Those were actually fighting.
@@violet_green4335 War's Unwomanly Face is a book written by a journalist that interviewed a bunch of soviet women who fought in wwii. some real shocking stuff like female medics that would hold on to the outside of tanks when moving and have to pull men out of burning tanks if they got hit
@violet_green4335 they made up a grand total of about 4% of the Soviet army and the vast majority weren't in combat roles.
@@Rocko130185 I didn't said that there were a lot of them, but still it was 800,000 and it's a historical fact that some of them were fighting. I was just saying that there are better examples of fighting women than Joan of Arc.
She was a flag holder. A glorified cheerleader. The only time they let her command a battle she got alot of soldiers killed. Typical
13:37 video length? Auspicious.
All I think of, seeing that number, is SPARTAN 1337 😂❤
I remember vaguely that one difference between boys and girls play is that boys is in first person mostly, while girls it is mostly in third person.
Monke Game W
As long as you don’t talk about China and hate women than yeah I guess it’s a communist W
You're not supposed to say that anymore
I'm glad. As a chinese american, Sun WuKong was my favorite fictional character, and Journey to the west was my favorite story of all time. I'm glad the West's first introduction to this is a very highly rated good game. And I'm excluding that crappy hollywood movie they tried to make based on it that no one remembers, and I only vaguely remember exists.
The Wests first real exposure to the Monkey King was the tv series from the 70s.
7:43 I love that they gave the Mexican a sombrero. 🤣🤣
Next thing you know Disney's going to do a remake of Wukong...except she's a strong female lesbian monke of color
They would say "this is our take on the Journey to the West🥰"😂😂
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Luckily I think China wouldn't allow it without hyper restrictions. Though the poor Mulan live remake suffered even still.... Disney should really be banned from touching anything at this point lol.
Monke of color
*Simpsons meme of people ajusting their collars*
That's exactly how it will be.
for the comparison thing for me at least wukong shows that (unlike everyone has been saying) that AAA games are still viable without micro transactions or shitty monetization and it's just corporate greed that's pushing these changes
when Genshin Impact makes $1 billion from microtransactions in 6 months, you understand why microtransactions exist.
Hatters will say Black Myth Wukong's price is too low, it is damaging US gaming interest.
Monke see, Monke walk away because Monke already have enough contempt for big studio devs.
The real monke king will smash any injustice with his staff, if you know you know
Monke beat Heaven. Monke sweep away fragile game journalists.
No modern dayisms needs to become a selling point for devs.
SBI warning ⚠️
I think they literally can't. Games, tv, movies made in the US literally need to include wokeism to be made these days.
10:18 In the original story, there's a whole chapter about the cast travelling to a country where there's only women😂 The women there give birth by drinking from a magic river/fountain (can't remeber exactly). WuKong's master and the pig bro accidentally drank it, resulting in them having a pregnancy (despite being biologically male and … male pig-man?)
If I remember it correctly, they went through a series of trouble to get a magical abortion, and continued their journey afterwards.
not all games should appeal to the widest possible audience
niches and male/female games should exist
if your product is made to appeal to everyone it will appeal to no-one
Refreshing to see a game without wokeness
Theres a lot of games that are like that, leave the western game bubble and you learn to love games more
@@R0s3456Chinese propaganda is worse than being woke
Wukong based on Chinese mythology. Ultimate wokeness.
Brother, there are plenty of games that aren't "woke"
@@fluffly8935 nah
The fact a chinese game isn’t filled with micro-transactions, Pay 2 progress, P2W, or terrible garbage translations is what floors me
yhesss all that ghensin and their family tree
and yet people made a statement that the money sales by BM wukong back to chinese goverment
bro you guys spent money on ghensin too and mihoyo backed by chinese goverment
Bro if Stellar Blade had a PC release, it would have a chance at GOTY. As it stands, Wukong IS 100% GOTY.
It’s getting one I believe, so it still has a chance.
@@itsyaboijack5178 If it does, I hope it's not published by Sony on PC so I can actually buy it. Not giving them my money, plus they'd probably require a PSN account for it with the way things are going.
It still has a chance
I would love to play Stellar Blade but woke ass Sony locked that one down.
That's not exactly how "game of the year works"
Reject modernity, Embrace Monke.
A good chunk of the dudes I was raised with, connected with Sarah Connor in terminator 2. She got in a room with the man who created Skynet, a terminator, and the saviour of mankind, and she was the scariest person there.
Baldurs gate is surprisingly a Girls game (obviously a guys game to) but tons of girls seem to love it (probably due to all the romance options and drama)
Dragon Age was similar, though I feel the reason both did well is the same reason Japan has a VN market for woman. Basically those games tapped that same market in the west.
Also it allows you to take your time, there is no fast paced action
And roleplaying
RPGs are how girls got into gaming.
Same with the Dragon Age series. Noticed that lots of women play it surprisingly.
my mom was cracked at Candy Crush. I miss those days. Now she just works all the time.
love that wukong actually respects the culture unlike assassin creed with that one black slave
right
it's made by Chinese, and Wukong is important to Chinese culture.
basically if the game made by another culture it will inject their ideology to the story, i read that japanese historian didn't even acknowledge about black samurai, and story about black samurai was written by white, but if there a black slave back then its true because the african it self that the one who had the transaction of slave
We did it gamers! We've returned to monke
Games like this and BG3 don't raise the bar, they're bringing the bar back up to what the AAA studios used have it set to and this is a very good thing. Either the AAA studios get their act together or these smaller studios will replace them.
I'm sorry but as a game, Wukong is just not comparable in quality to BG3. I don't think it really moves the bar, outside of maybe graphically.
@@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot BG3 is trash
@@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot I wasn't comparing it against BG3 but against the AAA titles that came out around the same time as both games. I personally also played and still own both of the first 2 Baldur's Gates but not the Icewind Dale game. That series in itself was always known to be groundbreaking with it's games. BG1 was a huge deal in the D&D computer games scene since most of the games had been by SSI and of very limited quantity and even more limited content. Even certain classes were kept out of those games such as druids while certain other classes were limited in what they could actually due if they were included such as bards and rangers. Both BG3 and Wukong didn't raise any bars to new levels, those levels were already their. Nor did they raise the standards for AAA companies because those standards were originally set years ago by AAA companies. Both BG3 and Wukong only brought those standards back and AAA companies are fuming because they got rid of the people that set those standards years ago. By the way, the standards I'm talking about are quality over quantity and pushing for games to improve for setting better standards and not just graphics and other things, this can include certain mechanics too.
@@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot never compared them against each other only against the AAA titles that were released recently. They both never raised the bar to new levels. They brought the bar back to the levels the AAA industry had set years ago. They never brought new standards to the industry either, they brought back old standards that the AAA industry had in place years ago. I've been a hardcore gamer since the early 80s and I've also played many of the computer games based on D&D including BG 1&2 along with the SSI gold/silver box games and NWN 1&2. I still play BG1 on occasions, I would play the NWN games but they're not compatible with recent versions of windows.
@@Userdoesnotexit Larian Studios are full allies. Not funding them nor such companies like Games Workshop (Warhammer games).
Wukong is truly a game. You play a full passionate game made by extremely dedicated developers.
You feel the labor of love here just like Baldurs gate 3.
How do i know that? When a dev puts in this much detail and small little secrets then you know it's made with passion.
They want woke game, we want monke game!
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If an American studio made Black Myth Wukong, yall would be calling that woke because it features minorities aka Chinese people and mythology. Stop lying to yourself.
Asmon: "If you make your characters fat and ugly don't be suprised when no one wants to play them"
Chatters: "roadhog?"
Asmon said "Fat and Ugly". roadhog may be fat, but he's not ugly.
They did a good job of making him look cool, both default skin and the cosmetics like the snowman and butcher skins.
He is one of likw 40+ characters in a multiplayer game, not a main character or the heroes girlfriend who looked OK in the prequel.
But wukong is ugly
@@륜폐이 I don't think he's ugly. But to be fair he's not fat either lol
Roadhog is good because he’s a badass Australian biker with a very imposing figure and a good design, notice how fat isn’t the only trait
Boudicca was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, a Celtic tribe. She destroyed Colchester, London and what is known now as St Albans.
There are four references of her, and one eyewitness in Tacitus who wrote many years after the rebellion, but his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola was an eyewitness to the events, having served in Britain as a tribune under Suetonius Paulinus during this period.
There is a statue of Boudicca in Westminster in London.
I had a nightmare last night that Ubisoft made Black Myth Wukong. I have never been so terrified in my whole life
Do you want to log in to U-Play Sun Wukong?
lmao
Black Assassin: Myth Creed
Thanks for the nightmare fuel !
Damn, all that exploration must have been horrifying
Spoiler: the pig is in love with the spider.
Maximum diversity
And had a daughter together. It can't get more diverse than this
They don't even reach that point in the game, they are still stuck in the first area.
lmao, YES!
Raising the bar of how games should be made? Complete, not a scam, or a quick money grabber? Good thats how it should be.
11:18 on the right, asmon looks like he's running for president in that otk newsletter thing
"I'm looking out for you. I'm asmongold and I approve this message".
It's funny cause "perceived as a threat" has the same meaning as "better" inside the industry
Well certain countries have been perceived as a threat at different times by the US 😂
The biggest problem in modern western game dev right now isn't corporate greed or toxic fandom. No, the biggest problem is that most of the developers are literal communists and/or incompetent DEI hires. They subscribe to the labor theory of value, so they think they should be allowed to create whatever they want and the market should automatically reward them with sales, attention, and adoration. They view themselves as laborers putting in an honest days work, and they think this creates actual unassailable value in the form of their "products".
In reality, almost no one wants their bad games, bad characters, bad gameplay, etc. And when the sales don't materialize, the devs immediately point the finger at either the "unrealistic expectations" of the executives or the "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic" leanings of the audience. At no point in time will these leftist devs ever accept responsibility for the fact that they injected their own unpopular aesthetics and ideologies into their games, and that these things are what caused the lion's share of consumers to dip out.
Also I believe there is plenty of good devs who want to make good games for the audiences working in those companies. It is just sad reality that they will get fired if they go against anything by those people... They want to do their craft, but politics win in corporations and the DEI crowd is all about politics...
Does ideology even matter when the game is just good? Those game are bad because they're bad that's it
What does it even have to do with communism?
I dont get why people blame everything on communism even if its unrelated
Only thing I got from reading that is that this guy has no clue about economics. He took a loose shit the other day; probably blamed it on the labour theory of value. How ironic that he's so similar to the "communists" he's railing against lmfao.
@@tishaak2800Who is gonna tell him?
Ubisoft is scared
i hope their game bombs like no other and they have even worse layoffs.
I kinda like waited and prayed year by year to have a Chinese ver AC but after I knew about the latest Japanese one: nah, no, thanks.
Wu kong and not woke kong
If an American studio made Black Myth Wukong, yall would be calling that woke because it features minorities aka Chinese people and mythology. Stop lying to yourself.
In fact, the most handsome character in the game CG of *Black Myth: Wukong* is Nezha! He’s also a powerful deity in *Journey to the West*! A truly rebellious young warrior god with a defiant spirit, challenging authority and defying patriarchy!❤
Asmon: "Concord is, in my opinion, one of the biggest failures in gaming that I have seen in my entire life."
Dustborn: "TRIGGERED !!!"
I'm loving Black Myth: Wukong so far. I'm halfway chapter 3 and taking it slow. I don't think I will replay it anytime soon though.
How so?
They says wukong have 5 ending and only 3 ending is found at this time , as real gamer you should aim for those 5 ending 😁
@@mrwilson.1I don't think endings carry enough for multiple playthroughs, since this is a corridor-style game once you find something you know where it is almost always which takes away exploration from other playthroughs. That's why I think they say it.
Actually there are a ton of female character in Journey to the West. One of the major divine presences throughout the story is Guanyin, Boddhisattva of Mercy. One of the major demon they encounter is White Bone Demon, a woman that framed Wukong for murder, caused him to leave the group. There's the spider demon that seduces disciples. There's Prince Iron Fan, Bull demon's wife, who intend to seek revenge for Wukong causing her husband to be captured by heaven. Wukong also gained his immortality by stealing Queeen Mother West's peaches, and crashed her party before the journey. There's that entire plot where they went into a kingdom of only women and Tang Sanzang got pregnant drinking the magical child bearing spring. There are more, these are just the ones I can remember
You are correct. I suspect that because most of them aren’t exactly the combat type. They rely on backhand tactics. So in a combat focused game like Wukong, it makes sense to not have them.
You can tell right away that Concord was made to fail.
One thing I disagree on, it is that games like black myth: WuKong raises the bar, no it doesn't they just move the bar back from the floor to its normal position
And it's $60 here and $40 in China. Not $70 and $100 for 3 days of early access. W game. Everyone should support it.
No Sweet Baby Inc., no DEI, no characters purposely made as ugly as possible...
Greatest game ever? No. Step in the right direction for gaming? Yes.
Wukong is proof the whole “we gotta keep our player numbers up” tactics and milk them for money through in-game stores to be “profitable” is just dogshit. Wukong is made just like any PS2 game. Buy it, play it, thank you for having fun. And just like that 2m+ players for the whole week who WILL be back whenever they make a new game or a sequel.
I blieve they won gamers when they denied that Sweet baby inc bullshit. W Game Sience
these people will call you fragile and entitled when you point out their agenda, then turn around and start crying the instant a single game that doesn't conform to their agenda is made
“Nobody wants to play ugly characters”
All my Soulsborne characters are abominations.
Reject woke, return monke
Finally a protagonist I feel represented by
13:37 well done editor
Asmond is Nostradamus when it comes to video game predictions!
People are really starting to vote with their wallets. Wukong is one of the few games in the last few years actually worth 50+$.
there has been plenty of good games for the past few years.... i dont even have time to play them all.
"Monke monke monke monke monke , get up reviews are here"
Monke - "hmph 😴"
Game of the year soon 🙏
No it’s gonna be space marine 2
@@Cabbage22927 Space marine 2 should be amazing but i feel it wont hit the massive numbers wukong has hit even tho the game looks like it should
Let's see
@@rxvz663I'm hyped on space marine 2, the co op customization looks like blood angels are getting some payback for baal
Ff7 rebirth is the only game must play this year but yeah keep spitting random games innit 😂
Reject modernity, embrace masculinity
Monke
4:58 holy sh*t dude, finally someone says it. Definitely agree
Games like BM Wukong, Baldurs Gate 3, Elden Ring etc dont raise the expectations, they deliever whats used to be a standard. Shitty studios nowadays just test playerbase what crap can they put out and get away with it
Sorry but BM Wukong is not on the same level as those two. Linear story, bad sound effect, especially the weapon and a very easy game.
@Pepe-dq2ib L take
@@Pepe-dq2ib those are just different types of games, dont compare them, enjoy them
A 8/10 game.
Baldurs Gate 3 is bad porn fanfiction written by pronoun cultists on twitter and has gender theory propaganda. Such a product never was and never will be a "standard". It was flavor of the month corporate slop for normies. So you can stop simping for Larian if you ever want to be taken seriously, and not looked at like a basic parroting shill.
1 small gripe regarding your take, games like Baldur's, Elden Ring and Wukong dont raise the bar for gaming. They show what could (and in this day and age should) be possible for modern games while maintaining respect for your players. They are the bar of what we the players deserve after the gaming industry has evolved and improved on a technological level.
imo Baldur's Gate 3 def raised the bar in some respects.
No disrespect I just don't see Wukong in that group, not even close
0:35
"They raise the bar of expectation"
Yeah. After all the other companies had LOWER it so freaking much.
13:37 W
Do people still use this or is it a lost old word?