The secret to the success of China's 'Black Myth: Wukong' game
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
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If you're an avid gamer, chances are you're sleep-deprived from binge-playing one of the most popular games since August 20, "Black Myth: Wukong." One of the most anticipated video games of the year, the AAA game was created by the Chinese studio Game Science, which is backed by the country's tech giant Tencent. "Black Myth: Wukong" shattered records within days of its release. How did a newcomer studio from China achieve this, and what does it mean for the video game industry? Check out this video for the story behind "Black Myth: Wukong."
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Its rare for modern developer to deliver the final game as what's shown in their demo. Game Science did that and they should be damn proud of themselves.
Please create games based on Jin Yong novels. I've been waiting for that for decades.
Yes! @shem44 The Jin Yong worldbuilding is what I'm hoping will come out of China next. There's been some demos released, and graphically it doesn't look as nice as Black Myth: Wukong. I hope it's an open world RPG and not just a fighter.
@@jade_lin Yes. The last one I played is 金庸群侠传 which was released in 1996 and absolutely love it. Been waiting for a modern version with all the various kungfu from various sects and able to junmp from trees to trees and on top of houses. Jin Yong pugilistic world is the Chinese version of Marvel which will be a killer hit with Chinese fans.
Who and which company owned the rights to Jin Yong's works?
If that happens I will def buy a console.
The keyword is: authenticity. Chinese culture is original, creative and it is unfathomable.
well said
I don't think "unfathomable" is the word for this lol
@@st.altair4936 高深莫測：Direct translation don't always work.
@@賴志偉-d7h Ah, didn't realize that was translated
That’s not it. Remember that Chinese conservative culture stifled China’s scientific progress during the Ming Dynasty, resulting in European nations overtaking them in the 1500s, and directly led to the later century of humiliation . Since then, Chinese culture has changed as Asia in general has learned a lot from the West. This is a good game, no doubt, but if the only reason this game is good is because of Chinese culture, why was this only the first well known Chinese game in this genre?
I'm an American who lived in Xi'an, China playing this game the art of the temples took me there.
Not interested in chinese game😂😂😂
Now I would confidently say that this is the first true AAAA game.
Now this is what we call quality journalism and news reporting. All facts, wide range of research, clear communication, in-depth information and excellent video editing. Black Myth: Wukong not only secured its place in the gaming industry, it sets a new bar on how a proper triple A game should be made, and the results speak for itself. The background and historical roots of the game, the gameplay mechanics, the art style, the colours, everything is well researched and well executed. I believe China will be the future where fun, high quality games will be made. And like you said, this is only the beginning. Well done, and congratulations! 👍👍👍
This Wukong game is not only a historic game with the best graphics you can find but it is full of Chinese history where the youngsters can learn more about China.
Eventually they'll learn about the evil ccp🇨🇳 .
When a game is played, the player should leave the material world, and enter the game realm psychologically. Any game succeeds in doing that, becomes a phenomenal success.
Dude the Chinese are going to revive the gaming industry, have you seen their upcoming games?
It is a blessing to have the Chinese coming into AAA games. Not only that but I grew up around kunfu movie and when ever there is nothing to watch like (super hero or Marvel and DC) I would go back to Chinese fantasy drama. Have you seen I AM NOBODY? Chinese drama... Holy shit it is fire! Or what about Ever Night and Legend of Chusen?
For poor people like me, Honkai Star Rail will be better.
For poor people like me, Honkai Star Rail will be better.
It will be banned in the US for national security issues.
Don't forget "over-capacity" or whatever new double speak terms they can think of.
Be fair brother, the best they could do is copy the code and claim it as their own before being exposed and embarrassed @@YCHTT
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Because their master from Tel Aviv say so. Otherwise, they must not be obsession from the East. Because, everything in the east for them is evil.
Trump will blame Wukong for MonkeyPox.
Congratulations, Game Science for an excellent & spectacular success in their maiden AAA game!! 🎉🎉🎉
The game has good graphics and gameplay 👍👍👍
1. The KEY success of Black Myth: Wukong is NOT containing SILLY western political correctness and NOT containing western SILLY values..that is LGBTQ, women rights, and color races, etc. That is what many gamers want 🥰😍😘🤩❤❤ It is just fun game 🥰❤❤💕💖
2. The KEY success of Black Myth: Wukong has authentic Chinese story, culture, and eastern values, Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism values.
3. The KEY success of Black Myth: Wukong does NOT contain guns violence like western games have but only sticks and Chinese kungfu. That is what gamers and non-gamers love.
4. The KEY success of Black Myth: Wukong has enough easiness for biginners, enough intermediate difficulty for intermediate gamers, and enough advanced difficulty for advanced gamers to continue to engage and have fun in this Chinese game.
5. Finally, the KEY success of Black Myth: Wukong is designed for gamers to enjoy and have fun instead of catering to those politicians and journalists who care only politic and politcial correctness.
Please 🙏Chinese game developers keep and maintain this goal and momentum for gamers if they want to exist for a long time.
China, 🙏🙏🙏please maintain and perserve Chinese cultural heritages. Please DON'T overdo commericalization in those cultural relics and cultural sites. Too much commericalization will lose appeals to tourists.
👍👍👍
That has nothing to do with it 😂 Women’s rights? Every single East Asian country believes that women should have equal rights to men. This is not some Western concept anymore. LGBTQ? How many Western games even push this? I know Last Of Us but what else? At the most they’ll have a customizable character who can have a relationship with some NPC only if you the player wants that to happen, like in Fallout or Mass Effect. But it’s definitely not forced, and most people don’t choose for that outcome for their characters. Why are so many overseas chanfei concerned about something that doesn’t affect them?
But China Spies brought in those four points. You're silly to think the West are rejecting their own agenda.. De-coupling is necessary and most countries outside of G7 have done the same
@@mudshovel289you should ask yourself your own questions. Why are you westerners being forceful to Asians to do what you want?
You think the world revolve around you. It's been happening for centuries. After all, white invented white supremacy, very racist towards Asians!
I also want a sci-fi game from China.
> "The gorgeous graphics!"
> "My graphics card is burning right now"
😭😭
very exciting, and there are many fantasy Chinese classics that can potentially be turned into video games of different genres - e.g. the "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (Liaozhai zhiyi) written in 17th Century which is a collection of ghosts stories, the "Flowers in the Mirror" (jing hua yuan) written in the Qing dynasty, the Wonders of the Present and the Past (Jin gu qi guan) from the Ming dynasty. The stories are so great and I am going to re-read them again!
Powerful Sophisticated game 🎮❤❤
we need more and more chinese games love from Bangladesh.................🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I SAW THE MOVIE "JOURNEY TO THE WEST" MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO. IT WAS PRODUCED BY HONGKONG'S SHAW BROTHERS.
CHINA HAS TONNES OF STORIES TO OFFER WITH MORE THAN 5000 YEARS OF CIVILIZATION!
No, Chinese civilization is not that old. The oldest evidence of the first Chinese civilization, the Shang Dynasty, dates back 3800 years.
May these ancient stories free China from the evil grip of ccp🇨🇳
Congratulations to all chinese developers. Keep on the amazing work.
I’ll tell my wife that I can spend just several hundred RMB to bring her to all the mystic locations in China 😁
damn smart😂
Great visuals and gameplay, good marketing, no microtransactions, and the game is actually fully complete at launch. That's all you really need.
One payment
Good gameplay
Good artistry
No WOKE BS
Right on the money!
Why are all you Southeast Asian chanfei so obsessed with topics like “woke” which is normally a thing that American and European conservatives complain about? What, you don’t like seeing Black or Latino characters or something? What is your problem with “woke”? 😂
@@mudshovel289
A ding is a ding, a dong is a dong. No ding dong ding dong.
@@zeissiez what does that have to do with video games? 🙄
@@mudshovel289 other games have to comply with DEI, diversity, equality and inclusion, and make ding dong characters. This game is true to the original cast in the novel. No ding dong.
Black Myth: Wukong exceeded my expectations. I'm having a great experience with this game.
This game is absolutely amazing, I bought a ps5 just for this and I haven’t gamed in a year.
I know what I’m doing these upcoming weekends
"backed by tencent..?" lol.. come on man.. game science deserves all the credit..
They essentially had an unlimited budget thanks to their backing though
Of course, the actual work was done by the devs/studio, and workers should be funded by the state directly anyway so I get your point.
It's also backed by Chinese govt . It invested in it .
Tencent nearly investes every thing. Even UBIsoft is invested by tencent.
@@Maplin-Ma Tencent also owns a huge part of Epic Games which is the creator of Unreal Engine, but Tim Sweeney stated Tencent won't dictate how Epic Games should be which is actually a good thing. Tencent just owns too many things, so we can totally understand why the Westerners are crying. If they're unsatisfied, they should go bark at Tim Sweeney instead, barking on the Chinese won't affect things much.
game of the year
Game of the decade.
@@TheRedc0met A sequel will be better. They still cut corner at some point
@@TheRedc0met A sequel will be better. They still cut corner at some point
Trash game of the year!😂😂😂
These are the kinds of AAA games we like to see. Bravo for the developers! If any criticism can be given, it's that it walks pretty beaten path, so if we will see in future as good AAA games + innovation too, China will be new gaming superpower.
There may be so many factors, but i am not sure some factros might be
1. Its not a game only, its a most anticipated story of chinese people, 2. besides from gun, knife weapons it has has a different taste,
3. It includes the scenes like hell to
heaven.
another hype: it was propped as the antithesis to the woke ideology in latest western games
@@agps4418which games push this besides Last of Us? 🙄
@@mudshovel289 just google sweet baby inc influence
@@agps4418why don’t you name 5 games and tell me what it is about them that is woke?
@@mudshovel289 nah i'm lazy, figure it out
Next, the Chinese should try to topple Nvidia. And create something better than Unreal engine.
Or else they are just going to be "within their grasp". The West could ban China to use Unreal. You never know it's very politics.
I am an American and I love Chinese history my favorite story and dynasty is the QIN Dynasty💯 Wu Kong is the greatest game ever made
The amount of hate this game is getting just cause it comes from China is ridiculous.
What hate? 😂 Everyone likes it. The amount of loyalty you feel towards the PRC even though your ancestors fled from China in the 1800s and you’re probably Malaysian or Singaporean is what is really ridiculous.
Everyone knows most Westerners hate to read and need to often be spoon fed, don’t hate me it’s just facts. So many ignorant comments about made in China especially when most of America is made from China. For China to be represented in a positive light instead of peoples ill imagination is refreshing. And let’s not forget the full dive ignorance of some woke dysfunctional people who tried everything to get this game to fail. IGN owes Game Science a public apology before the lawsuit not after, but thankfully many of us see through the woke bs for what it is. Wukong is a masterpiece that’s approachable to anyone who wants to experience the journey as sun wukong or for westerners, it’s GOW on steroids, Lol.
Agreed 👍 100% please say more about the woke problematic people that tried to delay this success. Xiexie thanks 😊
Blackmyth Wukong isn't a introduction Sun Wukong Journey to the West storyline to the world. Blackmyth Wukong story about bringing back Sun Wukong childhood memory and Gamescience created a sequel after Journey to the West to continue Sun Wukong legend and legacy that loved by many millions fans around Asia and beyond.
China now understands the value of such pop culture products. It is no accident that Japan and S Korea has seen alot of interest among the youth and China has simply been pushed aside allowing the Americans and Japanese to take advantage of China's culture. The formula is quite simple and elegant, Create fantasy worlds and characters that have compelling storylines and insert Chinese culture into it and this becomes a gateway to China. They don't have to all be AAA games but it's important to understand the psychology of young people. The wokeism of the west is alienating alot of them so China has a golden opportunity to fill the void. You then exploit the popularity of these products and can create new forms of culture in China itself. Look at the popularity of Gundam for instance, Young people from America to China love Gundam and they opened up a Museum in Yokohama that has become a popular tourist attraction. Has China missed the bus on this? In same ways yes but it's all the more reason for the country to finally start paying more attention to the quality of its new culture. Just like EV's and Drones, The hard work will eventually pay off and become an industry for generations to come and inherit and inspire young creative minds in China and the world.
780 likes with 11,700 views??? Damn UA-cam
Chinese companies should make video game consoles Chinese companies should make game consoles because Chinese people will patronize Chinese products. 中国公司应该生产游戏机，因为中国人会支持中国产品。
Well Congratulations on such a good game and it's nice getting news about China that is not political and hopeful.
Imagine Game Science re-creating Sleeping Dogs
If there's anything I've learned so far about successful creative projects, it's to let the creatives cook! As soon as some blowhard MBA thinks he's all that and a bag of chips and starts dictating creative choices? It's done, your project is going to end up a plate of overworked or undercooked slop.
Beautiful game. Masterpiece!
I hope Chinese game studios will make a game based on Jin Yong's novel next. I want to play as Yang Guo or Linghu Chong.......................................
I love watching China ancient war movie their ragged looking clothing make me roll back in the time compare to the one produce in Taiwan or HK with new iron-out costumes....LOL.
Will be nice if they turn the story Romance of the Three Kingdoms into a game too - China authentic style.
Cool, I also want a futurustic sci-fi video game from China.
It’s a good game. I played it. But I have to say, the enemies’ health is way too high. It takes too long to kill the bosses.
Bravo! China!
Maybe China will produce the new Hideo miyazaki creativity economy.
Please 🙏Chinese game developers keep and maintain this goal and momentum for gamers, NO Silly western political correctness if they want to exist for a long time.
China, 🙏🙏🙏please maintain and perserve Chinese cultural heritages. Please 🙏🙏🙏DON'T overdo commericalization in those cultural relics and cultural sites. Too much commericalization will lose appeals to tourists.
@CGTN are you trolling XBox by showing the player using a Xbox controller in the first seconds of the video - knowing that Wukong is delayed on Xbox and only available on PC and PS5
You can use the Xbox controller for PC
Is this game available on mobile or PS4 or Nintendo Switch?
PS5 only for now
@@YCHTT and PC
Deceiving when the reporter used a xbox controller.😂😅
@@docmartinjnr4281You can use them for pc...
@@docmartinjnr4281Xbox controllers can be used on PC's.
There is no animation of the character picking up things that appear? It just magically vanished and into his inventory. What's so special? All the graphics power and everything but they couldn't animate him picking up objects, it's just a vanishing sequence ? The camera movements are very janky and jerky, while the view is a little too close to the character for my comfort, perhaps if the camera view was a little further away from the character so that more of the scene is viewable would make for less jerky and dizzy game experience for me. 7 out of 10 for 2024.
So, its a game and a tourism ads in one package.
Celebrations aside it's time to talk about the anti-gaming policies. For example, this game is not even available on the Chinese Playstation Store and it has long been a standard practice for Chinese PS5 users to get a Hong Kong account in order to play latest games. If not for these bans the first AAA Chinese game should not come so late as of 2024!
The only reason gamers are sleep deprived is because days are actually too short, I need like 36-48 hour long days... Please upload your videos (about the game) in higher resolution, please!
This game has no DEI shoved into it. That's why western gamers love it. We crave a game without DEI agenda. Just a great game. Games like Concord and Dustborn FAILED with peak concurrent players of 697 and 75 respectively because they put DEI importance above good game aesthetics, gameplay, lore, etc. Wukong got 2.4+ million concurrent players. IGN's negative hit piece by Rebekah Valentine and purposeful mistranslation to slander the GameScience Devs fail or deter players. The people at ScrenRant who gave Wukong 3/ 5 stars are raging mad at Wukong's success!! So is the Korean trans person who gave wrong translation to Rebekah Valentine. Had to make her account on X protected mode so only approved followers can read her posts. But someone leaked it to the public her post about being incredibly Angry at Wukong's success. 10 millions copies in 3 days!! Wow! SweetBaby Inc must also be super mad.
Female characters in Wukong look FEMININE and BEAUTIFUL.
What do you even mean by DEI in a game? Minority characters? Women characters? That’s offensive to you? We have that representation because our societies are actually like that. This game takes place in ancient China so naturally there won’t be any Black or Latino characters and no one expects there to be. Good job complaining about something totally unrelated. Meanwhile you lr ancestors chose to run away from China and live in a multiracial country with Malays and Indians that was ruled by White people at the time but you talk about DEI 🙄.
@@mudshovel289speak for yourself honestly take your woke and shove it up there why don’t u
@@Bunny11344Bruh I’m speaking for you and your ancestors. You really think your people are superior? Then why did they run away like COWARDS to places like Malaysia and Indonesia instead of staying in China and fighting? And then, even in those places, they tried being racist to the locals and this backfired leading to huge riots that put them in their place 😂. All of what I said actually happened almost everywhere Chinese fled to. Your racism doesn’t make any sense because no one else in the world thinks your people are superior.
Build a game on nezha
The non-secret to success is Chinese policy makers stop defaming and banning video games!
It has several layers of Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the game = no buy.
Feed the enemy fools!
Saying video game as digital opium and movies are not is very unscientific and hypocritical conclusion anyone could make.
cool
I don’t own a PS5 or a PC. I’ll have to pass on this game.
But Wukong isn't black and trans. 1/10 - Western Woke. Anyway, this game is tough. Even the grunts in the level(after level 2) can get you kill if you think you can just button smash your way in. There is no difficulty setting. Only one setting - "DIE YOU MAGGOTS!". Also spending a bit of time to fiddle the settings to find compromise on my RTX 3060. I think in the end, the RTX3060 is an equivalent to a PS5. managed to get steady 30fps with low Ray tracing and max out the texture and effect settings.It's really pushing me to buy an RTX4070. 😅
He’s a monkey king. He doesn’t have a human like race. Why are you Southeast Asian chanfei so obsessed with the race of characters? Like, didn’t the Malays teach you a good lesson for being racist?
Why would need to bending knee on toxic DEI and Progressivism in order to be successful in the gaming
industry ?? Somebody that bending knee on toxic DEI , proggressivism and political correctness are ideology seller not entertaiment seller
What exactly is your issue here? You don’t like seeing Black or other race characters in movies and games? But your ancestors chose to leave China and go live in a land with Malays and Indians and was ruled by Europeans at the time? 😂
👏👏👏👍
please make a game where i can play as Chairman Mao
I dont have that kind of intellegent. The game would be so strategic, and with sleepy joe’s or orange trump’s mindset u cant make it.
There is no forced woke agenda 👍🏼, just a game that set on chinese mythology that we can enjoy. whoever and whatever you are
Which games have a forced woke agenda besides Last of Us? Do you even play games? Or did someone tell you to say this? Such a pathetic chanfei.
Yup I roll my eyes and lose interest in anything woke
@@Bunny11344 I don’t think you even play video games. I think someone told you to comment about “woke”
@@mudshovel289 I think you have no life and are bitter hence why you’re arguing with anyone in the comments
@@Bunny11344 I think the same for you because you spend your time making a bunch of comments that someone else told you to make. I mean, does anybody in your overseas community respect you? For what? 😂
Chinese cheating they copy from come on you know who😂😂😂
no feminism.
Not being woke.
What is “woke” to you? What does that even mean? There are so many of you overseas chanfei talking about this one thing, it’s like someone told you all to say this. But if you even play that many games, tell me all Western games that push this “woke” besides Last of Us.
I don't understand the hype, this is just a Sekiro but with a Monkey
because it's much much better than sekiro in all aspects, gameplay, graphic, storyline, music, etc
Dude...this is nothing like Sekiro. I enjoy Sekiro as well, but it's just very different game.
the hype is on the fact that this game is the first AAA game coming out of china and the first game based on the lore of the journey to the west.. which is the most popular fantasy-religious story in the east and southeast asia.. journey to the west is the childhood of like 2 billion people.. from japan, korea, china, vietnam and thailand.. even indonesia knows sun wukong.. the story has been around since the ming dynasty.. it is old and it spans throughout generations and now it comes on gaming platform.. of course they will hype..
A comment came form someone with a very short civilization history... hence can't understand the hype but the monkey...
@@momokuinobody is as old as any civilization. The age of Chinese civilization has absolutely no effect on how smart some random Chinese person is.
more and more of such marvelous games please
Congratulations!
not because of you CGTN