Oh no, gamergators and Chinese nationalists are why black myth wukong is so popular
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You heard it here, folks. Appeal to GamerGaters, get massive sales.
literally the best form of [free] marketing
leftists hate it? you're in for a treat
and i've played 7 hours so far, its fun but no "best game ever" a solid 8/10
A 6/10 would be an oasis in a desert of 2's at this point. An 8 is practically legendary in <current year>
Any game without niggers and fags starts at 5/10 by default.
What about a game where one nigger tries to mug you, but you shoot the fucker in the leg, drag it to the docks, tie it to one of the steel beams that goes underwater at high tide while frustratedly explaining the failure of modern welfare systems?
Shieeeeeeet...
Game scores are subjective and don't mean anything.
Scores from journalists don't mean anything. Scores on a personal scale are accurate measures of their enjoyment of a product. Subjective doesn't mean useless, only biased to an individual's preference.
Individual preference is just as biased as that of journalists. In both cases, you're relying on someone's impression that is not your own.
Journos reviews/scores are unreliable because of financial or political incentive & game journos nowadays don't even like games.
As long as you are aware of a bias- especially if it aligns with yours- you will still be better informed than going in blind. If a friend or trusted reviewer says they like/dislike a game, a scale is useful for quantifying how much.
It doesn't need to be a perfect system to be useful.
It's hard to fathom how we attained such power.
Our time machine, obviously.
Shit, who had it last, anyway, and where are those freaking keys?
When* are those keys is the better question.
Maybe someone went back to 1946 and stayed there.
The whole reason the world is controlled by secrets rather than just force is because anyone could reasonably challenge it if they actually understood how it worked. Gamers, because of life-long exposure to their brainwashing machines, became radically better at solving such low-information problems as a side effect.
Possibly hot take, soulslike games got old a long time ago. This one at least feels better to play (combat is more fluid, and not clunky), but on the back end, it's just the same miserable experience for me. It's why I didn't spend a ton of time on them in the first place.
Yeah the souls game's movement felt incredibly clunky to me too, not at all an enjoyable smooth experience. I like me some difficulty, but fast bullet hells are far more enjoyable than wading through molasses.
I find the souls-light games more fun. That style of combat with interesting bosses and set save points I think are great for exploration/combat games, but the intense difficulty of actual soulslike games is just not enjoyable. That style in an easier package is way more enjoyable.
It’s great. You suck. :)
It can suck and be too difficult for someone simultaneously.
Honestly it was just a novelty that wore off for me after clearing the second gargoyle back in Dark Souls.
Yep, a lot of rote memorization.
Basically, it's like playing old NES games, but with better graphics.
I hate to be That Guy, but (unless I'm missing the point and you're actually talking about routes, which is possible), I think you mean "rote memorization."
And, for the record, the only reason I'm even bothering to correct you is...I admit, I figured it was "wrote." It's not "root," it's not "route." But I didn't realize it was "rote." Whoops.
Yep, rote is correct. I guess there's also a little bit of route memorizing too.
If you don’t suck at them, souls games are amazing.
Still clunky as shit.
I can't argue. I haven't tried this one yet, never and early adopter. I'll buy it in a couple years, with the scale tipper being they gave the finger to the woke mob.
Even Fromsoft agrees with you. Its why every other game radically changes the formula, such as Bloodborne and Sekiro. Likely why they also hard ended the series with Ringed City.
But, they are a money printer for Bandai Namco, so they are likely forced to keep producing something in the category to keep the Publisher off their back.
Is that a tranny, an unfortunately named man*, or an unfortunate looking woman?
Asking the important questions, I know.
To get
backto the point, I love how they still can't help but blame us for everything.It's also just wrong. While some of us do jump on trends, and do an impulse buy here and there, I'd say we are, in aggregate, much more careful about buying games, even if there's some political win for the game doing well.
I know I haven't seen a lot of praise here for Black Myth: Wukong, outside of praising it for pissing people off. I know there wasn't a lot of praise for things like the Kyle Rittenhouse game, or the Alex Jones game, or other meme games that are on Our Side. Or Hogwarts Legacy. We might have our opinions, and be "biased" (like everyone else), but we'll often call a spade a spade.
Even if Big Bad GamerGate was massive and organized, we still wouldn't be the ones driving sales numbers for Black Myth.
* Yes, I know Shannon can be a man's name sometimes. Still unfortunate.
I think it's a tranny.
Yup. I think it's an autistic dude. I went from despising them (and I still despise their actions) to pitying them.
Obsessive loser, captured by internet cults. As I said in my other comment, could have been much more normal, but probably fell in with the wrong crowd, and got completely shaped by it.
I reserve my pity for their victims. Or the society they hunger to destroy.
That's the annoying part; some of the perpetrators are also victims. A lot of trannies are just vulnerable autists or young people, who were preyed on. A lot of the most political and obnoxious and vile gays were molested as kids.
I can condemn what they do, while also wishing their lives hadn't led them to that point.
Anyone who turns themselves into a tranny is a victim; either of themselves, or outside brainwashing.
No they're not. Once they make the choice, the correct term for them is collaborators. Until they become predators, which is a short and one way road.
My guess with respect to that is not enough of us are early players of new games. It's difficult to praise something you haven't played yet.
You jest, but these actually are important questions.
I remember learning about yellow journalism back in middle school and part of that lesson emphasized the importance of knowing who was writing an article and for what audience the article was intended and how those were important details when evaluating its worth as a source of information.
As the years progress I think back on those history classes and just how important that lesson ended up being.
Man, imagine anyone teaching critical thinking. It's a foreign concept nowadays.
Lmfao, there’s like what, 800,000,000+ chinese nationalists? I don’t think they need to team up with anyone to drive sales much less the likes of KiA5 and co
Quick, get that pigeon that problem solves better than Dean Takahashi playing the Cuphead tutorial.
...not that that narrows it down. Quick, get a pigeon, any pigeon, in here!
I wonder what it means by chinese nationalists anyway. At first I thought it meant right-wing/anticoms, but in China it could mean the loyal communists too. Anyone who appreciates Chinese tradition. Anyway kind of weird to make them sound like bad extremists.
In practice it just means the hundreds of millions of CCP zerglings who populate the internet, though ironically, like with the whole “semitic antisemitism” thing we see happening in gaza, one could equally describe the Taiwanese as “Chinese Nationalists” right?
But it’s those people who DDoS’d blizzard over Blitzchung and a million other of these “Chinese Justice Warrior” events. I remember when that Genshin Impact game came out I’d see stories leaking out about this or that decision by the devs which had sent 6 gorillion “Chinese nationalists” into overdrive, but it’s happening constantly and all over the place, so often that we end up just forgetting or ignoring a lot of it (another winning tactic for China, the death by 1,000 cuts)
Nationalist is a word for bad guy.A normal not brainwashed westerner would just assume that everyone is a nationalist for their home country but to the anointed it means bad guy.
They can't just call them the Chinese period, as that sounds racist, so they use a vaguely close enough word to describe the phenomenon of the Chinese basically buying anything made in China.
They can't acknowledge the collectivism and hivemind actions of the Chinese openly, even though we all know it, so they attempt to shove it into a Western Culture War box.
yeah, but gamergate lives rent-free in these people's heads... you guys really are their white whale (can't count myself among your number, I wasn't part of the movement, though I definitely agree now that I understand what it's about)
I'm going to go through this whole things because it's really, really, really stupid. That can also serve as the TL;DR if you don't feel like wading through my ramblings, or the authors: Really, really, really stupid article.
Massive faggot detected. Opinion immediately disregarded...not that it wasn't already pre-disregarded due to the GG attack.
Seriously though. Complaining about fighting bosses and the game looking nice...while later saying the game has good boss fights.
This retard is so stupid I might have to defend Black Myth, which holds no interest for me personally. It's that stupid.
Not everything has to be inventive. If it's a game with lots of boss fights, and the boss fights are fun...sounds like a fun game, if you're the type of person who likes fighting bosses? Success? You made a fun game that appeals to certain audiences, nice!
Also, what cultural and political context?! Cultural, marginally...it's Chinese. Big whoop. What are the politics?
Uh...not every game needs climbable walls, holy shit. Some games wouldn't work at all if walls were climbable, in fact. What a silly complaint. Also, if you go to places where there aren't things to do, there aren't things to do.
Just. Shut. Up. Go play a walking simulator, journo.
Again, not every game needs every feature. What is this creature expecting?
No climbable walls?! No side content?! Lots of boss fights?! I just need to know how much water is in the game...is it the right amount? Too much? Not enough?
Wait, even their own piece does seem to tie GG to it directly. Some GGers suspect something. Ahahaha.
Why should IGN be trying to hurt a game's sales?
Terrible grammar. Also, you and your ilk did this. You tried to bully and have your way, you made modern games so much worse than they should be, and you attack anyone you perceive as disagreeing with your warped world view. Of course people are going to push back on that. I wish more did. You deserve it. And we deserve better video games, and either less game journos, or more competent and passionate (about games, not Social Justice™) game journos. As is, we're not listening to you anymore, other than to mock you relentlessly. Because you suck monumentally, and are cultural rot incarnate.
Or people liked the idea of a game that seemed to not bow to you. Because, again, "real" gamers fucking despise you, and are tired of you.
What, were there no video game world championships going on at the time?
Friendly reminder: Communism, not even fucking once.
Aaaaaaand?! Are Chinese now Honorary Whites too, or something? Or are you just so wrapped up in perceived sexism controversies and lack of diversity that you just need to hate and blame someone?
You would, you absolute smoothbrain. You fucking would. And you are.
You also still haven't provided any evidence about GG being involved in any way. Citation needed, as they say.
Alright, I'm starting to think this creature might actually, literally, be an autistic tranny, fully captured by the woke cult. This last bit almost makes me pity them. Without the internet, this might actually be a functioning human being. I think he/she/it got captured, and it all went downhill from there. Because that is obsessive and insane, even compared to the rest of the article. Poor dude. I still despise what these people do, of course, but I also wish they'd get some help and stop being such sad weirdos.
Okay. Strong ending. Great article. Compelling and rich.
Same sort of faggot retard that thinks every game needs multiplayer and forced PvP. I'm surprised this one didn't complain that he couldn't play with his fwiends, in fact.
From further in the twatter thread:
Ahahaha what a stunning revelation, Sherlock! People edit wikipedia! Yeah and I'm sure that den of psychotic progtards and western antiwhite NGOs is actually controlled by alt-right nazi hitlers.
I mean she's just a fucking liar. She claims to have translated the chinese but bitch didn't even understand chinese for oh you're so pretty.
https://archive.md/Y16tJ
Thanks for the archive.
And here's a nitter link.
So GG is a big enough group to make or break games now?
Come on, I thought we were 12 sock puppets and a token black guy.
Can't be both.
To be fair, it does look like a mediocre game, but in this day of age, a mediocre game is apparently pure gold, given the alternatives.
Also, a mediocre game that doesn't have woke contagion is still head and shoulders above a lot of Western AAA games.
Mediocre games doing well says more about games this journo likes, than it does about the mediocre games themselves.
Pffft. I'm waiting for the bug patch release and the $20 steam sale.
Anyone with half a brain would these days. It still amazes me that people will purchase games in Early Access, but then I remember that the vast majority of the population is sub-human.
This would have been a Muh Russian Bots/Shills story 5 years ago. I never hear Muh Russia anymore despite the entire establishment seething over one of their corruption-outlet tentacle nations being at war with them. It gives me an impression of the degree by which the general public BTFO'd certain incredibly expensive propaganda campaigns in the 2016 period (although I think this warrants noting that the same groups of people failed to reject other less expensive campaigns from the same period, such as a prominent hate campaign where users of many large social media websites and groups weren't allowed to be racist/sexist/homophobic, putting a stopper on all expressions of hatred that weren't directed at the target group- muslims and islam at the time. It turns the target group into a pressure release valve for other social frustrations. It is a tactic/prediction that Orwell covers with brevity in the first chapter or two of 1984).
Hiccups and vulnerabilities aside, the amount of cushioning on public awareness that TPTB have burned away in these last ten years is wild. Everyone seems to be aware of shit on a higher level now. It wasn't like that even just 15 years ago. Things that propagandists and politicians used to flat out deny are pieces of common knowledge that serve as devices in a debate today. The debate boils down to "who is targeted/who should be targeted" and it is a foreboding echo of history; somebody really is the target, somebody really does lose, and the result is violence on a scale that will mindbreak generations and lay seeds that ensure the cycle goes on forever. Everybody is trying to wrestle control of at least some aspect of the apparatus of our destruction in order to point it at someone else and it will go on forever. The last people standing will point the apparatus at themselves in a hereditary state of madness and fire it.
It's literally just the fact there are so goddamn many Chinese.
So gamergaters are white nationalist racists who...work with China?
Didn't the Chinese people themselves constitute something like 90% of the total sales of this game? So yes, it sold a lot of copies, but most of those were by the target demographic supporting their own countrymen, rather than from international sales.
No idea. I don’t think anyone has it broken down by country
I think SyntheticMan shows the data about that in his review of the game.
Was it based off time zones? Because that’s the only analysis I’ve seen so far
Honestly, I'm not sure where the data is from. He didn't specify. But for those interested, he shows a graph at the 2:28 mark.
but it's a graph with no source? he just says oh the majority of the games reviews are in chinese. i mean okay, we can accept that a lot of chinese bought it, the majority are probably chinese but wheres the 90% figure coming from? Kotaku?
They can only market things inorganically and through insane conspiracies, so they assume that's how things work for their enemies too.
You may bitch and complain, but the game is still massively popular and your woke games are not. All excuses aside, it is what it is. One wins, one fails.
Someone did some digging on this. She is not fluent in cantonese or mandarin, and has said so herself.
I mean, why bother telling the truth when a lie is good enough.
Journalism.
So we're winning, then. Thanks for the admission.