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tja , (edited )
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Isn’t this the game where reviewers/streamers(?) are not allowed to mention feminism?

leavemealone ,

Why mention feminism when you have glorious monkey furry renaissance ?

cuchilloc ,

Coz monke together strong

rustyfish ,
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Just checked. It is. Fuck that CCP shit.

technomad ,

Could somone share a link for this?

Coelacanth ,
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Here you go.

Coelacanth ,
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Reviewers were also forbidden from using trigger words such as “COVID-19” and “quarantine”.

BreadstickNinja ,

So if I posted a review saying that Black Myth: Wukong is as badass as when Rosie the Riveter invented COVID in a Chinese lab, would they be upset?

gcheliotis ,

This is possibly fake as noted on another thread.

simple OP ,

It’s real according to someone from Forbes: nitter.poast.org/PaulTassi/…/1825193786273681489 . Reviewers didn’t get these guidelines but some content creators did, which is why everyone’s confused.

gcheliotis ,

Yeah it is confusing. Anyway, I still prefer to judge a game on its merits primarily and not on whether some of the people behind it are jerks or hold views antithetical to my own.

Eggyhead ,

It’s funny to me that they even felt a need for this clause. What does the game have to do with feminism or Covid? It’s based on ancient Chinese mythology in ancient China telling a fictional story featuring Chinese mythological beings that are not real. Why would there be any reason to bring feminism or Covid into that in the first place?

It’s so weird and seems really snowflakey to me.

simple OP ,

Shoutout to people in the other thread fighting about how nobody has heard of this game and that it isn’t highly anticipated

magic_lobster_party ,

I’m surprised so many say they never heard about it. It was all over the place when a gameplay trailer was shown a few years ago. David Jaffe even made a video about how he didn’t understand the hype, and then took it all back once the trailer reached the boss fight.

https://youtu.be/4cgYZw5MSxU

Carighan ,
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I mean I saw it, but it immediately got filed under “Just another pretty-in-renders soulsy clone”. There are so many thousands of them, they’re just some background buzz in game releases.

And I’ll readily admit, I don’t even know whether it is a soulslike, and neither do I care to find out. That’s how invisible this game is when you scroll past it, as it immediately mascerades as a game in an ocean of utterly samey titles.

Siethron ,

I enjoy a lot of games but don’t follow IGN or similar outlets. I did pay attention to e3 when it happened but that’s no longer a thing. My news comes mostly from steam store/Lemmy gaming communities/memes Meaning I’ve never hear of it either until I saw Dunkey’s satire video.

ampersandrew ,
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I’ve barely heard about it, and here in the US, I would not call it highly anticipated, but perhaps the story is different in China.

DarkThoughts ,

How many of those 1.5 million are from China?

Kecessa ,

AAA Chinese game, not surprising that it would be so popular but a majority must be Chinese player as it didn’t get that much coverage in the rest of the world as far as I understand from everyone’s reaction…

Stern ,
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China supports in country stuff, most countries do really, so long as quality is comparable, and its been slowly but steadily getting there. Saw an article posted on lemmy somewhere earlier today how a locally made movie is topping their box office while Deadpool and Wolverine isn’t even top 10.

Kecessa ,

For sure, I wasn’t criticizing, just pointing out that it’s probably the reason why there’s so many players yet barely anyone in this thread had heard about it

PunchingWood ,

Not sure why people downvote you, but most must be. Because I checked the player count this morning in Europe and it was also at 1,5 million. The only ones that play games in early hours of Europe are a majority in Asia, more specifically China. This has also been my experience with online matchmaking in early hours of the day, it’s 9 out of 10 chance I got matched with either Chinese or Koreans during those hours.

I knew of this game but had already forgotten about it. Just got notified recently because the benchmark was downloaded a lot past week.

DarkThoughts ,

The majority of coverage I heard about it were about the scandals at the studio.

rustyfish ,
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Crazy. Never heard of it.

JiveTurkey ,

Fuck CCP.

GiuEliNo ,
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Well

I must be sincere, and say I would never expected this

It’s more players than Elden ring or Baldur’s gate 3 at launch.

Skua ,

I don't think that should be terribly surprising. Both those games are targeted at specific niches. They were notably successful for gaining popularity beyond their niches, but they were still niche products. Elden Ring is still incredibly obtuse and will fucking murder you out the gates and just expect you to pick yourself up and try again. BG3 is a D&D game that expects you to know the tabletop version to a degree. Both are awesome, but they're aimed at narrower markets

ABCDE ,

I don’t think the people I know who played BG3 had ever touched D&D. Elden Ring hit a huge audience, many of whom had never tried Souls games before.

Skua ,

Fair enough on Elden Ring actually, I looked up the sales numbers and it did do very well for any videogame rather than "just" very well for a FromSoft game as I had thought

BruceTwarzen ,

Is that true? That’s pretty nuts.

teletext ,

Is it, though? The Chinese “government” decides which games their subjects are allowed to pay, and this game is one of the handful of new games allowed each year.

hal_5700X ,

Nice.

arefx ,

Is this a souls like game?

technomad ,

Similar. Faster paced combat and no blocking.

PunchingWood ,

I read some reviews comparing it more to God of War and Jedi Survivor games.

Which sounds pretty good to me, although the style of the game hasn’t been really been appealing to me (yet).

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