Pretty much. They are just silly opinion pieces anyway who really gives a fuck at the end of the day. I only hear about them cause other people make videos about them if it wasn't for that I wouldn't even know these opinion pieces even existed. Most people are too busy living their own lives and trying to find something fun to play after a long day of the work grind for a few hours.
The only real controversy that there should be. And, it’s coming from the Chinese themselves in China. The number of audience don’t believe that it actually represents journey to west appropriately & it’s funded by the government. Boy, that sounds more realistic of an argument. If anything, I’m happy this game is coming out and causing this amount of drama.
Wukong is the most Woke character ever. He was born from a gender neutral rock. He learned 72 transformations including girl and animals. He is non-sexual because he is a monk. He is asexual because he can clone himself using his own hair. Lastly, he made best buddy with black bull. Nevertheless, Wukong still failed to make Woke people happy.
To be honest, as a Chinese, I was very confident about the diversity of wukong. We had a monkey born from a stone as the main character, human-like monsters transformed from various animals, and gods from various religious beliefs. Never thought the Western media would be so critical of it in this regard. sad
They rejected the blackmail from a certain SBI grp and so the western media went on a crusade against them. Don't worry their days are numbered the game will do massively well
@@onça_pintuda999 Than our education system has failed. This is the problem with extreme political sides doesn't matter if they are extreme left or extreme right, you force these ideals to others and you create a type of cult. Why can't we be professional and honest and just enjoy the game. If you are a journalist just play the game, why are you searching for "diversity" in a Monkey King game? You fight other mythological creatures, of course there will be no black guy jumping at you or fat or ugly female or LGBTQIA+BBQ people... The devs follow the novel Journey to the West and won't change their own culture for "diversity". Also isn't having a Chinese mythological game diverse enough? All what these people want is for Asian culture to "westernize" is literally the opposite of cultural appropriation, is cultural conquering and cultural colonizing, the same colonizing the west hates, double standards for them or how old people would always say: rules for thee and not for me.
@@onça_pintuda999 Than our education system has failed. Why can't we be professional and honest and just enjoy the game. If you are a journalist just play the game, why are you searching for "diversity" in a Monkey King game? You fight other mythological creatures, of course there will be no black guy jumping at you or fat or ugly female or LGBTQIA+BBQ people... The devs follow the novel Journey to the West and won't change their own culture for "diversity". Also isn't having a Chinese mythological game diverse enough? All what these people want is for Asian culture to "westernize" is literally the opposite of cultural appropriation, is cultural conquering and cultural colonizing, the same colonizing the west hates, double standards for them or how old people would always say: rules for thee and not for me.
Ohhh Asmongold also mentioned that they want to "colonize their culture" I wrote my reply before I heard him saying it as well lol. Yeah we both (me and Asmongold) see and agree that the west wants to "westernize" the Asian culture.
The mistranslation thing speaks volumes about the source of the problem. Are you telling me, the guys that keep chanting about diversity so much that it's all over their social media, don't have a guy that can speak Chinese in the office?
Yep, they don't actually care about diversity or understanding. They just care about how they are viewed and the social power it brings. Classic virute signaling.
Sun Wukong was born from the cracks of a stone, and one could say he is a silicon-based life form, belonging to a minority group. The Stone Monkey originally had no gender, so he can be viewed as a typical member of the LGBTQ+ community (though this interpretation is more modern and abstract). Additionally, since he is a monk, he is also a vegetarian. He caused a ruckus in the underworld, protecting the monkeys from persecution, highlighting his noble spirit of animal protection. He was trapped under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years, enduring immense suffering, which gave him a deeper understanding of freedom; thus, he can also be considered a liberal. Whenever he encounters a woman, he refers to her as a "female Bodhisattva," showing respect for women's rights, which makes him a feminist. His arduous efforts to extinguish the flames of the Flaming Mountain demonstrated his greatness as an environmental warrior. In the plot of the Kingdom of Women, there are elements of male surrogacy and permissible abortion, reflecting progress in the struggle for reproductive rights. With such a profile that encompasses multiple positive attributes like being a minority, an LGBTQ+ member, a vegetarian, an animal rights advocate, a feminist, an environmentalist, and a liberal, combined with his miraculous ability to change forms seventy-two times, he seems to have explosively stacked various positive buffs onto himself. Yet, some people still say he is politically incorrect?
It's hilarious, but the way they think is "if customers spend $70 on that game that's $70 that they won't give us." They would rather you spend $70 on tier skips for concord's battlepass than even know that black myth wokong exists.
@@NextGenGamerss Lmao, funnily enough that game actually did diversity right😂 but "oh no! It's selling too much!" Is what they resort to instead of praising it for being well made.
AAA studios are trying to block the Chinese ( and other emerging ) AA-AAA developers from filling the singleplayer good game void they themselves left behind.
"In 'Black Myth: Wukong,' critics miss the essence, seeking to impose shallow labels on deep roots. True diversity is found in the soul of the story, not in the noise of those who misunderstand it."
@@sfwreaths1 her name is Kim Belair in case you want to do your own research. Or you can continue being confused, up to you. (The quote is from GDC 2019)
Americans REALLY believe they have the right to everyone's culture, huh? First Assassin's Creed dishonours Japan, now they wanna tell China about their own folklore. Cool story bro
Journalists need to expand their context of diversity. This is a _chinese company_ releasing a _triple a_ game with a _chinese theme._ This is _incredibly_ diverse in the gaming ecosystem.
This is why i hate the new Assassin's Creed. Setting it in Japan and adding a black samurai for the sake diversity is ridiculous considering if they had two Japanese protagonist it should already be considered diverse.
@@owenxu905 while I agree that there should've been a Japanese protagonist, there is historical precedent, I forget the guys name but there is a historical black samurai, it's a cool story actually
Mostly because it doesnt adhere to western rules (thank goodness it does not)..the world wants every nation to live under the same kind of ideology but if you dont fit in you are ostracized.
I don’t get why developers and publishers keep giving early access to game journalists anymore. No one cares about these publications anymore and all they do is make up drama. Just give copies of the game to TH-camrs. You’ll get the game out these and everyone will get (mostly) honest reviews. We don’t need game journalists anymore
True. I don't understand why these game journo still have platform. While random game channel on TH-cam or professional yapper like asmon give better job at review on game than this game jurno.
@@Erealze Because journalist actually are the only industry that is heavily regulated and publishers wouldn't want to deal with a rift-raft of influencers. The reason why every publisher gives inside information to journalist is because by law, they have to be impartial, and they want that.
you should be proud, it's a real knockout or facepalm to the western game developers, hoping it would give them a wakeup call, but i fear it will flame a bigger wokeup call instead
1:40 I love how a game being a normal game with no political pandering is now considered controversial. I.e. you’re controversial for not being controversial.
What is funny is how IGN starts their reviews of the yearly COD/FIFA/insertcrapgamehere releases stating "we will not compare this game with previous installments in the series and only look at this games impact as a standalone" but then games like this are "we will only judge this game on outside impacts and not consider the game as a standalone"
Journalist: This game lacks diversity. Translation: I didn't see a human with a dark skin tone or actively announcing unprompted that they are LGBTQ in conversation.
As a black man who’s excited for this game speaking for the black community we don’t care about this for the game stop including us in this diversity thing. This is why people think all we care about is race. 🤦🏽♂️😂people are mad about the “sexism” apparently.
Supposedly it has too few women. That is the lack of diversity and inclusion. Not enough female characters for the monkey king to smack around with his pole. Because that would obviously go well over with the same reviewer. As it is, "Too few women! Where are the female enemies!", and in a alternate universe with female enemies, "The game is heavily misogynistic with a main character that goes around assaulting women. Can't say I'm surprised after the allegations of sexism levied against the the company that made the game." Can't win. It was written by an unsufferable reviewer, and no matter what it would have been an unsufferable review.
This China Bashing is getting ridiculous, don't they understand that wukong is based on a very famous and well loved novel from the Ming Dynasty, generations of Chinese within China and around the world grew up listening and mesmerized by the story, it's something they grew up with and hearing wukong's adventures from their parents, grand parents, teachers, relatives and friends Wukong is so well liked and respected over the centuries that it was being elevated to a deity and worshiped in temples for centuries within China and especially outside China such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and many South East Asian countries, as well as Chinese communities in the West These politically brain washed DEI Woke goons have no idea what they are attacking and why would they being truly arrogant racist themselves They are not just attacking the game, they are indirectly attacking the culture, religion and childhood memories of many millions of Chinese
@@LawfulBased And that's pretty much 99,99% of journalism in 2024, you are welcomed. When I was a child (I was born in 1994) being a game journalist or a game taster sounded like a DREAM job, now I only feel cringe and disagreement with game journalists.
So random fact: for that Chinese saying of "It is never too late for revenge", the actual idiom is “君子报仇，十年不晚/君子報仇，十年不晚” which literally means "ten years is not too late for a gentlemen to take his revenge". The quote is allegedly attribute to an event recorded in Shiji or "Record of the Grand Historian" during Warring State period. There was a low born scholar named Fan Sui who was in service for state of Wei. He was a great diplomat and politician, but he was set up and accused of treason by his political enemies and the King of Wei at the time have him brutally whipped and humiliated. Barely surviving with his life, he escaped to state of Qin and devoted his service to its King (who was the great grandfather of the First Emperor). He eventually raise to the rank of Grand Chancellor (second in command after the King) after performing and series of diplomatic politics and internal reform. He had then successfully convince the King of Qin to march into the state of Wei which leads to Wei's destruction. He then personally sees his 2 former colleague and accuser that were in Wei's service humiliated and push them into committing suicide. When that happens it was 10 years after his disgraceful discharge.
Hmm reply didn't go through. Let me try again. To add context related to this particular phrase, it really reflects the difference in what the Chinese consider "gentlemanly" or really "Manly" behavior versus western concepts of what it means to be a gentleman. In the west, we think back to like the 3 Musketeers or Hamilton, where if you are a man, and your honor is besmirched, then you must respond immediately and in force, or else you are not a gentleman. Even if that gets you killed, like Hamilton, well as least you died a gentleman. But the Chinese concept is the opposite. They would not call that behavior gentlemanly, but rather foolish. That's not being a gentleman, that's just machismo. If someone corners you, and insults you to try to provoke you into doing something foolish, well don't fall for that. That does NOT make you any less of a man .... SO LONG AS YOU GET YOUR REVENGE LATER .... even if it takes you 10 years. Retreat, lower your head, cower, beg, whatever, if that let's you survive and fight for another day, that's OKAY. Now if you just run away and disappear, sure that just makes you a coward. But so long as you come back one day and get your revenge, now THAT is a true gentleman in the eyes of the Chinese. The corollary to this saying would be 好汉不吃眼前亏, or roughly translated "A REAL MAN knows to retreat when the odds are against him". Not that macho culture doesn't also exist in China, but that type of behavior would be considered foolish and the mark of a low level individual, not befitting a true gentleman.
@marcogenovesi8570 They can slip in Guanyin in a DLC. The male buddha in India, female in China. Strong, independent, tran Buddha. S/he was the one put that golden hairband on WuKong that gives him migraines. You can't get more woke than that.
Wukong:"I am just a monkey god of war who was born from a goddamn stone. I don't wanna have a Bikini Wax for showing my muscle. It's so much more painful than my Tight spell."
Unironically he is more God of trickster but can be busted strong he Absolutely Would wear those as a disguise ofc not his real body but as someone else just to get a laugh
How is it that whenever a game is hated by the “official” gaming media, it always ends up being a good game that sells tremendously well. But, whenever a game “ticks all the boxes” that these journalists deem necessary (like having gays, blacks and women) always end up being incredibly mid and boring, not even bad, but just boring as fuck
Yeah, like the Tv series The Boys, super unpopular because it is anti fascist and somewhat woke. /satire Btw one of the rules for this game is "Do not critic China.", it is not just do not talk about "feminist propaganda".
Dunkey makes better reviews than all the game journalist industry while being a 5 minute shitpost with 2 minutes of other game that is not even the one he is reviewing
The game is out and already has 135k overwhelmingly positive reviews. IT just shows how completely irrelevant game journalists and major gaming websites are. Absolutely no one cares about their opinion.
Literally reading the part "One last note - I didn‘t see any women or femme-coded characters in the demo" That‘s the last nail on the coffin for the game journalists. Who gives a shit?
I mean Journey to the west HAS female characters so wouldn’t it make more sense to at leaat wait for the FULL game before making a statement like that?
The media is deducting points off Wu Kong for "too cultural Chinese so the story is hard to understand" Imagine a Chinese media hell even IGN China say shit like "GOW is too Nordic/GTA is too American/Witcher is too Polish"
Nope, read the reviews. They say the story is presented in a way that assumes you're already familiar with the characters and events from the chinese story. If you're not, you're gonna be extremely lost.
Journey to the West isn't really that hard to understand. Also I would recommend reading it. I could see how the references might not be clear to people who don't know Chinese myth.
@@drakeadkins6711 but as a self contained piece of media, the story should be explained. Maybe an animated short at the beginning that explains the story and characters.
@@danielx1224we already have western analogs for Journey to the West. It's not a hard story to understand. It's one of the most influential stories out of China.
@@danielx1224the video clearly states that a lot of western media does not want this game to succeed. Probably the same people you’re reading the reviews from. Think for yourself a little bit and just wait until the game comes out. There’s a lot more at play here that I know your brain can’t comprehend. But with the tension also between China and the US, realistically how could they want a Chinese game to take over the gaming market, even if for a moment? Common sense ain’t so common.
Wukong is a character from Journey to the West. Possibly one of the more woke Chinese stories out there. For example, there was a part where Wukong and his team (all men) arrive at an all female kingdom. They accidentally drank magical water that got them all pregnant. Not wanting to give birth as a man, Wukong enlisted help from one of the God's in heaven which gave them pills to get an abortion. They then proceeded with the abortion.
@@ZOMBIEo07 This is a true story from Journey to the West, not written by an American. Because there was no country called the United States at that time.
I am a Chinese, and I prove that this story is a story chapter that really exists in the original book of Journey to the West. In the original book, it is the fiftieth chapter. The 86 version of Journey to the West TV play played in the 16th episode. In addition, this chapter story also has a very pleasant theme song, called [女儿情], and the film version is [女儿国]
Diversity of environment design too. I like it when each different area has its own unique aesthetics because it helps me navigate without constantly having to check the map.
Fun fact: in the journey to the west show(it was made in like, late 1980s or something-) every location is real, and everything that they traveled and walked through was real. So the actors had to hike around a bunch of mountains and grasslands with their costumes and prop😅
Another reason why this game about to blow up is because a very LARGE demographic of people in America who are fans of Dragon Ball Z are aware that Goku was based on Wukong. So we amped!
I'm a little older but the series 'Monkey' which was must see back in the 70's. Was also based on the Chinese mythology. Loved it! Hell it was so influential I became a Buddhist later in life 😀
It’s free advertising. The Wukong reviews literally read as “the developers focussed on making a fun game and didn’t waste time adding things that don’t make the game more fun” I didn’t even know this game existed until all the journalists started attacking it. They literally advertised the game to me by trying to attack it 😂😂😂
The comment "we'll only answer questions about gameplay", is such an amazing answer. I wish western developers had the balls to say something like that!
In this crazy era, the gaming world is a pure land. As a Chinese, I know that in recent years, the competition between the East and the West has politicized almost everything, but the group of gamers has always remained rational. We share similar aesthetics, we vote with our own money, and we know what a good game is and what a bad game is. Just ten hours ago, domestic media released an interview with the creative team, in which the main creator YANGQI said a sentence that I like very much: "踏上取经路，比抵达灵山更重要." This translates to: "Starting on the right path is more important than reaching the destination." The game will be unlocked soon. Although it may not be comparable to many famous works that everyone is familiar with, I still hope that everyone can enjoy the authentic Chinese culture presented by the Game Science Team.
as a westerner I don't care about this bullshit the game looks really good and I can't wait to play it. to hell with the journalists. people like this will continue to cry because they don't get their way.
@@Lobos222 Actually Chinese do vote. They have a lot more local elections - the most in the world due to the scale of the country. They also have many, many protests - smaller scale though. I don't blame you for not knowing this. Anyway, I sense an air of superiority from your comment. Know that your vote doesn't change anything in the West. Drop your ego, which you aren't aware that's what it is.
@@Lobos222 Honestly, you tell me, what did your vote bring you? A sense of nothingness, a sense of superiority that thinks your vote can change something? What's left at the end? Nothing has changed, you are still living your life and nothing substantial has been brought to you because of the election
@@dunzhen Yes, we know they can vote. Like the election in 2023, they only have one name on their vote of chairman of China. And everyone may at least has an experience about vote: Having a piece of paper and writing down a name of representative who they completely don't know. And more, they can vote but they can't deny. From the result of 2952:0, we can find almost everyone can't say no. If the central government want collect money from Guangdong and spend it to Northeast, everyone in Guangdong must say yes.
Its not even a giga-chad move. You interview a game dev or a PR manager about games; they're expecting questions like mechanics and features. Of course he's going to tell you to step back in line once you ask him some nonsense. He has a job, that job is answering questions about the game, gameplay, and possibly what we hope to expect.
Proud to be a owner of the game!, Bought them all! Support the developers that create games with love and respect for their potential customers and players. *RESPECT*
It's somewhat ironic. Black Myth Wukong was a story about rebelling against the establishment (the Celestial Court), and Game Science is living through the same process of rebelling against an establishment of "game critics" and medias. Art does come from life.
@@WePlayGameslmao Even these ppl have no clue what it means, they just like to throw the word around since it's popular. And they can't be honest if they dislike something for some reason.
Black Myth Wukong and Stella Blade are probably the only two big titles that doesn't contain ANY LGBTQ+ bullshit this year...honestly I'm happy we still get games like this and sad at the same time because this is the only two and they are both Asian games, western studios needs to pull their shit together and revive it.
@C-3POII45I4 yeah that's a bit shit. I've stayed away from watching anything about it. But it looks very cool. Again. Another game that's gotten bad press. Must be good hahaha
Western wokeness hasn't caught on there at all. One of my favorite examples was a video of Asian plus size clothing stores with names like "Fatty Fat Girls" and "Calorie Lovers". They don't care.
The dumb thing is Son Wukong is Gender Neutral he was born from a Rock and can transform into anything be it inanimate or animated. Seems Gamespot didn’t do their research
Yeah yeah, HE can change into anything HE wants. Just like the little elf girl is actually 7000 years old, not 7, she just looks like that. Ya know, he just looks like that, he's actually a toad.
@@613aristocrat If american game journos would read actual norse mythology they'd lose their mind. ...same with most mytholigies tbh. Shit gets really wild, really soon.
Western game journalists: "do you think that traditional capitalistic societies and their structures are evil and need to be destroyed?" Developer: "No" Western game journalists: "This game is controversial and problematic"
to anyone who read this: you wanna know something funny. The main god in Journey to the west is a man who became a female goddess. 2 male characters become pregnant due to a magical river. and the main character, the MAIN MALE CHARACTER, outside the story has almost always been described as female. female in comic, female in plays and female in shows. China was asked about this and simply said it fits better. there is more canonical woke stuff in this story then most other stuff. but isn't woke because it actually fits the story.
1) It's not a souls game 2) If the woke pseudo-game "journalists" complain about not being inclusive, bla bla bla all that garbage we don't want or need, then that means the game is REALLY GOOD and that you should get it and support it, and also means that said game "journalist" isn't serious and shouldn't be taken seriously at all. So, fk the nazi-woke inclusive garbage. I'll get it when the physical version drops since I don't buy digital at all.
No it is a souls game. If you die in the game, it is soulslike game, because obviously frimsoft invented this mechanic. Also there is dodge, parry and block, and you fight with bosses in 3rd person camera. No one ever done these before fromsoft. So it is soulslike
Stellar Blade was even more stupid than this. I mean the MC is based on the wife, a real life person... And the one who made a big deal about it went with stretched legs into it as well.
@@OrchinX Funnily enough, "social credit score" is not a real thing in China. It's just one of many things that gets attributed as true, bcos if a thing sounds bad and attached to a communist country, then it's assumed that this country is engaging in this bad thing. It's the same with the Uyghurs. And that claim has been actively opposed by the same Muslim countries that freaks out whenever their prophet gets drawn.
Yeah gaming in the west is only getting worse from Here on out and its not (just) the pandering its all the bad stuff we had to deal with before that to DLCs bugs on release days and so fourth and so on the future is in the east
As someone who can speak Chinese- don't EVER dare write an article when you do not understand the language and are basing it on google f'ing translate. It's NOT very good at accurate translations, sorry. Watched my Chinese mother in law try to use it to speak to Americans and it was HILARIOUS how dirty it made everything.
as someone thats speaks many languages thats true. Trying to speak with someone in chinese with google translate is impossible, it just doesnt work. For languages like english to spanish, or english to german, its possible. But for chinese its not
Chinese is a very subtext and context heavy language so it's a nightmare for Google translate. I can speak Chinese and English but even switching between the 2 is a nightmare sometimes because of how different those are.
Especially when a lot of indigenous Chinese people have a hard time with understanding Mandarin Chinese themselves. That's why Google Translate were invented, to F things up
I'm an old outdated gamer that started playing in 1999. Veteran at the souls games, subbed to IGN when they were just in the few hundreds of thousands of followers and I'd like to say, when I heard IGN trying to give bad publicity about Black Myth, I just unsubscribed & blocked them on TH-cam. Period. The game is out today!! Have fun everyone!!
IGN were never good, I still remember when they absorbed VoodooExtreme which was one of the best gaming sites back in the day, everything changed out of all recognition and yet I still go there every day.....a toxic relationship
The problem with most of these new games that does "Norse" myth is that it's not. It's always subverted, politicized, bastardized or just loosely inspired by with occasional name dropping of gods and heroes. Marvel is prob the worst offender next to God of War.
@@darianstarfrogu just racist bro😂 god of war norse games are amazing. They also obviously arent trying to be 100% accurate to norse mythology, The main character is a literal greek god, but black people exisitng is where you draw your line? Yikes brother
26:03 "Why liberal?" Well, if it was a conservative, they'd be angry at either the false notion of the Chinese government spying on Americans with this game or the violence in this game.
As a conservative Chinese, I really think DEI is ruining the entire western entertainment industry, not just games but also TV series and movies, it's so counter-intuitive and unnatural.
@@wenc9027as a conservative enjoyer of China and Chinese culture, I am so ready for Chinese entertainment to fill the void. You guys have incredibly talented action movie actors, game designers, and donghua studios. Cheers from California!
@@x01021 Dude, thank you for loving our culture. I hope that our culture can be carried forward and seen by more friends from other countries. I also hope that the cultures of other countries can also prosper and develop, but in a normal and healthy direction. We Chinese, especially my generation, 1990 - 2000, grew up watching American movies. My impression of Americans when I was a child is completely different from those guys who are screaming "woke" today. I don’t know what has happened in your country these years. But I am so sorry about that I could not agree with most of their views and I feel offended by their arrogance, ignorance and hypocrisy. I hope you guys can cancel DEI and bring us more great American culture, American movies, and American games.Greetings from Shanghai!
@@wenc9027 Americans are in a weird spot lately with respect to China. On the woke side, they hate China with a passion because you guys do not bow to MeToo, DEI, and other bs. But in the right wing Trump side, they also hate China with a passion because the politicians need to give people an enemy to distract them from the economy. So they tell lies about Uyghers and social credit score. I hope both countries can get back to normal relations so we can all make money and enjoy cool tech. Btw my favorite cities are Shanghai and Chengdu (my wife’s hometown)
I think that China's the only country that's big and influential enough to counter the ESG/DEI coming out of the US. The success of this game will gain them ground and allow for other Eastern developers to use China as a shield to push further into this non-DEI direction.
imagine creating a video game based on your rich, multi-millenial cultural heritage and having gremlins who probably dont know journey to the west come along and say its not diverse enough.
When you say DEI, it just shows you are a bigot. The term means nothing in this context, and is just a virtue signal for bigots to identify each other.
I will 100% play a game thats good even if it was made by convicts. I will 100% play a game thats good even if it has some woke bs. I will 100% NOT play game based on what any fkn journalist has to say. I will watch gameplay myself and then come to my own conclusions.
I am Chinese and this is a complete translation error. In fact that expression, which is very common in the Chinese Internet community, is a non-insulting expression that means a woman is sexy
I don't get how they don't understand that even literal correct translations can be wrong on it's face because deeper cultural meanings and understandings. For things like this I go to the source, native speakers. I really dislike these close minded people.
I speak Chinese. Yes, they are horribly mistranslated. It looks like they popped in into Google translate, which is notoriously terrible at translating Chinese to English. 下体 could literally translate character for character to “lower body” but he means “the next part”. Should’ve used ChatGPT 😂.
Jessie J came to China to a singing competition called "Singer 2018", and Guardian's article says "british singer goes to china to teach them how to sing". I don't know why Guardian was invited to test play the game, they are a tabloid that most people don't take seriously.
There's no accountability for journalism malpractice. There should be a 3 strike rule, at the 3rd fck up where you cause damage to someone or business while being wrong you go sit for 5 years idgaf.
THEY ARE LITERALLY ANGRY BECAUSE THE WRITERS REFUSE TO GO THE WOKE ROUTE IN A FUCKIN 430 YEAR OLD STORY! LOL THEY ARE MAD BECAUSE THE WRITERS REFUSE TO MAKE WUKONG TRANS, PLEASE SHOW THESE GAME JOURNALIST THAT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP UP RUINING OUR GAMES FOREVER!
@@IronBearVA there was a part of Journey to the West where the gang drinks magic water that makes you pregnant a LOVED it Wukong had to make them drink abortion water so they could continue their quest. That's pretty woke for a 430 year old story.
For a century the US has had an absolute lock on global cultural exports as a means of international soft propaganda...film, music, video games...but in recent years, and accelerating quickly, that has slipped into other parts of the world and they don't like it. Most specifically, they do not want their closest economic competitor and emerging super power, to be able to export likeable cultural stuff and that's just how it is. That's just how it is, at least a great part of it.
Exactly! They wont be able to properly gaslight kids if they don't have a monopoly on entertainment. Their only interest is to remove cultural standards that make them feel sad for one reason or another, "Merit" is one of the standards they are trying to remove so they cannot compete if there is even one developer that is interested in creating things that are true, good and beautiful.
This! Literally this! It has little to do with "woke" or "diversity" or anything of the like. It has everything to do with western market and cultural dominance, and denying China any influence in that space.
Lol China is not an emerging super power. They're on the cusp of population and therefore economic collapse, and their force projection ability is limited to their coastline.
They were obsessed with Baldur's Gate when it didnt follow the money sucking pattern of modern trash games and was scared that this new way of Complete Game making is going to be New Normal, AGAIN!
To be fair, BG3 was not complete. There is a huge list of cut contents that they openly share. But Larian were more earnest in their production, and let players review the Early Access for other people and give feedback or suggestions on what to add; they even livestream the gameplay each update of the EA. Even now, they're still adding even more contents and bug fixes they could to the game. They didn't do a Cyberpunk 2077 of masking the game till release, only to found that it's a mess, and took 2 years to fix, which were also thanks to the players. It could be worse, like Bioware's Anthem.
Well it was all a ploy, BG3 is really filled with diverse/progressive views in Act 1, and from what I've heard Act 3 isn't even complete. They didn't even finish coding Levels 14-20 of the DnD classes and gave up at L13. The very first real quest is saving the poor tiefling refugees from being kicked out by the mean druids out of their Druid Grove, who are just being meanies with no reason to kick them out (other than draining resources and inviting goblins to attack). Never mind the tieflings are intentionally antagonistic to them, don't discipline their kids from stealing from the druids, and threatening to riot.
I think diversity was never supposed to mean that every subsets of sexuality, gender and race should be included in every media product. Diversity should be about every subsets having a representation. The best way to do this is to let the people in question tell their own stories.
2:05 Hell yeah, brother! I've been saying that for years. It's also related with the fact that they'll apologize only once public opinion has turned against them and would never do that if public opinion was on their side. So never forget, never forgive and never let them live it down.
4:00 Jesus, thank you. I am SO tired of reading these painfully mediocre writers trying to convince people that they're James Joyce while writing some garbage article on Otaku about a video game. Dude, deliver the information as clearly and succinctly as possible. We all learned about alliteration in grade 6 English, you're not impressing anyone by writing 3 words that start with the same letter in a row.
As a big Wukong/Chinese mythology fan, on one hand its great to see a solid game that focuses on it but on the other hand I hate seeing western journalists trying to tear down the game and its history because it doesn't fit their world views
i can't not say more than so i agree with you.. sadly how westen trying to force tear down other the game they have take up with great lore, great history.. i mean.. they don't know what mean ''respect to their culture and their history''? no they don't care about that more than diverity and woke stuff nowdays.. bruh..
4:00 It's written like a dramatic romance novel. The target audience is gamers, so here's my shot at rewriting it myself: Black Myth Wukong won't have you stuck on bosses for endless hours like some FromSoft games, but you'll have plenty of difficult encounters to keep you on the edge. After enough progression, you unlock new abilities such as attacks, fire magic, and turning into a stealthy cicada. These proved useful when fighting the giant werewolf atop a crumbling temple.
Good games are only a threat to bad developers trying to sell garbage. That's why they got mad at BG3, they don't want you to be reminded of what a good game feels like. They want buying trash games for obscene prices to stay normalised, it means they don't have to put any effort into development and you still throw your wallet at them anyway.
Actually Wukong is the most diverse game out there. It has a monkey as the main character, plus spider, male, female, midget, monk, giant, and god. With all this diversity, it should be named Black Man: Woke Kong instead. 😎
3:40 Bro sounds like he swallowed a thesaurus. As an amateur writer I learned a long time ago that showing off your verbose vocabulary in a publicly consumed publication is the fasted way to turn people off your writing. You want to be understandable and not boasting. The opposite of this master of literature.
@@gimmedataids None of it is difficult. To me, at least. I'm not talking about comprehension. I'm talking about not sounding pretentious. Just because you have a verbose vocabulary doesn't mean that you should strive to put as many five syllable words in your articles as you can. Take this above paragraph. I myself sound pretentious here, which is sort of intentional since I'm writing a rebuttal to an obviously biting and pointed reply so I I want to sound so. But in a gaming publication you're catering to the layman, not intellectuals and you're trying to convey a point of view not advertising your linguistical prowess. You want to be relatable and congenial. That guys entire tone and word use sounds pretentious and arrogant. Just because you've learned the meaning of all these words doesn't mean each and every one of your readers has done so as well. Simple easy to read words convey your ideas more clearly and to a larger audience. It makes you sound relatable and not like a total douche.
I did that, one of my mates had to pay for a new fridge this month as his old one died, so he would have to wait until next month to get it. Little does he know, there's a BMW code waiting for him when he gets in from work tonight 👍
Oh my god no, developers are criticized because they censor opinions, fucking bootlicking Chinese company I suppose that doesn't want to talk about Covid and other things, that's what I've seen. So be careful. And furthermore the game seems to have default so I would wait to see the final quality.
Oh hey it took me two seconds to find a comment that backs up my theory. I had just commented that I think the publisher itself could be stirring this up just to bait protest purchases and boost sales, or at least get the word out louder. I did forget this game was a thing for a year, like immediately after seeing a trailer, and now I don't stop hearing about it.
To this game journalist if there's no DEI in the game it means it's not a good game. Meanwhile gamers can't wait to play and buy this game because the gameplay is fun and it's in a mythological setting. Goes to show what they are really prioritising in a game.
I'm DEFINITELY going to be getting Black Myth Wukong eventually, and all the negativity from "journalists" is one of the major reasons why. I am going to end up waiting a bit, though... mostly because my aging rig isn't going to be able to run it very effectively at the moment. Gonna end up waiting for a performance patch or two.
They knew the game was quite generic and paid for a fake "controversy" to dupe people into buying it for politics. This is probably the 10th video about the "controversy" on Asmon's clips channel. Game journos get clicks, influencers get clicks, publisher gets a few extra sales.
@@crusaderACR "insane theory" sounds like I hit a nerve, I'm just explaining the basic internet economy, anyone can see that "buy this to virtue signal about hurting the wokes" is a huge market these days. Meanwhile journos are happy to play the heel since that gets them clicks to get paid. This little ecosystem spins up all the time to give forgettable games an extra push.
Honestly one of the main reasons I played Smite for so long, I just love the wide array of Mythologies they had to pull from and in a lot of cases in my opinion, look really good.
They say, "the developer" says bad things like the developer is one person. Many people work there, and I wouldn't want to help these weirdos crash the studio even if there was a really big meany working there. If there is harassment, help the victim with litigation. And when you know you have no evidence of anything and decide to make things up like this for your misplaced vigilante justice. Just don't.
Why do you think most Ubisoft games feel like they threw all the gameplay elements stolen from other games and throw them into a blender to make grey slop? “If we put everyone favourite food in the blender, everyone will love it” But they keep making vanilla sushi kimchi donut pizza burger chocolate smoothies and wondering why nobody likes it.
@@glawenclattuc3127 What? Do you disagree? That's fine, I guess. But to me Ubisoft games have for the most part been incredibly bland, they don't taste like anything in particular despite all the ingredients in it. Just like konjac when eaten by itself.
@@lemao2222 No, my brain mis-read konjac as cognac, which gave me an opposite meaning to what you actually said. Most Ubisoft games are bland paste. But sometimes they have not washed the ingredients properly and you find a piece of dirt or stone, that makes you not want to eat. An example of this is when they added the assasins creed games to play pass, and I can play the games without buying them, they all have the same bugs in the games. Sometimes they even have more bugs. How can they make the same game as 4 years ago, but worse? Horses in Valhalla control worse than horses in Origins. Horses in modern assasins creed games control worse than in Zelda, they are worse than Shadow of The Colossus which is the game with the BEST horse. It is like their blended slop is made from stale rotten ingredients. And every new game, the ingredients are even more rotten, and leaves a bitter aftertaste.
There's no controversy. It's all in your head.
Reject game journalists
Embrace monke
Pretty much. They are just silly opinion pieces anyway who really gives a fuck at the end of the day. I only hear about them cause other people make videos about them if it wasn't for that I wouldn't even know these opinion pieces even existed. Most people are too busy living their own lives and trying to find something fun to play after a long day of the work grind for a few hours.
Lol these sheep don't know better
Game activists*
I fixed it for you.
They didn't pay their protection money, that's all.
The only real controversy that there should be. And, it’s coming from the Chinese themselves in China. The number of audience don’t believe that it actually represents journey to west appropriately & it’s funded by the government.
Boy, that sounds more realistic of an argument. If anything, I’m happy this game is coming out and causing this amount of drama.
Wukong is the most Woke character ever.
He was born from a gender neutral rock. He learned 72 transformations including girl and animals. He is non-sexual because he is a monk. He is asexual because he can clone himself using his own hair. Lastly, he made best buddy with black bull.
Nevertheless, Wukong still failed to make Woke people happy.
Only monke can do that
its not "their" kinda woke so it has to go, if it doesnt follow their higly manipulative narrative it might aswell not exist no matter how woke it is.
Lmao so true😂
And he’s an environmentalist, he took the fight to heaven when the celestial army burned his mountain killed his fella apes.
Maybe if they changed the title to `Wokong`.
*_"Game about monkeys doesn't have enough black people"_*
- Journalists
Brah 😅
@@Chunnibyoubaka you missed the joke .
Where my wuKANGS at? 👑
Bro…
It's still better than their initial take: "Game about monkeys reinforces stereotypes about black people."
It’s ironic af watching US journalists trying to shut down speech and choice by a Chinese publisher lmao
I think some Americans feel deeply threatened by Chinese culture.
@@Relugus America has 300 years of history. Chinese history spans 3 millenia. lol
Just like in geopolitics lol
@@renliu35 US less than 300 years while China over 5 millenia actually
I know. WHAT does that say about freedom in the west? We now have less artistic freedom than China.
To be honest, as a Chinese, I was very confident about the diversity of wukong. We had a monkey born from a stone as the main character, human-like monsters transformed from various animals, and gods from various religious beliefs. Never thought the Western media would be so critical of it in this regard. sad
Rest easy that this just makes westerners want to buy it more. We the people actually hate this woke crap too.
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Western journalism is literal insanity
Anything you read or hear needs to be taken with the biggest grain of salt you can find
Oh yeah, how many monkeys, animals, and monsters in the game are black?
They rejected the blackmail from a certain SBI grp and so the western media went on a crusade against them. Don't worry their days are numbered the game will do massively well
Gamers: Reviewing the game
Journalist: Reviewing the "diversity" of the game
Of course, they get their graduation on that shit, what would expect? A real professional? LOL
@@onça_pintuda999 Than our education system has failed. This is the problem with extreme political sides doesn't matter if they are extreme left or extreme right, you force these ideals to others and you create a type of cult.
Why can't we be professional and honest and just enjoy the game. If you are a journalist just play the game, why are you searching for "diversity" in a Monkey King game? You fight other mythological creatures, of course there will be no black guy jumping at you or fat or ugly female or LGBTQIA+BBQ people... The devs follow the novel Journey to the West and won't change their own culture for "diversity".
Also isn't having a Chinese mythological game diverse enough? All what these people want is for Asian culture to "westernize" is literally the opposite of cultural appropriation, is cultural conquering and cultural colonizing, the same colonizing the west hates, double standards for them or how old people would always say: rules for thee and not for me.
@@onça_pintuda999 Than our education system has failed. Why can't we be professional and honest and just enjoy the game. If you are a journalist just play the game, why are you searching for "diversity" in a Monkey King game? You fight other mythological creatures, of course there will be no black guy jumping at you or fat or ugly female or LGBTQIA+BBQ people... The devs follow the novel Journey to the West and won't change their own culture for "diversity".
Also isn't having a Chinese mythological game diverse enough? All what these people want is for Asian culture to "westernize" is literally the opposite of cultural appropriation, is cultural conquering and cultural colonizing, the same colonizing the west hates, double standards for them or how old people would always say: rules for thee and not for me.
Ohhh Asmongold also mentioned that they want to "colonize their culture" I wrote my reply before I heard him saying it as well lol. Yeah we both (me and Asmongold) see and agree that the west wants to "westernize" the Asian culture.
@Grinch-t3r REPORT THIS DUDEEE, HE'S DISTRIBUTING ILLEGAL SHIET. CHEESE PIZZA AND SNUFFLES
The mistranslation thing speaks volumes about the source of the problem. Are you telling me, the guys that keep chanting about diversity so much that it's all over their social media, don't have a guy that can speak Chinese in the office?
Damn you really flipped the virtue signalling on it's head with that wave of thinking 😂
Its pretty much fact journalists like that are just racists calling other people racist.
@@GrdenGnome Majority of Virute Signalers just want modern Darwinism so they can be righteous in racism
Yep, they don't actually care about diversity or understanding. They just care about how they are viewed and the social power it brings. Classic virute signaling.
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Sun Wukong was born from the cracks of a stone, and one could say he is a silicon-based life form, belonging to a minority group. The Stone Monkey originally had no gender, so he can be viewed as a typical member of the LGBTQ+ community (though this interpretation is more modern and abstract). Additionally, since he is a monk, he is also a vegetarian. He caused a ruckus in the underworld, protecting the monkeys from persecution, highlighting his noble spirit of animal protection. He was trapped under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years, enduring immense suffering, which gave him a deeper understanding of freedom; thus, he can also be considered a liberal. Whenever he encounters a woman, he refers to her as a "female Bodhisattva," showing respect for women's rights, which makes him a feminist. His arduous efforts to extinguish the flames of the Flaming Mountain demonstrated his greatness as an environmental warrior. In the plot of the Kingdom of Women, there are elements of male surrogacy and permissible abortion, reflecting progress in the struggle for reproductive rights. With such a profile that encompasses multiple positive attributes like being a minority, an LGBTQ+ member, a vegetarian, an animal rights advocate, a feminist, an environmentalist, and a liberal, combined with his miraculous ability to change forms seventy-two times, he seems to have explosively stacked various positive buffs onto himself. Yet, some people still say he is politically incorrect?
I copied this from a Chinese website and found it quite interesting.
人才😂😂😂
Damn, the chinese website does hit the spot, doesn't it?
@@philosopherzongzi7599 doesn't matter, they can always find a"political correct" reason
😂😂😂😂 I cannot believe a mythology figure has to be politically correct.
The idea of a decent singleplayer game being considered a "threat" for whatever reason is amusing.
I remember last August Baldur's Gate 3 was view by some devs as a threat about unrealistic standards for quality.
It's a threat for your wallet
It's hilarious, but the way they think is "if customers spend $70 on that game that's $70 that they won't give us." They would rather you spend $70 on tier skips for concord's battlepass than even know that black myth wokong exists.
@@NextGenGamerss Lmao, funnily enough that game actually did diversity right😂 but "oh no! It's selling too much!" Is what they resort to instead of praising it for being well made.
AAA studios are trying to block the Chinese ( and other emerging ) AA-AAA developers from filling the singleplayer good game void they themselves left behind.
"In 'Black Myth: Wukong,' critics miss the essence, seeking to impose shallow labels on deep roots. True diversity is found in the soul of the story, not in the noise of those who misunderstand it."
Indeed my friend
Fuck bro is soo based
Nice pfp bro
Bro profile picture and his name is enough ❤❤❤
Ahh we meet again my friend
Dont forget that speech of Sweet Baby Inc CEO, where she openly said they use blackmail tactics to get into games.
What
@@sfwreaths1 She did.
@@sfwreaths1 her name is Kim Belair in case you want to do your own research. Or you can continue being confused, up to you. (The quote is from GDC 2019)
It is considered amazing business control in america.
Rich people with agendas are often jaded and misanthropic
Blackmail Wukong
Americans REALLY believe they have the right to everyone's culture, huh?
First Assassin's Creed dishonours Japan, now they wanna tell China about their own folklore. Cool story bro
try working with canadians lol
Its just one group of Americans.
Most of us don't care or are at least curious.
Isnt ubisoft french?
@@ZergleJerk it's the one group that controls the majority of narratives in US, unfortunately.
Ubisoft isn't an American company lmao
Journalists need to expand their context of diversity. This is a _chinese company_ releasing a _triple a_ game with a _chinese theme._ This is _incredibly_ diverse in the gaming ecosystem.
Notice they don't complain about movies like black panther. But all Asian or Chinese is an issue
@@bradley6386not the right kind of diversity
This is why i hate the new Assassin's Creed. Setting it in Japan and adding a black samurai for the sake diversity is ridiculous considering if they had two Japanese protagonist it should already be considered diverse.
Diversity is looking like a racist movement so far.
@@owenxu905 while I agree that there should've been a Japanese protagonist, there is historical precedent, I forget the guys name but there is a historical black samurai, it's a cool story actually
Black Myth Wukong, a game that will go down in history for being controversial by just being a game
That’s probably the most 2024 thing I’ve seen so far.
Mostly because it doesnt adhere to western rules (thank goodness it does not)..the world wants every nation to live under the same kind of ideology but if you dont fit in you are ostracized.
*Chinese game
Loo
Not just because it's a game, but because the devs refused to bow down to sweet baby Inc
I don’t get why developers and publishers keep giving early access to game journalists anymore. No one cares about these publications anymore and all they do is make up drama.
Just give copies of the game to TH-camrs. You’ll get the game out these and everyone will get (mostly) honest reviews.
We don’t need game journalists anymore
Exactly! The time of journalists is over. Everyone watches streamers or TH-camrs.
True. I don't understand why these game journo still have platform. While random game channel on TH-cam or professional yapper like asmon give better job at review on game than this game jurno.
@@arturfonmirt7263 and not just game journalists, they all have to go.
@@Erealze Because journalist actually are the only industry that is heavily regulated and publishers wouldn't want to deal with a rift-raft of influencers. The reason why every publisher gives inside information to journalist is because by law, they have to be impartial, and they want that.
@@Braiamjournalism stopped being regulated in like 2006. Why do you have such a hardo for journalism? Was that your major in college?
As a Chinese dude and a gamer, I'm really proud of the game. And thank you for giving a not only stronge but very fair point. Really man, thank you.
you should be proud, it's a real knockout or facepalm to the western game developers, hoping it would give them a wakeup call, but i fear it will flame a bigger wokeup call instead
As you should be. As a Pole I take pride in Witcher 3
1:40 I love how a game being a normal game with no political pandering is now considered controversial. I.e. you’re controversial for not being controversial.
they try to shut it down because its chinese, period. Its very much politically motivated
It's ridiculous and a poison in our games
What a toxic mindset.
Well when a certain group gets used to having control... The idea of just telling them "No" seems like a radical act of defiance.
more like "controversial for not being corny/cheesy/lame"
What is funny is how IGN starts their reviews of the yearly COD/FIFA/insertcrapgamehere releases stating "we will not compare this game with previous installments in the series and only look at this games impact as a standalone" but then games like this are "we will only judge this game on outside impacts and not consider the game as a standalone"
Comparing to previous games is vital.
That's because IGN is paid off by Activision and other big names recycling the same game
@@NostalgiaforinfiI wouldn't say vital, but it is useful.
@@MatthewKelley-mq4ceit 100% is vital lol, ESPECIALLY in regard to those yearly games like cod and fifa
Don't even give them the time of day. If uhate them, they win. Don't let them get u, this is a spiritual battle! 😇
Journalist: This game lacks diversity.
Translation: I didn't see a human with a dark skin tone or actively announcing unprompted that they are LGBTQ in conversation.
More aptly..
Journalist: Black Myth Wukong, what is a black myth? The racist dog whistle is not very subtle here.
Literally had nothing to do with dark skin. Had to do with sexism claims not race or skin color. These copy and paste comments are funny.
As a black man who’s excited for this game speaking for the black community we don’t care about this for the game stop including us in this diversity thing. This is why people think all we care about is race. 🤦🏽♂️😂people are mad about the “sexism” apparently.
Supposedly it has too few women. That is the lack of diversity and inclusion. Not enough female characters for the monkey king to smack around with his pole. Because that would obviously go well over with the same reviewer. As it is, "Too few women! Where are the female enemies!", and in a alternate universe with female enemies, "The game is heavily misogynistic with a main character that goes around assaulting women. Can't say I'm surprised after the allegations of sexism levied against the the company that made the game." Can't win. It was written by an unsufferable reviewer, and no matter what it would have been an unsufferable review.
the main character is literally a talking monkey and they still complaining
This China Bashing is getting ridiculous, don't they understand that wukong is based on a very famous and well loved novel from the Ming Dynasty, generations of Chinese within China and around the world grew up listening and mesmerized by the story, it's something they grew up with and hearing wukong's adventures from their parents, grand parents, teachers, relatives and friends
Wukong is so well liked and respected over the centuries that it was being elevated to a deity and worshiped in temples for centuries within China and especially outside China such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and many South East Asian countries, as well as Chinese communities in the West
These politically brain washed DEI Woke goons have no idea what they are attacking and why would they being truly arrogant racist themselves
They are not just attacking the game, they are indirectly attacking the culture, religion and childhood memories of many millions of Chinese
You think you hate journalists enough, but you don't
they never fail to steep to a new low
Technically we don't hate journalists.
We despise the activists posing as such.
They hate you, it’s ok to hate them
@@LawfulBased And that's pretty much 99,99% of journalism in 2024, you are welcomed. When I was a child (I was born in 1994) being a game journalist or a game taster sounded like a DREAM job, now I only feel cringe and disagreement with game journalists.
the problem starts with the same letter as journalist
So random fact: for that Chinese saying of "It is never too late for revenge", the actual idiom is “君子报仇，十年不晚/君子報仇，十年不晚” which literally means "ten years is not too late for a gentlemen to take his revenge".
The quote is allegedly attribute to an event recorded in Shiji or "Record of the Grand Historian" during Warring State period. There was a low born scholar named Fan Sui who was in service for state of Wei. He was a great diplomat and politician, but he was set up and accused of treason by his political enemies and the King of Wei at the time have him brutally whipped and humiliated. Barely surviving with his life, he escaped to state of Qin and devoted his service to its King (who was the great grandfather of the First Emperor). He eventually raise to the rank of Grand Chancellor (second in command after the King) after performing and series of diplomatic politics and internal reform. He had then successfully convince the King of Qin to march into the state of Wei which leads to Wei's destruction. He then personally sees his 2 former colleague and accuser that were in Wei's service humiliated and push them into committing suicide. When that happens it was 10 years after his disgraceful discharge.
Beautiful piece of history, real of not. Thank you for sharing.
this comment and info is really bad ass. thanks for sharing man
According to the research of scholars in the Qing Dynasty, his real name was Fan Ju 范雎, and Fan Sui 范睢 was copied incorrectly.
Bro start his revenge arc.
Hmm reply didn't go through. Let me try again. To add context related to this particular phrase, it really reflects the difference in what the Chinese consider "gentlemanly" or really "Manly" behavior versus western concepts of what it means to be a gentleman. In the west, we think back to like the 3 Musketeers or Hamilton, where if you are a man, and your honor is besmirched, then you must respond immediately and in force, or else you are not a gentleman. Even if that gets you killed, like Hamilton, well as least you died a gentleman.
But the Chinese concept is the opposite. They would not call that behavior gentlemanly, but rather foolish. That's not being a gentleman, that's just machismo. If someone corners you, and insults you to try to provoke you into doing something foolish, well don't fall for that. That does NOT make you any less of a man .... SO LONG AS YOU GET YOUR REVENGE LATER .... even if it takes you 10 years. Retreat, lower your head, cower, beg, whatever, if that let's you survive and fight for another day, that's OKAY. Now if you just run away and disappear, sure that just makes you a coward. But so long as you come back one day and get your revenge, now THAT is a true gentleman in the eyes of the Chinese.
The corollary to this saying would be 好汉不吃眼前亏, or roughly translated "A REAL MAN knows to retreat when the odds are against him". Not that macho culture doesn't also exist in China, but that type of behavior would be considered foolish and the mark of a low level individual, not befitting a true gentleman.
Gaming Journalist;”If it’s called *black* myth wukong, it should require racial diversity, right?”
Their obsession with racism is unmatched.
it needs more strong and independent women of color, clearly
That goes to show what they prioritize/their obsession is about and I bet one of them is not the gameplay of the game.
@@marcogenovesi8570out of the 72 forms Wukong can shift into, I'm sure there is a strong dependent woman adjacent form there
@marcogenovesi8570 They can slip in Guanyin in a DLC. The male buddha in India, female in China. Strong, independent, tran Buddha. S/he was the one put that golden hairband on WuKong that gives him migraines. You can't get more woke than that.
Does this include Black Sabbath as well then ?
Wukong:"I am just a monkey god of war who was born from a goddamn stone. I don't wanna have a Bikini Wax for showing my muscle. It's so much more painful than my Tight spell."
Unironically he is more God of trickster but can be busted strong he Absolutely Would wear those as a disguise ofc not his real body but as someone else just to get a laugh
How is it that whenever a game is hated by the “official” gaming media, it always ends up being a good game that sells tremendously well. But, whenever a game “ticks all the boxes” that these journalists deem necessary (like having gays, blacks and women) always end up being incredibly mid and boring, not even bad, but just boring as fuck
Yeah, like the Tv series The Boys, super unpopular because it is anti fascist and somewhat woke. /satire
Btw one of the rules for this game is "Do not critic China.", it is not just do not talk about "feminist propaganda".
Bg3 wasn't mid lmao
It's called an ESG score that is utilized for social engineering.
@@Lobos222 Did you mean /sarcasm ?
😂bingo
IGN would unironically believe 干爆鸭子 means "fuck a duck until it exploded"
🤣🤣🤣
Old but gold 😂
That's why they got tattooe of it.
They copy then bring it to Google 😂
@@ThaiNguyen-yv7wq And modifying the Wiki while they’re at it.
Let's stop giving these "game journalists" a platform. They're ruining the game industry as we speak
Dunkey makes better reviews than all the game journalist industry while being a 5 minute shitpost with 2 minutes of other game that is not even the one he is reviewing
So true ...
@@MrRafagigaprWell Dunkey is the goat.
Ever look into who owns the western media? I can’t name them but that’s your true enemy.
You should care for who is funding those game journalists. They are just tools
The game is out and already has 135k overwhelmingly positive reviews. IT just shows how completely irrelevant game journalists and major gaming websites are. Absolutely no one cares about their opinion.
Literally reading the part "One last note - I didn‘t see any women or femme-coded characters in the demo"
That‘s the last nail on the coffin for the game journalists.
Who gives a shit?
They'd rather ram politics and talk about their agenda than do their job. They will burn as no-one will continue to read them
How can they assume the gender of any of these anthropomorphic characters? Also video game characters don't ACTUALLY have genetals.
I mean Journey to the west HAS female characters so wouldn’t it make more sense to at leaat wait for the FULL game before making a statement like that?
@@revolvingworld2676 This game takes place after the Journey to the West though. So it’s not an adaption of the original story. It's a sequel to it.
@@operationspark3636well that explains the lack of presence of of Wukong's master and comrades in all trailers
Let me guess its now a hatecrime to play this game according to games journalists?
Don't worry, Its also a hatecrime if you don't play it.
_" How _*_dare_*_ they make an Monkey Demon protagonist with a WH°TE face? Oh wait... "_
virtueSignaling.exe broke
Correct because no Diversity
The Hogwarts treatment
But if they had given SunWokung a "bulakk" face, wouldn't have that posed an entirely different problem for their social engineered brains?
The media is deducting points off Wu Kong for "too cultural Chinese so the story is hard to understand"
Imagine a Chinese media hell even IGN China say shit like "GOW is too Nordic/GTA is too American/Witcher is too Polish"
Nope, read the reviews. They say the story is presented in a way that assumes you're already familiar with the characters and events from the chinese story. If you're not, you're gonna be extremely lost.
Journey to the West isn't really that hard to understand. Also I would recommend reading it. I could see how the references might not be clear to people who don't know Chinese myth.
@@drakeadkins6711 but as a self contained piece of media, the story should be explained. Maybe an animated short at the beginning that explains the story and characters.
@@danielx1224we already have western analogs for Journey to the West. It's not a hard story to understand. It's one of the most influential stories out of China.
@@danielx1224the video clearly states that a lot of western media does not want this game to succeed. Probably the same people you’re reading the reviews from. Think for yourself a little bit and just wait until the game comes out. There’s a lot more at play here that I know your brain can’t comprehend. But with the tension also between China and the US, realistically how could they want a Chinese game to take over the gaming market, even if for a moment? Common sense ain’t so common.
In Wukong chapter 4, there is a love story of a pig and a spider--as if it were not sufficiently diverse....
When i saw the diversity issues, I decided to pre-order the deluxe more expensive version instead of just the standard version.
I’ma do the same
doing God's work
Me. The fact that it pisses of the woke journalists is a good sign it’s a good game.
Me too 👍
What are you going to do when you realize the game is actually super woke?
Wukong is a character from Journey to the West. Possibly one of the more woke Chinese stories out there. For example, there was a part where Wukong and his team (all men) arrive at an all female kingdom. They accidentally drank magical water that got them all pregnant. Not wanting to give birth as a man, Wukong enlisted help from one of the God's in heaven which gave them pills to get an abortion. They then proceeded with the abortion.
Lol what the fuck
You sure its chinese? Looks it was written by americans. 😂
@@ZOMBIEo07 This is a true story from Journey to the West, not written by an American. Because there was no country called the United States at that time.
I am a Chinese, and I prove that this story is a story chapter that really exists in the original book of Journey to the West. In the original book, it is the fiftieth chapter. The 86 version of Journey to the West TV play played in the 16th episode. In addition, this chapter story also has a very pleasant theme song, called [女儿情], and the film version is [女儿国]
That is f#$king hilarious.
The only diversity that matters in video games is gameplay diversity and item diversity.
Diversity of environment design too.
I like it when each different area has its own unique aesthetics because it helps me navigate without constantly having to check the map.
Oh BTW the background scenary , landscape are REAL location in China
Fun fact: in the journey to the west show(it was made in like, late 1980s or something-) every location is real, and everything that they traveled and walked through was real. So the actors had to hike around a bunch of mountains and grasslands with their costumes and prop😅
@@e-treephonehome another fun fact : Wukong is a Monk, not Monkey. his real name 车奉朝
Another reason why this game about to blow up is because a very LARGE demographic of people in America who are fans of Dragon Ball Z are aware that Goku was based on Wukong. So we amped!
It's like we all went APEshit on hype
I'm a little older but the series 'Monkey' which was must see back in the 70's. Was also based on the Chinese mythology. Loved it! Hell it was so influential I became a Buddhist later in life 😀
@@ukbuddhist 《西游记》《水浒传》是反霸权的小说，他们的结局和中国历史农民运动一模一样，都失败了。
i bought the game because of King Monkey, He whooped ass in the 80s
0:08 didn't the creators say multiple times it's not a souls like? I keep hearing both sides and I'm confused now
Yeah more like arena checkpoint bossrush with minor souls mechanics.
Souls like mechanics but not a souls game
They did say that. Some people just ignore that and think if games have some similiar gameplay mechanics like checkpoint system that it's a soulslike
It's not but if it can dodge, someone will call it a souls like
Because the journalists who suck at the game keep dying tso they think it’s hard and hard to them = soulslike
At this point a game is bound to become a massive success if woke and tarded game journalists hate it.
Suspicious pattern, isn't it? Almost like it's actually contrived.
Last of us 2
That's why I consider buying the game.😅
It’s free advertising.
The Wukong reviews literally read as “the developers focussed on making a fun game and didn’t waste time adding things that don’t make the game more fun”
I didn’t even know this game existed until all the journalists started attacking it.
They literally advertised the game to me by trying to attack it 😂😂😂
@@DarkMatter2525 wow, didn't know you were _woke_ 😉 to this DM! Love your work. Been a subscriber since the old atheist wars days on YT.
The comment "we'll only answer questions about gameplay", is such an amazing answer.
I wish western developers had the balls to say something like that!
In this crazy era, the gaming world is a pure land. As a Chinese, I know that in recent years, the competition between the East and the West has politicized almost everything, but the group of gamers has always remained rational. We share similar aesthetics, we vote with our own money, and we know what a good game is and what a bad game is.
Just ten hours ago, domestic media released an interview with the creative team, in which the main creator YANGQI said a sentence that I like very much: "踏上取经路，比抵达灵山更重要." This translates to: "Starting on the right path is more important than reaching the destination."
The game will be unlocked soon. Although it may not be comparable to many famous works that everyone is familiar with, I still hope that everyone can enjoy the authentic Chinese culture presented by the Game Science Team.
as a westerner I don't care about this bullshit the game looks really good and I can't wait to play it. to hell with the journalists. people like this will continue to cry because they don't get their way.
A guy from China says "we vote". No, you dont... LoL
@@Lobos222 Actually Chinese do vote. They have a lot more local elections - the most in the world due to the scale of the country. They also have many, many protests - smaller scale though. I don't blame you for not knowing this. Anyway, I sense an air of superiority from your comment. Know that your vote doesn't change anything in the West. Drop your ego, which you aren't aware that's what it is.
@@Lobos222 Honestly, you tell me, what did your vote bring you? A sense of nothingness, a sense of superiority that thinks your vote can change something? What's left at the end? Nothing has changed, you are still living your life and nothing substantial has been brought to you because of the election
@@dunzhen Yes, we know they can vote. Like the election in 2023, they only have one name on their vote of chairman of China. And everyone may at least has an experience about vote: Having a piece of paper and writing down a name of representative who they completely don't know. And more, they can vote but they can't deny. From the result of 2952:0, we can find almost everyone can't say no. If the central government want collect money from Guangdong and spend it to Northeast, everyone in Guangdong must say yes.
Its not even a giga-chad move. You interview a game dev or a PR manager about games; they're expecting questions like mechanics and features. Of course he's going to tell you to step back in line once you ask him some nonsense. He has a job, that job is answering questions about the game, gameplay, and possibly what we hope to expect.
Lol right?
"So do you like our game?"
"Yes, so about my mental illness..."
"Can we just talk about the game?"
"Wow bigot"
I just read on Twitters that Black Myth: Wukong now has over 1.000.000 concurrent players on Steam. Wishing them all the best!
Its now 2,215,000 players online
2.2mil+ now ;)
2.2 mill plus me lmao
@@davidsaucedo5287 today is Monday, still has 2.2+ 24-hr peak, 1.1+ playing plus me lmao.
Proud to be a owner of the game!, Bought them all! Support the developers that create games with love and respect for their potential customers and players. *RESPECT*
It's somewhat ironic. Black Myth Wukong was a story about rebelling against the establishment (the Celestial Court), and Game Science is living through the same process of rebelling against an establishment of "game critics" and medias.
Art does come from life.
I didn’t feel bad for playing Bayonetta 3, I won’t feel bad at all for playing Black Myth: Wukong
Bayonetta and first descendant I’m happy
Bayo 3 is wo. ke, so no. lol
@@IncognitoActivado I fail to understand, but how in the hell is it woke?
@@WePlayGameslmao Even these ppl have no clue what it means, they just like to throw the word around since it's popular. And they can't be honest if they dislike something for some reason.
@@RLHvanDijk exactly. I can’t remember almost anything woke about bayo 3. Idiots are everywhere here
Black Myth Wukong and Stella Blade are probably the only two big titles that doesn't contain ANY LGBTQ+ bullshit this year...honestly I'm happy we still get games like this and sad at the same time because this is the only two and they are both Asian games, western studios needs to pull their shit together and revive it.
Hopefully amigo.
Bring back fun games without an agenda
Space Marines 2 is also something to look forward to,Even if it's all leaked by the damn hackers.
@C-3POII45I4 yeah that's a bit shit. I've stayed away from watching anything about it. But it looks very cool. Again. Another game that's gotten bad press. Must be good hahaha
Western wokeness hasn't caught on there at all. One of my favorite examples was a video of Asian plus size clothing stores with names like "Fatty Fat Girls" and "Calorie Lovers". They don't care.
The dumb thing is Son Wukong is Gender Neutral he was born from a Rock and can transform into anything be it inanimate or animated. Seems Gamespot didn’t do their research
He scratched his balls, making a rebel clone in lore.
Yeah yeah, HE can change into anything HE wants. Just like the little elf girl is actually 7000 years old, not 7, she just looks like that. Ya know, he just looks like that, he's actually a toad.
@@XiaolinDraconis It's like those amazingly messed up Loki myths. Sometimes he was the father, and sometimes the mother.
Sun Wukong is male in the myth tho?
@@613aristocrat If american game journos would read actual norse mythology they'd lose their mind. ...same with most mytholigies tbh. Shit gets really wild, really soon.
Western game journalists: "do you think that traditional capitalistic societies and their structures are evil and need to be destroyed?"
Developer: "No"
Western game journalists: "This game is controversial and problematic"
to anyone who read this: you wanna know something funny. The main god in Journey to the west is a man who became a female goddess. 2 male characters become pregnant due to a magical river. and the main character, the MAIN MALE CHARACTER, outside the story has almost always been described as female. female in comic, female in plays and female in shows. China was asked about this and simply said it fits better. there is more canonical woke stuff in this story then most other stuff. but isn't woke because it actually fits the story.
you wanna know something funny, wukong is the most inclusive character ever, can transform to anything and everything.
The Japanese did the Best version, Monkey Magic, sorry China.
@@kharnifex weeb
By the main character did you mean the monk?
Isn't the main character not also the reincarnation of a Praying Mantis god?
Its not a souls-game
its an action-adventure, hack and slash game. like times of old.
we need more games like this
Are you sure? It has estus flasks and bonfires.
It's probably not hack and slash, it's more like Nioh 2.
it's literally souls-game
does it play more like kingdom hearts? no it doesnt, it plays more like dark souls, I dont know why you and the nioh crowd want to die on this hill
The game genre listed on the game says souls-like and it's why I don't want to play it since I don't like that genre, so is it wrong?
1) It's not a souls game
2) If the woke pseudo-game "journalists" complain about not being inclusive, bla bla bla all that garbage we don't want or need, then that means the game is REALLY GOOD and that you should get it and support it, and also means that said game "journalist" isn't serious and shouldn't be taken seriously at all. So, fk the nazi-woke inclusive garbage. I'll get it when the physical version drops since I don't buy digital at all.
true and true.
No it is a souls game. If you die in the game, it is soulslike game, because obviously frimsoft invented this mechanic. Also there is dodge, parry and block, and you fight with bosses in 3rd person camera. No one ever done these before fromsoft. So it is soulslike
@@hododod246 You had me in the first half... clever poster.
@@hododod246it’s god of war but monke, thankfully it’s not souls like so it’s actually enjoyable
Between this and stellar blade, I think western media should take a long hard look at the way they (mis)represent their own demographic.
Stellar Blade was even more stupid than this. I mean the MC is based on the wife, a real life person... And the one who made a big deal about it went with stretched legs into it as well.
"Timmy you can't like this! There is not enough brown people! Who will pay your pension?"
"Diddy know better. Wait where are you going?"
😂😂😂
To be honest, many game journalists don’t know and haven’t made research about “Journey to the West”.
"It have West in the title, so it should based on what our standard is.. REE~~ " -Journo probably
@@pc14thenumber9Journey to the world western hemisphere, not journey to the western world
@@pc14thenumber9 KANYE WEST
@@firefly4326 even then their destination is not like west west. it just west of china, which in this case is india.
The west is India
I support games like this from China, and I wanna see this game succeed so we can see more
+1000 social credits
If the game is even 10% as awesome as the story then you will be rocked off your boots!
@@3kittenloverI would unironically take the explicit social credit system than the implicit one we use
@@OrchinX Funnily enough, "social credit score" is not a real thing in China. It's just one of many things that gets attributed as true, bcos if a thing sounds bad and attached to a communist country, then it's assumed that this country is engaging in this bad thing.
It's the same with the Uyghurs. And that claim has been actively opposed by the same Muslim countries that freaks out whenever their prophet gets drawn.
Yeah gaming in the west is only getting worse from Here on out and its not (just) the pandering its all the bad stuff we had to deal with before that to DLCs bugs on release days and so fourth and so on
the future is in the east
As someone who can speak Chinese- don't EVER dare write an article when you do not understand the language and are basing it on google f'ing translate. It's NOT very good at accurate translations, sorry. Watched my Chinese mother in law try to use it to speak to Americans and it was HILARIOUS how dirty it made everything.
as someone thats speaks many languages thats true. Trying to speak with someone in chinese with google translate is impossible, it just doesnt work. For languages like english to spanish, or english to german, its possible. But for chinese its not
Oh god they used google translate 😂😂😂 how embarrassing
Chinese is a very subtext and context heavy language so it's a nightmare for Google translate. I can speak Chinese and English but even switching between the 2 is a nightmare sometimes because of how different those are.
Especially when a lot of indigenous Chinese people have a hard time with understanding Mandarin Chinese themselves. That's why Google Translate were invented, to F things up
哇塞，你的中文这么棒！你在哪里学的呢？
Chinese game about a monkey fighting frogs doesnt have enough diversity
They need to make the freaking frogs gay
diversity meaning blk or lgtv
@@hugoduarte4208 THEY'RE PUTTING CHEMICLES IN THE FRUIT THAT MAKES THE MONKES GAY
They forgot to include the library animal group, you know A-Z-1-0
I'm an old outdated gamer that started playing in 1999. Veteran at the souls games, subbed to IGN when they were just in the few hundreds of thousands of followers and I'd like to say, when I heard IGN trying to give bad publicity about Black Myth, I just unsubscribed & blocked them on TH-cam. Period.
The game is out today!! Have fun everyone!!
yeah ign is cooked. On that woke bs
IGN were never good, I still remember when they absorbed VoodooExtreme which was one of the best gaming sites back in the day, everything changed out of all recognition and yet I still go there every day.....a toxic relationship
Ign in other game🥸ign in wukong🤡
Just now? Ign has been like this since a decade or more
@@Bun777 yeah, I'm not much of a media guy since a while, so I only follow big events or stuff related to souls like games. . .
The problem with most of these new games that does "Norse" myth is that it's not. It's always subverted, politicized, bastardized or just loosely inspired by with occasional name dropping of gods and heroes.
Marvel is prob the worst offender next to God of War.
Hard agree, they treat Norse mythology like disneyland, adding black people too..wtf?
@@darianstarfrogUhh black people did exist in norse, few. But they existed
@@darianstarfrogu just racist bro😂 god of war norse games are amazing. They also obviously arent trying to be 100% accurate to norse mythology, The main character is a literal greek god, but black people exisitng is where you draw your line? Yikes brother
@@jasonbelcho8609🙄
@@jasonbelcho8609yeah no. Even Wukong is better since there aren't any black people in that, which is good. It's not necessary.
26:03 "Why liberal?" Well, if it was a conservative, they'd be angry at either the false notion of the Chinese government spying on Americans with this game or the violence in this game.
And if it was liberal they are worried about the false notion that men can be women and women can be men…
Wukong devs already said thanks to the woke urinalists. Their free advertisement boosted sales like crazy. Cheers
I honestly think china and maybe even russia will fill a western entertainment void left by the fall of all these ESG/DEI companies going tits up
As a conservative Chinese, I really think DEI is ruining the entire western entertainment industry, not just games but also TV series and movies, it's so counter-intuitive and unnatural.
@@wenc9027as a conservative enjoyer of China and Chinese culture, I am so ready for Chinese entertainment to fill the void. You guys have incredibly talented action movie actors, game designers, and donghua studios. Cheers from California!
@@x01021 Dude, thank you for loving our culture. I hope that our culture can be carried forward and seen by more friends from other countries. I also hope that the cultures of other countries can also prosper and develop, but in a normal and healthy direction. We Chinese, especially my generation, 1990 - 2000, grew up watching American movies. My impression of Americans when I was a child is completely different from those guys who are screaming "woke" today. I don’t know what has happened in your country these years. But I am so sorry about that I could not agree with most of their views and I feel offended by their arrogance, ignorance and hypocrisy. I hope you guys can cancel DEI and bring us more great American culture, American movies, and American games.Greetings from Shanghai!
@@wenc9027 Americans are in a weird spot lately with respect to China. On the woke side, they hate China with a passion because you guys do not bow to MeToo, DEI, and other bs. But in the right wing Trump side, they also hate China with a passion because the politicians need to give people an enemy to distract them from the economy. So they tell lies about Uyghers and social credit score. I hope both countries can get back to normal relations so we can all make money and enjoy cool tech. Btw my favorite cities are Shanghai and Chengdu (my wife’s hometown)
I think that China's the only country that's big and influential enough to counter the ESG/DEI coming out of the US.
The success of this game will gain them ground and allow for other Eastern developers to use China as a shield to push further into this non-DEI direction.
imagine creating a video game based on your rich, multi-millenial cultural heritage and having gremlins who probably dont know journey to the west come along and say its not diverse enough.
Typical American behavior.
no microtransactions hell, no live service trash, no DEI history re-writing, and it doesn't suck. Sign me up!
When you say DEI, it just shows you are a bigot. The term means nothing in this context, and is just a virtue signal for bigots to identify each other.
I will 100% play a game thats good even if it was made by convicts.
I will 100% play a game thats good even if it has some woke bs.
I will 100% NOT play game based on what any fkn journalist has to say.
I will watch gameplay myself and then come to my own conclusions.
Me play gud gam, me no play bad gam, simple, journalist no play gam, journalist just talk, GRAAH
A very wise barbarian - 802 AD
@@realmothbuterfli gamers together, stronk 🤜
If a dude kills your only son for fun and makes the best game ever, will you play it?
@@blicleak1101 if the world explodes into a trillion pieces, would you play videogames?
@@blicleak1101 If you were a worm, would you play videogames ?
I am Chinese and this is a complete translation error. In fact that expression, which is very common in the Chinese Internet community, is a non-insulting expression that means a woman is sexy
I don't get how they don't understand that even literal correct translations can be wrong on it's face because deeper cultural meanings and understandings. For things like this I go to the source, native speakers. I really dislike these close minded people.
I speak Chinese. Yes, they are horribly mistranslated. It looks like they popped in into Google translate, which is notoriously terrible at translating Chinese to English. 下体 could literally translate character for character to “lower body” but he means “the next part”. Should’ve used ChatGPT 😂.
They probably did use ChatGPT, but they liked the google translate version better
China: 'Black Myth: Wukong'.
America: 'Black Man, Muh Kang'.
Jessie J came to China to a singing competition called "Singer 2018", and Guardian's article says "british singer goes to china to teach them how to sing". I don't know why Guardian was invited to test play the game, they are a tabloid that most people don't take seriously.
Guardian are famous for spewing lies.
Thats a racist article, they need to be judged, but sadly the western politics, will say "its a joke", as alway happened.
I thought they were going out of business? A shame they didn't.
There's no accountability for journalism malpractice. There should be a 3 strike rule, at the 3rd fck up where you cause damage to someone or business while being wrong you go sit for 5 years idgaf.
THEY ARE LITERALLY ANGRY BECAUSE THE WRITERS REFUSE TO GO THE WOKE ROUTE IN A FUCKIN 430 YEAR OLD STORY! LOL THEY ARE MAD BECAUSE THE WRITERS REFUSE TO MAKE WUKONG TRANS, PLEASE SHOW THESE GAME JOURNALIST THAT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP UP RUINING OUR GAMES FOREVER!
😂😂 they’re mad because no female inclusion. It’s Chinese mythology, which I’m sure they don’t have a single clue about.
relax homie, it ain't that serious.
Calm down grandpa, here are your meds
@@IronBearVA there was a part of Journey to the West where the gang drinks magic water that makes you pregnant a LOVED it Wukong had to make them drink abortion water so they could continue their quest. That's pretty woke for a 430 year old story.
You mad?
28:08 tell me what you want but these few minutes are the smartest thing i have heard all year. that man keeps impressing me more and more
For a century the US has had an absolute lock on global cultural exports as a means of international soft propaganda...film, music, video games...but in recent years, and accelerating quickly, that has slipped into other parts of the world and they don't like it.
Most specifically, they do not want their closest economic competitor and emerging super power, to be able to export likeable cultural stuff and that's just how it is.
That's just how it is, at least a great part of it.
Exactly! They wont be able to properly gaslight kids if they don't have a monopoly on entertainment. Their only interest is to remove cultural standards that make them feel sad for one reason or another, "Merit" is one of the standards they are trying to remove so they cannot compete if there is even one developer that is interested in creating things that are true, good and beautiful.
I wouldn't really call China an emerging super power, Their country is just as absolutely screwed as the US because of the one child policy.
This! Literally this! It has little to do with "woke" or "diversity" or anything of the like. It has everything to do with western market and cultural dominance, and denying China any influence in that space.
Lol China is not an emerging super power. They're on the cusp of population and therefore economic collapse, and their force projection ability is limited to their coastline.
They propergate a culture war to distract everyone from the real issue, the deepening financial gap between the upper and lower class.
They were obsessed with Baldur's Gate when it didnt follow the money sucking pattern of modern trash games and was scared that this new way of Complete Game making is going to be New Normal, AGAIN!
Complete game making? I see you never made it to Act 3
Bg3 is overhyped trash
To be fair, BG3 was not complete. There is a huge list of cut contents that they openly share. But Larian were more earnest in their production, and let players review the Early Access for other people and give feedback or suggestions on what to add; they even livestream the gameplay each update of the EA. Even now, they're still adding even more contents and bug fixes they could to the game.
They didn't do a Cyberpunk 2077 of masking the game till release, only to found that it's a mess, and took 2 years to fix, which were also thanks to the players. It could be worse, like Bioware's Anthem.
Well it was all a ploy, BG3 is really filled with diverse/progressive views in Act 1, and from what I've heard Act 3 isn't even complete. They didn't even finish coding Levels 14-20 of the DnD classes and gave up at L13.
The very first real quest is saving the poor tiefling refugees from being kicked out by the mean druids out of their Druid Grove, who are just being meanies with no reason to kick them out (other than draining resources and inviting goblins to attack). Never mind the tieflings are intentionally antagonistic to them, don't discipline their kids from stealing from the druids, and threatening to riot.
@@aetherblackbolt1301that sounds alot like Sweden.
I'm "old" about to be 30. My 8th grade social studies teacher always said "journalists aren't your friend" she was never ever wrong.
You are not old enough yet, You still have time to enjoy life
I think diversity was never supposed to mean that every subsets of sexuality, gender and race should be included in every media product.
Diversity should be about every subsets having a representation. The best way to do this is to let the people in question tell their own stories.
Finally a comment that's not insane.
Game Journalist seeing an action game: "ANOTHER GAME IN THE SOULS GENRE! HOW ORIGINAL"
2:05 Hell yeah, brother! I've been saying that for years. It's also related with the fact that they'll apologize only once public opinion has turned against them and would never do that if public opinion was on their side. So never forget, never forgive and never let them live it down.
4:00 Jesus, thank you. I am SO tired of reading these painfully mediocre writers trying to convince people that they're James Joyce while writing some garbage article on Otaku about a video game. Dude, deliver the information as clearly and succinctly as possible. We all learned about alliteration in grade 6 English, you're not impressing anyone by writing 3 words that start with the same letter in a row.
“Stick around for a week and I’ll make you mad too” 😂😂😂😂
As a big Wukong/Chinese mythology fan, on one hand its great to see a solid game that focuses on it but on the other hand I hate seeing western journalists trying to tear down the game and its history because it doesn't fit their world views
It's fine - they just do advertisement for free ;-)
i can't not say more than so i agree with you.. sadly how westen trying to force tear down other the game they have take up with great lore, great history.. i mean.. they don't know what mean ''respect to their culture and their history''? no they don't care about that more than diverity and woke stuff nowdays.. bruh..
Just pretend they are the canon fodder game enemies that you the player gets to whack with a 85 tonne stick that can grow to impossible sizes.
Don’t worry absolutely no one is taking them seriously, just point and laugh at them for a while and then forget they existed
4:00 It's written like a dramatic romance novel. The target audience is gamers, so here's my shot at rewriting it myself:
Black Myth Wukong won't have you stuck on bosses for endless hours like some FromSoft games, but you'll have plenty of difficult encounters to keep you on the edge. After enough progression, you unlock new abilities such as attacks, fire magic, and turning into a stealthy cicada. These proved useful when fighting the giant werewolf atop a crumbling temple.
Good games are only a threat to bad developers trying to sell garbage. That's why they got mad at BG3, they don't want you to be reminded of what a good game feels like. They want buying trash games for obscene prices to stay normalised, it means they don't have to put any effort into development and you still throw your wallet at them anyway.
Game about _Chinese_ mythology.
"NOT DIVERSE!!!"
Same bs they pulled on the witcher
Actually Wukong is the most diverse game out there. It has a monkey as the main character, plus spider, male, female, midget, monk, giant, and god. With all this diversity, it should be named Black Man: Woke Kong instead. 😎
Even Wukong himself turned into a bird, a fish, a temple. He married with Jubajie (the pig) once. His master had pregnant😂
actually no dragon representation. Dragon lives matter.
@@silverscalederg8632did you not see the huge dragon he beats up?
@@smoothduck7151abuse of dragons 😔✊
@@smoothduck7151it's loong now,no dragon representative😂
Oh wow it doesn't bow to garbage public pressure and sticks to its vision. Unbelievable 😅
Based!
My Chinese wife also says there is a Chinese saying about how "For gentlemen to take revenge, 10 years is not too late." lol
“”君子報仇，十年未晚“”
Nice one
My favorite is “my best revenge is living a good life”
(And my ex gf hates me for it)
Quân tử trả thù 10 năm chưa muộn
Watch ur back
"read the guardian" yeah ive heard enough already
3:40 Bro sounds like he swallowed a thesaurus. As an amateur writer I learned a long time ago that showing off your verbose vocabulary in a publicly consumed publication is the fasted way to turn people off your writing. You want to be understandable and not boasting. The opposite of this master of literature.
Brevity is the soul of wit
Nothing they wrote (in this sample at least) is particularly difficult, IMO. Which words do you object to?
Classic Guardian pretentious writing
@@gimmedataids None of it is difficult. To me, at least. I'm not talking about comprehension. I'm talking about not sounding pretentious. Just because you have a verbose vocabulary doesn't mean that you should strive to put as many five syllable words in your articles as you can.
Take this above paragraph. I myself sound pretentious here, which is sort of intentional since I'm writing a rebuttal to an obviously biting and pointed reply so I I want to sound so. But in a gaming publication you're catering to the layman, not intellectuals and you're trying to convey a point of view not advertising your linguistical prowess.
You want to be relatable and congenial. That guys entire tone and word use sounds pretentious and arrogant. Just because you've learned the meaning of all these words doesn't mean each and every one of your readers has done so as well.
Simple easy to read words convey your ideas more clearly and to a larger audience. It makes you sound relatable and not like a total douche.
journalist speak is so exhausting like just say the game has fluid movement and impressive graphics
52min video on black myth, you already know this is gonna be good
It's goty material
You should check out the Chris Chan one from last night too 😳
At this point, buying two copies of the game, isn't nearly enough to pay respects to the devs.
I did that, one of my mates had to pay for a new fridge this month as his old one died, so he would have to wait until next month to get it.
Little does he know, there's a BMW code waiting for him when he gets in from work tonight 👍
Double Based
Oh my god no, developers are criticized because they censor opinions, fucking bootlicking Chinese company I suppose that doesn't want to talk about Covid and other things, that's what I've seen. So be careful. And furthermore the game seems to have default so I would wait to see the final quality.
Buying 2 versions of the game is crazy work.
Oh hey it took me two seconds to find a comment that backs up my theory.
I had just commented that I think the publisher itself could be stirring this up just to bait protest purchases and boost sales, or at least get the word out louder. I did forget this game was a thing for a year, like immediately after seeing a trailer, and now I don't stop hearing about it.
Journalists hate this game? Alright I'm sold
Black Myth Wukong is based on historical myth and legends, they didn't want to go full on fantasy by adding DEI.
To this game journalist if there's no DEI in the game it means it's not a good game.
Meanwhile gamers can't wait to play and buy this game because the gameplay is fun and it's in a mythological setting.
Goes to show what they are really prioritising in a game.
What is a DEI?
I'm DEFINITELY going to be getting Black Myth Wukong eventually, and all the negativity from "journalists" is one of the major reasons why. I am going to end up waiting a bit, though... mostly because my aging rig isn't going to be able to run it very effectively at the moment. Gonna end up waiting for a performance patch or two.
They knew the game was quite generic and paid for a fake "controversy" to dupe people into buying it for politics. This is probably the 10th video about the "controversy" on Asmon's clips channel. Game journos get clicks, influencers get clicks, publisher gets a few extra sales.
@@iyziejanethe publisher doesn't even know English
What the hell kind of proof do you got for such an insane theory
@@crusaderACR "insane theory" sounds like I hit a nerve, I'm just explaining the basic internet economy, anyone can see that "buy this to virtue signal about hurting the wokes" is a huge market these days. Meanwhile journos are happy to play the heel since that gets them clicks to get paid. This little ecosystem spins up all the time to give forgettable games an extra push.
FFS, Black Myth Wukong is not Souls Like it basically like God of war and DMC combined
At the very least, the combat looks pretty Souls, tbh.
Eh, it's like all 3 of them combined. I can see the soulsike inspiration.
I thought it was more like Nioh because of the stances
That makes me less interested tbh
or Sekiro. Basically, hack'n'slash/rythm based combat with metroidvania vibes.
Honestly one of the main reasons I played Smite for so long, I just love the wide array of Mythologies they had to pull from and in a lot of cases in my opinion, look really good.
They say, "the developer" says bad things like the developer is one person. Many people work there, and I wouldn't want to help these weirdos crash the studio even if there was a really big meany working there.
If there is harassment, help the victim with litigation. And when you know you have no evidence of anything and decide to make things up like this for your misplaced vigilante justice. Just don't.
Diversity to journalists is using all ingredients in every single meal, when real diversity should be to let each meal have their own taste.
Why do you think most Ubisoft games feel like they threw all the gameplay elements stolen from other games and throw them into a blender to make grey slop?
“If we put everyone favourite food in the blender, everyone will love it”
But they keep making vanilla sushi kimchi donut pizza burger chocolate smoothies and wondering why nobody likes it.
@@glawenclattuc3127and yet somehow it tastes like konjac, every single time, no matter how much stuff they put in that blender.
@@lemao2222 Hahahahaha you are delusional.
@@glawenclattuc3127 What? Do you disagree? That's fine, I guess.
But to me Ubisoft games have for the most part been incredibly bland, they don't taste like anything in particular despite all the ingredients in it. Just like konjac when eaten by itself.
@@lemao2222 No, my brain mis-read konjac as cognac, which gave me an opposite meaning to what you actually said.
Most Ubisoft games are bland paste. But sometimes they have not washed the ingredients properly and you find a piece of dirt or stone, that makes you not want to eat.
An example of this is when they added the assasins creed games to play pass, and I can play the games without buying them, they all have the same bugs in the games. Sometimes they even have more bugs.
How can they make the same game as 4 years ago, but worse? Horses in Valhalla control worse than horses in Origins.
Horses in modern assasins creed games control worse than in Zelda, they are worse than Shadow of The Colossus which is the game with the BEST horse.
It is like their blended slop is made from stale rotten ingredients. And every new game, the ingredients are even more rotten, and leaves a bitter aftertaste.
The irony of complaining about diversity and then shutting down Asian representation (because I’m lumping AC: Shadows with this) is pretty staggering.
So typical. Shows its not about diversity.
40:22 You have no idea how loudly I burst out laughing after this 🤣🤣🤣. Whoever said that deserves a gifted sub 😂😂😂