She didn't finish the game; they got to Act 2 and decided to quit. Some of those bosses require your full attention, just like Elden Ring's bosses. Yellow Loong, to be more specific in black myth isn't easy. Interestingly, the area where you find Yellow Loong is actually the area where many of the women, who critics claimed were not in the game, can be found.
Btw. that "report" of that toxic game dev enviroment at Game Science was completely fabricated and based on mistranslations and verified lies. The fact Alyssa called that "great journalism" and still talks about it as if it was true is insane. lol
If Concord didn't get cancelled, Sony would try their hardest to make Concord into the game of the year even if they had to pay the goty awards half a billion just to get featured in it
6:36 Aren´t the Steam Award Nominees also voted by the Steam Users? To my knowledge it´s the only game award that truly represents the opinion of actual gamers. I mean, even if you don´t like a game or think it´s just mid, you have to accept that if it wins in the Steam Awards that it is something a crapload of people really enjoyed.
Wow, she is still just lying every time she opens her mouth. I stopped following anything she did after she wrote that fluff piece for sweet baby where she again just lied and omitted pertinent details. She is a drama queen activist just begging for attention to try and prove she is relevant, which she isn't.
It's awesome to see her walk the walk of shame, having to resort to something she always viewed as something inferior. And it's even more hilarious that she truly thinks that she and her fellow (pop) culture hijackers are they definition of "gamers & gaming", but I rather she is on her own obscure TH-cam channel; where she has no reach what so ever.
Black Myth Wukong, well deserved GOTY, Geoffs game awards are dogshit. This game was awesome and killed it saleswise. This shows us exactly why Mercante got fired. They are biased, lying gaslighting sour activists which have no place in gaming.
Alyssa’s salty about the video game equivalent to the Oscars? Oh, okay… Anyway I’m going back to play Atelier Sophie 2, a video game with a female protagonist named Sophie. (There’s no females in games by the way). Have fun being miserable Alyssa while actual gamers have a good time playing quality indie games.
That article about a toxic work environment is entirely based upon mistranslated social media posts. The translation they used failed to take idioms into consideration, so the admittedly vulgar comments actually sound like sexism. The idiom that was in the comment from someone high up in the studio is basically the Chinese version of brown nosing/ having your head up your boss's ass. What made it worse is that since the studio never talked to IGN about this the author assumed it their assessment was true; they started editing other people's IGN articles to include that the studio never responded to her for comment on her article. Some of those articles she edited weren't even about Wukong.
5:47 i think that was the sexist posts she references here, i can give you some context, if it is that what i think, the people working at Wukong or the CEO, apparently made "sexist comments", on the other side whoever translated this only used google translator another person on youtube (not sure the youtuber i think it was some ordinary gamers or Penguinz0), made a video basically with hearsay "it was terribly translated", this was a weird controversy, nobody is entirely sure who was on the wrong side, and its not like asian language is something you can learn in a thew months. WHatever happened nobody has the entire prove from what happened.
9:11 the oscars are a freaking joke. and the game awards kinda feel that way, sometimes, not nearly as much as the oscars. it's just a spotlight for the rich and famous.
Also even Elden Ring doesn't have as good of replay value as the other From Soft games imo at least because it's open world. You can only experience the magic of exploring one time; after that you'll probably know where stuff you care about is located at least. The other FromSoft games are linear so they have much much less downtime. For example if you already know where things are located in Elden Ring you can get a lot of stuff before even beating Margit in Stormveil. A 15 minute run through Caelid will give you everything you need for a good int build without ever fighting a boss. You can pick up Rock Sling and the Meteor Staff since they're literally just sitting on the ground in a swamp. Meanwhile you can get Moonveil, one of the best int melee weapons, about half way through a cave in Caelid. Those three items will easily carry you though like the first half of the game.
Way she talks doesn’t even sound like a journalist in my opinion, it’s just a random person talking about something, now i’m not trying shame her for her voice but things she complains are just not worth it, also to my knowledge wukong wasn’t a soulslike, core gameplay might have been similar to souls games to some extent but i don’t remember it having bonfire and currency you loose upon dying (I didn’t play it nor watch your stream so I apologize if I’m wrong)
And them the Game Science thing is an intentionally mistranlation by one of IGN's writers trying to put them in a bad light. And agreed with the Metaphor take, its a bit too bloated. Stories fine, but gameplay is...a little not good
Even most basic normie_casual can understand that Wukong as a "game" is way better than Astrobot, but wokies keeping gaslight in power... as if they informing people who have no their own opinions, or they just afraid that gaming journalism gonna be redundant joke job.
Alyssa isn't an "ex" gaming journalist when she was NEVER a "journalist" to begin with.
Anybody can be a journalist. Just go online and have shitty opinions, it's easy
If she's perpetuating the lie that there's no female characters, she's not played the game.
She didn't finish the game; they got to Act 2 and decided to quit. Some of those bosses require your full attention, just like Elden Ring's bosses. Yellow Loong, to be more specific in black myth isn't easy. Interestingly, the area where you find Yellow Loong is actually the area where many of the women, who critics claimed were not in the game, can be found.
"Stop claiming that we dont play the games we talk about" LOL
Btw. that "report" of that toxic game dev enviroment at Game Science was completely fabricated and based on mistranslations and verified lies. The fact Alyssa called that "great journalism" and still talks about it as if it was true is insane. lol
Ye I was about to ask if it wasn't mistranslated cause I heard something like that
@@heronik79 yeah, it was
yet i still saw some people fall for this shit in a chat im in somewhere a few weeks ago lmao
well it would be if it wasn't her... with her level of crazy, it makes perfect sense.
If Concord didn't get cancelled, Sony would try their hardest to make Concord into the game of the year even if they had to pay the goty awards half a billion just to get featured in it
she's a friend of Airbagged, what do you expect?
😆
She's upset that gamers get to vote on something. They have the game awards all to themselves and still they're upset.
6:36 Aren´t the Steam Award Nominees also voted by the Steam Users? To my knowledge it´s the only game award that truly represents the opinion of actual gamers. I mean, even if you don´t like a game or think it´s just mid, you have to accept that if it wins in the Steam Awards that it is something a crapload of people really enjoyed.
she went from dissing gamers everywhere to being in a position LOWER than them XD
"That's coming from me, and I make commentary video's." Lmao
Is incredible how she dismisses fan votes... and then wonders why people do not like journalists... 0 self awareness.
You can’t hate “people” like her enough
Wow, she is still just lying every time she opens her mouth. I stopped following anything she did after she wrote that fluff piece for sweet baby where she again just lied and omitted pertinent details. She is a drama queen activist just begging for attention to try and prove she is relevant, which she isn't.
Kotaku was rooting for slop.
It's awesome to see her walk the walk of shame, having to resort to something she always viewed as something inferior. And it's even more hilarious that she truly thinks that she and her fellow (pop) culture hijackers are they definition of "gamers & gaming", but I rather she is on her own obscure TH-cam channel; where she has no reach what so ever.
Imagine getting mad at a game that won a fictitious award. Oh wait
Wait they disqualified sonic 3 at the oscers this is next level bullcrap
Black Myth Wukong, well deserved GOTY, Geoffs game awards are dogshit. This game was awesome and killed it saleswise. This shows us exactly why Mercante got fired. They are biased, lying gaslighting sour activists which have no place in gaming.
How dare it not have woman even though it represents a rarely represented group of people along with GOOD GAMEPLAY and yes it has woman gasp
Alyssa’s salty about the video game equivalent to the Oscars?
Oh, okay…
Anyway I’m going back to play Atelier Sophie 2, a video game with a female protagonist named Sophie.
(There’s no females in games by the way).
Have fun being miserable Alyssa while actual gamers have a good time playing quality indie games.
I personally don't care about the game awards and people getting mad at a game for winning the game awards is beyond ridiculous😂😂😂😂
average kotaku worker
"Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one. Some just happen to be more full of shit than others"
Sick burn.
not mine lol, heard it from some guy on twitter
Currently on my second playthrough, completing all the content I missed. Definitly my favourite game of 2024
4:18 "Culture war is the problem"
Also her: we gonna spill some oil into the fire.
She's doing everything she can to make people forget about her lawsuit lmao
This woman screams Karen
1:48 how can it die? It’s already dead!
Hey Sneaky, you should cover a video of Harman saying Baldur's Gate 3 is the "Twilight of gaming".
6:45 still dont get why people call it a soulslike. Never felt like one to me, still love it regardless.
I didn't care for Game Award. Commercial tactic.
That article about a toxic work environment is entirely based upon mistranslated social media posts. The translation they used failed to take idioms into consideration, so the admittedly vulgar comments actually sound like sexism. The idiom that was in the comment from someone high up in the studio is basically the Chinese version of brown nosing/ having your head up your boss's ass. What made it worse is that since the studio never talked to IGN about this the author assumed it their assessment was true; they started editing other people's IGN articles to include that the studio never responded to her for comment on her article. Some of those articles she edited weren't even about Wukong.
Also she says that Asian workplaces are toxic if you’re talking about the work hours that’s normal for them
5:47 i think that was the sexist posts she references here, i can give you some context, if it is that what i think,
the people working at Wukong or the CEO, apparently made "sexist comments",
on the other side whoever translated this only used google translator another person on youtube
(not sure the youtuber i think it was some ordinary gamers or Penguinz0),
made a video basically with hearsay "it was terribly translated",
this was a weird controversy, nobody is entirely sure who was on the wrong side,
and its not like asian language is something you can learn in a thew months.
WHatever happened nobody has the entire prove from what happened.
9:11 the oscars are a freaking joke. and the game awards kinda feel that way, sometimes, not nearly as much as the oscars. it's just a spotlight for the rich and famous.
Let's be honest most people calling themselves a gameing journalist are actually just activists that dislike games and gamers period.
Also even Elden Ring doesn't have as good of replay value as the other From Soft games imo at least because it's open world. You can only experience the magic of exploring one time; after that you'll probably know where stuff you care about is located at least. The other FromSoft games are linear so they have much much less downtime. For example if you already know where things are located in Elden Ring you can get a lot of stuff before even beating Margit in Stormveil. A 15 minute run through Caelid will give you everything you need for a good int build without ever fighting a boss. You can pick up Rock Sling and the Meteor Staff since they're literally just sitting on the ground in a swamp. Meanwhile you can get Moonveil, one of the best int melee weapons, about half way through a cave in Caelid. Those three items will easily carry you though like the first half of the game.
im not into the black wukong but i know why it won the awards lol while we have AAA GAME SLOPPS FEEDS EVERY YEAR!!!
baldur gate 3 won steam awards? in 2023 just like elden ring
where did you find this I want to put my two sense in on this.
alyssa mercantes channel
6:20 you sound like all the people on the internet. lol
Way she talks doesn’t even sound like a journalist in my opinion, it’s just a random person talking about something, now i’m not trying shame her for her voice but things she complains are just not worth it, also to my knowledge wukong wasn’t a soulslike, core gameplay might have been similar to souls games to some extent but i don’t remember it having bonfire and currency you loose upon dying (I didn’t play it nor watch your stream so I apologize if I’m wrong)
And them the Game Science thing is an intentionally mistranlation by one of IGN's writers trying to put them in a bad light. And agreed with the Metaphor take, its a bit too bloated. Stories fine, but gameplay is...a little not good
Even most basic normie_casual can understand that Wukong as a "game" is way better than Astrobot, but wokies keeping gaslight in power... as if they informing people who have no their own opinions, or they just afraid that gaming journalism gonna be redundant joke job.
I’ve got 100 hours in wukong it’s great but comparing these two is meaningless, they’re both good but completely different
less than 1 minute in and I smell cope
Black Myth is a great game
0 views and 3 comments, TH-cam is smoking something
Me: Mom can we get Leafy?
Mom: We have Leafy at home
Leafy at home:
Oh no please don't make 2025 be the year of you reacting to this dogshit human being. Was that an accurate description? I did good? 😂
Come on, guys. Let’s not become Harman Smith & console fanboys. PC gamers are better than that.
Dude be carful when talking about Phil people might compare u to rtu cause you've been talking about him a lot recently jk lol
Hello there
You sound like joefromseattle
Which is why I like him.
@ same lol
yo
Imma say it: wukong is more creative than anything From Slop has ever done or will do