Well, yeah, this isn’t terribly surprising. It’s based on an extremely popular piece of their culture.
yeah, i only picked up that Wukong is a mythological figure after a while of playing League of Legends.
he’s also the main character in Dragon Ball
And Andy Serkis’ game, Enslaved Odyssey to the West
I don’t really know if it’s fair to call it “Andy Serkis’ game”. Kinda undercuts Ninja Theory.
Same but with DotA!
Asians interested in asian myths and legends?? Holy shit.
Also 88% is contextually such a suss number
Yeah I mean, most westerners have never heard of wukong and aren’t really interested in a soulslike game centered on him from a brand new studio. It’s cool that Chinese devs are starting to release games internationally, but this concept was never going to be that popular outside of Asia. The fact that they shot themselves in the foot with their advertising didn’t help.
I expected it to be popular in China, but I didn’t expect the ratio to be that skewed. Haven’t we been hearing about this game for years?
I don’t often buy new releases, especially not if I have a big backlog, but I’ve been interested in this game for quite a while.
Wasn’t there controversy about the conditions of the press release?
If you’re referring to what I think you are, it was surrounding ‘streaming rules’ for the game.
which is a sure-fire way to make sure I won’t buy or support a game
I mean to be fair, it’s probably one of the five games that haven’t been banned by the CCP…
Jokes aside, It does look pretty dope though
would be interesting to see a chart like this for some recent western release for comparison
I didn’t even know steam was available in china.
China pandering in games about to go into overdrive.
Edit: when a Chinese game made for Chinese people sells as well as this, you can bet your britches more western studios will try to get in on those sales. How do you do that? Give a bit of a nod towards China in your games and don’t add anything that will piss them off. I wonder if Ubisoft will put assassin’s creed in China next.
It doesn’t matter to me, but I’m just saying expect it.
China pandering to itself apparently
No no no, it’s only bad when bad country does it, you see! When good country does literally the same thing but more extreme, it’s good!
It’s a game made by China for China, how is that pandering?
Pandering is more like “We included a character who is a ripoff of that character from that other thing because said character is popular!” or “This is an important social issue right now, let’s hamfist a take on it we think will be popular without doing any real research on said issue or how to approach it competently”
Not talking about this game. I’m talking about future western releases.
I’m even more confused now, what are you talking about?
Sorry, sometimes I don’t articulate well. I edited my original comment. Maybe it will clarify what I mean to say.
i’m pretty sure as a chinese game developer it’s pretty easy to rent a few 10k people to install the game. still, so far i have heard and seen only good things about the game, so i guess it will be a huge success worldwide when it comes out.
what a weird assertion to make
2.1 million people were playing it
