Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 610 Is this even considered sour?

Many people thought that if the Black Myth demo performed well at E3, it might have a good effect, given how amazing the PV was.

It's probably the most explosive PV among all the amazing presentations at the Starry Night Expo pre-show.

No matter how optimistic the idea was, it couldn't surpass the effect of StarCraft actually releasing the demo at E3.

Just two or three hours after the E3 exhibition doors opened, the global gaming community was quickly flooded with news about a monkey. At first, it was just live stream clips from reporters and content creators like Chen Mo.

Soon, a large number of players at the scene began to get started.

As more and more media outlets finish editing the videos.

More and more reaction videos began to appear on the Internet, and edited "highlights" began to spread virally on major video websites.

Reaction Video: What Happened When a Korean Streamer Saw a Real Demonstration of Goku!

Tears well up! A Japanese girl tries out Black Myth and is so excited she's speechless!

Russian streamer takes on the most challenging task, gets a lesson from a wolf demon, and then shouts "Hurrah!"

These people from different countries, speaking different languages, are now expressing the same purest sense of awe and joy because of the same game.

Following this, preliminary reviews from major gaming media outlets around the world began to appear.

IGN: "A thunderclap from Eastern mythology - Black Myth: Wukong redefines our imagination of Chinese games with a single demo."

GameSpot: "Breathtaking art, solid and heavy feel; if the final product can maintain the level of the demo, it will be a strong contender for Game of the Year."

Japan's Famitsu magazine gave it extremely high praise: "This is not only a victory of technology, but also a demonstration of cultural heritage."

Meanwhile, domestic gaming media outlets went into overdrive with celebration.

Not only did they reprint news from overseas media, but they also started grabbing all sorts of "gossip" news, and even entertainment newspapers joined in the fun. Some "unscrupulous" editors even put Henry Cavill's photo of queuing on the front page, with headlines that were more and more exaggerated than the last.

Superman himself is there! Hollywood stars are willing to queue up to ride the "black monkey"!

"A Huge Win! StarCraft's Booth Becomes the Biggest Winner at E3, Microsoft Becomes a Mere Background!"

If the quality of the Black Myth demo itself raised the volume of this celebration to 70 decibels, then the world-class stage of E3 pushed it to 90 decibels.

The narrative of "Chinese game companies joining forces to fight" and the boost to national pride brought by the involvement of major official media outlets directly pushed this wave of enthusiasm to a boiling point of 110 decibels in China.

The Weibo hot search list was almost entirely dominated by "Starry Sky" and "Black Myth".

#BlackMythE3#
#SupermanLinesUpToPlayBlackMyth#
#Foreign players' reactions to Black Myth#
#CCTV Interview with Starry Games#
Each entry dominates the top of the list, followed by a deep red "Explosive" sign.

Amidst this uproar, a video began to circulate quietly on Bilibili and quickly rose to the top of the trending list.

The footage is from a CCTV.com report.

This in itself is not surprising, after all, when StarCraft E3 went overseas as a group, CCTV News reported on it.

Although it wasn't broadcast on television, many official media outlets have accounts on Bilibili. Similarly, it's not surprising that CCTV.com posted an interview video of Xingchen on Bilibili.

However, the video went viral not because of what Chu Chen said in the interview, but because someone noticed something during the interview.

Behind Chu Chen, there were several figures patiently waiting. Although blurred, from another perspective, they were clearly a team from Japan's Asahi TV and a group of reporters from the BBC.

In other words, when Chu Chen was being interviewed, there was a line of people waiting behind him!

That's so pretentious.

Some people even went so far as to compare photos from the scene with interview footage from Asahi and the BBC. The most ridiculous thing is that the BBC didn't ask a single question about the game during the interview; they asked all sorts of unrelated questions.

It can be said to perfectly fit the stereotypical image of domestic players.

but no matter.

Reports from mainstream media around the world still made Xingchen's E3 exhibition a huge success.

However, amidst this sea of ​​praise, some discordant notes began to quietly emerge.

"Did StarCraft put all their eggs in one basket with Black Myth this time? They went overboard and made all the other games barely get any attention."

"Indeed, that Starry Sky Game Alliance had more than a dozen companies, and all we heard was monkeys yelling."

"To put it bluntly, it's all about one trick: using one eye-catching game to cover up the mediocrity of the other projects. We've seen this tactic countless times."

"Heh, they call it an alliance, but who remembers any other games? It's a typical case of resource allocation bias. Is that fair to other developers?"

If you think about it carefully, you'll realize that such remarks are practically nothing but nonsense.

But no matter when, there is never a shortage of such people. To put it bluntly, these people are obviously pretending to be ignorant. If you try to reason with them, they will argue with you about their attitude.

When you try to reason with them about attitudes, they talk about fairness. It's purely about criticizing for the sake of criticizing, or rather, it's just sour grapes. These kinds of comments, like "Let me say something fair," may not seem like direct criticism, but they're incredibly disgusting.

"These people are really..."

Many players were having a great time when they saw some self-media posts and these comments that appeared out of nowhere, and they were so angry that they wanted to curse.

[It's starting! The classic sour chicken comment is late but it's here.]

[I'm disgusted. If I can't even make it myself, why can't others do it?]

Have these people forgotten how many games caused a frenzy at the StarCraft launch event that night? Are they selectively blind?

Although domestic players are quite unhappy with these remarks, these arguments are spreading very quickly. After all, StarCraft is currently facing an environment where it has many friends, but even more enemies.

Whether in China or abroad.

Especially Steam and EPIC, from the E3 pre-show press conference to the official E3 show, if we really want to talk about which PC gaming platform shines the brightest.

That really can only be stars.

While Epic Games' Fallout 76, a collaboration with Bethesda, generated a lot of buzz, the event only featured trailers and no hands-on gameplay; moreover, it's an MMO adaptation of an older game. Steam's bet on a new VR title, with its numerous 3D features, is certainly a big promise, so much so that its overseas impact during the launch event was comparable to that of StarCraft.

But there were no actual machines at E3.
It can be said that the battle on the front lines was a complete defeat, so the media battleground naturally became the only breakthrough point.

As these kinds of "news" began to appear in China, some overseas gaming media outlets also began to publish "in-depth analysis" articles.

(End of this chapter)