Insane take. There’s been a lot of hype every time one of its trailers came out, just because you never heard of it doesn’t make it unpopular…
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I take issue with labeling this game as “hotly anticipated”. Literally did not hear about this game until now and from what I’m reading it seems like another boring ARPG with a new coat of paint slapped onto the same mechanics.
simple@lemm.ee 1 week ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, 61k subscribers of their YouTube channel and a mere couple of hundred thousand trailer views is not “a lot of hype”.
simple@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The gameplay trailer has over 10 million views… What are you arguing about, really? Does “hotly anticipated” mean it has to reach GTA 6 levels of hype?
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The gameplay trailer has over 10 million views…
Videos on IGN’s channel get lots of views. News at 11.
Their own channel OTOH recently:
I give you that years ago IGN may have managed to generate a bit of hype but recent uploads on their own channel are anything but “hotly anticipated”. If that game was actually “hotly anticipated”, the hype would have persisted and not winded down to “mildly anticipated”.
Doom@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
never heard of it
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s the most impressive video game to come out of china, the first that seems poised to generate significant buzz internationally. Whether it will be any good I do not know, but early demos had been very impressive. So I’d say it is hotly anticipated, you were just late to the party. It may not be that original in gameplay but how many AAA productions are strikingly original nowadays? None that I can remember.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Uh, Genshin Impact? Massive global buzz around that game, and makes a huge amount in revenue yearly.
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ah sure I was afraid I might have forgotten something. Though again a very different category and not the kind of game I’d play. It would be more accurate to say I guess that Black Myth is the first game out of China that seems like it could make it big in the full price AAA single player action market. I can’t recall another Chinese game of this type that has held similar promise.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That may be true. I don’t play many games from China, not because of any reason its just the games that come from China usually don’t appeal to me. I mean sure, I am concerned about Chinese government spyware, but also I am not anyone that is important so them having my data is completely valueless. I have a lot of fun with Super Mecha Champions, but when I tried out Genshin I just stopped playing after the big controversy of Rosarias bust size getting nerfed and the ice area was added to the game. I just didn’t find the game much fun anymore, but it has made a massive amount of money.
Wukong looks like a fun game though, I look forward to its release.