Woof, what a bad response.
As the article says, since his comments were run through machine translation, it’s possible they’re meant more in jest rather than seriously. I’ll keep a charitable perspective on this until we learn more.
Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!"
Submitted 4 days ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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cybervseas@lemmy.world 4 days ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
except we know Chinese people have been review bombing other games because BMW didn’t win. Sure doesn’t seem like a joke to them.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 4 days ago
This is based on a shit article from the shitrag “TheGamer” that calls 500 players downvoting a game a movement. There’s 1,4B people in China, 500 votes don’t even register. TheGamer is a clickbait/ragebait shitrag that weaponises xenophobia/culture wars/ignorace to generate traffic. They are the precise example of the enshitification of the Internet. Veritable parasites.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Since last night, I’ve seen a lot of strong dissatisfaction and frustration in players’ comments - often expressed humorously or ironically, which made me laugh,"
Jest or not, this one statement is irresponsible because this will only serve to encourage bad and toxic behavior and you know that’s how immature gamers will take it, as consuming their behavior.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The comment you responded to covered all that. It’s possible it’s a translation/tone error. No reason to assume face value given the stakes.
If that ends up being not the case, then ok.
nialv7@lemmy.world 4 days ago
i read the original on weibo and he appears to be (to me at least) fully serious. tried to invoke nationalistic pride as well
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
That’s some top tier “I’m the Main Character” syndrome.
bricklove@midwest.social 4 days ago
Not the journey to the west he had hoped for
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Damn it. This is gold. Take my upvote.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s how awards work lmao
Glide@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
One winner and five nominee’s. Let’s not downplay being in the top 6 nominations for “best game of the year” as “losing.” It’s an incredible achievement no matter how you look at it.
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 4 days ago
Especially for a fresh team that’s amazing.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah you’re right
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 3 days ago
While he comes off as a jerk, and possibly is one, I can understand the sentiment, having spent a few years of my life among ethnically Chinese people in Asia. There is this drive and aspiration to be recognized by leading brands in the West as equals, perhaps even betters. Due to a history of subservience and shame and a strong nationalistic current seeking to undo that.
This game is one of the last ambitious and accomplished to come out of China and they’re hungering for that king of recognition. So it is likely that fans of the game feel it was ‘stolen’ from them and he seems to be responding to that sentiment. To us it looks petty, but to some of the game’s most ardent Chinese fans this may have been an appropriate response. Not sure how this was received in China though, just speculating.
batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not going to lie, despite loving the stories about the monkey king, I skipped it entirely because of the notes they sent to content creators. Which would also be why I skip movies and games that take the US’ DoD money. I’m glad it got passed over.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
The last three weeks or so of Chinese video game reporting has basically been:
“They’ll never shortlist us for GotY. They’ll never choose a Chinese game for GotY. It’s all a Western ploy to denigrate and deny Chinese achievement because They are jealous that the first Chinese AAA game is so good.”
It’s been tiring.
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They review-bombed BG3? For shame. Why?
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I wasn’t aware, but basically this confirms my suspicion above regarding how this is playing out in the Chinese psyche so to speak.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
there’s an easy fix for that, don’t come anymore.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 days ago
there’s an easy fix for that, don’t come anymore.
How very warm and inviting of you. Im glad there are such welcoming people as you, that are excited to see new studios trying to make good games instead of the same old slop we get from the same old companies.
/s, in case anyone couldn’t tell. What an intolerant comment.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 days ago
Oh boo hoo, they’re intolerant of a rude person. Get a grip and stop defending this adult tantrum.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 3 days ago
On the one hand, I can kinda get it. It must really suck to lose to a self-servicing corpo ad-a-palooza, even one as well crafted as Astrobot. It’s like losing a collectible contest to FunkoPops, just clear feelsbad.
On the other, fuck this guy for dragging nationalistic pride into a dumbass award ceremony. The Geoff-fest is always a stupid corporate cockgag that celebrates publisher money more than developers, taking it personally and trying to pretend like all of China was snubbed only serves to makes BMW look worse.
Aurora_TheFirstLight@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I don’t feel it was undeserved, it’s good that super productions lose to better crafted titles, maybe one day actual indie games will be on the contest for game of the gear
Rooty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
BMW looks like a terribly mediocre souls-like, and its like 60 bucks on Steam. The hype surrounding it looks manufactured AF.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 days ago
12 souls-like fans absolutely furious
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 days ago
China mad Japan won in American awards. You love to see it.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
This year Japan was try harding so much
deus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Were they? Last year they had Mario and Zelda and the year before they had Elden Ring. This year doesn’t feel particularly strong.
Glide@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Man, calling this a snub is a misnomer to begin with.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Machine translated comments are here: reddit.com/…/game_producer_of_black_myth_wukongs_…
Chinese translations aren’t always the best in my experience, so hard to tell what’s serious vs what’s said in a joking manner.
My partner has been playing BMWK, and from what I’ve seen it’s an excellent effort for a studio known for mobile games. That being said, there’s noticeably rough edges, so I’m not surprised it didn’t get game of the year (whatever the decision criteria is).
somedev@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Haven’t really been following it all - after reading the article I think maybe its because Astro Bot had a larger audience because its generally more accessible?
tb_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Black Myth Wukong had one of the highest concurrent player counts of Steam of all time. The game was very popular in China.
Meanwhile Astrobot’s sales figures were lacklustre, according to some reports.
somedev@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I know a couple of my friends were pumped for it, bought Black Myth Wukong played it for a few days and never touched it again.
They really smashed the marketing for that game.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think you are right. Its why Fortnite usually wins in categories it is in, because at the end of the day it mostly comes down to a popularity contest.
I mean, I heard people I know in real life discrediting BMW even being nominated because “oh all the Chinese are voting for it.” I was like what, you think Chinese Gamers only count for 3/5ths of a Gamer?? I personally wouldn’t be surprised if this sentiment was shared with at least some of the judges.
Im not saying BMW should have won, personally I liked it but it wasn’t perfect and I didn’t play Astro Bot. Its just crazy to me.that people are reacting like this over a video game nust because it came from China. They’re not acting like that over Marvel Rivals, probably because they don’t know its from China lol.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
If they wanted a game with Sun Wukong in it to win at the game awards, they should have nominated Warframe for Best Continuing Game
brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 days ago
I haven’t played that Astrobot game (I don’t have a PS5) but I am not surprised with it being highly praised honestly.
Astrobot Rescue Mission was awesome, even forgetting about it being VR. It’s very fun and well designed, with new ideas all the way through, up there with Super Mario Galaxy to me. That team definitely knows their stuff.
g1ya777@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But its an exclusive, only PS5 players can play it.
DNU@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’d be ashamed too, losing to astro bot. What I’ve heard from the Platformer community is that while the game is good, it’s very short and lacks in the amount of unique areas (and enemies?) and as such is more or less blitz and glamour. Like, props to sony for producing jump and runs, but still…
Ostrakon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I just finished Astro Bot and it is a very good game. However, it is very derivative of Mario to the point where it is very clearly a Mario game, except you are collecting PlayStation member-berries instead of stars or whatever.
I loved it, but I have a hard time justifying it as GotY. IMO it should have gone to Wukong or Balatro.
aciDC14@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Pizza Tower: «First time?.»
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I was not surprised how well Astro Bot did. It was accessible and well made. Sam Lake nailed it with his little speech.
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 4 days ago
lol
badbytes@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Aren’t the game awards, just a panel of a handful of members. If so, not sure the award means much.
UnbrokenTaco@lemm.ee 4 days ago
The Game Awards are chosen by an international [thegameawards.com/voting-jury](jury of over 100 global media and influencer outlets)
From the FAQbadbytes@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Thx, aren’t many of those outlets owned by same conglomerate?
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This game looked nice and was awful to play. There isnt really anything else to say.
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Translation appears accurate, but misses the cultural element. In my admittedly limited experience, this is pretty par for the course for Chinese humor. Compared to Western humor, Chinese humor is more brash and abrasive, and almost boastful when viewed from an outside perspective. I can definitely envision someone receiving that sort of response as a joke (“What, you didn’t receive game of the year? Why did you even go?”). And it would certainly agree with my impression that he makes a lot of crude jokes on his social media that don’t translate well into English (see: the IGN article on how the developers are sexist). It can really be quite difficult for inexperienced people to determine what statements are humorous and what statements are earnest, since the difference is often really subtle, even when read in the original language.
I’m not necessarily defending him, since these sorts of jokes do have a nugget of honesty to them, but my read is that he plays them up for humor.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Yeah… fuck off with that?
I am Chinese with a lot of Chinese family. This is not some unique and elevated humor that westerners do not understand. It is the same self deprecating humor that is increasingly prevalent in all cultures (that have been exposed to similar media…) combined with the equivalent of “ha ha, wouldn’t it be funny if we kissed .ha ha ha . What a joke. ha ha. But what if we did? Ha ha ha”.
Same with the truly disgusting misogynistic shit that asshole has said. It is a “joke” in the same way it was “just a joke” when people were testing the water on being magats.
The only thing that is “cultural” about this is the tendency for East Asians (but especially Chinese) to assume that everyone else is fucking stupid and that they just have to say it is a joke to ignore all consequences. And… that has been regularly demonstrated to be true so I guess the joke is on us?
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 3 days ago
eh I’m the same as you. even grew up in China for many years and the original comment could be true. who knows, but its getting weird coverage in both countries.
it’s also quite the stereotype (one especially held by western raised Asians) to believe all East Asians have asian elitism. most people I knew in China were insanely jealous of Americans and would give their life savings to send their kids to the US for education and a better life. the rich had the everyone is stupid mentality, but that’s true for rich people everywhere. one thing that is true and why I made the comment in parenthesis is that most Chinese people think Western raised Asian children are raised incorrectly and make that known to their family members in the West which comes off very elitist.
no comment on the dudes other comments he’s made since I don’t know much about him, but to apply this to all East Asians especially the Chinese because of his one comment is pretty… yeah.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
“If you not first, you’re last.”
So, this guy is Ricky Bobby?
SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So Chinese Kanye?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Alannah Pearce namedrop i love that Aussie she was the best part of Funhaus
Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
This should be the top comment. Knowing a couple mainland Chinese, this is probably 100% accurate and a more charitable read than most are giving it.