The allegations made my IGN and others were based on FAKE mistranslations that they KNEW WERE FAKE, but they didn't care, they just wanted a story and something to bitch about.
Nah Sweet Baby Inc suggested their 'help' and wanted to work on Wukong, but when they got turned down, they created these false accusations, like they usually do, If they don't get their will.
It used to be that gaming journalists were gamers, now they're just some random person writing articles about games they hate after getting brainwashed
They’re wannabe journalists that wanted to get a real journo job at NYT or WaPo, but they weren’t good enough so they had to settle for reporting on games. So now instead of doing what they were hired to do, they write a bunch of politically motivated articles cuz they keep thinking it’s their audition for a real news outlet. They’re pathetic
In China we have a saying: if you don’t study hard when you are young, you would only be a journalist with no other choice when you grown up. This was a just kidding in the past. But it is turning true.
Interestingly, we say something very similar in Greece and I quote "your opinion is that of a journalist", meaning what you say is not well researched or backed up by facts and comes only out of your head!
truths told by local: "As a Chinese who followed this game since they released the first trailer, I can tell you that this whole damn thing started four years ago on Weibo, like the CN ver of X, by some Woke influencers who want to piggyback on blackmyth's trend. So they dug up some of the company's so-called "sexist" posters from years ago which made by some unknown employees, then edit them to look like Gamescience just post them out officially. And the most wide-spreading rumor "women cannot play game" on Weibo, it's actually said by a random Weibo user who got rage by the rumor and want to talk them back. They deliberately distorted this to make it look like Gamescience said it, then they told IGN and other western medias. This is the origin of all those nonsence, i didn't expect it would go this far when i saw the OP 4 years ago. What is INSANE is that they actually attacked YangQi, the art director of BlackMyth:WuKong, in the first place cause her name sounds relatively masculine in Mandarin, they shut up when they found out she turns out is a woman. I were never seen any game medias report that in this four years. What is worse is that now I am afraid to say I preorder this game, cause last time I repost its trailer I have been attacked by some so-called feminists, and many female followers unfoed me ( I post some Arknights stuff and have like 10k followers on Weibo). What I want to say is that even in China the Woke virus is a serious problem too, especially on these social media websites. The road Gamescience had choosen is truly something in another level."
They claimed, this is "Myth", what are those people talking about? Wukong was born from a rock, not animal, not human, what diversity Wukong has to be? these people are total mad.
@@white0thunderwhite0thunder71 Nah... I bet most furry are aware of wukong and journey to the west. So they already know they will get little to non furry woman.. cause most of female characters in journey to the west are demons and they have full human body, or their demon body
Ubisoft and EA did way worse shit to female employees and it was instantly forgotten. Meanwhile with this company it's mentioned at every opportunity, curious. 🤔
I think you miss the point bro... It's not that they forgot about it, it's just because they make the game with the their standard nowadays so they let them be... They don't care if the workplace actually sexes or not. As long as they make product that check all of their requirements, then they will ignore you
if you notice Blizzard games don't really comply with 'the message' which is why they are under fire non stop, although in this case the allegation is actually true if only Blizzard make non binary diverse female boss main characters, it will all go away like magic
Thats good and having a problem with diversity and representation in the game is really weird BUT if you do a little research there are very weird sexist things the develeopers have said and that should be in the focus not the game
@@LoloXinChen Someone in the lead development for example said that some games ( like black myth ) are just for men and probably too hard for women and the type of games that women and men like is biologically pre determined , one of the technical developers also posted something very sexual regarding one of the actual female characters in game, saying if you cover the bottom snake part with one hand you can still jerk off to the top part. Oh yeah and there reportedly were also weird sexual comments Game Science made towards women when they were recruiting for new employees. So yeah Journey to the West didn't really have a lot of women in it to begin with so hating for that on the game is useless but I think there are enough sources that show that the developers are kinda sexist or atleast some of the lead developers and also openly made sexist comments like those, so I really don't get why people are completely disregarding that and focusing on the game or going ham on the fucking ign journalist, when the actual people should be held accountable for the stuff they openly said. There are a few sources and articles I read and most of them were pretty similar in information.
He/She will write an article of how he got attacked by bandits and barely escaped with it life. "That bandit assumed my gender unbelievable." while the entire plant is in ashes and radiation😂
Who the hell wants diversity in a mythological game??? It makes absolutely no sense this is just the sweet baby inc mindset to put diversity in the weirdest stuff
"W-well you see... bipocs and r-representation! a-and free palestine!" They'll literally programmed to enforce their ideology. if they aren't pushing progressive ideology, they're losing and they refuse to have that.
They tried extorting the studio out of 7 million and since the studio didn't bend the knee to SBI they then proceeded to tried and cancel them using their "journalist" friends at IGN and other "game news media" but the game is still racking up the cash.
Blackrock has done so much damage to this era with their extortion tactics and forced compliance. Like they have to know that this force fed crap was doomed to fail.
If you mention Blackrock you can't leave out their full tri-fecta of Vanguard and State Street. Otherwise they just shift their corrupt activity to a more unknown brand, and the public doesn't realize it until years later. They could shift, and make Blackrock fall as the sacrificial lamb, the public falsely celebrates, and evil keeps chugging along.
Just remember that Blackrock took out federal reserve loan of $5 billion @ a fraction a of a percent interest rate ... Specifically to buy out single family homes & rent them out at rates higher than a mortgage. All this money they piss away on DEI and EGS failures, is the rent money your family bleeds out every month, and then the loss gets written off on their taxes.
As a “female gamer”: Holy shit this game looks awesome! I’ve been so excited for this ever since I first heard about it, the books are a really great read and I hope more people catch on to Journey to the West like the Witcher series did
@@JPMonster13Something like that. Sun Wukong is kinda on the level of Dante from Dantes inferno, hes the main character in a religious fiction that has a huge downwind effect on pop culture and fiction.
I miss the days of buying gaming mags in the 90's and early 00's. Games Master, CV+G, Official Playstation etc. Those were the days where gamers were the ones writing articles. Halcyon days.
I always compare SBI, and the woke crowd to the conquistadores. Just in the intellectual sense. They try to force their own ideology, beauty standards, morals on a totally different culture with force.
I felt the same way about people's "outrage" that genshin wasn't adding enough dark skinned characters and people took to Twitter to do the "fixing" thing again. 😂
We Chinese players have seen Muslim villains and Russian villains in the Call of Duty and Battlefield series, and even ourselves. So we naturally know that some forces in the West use games as ideological propaganda weapons to bombard the world. It's understandable that they would be upset when the games we make can't be controlled by these forces.
Western media tried to DEI a 600 year old chinese story about a Monkey God with magic powers that fights demons and travels to meet the Buddha. lol what
We happen to have found a wiki page that states the monkey god was infact a transexual gay eskimo in a wheelchair with the pronouns she/her/monkeygod eskimo
Considering the absolute lack of talent in modern games journalists, this was bound to happen over time. Their primary purpose was removed by the internets evolution. In turn, rather than finding a new use for their job and creating a niche, they instead started inventing fake reasons as to why they are important. Talking about social issues became their bread and butter. Which is ironic since it generates neither bread nor butter. Most people require evidence to care about something, not some unfounded rumor from a nameless and faceless random on the internet.
It's crazy how these companies don't realize that politics turns gamers off. Just review the game and DON'T talk about stuff that is irrelevant to the gaming experience.
They know, they actually hate us and many of them have said as much. They think that by controlling the narrative they'll control the course of society and that people like us will just dissapear to be replaced by their mythical "modern audience".
100%. Look at what happened with Hogwarts, a game I would not have looked at twice (not a big fan of Harry Potter) but cos of all the bs I ended up seeing more of it and thinking it looked pretty awesome and bought it.
Whose they one ign article and a tweet or two. Y'all sound very triggered over nothing I guess living in a game world where all words are cancelled or something equally dumb makes your burger flipping job more bearable.
Crazy how they try cancelling Black Myth but not the new Assasin Creed which, literally spreading false history/changing Wikipedia source and spreading wrong information, what's wrong with the US nowadays?
Good luck getting GameSpot to cover any of that news. Wish it was possible to point that out on their channel without giving them a view. Would post it in their website but I got suspended for pointing out their hypocrisy, lol.
@@tgb6823 lol I'm not surprised, so nowaday it is literally fine to spread false news/information (New AC) but it is unacceptable when you gave out honest/true critism
Changing Wikipedia articles to western aligned point of view isn’t new. It’s been here since the beginning of Wikipedia. It glorifies the West but vilifies the east and anything in between
Truth is Chinese game devs don't give a shit about our rules and culture. Played that Delta Force game yesterday and found a can of coke. It was called coke and looked like coke. I don't think they had a sponsorship lol.
This, I see many people think Genshin is Japanese or something. The CN devs are not involved in any of the 'culture war' stuff, they will mostly listen to CN audience, which has different problems like NTR dramas and similar. But it has nothing to do with West and their DEI stuff.
@@TheMrToxin even if hoyo is JP i doubt they give a shit about DEI, that's just asian in general we are too busy competing against ourselves to give a shit.
These “journalists” are probably just upset because wukong is getting more hype than outlaws. People were essentially wined and dined into promoting woke Star Wars and all we want is wukong💯
@@Khann_2102 Well, it is for money because their strategy as Asmongold says is to create the problem that never existed and sell them the solution to that said problem.
Gamespot is nothing more than a bot ran platform laden with advertisements and regurgitated articles that have been "updated" by an AI. IGN is heading in the same direction.
Haha If we expand this logic to music, cinema and etc it applies to them all. "The band members are problematic" -led zeppelin, Metallica, Black Sabbath and etc "Problematic" people create great art
And to double-tap them with their own standards... They keep screeching about how "diversity is our strength" and how "fantastic multiculturalism is"... Right up until they run into a culture that doesn't believe the same hyper-progressive BS they do. Then its war.
@@hmmm348 They do that plenty of times with HUWITE games, do you think they care about anyone in China at all? They want control, not a respectful or kind world. What they don't understand is, in their ideological blindness, is that many consoomers are chinese. The sale of the game will easily catapult that company into the stratosphere, just because of China alone, and they will have so much money, that they can buy IGN, the families of the game journos, and then have some left to make another game.
I'm w/ you. And I hope this game is as good as it looks. But just to be fair though, it's much easier to reject DEI when you're a Chinese company. W/ the way China works, Chinese companies are more or less just another part of the GOV.
The Wukong studio did not say that "Xbox is irrelevant, and no one plays on Xbox" or whatever Asmond tried to say. That was a completely different studio... He is talking about the recent article that a dev from S Studio said about Xbox... That studio is making Phantom Blade Zero... another Chinese studio sure, but Asmond was completely mistaken
@@Become-Eggplant Yea both the Jews in the past and Palestinians now also are compared to them. Swear these people are AI Bots, at least they function like one and just repeat the same things nonstop. in 2017 I was hearing them saying the Goblins and orcs in LOTR are black people.
Never take journalists or reviewers seriously. They're just random people, their opinions literally mean nothing more than any random chatter you see online
You have it all wrong Asmon. These game news orgs are not even an industry. They are a tool for the larger companies that own them. It doesnt matter if they make oodles of money. That isnt their purpose
I feel like it’s more likely that the companies that own them go “make us money, and fast” and therefore the journalism studios pump out as much content that will get clicks as fast as possible. This usually means slop that draws in hate clicks or disbelief clicks. I’m sure the companies believe a lot of what they are saying; but so much of it feels like desperate grasping for relevancy.
My language teacher always told us not to use direct translate because there can be miss use of words that are similar but with different meaning and more when you are trying to translate sayings from other countries.
Not just that, but also slang and figures of speech. Those tend to be tricky, if not hard to translate, since there's usually some cultural context behind it that most people would be totally unfamiliar with.
As a woman who had been waiting for this game for 4 years, the controversy is stupid. If people are offended then don’t play. A good game is going to get played no matter what.
The benchmark for Black Myth Wukong is out on steam for download and testing. Extremely GPU demanding, it defaults to 50% super resolution and turns on an upscaler like fsr.
Yup. I have a 6950XT have need to turn some settings down to medium and have FSR at like 60% lol (from 4k). It's really demanding, but I wish the benchmark had more going on like Returnal's. It doesn't tell me much just showing me slow sweeping shots and a few NPCs on screen.
@@thefalseshepherd3689 turning on RT with our cards on this is laughable lol. Even with Framegen it sucks. I read that it's path tracing so that why it's so heavy.
Guys, I came up with a quick way to get rich, build a website, and then ask all the game production companies and film production companies for money under the pretext of helping them diversify, and if they refuse to pay, slander them hate diversity on your site. I bet most companies will give you money, and some will even reach out to you to give money.
Perhaps the western media do not understand Chinese mythology and culture. Wukong is a "Monkey God" in Chinese Culture, and anyone have watch "Journey to the West", you can see the "ridiculous" ability of Wukong and why he became the Monkey God. So the way he block isn't the typical "sword & shield" battle style.
Ignore the Western Media m8. They are mediocre and hardly have any influence over here at all. The only part that matters is that the casual gamer in the West cannot wait to play this game and has ignored all attempts at having this game cancelled!!!
More like, the western media doesn't understand how the Chinese GOV works. Any company in China is just an extension of the Chinese GOV. Why on earth would the western woke media think they could strong arm the Chinese GOV? That's the real question.
The problem is that if you try to create new gaming journalism pages, they are the first to boycott you so that you are closed if you don't think like them or fit into their agenda.
i miss those statues on collector's edition..nowadays western devs just gave you "3 days early access", "collector edition missions", "collector in-game cosmetics", ingame currency. the statues made collector editions actually have value
Soooo true, early access as a preorder or upgraded version of the game is killing video games. It's such a lame excuse to charge the extra $20-50 for some BS like that, there's hardly any added value to the game as a whole, like you said.
Asmongold's subscriber made a really impactful comment about influencers being just as corrupt and that's the bigger problem that hardly anyone addresses. Who is really selling all these pre-orders for games like Payday 3, suicide squad and UFC and EA games? It's influencers that will sell out their entire audience for a key and some skins. That's it. Hardly anyone is genuine and I would say it's much easier and cheaper to manipulate the influencers. Pay Day 3 sucked and everyone commented on how amazing it was all through Betas. Same with suicide squad, mortal kombat and nearly any other really hyped big pre-sale heavy game that was a failure. The content creators should have more consequences for the way they have influenced their audience and the audience needs to stop simping for them as apologists.
"1 person wrote about it and then other people started writing about what this one person said claiming people were talking about it." This literally sums up the entirety of modern 'journalism'. Its just one giant circle jerk of opinions.
NATIVE 1440P is the way to go with RTX 4090 IMO. No need for "upscaling" gimmicks nor "frame gen" and associated visual artifacts / increased input lag, just a prestine Native image as the PC Gods intended.
In my perspective, the entire gaming journalist market has been overtaken by RUclips. Why would I ever need to refer to a journalist when everybody has the chance to share their equally valid opinion??
game journalism will still be valid if only their opinion is relevant to the actual game and masses, despite RUclips existence its no different from food reviews the only real difference is food reviewers still have their credibility while game journalist completely destroyed their own credibility by pushing political agenda instead of the games itself
Asmon is on the money. When Rockstar was releasing Red Dead Redemption 2, I was getting messages from friends telling me about "Did you hear how Rockstar is treating their employees during the production process of Red Dead 2?" I didn't give a shit. I just wanted to know when it was releasing, so I could play it. Did anyone else bring up the work conditions after the game was released? no. Because the game was a masterpiece.
Rockstar made the devs overwork to get the game out, ngl i am lowkey supportive of that "abusive" decision cuz i just wanna play early. Think about it this way, if you boycott the game, then the employees would have been forced work hard for nothing, which is worse.
The developer delayed it twice, I believe. They wanted it to be good, and even rejected compliments related to their demo a few years ago, saying it wasn't good enough for release to the public at the time. Chads.
@@picklefathernurgle2719 they delayed once I think. I believe they planned to release on 2023 but on lunar new year 2023 (or 2022) they release a trailer, implied they promise to release 2024
I think the only form of gaming journalism that will survive is "investigative" journalism like what Jason Schrier does, because journalism of general gaming news, reviews and guides now live elsewhere in the internet in places like reddit, wikis RUclips... Etc
What you also get, though, is the the undivided attention of most gamers worldwide, in an instant. I'd say it's a great marketing strategy, costing 0$. Wish more game studios realised this.
And those devs likely kept all the receipts in case the CCP came calling, just so they leave them be after the check-up. Bonus points if those CCP reps shrug their heads going "Western idiots as usual."
@@liladonn5646 by this i dont think he meant this game, i think he meant just people trying to cancel it. Ill reword it. "This game getting 'cancelled' is only a thing cause Sweet Bully Inc got rejected and tried extorting the devs"
“As of this recording, they have repeatedly refused to comment on the allegations.” Which is so disingenuous because it would imply that Gamespot themselves have been trying to contact them for comment when really they mean in the general sense.
Not wrong on this one. Not at all. I used to read all of them to get different perspectives on a game, but gamespot was the first to go when they just started being an advertiser who used reviews to advertise. Then IGN, and then Kotaku. RPS was my last bookmark honestly and that has been going down-hill since they were bought out. They said it wouldn't happen, but it did. Listening to this I realised I hadn't visited for a while, not jsut because the reviews became very based on social opinions but because the trackers they had on that site made it seem less safe than buying a hit-man on the dark web. It's just so much advertising that to read anything i've got to bother to tweak my adblock settings. The text isn't worth that in 99% of cases, and the few occasions it IS, is all down to one reviewer who has a different style more reminiscent of the original review. Well thought out, well written with a unique perspective. But they put Sin on the pay-walled articles almost exclusively and I don't want to actually give money to these people. So that's the last bookmark gone today.
This is what happened to the music industry. I recall "In Rainbows" being released independently by Radiohead in 2007. It was a simple website that allowed you to "pay what you want" for the album, including $0.00.
With the recent FTC fake review ban, Gamespot, IGN, and SBI need to be reported. Insider reviews are illegal if they are in fact being influenced by SBI.
I still don't understand why studios listened to these nobodies in the first place. They intimidate? Still nothing. They are just noisy crickets. They are nobody.
They have the media on their side, it's obvious looking at how this game is being treated by them. At the same time, most companies super estimate their power, and end up giving up. Having wukong being a success without them might help a lot in the future
nobody relies on gaming journalists to inform themselves about games anymore. everyone who actually plays games either watches lets plays on youtube, twitch streams, or pirates the games to test them out themselves so that they then can make an informed decision if they want to buy the game and support the developers. this last point is also why demos are making a huge return currently. if you look at smaller indie games, a ton of them are publishing demos of their games again on steam before their releases so people can test them out without falling back on piracy. gaming journalism is a dead industry. in fact it died 10 years ago, and whats shuffling around right now are the zombified remains of its corpse. and youre right in that most of the crap theyre reporting on isnt even on the content of games anymore but social issues that they think are important, but that gamers dont give a shit about. even when theyre reporting about games, their takes are often hot garbage. like the whole discussion around baldurs gate 3 and how they were trying to tell us that we shouldnt expect this kind of quality to become the standart in gaming and hold large studios to that standart. like what kind of idiotic take is that? if anything they should have been reporting about how all the major billion dollar self proclaimed AAA and AAAA studios (ubisoft - lol) could make their games as good as baldurs gate 3 because they have the means, but actively decide not to. because its lazier and cheaper not to. so the agendas of gaming journalists even where the content of games is concerned, seems to be favorable towards the publishers rather than the gamers. which means theyre not even providing content thats credible from the perspective or gamers theyre aiming their content at.
souls like? the damage is mild imo, from what gameplay i've seen like bosses only doing like 10-15% hp not souls at all. it looks like it plays more like dmc or god of war or perhaps even star wars fallen order.
WRONG the actual reason why Black Myth Wukong is delayed because of Series S optimization issues. It's Phantom Blade Zero developers that said that no body needs xbox lol
Its not coming to xbox because the xbox series S has ruined that platform...having to dev a game for the lowest common denominator would of made this game look worse...this is a next gen game for next gen hardware.
I can deal with infinite static banner ads, or MILDLY animated ones. Those auto-playing videos with audio that chase you around a page with a mini player is what keeps me in adblock (and probably moving to firefox when chrome kills it).
People aren't particular familiar with Chinese game development industry. For so long, they've been developing games that is trying to cater to both gender, because they realized that it's equally or more profitable to entice women to spend on ingame cosmetics. Also, introduction of female player base into an MMO or any game will entice male gamers to spend more as well. So you games that cater to women or games try their best to please female players. Also games would include events or game systems that encourages male/female player interaction, MMOs games are very important part of Chinese online dating scene. The cosmetic and P2W system are often than not also built around that. They had a marriage system in MMOs as earlier as 2 decades ago. A lot of hardcore male gamers are sick of these trend. So your typical Chinese steam player or League player or any community with hardcore gamers are very hostile towards female players. There's a whole gender war on Chinese Twitter that revolves around they gaming industry. So GameScience initially pissed a lot of non-hardcore female gamers (which is the majority of them) off. And somehow international game media caught wind of that from Weibo and decided to frame the whole woke culture thing into a Chinese story, which is absurd to me because Asian (modern) culture, especially China with the wall, is so different. Even if it's in Japan or Korea where they're more connected and influenced by western culture, woke doesn't stand any chance. (E.g. being a feminist is an insult/scandal for celebrities in Korea, Japan had an active incels culture 20 years before incel is even a thing in Europe). The Chinese gender war isn't like your typical Western feminist; it's all about some women wanting to have privileges instead of rights, economic benefits instead of independence.
Your comment about AI taking over journalism is 100% spot on. It reminds me of the automation scare in the mid 2000’s. Tons of people were scared that robots were going to take all the jobs they occupied in manufacturing but really the only jobs that automation have ever threatened are menial, repetitive, and basic tasks. So if you felt like your job was ever threatened, it’s because you were an unsophisticated caveman who probably was an easily replaceable cog in the machine. Most people with any level of competency got other jobs within the same manufacturing plant supplementing the rudimentary robot tasks in new roles while the most rudimentary and basic mechanical tasks were assigned to robots. If you feel that your occupation of standing on an assembly line all day pressing a button is in danger, then you should probably branch out and learn a new skill or get a new job. This is also why the advent of PVC in plumbing did not destroy the need for skilled plumbers that worked with flux, copper, and lead. An unskilled plumber could learn to use PVC quickly but there was still a need for work to be done on traditional plumbing systems. They retained a valuable skill even though the job was made easier at the lower level. If you are at the lowest level and only know how to work with PVC without any skill in plumbing otherwise, then it would be safe to assume your job is up for grabs at any moment. As for journalism, If simply reporting a story encompasses the entire scope of your job you are a bad journalist and you deserve to get your job taken by a brain dead machine. Why would an employer needlessly spend more money on your salary if a basic machine can do the same thing as good or better? If you aren’t offering anything beyond basic observational reporting then you don’t deserve a spot in journalism because you add absolutely no value.
Yes, however the way you worded it points the finger to the employee, like journalists that don't do real journalism thus deserving replacement. The truth of the matter is more critical: while such bad journalists exist and are complacent, it's the industry that had them work that way in the first place and now the very same industry dreams about cutting costs substituting those jobs with a machine. The same goes for artists: many are being substituted by AI not because they lack artistic skill, but because their skill wasn't fully utilized to begin with and there was no interest for anything other than the industry demands. Regurgitation of the already-made was already an approach before the AI. A quick surf in ArtStation demonstrates this: it's hard to distinguish who's who amongst millions of images that all look the same: technically great but lacking innovation, with the exception of very very few that don't manage to stand out in such a crowd. So let's not put the blame on single individuals when this is a much bigger issue that was coming long before the advent of AI.
The allegations made my IGN and others were based on FAKE mistranslations that they KNEW WERE FAKE, but they didn't care, they just wanted a story and something to bitch about.
Ragebait for clicks and sweet ad revenue
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I don’t know which is worse. Their lack of integrity or lack of morals
Sweet Baby Inc contacted them and tried to be involved with this game and they said no. This is the result. Pure extortion.
Nah Sweet Baby Inc suggested their 'help' and wanted to work on Wukong, but when they got turned down, they created these false accusations, like they usually do, If they don't get their will.
It used to be that gaming journalists were gamers, now they're just some random person writing articles about games they hate after getting brainwashed
They’re wannabe journalists that wanted to get a real journo job at NYT or WaPo, but they weren’t good enough so they had to settle for reporting on games. So now instead of doing what they were hired to do, they write a bunch of politically motivated articles cuz they keep thinking it’s their audition for a real news outlet. They’re pathetic
Yeah they'd rather talk about SeXiSm In GaMiNg than talk about new groundbreaking tech or technological advancements in the gaming space.
Game journalists can't ruin themselves enough
Amen, i remember the G4 and early IGN, Game Informers etc.
It hasn't been that way for over a decade
These "journalists" can't go out of business soon enough.
Stop using "journalists" in quotes. It implies that journalists were anything other than a mouthpiece for the establishment.
ur right, they're worse
Dont worry gang, they're gonna be replaced by ai soon
@@holymann2251 Some of them are replacing themselves by using AI generated articles.
We simply need to add them to our Hide list. Never have to see them or their videos again
In China we have a saying: if you don’t study hard when you are young, you would only be a journalist with no other choice when you grown up. This was a just kidding in the past. But it is turning true.
Interestingly, we say something very similar in Greece and I quote "your opinion is that of a journalist", meaning what you say is not well researched or backed up by facts and comes only out of your head!
And a WILDLY used new saying
"学新闻学的" -
"Cuz u/he/she majored in journalism"
(Implying the person is stupid/incompetent or just pure evil)
huh, we have the same expression in Vietnamese also, I thought that we were the only one using this, hahaa
@@Justspinwin Hahaha! So the journalism course in China is equivalent to the gender identity course in the America: it's useless.
I thought it’s a Taiwanese saying cuz I saw a lot of Taiwanese used this to criticize their shxt journalism
"sexism in the workplace" literally just means "they made female characters attractive"
Or they worked for Activision/ Blizzard 🤦🏻♂️
@@kagamiuchiha5837 during the time they made actually good games?
truths told by local: "As a Chinese who followed this game since they released the first trailer, I can tell you that this whole damn thing started four years ago on Weibo, like the CN ver of X, by some Woke influencers who want to piggyback on blackmyth's trend. So they dug up some of the company's so-called "sexist" posters from years ago which made by some unknown employees, then edit them to look like Gamescience just post them out officially. And the most wide-spreading rumor "women cannot play game" on Weibo, it's actually said by a random Weibo user who got rage by the rumor and want to talk them back. They deliberately distorted this to make it look like Gamescience said it, then they told IGN and other western medias. This is the origin of all those nonsence, i didn't expect it would go this far when i saw the OP 4 years ago. What is INSANE is that they actually attacked YangQi, the art director of BlackMyth:WuKong, in the first place cause her name sounds relatively masculine in Mandarin, they shut up when they found out she turns out is a woman. I were never seen any game medias report that in this four years. What is worse is that now I am afraid to say I preorder this game, cause last time I repost its trailer I have been attacked by some so-called feminists, and many female followers unfoed me ( I post some Arknights stuff and have like 10k followers on Weibo). What I want to say is that even in China the Woke virus is a serious problem too, especially on these social media websites. The road Gamescience had choosen is truly something in another level."
People just need to never forget what "journalists" tired with Stellar Blade and understand they are doing that pretty much every time.
@@mathewunknown8266clearly not
They claimed, this is "Myth", what are those people talking about? Wukong was born from a rock, not animal, not human, what diversity Wukong has to be? these people are total mad.
Trying to force dei with a monkey protagonist is asking for disaster.
The original story from almost 500 years ago already have man pregnant trope. 72 transformation? that's 72 race, very inclusive.
@@Kburn1985”Or gold? Comedy gold?”-👴🏻
@@yudilai6704 Sun Wukong isnt 500 years old, its WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY older.
@@ManCheat2 Well he is the first monkey to achieve immortality in the fairy tale he is set in.
It's crazy that some people unironically go "where's the female characters" on a game about a mythological monkey with a cool stick
The desire for furry women can come from the most unexpected places...
@@white0thunderwhite0thunder71 Nah... I bet most furry are aware of wukong and journey to the west. So they already know they will get little to non furry woman.. cause most of female characters in journey to the west are demons and they have full human body, or their demon body
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah my devil money, right there, com on, more deep..
具有讽刺的是 悟空的故事在亚洲受欢迎的原因就是 用他的超级本领反抗权威 追求自由 想象一下甜心宝贝去勒索超人 她们会被超人扔出外太空吧
I dont even get it , there are several female character in the game
Chinese: Woke? IGN? SBI? we don't give a shit.
Blackrock/SBI seething in anger they can't force their propaganda onto yet another hit piece
主要是沒人在乎歐美，連美國政府都沒幾個中國人在當真了
indeed🤣
@@_MaZTeR_ After Aug 30, 2024 the D-DAY, they will be begging 😁
based China, the east needs to stand firmly to withstand western wokeness
Ubisoft and EA did way worse shit to female employees and it was instantly forgotten. Meanwhile with this company it's mentioned at every opportunity, curious. 🤔
I think you miss the point bro...
It's not that they forgot about it, it's just because they make the game with the their standard nowadays so they let them be... They don't care if the workplace actually sexes or not. As long as they make product that check all of their requirements, then they will ignore you
don't believe all these rumors, everything is about economic warfare and propaganda
if you notice Blizzard games don't really comply with 'the message'
which is why they are under fire non stop, although in this case the allegation is actually true
if only Blizzard make non binary diverse female boss main characters, it will all go away like magic
sexism is not important. what important is paying the "DEI tax" to sweetbaby inc or other consultancies
Females are just not the targeted audience...
Chinese woman here growing up with the monkey king story - can’t wait to play as the king-.- I don’t even see gender here.
That's cos you're a true gamer 👍
Thats good and having a problem with diversity and representation in the game is really weird BUT if you do a little research there are very weird sexist things the develeopers have said and that should be in the focus not the game
It's because you aren't narcissistic and can only play a character that "reflects" how you look (Since that's the only metric they seem to know)
@@pedramkhaleh8425 oh what did they say?
@@LoloXinChen Someone in the lead development for example said that some games ( like black myth ) are just for men and probably too hard for women and the type of games that women and men like is biologically pre determined , one of the technical developers also posted something very sexual regarding one of the actual female characters in game, saying if you cover the bottom snake part with one hand you can still jerk off to the top part. Oh yeah and there reportedly were also weird sexual comments Game Science made towards women when they were recruiting for new employees. So yeah Journey to the West didn't really have a lot of women in it to begin with so hating for that on the game is useless but I think there are enough sources that show that the developers are kinda sexist or atleast some of the lead developers and also openly made sexist comments like those, so I really don't get why people are completely disregarding that and focusing on the game or going ham on the fucking ign journalist, when the actual people should be held accountable for the stuff they openly said. There are a few sources and articles I read and most of them were pretty similar in information.
Agreed, these journos aren't even gamers anymore, just activists and paid people helping run Sweetbaby Inc's protection racket.
💯
I think they also try to create drama for views. Like Asmond said, they aren't really as relevant anymore.
They are worse than beggars. Better be a beggar than a gaming journalist
@@mac1bc and they helped Black Myth closer to goty😂
Don't forget black rock lol.
Reject woke. Embrace monke.
This comment should shine.
Aldiddy dun 🦧
let our primal instinct return
Hmmm, monke
Easy decision there.
Nah Kotaku will be here after WWIII writing about how the cockroaches are transphobic or some shit.
ah unaware of themselves as usual.
kotaku probably not maybe kotaku 3 or 4
😂😂😂 you got me with that one
hahaha
He/She will write an article of how he got attacked by bandits and barely escaped with it life. "That bandit assumed my gender unbelievable." while the entire plant is in ashes and radiation😂
Bro this is based on MYTH ,a MYTH that every asian household to grandpa and my little niece know legend of sunwukong
You can't just change history
0:40 There's an old saying, "DON'T FEED THE TROLLS", so by not responding to the allegations is the right move.
Who the hell wants diversity in a mythological game??? It makes absolutely no sense this is just the sweet baby inc mindset to put diversity in the weirdest stuff
"W-well you see... bipocs and r-representation! a-and free palestine!"
They'll literally programmed to enforce their ideology.
if they aren't pushing progressive ideology, they're losing and they refuse to have that.
The same people who wanted Google's Gemini AI to generate racially diverse Nazis.
It's a scam to align with the biggest game releases, to try and take credit for helping. Most games they touch end up flopping though.
juice ofc
Wukong already changes forms
I don’t know what other diversity they want? 😅
They tried extorting the studio out of 7 million and since the studio didn't bend the knee to SBI they then proceeded to tried and cancel them using their "journalist" friends at IGN and other "game news media" but the game is still racking up the cash.
Blackrock has done so much damage to this era with their extortion tactics and forced compliance. Like they have to know that this force fed crap was doomed to fail.
If you mention Blackrock you can't leave out their full tri-fecta of Vanguard and State Street. Otherwise they just shift their corrupt activity to a more unknown brand, and the public doesn't realize it until years later. They could shift, and make Blackrock fall as the sacrificial lamb, the public falsely celebrates, and evil keeps chugging along.
they'll keep trying
Just remember that Blackrock took out federal reserve loan of $5 billion @ a fraction a of a percent interest rate ... Specifically to buy out single family homes & rent them out at rates higher than a mortgage.
All this money they piss away on DEI and EGS failures, is the rent money your family bleeds out every month, and then the loss gets written off on their taxes.
Toxic capitalism and spinless governmenence at it finest
bingo. volatility makes them money per their own words. what's the most volatile state the world can be in?
As a “female gamer”: Holy shit this game looks awesome! I’ve been so excited for this ever since I first heard about it, the books are a really great read and I hope more people catch on to Journey to the West like the Witcher series did
Isn't Wukong like the most famous mythological character from China? Either way, I understand the sentiment of getting new people into the story.
No journey to the west is a book series @@JPMonster13
@@JPMonster13Something like that. Sun Wukong is kinda on the level of Dante from Dantes inferno, hes the main character in a religious fiction that has a huge downwind effect on pop culture and fiction.
I miss the days of buying gaming mags in the 90's and early 00's. Games Master, CV+G, Official Playstation etc. Those were the days where gamers were the ones writing articles. Halcyon days.
Never forget that the "inclusive" people tried to slander this game because they weren't allowed to "westernize" it. Fascinating behavior isn't it?
>Westernize it
Meaning: Make the protagonist stem from the southern hemisphere of the globe, somewhere near and around Africa.
I always compare SBI, and the woke crowd to the conquistadores. Just in the intellectual sense. They try to force their own ideology, beauty standards, morals on a totally different culture with force.
I felt the same way about people's "outrage" that genshin wasn't adding enough dark skinned characters and people took to Twitter to do the "fixing" thing again. 😂
@@revisit8480 bro the MC is already a monkey. idk what more they want
@@revisit8480is that really what it means? I thought it meant in someway to include a white person or gay/ progressive person in the story somewhere.
We Chinese players have seen Muslim villains and Russian villains in the Call of Duty and Battlefield series, and even ourselves. So we naturally know that some forces in the West use games as ideological propaganda weapons to bombard the world. It's understandable that they would be upset when the games we make can't be controlled by these forces.
Real
Hey you know what? Wish the best success to Wukong and its devs, these forces are against us too , gamers.
"the West", as if we liked it there. They annoy us as well
shut up, war is about ideology
@@ohIfuckingwish go away CIA
Western media tried to DEI a 600 year old chinese story about a Monkey God with magic powers that fights demons and travels to meet the Buddha.
lol what
We happen to have found a wiki page that states the monkey god was infact a transexual gay eskimo in a wheelchair with the pronouns she/her/monkeygod eskimo
@@jjbeloni7818 you know goku and dragon ballz is based off wukong right?
chinacreatedit'sanattackontherepublicofchina
@@beastdrow3071 Nope, cant say I did. You realize I was making a reference to the AC shadows drama right? Lets call it sarcasm.
@@jjbeloni7818 Eskimos have the same victim credentials as south Asians, bad take, must be black or arab.
Idk if anyone told him already but the end of the final trailer the monster outside the flame circle is SWEET Baby inc or IGN
Considering the absolute lack of talent in modern games journalists, this was bound to happen over time. Their primary purpose was removed by the internets evolution. In turn, rather than finding a new use for their job and creating a niche, they instead started inventing fake reasons as to why they are important. Talking about social issues became their bread and butter. Which is ironic since it generates neither bread nor butter. Most people require evidence to care about something, not some unfounded rumor from a nameless and faceless random on the internet.
It's crazy how these companies don't realize that politics turns gamers off. Just review the game and DON'T talk about stuff that is irrelevant to the gaming experience.
That might be through, but they are not fighting for current gamers minds, but for new generations. Their dream is that a 5 year old can swap gender
It's not politics that gamers don't like. A lot of games had that in the past.
It's the DEI politics.
They know, they actually hate us and many of them have said as much. They think that by controlling the narrative they'll control the course of society and that people like us will just dissapear to be replaced by their mythical "modern audience".
They dont care, they are getting paid to do it lmao
@@_MaZTeR_ The real issue is prioritization of a political agenda over a good story, good characters, and good gameplay. That's the issue
I want to buy the game just to do that 0:05
Real 🙏🏽
Hell yeah
Yessss 🔥
Fax🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for proving them right.
the more they cancel, the more it will shine, just watch
100%. Look at what happened with Hogwarts, a game I would not have looked at twice (not a big fan of Harry Potter) but cos of all the bs I ended up seeing more of it and thinking it looked pretty awesome and bought it.
guessing your prob the same person that tried to cancel hogwarts and AC shadows too huh?
@@dklyokosanctumyour asumption makes no sense
@@_M-_-C_yup, tbh the game play loop doesn’t really appeal to me at all, preordered the deluxe and grind through the game first week
Hell yeah I buy 2
"Game Sciences refused to comment on the allegations we completely made up" game journalism at its finest
If they are attacking Black Myth more than they attacked Activision, they are super hypocrites since Activision committed actual crimes.
Whose they one ign article and a tweet or two. Y'all sound very triggered over nothing I guess living in a game world where all words are cancelled or something equally dumb makes your burger flipping job more bearable.
Crazy how they try cancelling Black Myth but not the new Assasin Creed which, literally spreading false history/changing Wikipedia source and spreading wrong information, what's wrong with the US nowadays?
Good luck getting GameSpot to cover any of that news. Wish it was possible to point that out on their channel without giving them a view. Would post it in their website but I got suspended for pointing out their hypocrisy, lol.
@@tgb6823 lol I'm not surprised, so nowaday it is literally fine to spread false news/information (New AC) but it is unacceptable when you gave out honest/true critism
tbh they never claimed AC was historically acurate, although it is annoying that they based the main character on a guy who wasnt even a samurai
Because it's the history these people are trying to promote.
Changing Wikipedia articles to western aligned point of view isn’t new. It’s been here since the beginning of Wikipedia. It glorifies the West but vilifies the east and anything in between
Truth is Chinese game devs don't give a shit about our rules and culture. Played that Delta Force game yesterday and found a can of coke. It was called coke and looked like coke. I don't think they had a sponsorship lol.
This, I see many people think Genshin is Japanese or something. The CN devs are not involved in any of the 'culture war' stuff, they will mostly listen to CN audience, which has different problems like NTR dramas and similar. But it has nothing to do with West and their DEI stuff.
@@TheMrToxin
Ntr dramas of Korea are really soul crushing ...
Most of the time you don't know about it , it comes all of a sudden
@@TheMrToxin whats funny is that NTR is the most popular thing in Japan lmao
@@TheMrToxin even if hoyo is JP i doubt they give a shit about DEI, that's just asian in general we are too busy competing against ourselves to give a shit.
@@TheMrToxinthis didnt stop them from censoring outfits though sadly. Though it may be a government thing
Let’s fucking go. It’s MONKE TIME
"DATS WACIST!" - Journalist Cat Lady
MONKE MONKE MONKE
I love Goku so I'll definitely love the character he was based on 😊
@@gachagamer536 imagine a ssj4 goku mod when this game comes out on pc. mods will go hard.
@@XeroShuga nah, no SSJ forms, just the OG Goku, his Gi and his staff
These “journalists” are probably just upset because wukong is getting more hype than outlaws. People were essentially wined and dined into promoting woke Star Wars and all we want is wukong💯
Chinese netizens have a really straightforward way of responding to such allegations: if you really have a problem, gonna call the police.
CIA > Blackrock > Sweetbaby > "Make everything lame and gay, also sabotage chinese company for making a good game!!!"
I don't understand why they do this, money laundering or something? Sending a message?😂
@@Khann_2102dominance of narratives
@@Khann_2102 Well, it is for money because their strategy as Asmongold says is to create the problem that never existed and sell them the solution to that said problem.
You forgot the first step. small hat tribe > cia > blackrock > sweetbaby
@@Mewsashi-cz9fo Shalom!
Gamespot is nothing more than a bot ran platform laden with advertisements and regurgitated articles that have been "updated" by an AI. IGN is heading in the same direction.
Ign is way worse
IGN is way worse bruh
But Gamespot has the swagger of an African American teen youth.
Bro everything gonna be AI in the future bro just get used to it and I'll say it again it's gonna I Robot in the future 💯
Game journalist "The staff is problematic "
Me- damn this shits going to be lit
Haha
If we expand this logic to music, cinema and etc it applies to them all.
"The band members are problematic" -led zeppelin, Metallica, Black Sabbath and etc
"Problematic" people create great art
Pissing off the right people is becoming a sign of success.
Black Myth Wukong didnt agree to paying the extortion fee to Kotaku so they have my respect. first preorder in a long time for me.
2:48 I FEEL SEEN 🐱
The "allegations" aren't merely just allegations; they're falsehoods, making use of deliberate mistranslations of common Chinese idioms.
And to double-tap them with their own standards... They keep screeching about how "diversity is our strength" and how "fantastic multiculturalism is"... Right up until they run into a culture that doesn't believe the same hyper-progressive BS they do. Then its war.
It's possibly also racist to deliberately accept what you know is a mistranslation, because you're disrespecting another language.
@@hmmm348
They do that plenty of times with HUWITE games, do you think they care about anyone in China at all? They want control, not a respectful or kind world.
What they don't understand is, in their ideological blindness, is that many consoomers are chinese. The sale of the game will easily catapult that company into the stratosphere, just because of China alone, and they will have so much money, that they can buy IGN, the families of the game journos, and then have some left to make another game.
if gaming journalist don't like a game i might start looking into it
Of course they try to cancel the only game that rejected DEI
Reject? China is an incredibly insulated and homogenous country, they don't have the same arguments we do, rofl
I'm w/ you. And I hope this game is as good as it looks. But just to be fair though, it's much easier to reject DEI when you're a Chinese company. W/ the way China works, Chinese companies are more or less just another part of the GOV.
@@intellectic9155 right, there is no such thing as dei in China. There's nothing like DEI for anyone living in China to reject
What's Dei?
@@中華傲訣 Corporatized identity politics.
Haven't checked on their websites for ratings and reviews in years. Indie game reviewers on RUclips do a superior job than these major companies.
The Wukong studio did not say that "Xbox is irrelevant, and no one plays on Xbox" or whatever Asmond tried to say.
That was a completely different studio... He is talking about the recent article that a dev from S Studio said about Xbox... That studio is making Phantom Blade Zero... another Chinese studio sure, but Asmond was completely mistaken
I can't wait to see the Articles from "Journalists" comparing the MC or Villains to Minorities like they did with helldivers and the Bugs.
They've done that, they even compared the Tyranids aka the Bug Aliens from 40k to Jews.
@@Become-Eggplant Yea both the Jews in the past and Palestinians now also are compared to them.
Swear these people are AI Bots, at least they function like one and just repeat the same things nonstop.
in 2017 I was hearing them saying the Goblins and orcs in LOTR are black people.
Why they against Monke when we should all return to it? Are they stupid?
Ikr
They sound kinda dumb.
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Yes
We MUST return to monke
We the Gamers, decide what gets cancelled, not the journalists.
Never take journalists or reviewers seriously. They're just random people, their opinions literally mean nothing more than any random chatter you see online
Why the studio does not care about allegations:
1. They are in China
2. They are in China
3. In China they are located
I hear they're based in China.
You have it all wrong Asmon. These game news orgs are not even an industry. They are a tool for the larger companies that own them. It doesnt matter if they make oodles of money. That isnt their purpose
You're kinda right, a lot of them are bought but they have a lot of investors so if they they lose a lot of money they won't care what Blackrock says
I feel like it’s more likely that the companies that own them go “make us money, and fast” and therefore the journalism studios pump out as much content that will get clicks as fast as possible.
This usually means slop that draws in hate clicks or disbelief clicks.
I’m sure the companies believe a lot of what they are saying; but so much of it feels like desperate grasping for relevancy.
its still an industry
My language teacher always told us not to use direct translate because there can be miss use of words that are similar but with different meaning and more when you are trying to translate sayings from other countries.
Not just that, but also slang and figures of speech. Those tend to be tricky, if not hard to translate, since there's usually some cultural context behind it that most people would be totally unfamiliar with.
The entire point is that LLMs can actually correctly translate and use idioms
As Master Oogway said: "Monke"
But he was canceled
@@nicknevco215but monke
As a woman who had been waiting for this game for 4 years, the controversy is stupid. If people are offended then don’t play. A good game is going to get played no matter what.
First they came after Hogwarts Legacy then Stellarblade and now Wukong.
Bought 2 already and buying the 3rd
Why can't things just go back to the good ole days 😢
because games = money :/
When were the good ole days
Ikr
@@eddie_babyyy when was Fortnite released?
@@eddie_babyyyThe Proterozoic Era tbh
I’m going to preorder it even harder now
Yeah, me too
The benchmark for Black Myth Wukong is out on steam for download and testing. Extremely GPU demanding, it defaults to 50% super resolution and turns on an upscaler like fsr.
Comments like these need more upvotes instead of all the obvious joke and/or "I agree with this" comments.
Yup. I have a 6950XT have need to turn some settings down to medium and have FSR at like 60% lol (from 4k). It's really demanding, but I wish the benchmark had more going on like Returnal's. It doesn't tell me much just showing me slow sweeping shots and a few NPCs on screen.
Good to know
Sounds like I'll be buying on ps5 instead then. Unless it's gonna be on geforce now.
@@thefalseshepherd3689 turning on RT with our cards on this is laughable lol. Even with Framegen it sucks. I read that it's path tracing so that why it's so heavy.
Guys, I came up with a quick way to get rich, build a website, and then ask all the game production companies and film production companies for money under the pretext of helping them diversify, and if they refuse to pay, slander them hate diversity on your site. I bet most companies will give you money, and some will even reach out to you to give money.
Perhaps the western media do not understand Chinese mythology and culture. Wukong is a "Monkey God" in Chinese Culture, and anyone have watch "Journey to the West", you can see the "ridiculous" ability of Wukong and why he became the Monkey God. So the way he block isn't the typical "sword & shield" battle style.
Exactly some people just don't get it
Ignore the Western Media m8. They are mediocre and hardly have any influence over here at all. The only part that matters is that the casual gamer in the West cannot wait to play this game and has ignored all attempts at having this game cancelled!!!
Even more ridiculous he obtained mortality like 4 times
More like, the western media doesn't understand how the Chinese GOV works. Any company in China is just an extension of the Chinese GOV. Why on earth would the western woke media think they could strong arm the Chinese GOV? That's the real question.
Yes! I remember that one movie where jet li was the monkey king dude!
You can't stop the Wukong shlong.
"Wukong Shlong ain't got sh*t on me!"
Wukong Shlong ain’t nothin to fuk with!
@@BeesBees8277 😭😭
@@BeesBees8277oh nah
"Wu Kong's shaft can grow to as big as he wants"
NGL "sexist" comments makes me wanna buy the game day 1
Wu Kong bench mark has more downloads than concord
Cause they both have zero gameplay but at least the bookmark has something pretty to look at 😂
The problem is that if you try to create new gaming journalism pages, they are the first to boycott you so that you are closed if you don't think like them or fit into their agenda.
i miss those statues on collector's edition..nowadays western devs just gave you "3 days early access", "collector edition missions", "collector in-game cosmetics", ingame currency. the statues made collector editions actually have value
Soooo true, early access as a preorder or upgraded version of the game is killing video games. It's such a lame excuse to charge the extra $20-50 for some BS like that, there's hardly any added value to the game as a whole, like you said.
the physical art books were awesome too
Game journalists make me irrationally angry
rationally is fair
Gamergate was a turning point in our history
And movie/tv show “journalist”
don't worry, that's what makes you human
Feel the same ✌️😊
That “someone” is mad that their friends couldn’t extort a payday from a game studio. They tried to help to very little avail.
悟空从石头的缝隙中出现，是一种硅基生命体，属于少数民族；作为猴子，他受到动物保护法的保护；石猴没有性别，使他成为典型的非二元个体，也是 LGBTQ+ 社区的一员；作为一名僧侣，他信奉佛教，因此是信仰的保护者和素食主义者；经历过天神和冥界的迫害，他是压迫的受害者；悟空曾被囚禁在五指山下五百年，饱受折磨，这让他对自由有了深刻的理解，也使他成为一个自由主义者；称呼女性为“女菩萨”，表明他对女性权利的尊重，将他归类为女权主义者；他为扑灭火焰山脉和减少碳排放所做的艰苦努力使他成为伟大的环保战士；他对弟子同胞的关怀和七十二次转变也证明了他是平等和反对种族歧视的倡导者！
OK，现在可以让他们闭嘴了吗？
Asmongold's subscriber made a really impactful comment about influencers being just as corrupt and that's the bigger problem that hardly anyone addresses. Who is really selling all these pre-orders for games like Payday 3, suicide squad and UFC and EA games? It's influencers that will sell out their entire audience for a key and some skins. That's it. Hardly anyone is genuine and I would say it's much easier and cheaper to manipulate the influencers. Pay Day 3 sucked and everyone commented on how amazing it was all through Betas. Same with suicide squad, mortal kombat and nearly any other really hyped big pre-sale heavy game that was a failure. The content creators should have more consequences for the way they have influenced their audience and the audience needs to stop simping for them as apologists.
"1 person wrote about it and then other people started writing about what this one person said claiming people were talking about it."
This literally sums up the entirety of modern 'journalism'. Its just one giant circle jerk of opinions.
This game popping off will mean a whole series of Chinese myth games and I'm really hoping it does.
作為中國人我更希望中國的遊戲廠商幫做印度人的宗教神話故事，那樣的話印度人和中國人這個世界最大兩個人口大國加上佛教印度教和穆斯林，我等不及看到歐美媒體開啟的這一次新的宗教世界大戰😂😂
they hate black myth wukong because it's not black or remind them of something.
@@wumbowjumbow yeah
I see what you meant 😂
Nah, the black is just a myth amongst the Kong Wu's
Lol. Couldn't put it better myself
Can't wait for modders to add KFC n Watermelon, then all "Game journalist"will spontaneously combust.
NATIVE 1440P is the way to go with RTX 4090 IMO. No need for "upscaling" gimmicks nor "frame gen" and associated visual artifacts / increased input lag, just a prestine Native image as the PC Gods intended.
I believe those sites simply figured out that the only way they'll get any traffic is by posting rage bait
Remember, never give them the click and only watch and click on the people who oppose them so we essentially robinhood them from their own scheme.
Desperate journalists thinking their opinions matter
In my perspective, the entire gaming journalist market has been overtaken by RUclips. Why would I ever need to refer to a journalist when everybody has the chance to share their equally valid opinion??
@@bigcoffinhunter5500 The opinions of gamers are usually different from journalists.
That’s what happens when they surround themselves in an echo chamber environment.
game journalism will still be valid if only their opinion is relevant to the actual game and masses, despite RUclips existence
its no different from food reviews
the only real difference is food reviewers still have their credibility while game journalist completely destroyed their own credibility by pushing political agenda instead of the games itself
Asmon is on the money. When Rockstar was releasing Red Dead Redemption 2, I was getting messages from friends telling me about "Did you hear how Rockstar is treating their employees during the production process of Red Dead 2?" I didn't give a shit. I just wanted to know when it was releasing, so I could play it. Did anyone else bring up the work conditions after the game was released? no. Because the game was a masterpiece.
Rockstar made the devs overwork to get the game out, ngl i am lowkey supportive of that "abusive" decision cuz i just wanna play early.
Think about it this way, if you boycott the game, then the employees would have been forced work hard for nothing, which is worse.
I am honestly shocked how optimized this game is considering how good it looks. A company that actually cares about how the game runs. I can't wait.
118 fps at 3840x1600, 84 at 6144x3456, max ray tracing, so, yeah!
Mine was at 110ish AVG 1440 on a 4070super.
The developer delayed it twice, I believe. They wanted it to be good, and even rejected compliments related to their demo a few years ago, saying it wasn't good enough for release to the public at the time. Chads.
@@picklefathernurgle2719 they delayed once I think. I believe they planned to release on 2023 but on lunar new year 2023 (or 2022) they release a trailer, implied they promise to release 2024
21:56 "oh no. Don't pull me up. I'm done". 😂
I think the only form of gaming journalism that will survive is "investigative" journalism like what Jason Schrier does, because journalism of general gaming news, reviews and guides now live elsewhere in the internet in places like reddit, wikis RUclips... Etc
wow, so all you have to do is decline sweet baby inc.'s collaboration and suddenly you recieve a one way ticket to me2 canceltown. nice.
That's called "protection money".
What you also get, though, is the the undivided attention of most gamers worldwide, in an instant. I'd say it's a great marketing strategy, costing 0$. Wish more game studios realised this.
This is only a thing coz Sweet Bully Inc got rejected and tried extorting the devs.
And those devs likely kept all the receipts in case the CCP came calling, just so they leave them be after the check-up.
Bonus points if those CCP reps shrug their heads going "Western idiots as usual."
Nope it was way hyped before that… them rejecting them just took it to a whole next level of hype
@@liladonn5646 by this i dont think he meant this game, i think he meant just people trying to cancel it. Ill reword it. "This game getting 'cancelled' is only a thing cause Sweet Bully Inc got rejected and tried extorting the devs"
“As of this recording, they have repeatedly refused to comment on the allegations.” Which is so disingenuous because it would imply that Gamespot themselves have been trying to contact them for comment when really they mean in the general sense.
Why they always surface the “allegations” and issues that did not exist in the first place??? I blame IGN(orant) for this.
Not wrong on this one. Not at all. I used to read all of them to get different perspectives on a game, but gamespot was the first to go when they just started being an advertiser who used reviews to advertise. Then IGN, and then Kotaku. RPS was my last bookmark honestly and that has been going down-hill since they were bought out. They said it wouldn't happen, but it did. Listening to this I realised I hadn't visited for a while, not jsut because the reviews became very based on social opinions but because the trackers they had on that site made it seem less safe than buying a hit-man on the dark web. It's just so much advertising that to read anything i've got to bother to tweak my adblock settings. The text isn't worth that in 99% of cases, and the few occasions it IS, is all down to one reviewer who has a different style more reminiscent of the original review. Well thought out, well written with a unique perspective. But they put Sin on the pay-walled articles almost exclusively and I don't want to actually give money to these people.
So that's the last bookmark gone today.
Game journalists are jusr weirdos on Twitter...
Most of them hate gamers, their own customers
This is what happened to the music industry. I recall "In Rainbows" being released independently by Radiohead in 2007. It was a simple website that allowed you to "pay what you want" for the album, including $0.00.
They want to fill games and anime with their agendas and dirty ideas.
With the recent FTC fake review ban, Gamespot, IGN, and SBI need to be reported. Insider reviews are illegal if they are in fact being influenced by SBI.
2:09 bro thinks he escanor😭
He could do a perfect escanor during the night time cosplay
@@jordantaylor3420true😂
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I still don't understand why studios listened to these nobodies in the first place. They intimidate? Still nothing. They are just noisy crickets. They are nobody.
They have the media on their side, it's obvious looking at how this game is being treated by them.
At the same time, most companies super estimate their power, and end up giving up.
Having wukong being a success without them might help a lot in the future
@@TheMegamanan True tho. Also Stellar Blade who was so vocal against wokeys is also a huge success. Let's hope that the woke era will end soon.
nobody relies on gaming journalists to inform themselves about games anymore. everyone who actually plays games either watches lets plays on youtube, twitch streams, or pirates the games to test them out themselves so that they then can make an informed decision if they want to buy the game and support the developers. this last point is also why demos are making a huge return currently. if you look at smaller indie games, a ton of them are publishing demos of their games again on steam before their releases so people can test them out without falling back on piracy.
gaming journalism is a dead industry. in fact it died 10 years ago, and whats shuffling around right now are the zombified remains of its corpse. and youre right in that most of the crap theyre reporting on isnt even on the content of games anymore but social issues that they think are important, but that gamers dont give a shit about. even when theyre reporting about games, their takes are often hot garbage. like the whole discussion around baldurs gate 3 and how they were trying to tell us that we shouldnt expect this kind of quality to become the standart in gaming and hold large studios to that standart. like what kind of idiotic take is that?
if anything they should have been reporting about how all the major billion dollar self proclaimed AAA and AAAA studios (ubisoft - lol) could make their games as good as baldurs gate 3 because they have the means, but actively decide not to. because its lazier and cheaper not to. so the agendas of gaming journalists even where the content of games is concerned, seems to be favorable towards the publishers rather than the gamers. which means theyre not even providing content thats credible from the perspective or gamers theyre aiming their content at.
souls like? the damage is mild imo, from what gameplay i've seen like bosses only doing like 10-15% hp not souls at all.
it looks like it plays more like dmc or god of war or perhaps even star wars fallen order.
WRONG the actual reason why Black Myth Wukong is delayed because of Series S optimization issues. It's Phantom Blade Zero developers that said that no body needs xbox lol
I can't believe it took 4 years for PS5 to finally get a game
Its not coming to xbox because the xbox series S has ruined that platform...having to dev a game for the lowest common denominator would of made this game look worse...this is a next gen game for next gen hardware.
Pre-ordered mine, my body is ready! F these game journalists.
I can deal with infinite static banner ads, or MILDLY animated ones. Those auto-playing videos with audio that chase you around a page with a mini player is what keeps me in adblock (and probably moving to firefox when chrome kills it).
The “*cough cough* Souls-like” line was some of the most petty, grade school shit I’ve heard in a while.
People aren't particular familiar with Chinese game development industry. For so long, they've been developing games that is trying to cater to both gender, because they realized that it's equally or more profitable to entice women to spend on ingame cosmetics. Also, introduction of female player base into an MMO or any game will entice male gamers to spend more as well. So you games that cater to women or games try their best to please female players. Also games would include events or game systems that encourages male/female player interaction, MMOs games are very important part of Chinese online dating scene. The cosmetic and P2W system are often than not also built around that. They had a marriage system in MMOs as earlier as 2 decades ago. A lot of hardcore male gamers are sick of these trend. So your typical Chinese steam player or League player or any community with hardcore gamers are very hostile towards female players. There's a whole gender war on Chinese Twitter that revolves around they gaming industry. So GameScience initially pissed a lot of non-hardcore female gamers (which is the majority of them) off. And somehow international game media caught wind of that from Weibo and decided to frame the whole woke culture thing into a Chinese story, which is absurd to me because Asian (modern) culture, especially China with the wall, is so different. Even if it's in Japan or Korea where they're more connected and influenced by western culture, woke doesn't stand any chance. (E.g. being a feminist is an insult/scandal for celebrities in Korea, Japan had an active incels culture 20 years before incel is even a thing in Europe). The Chinese gender war isn't like your typical Western feminist; it's all about some women wanting to have privileges instead of rights, economic benefits instead of independence.
Your comment about AI taking over journalism is 100% spot on. It reminds me of the automation scare in the mid 2000’s. Tons of people were scared that robots were going to take all the jobs they occupied in manufacturing but really the only jobs that automation have ever threatened are menial, repetitive, and basic tasks. So if you felt like your job was ever threatened, it’s because you were an unsophisticated caveman who probably was an easily replaceable cog in the machine. Most people with any level of competency got other jobs within the same manufacturing plant supplementing the rudimentary robot tasks in new roles while the most rudimentary and basic mechanical tasks were assigned to robots. If you feel that your occupation of standing on an assembly line all day pressing a button is in danger, then you should probably branch out and learn a new skill or get a new job.
This is also why the advent of PVC in plumbing did not destroy the need for skilled plumbers that worked with flux, copper, and lead. An unskilled plumber could learn to use PVC quickly but there was still a need for work to be done on traditional plumbing systems. They retained a valuable skill even though the job was made easier at the lower level. If you are at the lowest level and only know how to work with PVC without any skill in plumbing otherwise, then it would be safe to assume your job is up for grabs at any moment.
As for journalism, If simply reporting a story encompasses the entire scope of your job you are a bad journalist and you deserve to get your job taken by a brain dead machine. Why would an employer needlessly spend more money on your salary if a basic machine can do the same thing as good or better? If you aren’t offering anything beyond basic observational reporting then you don’t deserve a spot in journalism because you add absolutely no value.
Yes, however the way you worded it points the finger to the employee, like journalists that don't do real journalism thus deserving replacement. The truth of the matter is more critical: while such bad journalists exist and are complacent, it's the industry that had them work that way in the first place and now the very same industry dreams about cutting costs substituting those jobs with a machine.
The same goes for artists: many are being substituted by AI not because they lack artistic skill, but because their skill wasn't fully utilized to begin with and there was no interest for anything other than the industry demands. Regurgitation of the already-made was already an approach before the AI. A quick surf in ArtStation demonstrates this: it's hard to distinguish who's who amongst millions of images that all look the same: technically great but lacking innovation, with the exception of very very few that don't manage to stand out in such a crowd.
So let's not put the blame on single individuals when this is a much bigger issue that was coming long before the advent of AI.
Some people aren't smart and can only do menial jobs