Black Myth: Wukong Dev Reportedly Cried After Losing Game of the Year

[Obi WanX Konami]

The Black Myth: Wukong team were seen visibly crying when Astro Bot won Game of the Year.

Game Science CEO Feng Ji took to Chinese social media platform Weibo to express his frustration with the lost in a big rant.

"Yet, I must admit, there’s a sense of loss and regret. More than anything, though, there’s a letting go of illusions.The games nominated this year were all exceptional, but honestly, I still can’t figure out what the criteria were for Game of the Year. I feel like I came all the way here for f$%%& nothing!"

"I wrote my Game of the Year acceptance speech two years ago—only to never get the chance to deliver it!"

Feng Ji mentions how he has seen a lot of “strong dissatisfaction and frustration” in players’ comments, which he says were expressed humorously or ironically by review-bombing Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam.

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I wonder if the allegations of sexism in the workplace played a part in their loss.

https://www.ign.com/articles/how-black-myth-wukong-developers-history-of-sexism-is-complicating-its-journey-to-the-west

[vkobe]

Blitz4님이 먼저 게시:

steven1mac님이 먼저 게시:

I admit, I never heard of the game until it won the game of the year award.

right! and that's my point.

games today can avoid exclusives. why are exclusives still praised in such high regard.

look at wukong. literally 750k reviews 96% on steam atm. that's unheard of in any game. That means wukong sold 50M copies. Astro Bot has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide.

how in the hell can a 1.5M copy game even if it was rated 100% by those gamers outperform a 50M copy game at 96% just on one platform?

astrobot is not 100%, bu 9,1

[vkobe]

Roundabout님이 먼저 게시:

It doesn't surprise me at all as anti-woke activists who hate women and treat them as sex objects tend to have massive ego's, be closet perverts and are always huge cry babies.

This is the same dev who:

1. Wanted to hire women staff to lick him at work & give him an erection
2. Advertised friends with benefits at the workplace with a suggested poster of a woman
3. Women made accusations of sexual harassment at the work place.
4. Talked about jerking off to the snake spirit women in their game, proclaiming it was their fetish
5. Made it clear they are against feminism

The game became popular after these controversies were exposed, as all the anti-woke in-cells flocked to it to support the anti-woke devs.

well you know your side could support concord, dustborn, unknow 9

[Sixtyfivekills]

vkobe님이 먼저 게시:

Sixtyfivekills님이 먼저 게시:

This is like that one scene in Journey To The West where they copied Asura's Wrath and squashed the monkey with the huge Buddha hand.

sorry dude if you watch old hong kong movie from 80 you can see buddha smashing wukong with his hands

hehe, "hands", dude only needs one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8BAg5LnZsA

[Adversary]

Ȼħⱥꞥꞥēł8753452님이 먼저 게시:

oldirty`님이 먼저 게시:

Yeah, to be fair tho, its probably more a government thing and not the company itself.

It for sure is, they just want to cement their take over of the entertainment market.

So them losing was a slap in the face, but not one that is unwelcome.

The CCP deserves much, much more than a slap in the face - as does any developer, publisher, company really that does business with them. Which includes the bulk of developers in West Taiwan as you cannot have a business there without being in bed with the CCP.

[vkobe]

Sixtyfivekills님이 먼저 게시:

vkobe님이 먼저 게시:

sorry dude if you watch old hong kong movie from 80 you can see buddha smashing wukong with his hands

hehe, "hands", dude only needs one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8BAg5LnZsA

buddha palm is not new, you can see that in old movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5rxHO09Fh4&ab_channel=NOWPLAYING

[Quillithe]

All the people responding to the guy talking about Journey to the West copying Asura's Wrath like he was being serious...

[admiral1018]

I can understand them being upset and emotional about it. This was an amazing achievement for both them and the Chinese gaming industry as a whole. So long as they aren't blaming others or acting like victims, I have zero issue with this reaction.

With that said, I think Astro Bot deserved the win. It's a better Mario game than any Mario game ever actually released. And, best of all, there was absolutely zero political garbage surrounding that game. It was pure fun mixed with a celebration of gaming nostalgia, reminding us what gaming used to be like before mentally ill activists and grifters infested the industry.

[Valfossa]

admiral1018님이 먼저 게시:

I can understand them being upset and emotional about it. This was an amazing achievement for both them and the Chinese gaming industry as a whole. So long as they aren't blaming others or acting like victims, I have zero issue with this reaction.

With that said, I think Astro Bot deserved the win. It's a better Mario game than any Mario game ever actually released. And, best of all, there was absolutely zero political garbage surrounding that game. It was pure fun mixed with a celebration of gaming nostalgia, reminding us what gaming used to be like before mentally ill activists and grifters infested the industry.

While I don't doubt Astrobot is a good game from what I've seen of it.

Better then any Mario game however? No, I'm sorry but no.

[Original Cast Recording]

History will vindicate the thousands of games that didn't win GotY.

[Quillithe]

oh is it Christmas or something님이 먼저 게시:

History will vindicate the thousands of games that didn't win GotY.

It's interesting to look at the list of Game Awards winners and nominees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Award_for_Game_of_the_Year#Winners_and_nominees

First thing I note is ...were those REALLY the best games they could find for 2014?

[Marcy]

Jazz님이 먼저 게시:

i've legit never even heard of astrobot until it won goty. really don't think it should have won

I think you should play more games tbh

[apathy]

It lost to Astro Bot? A clone of Mario Galaxy?

Another reason to ignore GoTY awards.

[Marcy]

apathy님이 먼저 게시:

It lost to Astro Bot? A clone of Mario Galaxy?

Another reason to ignore GoTY awards.

"It's a platformer so it's a clone of Mario Galaxy!"


Black Myth Wukong is just a clone of Dark Souls.

[Poyzo]

Bind0fGod님이 먼저 게시:

Every year the Game Awards loses more credibility and i am here for it.

Some would say they never had any to begin with.

[Marcy]

I don't think anyone here understands the significane of Astro Bot winning

The Gaming Industry is dying, full stop.

And no, it's not because of "woke DEIness", it's the lack of sustainability.

Developers keep trying to cram better graphics into their games and keep chasing the same trends.

The development for Spider-Man 2 cost 315 million dollars. That's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane, and the game isn't even that different from the first game.

The remaster of the first game cost only 11 million.

Costs are only going up.

Also, these types of games seem to be the only types of games people want to make anymore. Dark Souls and The Last of Us have poisoned the gaming landscape. They are great games but they made developers learn the wrong lessons. Now every game is trying to be it.

Infact, Sony shut down Japan Studio, who literally made some of the greatest Playstation games and some of the greatest games ever made.

You know how some people complain Sony has no variety anymore? They used to. But most of that variety came from Japan Studio

Japan Studio ended up creating: Ape Escape, Legend of Dragoon, Fantavision, Ico, Siren, Shadow of the Colossus, LocoRoco, Gravity Rush, The Last Guardian, and the original Astro's Rescue Mission for PS4, when Japan Studio shut down, the team that made Astro remained, Team Asobi.

So the fact that the last remnant of Japan Studio made a game that is actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ different from all the other triple A slop coming out, to the point where it swept the game awards, actually makes me have hope that the gaming industry can move away from the "Soulslike over the shoulder 3rd person emotionally driven narrative game" genre and actually get back to making really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ diverse games.