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Black Myth: Wu Kong 13 minutes Gameplay trailer a AAA Chinese action adventure game
- Thread starter leon9506
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Oh, I fully believe that a new generation of Chinese-based devs were largely "training in the mountains", just waiting for the day when they come down and blow us away with the fruits of their labors, like this.
With the way China has been pretty far ahead of the game when it comes to the gaming space in other areas, it's only a matter of time before they likely do so in other areas.
Devs do talk about this in the Q&A: It's a traditional one-time-payment game, but we are not ruling out the possibility of DLCs or non-stat related content, and you are welcome to take the screedshot this statment so u can remind us with this in case something different arises.
Real gameplay or vertical slice. I was ready to be convinced until the transition from gameplay to cut scene at the end of the wereworlf battle.
I think it works very well here.
Yep. I find most game failed to be satisfying when defeating an important ennemy. The last hit slow mo is great but used in a lot of games.
I think it works very well here.
The production values look insane. The art style and animations are impressive as hell.
The only thing that gives me pause is the stamina bar. Every single action game doesn't have to be Dark Souls. I want to freely use my abilities.
The only thing that gives me pause is the stamina bar. Every single action game doesn't have to be Dark Souls. I want to freely use my abilities.
Sorry to be a downer, but the lack of any cut into a position specific cutscene at 10:15 leads me to believe that a lot of this isn't authentic gameplay.
And the team is only 40 people and considers itself "indie"? Idk guys, I think y'all need to either dramatically temper your expectations or prepare to wait 4+ years for this to materialize.
On the bright side, even if this is all just dressed up target render/proof of concept. The tons of art, enemy designs, location designs, and target gameplay they're showing is incredibly promising, as long as they get enough people on board to bring it to fruition.
And the team is only 40 people and considers itself "indie"? Idk guys, I think y'all need to either dramatically temper your expectations or prepare to wait 4+ years for this to materialize.
On the bright side, even if this is all just dressed up target render/proof of concept. The tons of art, enemy designs, location designs, and target gameplay they're showing is incredibly promising, as long as they get enough people on board to bring it to fruition.
Holy shit! This looks really, really good. Great art direction, amazing animation, and the combat looks really hefty and impactful. Really hope this gets an English release, even if it's just subtitled. I suspect they'll have lots of EN publishers banging on their door to accomplish this.
Im with you one this being too good to be true or will take 4 years min but there are quite a few games from China that hold good quality while developed by few or even 1 person. Shooter "Bright Memory" for example is made by 1 guy.
why not call it journey to the west. much bigger name. Black Myth: Wu Kong doesnt do this juwel justice.
Damn, looks amazing. And not just from a tech standpoint which could slide, but that art direction isn't likely to go away and looks dope.
Wtf, just looked up Bright Memory, and all I could say was "holy shit". I mean sure, it's only like a hour of content, but for all of that to be handled by 1 guy, at that fidelity, is insane. He even said it was "in his spare time".
If Black Myth can see a similar ROI, they really could pull this off in a normal time frame.
My only question is how are these devs producing such detailed assets so fast, like it's normal?
This is good. I want more variety in gaming. :)
This is insane. Linked to my gaming friends and they were floored. I don't care if it apes God of War, Sekiro, etc. as long as it does those well.
So they need the funding, I take it? Hope a publisher picks them up. Maybe Square Enix? What about Activision or EA? Hahaha! I'm kidding.
Ooh, I very much like that sound of that. :) Game looks terrific!
Looks f amazing. Chinese devs keep showing all these amazing "games", but where are they?? Hard for me to get excited tbh.
Not Xbox specific but Control, RDR2, The Last of Us 2, Ghosts of Tsushima, etc. Don't get me wrong this looks good but nothing looks extraordinary about it to me.
Looks nice. Want to see more.
He runs a bit slow though for a character that can move ridiculously fast normally. Needs some Ninja Gaiden speed to it, I feel.
He runs a bit slow though for a character that can move ridiculously fast normally. Needs some Ninja Gaiden speed to it, I feel.
Seems like a healthy middle ground between God of War and souls-like games, I'm all for it.
Their art director is an absolute beast, but the whole core team they assembled is probably one of the most senior in the Chinese industry right now. They're also one of the only ones to produce directly for consoles and their output is terrific, so it most likely won't be hard to find talent willing to depart major studios to join them. The key concern for them was funding; they had to make two mobile games and are still doing co-development and outsourcing for Chinese studios to raise enough money to keep this project going.
I actually followed their announcement on Weibo and was the first comment on their Youtube video before all this blew up, I'm extremely (and pleasantly) surprised by the international reaction! There's no doubt they will get their funding now, and hopefully with no strings attached.
For a little bit more context on the Chinese game industry, there's this phrase "文化输出" meaning "Cultural Output". It's frequently used on Chinese forums to describe the project of exporting Chinese AAA games to foreign markets and their inability to do so. A lot of Chinese people are disappointed in Tencent's route to flat out copy and mass-market western games, even Jack Ma of all people lol.
Projects like Wu Kong proves them it's definitely possible to assemble great teams with creative ideas and sufficient manpower to achieve this "文化输出".
Their art director is an absolute beast, but the whole core team they assembled is probably one of the most senior in the Chinese industry right now. They're also one of the only ones to produce directly for consoles and their output is terrific, so it most likely won't be hard to find talent willing to depart major studios to join them. The key concern for them was funding; they had to make two mobile games and are still doing co-development and outsourcing for Chinese studios to raise enough money to keep this project going.
I actually followed their announcement on Weibo and was the first comment on their Youtube video before all this blew up, I'm extremely (and pleasantly) surprised by the international reaction! There's no doubt they will get their funding now, and hopefully with no strings attached.
For a little bit more context on the Chinese game industry, there's this phrase "文化输出" meaning "Cultural Output". It's frequently used on Chinese forums to describe the project of exporting Chinese AAA games to foreign markets and their inability to do so. A lot of Chinese people are disappointed in Tencent's route to flat out copy and mass-market western games, even Jack Ma of all people lol.
Projects like Wu Kong proves them it's definitely possible to assemble great teams with creative ideas and sufficient manpower to achieve this "文化输出".
Preach! (looking at you, Rock steady. We better see gameplay tomorrow)
Hopefully it also gains traction in the West
I was really into the art direction, outside of the main character, because he seemed a little bland... but then they swerved with the "real" Monkey King at the end of the trailer, head feathers and all.
Definitely skeptical of how the final product will be, but my interest in piqued. The story and character have so much nonsense that would make sense in a video game like this.
Definitely skeptical of how the final product will be, but my interest in piqued. The story and character have so much nonsense that would make sense in a video game like this.
Yeaaa, this checks all the boxes of too good to be. Especially knowing china's gaming market and their focus on mobile gaming.
Especially considering its on "UE4", the engine isn't exactly known to be ship friendly and a lot of the techniques they are using through these videos I know are extremely expensive. So not sure if they focus on it being cloud streamed off high-end PC's, but I doubt this will be like this once released.
But down to be proven wrong, looks really fucking great and I miss the days of demo's like this.
Yeah...I'll believe it when I see it. This looks way too polished for something in "pre-alpha".
