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Black Myth: Wukong is too mediocre for all this drama (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

OK, but the context matters.

Part of the context is that most of those sales are probably to China, and that despite the big global numbers, it's probably not not the same level of success in the Western world as the steam sales imply.

Part of the context is that game sales have never meant a game is actually good.

But part of that context is that it's the first real effort from China at a real AAA, single player game, and the differences in government and culture are part of the conversation.

And part of the context is that China is a huge, largely untapped market for AAA single player games, and publishers are going to notice that and push games to do some of the things other media have done to be more palatable to that market (most think to the detriment of quality by western standards).

I'm not hyper interested in the game (I'd probably try a demo), but it's being talked about because it actually affects the gaming industry.