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You will play the role of an "hunter," navigating, probing, and counterattacking the "emotional fraud" organization, uncovering lies, and dismantling traps. Will the flames of vengeance consume them, drown in despair, or allow love to rise from the ashes? The choice is yours.

This is more like a movie, several scenes were incredibly moving, and the actors gave excellent performances.
Its said the leading actor and actress have 500% increase in their market value.
The rise of micro-dramas and live-action gaming really created an alternative stage for new actors.
 
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FairAndUnbiased said:

IDK what game this is but this is in a university e-sports tournament.
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It's Broken Arrow on Steam. Just released a few weeks ago and is currently the most popular wargame. It's unique in that its setting is near future, so it's using modern, prototype, and even cancelled weapons like the M10 Booker light tank.

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Have you played Expedition 33 yet? That game is dripping French culture in every fibre of its being. What separates it though from recent Chinese content like WuKong and Nezha 2, is that the French culture is still made accessible for a global audience. Black Myth Wukong's story for example is basically incomprehensible for people who don't have a scholar's knowledge of Journey to the West or Buddhist mythology, same with Nezha 2 to an extent.

The problem is that the incomprehensibility is what a lot of Chinese cultural chauvanists like, since they claim Chinese culture after being maligned for so long deserves to be portrayed in an unadultered form. But with how dense Chinese culture is and how the world still has little exposure to it, I don't think putting different coats of paint on it to make it palatable just like the gacha companies, do is in anyway bad. But as always, with a market of China's size if creatives can make bank in China alone the need to appeal to foreign audiences has never been there.
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You're right, while E33 is heavily dipped in french culture it was in a highly accessible format. With themes and story that was not spoon fed to the player while still being easily understandable, the french influence is just a coat of paint and can be readily switched out to tell the same story.

For black myth, the game is so deep into Chinese mythology, it is basically incomprehensible to the average gamer. My friends complain about the amount of idioms randomly thrown in instead of speaking plainly. It gets to a point where it starts feeling like story writer is being pretentious. I have the same complaint about other souls game where you need an hour long YouTube video to comprehend the story.

I understand that this is a core part of Chinese literature and it is not targeted towards foreigners to begin with, but surely there must be more to Chinese creatives than just rehashing a 500 year old book.

For the record, I find Chinese games that stand on its own excellent (my time series, Dyson sphere program, heck even marvel rivals)
 
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Not Chinese game news, but Microsoft just sacked 4% of its gaming sector. They shut down a couple more studios, including the initiative who were making The Perfect Dark 3. It's now cancelled and removed from Steam. I was looking forward to that too. I waited 5 years, and now it's canned. Bloody hell, Microsoft. I'm afraid State of Decay 3 might be next, and I'm also looking forward to that one.

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Microsoft and Western gaming in general isn't doing too hot, so not surprised. There will be consolidation across the industry. Microsoft's bet on Open AI also isn't playing out particularly well as Open AI is losing market share to Google, losing talent to Facebook, and at the same time, trying to break free from Microsoft.

This is a great opportunity for Chinese game companies to capture global market share; the Chinese government should do more to facilitate the industry, I would recommend adopting an "innocent until proven guilty" policy towards domestic game developers, such that for companies of a certain size and up, they should be allowed to do provisional releases without going through the government approval process - but will be punished heavily if they do end up violating the rules in a follow-up review.
 
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Not Chinese game news, but Microsoft just sacked 4% of its gaming sector. They shut down a couple more studios, including the initiative who were making The Perfect Dark 3. It's now cancelled and removed from Steam. I was looking forward to that too. I waited 5 years, and now it's canned. Bloody hell, Microsoft. I'm afraid State of Decay 3 might be next, and I'm also looking forward to that one.

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Only the Initiative is shut. It was a 20 person managing studio that never shipped a game in 7 years.

SOD3 is fine.

I was expecting way more studio closures based on the rumors.

1st party AA development never made sense given the glut of Indy studios you can contract ala the Clair Obscure devs.
 
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