Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
08-20-21 | 11:09 AM
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Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
From Wikipedia:
Take a look. This is the 12 minutes of new footage... simply put, "WOW!"
... and this is the tech demo from 2020:
Black Myth: Wukong is an upcoming action role-playing game by Chinese indie developer Game Science, based on the classical 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Gameplay
The game has been described as a Souls-like. The player controls Sun Wukong (also known as Monkey King) to fight through an assortment of enemies, with abilities to transform into flying insects or a giant monster.
Marketing
On August 20, 2020, the developer uploaded a 13-minute pre-alpha gameplay video. Within one day, the video had nearly 2 million views on YouTube and 10 million views on bilibili. On February 8, 2021, in celebration of the upcoming year of the Ox, Game Science released a 3-minute gameplay trailer, which showed the game's enemies, bosses, areas, and spells.
On August 19, 2021, Game Science released a 12 minute gameplay trailer, which revealed that the game was moved to Unreal Engine 5.
Release
In a 2020 interview with IGN China, Game Science said they plan to release Black Myth: Wukong by 2023. The developer aims to release the game for PC as well as main-stream consoles. The game will be sold as a one-time purchase with possible DLCs.
Gameplay
The game has been described as a Souls-like. The player controls Sun Wukong (also known as Monkey King) to fight through an assortment of enemies, with abilities to transform into flying insects or a giant monster.
Marketing
On August 20, 2020, the developer uploaded a 13-minute pre-alpha gameplay video. Within one day, the video had nearly 2 million views on YouTube and 10 million views on bilibili. On February 8, 2021, in celebration of the upcoming year of the Ox, Game Science released a 3-minute gameplay trailer, which showed the game's enemies, bosses, areas, and spells.
On August 19, 2021, Game Science released a 12 minute gameplay trailer, which revealed that the game was moved to Unreal Engine 5.
Release
In a 2020 interview with IGN China, Game Science said they plan to release Black Myth: Wukong by 2023. The developer aims to release the game for PC as well as main-stream consoles. The game will be sold as a one-time purchase with possible DLCs.
... and this is the tech demo from 2020:
08-21-21 | 11:54 AM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
The game looks cool. I don't like how the enemy throws his sword at you and another magically appears in his hands.
08-21-21 | 02:04 PM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
I haven't been this excited since the last video game based on the classical 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West.
08-21-21 | 03:18 PM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
... but to be honest, I never heard of Enslaved.Interesting trailer though.
Looks like Questyen has it listed at #9 on his favorite games of the decade (see thread Favorite Games of the Decade (2010-2019)).
08-21-21 | 10:45 PM
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Enslaved was awesome.
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08-20-24 | 07:04 PM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
This game is now out, and it has the most concurrent players on Steam… ever.
Only there’s one asterisk…
Only there’s one asterisk…
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Wolf359 (08-21-24)
08-22-24 | 04:11 PM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
I bit. This and maaaaaybe Star Wars Outlaws will be my two release date guilty pleasures of the rest of the year. 40 minutes in and it's just fantastic, I love every aspect of it.
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Goldberg74 (08-22-24)
08-23-24 | 01:21 AM
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08-25-24 | 10:56 PM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
Gave into the fomo and bought this today. Don't really care for it so far, but it does have the best graphics I have ever seen.
08-26-24 | 09:02 AM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
I returned it. I loved it and definitely want to play it but it stutters horribly on PC, and there's many reports of that. I will wait til a few updates are out and a sale. But it was spectacular what I was able to play.
08-26-24 | 09:26 AM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
The marketing (and apparent anti marketing) on this is wild. It's either the best game ever or overhyped garbage.
08-26-24 | 11:51 AM
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Re: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science; 2023 - PS5, XBSX, PC)
I think it's because of leaked texts that were very mysoginistic, and the defenders are saying they were just badly translated, just Google Wukong controversy.
06-06-25 | 06:24 PM
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