'Black Myth: Wukong' Blows Past Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077 Steam Records

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/08/20/black-myth-wukong-blows-past-elden-ring-cyberpunk-2077-steam-records/

by bbzjk7 • 2 years ago

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alephnerd• 2 years ago

Looking forward to it - it looks cool, and there aren't that many open-world RPGs directly built on non-western lore.

quasarj• 2 years ago

I've never heard of it, it's wild that it's so popular, where are people hearing about it?

rKarpinski• 2 years ago

China.

rasz• 2 years ago

Monkey King is HUGE in China, think Brothers Grimm tales in the West.

https://people.wku.edu/haiwang.yuan/China/tales/monkey.html

TeaBrain• 2 years ago

I've read the complete Anthony C Yu four volume Journey to the West translation and I don't think there are many, if any, good comparisons in Western literature. There's an overarching story for the Monkey King, Tang Sanzang, and the rest of the gang, contained within the work, but the bulk of the chapters are self-contained episodic stories, with mostly those same characters, and can be read without almost any knowledge of the others.

The closest Western example I can think of with a novel-like work similarly containing many disconnected episodic stories is Don Quixote.

cosmeen• 2 years ago

The first thing you need to know when a game is released is how many people are watching it on Twitch.

Currently, after #1 Just Chatting category with 445K viewers, Black Myth: Wukong sits at #2 with 246K viewers.

There are also some popular streamers which have streamed playing the game or the Gamescom event.

thegrim33• 2 years ago

I don't think that really means much, all of the (major) streamers are just being paid to play the game on stream for X amount of time/days when the game launches. It's not organic. Twitch is just another marketing spend for these companies. Most of the big streamers maintain the same average viewer count no matter what they're playing.

'Black Myth: Wukong' Blows Past Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077 Steam Records

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