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The situation really just looks like a Chinese company infected with tech douchebro company culture. Sad! Sucks to any non-chuddy developer caught in the middle of that

There’s a whole right wing love fest on the game. Apparently the studio is pretty sexist in a tomb raider 1 kind of way (vibe being: big boobies good, but also girls gross and lame)

When your hatred of women, black people and the gays outweighs your hatred of the Chinese

You might just be... a

Gamers are universally shit

There’s a long history with right wing culture warriors adopting a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach. Outrage at the thing du jour, if it doesn’t get traction then abandon it. If it does, proceed to make epic amounts of hay over it. Often two things that seem more or less the same, one will get no attention and the other becomes a lightning rod. I guess Wukong has whatever sauce to make it the latter.

Red MAGA hates it because it's from China, blue MAGA hates it because it's from China and is making a lot of money.

You would think the fascists' hatred of China and their racism would override their hatred of minorities in their own country but I guess not. The culture war is a poison. I fucking hate this shit.

There’s this too

Bigotry attracts these guys like flies to shit

I wish they'd stop trying to remix the classics. Who asked for a remake of Dragon Ball?

It would be pretty funny if it turns out they’re very knowledgable in western pop culture discourse and how idiotic it is and used their Putlerian KGB handbook to sow discourse to maximize profits

Gamer discourse will only get more confused and contradictory as China inevitably begins dominating the video games industry. Even if, hypothetically, none of their games ever reach mass appeal in the west, it's only a matter of time before the best available hardware is Chinese.

I'd like to say it will be fun to watch the chuds grapple with their sinophobia and anti-communism getting in the way of their rabid consumerism, but tbh I think most chuds will just quietly rationalize it and, at best, rant less about China. Maybe we'll even get some cursed synthesis like "China is only good because they're anti-woke!"

DEI for thee, but not for me

Here's my theory:

Capital G Gamers saw "Black Myth" in a vaguely Asian-themed title, and assumed it was "debunking" Assassin’s Creed daring to have a politically colored protagonist.

Then they went

I haven't heard of this before and now I never want to hear about it again. Sounds like a weebified version of Mordhau, which was already infested with an ultra-toxic fandom.

Or maybe Kingdom Come Deliverance, with its chuddy head of company.

EDIT: I made a serious mistake by saying "weeb" in this post because I intended to talk about a fandom, not the region or even the thematics of the game itself with the use of that word there. Reading my own unedited sentence up above for myself indicates I also failed to make it clear I was talking about the fandom of Mordhau and how this seems like a further Asian-stuff-seen-as-cool-and-mystical-and-untainted-by-woke focused subset of it.

My interest in this game has never been lower and I hope to avoid its fandom in the future, that's for sure.

IDK but I'll get the game once it's cheaper