If Black Myth: Wukong Isn't Nominated For GOTY, Fans Are Gonna Be Insufferable

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Oct 11, 2024

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black Myth: Wukong is a very good action game, taking the soulslike formula and stretching it into a boss rush format. 🍷Its popularity even surpasses that of its inspirations, garnering millions of players in mere days. It’s a genuine contender for The Game Awards, but with how stacked 2024 is shaping up to be, competition is fierce.

recently updated its Game of the Year frontrunners list, while also announced its six nominees for this year’s PC and Console GOTY categories. Black Myth: Wukong is nowhere to be seen outside of smaller categories, and so ♍TikTok right now is a deluge of angry gamers declaring games media is corrupt and that it’s all part of some wider conspiracy. The game was not rigged from the start, it has just been a very, very competitive year.

Black Myth: Wukong — while good (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:we scored it four stars) — just doesn’t measure up to the greats. Hell, it’s not even the best soulslike this year, as that award goes to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

For those who have used Wukong as fuel in a culture war since before it was even released, its absence on these lists is an attack. It’s a ploy by games media for… reasons, even though it has . There’s one big argument cropping up and slowly replacing all of the goth girls on 𝐆my Fꦍor You Page as to why it deserves to be nominated — it sold well.

It’s hardly a compelling defense, but sales figures have long been used as evidence that supposedly ‘anti-woke’ games liꦿke Wukong are what your everyday gamer really wants - in reality, it was a𝔍 success because the game was marketed to the enormous, untapped Chinese demographic.

It was only made worse when streamers were reportedly sent guidelines asking them not to mention “feminist💜 propaganda” or “politics”. Black Myth: Wukonܫg became the poster child of the most toxic, vocal gamers on the internet, and everything since its launch has only worked to further that image.

The Destined One holding a fire sword in a dark cave from Black Myth: Wukong.

Wukong was a monumental hit, there’s no denying that. Within days, it skyrocketed to𝄹 the seventh most-played Steam game of all-time with a concurrent peak of 2.4 million players, but numbers aren’t everything.

Banana, the viral clicker that generaꦛtes Steam Marketplace items, has a higher 24 hour peak than Black Myth: Wukong right now by over 100,000 players. Avengers: Infinity War and Spider-𓆉Man: No Way Home are among the highest-grossing films of all time, but they didn’t walk away with the pinnacle Oscar for good reason.

Sales do not equal quality. But Black Myth: Wukong has been weaponised in a culture war ever since it was announced, and it doing well has only been used as ammunition to argue that games media is out of touch with gamers. Not being nominated for any GOTY awards (it’s October, it likely will be in the mix for a lot of sites and could still be up for many categories at The Game Aw♌ards) is just more fuel to prove that point; it hasn’t upset fans because they think it’s a g🅷ood game deserving to be among the best, it has upset fans because they see its absence as an attack in their one-sided feud.

As we edge nearer the big, celebratory, end-of-year closer that is The Game Awards, we’re only going to see this outrage spiral. If Black Myth: Wukong doesn’t get a nomination for the main award (it has few competitors to shut it out in Best Action), its fans will see that as a personal slight. We’re witnessing that already, and I’ve seen my colleagues get harassed over the past year just for covering the game. If fans are this riled up by an award ceremony many self-proclaim to never have heard of, or a liꦆst of frontrunners that means very little, then I can’t see being ‘snubbed’ from TGA going down well.