Astro Bot’s win at The Game Awards got here as an enormous shock to the creators of Black Myth: Wukong, with the developer’s CEO sharing a prolonged assertion.
While you might need missed them between all of the trailers and adverts, there have been really some awards handed out at The Game Awards 2024.
The massive Game Of The Year prize went to Astro Bot, which beat Balatro, Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Black Myth: Wukong to take the award.
Astro Bot’s win prompted among the best speeches of the evening from Team Asobi director Nicolas Doucet, the place he graciously toasted Nintendo, nevertheless it looks as if one studio was quite bitter over the sport’s win.
In a submit on Chinese social media site Weibo, following The Game Awards, Game Science CEO Feng Ji shared a prolonged assertion (as translated on Reddit) the place he mentioned there was a ‘sense of loss and remorse’, regardless of Black Myth: Wukong profitable each Best Action Game and Players’ Voice.
While he famous that profitable the latter ‘was gratifying’, Ji appeared to query the standards required to win Game Of The Year. ‘The video games nominated this 12 months have been all distinctive, however truthfully, I nonetheless can’t work out what the standards have been for Game Of The Year,’ he wrote within the translated submit. ‘I really feel like I got here all the way in which right here for nothing!’
He went onto admit that he had written his Game Of The Year acceptance speech two years in the past, ‘solely to by no means get the prospect to ship it’.
He added: ‘Since final evening, I’ve seen numerous robust dissatisfaction and frustration in gamers’ feedback – usually expressed humorously or paradoxically, which made me snigger.
‘I fully perceive these emotions and share the frustration, as a result of behind these feelings lies not ache or malice, however dignity and confidence. When you’re so assured and but don’t obtain the popularity you anticipated, it’s pure to really feel upset.’
While there’s an opportunity the tone of Ji’s feedback might have been misconstrued in translation, it seems as if he isn’t the one one from developer Game Science who was, on the very least, shocked and upset, after Black Myth: Wukong misplaced the award.
In a clip which has circulated on X, Alanah Pearce, a former author at Sony Santa Monica who was on the occasion, claimed she noticed members of the Black Myth: Wukong crew ‘crying when Astro Bot obtained Game Of The Year’.
‘It’s positively uncommon,’ she mentioned. ‘Clearly it meant so much to them, they did a tremendous factor, however I did discover that shocking.’
When requested if it was celebratory cry, Pearce replied: ‘No, they have been upset. Definitely upset that they didn’t win. Which can be truthful, nevertheless it was nonetheless shocking.’
GameCentral has reached out to Game Science for remark.
Black Myth: Wukong is the primary main launch from Chinese developer Game Science. The recreation offered 20 million copies inside its first month on sale, and it went onto win Game Of The Year on the Golden Joysticks 2024 – which in contrast to The Game Awards is voted on purely by the general public.
Aside from Astro Bot, the opposite massive winners at The Game Awards have been Metaphor ReFantazio, Balatro, and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.
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