A reader is worried on the rivalry between Astro Bot and Black Myth: Wukong followers and worries there’s an absence of respect between them, over the qualities of each video games.
Game awards can characterize each the most effective and the worst the video video games trade has to supply. It’s nice to have fun all of the superb video video games that come out inside a calendar yr, in addition to the personalities and builders who’re striving to push the trade up into new unexpected heights. However, sport awards can divide followers and trigger many web arguments everywhere. This yr particularly has been all about Black Myth: Wukong vs. Astro Bot (sorry Metaphor: ReFantazio!) and it has appeared to me that there’s a major dichotomy between them.
I’ll begin by saying that for my part Astro Bot is much and away the 2024 Game of the Year. This is as a result of the ingenuity of its design, the quite a few methods it surprises, delights, and produce pleasure to PlayStation gaming. Most impactfully of all, it has reminded us of not solely what lies on the core of PlayStation’s very soul, nevertheless it has introduced with it a blazing uninhibited sunshine to PlayStation 5’s typically dingy and overly-serious planet.
Astro Bot will not be solely my sport of 2024, it’s my favorite PlayStation 5 sport total, and is the most effective PlayStation sport since The Last of Us got here out on PlayStation 3 in 2013 – and even then, I feel Astro Bot is much better than The Last Of Us.
Now, on the opposite facet is Black Myth: Wukong, a sport which has completely bolted with an distinctive fanbase that arose in a short time, refusing to decelerate even regardless of the much less enthusiastic opinions from critics. I like that Wukong has garnered such a scintillating fanfare and I’m actually glad players adore it.
However, from what I’ve seen within the lead as much as and after The Game Awards, Wukong followers have been disgustingly dismissive of Astro Bot. I perceive that Astro Bot will probably be seen as a kiddie sport meant for kids, however this massively reductive stance ignores every thing Team Asobi has labored extraordinarily exhausting on to craft what’s a very unforgettable sport.
Many Wukong followers can’t deal with it when one other sport wins sport awards over it, regardless of Wukong profitable Golden Joystick’s Game of the Year and numerous different awards, together with The Game Awards’ Player’s Voice Award.
Meanwhile, Astro Bot followers have soaked of their love of the sport, and I reckon lots of the, are wholly respectful to Wukong for all of its success too. Above all, the brilliance in design Astro Bot boasts I consider creates a group of positivity and cheeriness, which is one thing that very a lot deserves to be rewarded given all of the negativity we’ve got to ingest in right this moment’s world.
I theorise that the rationale why many Wukong followers are upset is as a result of Wukong is a difficult sport within the useless of a Soulslike. They get annoyed and offended as a result of they carry on falling in battle throughout the numerous leviathan-sized encounters inside it. They’ll see Astro Bot as a baby’s paradise vacation and can assume Wukong is a sport for adults, or one thing to that impact.
Again, I wholly respect and congratulate Wukong for all its success. It’s a sport that deserves to be celebrated for accruing such a powerful and trustworthy fanbase, however I simply really feel they need to even be respectful and courteous of Astro Bot’s success as properly.
We have to recollect too, that regardless of how prestigious award exhibits are, they’re made up, and though they’re designed for celebration. They’re additionally going to hold with them a deadly surge of disdainful fanboyism/fangirlism.
We’re liable for how a lot inventory we put into The Game Awards, like with any video video games media publication, so if we don’t like The Game Awards, we don’t have to take a seat and watch it as a result of the entire trailers will probably be on YouTube anyway.
By reader James Davie
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