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[LectureMaster]

Black Myth: Wukong’s GOTY Nomination Sticks Out Like a Sore Thumb

Of the six games nominated for 2024 Game of the Year, Black Myth: Wukong garners attention as a standout choice, but not for the right reasons.

gamerant.com

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Interestingly, the highest-rated nominee for Game of the Year was Super Mario Odyssey in 2017. The lowest, before Black: Myth Wukong, was shared by Control (2019) and A Plague Tale: Requiem (2022), scoring 82. Other closely related scores include Annapurna Interactive's Stray, which achieved a score of 83 in 2022, and Resident Evil Village, which managed 84 points in 2021.

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What do you think? Press scores matter or Steam user review are more authentic?

 

[LectureMaster]

And of course they had to fight the good fight for Veilguard.

Furthermore, considering that Dragon Age: The Veilguard's predecessor, Dragon Age: Inquisition, won Game of the Year in 2014, it was shocking to some that the most recent title didn't receive nominations in any category. Though it has a Metascore of 82, based on 71 critic reviews, this still puts it one point above Black Myth: Wukong.

 

[killatopak]

lowest-rated game​

Gee, I wonder why it was rated that low hmmm?

 

[Rudius]

The game has flaws, but I don't think something has to be perfect to be excellent. What matters most is that is that when playing you are not ingesting the same regurgitated slop you had over and over. It feels fresh and wholesome.

 

[Gaiff]

Amazing game and comically better than Dragon Age: The Trashguard. More deserving than a DLC too.

I know it won’t happen, but I would be so happy to see this game win just to witness the meltdowns of western journos.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

What do you think? Press scores matter or Steam user review are more authentic?

User scores, hands down.

 

[Sentenza]

it's also one of the most deserving of a win and the low scoring was a fault of the professional gaming press, if anything.

Obviously no comment allowed to the article.

 

[LectureMaster]

Gee, I wonder why it was rated that low hmmm?

 

[killatopak]

You play as a fucking monkey. That’s beyond diverse and inclusive. Harambe would shed a tear.

 

[LectureMaster]

Amazing game and comically better than Dragon Age: The Trashguard. More deserving than a DLC too.

I know it won’t happen, but I would be so happy to see this game win just to witness the meltdowns of western journos.

Hope it gets a PS5 Pro patch and a HDR update and then I will be the happiest boy.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

A game that probably has no white people on the developement team and that's still not good enough for the wokie wokes.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

If they were this worried about performance issues in videogames as they are with diversity and inclusivity maybe gaming journalism would actually be taken a lot more seriously

 

[Nankatsu]

Metaphor scoring 94, lol.

 

[SJRB]

Almost as if review scores are dumb as fuck, bordering on irrelevant and not indicative of a game's quality or popularity.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

If Stray can get nominated anything can. What an absolute joke and embarrassment to the industry that nomination is and all because it has a cat in it. Replace the cat with a possum, or a rat and see if it would have got the same reception. It's just stupid.

 

[LectureMaster]

You play as a fucking monkey. That’s beyond diverse and inclusive. Harambe would shed a tear.

A game that probably has no white people on the developement team and that's still not good enough for the wokie wokes.

No, just because you are monkey, doesn't mean you can escape our sacred DEI cause.

 

[N30RYU]

Will be then the GOTY with the lowest score ever

 

[Hookshot]

It could have been rated in the 50's and it would have been chosen. Chinese people will use the internet to watch the game awards. The game awards will then be able to tweet that record numbers of viewers watched the event.

 

[Wastelander92]

TLOU Part 2 Remastered was robbed.

 

[Kotaro]

It deserves to be one of the nominee, but also Geoff wants that Chinese market audience.

This year TGA will break viewership records just from Chinese audience alone

 

[balls of snow]

Lucky SotE, Astro Bot and Vii Rebirth are there to cockblock the monke then.

 

[Polygonal_Sprite]

Hope it gets a PS5 Pro patch and a HDR update and then I will be the happiest boy.

Yeah I’m waiting for a Pro patch for a much more stable 60fps. Game looks great and great to see a smaller team achieve such worldwide success.

 

[xenosys]

It deserves to be one of the nominee, but also Geoff wants that Chinese market audience.

This year TGA will break viewership records just from Chinese audience alone

Geoff's not silly. He knows if even a fraction of the Chinese audience tune in, he breaks viewership records.

Fortunately, he doesn't need to worry about placating them with the GOTY award because he's already baited them in by that point anyway.

 

[Little Chicken]

Ofc Playstation timed exclusives get a free pass at the Game Awards, like Stray (83 MC) before it.

 

[Bojanglez]

And of course they had to fight the good fight for Veilguard.

Embarrassing isn't it. EA with all its power and sway over the media couldn't influence the press to a larger than 1 point metacritic difference to a new IP from an unknown studio.

 

[diffusionx]

many yuan were deposited in Geoff's Cayman Islands bank account

 

[Klosshufvud]

When did Keighley say the nominations are filtered by Metacritic scores? Surely the editor of gamerant knows this?

 

[ArtHands]

Ofc Playstation timed exclusives get a free pass at the Game Awards, like Stray (83 MC) before it.

Yah if we're being honest, Stray is great but definitely not GOTY great.

 

[Little Chicken]

Yah if we're being honest, Stray is great but definitely not GOTY great.

I enjoyed it too and agree, it isn't "GOTY material".

 

[firegamer273]

i honestly think this game has low metacritic score because of journalism propoganda and it should be sailing highs in 88-90s.

 

[Roufianos]

Yah if we're being honest, Stray is great but definitely not GOTY great.

But a perfect game for the kind of activists who are actually on Geoff's panel.

 

[Peroroncino]

gamecunt

 

[Dafegamer]

the want the Chinese demographic to tune in, so there's that. That would explain why it got chosen over other games that got higher acclaim.

 

[Stu_Hart]

Why was it the lowest rated? Because it wasn't as good as the other games in the list. It's a 7-8/10 game at most, nothing more. It's a derivative game. A good one, but nothing special. The only game in that list that is closest to it in terms of gameplay, Elden ring shadow of the erdtree, demolishes this game in every way.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Chinese money sounds good for that garbage AD infested shitshow so theres a high chance they'll give the game a default win.

 

[Robb]

It is a strange nominee, especially given the stupid rules clarification.

There are plenty of remakes and remasters rated way higher that should have that spot.

 

[PandaOk]

Gee, I wonder why it was rated that low hmmm?

It’s not a very good game? Combat is so-so and it has a boat load of technical issues on consoles with frankly amateur choices around performance modes. Especially for an action game the choices they made for framerate caps, resolutions, etc? It’s downright embarrassing. It probably got nominated because it sold a billion copies in China.

 

[killatopak]

It’s not a very good game? Combat is so-so and it has a boat load of technical issues on consoles with frankly amateur choices around performance modes. Especially for an action game the choices they made for framerate caps, resolutions, etc? It’s downright embarrassing. It probably got nominated because it sold a billion copies in China.

Those same reviewers said combat was great. In fact check out the one posted in this very thread. I get performance issues on consoles but they’re not that glaring or downright bad. Relevant because friggin Elden Ring is in the same list with those same exact problems you listed and that got a pass because? Since when did copies meant nominee? 2K, Fifa and COD would get nominated every year if that was the case.

Reviews are subjective, I get that but when I see people who already had a negative agenda on the game far before the game even released use reasons outside the game itself to criticize it on their review, it just muddies the waters even more. At the very least, judge the game on its own merit and I say this as someone who can accept diversity and inclusion in games as long as the game is actually good.

 

[Ribi]

Why was it rated so low? By all accounts it was a great game

 

[MiguelItUp]

I would've much rather had Silent Hill 2 Remake in its place for all the work they put into that, and for that being the most well received Bloober title yet.

Honestly as curious as I have been about the game, I feel like almost anything else would've been a better replacement.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Helldivers 2 should have been in place of the DLC.

That's the real controversy.

 

[midnightAI]

Ofc Playstation timed exclusives get a free pass at the Game Awards, like Stray (83 MC) before it.

Yes, everything's a conspiracy /s

 

[Magic Carpet]

There should be lots of Tik Toc Chinese reaction vids to the Game Awards.

 

[diffusionx]

Ofc Playstation timed exclusives get a free pass at the Game Awards, like Stray (83 MC) before it.

Stray was a stupid game and definitely not a GOTY but it's exactly the sort of thing that the people who write for game sites would like.

You have to know who is voting for these things. It's not "objective."

 

[cormack12]

Power of the monke

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Scores mean nothing, especially so in the politically charged world we live in, which has been invaded by every aspect of it.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I think the game is a solid 8.5/10

 

[Thief1987]

Gee, I wonder why it was rated that low hmmm?

Because it's not a good game?
"That low" lol, what did you expect? 95? Even current score is inflated, shouldn't be higher than 65

 

[abstract alien]

Did it ever get a patch that helped the performance maintain 60fps?

 

[Strategize]

Silent Hill 2 deserved it's spot. Gotta pander to China tho I guess.