I 100% completed wukong cause the game was just that fun. A good, solid single player game doesn't need to have 100,000 concurrent players, it just needs to tell a story and that's it.
Not yet i plan to get it when i upgrade my graphics card by the end of the year. From someone who is usually satisfied at Medium settings, First game in a while that i want to play at high graphics. The game looks beautiful in the gameplay trailers
So sick of people calling single player games "dead". Single player games can't die because there's an ending, and you can still go back and play through it again whenever you want!
There is useful information to be drawn from single player games’ player count after the hype has died down. Naturally, it is stupid to compare the numbers to live service games/multiplayer games but it’s perfectly logical to compare them to other similar single player games. For example, if the player count drops really fast then the game likely has poor replay value.
Not necessarily. While it is stupid to compare single player games’ player count to multiplayer PvP games, there is some useful information that can be drawn from their player count after the hype dies down. Perfectly fine to compare single player game player counts to single player game player counts.
No not really if u have a single player game its life line is word of mouth and popularity becuse new players will only buy said game if there interested if people are leaving the game it tells others its not as interesting as they hope not saying it's true but have one has monkey brain now a days an just follows the crowd
@@artomania4212Oh, nothing much. Just a game which was bought by Sony for more than 400 million dollars and had spent more than 8 years in development. Just a run of the mill game.
The 232000 of the reviews aren’t “overly positive” they’re the recent reviews. The game as a whole has vastly more positive reviews than negative, and that is true with the recent reviews too.
@@thatboymeak Yes, good job? Kre is still correct, it just shows a stat for overall and a stat for recent and if they were positive. It is not showing how many were overwhelming positive.
@@tonyb794 lol, no need to so sensitive are you, i was agreeing with op. but if you really wanna be a little bitch about it, you are wrong, the overall number is in fact showing every overwhelming positive review. what the fuck do you think "every" implies, dumbass.
Guys. Gen Alpha. Children. Not every game is live service. Not every game is Fortnite, or Roblox or Minecraft or Madden/FIFA/NHL (year here). Some are just one and done experiences. I’m explaining this to you before the brain rot gets to you.
I'm gen alfha and understend this i hate ROBLOX, and goth bord of games like Minecraft and especiali Fornait, i do enjoy FC 24 but i onli bot the game becase it was on saels (like 15-18 USD).
I feel like the modern gaming landscape has totally broken the mindsets of players. I had an argument about this exact topic the other day at work. My coworkers were going on and on about a game's length being more important than it's quality. "Time is more valuable" was the main point they made, but one point is "if the game is shorter playerbase will drop faster." That is the most wild mindset to have. WHO CARES HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL PLAYING A GAME?! Was it a good game? Was it incredibly well received? Then who cares how many players are still playing or how long the game is!
Are they playing League? Are they happy? Cause League has one of the most active playerbase in modern gaming but we all know it's not in its best state for a looooooong time.
yeah but a truly good game, even single player, will keep players coming back to it again and again, not just doing one playthrough, being like oh that was pretty fun, then dropping it. thats why skyrim has been rereleased like a dozen times, people keep coming back to it and it keeps making bethesda a shit ton of money every time they rerelease it.
The only times that a game can die is if A: The game is reliant on servers to remain playable and those servers get shutdown due to lack of players. Or B: The game is pvp oriented and doesn't have enough players to start matches. Games that do not follow these categories are Soulsbourne, Black Myth, any single-player game, and games that can be played without servers.
Not to mention, that a lot of players these days don't really understand what it means for the game to be "dead." They just use it however they see fit and throw it around, like any other buzzword - and that donation in the video was a perfect example of that.
@@alyassuppaleridhil7892 Funnily enough, GTA has servers still up for the multiplayer that is still active but is also largely focused on single-player so it still doesn't match the reasons a game can be considered dead.
A single player game is the equivalent of a book. You read it you enjoy it and then you move on to the next story. That is not a live service game that absolutely needs a large number of continuous players to be sustainable. But you’ve got people who are so used to playing live service games they forgot how was single player game goes.
I couldn't disagree more. Single player games should have replay ability too. Skyrim and witcher are perfect examples. Who the hell plays games like that just one time and is done like a book.? 😂 Baldurs gate is almost a good example too, it's just technically you can play with friends on that one. But at release that was also a single player game with MASSIVE replay ability.
@@WoahJustTakeItEasyMan my analogy still works it’s just like the equivalent of a book series. Were you could reread it and enjoy little tidbits that you never noticed before. But in the end, you want to read that next story in the series. You want to play that new game that you heard about. I’m not saying a game doesn’t have replay value. Hell there’s a lot of games that I play right now are games that I’ve played previously and will play again some other time in the future. But a live service game absolutely needs a constant continuous player base to continue. Continue running. Because otherwise, the servers will be taken down and used for another game. And that’s the other key thing about a single player game. It is not dependent on whether or not the game company will let you play it again. That’s why I prefer physical digital download if at all possible. Because Konami and PT have shown that a game company can take away their digital only game from you if they wanted to.
@Nazo-kage I 100% agree on everything you're saying about owning the game and not having it be dependent on live action servers. It's nonsense that they can just make our product inoperable after they decide their done. But comparing black wukong to other single-player games where none of that is the issue, replay ability really matters. A big drop off so shortly after a massive release is telling. Think about hogworts legacy if you played it, that game was good for 1-3 playthroughs... and then you only come back if you like the mechanics. I'm thinking black wu Kong might fall into that category, unfortunately. To continue the analogy, you won't reread this book many times even if you are waiting for the sequel. (Especially because we can't expect a black wukong sequel for like 5 years lol) Where as quite a few other single-player games, you can't help but find yourself "rereading" even if you're waiting for the sequel.
@WoahJustTakeItEasyMan wukong is in the same category as God of war, you play it, then stop, then like 6 months to a year later you play it again. People who have work and a life aren't completing a single player game and immediately play it again.
232k arent overwhelmingly positive. Those are recent reviews. For a game to have overwhelmingly positive reviews means that atleast 550k of that 632k clicked "recommend". Which is wild.
The players who played BMW (the first time I saw the acronym like that, that's hilarious) will remember the game and the developers will have millions of gamers looking forward to whatever they produce next.
I don't get the hate around Black Myth. I got it for my birthday and im still in the second chapter. Absolutely AMAZING game and its definitely a contender for GOTY. It's truly a love letter from GameScience to the myth and legends of China
You said it. It's a Chinese game. I've seen people yapping about buying a pretty good game somehow support the spread of communism. "China = bad" is pretty much a brain rot in these modern day and age. Beside, gamescience exposed sweet baby inc of blackmailing them, so of course media gonna drag the game through mud
Wukong was a really strange case, it was this IMMENSELY popular game, that literally nobody had heard of, or talked about, but once it reached the rest of the world, it did well for a few days, then fizzled out.
@@JonGould-yd8yw bro I must have finished around 95% of Hogwarts Legacy in a week and never played it again. It was really fun but I rarely ever replay a single-player game.
a simple fact: even as of today, the # of active Wukong players on Steam is 280K. Still the most actively played game by far right now (if not counting free to play games).
Dying? People just beat the game, they probably come back to it. I have hard time playing, seems like something is messed up with shaders. I have to reload it. Sometimes it works. Get update and it breaks. I think I have that shitty CPU with instability. 50% time works perfect. 50% time its buggy.
I’m still playing through the game and it’s only cuz I have a schedule of 3 games on a rotation It’s meant to be beat and then put down until you either wanna try a challenge run or do ng+ or a dlc releases I would’ve finished it by now if not for my schedule
There are so many games I’ve loved to death but only played through once. It’s still gonna sit on my shelf and stay with me forever. I still love every moment I had on it.
Bro can’t read. “232,000 of them are overwhelmingly positive” that’s recent reviews, not how many reviews are positive 🤦♂️. There’s 675,000 positive reviews.
I think people forget sometimes a game release is lack luster or it just drops off the map fast but a lot of games like that have become cult classics and people love them.
Eh? 600k odd reveiws of all time are overwhelmingly positive. 200k odd recent reviews are OP. What you said, that 200k of the 600k being op was incorrect.
Single player games don't work on the same trend of multiplayer games. A single player game can have 100 players and still be around but if a multiplayer games has 100 players, then it will more than likely go away for good
Also a "Dead game" is one that's UNPLAYABLE due to a lack of people playing it. You don't need any other players to play wukong 😂 Tell this kids parents to drop him on his feet next time.
Thats so true. People often don't realize that some games are designed to be played just once, like a single player story game. Ive never really understood the ng+ mentality tbh.
Journalists: Meanwhile, Concord only lost less than 700 players since releases. Now we see which game is actually better. Big win for modern audiences.
Same happened few months after Elden Ring people were trying to say it’s a dead game but it’s a single player game unless you summon your friends or a random to help with a boss
For me is because it’s basically a souls like game But it looks beautiful I just don’t have the patience’s to fight a giant mother Russian ass bear that sets everything on fire while I’m 1 hit away from killing him like 10 times in a row
232800 review is RECENT review,not positive review if there's 674969 review total and only 232800 is positive,its bad for a single player game,and the review overview would be mixed,not positive
Overall 674969 reviews and were overwhelmingly positive.. if you know steam at all, if there were truly mixed reviews in that 674969, it would say (mixed) instead of (overwhelmingly positive) 232800 were just the most recent reviews, which also said (overwhelmingly positive) meaning, as a game, it is overwhelmingly good. Lol.
Its sad that we have reached a point in gaming where multiplayer gamers think a story game can die, like they would know when all they do is play online like there arent better options
the word dead game means that nothing is happening in the community and no one is playing this game, so Black Myth Wukong is a dead game, because you confuse the word dead game with a boring game, the fact that the game is dead does not mean that it has earned little, using your thinking fortnite will never die because the game has earned a lot and you can always play the story mode
Nah you got it twisted. Only online multi-player games can "die". They die when so few people are playing, that the game actively becomes less fun or unplayable due to unbearable waiting times and bot lobbies. At that point, the games can never be the same and they can never be good, thus they are truly "dead" Online multi-player games are designed to be played perpetually, unlike single-player games, which all have a clear ending point. Once you beat the single-player campaign and 100% it, you've reached the ending point. So that's when people stop playing. Chronotrigger or Sonic 3 or Banjo Kazooie, nobody calls those dead games, because they're not, they're OLD games. But unlike "dead" online games, single player games will always be the same no matter when or where they're played. Thus, they literally can't "die"
no, let's say for example Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a single player game but you have the option of adding other people's characters to your crew that are controlled by the computer, if there were few people playing this game I would have less people to add to the crew, so how many people play the single player game can affect the gameplay
Staying power is important for single player too, in advertising word of mouth is more effective than any other advertising so when people aren't playing they also aren't talking about it. The game did fine but it's life cycle is short comparatively.
Maybe it's because of all the comparisons with the famous morbius of gaming, Concord. Their numbers of active players were compared constantly while Concord was still a fresh follow, so naturally, people who don't understand what the point of that comparison was realised the opportunity to lampoon the "fall from grace". I bet Wukong will enjoy a steady stream of active players for years to come.
I don’t think game journals also understand the point of single player games, they expect it to be a live service, nah the competition did their job they gave of a game where we the consumers either enjoyed it or not
@@saif-gv6glthose journalist Never played actual games they know only fortnite older gamer almost all of thém are single player games and devs have no way to know number of player in their single game playing it in a day
It’s crazy that people can’t understand the concept of a huge portion of the players disappearing from a story game. Like no shit most people by then have completed it.
600,000 plus reviews being overwhelming positive is a bigger achievement bc it takes 95% or more of the reviews to be positive to become overwhelming positive. And not many games achieved overwhelming positive
Currently playing with mods that have made the game lore accurate. I’m over here turning tiny or giant on a whim and shapeshifting left and right while goin crazy with the staff and flips. Flyin on the cloud any second I want, even during combat.
A mere 10 year old studio with barely over 100 employees sold 20M+ copies of a single player campaign in less than a month to kick off a whole new franchise.
True. Why limited ourselves to one games when there's thousand of great games out there to be played. Black Myth Wukong plays great, deserves all the praises and we can't wait to see another great DLCs and more games from the Black Myth Wukong devs.
I thought I sucked bad at this game until I got on internet and seeing how silly people could get and how better I was for not giving up in my fights. Literally people on Reddit and instagram are forgetting RU-vid is there to help. If you can’t beat a boss just do the side quests and get stronger. If you still can’t watch RU-vid videos or live streams see how others do tackles the situation and apply it to yours.
If the game gets you intersted in DLC or the next game, and it makes you feel content with having spent the money, then its done more than most live service games ever will
Only half right. 80% down is still a lot for a single player game. That means 80% of the people playing stopped playing it before they finished the game. It’s a good game but the data shows it was glazed hard enough to create hype it couldn’t possibly live up to
That's not at all accurate. Losing 80% of the playerbase does not mean that 80% of players did not beat the game. It just as well could mean the exact opposite.
This is why I play single player games. I’m broke and busy most of my time so I usually can’t afford to get into a community based game, where time and/or money are what they ask of me. Plus by the time I would finally have the money or time, the game is usually already considered “dead” even though its been 2-5 weeks max
I love seeing a game that is, in its function and setup(singleplayer), reminiscient of my childhood(early 2000s into 2010s) be looked on as "dead" because its just something people might play once but immensely enjoy
The only way a game can "die" is if the game is live service. Helldivers 2 can die, forknife can die, overwatch can die, league can die. You know what can't die because people can always come back to it due to having offline playability? Any and all games that dont depend on live connections to play and have a single player story or lan co-op story. Dark souls games dont need the internet to play, older MK games, crash bandicoot, spyro, jak & dexter, etc. Those can NEVER die until the last copy and the files for the games themselves are completely lost to time.
Do people also not realise it’s also normal for a player count to drop greatly after the first few weeks of a single player game coming out? Most people play a game once and never touch it again lol
Single player games are like books. If they get that "New York Times Best Seller" status, they're set. Doesn't matter how many people read the book at the same time, what matters is how many people buy it and like the author; in this case, the game developer, and how positive their "readers" will be and how hyped they will be when they announce a new "book" release.
Also, its just a big game with difficult bosses. Its difficult to finish for most people, especially when theres work or school in the way. In my case, work heavily gets in the way but im still at the end of chapter 4 and loving it. And im planning on finishing it and getting the true ending
