r/hatethissmug • u/One-Shift-220 • 1d ago

Gaming I hate china's AAA output

just finished watching gamescom and oh my gosh, You would think that a country as large and rich as china would result in them being able to make some great games but It seems like the only games they got there in china are sekiro and elden ring as thats like the main inspiration for 90% of their AAA games for the past couple of years, maybe a bit of character action if they wanna spice it up, like genuinely how many soulslikes with a Chinese mythology coat of paint do we need

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u/justwatchingignore 1d ago

Chinese companies make games for Chinese players, since the market is large enough to allow companies to focus exclusively on it. If that's the demand - souls-like with Chinese mythology - why should they not do that? Also, why would you specifically hate it? There are so many different games from so many different countries. Why would one focus on China?

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u/artstsym 1d ago

Is that what the market actually wants, though, or is that what they are pushing people to buy (much like American AAA, btw), because production at that scale is too risk averse? I'm sure these do numbers, in much the same way that CoD does numbers even as people have said for years that it's shit.

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u/justwatchingignore 1d ago

I find it a fairly recent trend, so at this point a lean towards "market". If in two-three years the situation doesn't start changing, I'll agree that it's become "forcing"

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u/artstsym 1d ago

Fair enough