Poll: Will You Be Buying Black Myth: Wukong On Xbox Next Week?

I'm good thanks I really can't take to any souls like games that aren't fromsoftware games 👍
They are all cheap imitations in my eyes which tbh sucks 🥺🤷😁

No, but not because of all the furore around it last year, just because it doesn't look very good compared to other games of it's ilk.

I'll never get why it was so lauded in the west, surely this was just a big deal in China

Currently very busy with other games right now so can’t justify buying this at launch. I may get it later down the line, when it is on sale. Lots of games I still need to work through beforehand to get to that point though!

And if they still haven’t fixed the performance mode issues on console that Digital Foundry were describing last year then I’ll just pass.

Never liked the look of it, to be honest. Not for me.

Got it on PS5 and it’s not bad but nothing all the special. Honestly haven’t finished it yet, lol.

My bank says no so I won't be playing

Na, not my kind of game

Nope.

(My reply is exactly long enough to constructively answer the question posed. If you want a more detailed response I suggest you review how you frame your question instead of making me write all this.)

Played a bit of it on PS5 already, really mediocre stuff. It isn’t bad, it just isn’t all that good. If you’re a die hard Chinese mythology addict and enjoy soulslikes I’d say maybe give it a try, otherwise you’d be better off choosing something a bit more polished and robust.

Doesn't look like something I would enjoy. Maybe when it hits bargin bin prices I will give it a try.

It's not for me. Not so much the gameplay but the characters.

I'll go against the grain and say yes. Even though I'm not fond of how Game Science handled the Xbox port, I've already pre-ordered the game because it was on discount, and it seems like it won't go on sale again anytime soon.

I'm sick of developers treating some gamers like second-class users.

A year ago I would have bought it, not now, if for them Xbox gamers are not important, for me, a Xbox gamer, their game is not important.

I don't buy any games at launch because no game is worth that much to me. It will be much cheaper after a while and there are MANY great games on Sale so I'd rather buy 3 or more AAA games for the price of 1.

Free to Play games these days are also an option. Games like Roblox and Fortnite as well as Halo:Infinite all offer creation tools to create different and/or unique experiences.

There are so many Games and Options that I don't need to buy ANY game when its at its most expensive. I have a Backlog of Games going back over 20yrs on Xbox to the OG Xbox with some playable on Series hardware, games that are less than £10 I could buy from the past 20yrs as well as all the FREE games from Gold/Game Pass that I could play so why pay more just because its a 'new' release. As an older release, it will still offer the SAME experience but at much more reasonable cost.

New games aren't just competing with other 'new' releases that week, but the massive Libraries of Games available on that hardware. Why spend money when I don't have enough time to play the games I already have or get access to...

Will be interesting to how much of a mess it is on Xbox giving how much of a mess it is still is on PS5 and PS5 Pro. The console version is a scam imo.

@Ricky-Spanish You say that but Lies of P and the Nioh games are easily up there with the best of From games with LiP surpassing most of From's titles.

Nope, just for the fact that they deceived people. Eff them

@Ricky-Spanish I sort of agree unless the game changes the formula significantly. My favorite by far is Remnant (2) which focuses on guns, a sci fi setting, replayability, and co-op. I've played plenty of others which just feel like "mom we have dark souls at home" and for the most part I don't have time for them anymore

@DennisReynolds Nothing in that genre supasses fromsoftware in my opinion and I played them they just made me want to play elden ring that's just me can't help how I feel ha🤷

Lmao no. I'm not into souls likes so this isn't even really an option for me. But unlike say Elden Ring, I've also never heard anything really good about this game. The gameplay sounds generic and it has a ton of technical issues even on the highest end of of hardware. I don't know how it was even nominated for awards. The majority of sales just seem to come from China which makes sense to me. Like am I missing something? People would talk about it like it's okay or worse than okay and then also say it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Is there like a hypnotic light effect in the game? And to that point it seems to have completely disappeared. I don't see anyone talking about BMW at all in any context anymore. Compare that to Elden Ring, Lies of P, the original Dark Souls, and Nioh which people won't shut up. Both those in and outside of the genre.

I'll need until exactly one year after the release date on Xbox to decide.

@DennisReynolds Technically? Yeah lmao. But I've also not heard much better about the PC version. Honestly the devs should've delayed everything while they figured out how to optimize for series S. Maybe then the game would be more stable on everything.

I would have bought it on PS5 already if I was going to, I lost all interest in this when I heard it was mostly a boss rush game.

Anything even remotely 'Souls-like' is an automatic "Nahhh brahhh." It would've been better if they went with some Ninja Gaiden/Bayonetta-style gameplay.

I still haven't played "Enslaved: Odyssey To The West". That'll come first

Bored with Souls Likes.

Its not really a "Souls-like" in my opinion. There are influences, sure, but personally I would just call it an action RPG. I am not a fan of Souls games at all, and Wukong was my 2024 goty. Just saying.

@WildConcept6 The game can't even do 60fps on the Pro, its fake 60fps as in they framegen from 30fps and its awful. Res is pretty blurry as well no matter the mode or console and the visual settings are pretty low or very low PC settings with none of the visual stuff that makes the PC version so pretty.

@Coletrain I'll never get why it was so lauded in the west, surely this was just a big deal in China

I would say its partly because it was classes as a "Soulslike" which has become the redundant term in gaming now as anything action based is suddenly soulslike.

The other part is the romantic appeal of how different and interesting the culture is, even if its shown through a heavily distorted fantasy lense. I think its a big like most of the UK have little intrerest in UK history, the Royals etc. Other countries lap it up however and are amazed at how much history the UK has. Its just the appeal of something different to what you know.

@DennisReynolds I'm fine with 30fps games, but frame generation is god awful. And actually I wouldn't be fine with 30fps if I bought a PS5 Pro. Sheesh.

Yeah literally everytime I heard about BMW performance on any platform, I cared less and less that it got delayed on Xbox. Still those sales were insane. And I have to say that makes me terrified for the future of gaming just because as consumers we've now basically given a green light to that sort of behavior in development. They rushed the game out the door and got rewarded for it. And if people like it, good on them. I just don't get it. Like at all. I assume it's China, but it also got it's flowers in the west. And I just find that baffling.

@ilyn I do like the memes of Brits conquering everything 🤣 maybe that could be a good game for us with a historic twist

With this game though, weren't the vast VAST majority of sales in China? But it was celebrated as a worldwide success!

I think Wuchang releasing a couple weeks ago might well hurt this game. Both have very similar themes and style. Wuchang has the advantage of being on Game Pass and launching on Xbox day 1 rather than a year’s delay. I know my own interest in Wukong has diminished since seeing the positive reviews for Wuchang.

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@Coletrain Yeah the majority were from China but people crowed about it everywhere, tbh you can probably thank Astrobot for a lot of that hype. BMW got a fair portion of the internet talking about it just because they wanted to hate on the idea of a platformer winning GOTY.

Will you be undertaking a review, @FraserG? Thanks...

I will buy it later on a good discount. All these games are sold in full price and later they get a massive discount. I bought some games and I played them after a year or so, when they were much more cheaper 😅. So, I am trying to change that!

Thanks, @FraserG. I'll be interested to see whether Digital Foundry test the game out too...

@ilyn astrobot looked a worthy winner to me. Not hating on BMW mind, it looks fine, but weird how it just came out of nowhere to be a part of the conversation.

Hoping for E33 or blue prince to win it this year, both outstanding at what they do

Nah, not a Souls like fan.

@Coletrain I think so far E33 is the most likely. Blue Prince was excellent but it did start to suffer in the end where to solve the post game puzzles it fell foul of RNG and didn't give you enough ways to stack the deck in your favour.

I think the other contenders so far will be Death Stranding 2 and possibly Mario Kart World. I could also see Yotei being in contention if it launches well, but can't see them beating E33 either.

I wanted it last year pulled the trigger and got it today. Folks be saying Xbox players don’t buy games but I’m a living example lol

@ilyn I agree wholeheartedly. E33 takes it, DS2 close 2nd.

Re: Blue Prince. As someone deep into the post game puzzles, I can confirm that RNGesus is kicking my ass!

Already got it on Steam.
Not usually a fan of Souls games, but this actually one hooked me.

To be fair the news X Box gamers will not buy games won't suprise anyone. This is why companies avoid X box because they are not Interested in buying even highly reviewed games.