Chapter 117: Who can’t draw a pie in the sky?

"Hello! Hello everyone, I am Xiao Ye, a Chinese son-in-law who has lived in China for 5 years and loves eating dumplings the most!"

"As everyone knows, I recently returned to China to visit my family. Today is the opening day of the Neon Game Show, so I will take you to see which Chinese games are appearing at this exhibition!"

Events such as game shows and anime shows may lack media reporters, but they are indispensable for those self-media bloggers who hold up mobile phone stand gimbals and take pictures everywhere.

The same is true for Ono.

Although he is Japanese, he married a Chinese wife. He relies on the traffic of Chinese fans and follows the Raff route.

When he returned to China to visit his relatives, it happened to be the opening of a video game exhibition. Ono, who knew what the audience liked to watch, gritted his teeth and bought a ticket, intending to go in and take pictures of the exhibition area of ​​Chinese game companies, especially Xiaomi.

joke!

Xiaomi has so much traffic, how could he not know about the self-media business? He could go back to the exhibition area to shoot a few videos and praise the audience. Wouldn't the video playback volume go up?

He understands the audience so well.

Although he looked down on Chinese game companies from the bottom of his heart and thought that Japanese game companies were better, it didn't hurt to flatter them a little to make a living.

It is common for video bloggers like him to say one thing in public and another behind the scenes.

"OK! Finally got in..."

"Wow! Look, there are so many people queuing up ahead. It must be a great game. Let's go check it out!"

In fact, as soon as he entered the venue, Ono saw the Perfect World booth in the distance, and there were not many people queuing.

But he understands the art of language too well.

Let's go back and edit the video, cut out the crowded scenes at other booths, and shoot some footage from less popular exhibition areas. Wouldn't this highlight how popular domestic games are?

"Demon slayer! Wow!"

"My favorite Demon Slayer, I didn't expect a new game would be released. No wonder so many people gathered outside the exhibition area waiting to try it out..."

"Many viewers said that we foreigners don't like to play this kind of Chinese fairy-tale style game. NO! We like it very much. Otherwise, why would so many Japanese people line up?"

Ono filmed a video of people queuing in the trial play area. What he didn't say was that many of those queuing were international students and Chinese media reporters, and there were very few Japanese people.

But that doesn't matter.

Anyway, they look similar, so if he says they are Japanese people, the audience won't have any problem with it and may even feel proud.

Hehe, domestic games are really great, and foreigners are just ignorant. They are so enthusiastic about playing this kind of web game-style krypton gold game...

“There are too many people!”

Ono pretended to be depressed and said, "With so many people in line, I guess I'll have to wait until the afternoon to play this game. It's such a pity."

"Time is limited, so I won't queue up. I'll take you to see the exhibition area of ​​other domestically produced games first."

Ono is very skillful.

Before shooting, he would first observe the flow of people in these exhibition areas. If there were too few people in the domestic game exhibition area, he would just turn off the camera and pretend not to see it.

Soon he arrived at Area 03.

A large number of domestic game developers gathered here. Among them are Zhuchang, Tianba Studio and Mijia, which the audience cares about the most! The hard dishes have to be served last...

Xiao Ye, who was well aware of this, decided to visit the Zhuchang booth first, then the Tianba Studio booth, and finally the Mijia booth to show off his licking skills.

“There are so many people here at the pig factory!”

"But the games of QQ are just like those of Tencent, not very fun, and not the type I like..."

Xiao Ye had heard a little about the reputation of the Pig and Goose families on the Internet, so he naturally knew what to say to make the audience feel more comfortable.

Don’t brag about these two!

In fact, when he passed by the Tencent exhibition area before, he was quite interested in several games, but there was nothing he could do because he knew that the audience didn't like to watch this, so he just briefly mentioned it and skipped it.

The same principle applies to pig farms.

If you praise these two companies, you are standing against your own audience. Xiaoye still wants to make money by making videos and receiving advertisements, so how can he offend the audience? Just a few words are enough.

After making a few overt and covert derogatory remarks, Ono left the pig factory exhibition area and came to the Tianba Studio exhibition area separated by a wall.

"The Land of Divine Grace?"

"I know this game. It's very popular in Japan, but the most popular industry is the animation industry! Many new animations in Japan are produced using this game..."

Tianba Studio is not like Zhue, which has black fans all over the Internet and cannot be praised, nor is it like Mijia, which cannot be scolded.

Therefore, when Ono made comments, his stance was relatively fair and objective, neither deliberately praising nor belittling.

"Shennong Land" is really popular! To put it bluntly, nearly 35% of the sales of this game on PC/console platforms came from the Japanese market.

What’s even more outrageous is that many well-known animation producers, supervisors and scriptwriters in Japan have publicly recommended the game "Shennonglu" on social platforms.

It may be a bit of a stretch to say that this is the most popular Chinese game in Japan, after all, QQ Games' "Wild Action" is also outrageous.

But if this is the Chinese game with the greatest Japanese influence, then it’s a sure win!

Ono is a Japanese after all. Although he lives in China, he often pays attention to the news and information from his hometown.

He still remembers one piece of news clearly.

"The Land of Divine Grace" took the animation industry by storm, causing the dissolution and bankruptcy of approximately 1,800 animation companies and studios, and directly or indirectly causing more than 10,000 people to lose their jobs.

Very scary! Japan is a country with a lot of animation industry people, even if 10,000 people seems to be not many.

But this is only a short-term impact. If you think about it from a long-term perspective, as long as "Divine Grace Continent" is still there, more people will lose their jobs and be forced to change careers or become unemployed.

Tianba Studio is extremely evil! Thinking of this, Ono suddenly lost all his favor towards Tianba Studio. After all, the animation industry is the pillar industry of Japan.

A Chinese game company came to disrupt the situation and caused so many people to lose their jobs. Isn't this worthy of resentment? "... Although everyone says it's fun, I don't think "Shennong Continent" is fun. The Japanese people around me also think this game is boring."

Now that he had a stance, Ono was not as polite as before.

He pretended to be objective and made sharp comments on the shortcomings and deficiencies of "Divine Land", and said that as a game developed by a small workshop, it could not yet compare to masterpieces such as "Dragon Quest".

"Where did this person come from?"

Chen Ba saw someone taking photos with his mobile phone outside the exhibition area, and saying a lot of bad things about "Divine Grace Continent".

This puzzled him.

This guy looks like a foreigner, but how come he speaks fluent Mandarin? And why would he want to criticize "Shennong Continent" for no reason? "Then I'll drive him away?"

Xiao Lu was eager to try and said, "This guy said a few nice words at first, but soon his true colors showed and he started to speak ill of us."

"Forget it, don't make things complicated."

Chen Ba stopped Xiao Lu. He knew that there were many media reporters present today. It would be impolite to chase them out, which would lead to public criticism once exposed.

Say whatever you want.

The mouth is on someone else's body, and Chen Ba can't make him shut up. The most important thing today is to accept the vast number of tourists and paint a rosy picture for them.

There is a big screen in the venue.

There are rows of seats in front of the big screen. Anyone who has new technology or new game to release can apply to the organizer to use this big screen and venue.

The person giving the speech now is a director from Sony's interactive entertainment department. He is introducing Sony's many exclusive games on the PS5 platform to the majority of players.

The next one is Chen Ba.

There is no need for a speech script. This kind of speech is usually just whatever comes to mind, and he has no habit of writing a script in advance.

What's more, it's not difficult to draw a pie...

When Chen Ba took a sip of water, communicated with the staff, and was about to go on stage to start his speech, Ono also came to the Mijia exhibition area.

"Wow, the new character is so cool!"

"This dress should be made of ancient Chinese silk, right? Wow! It looks so classy..."

Xiao Ye kept bragging so much that the Mi family staff nearby all moved to Bengbu.

It would be fine if it was a language that couldn't be understood, but the key point is that Ono spoke Mandarin. If other tourists couldn't understand him, how could they not understand him?

“Ahem!”

Just as several staff members were in a state of embarrassment, a few coughs were heard not far away: "Thank you to the organizer for giving me this opportunity. Let me introduce to you the new game that Tianba Studio will release next year..."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

TianBa Studio? When the visitors in the venue heard the name "TianBaGames", they immediately gathered around.

Even if the visitors who came to this video game exhibition had never played the games produced by Tianba Studio, they had all heard of their names, "Shennong Continent" or GAL League.

All the major exhibition areas were empty in an instant.

Ono didn't want to go at first and wanted to chat a little more, but everyone went and he seemed out of place if he didn't go.

And most importantly, he was also very curious about what big news Tianba Studio would announce.

As the crowd gathered around, Chen Ba continued with his speech.

English speech.

He couldn't speak Japanese and few people could understand his Chinese, so he simply spoke in English, the internationally mainstream language.

“…In the past two years, Tianba Studio has been working hard to develop more fun and interesting games.”

"I am very happy to tell you that we will launch an open world OL game in the spring or summer of next year!"

"On-line!"

Emphasizing the word, Chen Ba then quipped: "I know you must be thinking, oh shit! Why not OfficeLady game?"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone burst into laughter.

"Although this OL is not the same as what you think of OL, but I promise, it is definitely a cool game!"

After the laughter subsided, Chen Ba smiled and said, "Open world is a good idea, but this is not the topic today..."

Where does the open world come from? Hearing Brother Ba talking nonsense on the stage, Yang Dong and Xiao Lu in the audience looked at each other with question marks on their foreheads.

Wasn't the game they were talking about a dating simulation game? How come Brother Ba was talking about an open world?

"I see!"

Zhong Shengwei suddenly realized: "The neighboring pig factory and Mijia are both promoting open world. Brother Ba must have come up with the idea of ​​an open world just to fit in with the group."

“That makes sense!”

"This is indeed something that Brother Ba can do..."

Xiao Lu and Yang Dong nodded in unison.

You have an open world, and he has an open world too? No way! I have to create an open world too! No one can leave until the word "open world" is ruined today!

Brother Ba is indeed like that.

I can only say that if you want to blame someone, blame it on the organizer. Why did they arrange the Zhuchang and Mijia exhibition areas next to Tianba Studio?

Now that’s good!

Brother Ba has learned a new noun, and he doesn’t care what the word means, so he just draws the pie first.

"Open world? Cool!"

The foreigners had no idea that Chen Ba on the stage was just talking big. They thought the game really existed and had already started looking forward to it.

“The new game will be set in an urban setting.”

"Players will play the role of a college student who has just graduated and entered the society. They will apply for a suitable job, work hard to increase their income, become a CEO, and marry a beautiful and wealthy woman..."

The big screen behind Chen Ba kept switching PPT pictures.

These pictures were specially hired to retouch the scenes for his participation in this video game show.

It is said to be an online game, but in fact it is a "pseudo-online" game.

The so-called pseudo-online means that there is an online function, but it is relatively useless, and the experience is more of a stand-alone gameplay, a bit like the online games like O神 and 铁道.

The game content is very simple.

In a relatively unfamiliar city, work hard to make your life better, meet many confidantes with different personalities, and reach the peak of your life.

The male character is the confidante, and the female character is the confidante.

It is essentially a Galgame-like game, but with many new elements added. It also incorporates the NPC generation mechanism of "Shennong Land" and many gameplays of "Living under Someone's Fence Simulator".

The reason why it is designed as an online OL game is to prevent players from abusing modifiers, which would cause the game difficulty to be too low.

And the online connection is not just for show.

The initial NPCs of "Divine Grace Continent" are the same for all players. Only later in the game will special NPCs that "you have but I don't" appear.

But in this new game, each player encounters different NPCs.

This requires a server to save records and data for each player separately. Moreover, the existence of online connection also encourages everyone to explore the "world" of their friends.

Every world is different.

Exploration, development and simulation are the three core gameplays of the game. Development is character development. Can a monthly salary of 3,000 be the same as a monthly salary of 5,000?

A simulation is a love simulation.

As a Galgame-like game, interacting with various characters is naturally a core gameplay of the game.

Because it was just empty talk, at most a new folder was created, and there was nothing else. Chen Ba did not dare to go into details for fear of being exposed.

The main thing is that if he explains it in more depth, he himself doesn't know how to make it come true.

Let’s stop here for today’s cake!

After feeling that he had made enough money from the gimmick, Chen Ba did not dare to delay any longer. He quickly handed over the main stage to the next speaker and returned to the exhibition area belonging to Tianba Studio with a smile.

That was a close call!

I don't know who this reporter is, but he is so ignorant. He knows he is just making empty promises, but still wants to get more details.

Where are there more details? Since you are such a journalist with such a strong desire for knowledge, why don’t you go and find out about Rockstar’s new folder? (End of this chapter)