It is already mid-October at this time, and in the next month or so, I haven't heard of any classic games developed by major manufacturers to be released. If nothing else, it is a certainty that "The Last of Us" won the Game of the Year award.
However, this is not the only thing that shocked the entire game circle. Another point is, how many games will Chen Mo be shortlisted for the annual game competition
Last year, with the excellent level design, world view, plot and difficulty of "Dark Soul", Chen Mo won the honor of "Game of the Year", and also let Thunder Interactive Entertainment be named "Dark God Factory". I thought he would continue this style and carry it forward, and continue to dig deep in similar hardcore games.
However, Chen Mo embarked on a completely different path.
"Uncharted" redefined the genre of adventure games, and "The Last of Us" redefined the apocalyptic genre.
Obviously, even compared with the best works of this year's major manufacturers, "Uncharted" has an advantage with a high score of 9 points, not to mention the full score evaluation of "The Last of Us". .
The most terrifying thing is not only these two games, but also a game that is more popular than these two games, and that is "PUBG Mobile".
After "PUBG Mobile" opened its international server, the popularity of this game has been rising steadily, and the share of vr game cabins is also constantly refreshing people's cognition. On the vr platform, the momentum of "PUBG Mobile" is completely unstoppable. If there are no other more powerful dark horses to step in, "PUBG Mobile" in the field of VR is very likely to reach the popularity of "League of Legends" on the PC side .
Even the mobile game "PUBG Mobile" has reached the top of the best-selling list of mobile games in more than 130 countries and regions, and dominance of the world is just around the corner.
It is said that in some foreign campuses, students are addicted to the mobile game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has affected normal courses, and some schools' wifi has even specifically blocked "Unknown PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", which shows the popularity of this game.
Originally, the designers of traditional games did not pay much attention to "PUBG Mobile", because this is a game that has nothing to do with the "Game of the Year" no matter how you look at it, and it has nothing to do with them no matter how popular it is.
But after reaching this level of heat, no one can ignore it.
When major game media conduct game evaluations, "popularity" will also be an important consideration. For example, "PUBG Mobile" has become so popular, even if it doesn't get the best game of the year, it is very likely to be nominated for the best game of the year.
Generally speaking, the selection rules of major game media are different. The number of nominations for the best game of the year is uncertain. It may be five or six, or it may be a dozen or so. As long as it is a game released this year, as long as it has a good score (8.5 points) Above), all have a chance to be nominated for Game of the Year.
After all, there is only one best game of the year, and the others are accompanying players. It would be too much to work hard to make a good game.
But this year is a bit special, because "The Last of Us", "Uncharted Sea" and "PUBG Mobile" are almost certain to be nominated for the annual game. .
In other words, excluding small games such as "Beach Mansion", Chen Mo developed three masterpieces this year, and all of them were nominated for Game of the Year...
This is truly terrifying...
In the game industry, there are many high-yield designers, and there are also many designers with stable quality, but high-yield and stable quality at the same time, this is scary.
Many people in the industry are speculating that this year will be the year when Chen Mo and Leiting Huyu will really rise. Maybe in the future, Chen Mo will start a game era that is completely under his own rule, even reaching the level that those traditional big players have not been able to achieve. the height of!
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As the popularity of "The Last of Us" continues to ferment, more and more connotations about this game have been unearthed.
Players seem to have returned to the interesting experience of inferring the complete story through descriptions of props one by one in "Dark Soul" a year ago.
Of course, the story of "The Last of Us" is very complete and smooth, but there are still many small puzzles hidden in it waiting for players to discover. These puzzles may be about a character, it may be about the entire background of the story, or it may be about a story that happened in a certain location.
And these small puzzles have further enriched and perfected the world view of "The Last of Us", making it a unique post-apocalyptic world.
For example, in a certain room, Ellie saw a man who committed suicide in the bathtub, saying that he couldn't bear this kind of life, so he chose a more relaxed way of relief. But Joel said, believe me, it's not easy, it's much better to be bitten to death by zombies or to kill yourself than this feeling. That is to say, in the past 20 years, Joel, who suffered the pain of losing his daughter, tried to commit suicide, but in the end he chose to survive.
For example, the black brother wanted a toy, but the elder brother stopped him, and Ellie helped the black brother bring the toy. After the death of her black brother, Ellie deliberately took this toy in her backpack. Other collections include letters from her mother and the firefly dog tag of her good friend Riley.
For another example, in the beginning of the plot, when Joel approached two passersby, one of them provoked him, but the other passerby hurriedly apologized to Joel. After Joel walked away, the apologetic passerby asked his companion: "Are you crazy?" Do you know who that guy is?" It can also be seen from the side that Joel was a guy that many people feared when he was a stowaway.
Including in the towns of cannibal hunters, you can find the places where these people cremated their bodies, where they discarded their clothes, and there is also a "harvest list" for each batch, and there are detailed records of how many people were killed every once in a while.
In the purchase record of Firefly Lab, there is even a joke about Halloween. The purchase list on Halloween is 50,000 werewolves, and Happy Halloween is also marked.
These seemingly inconspicuous puzzles and details are full of the whole game. Players can always find a lot of interesting gadgets in every corner, or a piece of paper, or an identity card, or a A tape, and these small details also make the world of "The Last of Us" more complete and real. Players seem to be able to see the life experienced by each supporting role through the experiences of Joel and Ellie.
Many players are feeling that this is the real theme of zombies, and this is the real end of the world!
Those games that create the apocalypse just to let players kill wantonly in the game have been solidly educated by "The Last of Us".