Chapter 230: Unit of Measurement: Primordial
After more than two weeks of fermentation, the popularity of "Red Dead Redemption" has spread thoroughly.
The entire gaming community is filled with discussions, topics, and strategies regarding this game.
soon.
The players were surprised to find out.
This game actually has multiple endings!
When your honor value is high, you will see a deer in your dream.
Otherwise, what you see is a wolf.
And they already know through various live broadcasts that at the end of the high-honor deer ending, the protagonist will lie on the cliff and "die of old age."
Although it was painful, he successfully saved those he cared about and redeemed his own life.
So many people are curious.
What will happen to the wolf with low honor in the end?
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"That's right, I just want to see a bad ending, not that I like killing innocent people. Go to hell, you bad guys!"
In the live broadcast room, Ouyang Xiao, who was restarting the show for the second time, said this to the camera.
At this time, she was holding a machine gun and firing wildly in the town.
The sound of screaming continued to echo, and the excitement on their faces could not be concealed at all.
"Ah yes, yes, just to see the ending."
"So this is why you came all the way here?"
"Pretend, pretend as hard as you can. I think you just want to satisfy your own addiction."
"Redemption (Physical)."
"Just tell me if it counts as redemption."
The audience laughed out loud. In fact, many people were like Ouyang Xiao. After being good guys in the first round, they let themselves go and started killing people in the second round.
Experience the refreshing excitement of doing all kinds of evil.
So the recent game guides have started to become very weird.
It's not about how to achieve it perfectly and get the gold medal, but how to do bad things skillfully and kill all of Huo Huo and his people in the first round.
For example, they would tie them up and throw them off a cliff into a river, tie them behind a horse and drag them along, or even worse, simply tie them all up and throw them onto the railroad tracks, creating a trolley problem.
Because that's the only way.
Only then can the unhappiness in their hearts be slowly eliminated.
soon.
With Ouyang Xiao's skillful operation, she finally arrived at the cliff that represented fate again.
After a life-and-death struggle.
Arthur and Mika both fell to the ground.
"What's going on? It looks like it's no different than before. Isn't my honor low enough?"
Ouyang Xiao looked at the honor value that had turned red in confusion.
However, as soon as the words came out of his mouth, a gunshot rang out next to his ears.
Micah stood up, took out his pistol, and shot Arthur directly, killing him instantly.
Audience: Huh???
The audience was stunned for a moment.
He stared at the protagonist who was lying motionless on the ground.
After a while.
Ouyang Xiao finally came to his senses from his shock.
"Holy crap! The bad ending was that he was killed by Mai Gou?!"
Seeing this ending, she couldn't hold it in anymore and even cursed.
This Honghuang is really inhuman. It actually lets the player die at the hands of the character he hates the most. How frustrating it is.
"Sure enough, this game doesn't have a truly perfect ending."
"You don't even think about the conditions that triggered this ending, and how many people you killed along the way."
"Why else do you think it's called a bad ending?"
“Every player who was killed by Maigou deserves it. (Doghead)”
"It reminds me of the comment with the highest number of likes: The tide of the times cannot be stopped by human power."
The more you play Red Dead Redemption, the more you'll feel its depth.
To put it simply, it is the struggle for survival of a group of desperadoes.
To put it more deeply, it is the inevitability of the change of an era.
The depth of its expression of meaning is absolutely incomparable to that of ordinary 3A films.
This also makes players regard this game as a treasure and add it to their game library and collect it well.
"Huh? Is there news about a new game in Honghuang?"
Suddenly, Ouyang Xiao's voice of surprise was heard in the live broadcast room.
She closed the game angrily, and just after browsing the game website, she noticed an advisory message about the new game Honghuang.
[Honghuang's new game "Star Outer Wilds", an interstellar exploration game, will respond to the call of the Ministry of Aerospace and donate 300 million yuan to become one of the sponsors of this rocket launch. 】
There are many more news like this.
Some were even made into videos, which spread across major video platforms in just half a day and sparked a lot of discussion.
"New game! Honghuang has news about a new game so soon!"
Ouyang Xiao's eyes lit up.
She had been saving others in Westworld these past few days, but she had never expected that such big news would break out unknowingly.
Even the comments in the live broadcast room started to boil over.
"Interstellar exploration, Honghuang will also make science fiction games?"
"I have heard of this project. Many major science fiction companies have participated in it."
"I saw it this morning too. Some have already started releasing screenshots of the game. It looks pretty awesome, and the scenes are grand."
"How can it not be grand? Those are all interstellar battleships and outer space. Just looking at them makes me want to play."
There are many science fiction works in the game market of this world.
But few people work on outer space themes.
Because this subject has a big flaw.
That is emptiness.
The universe is so vast.
Although there are many planets in it, when you are really in it, you will find that the planet is just a speck of dust. After playing for a long time, you will feel that it is empty and has very little content.
Therefore, it has never been very popular and few people make this kind of game.
But now it's different.
The Ministry of Aerospace has issued a document specifically requesting works on aerospace themes.
This is much better than any publicity or promotion effect.
It is even possible to rise to become a well-known company overnight.
Those manufacturers specializing in science fiction themes naturally would not miss this opportunity, and they all started making games with all their might.
Even if they didn't get the sponsorship, those small companies smelled the business opportunity and began to invest in the science fiction field.
Those who have projects can make the changes directly, and those who don’t have projects should also set up one through a meeting.
This is a signal the country is sending to them that it will vigorously support science fiction works in the future.
“Is it paving the way for AI?”
Some people who heard the news couldn't help but speculate.
Because in recent times there have been several large companies in China that have said they want to research AI, it really makes people doubt the prospects of this thing.
After all, the metaverse concept that was created by Microsoft and other international giants is still just a joke to cheat people out of money.
It didn't take long before it happened.
Then they said they wanted to enter the field of AI.
This is a bit...
certainly.
Not to mention anything else.
This is really good for gamers.
Especially those fans of interstellar science fiction, they have already cheered at this moment.
"I don't ask you to make those planets, just make the scene grand and technological."
"Make planets? What a joke. Which space game doesn't use planets as backgrounds?"
"Indeed, the main gameplay is to blast each other with cannons, to experience the sense of spaciousness. How could it be possible to make a planet this big?"
"The ones whose concept drawings were released this morning look pretty good."
Those manufacturers are very smart. Although the game has not been completed yet, they have already started to take advantage of this popularity and release some game pictures.
Some even announced that the completion rate of the previously shelved projects they had restarted had reached 70 to 80 percent and they would soon enter the testing phase.
The pictures released included things like starship cannons and destroyers, as well as mechanical design drawings, which made the players exclaim in amazement.
In comparison.
The Honghuang side is much more low-key.
It only had a picture of a character in a space suit roasting marshmallows, and the planetary scenery in the background was something they had never seen before.
"What is this?"
In the live broadcast room, Ouyang Xiao frowned and looked left and right at the promotional picture of Honghuang. No matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like the solar system they were familiar with.
Even the planets in the background look like they were just created, with the ground cracking and just forming.
It doesn't look like science fiction, but rather a bit of fantasy.
"Can this really beat the other starship cannons?"
"Today they also demonstrated the fighter jet driving perspective. It was really fun to control."
"Don't worry about Honghuang's strength. I'm just worried that this is their first time doing space science fiction and they may not be used to it."
"If nothing else, with the level of modeling and rendering of Honghuang, even if the gameplay can't keep up, at least the graphics should still be good enough."
The sudden popularity of Red Dead Redemption gave them a new understanding of the art of Honghuang.
The snow scene in the first chapter alone is enough to crush countless manufacturers. What they lack is only the experience in science fiction games.
Even if it's really done wrong.
The picture will definitely not collapse.
…
Just as they thought.
At this time, all the major science fiction manufacturers were also quite surprised by Honghuang's joining, but they were not too worried.
There are only two reasons.
First, money, second, experience.
Although they were shocked by the fact that Red Dead Redemption paid back in three days, it will still take some time to recoup the funds.
Honghuang invested 2.5 billion yuan in one go, and now has spent another 300 million yuan on sponsorship. There must not be much money left.
It would be fine if it were any other time.
But now there are only three months left before the rocket is launched. One more day of waiting means one less day. Isn't it like we are willing but unable?
"We have been working on science fiction for nearly ten years, and we also worked on space opera in the early years. At least in terms of experience and material accumulation, we are much better than Honghuang."
"We can take this opportunity to crush Hong Huang, and perhaps even increase our influence in the industry."
“It’s a little mean, but that’s competition.”
The senior executives of major manufacturers all smiled. Now Honghuang is a shining new star in the gaming industry and its strength is obvious to all.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see it.
Science fiction is the first major category that the country is about to support, and it must first gain a reputation.
If anyone can surpass Honghuang in the field of science fiction, it will undoubtedly establish their position in this field.
So this time.
They said everything they did to surpass Honghuang.
…
"Well, if we win we mean we are awesome, so we have become their unit of measurement?"
Old Li, who received the news, was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
I never expected that Honghuang would one day become the standard used by other manufacturers to measure their strength.
Let this continue.
Will there be names like 1.5 Honghuang units, 0.8 Honghuang units, half a Honghuang unit, etc. at that time?
It seems that the impact of opening up the quality market is greater than he expected.
"You'll get used to it."
Chen Lin smiled and said, "The quality market has just opened up, and many manufacturers are still in the exploratory stage. As the first successful one, we will certainly become the most appropriate standard for measurement."
"So are we going to release more content? It feels like the new game is getting less discussion than those starship cannons."
Lao Li was a little worried, after all, it was the game he was responsible for.
And there are so many fierce manufacturers watching.
If you really get stepped on, it would be really embarrassing.
"I'm already working on the promotion, just focus on the production."
"Are you working on it? Are you going to make a CG movie?"
Old Li was excited. If he could have Mr. Chen’s CG movie promotion, then there would be no worries about his game not being a hit.
"I guess so, but we're not doing it. We're cooperating with other film and television companies." Chen Lin said with emotion.
If we were to say which movie is the most suitable for this game, it would naturally be "The Wandering Earth", a masterpiece that shocked the world with China's industrial level.
Not only do the two have the same subject matter, but the backgrounds are also extremely similar, both being a world where the sun is about to collapse and explode.
Originally he wanted to try it himself.
But after checking online, I found out that the company had already been preparing the first part of this film.
Two different time and space magically intersected to form the same work. It turned out that the parallel time and space were full of mysteries, just like the settings in his game.
So he decided.
We must negotiate the cooperation rights for this film.
And he is also confident that he can offer something that the other party cannot refuse.
He spent a lot of money to customize it.
"I'll leave the studio to you. I'm going to be out for a while. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions."
"Okay, leave it to me."
Old Li was full of anticipation and a little curious.
What kind of movie could make Mr. Chen come over in person to discuss it?
