Chapter 427: 24-Hour Sales
Among the next few more important awards, "Zelda: Sky Sword" won two awards: "Best II Game" and "Best Motion Game...... It's a brace, and it still has a "Game of the Year" to compete for, but the hopes aren't high.
This Zelda failed to meet the expectations of many Ren Bliss fans, both in terms of sales and word of mouth, and the sales volume has just exceeded 2 million in the first month of its release, and it seems that the final sales will not exceed 4 million. The 93 score on Metacritic is also the lowest rating in the series of console games, after the 95 score of Mjira's Masquera, which was released in 2000...... 95 points, lowest, tsk.
Eiji Aonuma is a fairly talented producer, with "Dusk Princess" with an average Metacritic media score of 97 being the most exemplary, and "Getaway" also "only" 97. How talented is it...... Last year, Qingyu threw an olive branch to him, not through headhunting, but directly sent by Xia Qingyu, in order to prepare for the Japanese branch under construction, but he was rejected by him with "Sky Sword" in close research and development. This uncle (currently 46 years old) entered Ren Jile after graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, and one of the interviewers at that time was Shigeru Miyamoto, who was still loyal.
When the "Best II Game" was presented, Xia Qingyu came to the stage as a guest of honor and presented the trophy to the producer Eiji Aonuma and his "Sword in the Sky".
Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu felt that they could find him for a cup of coffee at night, or go to Chinatown for some barbecue...... And Eiji Aonuma has publicly expressed his love for Pasca and "Getaway" more than once before, and because of the sentence "Pasca is what I dreamed of becoming when I entered the game industry", he joined the party blowing camp.
Tonight's "Portal 2", one of the main competitors of "Nobody Survives", has achieved a lot of success, and it has won one after another, in addition to the "Best Actor" just now, it has also won "Best DLC", "Best Multiplayer" and "Best PC Game", and the four awards are also the biggest winners so far tonight.
Ye Shenxi appeared on stage for the first time as the guest of honor for "Best PC Game", and officially greeted the audience and guests, and his "Getaway" was the winner of this award last year. The organizer Spike TV will still find a gimmick, and it was G Fat who took the stage to receive the award, and took the trophy from Ye Shenxi.
The devil knows what kind of messy interpretation the media will have.
Slowly, the real drama meat came.
Uncharted 3 won the "Best PS3" game in question, and it also won a double award.
The highly requested "The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim" only won the "Best RPG Game".
Nobody Survived went on to win "Best XBOX360 Game" and "Best Action-Adventure" Game. This is its 3rd and 4th award tonight, and it is currently 4/6 progressive, which is on par with Portal 2 in terms of quantity, and the average prize weight is about the same on both sides so far.
There are also the remaining two really heavyweight "Best Studio" and "Game of the Year", which is where the final decision is made, and in these two awards, B Company, V Company, and F Company are all shortlisted.
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In this year's broadcast link, there are a total of three trailers presented by herring, interspersed with various awards.
Liang Qikun has polished "Rain Blood" and Chen Xinghan's "Wind Journey" for nearly two years, these two were originally intended to be released in summer or autumn, but they have dragged on until now, which is the normal speed. In the process of development, they will occasionally have to overturn the previous setting and start over, which is the inevitable and most time-consuming part of game development, and not everyone can be like Ye Shenxi.
"Rain Blood" is a 3DARPG developed based on Athena 2.0, in addition to retaining the story of Liang Qikun's meticulous dark martial arts, it has become an open-world game based on the experience accumulated in "Getaway". The martial arts version of the sandbox "Devil May Cry", or it is easier to understand it this way.
Daisho Tsuchiya, who came across the ocean from From Softare, put forward a lot of opinions on "Rain Blood", which also allowed Liang Qikun to open up his ideas, so he changed it again and again until he came out with a finished product that satisfied him and his team. The core system of the whole game is combat,All kinds of gorgeous combat skills are revealed in the promotional video,It's a hardcore action game at first glance,Hard stun,Block,Flying,Light power,Roll dodge,Combo COMBO...... Combined with the unique Chinese martial arts culture, strife, conspiracy, betrayal, ambition, there will also be murder and stealing, and there is also a way to steal, and you can slap the table and say, "Little Er, serve wine!" These kneaded together show a unique charm of the game, and will also be the main promotional point of the game.
Tonight's awards ceremony is already its sixth promotional video, and it is also a release trailer.
Chen Xinghan's "Wind Journey" is still full of Zen with his personal characteristics, but it has increased a lot of game flow than he originally expected before he was acquired by Qingyu and became Dace Studio, mainly because of more human and financial resources...... In addition to the original desert and snow mountains and other scenes, the ocean, jungle, and the center of the earth have been added, and more content has been added that can interact with the scene, turning it into a richer journey.
He still wants to tell players through the game: life is a journey, you will meet all kinds of people in it, but no one can accompany you through the whole journey. It's a sad thing, but it's the essence of life. It is precisely because of this that when the backs of those who have accompanied us for a while fade away and finally disappear into the yellow sand, we should be grateful, and it is best to have a goodbye.
After the exchange with Ye Shenxi, Chen Xinghan spent a lot of content in addition to this: we should be in awe of nature. It's like in an underwater level where you occasionally see a pod of whales swimming along the current, and they may accompany you on a walk and then jump out of the sea, and dozens of whales chirp in the moonlight and play a symphony, and after playing it inside, they feel like the giraffe herd in "Nobody Survives" as they walk through the ruins of the city.
The final release date for both games has been confirmed to be on Christmas Eve, and both are all platforms, with the exception of II......
There is also Li Zhi's "Chang'an Road", not only in the national server, but also in June next year, which will be launched simultaneously in the same global as "Paradise Lost", but this does not require a buyout fee.
When the trailers for the three games played, the fans of the Blue Fish Network fell into a carnival again, but unfortunately, Pasca did not bring his new work.
Originally, November's "Nobody Survived" and December's "Paradise Lost" have been played one after the other, but it seems that Ye Shenxi has brought too many surprises from time to time before, just like the "suddenly" announcement of "No One Survives" and "the next new project" (that is, "Paradise Lost") on the VGA last year, how much they hope that Pasca will suddenly happen again.
It's a pity that not this year.
Towards the end of the gala, which was also the climax, award presenter Taylor Swift was the first to shout: "The winner of the 'Studio of the Year' is ...... Salmon! ”
She had just finished singing a song, and her voice was not very steady, but the word salmon was still very clear, and it was not out of tune or broken.
But there are a lot of people who break the sound.
Whether it is the guests, the media, or the audience in front of the TV screen and computer screen, there are many people who break the sound.
"OMG! It's really salmon! ”
"Unbelievable, two years in a row? Is it possible to say 'Game of the Year'? ”
"Nothing can stop the herring fish from yearning for trophies!" Why are you still singing?
Fisoa, a young company that has not yet reached its fifth birthday, has done something that none of its predecessors have done, and for the second year in a row, two different studios have won the top honors for this development team. Before people knew Yokoko, they made Survival, The Origin of Everything and Getaway, and are one of the best console game studios. Also know Ho Luo, they made Eternal War, one of the best online game studios.
But salmon aren't the darlings.
There are still some players who know about this studio, but they haven't seen their work, although in the end credits of "Getaway", there are many salmon employees, but people still think that it is the work of Henggong. In their opinion, perhaps this is a team that is mainly responsible for the operation of Qingyu Games in North America.
But that's not the case, and Salmon proves that they are also one of the strongest teams in North America and the world, and they are all on the same level of development as Villefort, Yubi's Montreal, Activision's Infinity ard, Sony's Santa Monica and Naughty Dog, and Yokoko.
Team leader Michael Buson's eyes were a little rosy, he hugged Pasca affectionately, and said thank you to Xia Qingyu incoherently, Turtle Rock was disbanded by Villefort He was confused for a while, but in September 2008, it was Xia Qingyu who found him and persuaded him with sincerity and the company's game horror data, the future planning of the FG platform, and Ye Shenxi's plan.
Xia Qingyu told him that Pasca completed all the plans in less than a month by himself, and then handed them over to the team, and four months later, the game was completed, launched, and successful, and there was no change in direction in the middle. In fact, Busen has always been skeptical, knowing that Pasca later came to North America and began to negotiate with the copyright owners of many single-player games, as well as the distribution of "The Origin of Everything".
At that time, the herring was not as famous internationally as it is now, and "Survival" gave them some fame, but "Eternal War" had not yet started operating in North America. At that time, ONE was shining in both China and South Korea, and it can be said that it engulfed Asia like a tsunami, and then set its sights on the North American continent, and if he can achieve half of the achievements in Asia, it will obviously be the next online game "King of the World" after "Warcraft".
Xia Qingyu once told him that if he wanted to rebuild Turtle Rock, Qingyu Network was willing to invest, but he hoped that he would join Qingyu and create the future.
Buson believed in the potential of the young company at the time, but he didn't expect it to be much bigger than he could have imagined.
"Buson, come on stage to accept the award, don't make everyone wait too long." Ye Shenxi patted him on the shoulder and said.
"But ......" Busen didn't expect the boss to give him this honor.
Ye Shenxi said: "This is what you deserve, you have managed the salmon very well." ”
After the establishment of Salmon, in fact, Ye Shenxi basically only stayed here for a large period of time during the "No One Survived" project, but unlike Funan, Funan can be said to be outside of R&D work, the entire team was brought up by him, Xia Qingyu was in Huangpu, and he also spent a lot of effort on team building. But on the Salmon side, because the main employees are mature game people, and during his time in the United States, he spent more time on the research and development company.
He thought very clearly about the content of the system in advance, and gave him an idea to let his subordinates improve it, but the story of "No One Survived", the main content of the game, was completed by him personally, and even the dialogues were discussed with the screenwriters. In such a situation, Busen really managed the salmon very well, and condensed it into a strong combat power, Ye Shenxi saw it in his eyes.
"Thank you, boss." Busen shook hands with his colleagues who came to congratulate him and walked onto the stage.
Xia Qingyu glanced at the stage and said, "Swift is not as tall as the legend." "It is rumored that the rivers and lakes are 1.78 meters, but it seems that wearing high heels is not much taller than the real 1.78 meters Busen.
"Can your focus be normal...... Ye Shenxi said.
"1.76 meters at most." Xia Qingyu muttered.
She's 1.73 meters......
He also said, "Actually, you can go up by yourself, even if she wears high heels, she will definitely not be as tall as you." ”
Ye Shenxi: "...... That's not the reason. ”
In front of the screen in China, Shan Jie was in a complicated mood...... When Heng Gong won the "Best Studio" last year, why didn't the boss let him go on stage to enjoy this honor...... Uncomfortable.
Actually...... Ye Shenxi also experienced it last year.
The final prize was "Game of the Year" presented by Robin Williams.
This award also brings this year's VGA, the last VGA, to an end.
When he said "Nobody Survived", it was as if time had stopped for a moment, and then the entire studio hall erupted in tsunami-like applause and cheers.
The media was shocked, the players were crazy, the gamers were convinced, and at this moment they witnessed history.
There really aren't any words to describe a game that has done so many miracles, with a Guinness World Record for sales, a perfect score from more than 40 media outlets, an average score of 98 on Metacritic for professional media, and perfect scores for Famitsu, Gamespot, and IGN.
Then, let its producers, the following year, take the same stage again.
The other contenders are all strong, "The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim", "Portal 2", "Uncharted 3" are all great works, especially the first two, maybe "The 100 Greatest Games of All Time" and the like, but in the light of "No One Survives", they all seem a little dim.
The scene seemed to be muted, and then it was like a championship moment in slow motion, with streamers and pieces of gold foil spilling in the air.
On the podium, Ye Shenxi said: "When I did "No One Survives", I was the most engaged in the period, I have never felt so deeply connected with my characters before, I love Toyce, I love Emma, I love Elizabeth. Every game gives me fun. Yes, the process of developing the game was also a great experience, which I am grateful for. ”
"I'm grateful that there are so many games that allow me to experience those worlds, to experience their fate stories, to communicate with them, and then to share my experience with them, which I love to do."
"I love the game, thank you."
Pasca, 28, became the first producer to win two VGA Game of the Year awards, and two in a row.
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By the time the VGA Awards ended, Paradise Lost had been on sale for more than 24 hours.
In those 24 hours, more than 3 million players worldwide purchased and entered the game, slightly less than the 3.3 million online gaming all-time record set by World of Warcraft's last expansion, Fission of the Earth, but World of Warcraft ...... That's how many years of popularity have been accumulated.