As you probably already know, China is a fledgling market for console gaming, but PlayStation is trying to cultivate a market by working with local developers to create home-grown content. And in this China Hero Project video it's showcased the burgeoning fruits of its efforts, as a dozen or so developers reveal their projects for the PlayStation 4.
While not everything in this show-reel looks good – there are a lot ancient Chinese warfare titles – the montage does include Lost Soul Aside, the awesome-looking Devil May Cry-style character action that went viral a few years back. It's also just great seeing Sony make an effort in this market: it's initiatives like this that have helped make PlayStation a globally popular brand.
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This sounds cool and is a very good use of Sony's investment. The market might become huge and we might benefit from some more original games.
They may be a fledgling console market, but they're veterans at PC game development. Have you seen Tencent's Monster Hunter Online? While Capcom is farting around with 3DS visuals in 2017, Tencent built the Chinese PC version of Monster Hunter (FOR Capcom; its not a shady ripoff. Capcom just wanted in on that market and couldn't do this without a partner), Tencent built a CryEngine 3 powered STUNNER. If you follow foreign MMOs, than you've seen stuff like GodSlayer and Moonlight Blade that are just ****ing BEAUTIFUL. Yingpei Games was initially established as Epic Games China, and they're making on games that are obviously stunning too (I'm hoping their 3rd person shooter, Mercury, ends up being pretty cool). And y'know, some developers contribute to AAA console games - if people read the credits in their games, they may have noticed studios like XPEC, who worked on titles like almost all of the Uncharted games and Final Fantasy XV.
Needless to say, its good of Sony to go after the region's developers Lost Souls Aside obviously looks super promising, and Project Boundary looks really cool too. War Rage actually looks pretty neat - like someone inserted a more "stylish action game"-type hero into a Dynasty Warriors-esque world.
... Actually a lot of these look kind of promising! And HECK YES, Rocket Punch is bringing Code Hardcore to the PS4! I backed that on Kickstarter! IT LOOKS AWESOME and its not like anyone else is making a new Metal Warriors or Cybernator!
This lineup is actually a lot better than when Sony showed off a slew of Korean PS4 games (from G-Star last year?), which amounted to a bunch of stuff that was way more like Qurare Magic Library and not at all like Blade & Soul, Black Desert Online, Peria Chronicles or... well anything you WANT from super talented, big-shot Korean devs. Hopefully, Playstation steps up their relationships with S.Korea soon enough; their efforts with Chinese devs is seriously a huge improvement
you know some of those look pretty good
Interesting but I'll be keeping my expectations low. After the dissapointment with Koi (a chinese inde game) and many chinese developed Vr games (Dying Reborn, Weeping doll,etc.) published by Oasis games, I have small hope for these chinese games. Lost soul aside looks cool though.
What are you talking about not everything looks Good? That was a great variety of titles. Alot of those titles had a western vibe. Hope we get some of them.
Really would like to play more games set in or influenced by China, a hundred versions of Dynasty warriors gets tiresome. Shenmue 2 in Hong Kong and rural China was amazing back when.
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