Game production: I really have landed

Chapter 317 Exploration of the Plot
The plot of the game is fragmented, and one can only guess what kind of story the entire main line process tells through the equipment, props, some text information left on the map, and decorative information in the game.

This feature is the first since "Dark Souls", which is hailed as one of the greatest game works in the past 20 years.

Similarly, it has also become an important criterion for measuring whether a game is a Souls-like game.

Mysterious, open and confusing, it makes players talk about it and at the same time, it also gives players an unprecedented leap in immersion.

Even though it has been 9 years since the release of Dark Souls, there is still a steady stream of new gamers getting into the game every year.

And after experiencing the extraordinary game journey, they will also start to spontaneously explore "soul science" on the Internet.

On the Internet, discussions about the stories hidden behind Dark Souls have continued.

Many colleagues in the industry have seen the great success of "Dark Soul", and they also want to imitate this method and make a "Dark Soul" of their own.

Whenever a work with excellent overall quality appears, it will trigger a heated discussion across the entire network.

Then such games generally go in two directions.

One is fundamentalism, which completely applies the underlying design of Dark Souls and writes its own stuff.

Such a game will be rated as "not flavorful enough" by many gamers.

It's not that the game isn't well done, it's just that it doesn't feel like Dark Souls.

In the eyes of fans of Souls-like games, the highest evaluation of a Souls-like game may be how close it is to Dark Souls itself.

The other is to absorb the essence of the game Dark Souls and make a brand new game.

Before this type of game is released, it will be criticized by Dark Souls fans because it is not like Dark Souls. However, after players experience some of the unique and exquisite designs of the game developers, they will still get a fair and objective evaluation in the end.

The influence of Dark Souls is evident.

Therefore, every year, players make comments such as "Why hasn't Luo Bai Old Thief released Dark Souls 2?", "Sure enough, Luo Bai Old Thief is still Luo Bai Old Thief", and "Those who learn from me will live like me and die".

Everyone did not welcome "Dark Souls 2", but instead welcomed another work made by the old thief Luo Bai himself, adhering to the game style of making Dark Souls.

"Curse of Bloodborne"

Although the PS exclusive behavior at the first launch has caused players to criticize the old thief himself, in a sense, it is because a large number of domestic players cannot experience this game in the first time that the popularity of this game has exploded. It is faster than all Luo Bai's previous works.

Regarding the unique Victorian-style architecture in the game, the indescribable Cthulhu mythology, the struggle between rationality and beastliness, and other elements.

They have deeply attracted countless players who love games.

A masterpiece without exception.

Immediately afterwards, the profound story hidden behind the game also attracted the attention of more and more soul science enthusiasts.

Even after the game was cleared, many small uploaders who made game content began to race against time to analyze the plot of the game Bloodborne.

Between the depth and difficulty of Souls games and the complexity of processing various fragmented information.

This is undoubtedly a relatively heavy workload.

As a certain up began to live broadcast the process of exploring the plot, it attracted the attention of a large number of soul fans, and formed an alternative competition in the small website.

Coupled with the push traffic of Xiaopo Station itself, the popularity increased immediately.

In fact, generally speaking, the popularity of Chuxin games is generally divided into three stages.

The first stage is live game and live game broadcast.

The vast majority of players are actually students. The social pressure they face as adults increases, making playing games a luxury.

As a student party, your pockets are naturally limited, and it is impossible to get into the trap right away every time.

The live video of the game and the live broadcast of the first game have naturally become an important node for this group of people to satisfy their cravings and kill time.

The second stage is for the speedrunning bosses. Every time Chuxin releases a new game, they will spontaneously hold a "speedrunning contest" within a period of time. Unless it is some online games, it has become a common practice after the release of Chuxin games. .

The bonuses are huge and worldwide, which will naturally cause a large number of high-profile players to get involved.

Various peripheral gifts and various small activities are also held one after another.

It can already be regarded as a daily operation template for Chuxin Games.

In the third stage, as speed pass players continue to plan the route, the game strategy up comes into being.

At this time, the second wave of gamers chose to join the game after learning about the game’s reputation and whether the game was suitable for them.

And with the previous speedrunning players' in-depth exploration of the gameplay, game mechanics, powerful routines, and methods of defeating BOSS, the game itself is paved the way.

A strategy that can make new players more comfortable playing the game will naturally also be able to retain the second batch of players who have joined the game.

Later on, the original intention will almost be let go.

When a game is put into the hands of players, what kind of flowers can it bloom and what kind of miracles can it usher in?

No one knows.

The encounter between players and the game itself is inherently unpredictable and charming.

This entire process has actually become "pipeline". After gradually maturing, most of Chuxin's games are operated in this way.

Obviously in the game industry, this is the place where the assembly line should be the least important and where the subjective initiative of creators should be most unleashed.

However, the original intention relies on high standards and strict requirements for game production itself, and treats every player with care, but it is able to bring one business breakthrough after another to peers in this industry every year.

There are also some domestic scholars who are deeply involved in the development of the game industry and have even personally examined the original intention, written a long paper, and even won a foreign award.

The book is also full of embarrassing bragging.

Many industry scammers also used these industry articles to defraud, and attracted many investors who wanted to develop in the game industry.

But everyone in the know knows that these things don’t have much reference significance.

Unless there is another pervert like Luo Bai in this world.

However, that doesn’t mean that this kind of academic garbage doesn’t have any meaning.

At least college students in related industries will have something to copy when they are scratching their heads and trying to find some references when writing their thesis near graduation.

However, even Luo Bai, who has made countless "magic works".

Dark Souls is also special, and the Souls series is also special.

The charming plot means that this operation has a fourth stage:
It is about the exploration, discussion and research of the plot and the characters with different personalities in the story.

It's just that because Bloodborne was first released on PS, the fourth stage now happens when a large number of people have finished the basic process of the game, and they follow the trend and get to the front of the speed pass video.The content of the well-known game area is dug up. "Stay Up Late Orange Cat" is currently hosting a live broadcast.

Compared with many other ups that like to start from the protagonist of the game controlled by the player and use the journey of the protagonist to dig into the background story of the entire game bit by bit.

Stay Up Late Orange Cat has its own set of methodology while creating related videos.

He prefers to start from the BOSS in the game, which play a decisive role in the game nodes, and through them, start to sort out the context of the entire game from top to bottom.

In the game Bloodborne, the one who occupies the highest point of the entire game ecological niche and the most powerful existence is naturally the superior person hidden in the deepest part of the game.

Some of them were killed by the protagonist hunter at the end of the game, and some never appeared in the game from beginning to end.

And the superiors are also the source of all tragedies.

Invisible Uldun, Blood Princess of the Moon, Mego, Rom, Daughter of the Universe, Messenger of Heaven, etc.

But among them, the abilities of people like Orton, Moonblood Princess, and Mego are obviously a level higher than those behind them.

This ambiguity in the in-game text greatly increases the difficulty of sorting out the game's plot.

However, it seems inappropriate to insist that the old thief himself did not write clearly about this kind of thing.

After all, the text in the game is also based on the cognition of the characters in the game.

It's impossible for an ordinary person to understand the affiliation and strength of these superiors in a Cthulhu-style background, right?That would be a bit too dramatic.

Players can only speculate on the strength of these superiors through the actual performance in the game.

But now, Orange Cat himself is collecting text information in the game.

"Is this Cain Hearst? Lao Wang is in front of you, come on! This BOSS is pretty easy to beat with a gun."

The player who just broke into the live broadcast room typed happily.

Ahead, the roof is covered in wind and snow.

Sitting guarding in front of the gate, wearing a crown and gorgeous robes, the haggard man sitting on the throne shook his somewhat stiff body.

click... click...

With a slight sound of breaking free from the restraints, the frost on the man's body was broken. The man clenched the long-handled scythe in his right hand and leaned forward violently, shaking out large frost flowers in his hair.

He stood up slowly.

Good deeds are not very wise, evil deeds are also very foolish, and we always seek to do good.

Martyr Logarius, a character that has moved countless players.

The filthy vampires who were ordered to attack Cainhurst City fought all the way to the top of the city, but found that they could not kill the source of the vampires, the queen of the vampires.

So, he held the only access key in his hand, put on the crown, and put an iron mask on the queen that could not be taken off to prevent her from continuing to absorb the filthy blood.

Sitting on the top of Cain City on the only way to see the queen, forever blocking everyone who wants to pass by, trying to cut off the bloodline of the vampires by himself.

Lao Wang has extremely high melee and long-range damage, erratic movement, various attack methods, and various combination skills.

Obviously, as the head of the church's sword and axe, his blood magic skills are six times better than Queen Nan's.

Many people died in a daze when they first met.

Only by skillfully mastering gun reflexes can the entire combat process become simpler.

The new player couldn't help but want to see this UP named Stay Up Late Orange Cat suffer severely.

Lao Wang is also very powerful. At the beginning, he summons a large number of bloody souls to chase the hunter.

I originally thought that if the orange cat stayed up late, he would roll around like a blind chicken, but I didn't expect that this guy would directly face the red ghost.

Then, this new viewer saw what a massacre feast was.

He retreated and counterattacked, just in time to withstand Lao Wang's damage and hit hard.

"Fuck! F*ck! F*ck!"

"You're new, right? Who doesn't know that Orange Cat is a genius at gaming?"

"Ji Cao, Wu Liu, sit down."

Logically speaking, PC can also enable modifiers, but PS does not have this condition at all.

Therefore, those who can do Bloodborne text combing now more or less have two brushes.

Among the gifts and compliments that filled the screen, the orange cat also successfully got what he wanted.

A piece of head gear:
[Phantom Crown]
[One of Cainhurst's most precious secrets, the Ancient Crown is said to reveal visions and unmask the apparitions that hide secrets.

Logarius, who took the crown on his own, decided not to let anyone come into contact with this evil secret again. What did he see in his eyes as he sat quietly on the new throne? ]
The orange cat pondered for a while, then took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the information. After uploading it to the PC, he put it into a folder called "Cainhurst" by category.

This is the preliminary preparation work Orange Cat is currently doing.

Put on the crown and step forward to trigger the CG.

In the midst of an endless snowstorm, the hidden secrets hidden on top of the castle are finally exposed.

The imprisoned Queen of Cainhurst Castle, Annalise, a sworn enemy of the Healing Church.

When the hunter chose to kneel down to talk to her, Annalize's words revealed a huge amount of information.

"Hunter with the breath of the moon", "I am willing to share my corrupt blood with you".

The more important thing is that the orange cat noticed a detail.

Queen Cain has two chairs here. Who is the vacant throne reserved for?
Did Logarius really choose to guard the door because he was imprisoning the queen?
However, the current amount of information collected is not enough, and the answer is still unknown.

I got an unsigned invitation letter from the right side of the room.

This invitation letter is different from the first invitation letter that the protagonist hunter received when he was invited to Yharnam. It has blood stains on it.

As long as you give this invitation letter to the blond man, you can lure him to the castle and turn the queen into a puddle of minced meat.

Anyway, let’s keep pushing pictures.

A lot of information has been collected, but this summary and sorting is really a troublesome thing.

(End of this chapter)