Chapter 149 - The Game Has That Many Endings? (1/2)

–Game and Virtual Reality Committee–

Video games in this world weren’t governed by the National Radio and Television Administration, but the Game Committee.

They might seem like they perform similar tasks, but they were actually very different. The National Radio and Television Administration focused on reviewing games, picking out violent, sexual, or otherwise riding on legal loopholes would be filtered and developers would be asked to make amendments.

But the Game Committee did much more than that.

The reviewing process in this world had a tiered system and overall much looser restrictions. Many violent games are allowed, and the changes required might only include changing the age restriction.

Moreover, the Game Committee’s main purpose wasn’t to screen games, but to control and regulate the gaming industry to allow the gaming and virtual reality technology to be developed better.

Normally the Game Committee would never differentiate games based on how profitable they were, and would never give a game an upper hand just because they were more profitable.

The Game Committee cared more about innovative games, and would help genres that were struggling. AT the same thing, they would also provide support and guidance for anything related to virtual reality.

The Game Committee was currently in a meeting going through the judging process of the event.

As there were a lot of games, the games went through a preselection before having the opportunity to be reviewed.

Moreover, the judges could never be able to play all the games from start to finish. The designers prepared tools to allow them to make changes to the attributes and story branches. The games with a more complicated story were even required to deliver a script.

“We can consider the other prizes later, but the first place is between Tale of the Sword and Wulin Legend, anyone else have opposing opinions?” asked the host of the meeting.

“No problem,” replied the other members.

“Alright, then let’s discuss which game is better deserving of first place.”

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As the Game Committee members were discussing, the players were also downloading the game and playing it.

Tale of the Sword and Wulin Legend were essentially neck to neck in terms of their promotion which was why they had most of the attention.

“Which one do you think is going to win?”

“I think Tale of the Sword? Zen Entertainment is really good at themes like these and have mastered both story and gameplay. If they do it seriously, it must be really good.”

“But Tale of the Sword made no innovations.”

“How do you innovate? There have been so many Chinese themed games, and the ones who try and innovate fail miserably. Tale of the Sword is basically the best format for these games, you’re just shooting yourself in the foot if you make changes to it!”

“But this format has been overdone. The core of the game is always the same, and the only thing that changed is the story. What’s the point of a game if they all play out to be the same? If I’m just here for the story, I may as well read a novel or watch TV!”

“I’ll try out Wulin Legend. Chen Mo seems quite genuine. And I haven’t seen a Wuxia game for a long time, I should support it!”

“Yeah, I’m supporting it just because of the theme song!”

—

In forums within groups, the players were discussing the design and story of both of these games.

“Tale of the Sword’s story is so good! I cried going through that!”

“Yeah, the ending made me feel so sad, but the story is so good!”

“Friends who were playing Wulin Legend, how is it going?”