Black Myth: Wukong won a couple trophies at The Game Awards last week, including Best Action Game and the fan-voted Players Voice. But it did not win the big prize—Game of the Year—and Feng Ji, the CEO of developer Game Science, seems more bummed about the whole thing that you might expect.
Ji expressed his disappointment about losing out on the crown in a message posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo, and it's important to note right off the top that we're relying on machine translation here. The ability of ChatGPT, Google Translate, and DeepL (I ran it through them all, just to be sure) to turn non-English text into something I can read is undeniable, but it's not great for nuance: Humour, sarcasm, and other linguistic parlor tricks don't always carry well even when everyone's speaking the same language, and that detection difficulty is exacerbated by the need to rely on the machine to lay it all out.
