On January 11, the domestic game "Qin Yan" landed on Steam, the original price of 6 yuan, the current price is only 3.6 yuan. Released 20 years ago, this game has returned to the public eye after optimizing the resolution.
Now "domestic light" is already a bad word, but in that era, "Qin Yan" deserved the title of domestic light. The core gameplay of this game is similar to Diablo and Baldur's Gate, but with the addition of many Chinese cultural factors, such as the five elements of mutual survival.
The game uses an open-world design, and even the chat options between players and NPCs are random, once the wrong option is selected, the day's work is light, and it will be fought if it is not good. Some of the game's missions also require certain conditions to trigger, there are many ways to complete the task, the degree of freedom is high, and the player is not led by the task.
The plot of "Qin Yan" is that after the death of Qin Shi Huang, Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, the world was in chaos, and Gongzi Fusu investigated the truth of his father's death and defeated Zhao Gao for revenge. When I first read the history books and read that Qin Shi Huang died, Fu Su committed suicide, and Meng Tian died of grief and anger, Xiao Lei was very resentful, And Fu Su town guarded the frontier with military power, and Meng Tian helped, if the army resisted, it was not without a chance.
Unfortunately, this game has a total of 7 endings, but no matter how hard the player tries, it cannot change the fate of the qin dynasty. The overall plot of the game is tragic and magnificent, the people are displaced, countless soldiers are blood-stained battlefields, and the most perfect ending is that Fu Su takes his lover into hiding.
"Qin Yan" is not a costume idol game cloaked in historical skins, born out of history, but it also highlights the idea that individual efforts cannot change the course of history. In that era of rapid development of domestic games, "Qin Yan" was definitely a benchmark work, and to this day, many people still miss this old game from 20 years ago.
While nostalgic for the old games, we are also looking forward to the emergence of more high-quality domestic games. In recent years, the only games that are popular and of good quality in China should be "Dyson Ball Plan", "Portia Time", "Ancient Sword And Strange Tan 3", "Invisible Guardian" and so on, and all of them have reached AAA quality. Although the reputation of "Paladin 7" is large, the quality is not good enough.
The most famous of the domestic games that are still under development should be "Black Myth: Wukong", created by the "God of War" team, and the goal is to achieve the AAA level. The game is expected to take three or four years to complete the development, Xiao Lei is pessimistic, and not many investors and game companies in China are willing to invest heavily in developing a AAA game that may not recover costs.