Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 158 62. You will have to pay back sooner or later if you come out to fool around.

At noon the next day, while chatting on the company rooftop, Furukawa Hirose seemed a little hesitant, but there was a discussion next door.

"Ah... Qing Zhiyuan likes to do some flashy things, full of gimmicks, but it's hard to say whether they actually have any effect.

Especially now that [Furuhara Chunqiu] is no longer around, pokeni's new game will definitely have to be compromised in terms of influence and appeal. "

He glanced up and found that the person speaking was a guy he had never seen before.

He must be new to the company.

I just didn't expect that this person's thoughts were quite similar to mine.

They are probably all fans of Furuhara Chunqiu.

Since Furuhara Chunqiu retired, the games produced by pokeni seem to have lost their luster.

Although Furukawa Hirose also saw the advertisement for "The Witcher", he couldn't get excited about it.

"Um, that's the name of "The Witcher", right? Do you want to buy Pokeni's new work?" Hayamigawa's voice pulled Furukawa Hirose out of his thoughts.

Furukawa Haoze hesitated for a moment and did not speak.

Do you want to get it?

To be honest, the absence of Gu Yuan Chunqiu had a greater impact than he imagined.

Because it’s hard to imagine how far Pokeni’s new game can go without the old thief Gu Yuan. Can it still maintain the high level as always?

The quality of the work is not very good. Whether it is in terms of script, lens language, or the progression of the entire story line, can it still achieve the heights of previous games?

These are all questions.

Furukawa Hirose didn't have the courage to explore.

But if you want to say you don’t want to buy it...

It always feels like one person has negated the entire company.

…

Kinoshita lit a cigarette and curled his lips, "Didn't you listen to the discussion over there? Furuhara Chunqiu is gone, what new works can Pokeni have? I saw the advertisement, and to be honest, it was quite good. It's a pity. , I wouldn’t be able to play it if it weren’t for Furuhara Chunqiu’s producer.

What the hell is Shinji Mikami? "

"Yeah, what the hell is Shinji Mikami?" Hayamikawa asked doubtfully.

"Mikami seems to be planning the level battles of Diablo." Relying on his love for P Club, Furukawa Haoze told some little things that no one noticed.

Usually few people will notice the list of credits that appears when the game is cleared, but Furukawa Hirosawa can recite it backwards and forwards.

Especially when he was so filled with hatred and wanted to kill someone, Furukawa directly wrote down everyone's name and the module they were responsible for.

For example, Tsubaki Furuhara, who deserves death, is the producer, this heart-wrenching script was written by Gen Urobuchi, and the original artist was Makoto Nizu...

In short, pokeni people are actually very unique and easy to remember. It just depends on whether you are intentional or not.

"No wonder, "The Witcher" is so similar to Diablo. You can tell from the advertisement that it is an action game. It took me a long time to work on it. It turns out that the producer is from Diablo."

Kinoshita chuckled and said, "Then I don't want to play this game anymore."

"Tsubaki Furuhara is no longer here, do you want to give up pokeni?" asked the new friend Yamada.

"Don't you use this correctly? It's precisely because Chunqiu Fururahara is no longer here that you have to give up pokeni." Kinoshita gave Furukawa a look, "Furukawa, you think so too, right?"

"Hmm...maybe...?"

Furukawa Hirose himself couldn’t say.

In fact, he feels that Diablo is quite well done. Although the script and story are not in Gu Yuan’s style, it is better because of its strong gameplay and it is the first two-dimensional ARPG game with a top-down perspective.

The combat experience alone is excellent enough, and the rest doesn't seem to be needed much.

"Is Gen Urobuchi okay?" Yamada-kun persuaded, ""The Man with the Reversal Degree" was written by Lao Xu. Although he is the producer of Tsubaki Furuhara, Gen Urobuchi's script is really great.

It turns out that Furuhara Chunqiu has retired. If we don't cherish Urobuchi Xuan, are we going to make pokeni stop making games in the future? "

"Um……"

Everyone fell into silence for a while.

What Yamada-kun said makes sense.

After Furuhara Chunqiu left, there will only be Xuan Urobuchi on the pokeni side, right?

The script of "The Witcher" is written by Lao Xu, and the plot is guaranteed.

Although Gu Yuan Chunqiu is gone, at least there is Xu Yuan Xuan!

Uh-huh.

Everyone nodded, and there seemed to be some signs of wavering.

Urobuchi Gen is probably the greatest wealth left to pokeni by the old thief Gu Yuan, right?

At this moment, Kinoshita slowly shook his head.

"Have you misunderstood the point? Gen Urobuchi is good, but it only means that the script is guaranteed, but the soul of a game is the producer.

Whether a game is good or not depends mainly on the quality of the producer.

No matter how great the script is, it may be ruined if it encounters a crappy producer. "

"This is equivalent to the production of a movie. The director bears 90% of the responsibility. If you encounter a bad director, no matter how great the script is, it may result in a bad movie."

"Well...that seems to be the case."

Everyone was unsteady again.

…

After the news that "The Witcher" was about to be released, many players expressed similar concerns.

Mainly because he was afraid that Shinji Mikami might not be able to hold on and might damage P Club's sign.

There have also been cases in the industry where the company began to decline after a producer left the company.

Since Chunqiu Furuhara is the founder of the pokeni game, his disappearance will naturally affect the future of pokeni.

"Shinji Mikami, I haven't heard of this producer. Can he really do it?"

"I don't know, but I think pokeni is a small company after all, and it was only possible to get to where it is today thanks to the sheer strength of god-level producers like Furuhara Chunqiu.

Now that Chunqiu Furuhara is no longer here, there is a real possibility that he will be brought back to his original form, but there is no guarantee. "

"Isn't Qing Zhiyuan okay? Diablo and Pokémon are doing pretty well."

"But he is not Furuhara Chunqiu. Furuhara Chunqiu is unique. And when Furuhara Chunqiu was there at that time, everyone felt as if they had taken reassurance, so everyone would also think about other types of games produced by P. Try more.

It's different now. Without Furuhara Chunqiu's pokeni, it would be difficult for players to have confidence in it. "

"Hmm... what should I do? I originally wanted to play "The Witcher", but after you said this, I hesitated."

…

In fact, it’s not just players who are not very optimistic about P’s new game “The Witcher”

Colleagues also expressed similar concerns.

The members of the Elf Club, who had always taken pokeni as their benchmark and Gu Yuan Chunqiu as their mentor, all shook their heads at this time.

"This time, The Witcher is in danger."

"Yeah, I'm really worried about this new producer named [Shinji Mikami]. I blame the poor guy. Mainly because of his bad luck, he happened to be the successor of P Agency after Tsubaki Furuhara retired. .

But the influence and height of the old thief Gu Yuan were there, even Qing Zhiyuan would be outclassed.

It's hard to say how a newcomer like Shinji Mikami will be scolded by the players if he comes directly to take over. "

"This game doesn't seem to be a galgame, does it? Will there be such a problem?" an artist from the Elf Club asked.

In his opinion, the painting styles are all different.

Furuhara Chunqiu is good at making galgames. He is known for his beautiful and healing painting style. Through pictures and text, and good plot control, he can guide the players' emotional experience to a peak.

Obviously "The Witcher" does not follow this route. It is obviously an action RPG game, so as long as the combat is good enough, wouldn't it be enough?

"That's not the case. In other words, it should be treated separately like this. But the players don't think so.

Furuhara Chunqiu is too dazzling. After pokeni takes away the sun, no matter what game is released in the future, players will subconsciously compare him with Furuhara Chunqiu.

Even different types of games.

Players will have extremely high standards for new games.

As long as there is a slight flaw, it will be infinitely magnified. "

"Tsk tsk, that's right, so this Mikami Shinji is really miserable. As long as the game fails to meet the standards in the minds of the players, it will be criticized completely.

Just thinking about it makes me feel completely unbearable..."

"Ah~ you're right, it would be really miserable to be replaced by Mikami."

"However, it may also be the day when Mikami becomes a god. As long as the game has enough quality and can convince players, then Mikami Shinji will be praised to the sky.

This is also a huge opportunity. "

"Haha, but the possibility is too small, right?"

"It would really be a miracle if he could become a god."

…

Tokyo.

pokeni co., ltd.

The pressure on Shinji Mikami here is very, very high.

I didn't sleep well for several days.

The closer it gets to the game's release date, the more uneasy Mikami becomes.

When Qing Zhiyuan went to the company in the morning, he found that this guy had two big dark circles under his eyes, and he looked like he had insomnia.

Qing Zhiyuan called him to the office with some distress, and then closed the door.

"Mikami-san, you have heavy dark circles under your eyes."

"The pressure is too much." Shinji Mikami confessed.

He sat on the sofa and kept rubbing his eyebrows with his hands. His body and mind were obviously exhausted, but once he lay down on the bed, he couldn't fall asleep.

Qing Zhiyuan sighed and said, "This is all normal. It was the same when I became a producer for the first time."

"Huh? President too?" Mikami said in surprise.

"When you first became a producer, was it before or after you became Tsubaki Furuhara?"

"Well……"

Qing Zhiyuan thought for a moment, "It should have been before, right?"

From a timeline perspective, he served as a game producer in 2020 in his previous life.

But in this timeline, the first game after Qing Zhiyuan traveled over was indeed made as Furuhara Chunqiu.

"I am making a game using the identity of Chunqiu Furuhara, but I am actually just as nervous." Qing Zhiyuan sat down and handed a glass of boiled water to Shinji Mikami.

There is only plain water, coffee and tea in the company, and it is not appropriate to drink anything else at this time.

"The company was going bankrupt at the time, and if the game didn't succeed, pokeni would cease to exist."

"Ah~ so tragic..." Shinji Mikami exclaimed as he held the hot water.

"Yes, so Mikami, you don't have to worry about anything." Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "I can let you serve as the producer of "The Witcher" because I have confidence in your abilities.

You've done quite well.

And even if the game fails completely and has no sales, so what?

pokeni's current accumulation of funds can afford such a failure.

And the next game will be even better.

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. "

Um.

Mikami Shinji nodded, thinking about Qing Zhiyuan's words.

[Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger]

"What's more, I think there is no possibility of failure in such a good game."

When Qing Zhiyuan said this, he raised a finger.

Shinji Mikami looked at him doubtfully, not understanding what he meant.

"one million."

Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "There are at least one million results. Neon and Europe and America combined will not lose."

"Although it's not a question of losing or winning, trust me, you won't lose."

The gameplay and style of "The Witcher" are truly unique for this era.

In this game, Qing Zhiyuan has already seen the shadow of the future "Devil May Cry".

The Japanese fantasy style combines neon and European and American aesthetics, combining Eastern and Western cultures. More importantly, the fusion is quite good. There is both the style of Shinji Mikami and the shadow of Gen Urobuchi.

Completely in line with Qing Zhiyuan's imagination.

If it were not limited by hardware, Qing Zhiyuan has reason to believe that this game can become an epoch-making product.

No.

Even in this era, the graphics are not that exquisite and it is not 3D action, but this game is still an epoch-making product.

"Thank you, President." Shinji Mikami nodded and tried his best to smile, "I feel much better now."

Mikami received some comfort, and after his whole body relaxed, sleepiness swept over him like a tide.

The two eyelids started to fight.

Qing Zhiyuan saw this and smiled, "Mikami-san, you can sleep here for a while and no one will disturb you."

"Is this okay, President?" Mikami was surprised.

"Anyway, the game is over. It's useless no matter how anxious you are now. Just wait until the results come out. Everything will be fine."

Give it a try.

"Then I'll take a nap. I'm sorry for letting you see me in such an unsightly state."

…

A week later, "The Witcher" was officially released.

However, the actual sales results were far from Qing Zhiyuan's expectations.

Even though the quality of this game is very high, within a week, it only sold less than 10,000 copies.

It may be good for some small companies, but this is pokeni.

When you have become accustomed to the fact that each game can be sold at least in the hundreds of thousands, it will be difficult for you to go back to the era when the total sales volume was only tens of thousands.

White teeth.

Qing Zhiyuan finally realized that the problem was more serious than he thought.

When [Chunqiu Furuhara] retired, it can be said that pokeni took a complete wave of dividends, leading to the unprecedented sales of more than 3 million copies of "Your Name".

How can a galgame He De achieve this level?

Moreover, Qing Zhiyuan can throw away the vest of [Gu Yuan Chunqiu], which makes him feel happy.

He originally thought that in the future he could use Qing Zhiyuan’s real name to make the entire gaming world tremble, but now he also feels the [sequelae of retirement].

If you come out to hang out, you will have to pay it back sooner or later.

How strong the positive effect was when he retired, so how severe the negative effect is now that Gu Yuan Chunqiu has disappeared.

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