The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games

  Chapter 57 57. Don't be a dragon

  Just as Bomi was preparing for the game platform, the game circled a big event at the end of November:

  "Diablo 2" is on sale in China.

  The agent was Ogilvy Electronics, which later became "Ogilvy China", which was established in 1996. It is also one of the earliest pioneers in the competitive domestic game industry.

  This company has risen quickly and has a short life.

  Many people, including Cao Yang himself, have no impression of Ogilvy Electronics, but when he saw Ogilvy Electronics from the "Computer Enthusiast" magazine, they were not unfamiliar with the products they represent:

  This company has published "Diablo", "Half-Life", "Warcraft", "StarCraft"...

  The impact of "Diablo" on ARPG games is equivalent to the impact of iPhone on mobile phones. Speaking of Diablo’s status in game history, Diablo is an endless memory in the eyes of players. It is a gem rune equipment that can’t fit in a box. It is a row of lv90+ characters. It was once a ladder ranking. It was the day of staying up late with roommates to brush the big pineapple... …And in the eyes of game designers, Diablo is a collection of game design textbooks and an endless treasure of inspiration.

"Half-Life" can be said to be the pinnacle of the earliest shooting game. Later products derived from Half-Life include "Counter-Strike", "Day of Victory", "Crossing the Line of Fire"...Many shooting games, many of them are Under the influence of Half-Life.

  And "StarCraft" not to mention, it opened an era of RTS, even in the later era of "Warcraft 3" is in full swing, the international professional competition of StarCraft is still booming and attracting attention.

  The game of StarCraft can be regarded as the World Cup in the game industry.

  Ogilvy Electronics is a company that has no independent research and development capabilities at all. It can make a lot of money by acting for foreign games, and even became the leader of the PC stand-alone game market.

  It can be imagined how farsighted this company is, and how much money the agency’s games make.

  Of course, this is also inseparable from how great Blizzard is.

  ……

  In the normal course of history, the "Diablo 2" that Ogilvy Electronics represented should be on sale in China in September 2000.

   But now it’s November.

  This is probably the so-called butterfly effect.

Ogilvy Electronics obtained the distribution rights early and passed the review by the relevant departments. The delay was only because of the impact of Bomi’s King of Glory 18 games and the impact of some games on the 18th. Diablo 2 is only now on sale.

  Facts have proved that this is very wise.

In November, Bomi’s King of Glory on the 18th had almost entered a period of stagnation, which is similar to the movie theater lineup. Basically, people who have the desire to buy have already started the King of Glory when it was first released in September. , The benefits that can be generated after November are minimal.

  Diablo 2 just took over at this time, and became the sales leader of the week in one fell swoop, and got the hot record of 310345 CDs sold in the first week.

In the era of PCs equipped with Pentium 3 processors and voodoo graphics cards, Diablo successfully created a tense atmosphere with its unique dark and depressive art style, which made people immersive and had the terrible feeling of being dominated by evil forces. In fact, it is very rare.

3 years ago, the release of Diablo 1 laid the foundation for Diablo 2. Diablo 1 was born and was immediately regarded as a classic by the players. Its gameplay, especially its multi-class and rich skill matching, and a lot of equipment System, dungeon maze...

  These are the first things, let the players see, shit, the original game can still be played like this.

  On playing treasures, opening boxes, Diablo can be said to be the originator. Many players can play for thousands of hours in pursuit of a superb suit.

   Until 21 years, there are still many up masters in station B doing related videos about Diablo 2, how to speed through, try new builds and new dispatches...

  The so-called build is to use different skill combinations to combine different forms of gameplay. The most famous is parkour flow. All skills are centered around running speed.

  There is also an infinite stun flow. All skills, including equipment, are to strengthen the stun effect, and the frequency of strikes, so you must be able to continue to stun Diablo to death.

  It can be said that Diablo is definitely one of the bosses who have been abused and killed by players the most in the history of the game, without boss dignity at all.

  Similarly, Barr, the big boss in the fifth act of Diablo 2, is not much better than Diablo.

  In fact, Cao Yang himself really likes the games of the Diablo series.

   is not only its rich gameplay.

  More important is the spiritual connotation of Diablo.

  To summarize in one sentence, it would probably be--

  【The dragon slayer finally becomes the evil dragon】

In Diablo 1, the prince Yadan of the human hero Leoric sealed Diablo’s soul stone, and finally found that there was no other way but to seal the soul stone on his forehead, and then he was affected and collapsed and became darkness. Wanderer.

  According to Dika Kane’s diary, Diablo’s soul took two days to occupy and control him, making him a dark wanderer and leaving Tristram.

  After he left, a large number of demons killed almost everyone in Tristram.

  In Diablo 2, the Dark Wanderer destroyed Tristram and went to the east, before Archangel Tyrael, and released them from their respective desert prisons in Barr and Mephisto.

  After that, he faded the last bit of humanity and came to the fortress of the demons, completely becoming the second generation of Diablo.

   Then to the third generation of Diablo, Leah, the descendant of the Dark Wanderer, possesses Diablo's soul in his body, and finally Leah is corroded by Diablo's soul and becomes the third-generation Diablo.

  In the era of flattery that justice will prevail and evil will eventually be destroyed, it really takes a lot of courage to write such a plot.

  ……

The admission of   Diablo 2 immediately caused a major earthquake in the industry.

  This is the strangulation of the local industry by foreign technology.

   Just like Marvel movies once made money from the domestic market, similar domestic games have no power to fight at all.

  But this is also the inevitability of the times. The domestic game has only been in existence for a few years, and it has only been 4 years since Jinshan started.

  Fortunately, software is not better than hardware. Everyone uses the same programming language to develop on the same platform, which will not create technical barriers.

  So Cao Yang is still very confident in domestic games.

  At 10 o’clock in the morning, when the little secretary Zhuang Yurou pushed open the boss’s office, she found Cao Yang was playing [Diablo 2]

  The little secretary looked at him with hands on hips with some dissatisfaction.

  "Boss, is it really appropriate to play games at work? And also play competitors' games."

   "It's appropriate." Cao Yang turned to the boss chair and looked at her from below, "I don't want to play more competitive products in games. Isn't it a closed door? As long as it doesn't affect the work."

  The little secretary pouted, thinking I believe you a ghost.

  Cao Yang patted the armrest of the chair, "I didn't buy this game for anything else, just to remind myself."

   "Huh? Remind me?" Zhuang Yurou looked at him suspiciously.

  It’s not going to hurt you to play games, right?

  Cao Yang said mysteriously, “Don’t be an evil dragon.”

"what?"

  What's all this mess?

  Zhuang Yurou felt that the boss was too unreliable.

  She paused, and said, “By the way, the boss, Zhang Yawen, a reporter from New Era of Gaming, is here, saying that he had an appointment with you before, and I want to do an exclusive interview with you today.”

  ……

  (End of this chapter)