A while ago, "Black Myth: Wukong" finally announced the price, the launch price is 268 yuan, which is currently generally priced at 298~500 yuan3A game, this initial price is a slightly lower level, and it is still quite sincere. This has also brought another wave of heat, and today I will come out from the perspective of a gamer for more than ten years, and at this point in time when "Black Myth: Wukong" is about to be released, I will talk to you about this game.
At present, there is still a period of time before the game is released, and "Black Myth: Wukong" has reached the first place in the Steam wishlist rankings, not only in China, but also in many foreign gamers. Some foreign live streamers who mainly play triple-A games even said that this is the game they are most looking forward to in 2024, you must know that there are not many masterpieces this year, and this evaluation can be said to be quite high.
During this period of time, everyone is mainly discussing which platform to buy "Black Myth: Wukong", which is currently known to be released simultaneously on Steam, Wegame, Epic, PS5, and XBox platforms. It's really a good thing to be able to play Wegame, after all, there will be relatively more players in China who are exposed to Wegame, which is definitely beneficial and harmless for game science. But considering some unspeakable reasons,I personally recommend buying the Steam platform on PC,After all, the server stability of E treasure is really a bit difficult to explain.。
For the console party, considering that this game supports path tracing, in layman's terms, it is a complete panoramic ray tracing, and it is conceivable that the picture quality of "Black Myth: Wukong" on the console is definitely not as good as that of a high-end PC, after all, the function is limited, and according to the convention, the price of the console platform is more expensive than that of the PC. But the console platform has a physical disc to start.,It must be a great collection value for the True Love Party.,It can only be purely based on personal preferences and budget.,In other words, I will definitely choose the physical disc version.。
In addition, a key question about Black Myth: Wukong is whether the configuration requirements of this game are high, and whether ordinary players can play it smoothly. Because in the actual machine demonstration that was released, we can see that whether it is modeling accuracy, lighting quality, particle effects, and volumetric fog effects, "Black Myth: Wukong" is a proper next-generation level, and the overall picture is quite amazing, and many people who have watched it have begun to smoke the graphics card.
But this stunning look is partly a lot of work on the part of the production team, but also thanks to the nature of the Unreal Engine 5 itself. We can get a glimpse of another game made with Unreal Engine 5 and just released, Hellblade 2: The Legend of Senua, which also has extremely stunning graphics, especially the facial modeling of the characters has almost reached the CG level.
However, compared to the picture quality of "Hellblade 2: Senua's Saga", its configuration requirements are actually not too outrageous. Using my own computer as an example, with a 7900X+ RTX4080, the average frame rate in this game was close to 97 fps at 4K Extreme with DLSS quality + frame generation turned on. In Cyberpunk: 2077, which is considered to be a very good configuration, at the setting of 4K extremely high + path tracing, the DLSS quality file + frame generation does not even reach 60 frames, and I can only reduce DLSS to the balanced/performance mode to maintain smoothness when actually playing. So it can be seen that Unreal Engine 5 still maintains the good optimization capabilities that Unreal Engine has always had.
In the previous Black Myth offline experience activities, the machines on the scene are all 1660Ti and 4070 graphics cards, and the 4070 can also maintain a smoothness of more than 60 frames almost all the way through the experience level at 4K resolution. So it's predictable that Black Myth: Wukong may not be a particularly hardware-eating graphics card killer, at least not as cyberpunk: 2077 will infect your computer with cyberpsychosis. In my personal experience, if you have a 2060Super or higher graphics card, you shouldn't have to worry too much about this aspect.
However, compared to the configuration requirements, I personally prefer to change to a good monitor, because no matter how high the configuration and image quality are, the final output screen is still the monitor. Even if you use the configuration of 14900KS+RTX4090, but it is matched with a 1080P old monitor, the experience is not good, I myself changed to this Philips Evnia O8 series QD OLED 32M2N8800 display some time ago, and I also plan to use it to experience "Black Myth: Wukong".
Before this display, I used a miniLED 2K monitor, and although the parameters on paper were beautiful and the contrast ratio was high, the actual experience did not satisfy me. Because of the limitations of miniLED itself, no matter which dimming strategy is used, there must be a problem of halo or dark edges, which is still relatively inconsistent with the naked eye, so many times I will even turn off the partition backlight to use it.
And 32M2N8800 does not have such a problem at all, because it is a QD-OLED display, each sub-pixel can emit light independently, and the pixel-level light control level is truly achieved, and halos and shadows do not exist at all. And it's also HDR Ture Black 400 certified, plus 1000 nits of peak brightness (3% window), so this is also a screen that is particularly suitable for HDR games and movies, with a truly ultra-high contrast ratio.
For example, in this game scene, if it is a miniLED display, there is either a dark shadow around the sky outside the hole, or there is a halo in the dark stone part. But with this display, you can achieve a clear boundary between the highlights and the dark parts at the same time, and the details are not lost at all, the brightness of the highlight parts is high enough and transparent, and the texture of the dark parts is clear enough.
Another inherent advantage of QD-OLED is that it can achieve a wider color gamut, and the current mainstream wide color gamut LCD displays are generally 95% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, which cannot be mapped to all colors in the wide color gamut. The 32M2N8800 achieves a very astonishing 99% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, as well as native 10bit color depth support, which can restore almost all colors in a wide color gamut, not only for games and audio-visual pictures are more transparent and natural, even if it is used as a professional monitor for design purposes, it is more than enough.
For a gaming party like me, the refresh rate and response speed of the screen are also extremely critical, the higher the refresh rate, the better, the 32M2N8800's 240Hz is obviously much smoother than my previous 144Hz monitor, especially when turning the viewing angle quickly. The response speed is 0.03ms, you must know that even if the LCD display is strong, it can achieve at most 1ms response of paper parameters, and the actual grayscale response speed is generally more than 5ms.
This ridiculously fast response speed results in extremely high motion clarity, which is a great advantage in a game like Black Myth: Wukong, where the range of strikes is large and the timing of the bounce (the in-game Copperhead Iron Arm skill) is calculated in frames. I won't be able to see the monster's move clearly because the response is not fast enough.,This time it won't bounce back, it's not a problem with the equipment.。
After the release of "Black Myth: Wukong" on August 20th, I also plan to take a few days off to stay up late to clear the customs, and I definitely wouldn't do this if it was still an old monitor. Because even if the LCD display has hardware low blue light, its short-wave blue light level is generally worse than OLED, and the eyes are dry and astringent after playing games all night.
This 32M2N8800 not only has the natural low blue light characteristics of OLED, but also is equipped with hardware low blue light and software blue light filter, even among many OLED displays, its anti-blue light performance is very outstanding. I've tried playing with it all day and I don't feel any discomfort in my eyes, so I'm now waiting to fight it on August 20th.
And this monitor is especially suitable for those multi-platform gamers, equipped with an HDMI 2.1 interface, which can support PS5 and Xbox at 4K 120Hz full blood output, as well as VRR and ALLM. In addition, the interface is also relatively comprehensive, you can plug in all the PC and the host in one go, and play all platforms with one monitor.
If you plan to take advantage of this year's blockbuster release, especially the much-anticipated "Black Myth: Wukong" release stall to upgrade the display in the near future, I also recommend you to get this one. Philips official has also specially upgraded to3Year screen burn-in warranty,Compared with other OLED displays, it is more sincere,Use it to play3AYou only need to be responsible for cool!