Chapter 1374 Super Hitchhiker
The latest version of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" was released at ten o'clock in the morning of Yanjing time the next day after the completion of the comprehensive internal test.
This time the update adopts the technical method of hot update. Players do not need to re-download and install the entire game, but after starting the game, the game directly downloads new game materials and updated content online, which ensures that all connected to the network Players must complete this update, unless he has been playing the single-player game offline.
For users who are in the game, the background will automatically complete the update when the player is playing, and automatically load when the game ends, and then the user can experience the latest version of the game content.
From this time period, players all over the world have experienced the brand-new "Plants vs. Zombies Online" one after another, with brand-new maps, brand-new plants, brand-new zombies, and brand-new systems, which brought huge surprises to players.
Chinese players were pleasantly surprised to find that in the latest "Plants vs. Zombies Online", a Chinese-style map and unique zombies in Chinese folklore appeared! This is really surprising, because so far, no one has integrated the zombies of Chinese folklore into the game, and the cartoon zombies are not only not scary at all, but also give people a very cute feeling.
Even for Chinese players, they haven't seen new elements about "Huaxia Zombies" for a long time. After all, Hong Kong zombie films have long passed the golden age, and there are no new films produced so far.
Seeing the familiar scenes, familiar and unique zombie shapes, almost all Chinese players praised them. To a certain extent, there is also a special cultural complex. After all, this is our own folklore, just like Western zombies. Like vampires, zombies and vampires can become game elements, and Huaxia zombies should also be able to, and Muye Technology has achieved this.
The familiar but somewhat unfamiliar zombie element strikes again, making many netizens rekindle their love for zombie movies. In the disc rental shops in the streets, zombie movies are almost sold out, and various types of zombies are also being played on TV. Movies, and the ratings are surprisingly high, even the originally deserted Lin Zhengying Post Bar has become a big hit in the celebrity post bar because of this nostalgic heat. The public's love for zombie movies seems to have returned to ten. Years ago……
When foreign users, that is, players using non-Chinese language versions, update the game, the game has a simple prompt on the Huaxia map level, informing them that the design of the map is derived from the unique architectural style of Huaxia, and the zombies in the game are A kind of Chinese folklore, collectively known as China-Zombie (China Zombie).
Leaving aside the Eastern and Western cultures, only in the game "Plants vs. Zombies Online", the design of the Chinese Zombies is much better than the original Western Zombies. Although the original Western Zombies are not terrifying in their visual appearance, they also talk about It's not cute, at most it makes people feel stupid, but the design of Huaxia Zombies can really make overseas players shine. Their clothes are very special, their posture is also very special, and their skin color is not the gray-black of Western zombies, but light yellow. , the talisman on the forehead flutters with the jumping of the zombies, overseas players do not understand its use, but there is always a sense of mystery when looking at it.
For overseas users, they will not reject Chinese elements as a whole. On the contrary, these special ethnic designs also bring them a full sense of exoticism. Most of these people did not know about the game before they updated the game today. There are such things as Chinese zombies, but in just a few hours, people all over the world know about Chinese zombies, the shape of Chinese zombies, and their unique setting of walking and jumping.
Most importantly, they don't hate the element,
On the contrary, they gradually fell in love with these very special and interesting images and settings, and even many overseas users discussed Huaxia Zombies openly on the Internet. Popularize popular science among netizens in your country on the online platform.
Why do they wear special robes? Because they wear the official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty in China, these official uniforms actually have a lot of attention, from the first-rank to the ninth-rank officials, there are strict requirements on the clothes they wear;
Why do they have a strange yellow paper on their foreheads? That's because there is a profession in Chinese legends that specializes in dealing with such zombies. They are called Taoist priests. This kind of yellow paper is called a talisman. It is their weapon and has a very special effect. Of course, in this game, attacking Zombies are plants and not Taoists, so this talisman may just be a design element;
Why do they walk and jump? This is not the case of zombies in Chinese legends, but because Hong Kong has produced many zombie-themed movies in the past. In the setting of Hong Kong movies, zombies are all jumping forward, so in China, the zombies in everyone's impression That's how it bounces;
In addition, many people have found screenshots of various Hong Kong zombie movies and put them on the Internet to do popular science for netizens. This has further attracted users' curiosity about Huaxia Zombies. Many people said on the Internet that if they could It would be great to get a Hong Kong zombie movie or two and watch it.
The entire Western world, even Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, has set off a wave of discussions about Chinese zombies because of the revision of "Plants vs. Zombies Online".
No one would have imagined that the Hong Kong zombie movie tried its best and failed to break out of the Chinese area, and it didn't even bring much response in Southeast Asia, but "Plants vs. Zombies Online", a popular game around the world, only took a few hours , and sent the concept of Huaxia Zombies to players around the world.
This has caused a lot of shock in the Hong Kong film industry. Many investors, directors and actors in the Hong Kong film industry are sighing that Makino Technology has completed what Hong Kong movies have not been able to achieve for more than ten or twenty years in a few hours. Cultural output, this is really admirable.
Zombie movies have not been able to get out of the Chinese area for 20 years. This is also a typical phenomenon of global cultural export in recent years. Our people know too much Western culture, but Western people know very little about our culture.
In the Chinese world, our three-year-olds know the vampires in the West, they have long fangs, they live at night, and they live by sucking human blood, and they know that as long as ordinary people are bitten by a vampire, they will Become a vampire.
However, few Westerners know that there is also a kind of zombie in China. They are caused by ordinary people after death due to some special reasons, such as too much resentment during their lifetime, or too much yin in the burial place, etc. After the round night and the corpse transformation, the corpse in the coffin will become a jumping zombie. They can't see it, but they have a keen sense of smell. They are afraid of glutinous rice, red thread, black donkey hooves and black dog blood, and even more afraid of zombies. A long mahogany sword and a corpse talisman.
Our young people celebrate Valentine’s Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas in the West as significant festivals. They send flowers on Valentine’s Day, eat apples on Christmas Eve, and open a room with their girlfriends on Christmas. Little is known about the Spring Festival in China, and as for traditional festivals such as Qixi Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, even fewer Westerners know about them;
Classic love movies such as "Titanic" can sweep across China, making everyone in China know and know it, but domestic movies such as "Farewell My Concubine", although they have won the Cannes Award abroad, but in the United States The box office combined was less than five million dollars.
We know too many big Western stars, have seen too many of their movies, and listened to too many of their songs, but the Chinese movie stars known to Western audiences are really influential, except for Li Xiaolong, Cheng Long, and Li Lianjie. There's no one on top.
This is the huge asymmetry of cultural exports. At this point, the United States is like a country with a huge trade surplus, while we are a country with a huge trade deficit, which is almost used as a dumping market by the other side.
It is precisely because of the unequal cultural output throughout the years that the update of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" this time is of great significance in the eyes of people in the Chinese cultural industry.
Among them, the one that has been shaken the most is the Hong Kong film industry.
In the 1980s and 1990s, a large number of zombie movies emerged in Hong Kong, from Lin Zhengying to Hong Jinbao and Wuma. These excellent Hong Kong actors have made great contributions to the prosperity of zombie movies.
However, in Hong Kong, where the film industry is prosperous, zombie-type films have suffered excessive pressure in a short period of time, and all kinds of bad films are rampant, so that later, both Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland audiences have seen enough of this type of film. Film, the market space plummeted.
There is also a very important reason for this, that is, after the death of Lin Zhengying, zombie films have no real benchmarking characters.
Although Hong Jinbao has made zombie movies in the early years, he quickly embarked on the path of mainstream movies, and supporting roles such as Wu Ma have a very wide range of roles in the Hong Kong film industry.
Up to now, there are almost no new zombie movies in Hong Kong, and this theme is rarely touched in mainland China. Everyone regards zombie movies as old semiconductor radios and throws them in the trash or storage room. , put their energy into more advanced TVs and computers, only a few nostalgic people will occasionally take them out and listen to them
The Hong Kong film industry is a peak of the Chinese cultural industry. Although it has declined a lot now, it did have very brilliant achievements back then, so their pattern and vision are relatively more international. Many people in the film industry have discovered that "Plants War" After the update of "Zombie Online" caused a lot of repercussions and strong recognition overseas, I realized that this might be a good opportunity to let Hong Kong zombie movies take this super ride to all over the world!