Chapter 8
The hour for the video game experience round had ended. The emcee walked to the front of the stage.
“Alright, the video game experience round has ended! Did you guys manage to find a game you like?
“Let’s move onto the next stage, but first, let’s look at the results these twenty games have achieved so far. Please look at the screen.”
The audience shifted their gaze towards playtime and the number of recommendations for the twenty games, displayed on the main screen.
The audience let out an audible gasp.
“First, this game has no story, the playstyle is mundane, the graphics are simple, and the controls are terrible! This thing doesn’t match the criteria of a game at all!
“Second, this game was a cop out. It takes advantage of players trying to beat each other’s score in order to artificially inflate the playtime!
“All the stats that you see, no matter the play time or recommendations, are all pointless! Why? It’s because it’s unorthodox!
“Therefore, as you can tell, I’m strongly against this being in first place!”
1After finishing, Shi Huazhe pushed away the mic, breathing heavily.
“Yeah! Mr. Shi said it well!”
Someone yelled out, and the audience followed it up with roaring laughter.
It was from a competitor, most likely the designer of Hunter Island.
Chen Mo calmly twisted open the cap of his water bottle and took a sip. He completely expected such a reaction from Shi Huazhe.
Obviously, Shi Huazhe strongly disliked games like this, because he wasn’t good at them and didn’t enjoy grinding his score.
Moreover, Chen Mo’s Super Focuser had forced him to torture himself in the game for ten whole minutes; all this pent up anger was normal.
The emcee had obviously not expected Shi Huazhe to be so furious, and quickly changed the topic, “Alright, Mr. Shi Huazhe had expressed his opinion! Next up, Mr Lin Hai.”
Lin Hai looked at Shi Huazhe, then back at FlappyBird. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, he hesitantly turned on his mic.
“This game… I think Mr Shi Huazhe raises good points, the game is indeed quite shallow and has some pretty basic mechanics. In terms of quality, it doesn’t quite fit to be the champion of this competition.
After a pause, Lin Hai said, “However, I think if it’s able to get a result like this relatively high score in both playtime and recommends, it means that the players think it’s worthy. Therefore, I maintain my stance: I’ll leave the final decision to the audience.”
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