Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

Chapter 312 The New King Ascends the Throne
The large conference hall on the first floor of the Holy Light Society.

As a conference room inside the Holy Light Society that is specifically used for game demonstrations, this is not a very formal long-table conference room. Instead, it is more like a movie theater's screening room, or an opera stage.

Today is the release day of "Elden Ring", and the entire Holy Light Society is looking forward to it very much. However, there are not only many employees from the company sitting in the conference hall at this time, but some seats in the front row are also allocated to some colleagues with good relationships, senior players or anchors who are lucky enough to have the opportunity to participate, and some world-renowned media.

Official media such as Japan's NHK, Britain's BCC, America's NBC, and even China's etc., all sent some reporters to the scene, making a grand scene.

Looking at the reporters holding cameras and long guns below the stage, Kawaguchi on the stage was nervous and excited, and his hands unconsciously tightened around the microphone.

At this moment, he only felt that life was unpredictable and full of ups and downs.

A year ago, he was a little Karami who was working at NTsoft and worried about being laid off. But a year later, he became a spokesperson for a large company and could speak to gamers around the world under the camera of so many well-known media. Besides, there were not only gamers in front of the TV, but also his mother!

Guangzong Yaozu.

Kawaguchi is so excited now. Fortunately, he is not only honest, but also very stable. In other words, he is the kind of person who gets nervous before something happens, but is relatively calm when something really happens.

Needless to say, I saw Dongchuan Che and his family walk into the conference room and glanced at the clock on the wall.

As Ah Mei, who was hosting the event with him today, stepped onto the stage in high heels, he cleared his throat, bowed and said with a smile: "Welcome everyone to take the time out of your busy schedule to come to our new game launch conference of Shengguang Club. On behalf of all the staff of Shengguang Club, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you all.

Today, our Holy Light Society will not only broadcast the sales figures of "Elden Ring" in real time, but also at the end of the press conference, I will introduce two new projects that our Holy Light Society will launch this year to all colleagues, media friends and the audience friends who are watching the program in front of the screen at this time!"

"Two new projects? Didn't I hear there was only one?"

"The industrial capacity of the Holy Light Society is too strong!"

"Oh my god! People who release games next year should be careful!"

"Long live Dongchuan Che!!!"

"This Toukawa Che is so confident that he's ready to announce a new project before Elden Ring is even released. Isn't he afraid that Elden Ring will fail?!"

"Yes. Although the pre-sale sales of this game are terrifying, the tone is too high, and players' expectations will be even higher. I estimate that if this game cannot achieve the quality of 20 million sales, some people may accuse it of being more hype than substance."

Kawaguchi was talking on and on on the stage.

When they heard that two new projects would be launched this year, cheers immediately broke out from the audience!

Although the people attending the press conference this time came from all walks of life, their purposes were similar.

The news media naturally hope that Che Dongchuan can create more influential and more talked-about works; gamers certainly want to play good games; as for peers, although peers are enemies, Che Dongchuan will definitely not invite peers with conflicts such as NTsoft to this kind of press conference, but more friendly competitors from different fields and regional managers of some offline physical stores.

Either their interests were aligned or there was no conflict of interest. The invited guests were naturally happy and the atmosphere was like attending a dinner party. But not everyone was excited. Some people were still a little worried or skeptical. After all, the tone of "Elden Ring" was indeed too high.

Especially after the pre-sale sales exceeded 8 million in the past two days, the outside world was almost exaggerating "Elden Ring". Even big companies like NTsoft, NICO, and Kondo Ryūmengiya hired some trolls to promote "Elden Ring"!
Of course, they only hired a small number of internet trolls to add fuel to the fire; the main forces of the marketing departments of these large companies have not yet moved.

They are sworn enemies, yet they are touting the Elden Ring.

There is no other reason, it's just flattery!

Human anticipation is a magical emotion.

The most typical example is "Cyberpunk: 2077".

This game was a half-finished product when it was released, but it was not completely useless. The main problems were bugs and optimization. The plot and graphics were actually very good. Even when Dongchuan Che played the first release in his previous life, he did not encounter the bugs mentioned online. It was just that the PS4 had serious frame drops, which made him a little dizzy.

To put it bluntly, 2077 was definitely not a masterpiece, but it was not a completely useless piece of shit. It could be rated 2077 to out of , and the plot could be rated more than points. The main deductions were optimization and bugs. But the reputation of exploded, and countless netizens called it "unprecedented super shit".
The reason is that "2077" was promoted too highly.

Similarly, the higher the hype of "Elden Ring" is now, the higher the players' expectations are, and the higher their subconscious demands are! Once "Elden Ring" fails to meet the expectations and demands of players, things will be troublesome! By then, those opponents will definitely not miss the opportunity to completely discredit Dongchuan Che!

Nervousness, anticipation, gloating, I have nothing to do with the rain, just watching the show.

The invited guests at the scene had completely different mentalities, and in this somewhat twisted atmosphere, as the clock on the wall struck ten o'clock in the morning, as the big screen on the stage lit up, and as the laptops in front of the invited guests automatically turned on, the entire conference hall became completely lively!

"Phew! Here it comes! The Elden Ring is on sale!"

"Jack! Put the camera up! The highlight is about to begin!"

Today's new game launch conference not only shows sales, but also provides everyone with a laptop computer for trial play.

It must be said that this decision was indeed well received by everyone present. After all, although they could also live broadcast when they returned home, playing "Elden Circle" at the new game launch conference of the Holy Light Society brought completely different amount of topics.

The reporters from the official media were fine, they were all carrying cameras and filming here and there, interviewing, but they weren't particularly excited. But the gamers and anchors who won the "tickets" were particularly excited.

This is a huge amount of traffic!

At this moment, in a corner of the conference room, Dafei, the anchor from Huaxia Banana Video, was extremely excited.

"My fellow fans! Look where I am?! Hey↑~~The new game launch of Holy Light Society! Pretentious~~You can just say that I, Da Feiniu, am extremely lucky. At that time, hundreds of anchors were drawing lots, but the spot was won by an online game anchor like me! Hehehe, today I will let you see my gaming sense that I, Da Fei, have honed over twenty years of online gaming experience! Any super-difficult [Wolf Game], in front of me, Da Fei, is nothing!"

Da Fei was fiddling with the camera and opening the live broadcast room, while he said with a proud smile: "Hey, let's take a look at the configuration of this laptop first. The graphics card is Lao Huang's 9050ti, which is currently the mainstream graphics card, and the screen resolution is 2K. Using the 9050ti to run 2K, as long as the image quality settings are not locked when entering the game, and the image quality settings are medium to high, then there should be no problem with the optimization of this game. How about it, am I professional? Quickly type the word professional on the public screen!"

Seeing the number of people in the live broadcast room soaring, Dafei teased excitedly.

It must be said that he is indeed a very effective anchor, but the comments of male anchors are generally not very friendly. He was still bragging, and the comments kept floating in the comments [Headquarters of the Holy Light Society?! Dafei has made it! 】【Pa Feiku Pa Feihu】【Did this guy really get a ticket?! God bless the disabled! 】【Give Dongchuan the old thief a hundred shots to vent his anger! 】【I bet that after the new game press conference, Dafei still can't beat the first BOSS! 】【+1】【+1】【+1】.
The barrage was very lively, but after a netizen named [Jia Junpeng Loves Daffy Chicken] said that the big fly could not pass the first BOSS, the barrage became even more lively, and the screen was full of various plus ones.

Barrage and traffic both cost money!

Seeing the screen full of comments and the soaring number of viewers, Da Fei was overjoyed, but on the surface he pretended to be unhappy and snorted, "This new game conference lasted more than two hours. How could I still not be able to beat the first BOSS in two hours?

Are you kidding me, Da Fei! Although I have never played stand-alone games and am not used to using a controller, when you little brats were still wearing open-crotch pants, I, Da Fei, had already led hundreds of brothers to attack the desert.

At that time, I, Dafei, was the most handsome leader in the whole server. I don’t know how many girls were moved by his song “Azalea Flower”. Hey~ I’ll show you what it means that old soldiers never die, they just wither away! Okay, let’s enter the game and let me see what’s so special about this game.”

Da Fei was chattering on the side while pressing the buttons on the controller. With a "clang" sound, the game entered the opening CG.

The fallen leaves tell a story——

Along with a deep female voice, a CG image of Malika smashing the magic ring appeared on the big screen, and was also transmitted to thousands of households through Dafei's live broadcast room.

Elden Ring is a game with a very unique temperament. There are very few games that can embody the dark fantasy art style to this extent. And Fuyukawa Tetsu didn't make the decision to make Elden Ring on a whim.

He had done a lot of market research before, and he didn't know whether it was due to economic problems or something else in the past two years. Just like many people's XP began to develop in the direction of Xiaonan Niang, the market, whether it was novels or animations, was filled with a flavor of "crazy criticism". Players or readers began to prefer cult or profound dark themes, and it was obvious that the dark and profound temperament of "Elden Ring" could indeed attract a large number of players' attention from the beginning.

As soon as the game CG appeared, the barrage was completely filled with comments like [Praise Dongchuan!!!], [Love this style so much!!!], [Fuck, I'll buy it when I get home].

Da Fei laughed and said, "Hey, this CG is quite exquisite, and it feels like a Western fantasy epic. Wait? Damn, what is the name of this BOSS? The Fecal Eater??? Damn, I didn't see it wrong. This name is quite unique. I will beat out all the shit he eats later! All right, my friends, the game has officially begun now, and Da Fei is going to kill everyone!"

Da Fei was talking with a smile, and soon, as the light spot fell into the protagonist's hand, awakening the protagonist, the game officially began. Da Fei controlled his pink-haired female knight, picked up the [Faded Old Finger] from the witch next to him, pushed open the door, and then went directly to the edge of the cliff.

The scenery on the cliff is already very good, you can see the huge city and the huge golden tree. It is already a grand and magnificent scenery, and Dongchuan Che has also improved the picture quality of the game, and there is even a giant dragon flying under the golden tree in the distance.

Absolutely stunning views!
Needless to say, as soon as the picture came out, the barrage of comments immediately started to flood the screen!
“The details and art style are so strong!”

"That old thief Dongchuan is really willing to pile up materials!"

"Rumor has it that there will be a plot later where the player will ride a dragon into the sky!"

"Is the combat system still the same flick-blade system as Sekiro? But the knight has a shield."

"Shield counter?!"

"Hurry, hurry, find a monster to kill!"

"Be careful around the corner, that's the evil intention of the old thief Dongchuan!"

"I guess Dafei will be killed by the first monster at the beginning of the game, haha."

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Many comments were discussing the graphics and style, but the live broadcast images were somewhat compressed, so after most players admired the image quality and art style, their attention quickly returned to the battle. After all, Dongchuan Che had previously claimed in his promotion that "this is an extremely difficult action game."

The comments were constantly scrolling, but Da Fei's mouth curled up, and he controlled his character to run to the small square in front, while laughing [contemptuously]: "Humph, you young people just don't play enough games. No matter how difficult it is, it's just a game. As long as it's a game, there's nothing that I, Da Fei, can't handle. What the hell is this!"

Da Fei was still bragging to the players, and the next moment, the limb-jointing noble leaped up from behind the cliff and slammed heavily in front of him.

startled.

Da Fei, who was bragging just now, put up a shield at the first moment, and when he saw the long health bar of the BOSS, he also became excited.

"Oh, you're going to fight the BOSS right at the beginning? This game is interesting. Descendant of the nobles of 'limb grafting'? The name sounds okay, and it has half the flavor of my Da Fei's Love Adventure. But it's a pity that you will die today... What the hell! What the hell! What the hell?!"

Halfway through boasting, under everyone's eyes, Da Fei controlled his female knight to attack with a sword, but in the next moment, the noble with the limb reattached rolled over and was struck by two swords!

"Swish!"

Dafei was still pressing RB frantically when he loosened his fingers. As he stared in confusion, the screen went black.

Da Fei was stunned when he saw the black screen, and the comments on the comment board were also amused by him.

"Pfft! Hahaha, this is too humorous."

"Hahahaha! Dafei is a real man for a second!"

“Sister-in-law, don’t look back. Brother Fei is not going home tonight, hahaha.”

"233333!"

“Dish!” “Dish!” “Dish!” “Dish!” “Dish!” “Dish!” “Dish!” “Dish!” “Dish!”

The entire battle lasted only three seconds, or rather, only one second, and the other two seconds were spent by Da Fei bragging on the shield.

Needless to say, this kind of record instantly made all the comments laugh. Soon, after the CG transition, Da Fei, who was a little bit like Xiao Bengbu, said stubbornly: "Did you see it? It's not that I'm a badass, this is a plot killer! You wait, I'll let you guys really see my strength!"

Being stubborn, he was naturally ridiculed by the comments all over the screen.

However, it must be said that Da Fei does have a lot of gaming experience. He passed the novice level easily and quickly opened the iron gate and arrived at Nimgfu.

Needless to say, the moment the iron gate was pushed open and the map of Nimgefu appeared in front of the audience, the barrage of comments started boiling again!
"Oh my god! This view is amazing!"

"The prairie! This painting style is amazing!"

"Sure enough, that old thief Dongchuan hid something during the demo! This open world is so beautiful!"

"So poignant! The art style is amazing!"

Yes, Dongchuan Che made some modifications to Ningmugefu's map.

The Nimgefu in the original work is actually very well done, but strictly speaking, in Fuyukawa Che's opinion, it is not enough to reach the level of the reeds in "Sekiro" or the amazing feeling in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild".

And on the other hand
The battle of the tree guard was not that exciting. The reason why this monster caused such a sensation was mainly because it was the first difficult monster. In fact, the battle took place in a small area in front of the church. Not to mention the frame drops, the vertical mobility of the tree guard as a knight was not felt.

This could be because the budget was insufficient and making the map too big would be very expensive, or it could be because Miyazaki Hidetaka wanted to increase the difficulty of the battle, so he placed the battle site here. But no matter which one it is, Fuyukawa Che felt that it was still a little off.

He directly set the first scene that Nimgufu saw after pushing the door open: a prairie blown by the breeze under the golden tree, a wandering tree knight on the vast and silent prairie, and on the other side is a dilapidated medieval church.

Sad, desolate, silent and vast grassland!

Needless to say, as soon as this stunning scene came out, the comments were boiling!
Not only the barrage, but most of the guests in the conference hall have come here. They are all attracted by the beautiful scenery! Some European and American guys even made "Oh, oh ...

Just kidding, the Tree Guardian did appear in a demo, and at that time, I don’t know how many anchors who specialize in single-player games were tortured to death! And it is precisely because it appeared in the demo, unless it is a technical player, the topic of ordinary people being tortured by the Tree Guardian is not too high. These invited guests either want to experience something newer, or want to use something newer to attract traffic.

The same goes for Dafei.

"This tree guard has been beaten by others before, so let's let him go today! Let's go see what's behind it!"

Amidst the boos from countless comments, Da Fei righteously said, "Let the tree guard go," and then he ran forward. However, he did not run to Stonewell City, but ran through the Dragon's Breath Ruins in the swamp, and came to the Misty Forest.

His luck was indeed good. He did not alarm the flying dragon when passing by the Dragon's Breath Ruins. In addition, most of the wild humanoid monsters in "Elden Ring" had low combat power.

He killed quite a few soldiers while running and hacking all the way. So, as soon as he arrived at the Misty Forest, he started to show off again.

Killing a soldier casually, he controlled the character to walk into the woods while bragging, "Tsk, let me tell you, in front of me, Dafei, any high-difficulty game is not worth mentioning! If you ask me, then Dongchuan Che should ask me to design the battle for this game. Really, there is no difficulty at all, the monsters will break into pieces when touched. What? You only know how to kill the soldiers? Damn, that's because I want to kill the soldiers, it's only the soldiers that I can kill, you two should be more reasonable. Hey! There's a bear over there, it can't be a monster, look at me, Dafei, I'm going to kill it!"

As he spoke, under the gaze of all the bullet screens, Da Fei controlled his little knight, who was only level 5 and didn't even have a horse, and rushed towards the Rune Bear that was clinging to the tree trunk, shouting, "Holy Light, give me strength!"
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Fifteen minutes later.

Looking at the screen that went black again, Da Fei fell into deep thought, "No, is this thing really for players? A series of slaps directly broke my shield!"

"Hahaha, if you're a newbie, just practice more! Look at Bingyu next door, she's almost defeated the final boss of Stonewell City!"

"It's really difficult. This elite monster has too strong a desire to attack."

"Hey, what's that little house next to it?"

Looking at the huge Rune Bear in the forest, Da Fei was a little timid. The Rune Bear's slap just now had crushed his courage. When he was hesitating whether to continue to be tough, a barrage of comments attracted his attention.

"Little house, what little house?"

Da Fei turned the camera, and soon he saw a small stone house that looked like a yurt on the right.

what is that?
There are houses in the wild, and there are usually things inside them. What's more, he really doesn't want to go to Rixiong again.

Without any hesitation, Dafei immediately ran towards the small house, and the moment he entered the small house, the words [Entrance Well of the Shivla River] floated across the screen.

"Shivra River? What is that?"

Da Fei used his thumbs left and right to rotate the character and walked to the elevator, while turning his head to look at the barrage, which was now full of question marks and unknowns.

"I guess it's some kind of portal. Will it take you to a river?"

"Isn't the map next to it called Misty Ruins? This might be another entrance."

"Old Dongchuan is still so meticulous in making maps."

There is a misty ruins in the misty forest. At this time, the barrage is discussing whether this wellhead is another entrance to the misty ruins.

Obviously, they had not realized the seriousness of the matter. When Dafei had been descending on the elevator for a minute and still hadn't reached the bottom, the netizens started discussing it curiously. However, some netizens who had been lying in ambush for a long time smelled something.

"It's a BUG! Damn it! It's only been a short while since I started playing and it's already a BUG!"

"No way, there's a bug even when riding an elevator! Is this game okay?"

"Hahaha, let me tell you, how sophisticated can a 3A game made in a year be?!"

"It's over! There are bugs everywhere, hahahaha!"

Dongchuan Che has grown rapidly this year, but it is impossible to do business, especially big business, without offending people. Big companies like Kondo Ryūmengiya and NICO are eyeing him covetously, and Dafei is also a big anchor. If he can lead the [Elden Ring is full of bugs], Dongchuan Che will have a lot of trouble in the future!

However, Dongchuan Che's hard work over the past two years has also earned him a lot of loyal fans.

"Hurry up and contact the staff on site!"

"This doesn't look like a bug. Didn't you notice that the surrounding lighting effects are gradually changing?"

"The lights are changing gradually, what kind of wolf is this?"

"It's so funny, it's just a bug, why are you being so stubborn!"

Although many netizens usually call Dongchuan Che an old thief, they still say something to help him at this time. However, the netizens just want them to speak, after all, the more they argue, the louder the rhythm!

But just as the navy troops were preparing to increase their firepower, and just as Dafei thought there was a bug and was asking the staff what to do, little blue fluorescent lights gradually appeared around the character standing on the elevator. Then, under everyone's shocked gaze, the brilliant starry sky of the Shifra River in the underground world appeared in front of everyone's eyes!
"Fuck me!!!"

"Is this true? There's another world under the ground?!"

“Fuck fuck fuck fuck!!!”

"Too much! How much content is this???"

"Underground world?! Holy shit, the map of the surface world is so small, and there's an underground world?!"

"Invincible! I declare that a masterpiece is born!!!"

"Praise the old thief!!!"

The barrage was completely flooded!
Everyone was screaming wildly in the barrage!
Not to mention the barrage of comments, even Da Fei and several of his colleagues took off their headphones and came over to cover their mouths in shock when they saw the scene on his screen!

It’s amazing!

The aboveground world of Elden Circle is already large enough, and levels like Stonevale City have very rich small garden designs. Most people initially thought that the map should not be too large and empty, and that if the design of Stonevale City could be maintained in the future, Elden Circle would be successful. But they never expected that this game would also have an underground world!
Scared!

I was really scared!

Countless people exclaimed!
These exclamations attracted more guests and media at the scene!
Nothing to say!
When everyone gathered around Dafei's computer and saw the brilliant starry sky and the vast map of the underground world, no one had any doubts about Dongchuan Che anymore!
boiling!

The barrage is boiling!

The scene was completely boiling!
"Mr. Dongchuan is so scary!"

"It exploded! It exploded! With this quality, I'll eat shit if it doesn't explode!"

“This is a work that cost 1.5 million US dollars to develop!”

"This year will still belong to Dongchuan Che!"

"This battle system, this map size, this rich content! The new king is about to ascend the throne!!!"

The whole scene was in complete chaos, and the atmosphere was extremely lively. In the corner of the scene, watching everything happening in front of him and listening to the words of praise, Dong Chuan Che put down the wolfberry tea in his hand, turned his head to look at the wives next to him, and smiled: "Thank you for your hard work in the past year."

(End of this chapter)