Chapter 1646 Decisive Moment

"After understanding the meaning of this ending, everyone can look back and gain some new insights into the whole process."

"Many people feel that the gameplay is monotonous, and this monotony mainly comes from the following aspects."

"First of all, the combat content is monotonous. Although the protagonist is constantly replacing prosthetics and enhancing his abilities, the enemies he fights are always the same. Although their appearance is changing, the feeling the combat brings is not fundamentally different."

"Secondly, the content outside of combat is monotonous. The protagonist's comrades-in-arms always die one by one. Before the players can even remember their names, they have already forgotten them. And the protagonist always gets new weapons, new teammates, and new equipment every time he arrives at a new battlefield. The game completely fails to explain where these equipment and money come from."

"Thirdly, the game scenes are monotonous. Except for some indoor scenes and processes similar to banquets and celebrations, most of the time, Captain Lude is just rushing from one battlefield to another. The scenes of these battlefields are different, but the feeling the combat brings is the same."

"Finally, the game characters are monotonous. Especially in that crucial celebration banquet scene, Captain Lude looked around and found that there was not a single familiar face in the rebel army. The teammates who fought side by side had already died, and the only ones who looked somewhat familiar were the heads of the various consortia, and these heads were only somewhat familiar; he couldn't even name them."

"Do you feel frustrated? That's right, because this is Captain Lude's true feeling."

"When players experience the entire game for the first time, they will be attracted by the intense large-scale scenes and driven by the goal of completing the game. They can feel every upgrade of the prosthetics and feel their blood boiling for this kind of battle."

"Captain Lude is the same. He always fights desperately to transform himself at all costs, because of the visible goal of overthrowing the Tenda Group, and he can see his progress after each battle."

"But when players and Captain Lude get to the second half of the story, and even see the past and future of the whole story, the situation suddenly becomes wrong."

"The game doesn't explain where these resources and new soldiers come from, but it's actually very simple – they are sent by other consortia. The rebel army's activities have allowed other consortia to see the hope of overthrowing Tenda and replacing it, so more and more consortia are providing support to the rebel army."

"One batch of rebel soldiers dies after another. It doesn't matter, because for the consortia, these soldiers are just consumables. Captain Lude can continue to survive, probably not because he is so brave and good at fighting, but simply because he is a god jointly created by these consortia. He must survive as a spiritual belief to maintain this war against the Tenda Group."

"So Captain Lude has never been the real protagonist of the whole story. All he does is pick up the gun that the consortia stuffed into his hands and constantly launch attacks on the Tenda Group."

"And the player is immersed in Captain Lude's first-person perspective, so naturally they will feel the same emotions as Captain Lude."

"And in the second and third playthroughs, this emotion of the players will become more and more intense, and they will think about the meaning of the whole action? And this is exactly the effect that the game designers want to achieve."

"The last question, who exactly is the villain in this game? What exactly is the creator opposing in the ideas they express?"

"Some people may think that this is the Tenda Group engaging in self-deprecating humor."

"Others think that the Tenda Group is just putting on a show."

"But I want to say that these views are too superficial. If defeating a certain big company is all it takes to touch the core of the world, then this task is too simple to complete."

"The Tenda Group is not engaging in self-deprecating humor, nor is it criticizing others. In fact, no specific company is worthy of Tenda using a dedicated game to criticize it."

"What the designers truly hope is to express that intangible will that wanders in the world, that constantly creates the Tenda Group and then jumps to other consortia to reside in them when the Tenda Group is exhausted."

"The company boss who inherited the data and intelligent system of the Tenda Group may think that he will become the master of the whole world, but in fact, the game has already shown that he is not the master, but just a puppet."

"This boss and the empty revolving chair in the final scene are not essentially different."

"So I think this game is more of a self-reflection than self-deprecation. Rather than attacking a specific company, it is sounding the alarm for all companies."

"I know that the story of *You Choose the Future* also has a film version and has already won awards."

"If I wanted to be cautious, I should watch the film and then combine the content of the film for in-depth analysis. Comparing the two may reveal more details."

"But those who are truly capable do not need to seek stability."

"I am very sure that the core and viewpoints expressed in the game will inevitably apply to the film as well."

"Of course, because the form of expression is different in the film, there may be more ways to interpret it. But no matter what, they will inevitably reach the same conclusion by different paths."

"Everyone can regard this video of mine as a prediction. How accurate is this prediction? We'll see after the film is released!"

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After watching Qiao Laoshi's game analysis video, Lu Xiaoping leaned back in his chair, his mind blank.

He never expected that Qiao Laoshi would actually predict his prediction!

Although Qiao Laoshi's video was independently created, it very skillfully solved the two biggest external criticisms of the game while answering the game's connotations.

Why is the gameplay of the game relatively monotonous? Like *Repent and be Saved*, it is to break the fourth wall.

Is Tenda engaging in self-deprecating humor or praising itself in a roundabout way? Neither. Tenda is just using its own company as an avatar. What it wants to criticize is not a specific company or entity, but a virtual will.

Compared to those accusations that stay on the surface, Qiao Laoshi's video analysis can be said to be insightful and hits the soul directly.

When these cores are laid out, no one will care about those accusations that stay on the surface anymore. This is equivalent to a dimensionality reduction strike.

All the efforts that the Anti-Tenda Alliance had painstakingly made to hype up public opinion naturally came to nothing.

Lu Xiaoping stood up and paced quickly around the hotel room.

He could not admit defeat at this time. Even if he was just being unreasonable, he had to muddy the waters.

Because the film was going to be released this weekend. If he didn't do something to confuse the public, the popularity of Qiao Laoshi's video would inevitably continue to ferment, thus creating an excellent publicity effect for the film *You Choose the Future*.

This would inevitably be a bad start for the film *My Property*.

Lu Xiaoping considered it for a long time and finally made up his mind.

It should be impossible to find a higher concept or find loopholes in Qiao Laoshi's video. Because what Qiao Laoshi said was indeed reasonable and well-founded, and the content of the entire video was very solid.

But this did not mean that Lu Xiaoping had no room for maneuver. In order to protect his own film, he still had two final moves.

One move was over-interpretation, and the other move was to forcibly latch onto the popularity.

On the one hand, while being unable to completely refute Qiao Laoshi's video, he would turn to defense and emphasize that Qiao Laoshi was over-interpreting the content of the game and making excessive extensions. Although this would not be enough to reverse public opinion, it could at least prolong the dispute between the two sides for a certain period of time.

After all, metaphor is a double-edged sword. While stimulating the imagination of players or viewers, it can also cause some over-interpretation. And some normal meanings are also understood as over-interpretation, which to a certain extent will constitute a deconstruction of the technique of metaphor.

On the other hand, he would let the film *My Property* stick to it and compete with the film *You Choose the Future*. And express that the film *My Property* has a higher and more profound concept.

This approach could create a tense atmosphere before the film's release. The higher the popularity of the film *You Choose the Future*, the higher the popularity of *My Property* would be. Although the two sides would fight to the death, fans of one side would always go out of curiosity to see the performance of the other side.

And all of this was based on Lu Xiaoping's absolute trust in the quality of *My Property*.

Lu Xiaoping immediately called Nie Yunsheng and then directed his men to handle it urgently.

After round after round of confrontation, the two sides finally entered the final decisive moment.

Success or failure depends on this one move!

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Saturday, September 21st, zero o'clock in the morning.

Pei Qian sat in the cinema, in a relatively corner position, waiting for the film to begin.

The midnight show is generally the most important show for a film, because those who come to the midnight show are basically hardcore viewers, and the word-of-mouth of the midnight show will directly affect the word-of-mouth and evaluation of the film in the entire schedule.

It's just that the film Pei Qian was watching was not *You Choose the Future*, but *My Property*, which Fanqi Media had been promoting with all kinds of publicity resources at all costs.

For Pei Qian, since the film *You Choose the Future* had already won the Golden Lion Award, it was unlikely that it would be filmed very poorly.

The key to this success or failure was whether *My Property* could surpass *You Choose the Future* in some aspects.

The public opinion war between the two sides had been very intense these past two days, and the back-and-forth had pushed the popularity of both films very high.

The Anti-Tenda Alliance had been constantly attacking the *You Choose the Future* game and film, but most of these attacks had been resolved by Qiao Liang.

But even so, the Anti-Tenda Alliance had not given up. Obviously, they were treating this film as the last line of defense.

Judging from the various situations on the internet, the film *My Property* seemed to have a good chance.

Although it did not have the blessing of too many big-name actors and well-known directors, the script of this film was very good. The entire team participating in the production was also very careful, and it was very likely to become the biggest dark horse in the near future.

Pei Qian was full of expectations for this.

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