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Hello Everyone! This is Serious Trivia and I am finally back! More importantly, a new Total War: Three Kingdoms Let's Play featuring the 190 Expanded Mod will be dropping on September 20th at 9 AM EST!

The specific faction will remain a mystery for now, but feel free to leave your best guesses or suggestions in the comments below, and for those who might be interested in the mod, here is the Steam workshop link for the mod collection that I will be using for this upcoming Let's Play: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=301…

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Hello Everyone!

Game Science released a short teaser trailer for their upcoming game Black Myth: Zhong Kui at gamescon today. I have no intentions to make any videos to cover this teaser because it is simply too short. For those who are unfamiliar with Zhong Kui (pretty much everyone outside of China), he is a fictional Taoist exorcist that first appeared in writing during the Tang Dynasty (7th century). Tang Emperor Xuanzong was particular fond of Zhong Kui's stories as he would often gift drawings of Zhong Kui to key officials during New Years with the intentions that Zhong Kui's paintings would protect these key officials from evil spirits and ghosts. With this imperial stamp of approval, the practice of worshipping Zhong Kui as a protector from evil spirit quickly spread amongst the commoners. Folktales of Zhong Hui capturing varies ghosts and evil spirits also sprung up as he quickly cemented himself as a minor Taoist deity.

For gameplay, I think Zhong Kui will be a huge departure from Wukong with completely different gameplay systems. Narrative wise, I think Game Science really wanted the freedom to craft whatever story they wish as Zhong Hui does not have a traditional storyline attached to him as Wukong does with Journey to the West.

From a few of Weibo posts (Chinese Twitter) by the leads at Game Science, it seems like they decided sometimes earlier this year to abandon their current Black Myth: Wukong DLC plans to instead tackle this new project instead. I think internally, they became a bit too stressed about matching the expectations on the quality and timing of the DLC and decided it would be better for their creative minds to just create a new game with less limitations and expectations.

So the big takeaways from all this is:
1. Game Science is now working on a new game called Black Myth: Zhong Kui and since they just pivoted to this new project earlier this year, I think the release will be 2027 or later.
2. They were not completely happy with their progress on the Wukong DLC and have now scrapped that project to tackle it afresh at a later time. I personally don't think they will work on it until Zhong Kui is finished so who knows when and if they will make a Wukong DLC or perhaps just make a Wukong 2 at that point.

1 month ago | [YT] | 82

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Channel Update (All Time in EST)

I have recovered (for the most part), and here is the upload schedule for the upcoming week!

Starting 07/06 (Today) at 9:00 AM Daily
Total War: Three Kingdoms 190 Expanded Mod Han Sui Let's Play

Starting 07/07 (Tomorrow) at 9:00 PM Mon-Fri
Civilization VII Isabella Huge Pangaea Domination Campaign

Starting 07/12 (Sat) at 9:00 PM Sat-Fri
Let's Talk Lore: The Five Elites of Wei (Zhang Liao Episode 5-6)

2 months ago | [YT] | 152

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For those who missed the Subscribers Game Tournament and want to try your hands at playing multiplayer, I will be hosting my first live streaming session tomorrow and taking on all challengers! Past tournament participants who want matches against me are also encouraged to come give it a try! If it goes well, we might just have more streams in the future!

Make sure to have the Multiplayer Balance Mod downloaded and installed as your only mod before joining the challenge! Link to Mod: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=300…

2 months ago | [YT] | 27

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July Channel Update!

Hello everyone! This is Serious Trivia and I hope you all are enjoying your summer! There was a lot of fun content centered around Total War: Three Kingdoms in June including 3 short campaigns featuring Mulu, Yuan Shao, and Liu Zhang. Season 4 of the Subscribers Game Tournament also just wrapped up as we crowned a new champion in (no spoilers here). Season 5 will return once we reach the 50K subscribers milestone.

Aside from these channel staples, June also saw the conclusion of the Yigu Three Kingdoms Bannerlord Let's Play and the showcase of a nifty indie card game in Become the Moon. I also started making shorts on the channel and hopefully it will bring some more growth so that we can hit that 50K subscribers milestone faster for those of you who missed out on this recent tournament.

Now, as we kick off July, I do have some bad news as I caught a cold over the weekend. It is nothing serious, but it is making me sound extra nasally in addition to a light cough. So I have not been able to record any content but once I shake the cold, here are some upcoming content that you can look forward to on the channel in July.

Let me know which one you are most looking forward to and if you have other suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comments below!

2 months ago | [YT] | 100

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Upcoming Series Announcement (All Time in EST)

[06/14] Daily 9:00AM - Total War: Three Kingdoms Yuan Shao Campaign
[06/14] Every Other Day 9:00PM & 10:00PM - Subscribers Game Tournament Round 3 and Special Round Matches

[06/18] Daily 3:00PM - Civilization VII Let's Play (Huge Map Pangea Domination on the upcoming patch)

3 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 96

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Last question for the 190 Yuan Shao campaign: How much espionage?

3 months ago | [YT] | 51

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190 Yuan Shao (no mods for a first full playthrough). Yuan Xi, the forgotten middle child, is our heir, and I am free to construct the army to my liking with the captains.

So now . . .

Question 4: Historical officers?

3 months ago | [YT] | 58

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The Forgotten Son no more as Yuan Xi will be our heir for this upcoming campaign!

Question 3: What will our armies look like for this campaign?

3 months ago | [YT] | 48

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The poll has spoken, and the next campaign will be 190 Yuan Shao!

Question 2: Who will be our heir?

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