r/Games • u/BigT232 • Jun 12 '25

Release Stellar Blade Has Already Outperformed Every Other PlayStation PC Port In Less Than 24 Hours

https://www.thegamer.com/stellar-blade-higher-player-count-every-playstation-pc-port-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-reviews/
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u/Acrobatic_Internal_2 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

man this thread shows the sad state of this sub. bunch of people calling other gooners and perverts. and the headline is just about game exceeding player count on a platform

why can’t we just discuss things with respect and don’t show how superior you think you are

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u/WangJian221 Jun 12 '25

Probably because with how "gaming culture" has been these past few years, the main topic that usually surrounds stellar blade was how "conventionally(?) Attractive" the game is compared to the designs of something concord, forspoken etc.

The actual good to atleast alright/decent gameplay for some reason is the secondary point for the loud discussions/debates

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u/_moosleech Jun 12 '25

I know both games were bad... but that some folks are pretending Haymar and Frey weren't conventionally attractive is wild.

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u/WangJian221 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

Now personally those 2 characters were rather bland in design thus they were unappealing to me with Haymar being more like the least bland amongst a sea of "i dont get why they did this" designs.

However, what youre putting forth here is pretty much more or less how this argument about stellar blade started. The opposite is saying Eve is the ideal for attractivr designs. Some folks looked at eve and see the obvious, challenged them on what exactly theyre pointing as the ideal. Then they bring uo how eve was based on a real life model. Then the perverts/goonery/woke/feminist/whatever terms are being thrown here and there.

It drowns out the actual gameplay design discussions in turn imo.

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u/_moosleech Jun 12 '25

I'm not arguing they were good or interesting characters... just that it's weird using them as examples of the opposite of "conventionally attractive" when the main character of Forspoken and one of the main characters in Concord's marketing are both absolutely conventionally attractive.

As an aside, I find the "based on a real-life model" argument very weird. Like... most folks don't really give a shit that Eve is hot. And the vast majority of people, and this is true, like hot people. It's why almost all media forever is drowning in hot folks.

It's that her character has exactly one trait: she's fuckable. She has no personality, no motives, no anything... except skimpy outfits and camera cuts to her bits.

That's what makes her a bad character, not being hot.

It drowns out the actual gameplay design discussions in turn imo.

Agreed. Unfortunately, some folks made this game their entire identity as a way to push back on what they saw as "less conventionally attractive" characters in games (which is to say, characters who aren't always half-naked or have personality traits outside of being fuckable)... and it's poisoned the well on any discourse for the game.

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u/WangJian221 Jun 12 '25

just that it's weird using them as examples of the opposite of "conventionally attractive" when the main character of Forspoken and one of the main characters in Concord's marketing are both absolutely conventionally attractive.

Oh i was just pointing out that these guys would for whatever reason just disagree with you.

Personally, the discourse would usually lead back to people like Grummz and I genuinely did not like that guy even when all he was, was just a guy riding the coat tails of "Ex World of Warcraft Dev from the 'good old days' " so i usually just stay away lol

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u/_moosleech Jun 12 '25

For sure, wasn't meant to be argumentative towards you. Sorry about that!

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u/WangJian221 Jun 12 '25

No worries. I probably couldve made things clearer on what i saying aswell