Thus far, my favorite game released this year, it's actually really good. A lot more polished than some "AAA" games have been from much more experienced developers.
Awesome art/music, even if the general setting is reminiscent of other games. The combat took some getting used to because I was expecting it to be faster but it's picked up once I got some abilities.
Bretty good even though the censorship left a bitter taste in my mouth. Gameplay is genuinely fun.
>it's actually really good. A lot more polished than some "AAA" games
lmao
GOTY deserved. What an amazingly fun video-game.
>GOTY deserved. What an amazingly fun video-game.
lmfao
The tone of this game is fantastic, its really relaxing to me. Fun combat that clicks quick, low death penalties is a plus this time. The choreography in the fights is great, Eve really gets a chance to show off visually.
I really like the world and the people in it, feels way more sincere than some other games I’ve recently played.
Honestly I couldn’t be happier with it, it’s the best game I bought this year, including rebirth. Nice to play and enjoy a brand new action game, I never liked the look of bayonetta dmc or the anime one enough to play those.
They did do a hack job on a couple costumes tho. Could have fixed them better, the bunny one should be totally redone. That’s small stuff tho.
I really can’t find any reason not to give it a ten, even with a couple outfits not looking good. I’m even enjoying the story because its a bit understated.
I like Eve a lot, looks and personality.
>I really can’t find any reason not to give it a ten
LMFAO
I guaranteed play more video games than you do and stellar blade takes a fat shit on dragon's dogshit, it has actual combat for a fricking start and it isn't a scam. you unironically think dogshit 2 isn't irredeemable shit you invalidated your trash opinion even more than your parroting of some troony's opinion like it's worth squat, have a nice day you fricking subhuman.
bro
im not paying $60 for a game that looks like a boring nier automata clone
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You cant play it on your toaster PC anyway.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It plays much better than Automata
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It plays nothing like nier automata. Its more like mgr and sekiro
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3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>looks like nier automata >has companian like nier automata that also functions as gun >heavily reliant on melee combat against weird enemies in a world occupied by robots lead by a weird automaton >boring ass formulaic levels with asset-flip like props >the only that stands out are the MCs character models
when the only thing that your fans are posting are screenshots of the MC you know the games focus isnt the gameplay
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You haven't even played it, so what would you know?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Anon 60% of automata's combat is a fricking bullet hell. This game has no bullet hell. Nier automata also has more emphasis on air combat since it has many massive and flying enemies. SB has almost none making air combos rather pointless.
Therefore it plays nothing like nier automata at all.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
ye and 40% of its combat is melee with a fricking sword or your desired weapon, whats your point? that nier has more diverse gameplay?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Because its like comparing sekiro to dark souls. They are completely different games at all. The droid pods in nier and sb dont even serve the same purpose. In nier the droids are basically a flying turret that you can also use to shoot other bullets during bullet hell sequences or is used to cast spells. In sb, the pod is basically a gun used to break obstacles and allows for semi third person over the shoulder combat but it is highly situational unlike the pods in nier automata that you pretty much have it shooting all the time whenever there's combat.
Again like I said, the game plays more like MGR and Sekiro than Nier. The fact that the game has qtes you use to kill bosses should have tipped you off.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You also kill god in the end so you ahould have compared it to Bayonetta.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
the only thing it seems to have in common with bayonetta are the long legs of the MC
game just seems like an average fotm with attractive girls of which you can only play one (i find tachy way hotter and you cant even play as her)
>A lot more polished than some "AAA" games
With this many trailers and this long of a dev cycle its honorary AAA. Much like, say, cdpr after witcher 3, I fully expect this studios next title to be formally AAA.
Awesome art/music, even if the general setting is reminiscent of other games. The combat took some getting used to because I was expecting it to be faster but it's picked up once I got some abilities.
I'm liking it more than Rebirth. What's good in Rebirth is very good, but it's also immensely bloated and reminds me of DK64 for having "too much content" that it runs out of steam long before it's finished. SB is a lot leaner in a good way, even if the voice acting is much weaker.
She's so fricking annoying. She looks cute but the second she opens up her mouth I can't stand her. I actually wish it was just Adam who radioed over the drone through the entire game.
It's really immersive, the animation wind up for healing items needs to be fixed. The game is at it's best in the mostly linear sections. The open field is a bit of a chore to slog through.
I'm still early in but I'm enjoying the open fields. Every corner of it has something new, different enemy compositions, environmental hazards like turrets, unique puzzles with good rewards.
The tone of this game is fantastic, its really relaxing to me. Fun combat that clicks quick, low death penalties is a plus this time. The choreography in the fights is great, Eve really gets a chance to show off visually.
I really like the world and the people in it, feels way more sincere than some other games I’ve recently played.
Honestly I couldn’t be happier with it, it’s the best game I bought this year, including rebirth. Nice to play and enjoy a brand new action game, I never liked the look of bayonetta dmc or the anime one enough to play those.
They did do a hack job on a couple costumes tho. Could have fixed them better, the bunny one should be totally redone. That’s small stuff tho.
I really can’t find any reason not to give it a ten, even with a couple outfits not looking good. I’m even enjoying the story because its a bit understated.
I like Eve a lot, looks and personality.
gameplay - average
story - slop
audio - solid
graphics - industry standard
coom value - not as high as i hoped
i'll just wait for *art*, not worth 70 bucks and definitely not worth buying a ps5
Great game, gameplay is fun and challenging at times, soundtrack is 10/10. Story is decent so far, not really NieR tier but wasn’t expecting that. VA and dialogue is mediocre with some good parts, I have a feeling it’s probably a lot better in Korean.
Having fun, solid 8/10. Just reached the desert and did some quests, I'am enjoying how exploration is done in this game. Stopped playing when you enter a dungeon[?] that you can only use guns.
One thing i am dissapointed so far is that there weren't any remarkable boss battle, no interesting mechanic on them and they are too easy
>unlock 5 outfits before heading to the wasteland >barely have any resources to craft them
Where the frick do I even get this shit. For a advertised dress up game I've been stuck with the same 3 outfits for hours now.
2 polished single-player games of a decent length from South Korea (the other being Lies of P), only problem is both are derivative soulslikes but considering the pathetic west find it impossible to release a polished, finished product in modern times, I only hope for more Korean studios to do the same and release games for the console/PC market. I personally want to see a horror game from them most of all.
It's just sad they're complete newcomers and effortlessly releasing polished products while a UK developer like Ninja Theory have to justify how it's justifiable Hellblade 2 is sub30fps with ridiculous amounts of upscaling on the so-called "most powerful console".
If nothing else, this does prove Shift Up can do an AAA game and Korea's games industry can produce an AAA console game, which was one of their biggest goals here, to expand past just mobile and MOBA titles.
I have some criticisms of Stellar Blade (outside the coom it's legit a 7/10) but for a studio's first non-mobile shit game it's pretty alright. Still rough but not as bad as I thought it'd be.
>cutscene shows that they got at least two other angels with this trick
Pretty crazy to heavily imply that at least two of your predecessors were raped, murdered, and sold for parts.
>Game sucks according to The Sphere Hunter
first of all, you can easily look up porn of this troon having his butthole gaped by middle aged men.
second of all, said troon said dragon's dogshit 2 is a good game. the only good thing that can come out of that troon is his brain matter flying out of his skull.
I guaranteed play more video games than you do and stellar blade takes a fat shit on dragon's dogshit, it has actual combat for a fricking start and it isn't a scam. you unironically think dogshit 2 isn't irredeemable shit you invalidated your trash opinion even more than your parroting of some troony's opinion like it's worth squat, have a nice day you fricking subhuman.
He said it was an okay game actually. Said the story and characters are absolute garbage (the parts that made Automata GOAT contender) while the gameplay was fine. He said some shit about the enviroments being badly made with a bunch of random stuff put together but I didn't see anything wrong with them in his review so it's up to taste in that regard.
This isn't 1990 homosexual good gameplay ain't enough in this day and age and wasn't 20 years ago either. Nier Automata will forever be in people's minds yet Stellar Mid will be forgotten in 2 months due to it's shit story.
>This isn't 1990 homosexual good gameplay ain't enough in this day and age
I don't frickin have good gameplay in most of the major games released right now. I wish I had good gameplay more often, they seem to have forgotten it while chasing more "narrative" that still never rises above network TV levels.
>That's what I said by reverse Nier. Stellar Blade is reported to have good gameplay but garbage story and characters.
And given the option or only one or the other, I will take the one with good gameplay any day.
>9S going schizo was kino. I barely remember anything else about the game
yeah forgot about that but I was playing with jp voice acting kinda ruined it
If the story of Stellar Mid was even decent it wouldn't be forgotten in 2 months because the music and gameplay may have carried it. But everyone's saying the characters and story are trash. Being flashy alone can only get you so far.
Plenty of games are bought and forgotten. The only award Stellar Blade may get this year is beat action game and considering Elden Ring's DLC is coming I doubt it might even get that.
>The only award Stellar Blade may get this year is beat action game
It will be a contender for Best Soundtrack for sure, even if Rebirth is likely to take the win.
Yeah I forgot beat soundtrack as well but eh, that doesn't really say much about the game in itself. There's plenty of ultra garbage games with amazing soundtrack. Fricking Sonic 06 had good soundtrack.
DMC and Bayonetta also have basic stories, they're carried by their memorable protagonists. You're presenting NieR Automata like it's the standard and not an anomaly for being an action game with an acclaimed story.
>DMC and Bayonetta also have basic stories, they're carried by their memorable protagonists.
Exactly, the protagonists are memorable. Everyone is saying both the characters and story are trash. I'm presenting Automata because the game was marketed as such, as a game taking Automata as reference.
Forspoken has trash characters and story. They actively harm the overall game. Stellar Blade's are "fine", their worst sin is being fairly basic and forgettable, which in a game more focused on the combat/exploration gameplay and the visuals/music combo, is not that big a problem.
I'm about 7ish hours into the game so far and none, I really mean NONE of the characters have made a impression on me. Eve is just a robot. Adam is normal guy. Lily has a annoying voice. Funny enough the one character to stand out gets her arm cut off in the first 10 minutes and is implied to be dead.
The problem is you are just repeating what you heard others say. The plot and characters are serviceable, in my view, I reserve "garbage" for ones that are actively detrimental to the experience. The world itself is good and nails the "beautiful apocalypse" aesthetic.
>The plot and characters are serviceable
Honestly if they weren't able to make the game have a serious story maybe they should have gone towards a more MGR type narrative. Just over the top action and memes.
The actual plots a little weak early on with it just being about going to get some mcguffuins, but it gets interesting enough. Same with the characters overall, but the dialogue can be pretty ass, which is what I'm guessing people are saying the story's bad about
It feels like every first party Sony game I've ever played rolled up into one. >uncanny David Cagecore voice acting and character models >Uncharted climbing >the weird puzzles that started in Uncharted but were bastardized and made science based by Spider-Man >Last of Us looting and scavenging >Spider-Man 2's ADHD combat system complete with the poorly programmed parry and universal dodge button
I know that sounds negative but I actually love this game so far. Call it Stockholm's Syndrome or whatever but I really like this Playstation exclusive style and it's the only thing that can really hold my attention anymore. If I'm not getting gang raped in every single fight, the game might as well not even be on.
In what universe does Nier Automata have bad gameplay and good writing?
The game's basically a music video. It's just a series of cool images. That's why people actually like it. It plays fun, and it looks cool.
whats wrong with playing a decent game and then moving on? who ever thought this was going to be more than a 7/10? why do you need to become obsessed over a game? is a game only worth playing if it has a "fandom"?
Dunno, I'm an oldgay so I don't really give a shit what other people are saying about a game. I think the only time I didn't buy something coz of public opinion was Starfield just cause it looked so bad.
I might've bought this game if it was made in any other country, I just inherently dislike Koreans and their culture after they overran Ganker with ktroony trash, the thought of Ganker getting flooded with that asiatic shit too is terrifying
Not really a fan of how some of the enemies stumble around like they're drunk during some attack animations. It's like they can't actually decide if they want to hit me or not. A fourth swing when I'm expecting three is surprising and a good idea but the extra wind up is extremely unnecessary and hard to read.
This is my issue with the game sometimes. I genuinely can't read when the some enemies are gonna attack, most have the most obvious tell in the world but other times it's WATCHOUT
It's like they are doing everything in their power to stop you from getting into a rhythm. Between this and the 50 different types of unblockable death blows that each have their own button combo to evade, I think it's better to just button mash and pray.
Sadly the most effective way to play is perfect parry/guard, dodge off to the side and do light, light, heavy, heavy or a Beta skill. It just murders everything and deals a weirdly good amount of damage.
If you leave it idle for a while, Eve looks at the camera. I wonder if that gave anyone a start if they turned their attention back to the TV and saw Eve staring at them.
>I wonder if that gave anyone a start if they turned their attention back to the TV and saw Eve staring at them.
If they are like 5 years old and this is their
very first video game, sure
The math puzzles are easy to solve not worth the time so I just look them up anyway. I don't like when the daves do shit just to waste my time and I don't want to give them whatever satisfaction they get out of seeing failed attempts on my saves. Even if it's just a little chuckle, I don't want them to have it or boost their ego. Frick game devs that think they're smarter than the players, they need to be reminded that AI or a monkey can do their job more often. Hopefully that will make them stop wasting precious development time on shitty math puzzles and censorship patches no one asked for.
Holy shit that didn't even take 30 seconds to figure out what I was supposed to do. Have not played it. People will fail this because they refuse to use brain.
>Blurry >Jagged edges
Is the ppl taking these screenshots playing the game on the 60fps mode (w/e the frick is called) or is that how it looks at the best quality mode
I still have Ragnarok sealed until I can play in june, so can't say (I was lucky to get a flash sale on that one)
The good thing about Stellar Blade is that we finally have a dev that prioritises performance over fancy effects and balances nice graphics with 60fps, it's not broken on release, and as a bonus, has very good accessibility settings, including independent subtitle and UI scaling.
Coughing 70€ for an 1.0 disc was me impulse buying for fear it would not be possible to play it like that if I waited, but I have a problem with forced updates and it's been a fricking bad week with Fallout 4 already. Call it the "1.0 tax".
Can anyone tell me what was actually censored? I pre-ordered it but haven't had the chance to play it yet. Is it really just that one costume? Did they censor any of the gore? That was one of my favorite things about the demo, and noone even talked about that.
They covered up cleavage and dropped the waste on a bunny swimsuit thing, they added random cloth to cover up boobs and midriff on another. They also got rid of some blood textures that would get on eve occasionally. There's also a bunch of them that appear to have had more cloth added compared to the icons for the outfits. The other anon is talking about a different dress that's "censored" even on disc. That one probably would have never been considered censored if it weren't for the other changes.
So are there any examples of cleavage or bare legs that are still in the game? I'm just trying to figure out if this cry for censorship is just a meme, knee jerk reaction sort of thing. I paid over 80 bucks for this shit and yes I expected to see skin and gore because I'm an adult and I like those kinda things.
I'm partial to the orca outfit, and there's obviously the bikini that has both cleavage and bare legs.
The censorship is annoying, and there are outfits I'd call more risque, which makes it really weird, but overall it doesn't negatively effect the game aside from the principle of the matter
>WAAAAAH ME WANT MILKY ME WANT MILKY WAH WAH WAH
That's what you sound like and it's not based or cute. You're a grown ass man. Stop jerking to video games and go talk to a female.
If you have a WB Pump that gives you the option to resurrect on the spot, she will fall down and lay there until you chose to do so or not. It's not censorship or a glitch, the creator just said he made deaths fast so people could get back into the action faster.
I've seen them and they're all canned animations. There are slight variations like if you die by getting crushed but they're all so lifeless that she might as well just be standing there like usual. A game as gore heavy as this should have more brutal death animations or at the very least have her body go limp and get dragged around for a few seconds. It's not some huge waste of time, there's a loading screen no matter what so they should have made it fun.
Solid 7/10 so far, feels a little empty and easy, normal enemies aren't that exciting. Maybe it will get better as I play more.
Rise of Ronin was a lot better.
I'm midway through the game, I like it so far but there are some flaws. >Graphics and performance are top-notch >Art direction is awesome especially the environments and monster design >Boss encounters are great... >... But there's too few of them, meanwhile there's too many trash mobs >Traversal is bad, why can't you fast travel in a 2024 game >Progression is as bad as it was in Nier Automata, at one point I had 30+ skill points unused >Storytelling is not great, there are some good ideas but the script and dialogue is so bad at delivering them
the only people that have a PS5 are mega snoys
all these homosexuals writting comments like the one above this one just proves that
the game is extremelly short, bullet sponge enemies, typical korean shovelware
I was so excited for it, I put like 7h into the demo, grinding the boss w/ only the skin suit. Even made this gif
But now that it’s out, I’m a bit underwhelmed. Open world sections in the desert slow down the pacing to a crawl. So do the side quests. I heard at a certain point in the story you cant do them anymore? So i do them all as soon as they show up.
I think I’m playing it wrong. I’m slogging through all the pacing-killing side quests in the open world, I’m reading every data entry, & the game is way too easy. I barely get a chance to enjoy the fights
However, the linear sections are great. Cant wait to replay it when i unlock hard mode and skip all the side fluff. Might even skip upgrading my sword
The maps pretty fricking big, man. I just finished the Dead Space mission in the research lab, started a bunch of quest and stopped for the day. Desert is frickin huge, haven't even gone back to the first area and cleaned up there yet. A lot more game than I was expecting - good soundtrack, lots of good clothing options (wish there was more hair/removable ponytail). Will enjoy thoroughly, but will be avoiding these threads for spoilers
The combat is fine. I'd say in the terms of action games it's worse than Automata, but better than Astral Chain. I think there's some interesting mechanical depth here but not a lot to work with. It's fun to perfect parry, teleport behind a creature and blast him away with a special move. It's nothing special but it gets the job done and is engaging enough.
I'd say it's barely "Soulslike" other than how Eve moves during combat and enemies deal a decent amount of damage.
You need 4 hands to play this game. It's not forgiving like any souls game. The enemies will frick you to death in every single encounter and there's no cheap auto win build or mimics to help you.
Closest comparison you can make is that it's Sekiro but with a lot more offensive abilities.
The combat is fine. I'd say in the terms of action games it's worse than Automata, but better than Astral Chain. I think there's some interesting mechanical depth here but not a lot to work with. It's fun to perfect parry, teleport behind a creature and blast him away with a special move. It's nothing special but it gets the job done and is engaging enough.
I'd say it's barely "Soulslike" other than how Eve moves during combat and enemies deal a decent amount of damage.
>I'd say in the terms of action games it's worse than Automata
I literally can't imagine what would make anyone think this.
>the boob jiggle physics >those fat knockers >that big bubble butt
frick bros..
also I'm just doing all the side quests in Xion instead of progressing, and frankly having more fun doing that than most of the main story stuff
We're 4 years in and already talking about the PS6 coming soon. If you still don't have a 5, you are just poor and there's no shame in that. Just don't be so arrogant that you think devs should wastes their time on you and drag the game down for everyone else. There are thousands of games to play on PS4, one of those being Nier Automata which is very similar to this. Play that instead.
>4 years in PS5 cycle >4 exclusives so far
Or, you know, people dont buy a dead on arrive console
[...] >Unreal Engine 5
Explains why it looks so green/brown'ish
I like how you changed the subject from you being a poorgay to the supposed poor quality of the console. Tell more about how shitty the system you don't have is.
Sorry what? I just think the PS5 is an absolute failure of a console and it's a symptom of how shit the industry is.
Stellar Blade is a great game by all means.
PS5 is trash. Has a few good games though. Rebirth was fun.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I really dont care much for FF outside of the classics (and by that I mean everything from 4 to 10) but honestly I think it's sad that my PS5 is going to one of the consoles with the least amount of games on it. And that is partially because nobody is willing to give us good games.
Sometimes there are exceptions, like Stellar Blade of course; but I haven't bought much else for the system aside from Armored Core 6, Octopath II, and Ghostwire but I haven't even bothered to play those games.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
PS5 runs every game better than a PC.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I consider it a miracle if I can get a new release to run at all on PC day one. Console day one experiences can be shitty too but I can't think of one in recent memory as bad as the average PC release.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Rebirth was fun
Proud PS5 owner here, Rebirth wasn't good, but at least it was better than the abominable 16.
I’m about 16 hours in and it’s honestly everything I could’ve wanted. Between the customization for Eve, the blend of character action and soulslike elements, the music, the visuals, and the likable characters, it’s a great game. It’ll probably be my GOTY for 2024 unless Metaphor ends up being the absolute peak.
yeah, it doesnt look good. you can't tell a game isn't good just by looking at it? I do it all the time. Doesn't look good, I don't play it, simple as.
That's because many action games look bad in the hands of a bad player. Same with fighting games. Right now stellar blade is majorly being played by normies and coomers who arent very good with action vames so the vast majority of youtube videos plays like shit. Compare it however with someone who has good reflexes and knows what he's doing like ongbal and a game shines better.
This is not to say stellar blade's combat competes with the greats as it is faulty and the dev'a first attempt in video games, but most people aren't showcasing its best and just playing very badly. Although I think this is the input lag fricking them over.
Oh I dont think the game is hard. I am saying that the vast majority plays in a way that makes the combat look bad. This includes spamming parry very often that breaks the flow of combat. Using the same move over and over. Not making use of other mobility options so that character neutrals back to the slow awkward gait. It's like playing dmc3 and doing nothing but spamming stinger + million stab. I have seen people use tachy mode and doing nothing but the spiraling charge move over and over.
The game could definitely use a lot more polishing in this regard, to make animations in between transistion smoothly and more fluidly. The biggest crime is how slow Eve moves when not doing anything. It comes off like playing dark siders 3 or other soulslikes.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
OK and? I'm going to spam parry because the game rewards you for doing so.
Thats how video games work, you want to find a way to beat a game in the most efficient matter possible.
My favorite part so far is seeing Eve learn how to double jump. Not only is it gratifying for the player to get a basic ability like that after waiting so long but she looks like she's having a lot of fun doing it too!
>have a decent job >buy all the systems you want >play games on them
its almost like the world is super simple, some here ARE poorgays/underage but dont even pretend that you dont haave a ps5 ''out of principle'' frick off
Automata wannabe with NONE of it's soul, intelligence, charm and philosophy.
Another boring "souls" game with zero skill requirement.
Back to the DMC6 waiting room.
The MC score is right. It's an 8/10 game, but it's a pretty strong 8/10 game. Really the only thing weighing it down is the really shitty dialogue and the fact that Eve's personality is pretty flat. I tried to look up who wrote the game, and it doesn't look like it had an actual writer or a team of writers. So that makes sense.
Combat is great, soundtrack is some of the best video game music I've heard in I don't know how long, the women are hot as frick, the visuals and performance are really good, and the length is just right. I got the True Ending I hope we get a sequel.
It also doesn't overstay its welcome by about 12 hours. Well as far as I know it doesn't, I haven't finished SB yet. But I'm willing to bet it doesn't.
The amount of undue praise that fricking Automata game gets while being one of the most brain dead garbage "action rpg" gamed ever made is frankly infuriating. And that's ONE flaw of the game.
The story of Automata is unique, but it isn't good. It's frustrating and riddled w8th boring characters, 2B being the worst offender. A complete boring archetype that youd be sick off if you d watched 6 anime in your life. "No you see, the story is great because you shoot the credits for 10 minutes". Frick you. The word pretentious is reserved for this existentialism wannabe bullshit. Nier story fricking sucks balls and the gameplay is worse than the most brain dead western AAA slop money can buy.
what censorship does this game actually have besides 2 outfits that look like aliexpress garbo (before and after) meant to be swapped immediately on getting a sexier outfit?
Saw some streamer play this. I have Nioh 2 and Code Vein in my library and I found those very fun. Does this game offer more or should just replay Nioh 2 or Code Vein?
???
Her voice is one of the few that works for me, the Brit accent suits the plucky engineer sidekick. It's Adam's voice that baffles me, it sounds like a scratch track they used by accident.
I can’t tell if Adam’s English VA just couldn’t give a good performance and all the takes they used were they best they could get out of him or if it was an issue with the voice director not directing his lines the way they should’ve been. Considering the entire English cast are basically no names with most of these characters being their first major roles I wouldn’t be shocked if they got a rookie voice director as well.
This happens every single time there is a scene in game where a character gets knocked out and wakes up somewhere else. It happens with male characters too. Red Dead Redemption 2, Last of Us, GTA 5, etc.
Some of those examples were true but that's not the point. The point is that the internet lacks media literacy and has an obsession with rape and cuckolding. Some random schmuck will ALWAYS come out of the woodwork and make a claim like this without any kind of provocation. And as we all know, a broken clock will be right twice day.
It was honesty such a nothing scene I was expecting something more graphic. But we already knew that most of the airborne squad were helpless jobbers considering the whole 7th squad gets fricked besides Eve in the first few minutes.
>human isn't actually human >monster isn't actually monster >big bad is skynet
Oh so this is a straight ripped off of nier tomato but with worser and awkard storyline
What do you mean by poobar? And am i wrong about the story is mostly lift off from Tomato, dah android on da moon take back the earth from alien (not alien) invader? or lel mother is the mastermind and true evilm
The b***h in OP pic is probably the most annoying, obnoxious character in this game, Second is Adam fricking seamonkey, Tachy has like 5m of screen times oh dying her boss fight is pretty disappointed too since she is slow as frick and just stand still after a few attacks. Eve is typical goodie yes man MC with no personality other than lel cans
I got to the Playstation buttons puzzle in the middle of the surprise Resident Evil pastiche and I could just tell that they filled it with their soul and passion. The timing for parries/dodges still feels awkward and completely arbitrary on an enemy-by-enemy basis, and completely unlike what my reflexes have been trained for on pretty much any other action game, but when you're feeling an encounter, you REALLY feel like you're on god mode. All of the side content has been pretty decent too, it feels like they always try to find some way to make things novel or varied for most of the sidequests and random things you encounter out in the wasteland, so it was quite a bit better than the MMO filler content I expected them to be. I don't want to judge the plot yet since I'm still only in Matrix 11, but the back and forth of doubt in Mother Sphere, or the people left behind just being petty and delusional has potential and kept me strung along so far. Eve purdy, customization options are even more purdy. Square Enix is so moronic in not releasing a third Nier by now that I'm very satisfied in seeing Stellar Blade as our spiritual Nier 3 until SE gets off their asses to make it. Somewhere between an 8 to 9 out of 10 so far, depending on how the story turns out. Most soothingly depressing game of 2024.
It's disappointing, the bosses are the only part of the game i genuinely enjoy but it takes hours to get to one. The wasteland fricking sucks, i much prefer the linear levels. The sidequests are annoying. The dialogue is horrible, literally every character is moronic, but at least that makes the game kind of funny. Overall i can't wait to finish the game so i can go back to playing helldivers.
probably so you can make less of them and likely won't be followed by censorship crusaders like me, I planned on shitting up this thread until I saw peaceful discussion
Pretty good, it feels like there are a ton of missables. Game has a lot of secrets. My hope is you can eventually go back to old areas and loot everything it's kind of metroidvania in a way.
Only read this post if you finished the game. It’s a tragedy shift up didnt make Tachy and Raven playable characters, or even add challenge levels to conveniently jump into fighting bosses, or blade surfing courses.
So far I'm stuck on two things in the desert. The part in the upper northwest where you have to turn on the two cannons then run to the lowered platform before it all shuts down. The other is the shooting gallery mini-game. I just can't manage these.
Thus far, my favorite game released this year, it's actually really good. A lot more polished than some "AAA" games have been from much more experienced developers.
Agreed
>it's actually really good. A lot more polished than some "AAA" games
lmao
>GOTY deserved. What an amazingly fun video-game.
lmfao
>I really can’t find any reason not to give it a ten
LMFAO
>it isn't a scam
lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooo
irrelevant post posted by an irrelevant virgin poster
Well, % says is better be a virgin than a tr00n like (you).
You never left your house or even smelled a woman who wasn't related to you, Alabama boy.
What's your rebuttal then
those do read like shills tbf
ive watched some streams and it does look absolutely boring to play except for ogling at her
>watched
>looks
bro
im not paying $60 for a game that looks like a boring nier automata clone
You cant play it on your toaster PC anyway.
It plays much better than Automata
It plays nothing like nier automata. Its more like mgr and sekiro
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>looks like nier automata
>has companian like nier automata that also functions as gun
>heavily reliant on melee combat against weird enemies in a world occupied by robots lead by a weird automaton
>boring ass formulaic levels with asset-flip like props
>the only that stands out are the MCs character models
when the only thing that your fans are posting are screenshots of the MC you know the games focus isnt the gameplay
You haven't even played it, so what would you know?
Anon 60% of automata's combat is a fricking bullet hell. This game has no bullet hell. Nier automata also has more emphasis on air combat since it has many massive and flying enemies. SB has almost none making air combos rather pointless.
Therefore it plays nothing like nier automata at all.
ye and 40% of its combat is melee with a fricking sword or your desired weapon, whats your point? that nier has more diverse gameplay?
Because its like comparing sekiro to dark souls. They are completely different games at all. The droid pods in nier and sb dont even serve the same purpose. In nier the droids are basically a flying turret that you can also use to shoot other bullets during bullet hell sequences or is used to cast spells. In sb, the pod is basically a gun used to break obstacles and allows for semi third person over the shoulder combat but it is highly situational unlike the pods in nier automata that you pretty much have it shooting all the time whenever there's combat.
Again like I said, the game plays more like MGR and Sekiro than Nier. The fact that the game has qtes you use to kill bosses should have tipped you off.
You also kill god in the end so you ahould have compared it to Bayonetta.
the only thing it seems to have in common with bayonetta are the long legs of the MC
game just seems like an average fotm with attractive girls of which you can only play one (i find tachy way hotter and you cant even play as her)
>boring nier automata clone
Redundant statement.
>A lot more polished than some "AAA" games
With this many trailers and this long of a dev cycle its honorary AAA. Much like, say, cdpr after witcher 3, I fully expect this studios next title to be formally AAA.
Bretty good even though the censorship left a bitter taste in my mouth. Gameplay is genuinely fun.
I don't buy censored Sonyfornia slop.
Awesome art/music, even if the general setting is reminiscent of other games. The combat took some getting used to because I was expecting it to be faster but it's picked up once I got some abilities.
GOTY deserved. What an amazingly fun video-game.
Ganker said same shit for rise of the goyim
Lmao this place is a contrarian shithole
I'm liking it more than Rebirth. What's good in Rebirth is very good, but it's also immensely bloated and reminds me of DK64 for having "too much content" that it runs out of steam long before it's finished. SB is a lot leaner in a good way, even if the voice acting is much weaker.
She's so fricking annoying. She looks cute but the second she opens up her mouth I can't stand her. I actually wish it was just Adam who radioed over the drone through the entire game.
It's really immersive, the animation wind up for healing items needs to be fixed. The game is at it's best in the mostly linear sections. The open field is a bit of a chore to slog through.
I'm still early in but I'm enjoying the open fields. Every corner of it has something new, different enemy compositions, environmental hazards like turrets, unique puzzles with good rewards.
is this your first videogame
In most modern games there would be no thought put into any of it.
A lot of little touches that feel good and passionate, even if the game has a little jank overall.
>mah cans, my precious antique cans!
the writing is the blandest shit ever
What has that got to do with what I said?
gotta collect them all
i wish she had more poses but still cute
I wish I could find a screenshot with the Weissbier
Blonde Eve looks repulsive
Black or red are the only colors that fit her head
>Black or red are the only colors that fit her head
Wrong.
EVE will frick anyone, including you, for an empty can to add to her collection.
Not touching it till they remove the censorship.
Derivative B-tier PS2 game that would be lost in a typical 6th gen release month
Are we in the 6th gen anon?
PS2 era game with modern production values sounds like my kind of game.
Lily a cute, that is all.
dont carea bout censorship, just waiting for pc release so i can pirate it and download mods
I really, really like it. feels like an old school 2000's kind of game
crack?
The tone of this game is fantastic, its really relaxing to me. Fun combat that clicks quick, low death penalties is a plus this time. The choreography in the fights is great, Eve really gets a chance to show off visually.
I really like the world and the people in it, feels way more sincere than some other games I’ve recently played.
Honestly I couldn’t be happier with it, it’s the best game I bought this year, including rebirth. Nice to play and enjoy a brand new action game, I never liked the look of bayonetta dmc or the anime one enough to play those.
They did do a hack job on a couple costumes tho. Could have fixed them better, the bunny one should be totally redone. That’s small stuff tho.
I really can’t find any reason not to give it a ten, even with a couple outfits not looking good. I’m even enjoying the story because its a bit understated.
I like Eve a lot, looks and personality.
>Eve really gets the chance to show off visually
You coomers are so fricking funny in ways that I think are probably beyond your understanding
All good except for the censorship.
wait, why do my pants have to be down?
She wants to put a ring on you.
New kingdom hearts?
Excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUhIJVTN83DEJU25yloSYYP9t2R8JDOVQ
Good game, terrible story.
The girls look cute i n this game other than main chick
gameplay - average
story - slop
audio - solid
graphics - industry standard
coom value - not as high as i hoped
i'll just wait for *art*, not worth 70 bucks and definitely not worth buying a ps5
Great game, gameplay is fun and challenging at times, soundtrack is 10/10. Story is decent so far, not really NieR tier but wasn’t expecting that. VA and dialogue is mediocre with some good parts, I have a feeling it’s probably a lot better in Korean.
Having fun, solid 8/10. Just reached the desert and did some quests, I'am enjoying how exploration is done in this game. Stopped playing when you enter a dungeon[?] that you can only use guns.
One thing i am dissapointed so far is that there weren't any remarkable boss battle, no interesting mechanic on them and they are too easy
troony game with a long-running marketing campaign orchestrated by discordgays posting the same images and "forced memes"
What *isn't* a troony game to you people?
>trannies think the character designs are problematic
>it-it's a trannie game
you are a walking punchline
It's a firm 8/10. And that's on a real 1-10 scale, not the fake 7-10 scale many video game reviews use, which makes it really good.
https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/image/Cwbn6C3gvC7pAAhd5sTVkw/
Pitiful attempt
>unlock 5 outfits before heading to the wasteland
>barely have any resources to craft them
Where the frick do I even get this shit. For a advertised dress up game I've been stuck with the same 3 outfits for hours now.
Sister Junk store in Xion
You can buy them from the purple haired girl in Xion.
Gave Eve sunglasses. I think it works.
2 polished single-player games of a decent length from South Korea (the other being Lies of P), only problem is both are derivative soulslikes but considering the pathetic west find it impossible to release a polished, finished product in modern times, I only hope for more Korean studios to do the same and release games for the console/PC market. I personally want to see a horror game from them most of all.
It's just sad they're complete newcomers and effortlessly releasing polished products while a UK developer like Ninja Theory have to justify how it's justifiable Hellblade 2 is sub30fps with ridiculous amounts of upscaling on the so-called "most powerful console".
Justify how it's perfectly reasonable Hellblade 2 is sub30fps I mean.
>polished
Platforming in Stellar Blade is terrible because it isn't polished at fricking all.
If nothing else, this does prove Shift Up can do an AAA game and Korea's games industry can produce an AAA console game, which was one of their biggest goals here, to expand past just mobile and MOBA titles.
I have some criticisms of Stellar Blade (outside the coom it's legit a 7/10) but for a studio's first non-mobile shit game it's pretty alright. Still rough but not as bad as I thought it'd be.
It's not original but it's really good.
lily
Her eyes are incredibly soulful in the game, they carry the middle of the road facial animations.
hell yeah motherfricker
dicky bunny
>tomboy has breasts and wide hips
This is the one.
The only tomboy I knew had large breasts.
She looks way too young. Yuck.
ywnbaw
She's so gorgeous, holy shit
did they absolutely HAVE to make lily so fricking cute and sexy?
eves butt looks great in these jeans
You have a 4MB limit on webms anon, kick up the bitrate
anons weren't kidding about the grape scene
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that seemed like a doujin scenario. I wouldn’t be surprised if they framed it that way on purpose.
>cutscene shows that they got at least two other angels with this trick
Pretty crazy to heavily imply that at least two of your predecessors were raped, murdered, and sold for parts.
I cancelled the pre order
Not buying censored trash
Kill trannies and kill pro censorship homosexuals
I wouldn't know, I refuse to financially support censored wokeshit.
ok.
*bashes your head in with a crowbar*
Game sucks according to The Sphere Hunter it's basically reverse Nier Automata. Good gameplay garbage characters and plot.
I don't know what that is. Why are you saying "according to" instead of playing the video game yourself and forming your own conclusion?
>implying I'm gonna get a PS5 for a mis as frick game
If it was Nier Automata tier like Yoko Taro implied it was gonna be, it would be worth a try.
>Game sucks according to The Sphere Hunter
first of all, you can easily look up porn of this troon having his butthole gaped by middle aged men.
second of all, said troon said dragon's dogshit 2 is a good game. the only good thing that can come out of that troon is his brain matter flying out of his skull.
i actually play video games and theres no way you can say stellar blade is better than dragons dogma
I guaranteed play more video games than you do and stellar blade takes a fat shit on dragon's dogshit, it has actual combat for a fricking start and it isn't a scam. you unironically think dogshit 2 isn't irredeemable shit you invalidated your trash opinion even more than your parroting of some troony's opinion like it's worth squat, have a nice day you fricking subhuman.
oh you're a butthurt DD1 worshipper. talk about invalidated..
At least Stellar blade runs above 12fps. Makes it infinitely better than DD
What's the performance of that game on PS5 anyway?
He said it was an okay game actually. Said the story and characters are absolute garbage (the parts that made Automata GOAT contender) while the gameplay was fine. He said some shit about the enviroments being badly made with a bunch of random stuff put together but I didn't see anything wrong with them in his review so it's up to taste in that regard.
>reverse Nier Automata. Good gameplay
why would I want to play a game with garbage gameplay? it's a video game
This isn't 1990 homosexual good gameplay ain't enough in this day and age and wasn't 20 years ago either. Nier Automata will forever be in people's minds yet Stellar Mid will be forgotten in 2 months due to it's shit story.
>This isn't 1990 homosexual good gameplay ain't enough in this day and age
I don't frickin have good gameplay in most of the major games released right now. I wish I had good gameplay more often, they seem to have forgotten it while chasing more "narrative" that still never rises above network TV levels.
>I don't frickin have good gameplay in most of the major games released right now
DMC V came out like 5 years ago and Lies of P was just last year.
That's what I said by reverse Nier. Stellar Blade is reported to have good gameplay but garbage story and characters.
>DMC V came out like 5 years ago
Was this supposed to help your point? A good game came out five years ago?
>That's what I said by reverse Nier. Stellar Blade is reported to have good gameplay but garbage story and characters.
And given the option or only one or the other, I will take the one with good gameplay any day.
yes its the story that really draws people into automata
Automata has incredibly mediocre gameplay, just like the previous NieR games. It's carried hard by its good story.
Oh, you're just a whiny Nier fanboy, got it.
niers story is shit too
>Good gameplay garbage characters and plot.
That's literally Nier Automata.
>Noooo! Nier Automata was really well written!
Why?
>Nier Automata
>Good gameplay
LOL. It's mediocre at best. The story is the only thing that made it relevant.
The story was fricking dumb.
>That's literally Nier Automata.
Nier gameplay was garbage the OST and 2B are the only great thing about that game
The ending was kinda cool. 9S going schizo was kino. I barely remember anything else about the game
>9S going schizo was kino. I barely remember anything else about the game
yeah forgot about that but I was playing with jp voice acting kinda ruined it
>listening to the opinions of a pedo troony
NPCism is an illness.
I'd get it if it were on switch. I'm not buying a PS5 or whatever number they are on
My friend keeps posting videos of it on discord. He only ever plays DMC and Souls so I guess it's good.
troony pajeet marketer thread
Tachy's tachies...
can you play as her?
>a robot NPC in the game is named "D1G-g2r"
>Eve says "D1G-g2r, you can't be serious" in her British accent to it at one point
They knew right?
Nier is shit btw. It just has good music and a decent story.
If the story of Stellar Mid was even decent it wouldn't be forgotten in 2 months because the music and gameplay may have carried it. But everyone's saying the characters and story are trash. Being flashy alone can only get you so far.
I'm buying it for boobs and Sekiro combat. Could not give a shit about the story.
Plenty of games are bought and forgotten. The only award Stellar Blade may get this year is beat action game and considering Elden Ring's DLC is coming I doubt it might even get that.
>The only award Stellar Blade may get this year is beat action game
It will be a contender for Best Soundtrack for sure, even if Rebirth is likely to take the win.
Yeah I forgot beat soundtrack as well but eh, that doesn't really say much about the game in itself. There's plenty of ultra garbage games with amazing soundtrack. Fricking Sonic 06 had good soundtrack.
>everyone's saying
I wouldn't know what "everyone" is "saying", as I've been a little busy playing the video game.
DMC and Bayonetta also have basic stories, they're carried by their memorable protagonists. You're presenting NieR Automata like it's the standard and not an anomaly for being an action game with an acclaimed story.
>DMC and Bayonetta also have basic stories, they're carried by their memorable protagonists.
Exactly, the protagonists are memorable. Everyone is saying both the characters and story are trash. I'm presenting Automata because the game was marketed as such, as a game taking Automata as reference.
Forspoken has trash characters and story. They actively harm the overall game. Stellar Blade's are "fine", their worst sin is being fairly basic and forgettable, which in a game more focused on the combat/exploration gameplay and the visuals/music combo, is not that big a problem.
i really dont see much difference in 2B and Eve as far as personality goes. i guess 9S is slightly more interesting
Clothes maketh man.
Eve would be more interesting if she have a better supporting cast.
2B sucked but A2 was really fun.
Well there's where you're confused, because Nier is mostly a Square Enix RPG franchise.
The previous Nier games sucked.
There was 1 previous game, and I like it more than Automata, in retrospect. It's more memorable. The characters go on more of a journey.
I'm counting Drakengard.
The gameplay is horrendous in Nier 1
It is, but it's about the journey. You put up with the bad gameplay, because it's worth it.
>You put up with the bad gameplay
No I don't.
Your loss.
>because it's worth it
I don't think Replicant was worth it tbh. I remember it being very tedious.
I'm about 7ish hours into the game so far and none, I really mean NONE of the characters have made a impression on me. Eve is just a robot. Adam is normal guy. Lily has a annoying voice. Funny enough the one character to stand out gets her arm cut off in the first 10 minutes and is implied to be dead.
>Funny enough the one character to stand out gets her arm cut off in the first 10 minutes and is implied to be dead
My waifu Tachy...
Ok
The problem is you are just repeating what you heard others say. The plot and characters are serviceable, in my view, I reserve "garbage" for ones that are actively detrimental to the experience. The world itself is good and nails the "beautiful apocalypse" aesthetic.
>The plot and characters are serviceable
Honestly if they weren't able to make the game have a serious story maybe they should have gone towards a more MGR type narrative. Just over the top action and memes.
The actual plots a little weak early on with it just being about going to get some mcguffuins, but it gets interesting enough. Same with the characters overall, but the dialogue can be pretty ass, which is what I'm guessing people are saying the story's bad about
>the dialogue can be pretty ass
I liked how Eve interacts with Lily, it feels endearing.
Eve's panties slip around on her ass when you're full sprinting in the Black Dress outfit but it doesn't look intentional whatsoever
It feels like every first party Sony game I've ever played rolled up into one.
>uncanny David Cagecore voice acting and character models
>Uncharted climbing
>the weird puzzles that started in Uncharted but were bastardized and made science based by Spider-Man
>Last of Us looting and scavenging
>Spider-Man 2's ADHD combat system complete with the poorly programmed parry and universal dodge button
I know that sounds negative but I actually love this game so far. Call it Stockholm's Syndrome or whatever but I really like this Playstation exclusive style and it's the only thing that can really hold my attention anymore. If I'm not getting gang raped in every single fight, the game might as well not even be on.
In what universe does Nier Automata have bad gameplay and good writing?
The game's basically a music video. It's just a series of cool images. That's why people actually like it. It plays fun, and it looks cool.
>smooth brain didn't get Nier Automata
Better than most games. We ain't reading Shakespeare or whatever here.
What is there to get? It's kitschy and stupid.
The first one had better storytelling. Automata is just a good time, because it's a Platinum game.
whats wrong with playing a decent game and then moving on? who ever thought this was going to be more than a 7/10? why do you need to become obsessed over a game? is a game only worth playing if it has a "fandom"?
It's a breath of fresh air especially in an age of constant movie games with butt ugly characters.
Dunno, I'm an oldgay so I don't really give a shit what other people are saying about a game. I think the only time I didn't buy something coz of public opinion was Starfield just cause it looked so bad.
Great game marred by sabotage censorship by insufferable californians
I'm buying it on PC. Sony is moronic ever since they became American.
Go for it man
Sex with yuffie and lily
I might've bought this game if it was made in any other country, I just inherently dislike Koreans and their culture after they overran Ganker with ktroony trash, the thought of Ganker getting flooded with that asiatic shit too is terrifying
Not really a fan of how some of the enemies stumble around like they're drunk during some attack animations. It's like they can't actually decide if they want to hit me or not. A fourth swing when I'm expecting three is surprising and a good idea but the extra wind up is extremely unnecessary and hard to read.
This is my issue with the game sometimes. I genuinely can't read when the some enemies are gonna attack, most have the most obvious tell in the world but other times it's WATCHOUT
It's like they are doing everything in their power to stop you from getting into a rhythm. Between this and the 50 different types of unblockable death blows that each have their own button combo to evade, I think it's better to just button mash and pray.
Sadly the most effective way to play is perfect parry/guard, dodge off to the side and do light, light, heavy, heavy or a Beta skill. It just murders everything and deals a weirdly good amount of damage.
No I will not update.
nICE aSS
SAR PLEASE DO THE NEEDUL AND REDEEM THE UPDOOT SAR
If you leave it idle for a while, Eve looks at the camera. I wonder if that gave anyone a start if they turned their attention back to the TV and saw Eve staring at them.
creepy as frick
Characters looking at the player when nothing's happening is a time honored tradition
Love it.
Didn't know that Stellar Blade literally invented character looking at player when idling lol
How old are you, c**t?
Shit man, even Skyrim had this "feature" and that game is like 10 years old at this point.
>I wonder if that gave anyone a start if they turned their attention back to the TV and saw Eve staring at them.
If they are like 5 years old and this is their
very first video game, sure
You ok bro?
You okay? The looking at player when idle have been in video games since decade ago. Even the cheapest korea mobile grindfest has it too
Yeah you already said that three times.
you DID figure this out without looking it up, right?
I understood this one just fine but not the second one.
I looked it up, I have no clue what the logic behind this is supposed to be.
5x6=30
6x7=42
5+7x6=72
Answer is 304272
What is the logic behind this. I understand it, but how the hell did you get this set up.
Just intuit it from the examples? They literally give you 3 solved ones bro.
Meant for
4x7=28, 7x8=56, 28+56=84
9x3=27, 3x5=15, 27+15=42
6x2=12, 2x7=14, 12+14=26
5x6=30, 6x7=42, 30+42=72
I'm a moron. Literally can anyone explain to me how to solve this?
the fun part is that you only need to solve one of those equations to understand the puzzle
The multiple solutions are essentially there to confirm that your theorized solution is correct once you figure it out.
Koreans are overestimating American education lmao
The math puzzles are easy to solve not worth the time so I just look them up anyway. I don't like when the daves do shit just to waste my time and I don't want to give them whatever satisfaction they get out of seeing failed attempts on my saves. Even if it's just a little chuckle, I don't want them to have it or boost their ego. Frick game devs that think they're smarter than the players, they need to be reminded that AI or a monkey can do their job more often. Hopefully that will make them stop wasting precious development time on shitty math puzzles and censorship patches no one asked for.
If that third grade math problem takes you more than a minute to solve, you might have an IQ issue
Filtered
>are easy to solve not worth the time so I just look them up anyway
I guessed what the equation was and was absolutely right, but then again
t. black mathematician
is black maths different from regular maths? Is there defence from the black maths like in Harry Potter?
304272
Holy shit that didn't even take 30 seconds to figure out what I was supposed to do. Have not played it. People will fail this because they refuse to use brain.
Yes and it took embarrassingly long to figure out the last two digits.
yeah i did figure it out myself tbh it was really stupid puzzle
swingin'
Is the bikini censored too?
she cute
Thoughts?
stop this at once chud, dont post anymore
never
>Blurry
>Jagged edges
Is the ppl taking these screenshots playing the game on the 60fps mode (w/e the frick is called) or is that how it looks at the best quality mode
SEEEEXXXOOOOOO
DANCE TO THE PLASTIC BEAT, ANOTHER MORNING COMES
Ok, but not worth 80€ on PSN / 70€ physical.
That's the fricking robbery.
Is it worse than GoW Ragnarok? That's sold for the same.
It's better than NuGod of War in my opinion
But I think the original trilogy is better than this, maybe.
I still have Ragnarok sealed until I can play in june, so can't say (I was lucky to get a flash sale on that one)
The good thing about Stellar Blade is that we finally have a dev that prioritises performance over fancy effects and balances nice graphics with 60fps, it's not broken on release, and as a bonus, has very good accessibility settings, including independent subtitle and UI scaling.
Coughing 70€ for an 1.0 disc was me impulse buying for fear it would not be possible to play it like that if I waited, but I have a problem with forced updates and it's been a fricking bad week with Fallout 4 already. Call it the "1.0 tax".
It's much better than GoW Ragnarok.
Good. I prefer longer games, but I can tolerate this being at 40 hours.
Pure KR-KINO
Great Game
Have Koreans made anything else other than this and Lies of P?
Nothing that I have played, but I hope that Stellar Blade brings in a Wave of new KR-KINO
Xion doesnt seem that bad a place to live
Looks straight out of Borderlands 1.
yes, uncanny
it really does looks like a place from borderlands2 and Rage 1 town. especially Rage
what isn't included in the unpatched disc version? I'm getting a strong urge to cop the game.
ng+ and 12 extra skills that locked behind ng+
And the ability to turn off chromatic aberration, motion blur and film grain.
Can anyone tell me what was actually censored? I pre-ordered it but haven't had the chance to play it yet. Is it really just that one costume? Did they censor any of the gore? That was one of my favorite things about the demo, and noone even talked about that.
Some of the dresses were giving stockings to cover her bare legs. That's it. These virgins are whining because the costumes were made sexier.
That's not all.
Blatantly lying? Interesting choice
objectively
>two outfit cover more her cleavage
>1 outfit got stocking to cover her legs
that's it, anything else is pure cope
They covered up cleavage and dropped the waste on a bunny swimsuit thing, they added random cloth to cover up boobs and midriff on another. They also got rid of some blood textures that would get on eve occasionally. There's also a bunch of them that appear to have had more cloth added compared to the icons for the outfits. The other anon is talking about a different dress that's "censored" even on disc. That one probably would have never been considered censored if it weren't for the other changes.
So are there any examples of cleavage or bare legs that are still in the game? I'm just trying to figure out if this cry for censorship is just a meme, knee jerk reaction sort of thing. I paid over 80 bucks for this shit and yes I expected to see skin and gore because I'm an adult and I like those kinda things.
Do not take it to mean this game is made "SFW". There remains a ton of breasts and ass.
I'm partial to the orca outfit, and there's obviously the bikini that has both cleavage and bare legs.
The censorship is annoying, and there are outfits I'd call more risque, which makes it really weird, but overall it doesn't negatively effect the game aside from the principle of the matter
Forgot pic
I really like how you access the map and quests, with swiping up or down on the touch pad. That’s a really good idea, works great.
eve kinda a bimbo
I like it overall and am taking my sweet time also wtf that dead space section
>WAAAAAH ME WANT MILKY ME WANT MILKY WAH WAH WAH
That's what you sound like and it's not based or cute. You're a grown ass man. Stop jerking to video games and go talk to a female.
>UHHHHHH IS THAT AN ATTRACTIVE FEMALE?
>HAVE SEX, INCELS
seethe, predditor
but i do want milky
I felt so lied to when the "THEY CENSORED THE GORE!" just was just pertaining to one boss fight's execution move
Is her not falling down when she dies a part of the censorship or just some strange glitch?
If you have a WB Pump that gives you the option to resurrect on the spot, she will fall down and lay there until you chose to do so or not. It's not censorship or a glitch, the creator just said he made deaths fast so people could get back into the action faster.
I think they were just too lazy to add ragdoll physics.
Like I said, there are full animations of her falling down when killed. You just don't see them unless you can raise yourself.
I've seen them and they're all canned animations. There are slight variations like if you die by getting crushed but they're all so lifeless that she might as well just be standing there like usual. A game as gore heavy as this should have more brutal death animations or at the very least have her body go limp and get dragged around for a few seconds. It's not some huge waste of time, there's a loading screen no matter what so they should have made it fun.
Solid 7/10 so far, feels a little empty and easy, normal enemies aren't that exciting. Maybe it will get better as I play more.
Rise of Ronin was a lot better.
Pretty fun, sloppy action like wo long or lotf 2023 or the purge 1/2. Censorship stuff blows though so I refunded it after beating it.
Feels very PS2 era but with modern graphics. This is a good thing.
post clips for me to coom to
>Massive input delay in a parry based game
unacceptable dogshit for a AAA game when even Thymesia can get it right with a team of 4 people.
I'm midway through the game, I like it so far but there are some flaws.
>Graphics and performance are top-notch
>Art direction is awesome especially the environments and monster design
>Boss encounters are great...
>... But there's too few of them, meanwhile there's too many trash mobs
>Traversal is bad, why can't you fast travel in a 2024 game
>Progression is as bad as it was in Nier Automata, at one point I had 30+ skill points unused
>Storytelling is not great, there are some good ideas but the script and dialogue is so bad at delivering them
is bad, why can't you fast travel in a 2024 game
You can, you just need to go to a fast travel point.
the only people that have a PS5 are mega snoys
all these homosexuals writting comments like the one above this one just proves that
the game is extremelly short, bullet sponge enemies, typical korean shovelware
I was so excited for it, I put like 7h into the demo, grinding the boss w/ only the skin suit. Even made this gif
But now that it’s out, I’m a bit underwhelmed. Open world sections in the desert slow down the pacing to a crawl. So do the side quests. I heard at a certain point in the story you cant do them anymore? So i do them all as soon as they show up.
I think I’m playing it wrong. I’m slogging through all the pacing-killing side quests in the open world, I’m reading every data entry, & the game is way too easy. I barely get a chance to enjoy the fights
However, the linear sections are great. Cant wait to replay it when i unlock hard mode and skip all the side fluff. Might even skip upgrading my sword
Tl;dr if it was just gameplay it’d be kino
>through all the pacing-killing side quests in the open world, I’m reading every data entry
Then don't, if it's not mandatory.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
who believes this fricking posts
have a nice day paid shills
it's good. i unironically hate the gooner character designs but i've seen worse
why do you have a ps5?
i have enough money to afford one and there were some games i wanted to play on it?
Third worlders cannot fathom having disposable income.
like what games?
there is literally nothing to play on it
Literally just in the last 2 months:
-FF7 Rebirth
-Rise of the Ronin
-Stellar Blade
Stellar Blade
Nier at home.
The maps pretty fricking big, man. I just finished the Dead Space mission in the research lab, started a bunch of quest and stopped for the day. Desert is frickin huge, haven't even gone back to the first area and cleaned up there yet. A lot more game than I was expecting - good soundtrack, lots of good clothing options (wish there was more hair/removable ponytail). Will enjoy thoroughly, but will be avoiding these threads for spoilers
to the people who actually plays this fricking game, can you change the moronic ponytail??
You can change her hairstyle and adjust the length of the ponytail but you can't remove it, it's where her sword goes.
Yes. It's literally in the free demo that anyone can download.
I rike. Game is longer that I thought it was gonna be. Also
>2 desert shitholes
Really crimer
h8 D1G-g2rs so fricking much
>her British accent means she says "diggeh"
Ignoring the coom shit, is the actual combat and gameplay good? Is it a soulslike?
Yes, yes, a little bit but not exactly, it takes some inspiration from that but other games too.
The combat is fine. I'd say in the terms of action games it's worse than Automata, but better than Astral Chain. I think there's some interesting mechanical depth here but not a lot to work with. It's fun to perfect parry, teleport behind a creature and blast him away with a special move. It's nothing special but it gets the job done and is engaging enough.
I'd say it's barely "Soulslike" other than how Eve moves during combat and enemies deal a decent amount of damage.
You need 4 hands to play this game. It's not forgiving like any souls game. The enemies will frick you to death in every single encounter and there's no cheap auto win build or mimics to help you.
Closest comparison you can make is that it's Sekiro but with a lot more offensive abilities.
>I'd say in the terms of action games it's worse than Automata
I literally can't imagine what would make anyone think this.
Automata had fun and various ways of combat, multiple weapons, and frankly much smoother than this Sekiro Diet Lite.
No it didn't
>Automata had *headcanon*
>the boob jiggle physics
>those fat knockers
>that big bubble butt
frick bros..
also I'm just doing all the side quests in Xion instead of progressing, and frankly having more fun doing that than most of the main story stuff
What's the deal with beta chain? Is it worth spending my juice on that when I could just do a special attack?
When is pc release? Why the frick isn't this multiplat especially since pc has no new games right now?
>not on PS4
not buying. I refuse to get one of the paperweight """Next"""-gen systems. Release on PS4/Xbone/PC or frick off.
We're 4 years in and already talking about the PS6 coming soon. If you still don't have a 5, you are just poor and there's no shame in that. Just don't be so arrogant that you think devs should wastes their time on you and drag the game down for everyone else. There are thousands of games to play on PS4, one of those being Nier Automata which is very similar to this. Play that instead.
>4 years in PS5 cycle
>4 exclusives so far
Or, you know, people dont buy a dead on arrive console
>Unreal Engine 5
Explains why it looks so green/brown'ish
The PS5 is a shit console and even Stellar Blade, as good as it is, wont absolve the console of its faults
I like how you changed the subject from you being a poorgay to the supposed poor quality of the console. Tell more about how shitty the system you don't have is.
Sorry what? I just think the PS5 is an absolute failure of a console and it's a symptom of how shit the industry is.
Stellar Blade is a great game by all means.
PS5 is trash. Has a few good games though. Rebirth was fun.
I really dont care much for FF outside of the classics (and by that I mean everything from 4 to 10) but honestly I think it's sad that my PS5 is going to one of the consoles with the least amount of games on it. And that is partially because nobody is willing to give us good games.
Sometimes there are exceptions, like Stellar Blade of course; but I haven't bought much else for the system aside from Armored Core 6, Octopath II, and Ghostwire but I haven't even bothered to play those games.
PS5 runs every game better than a PC.
I consider it a miracle if I can get a new release to run at all on PC day one. Console day one experiences can be shitty too but I can't think of one in recent memory as bad as the average PC release.
>Rebirth was fun
Proud PS5 owner here, Rebirth wasn't good, but at least it was better than the abominable 16.
>Unreal Engine 5 on PS4/Cuckbox
Yeah, good luck.
Stellar Blade runs on UE4.
Vindictus: Defying Fate is probably the only coomer game running on UE5
Wait I thought this was a fat wiener inspection
It is, anon. Haven't you polished your Stellar Blade?
the movement and platforming are janky as frick sometimes
I’m about 16 hours in and it’s honestly everything I could’ve wanted. Between the customization for Eve, the blend of character action and soulslike elements, the music, the visuals, and the likable characters, it’s a great game. It’ll probably be my GOTY for 2024 unless Metaphor ends up being the absolute peak.
>be my GOTY for 2024
Your Dragon's Dogma 2?
I don't think even the biggest Dragon's Dogma gays would call it GOTY.
This lmao. They need to add a "Biggest Disappointment" award to the TGAs and DD2 would sweep that category.
I refuse to buy Dragon’s Dogma 2 until it gets a 60FPS patch for consoles. 30FPS on modern consoles is unacceptable tbh
>LOOK MEME! IT'S EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED
It's worse than I thought, then again it's a korean slop, not supposed to be taken seriously.
>>LOOK MEME!
I think it's broken
I’m a simple man, I like action games with exploration, character customization, unlockables, good music, and challenging boss fights
And ass
>old guy with a young daughter just happens to have and sell the most erotic outfits in the game
>thanks for rescuing my daughter
>now buy this bawdwear
he was so real for that honestly
the combat doesnt look good, seems like granblue relink will remain the gameplay king for this year
>look
yeah, it doesnt look good. you can't tell a game isn't good just by looking at it? I do it all the time. Doesn't look good, I don't play it, simple as.
That's because many action games look bad in the hands of a bad player. Same with fighting games. Right now stellar blade is majorly being played by normies and coomers who arent very good with action vames so the vast majority of youtube videos plays like shit. Compare it however with someone who has good reflexes and knows what he's doing like ongbal and a game shines better.
This is not to say stellar blade's combat competes with the greats as it is faulty and the dev'a first attempt in video games, but most people aren't showcasing its best and just playing very badly. Although I think this is the input lag fricking them over.
I'm what you would call a "coomer" and so far I'm not having a hard time with it
I think you just suck
Oh I dont think the game is hard. I am saying that the vast majority plays in a way that makes the combat look bad. This includes spamming parry very often that breaks the flow of combat. Using the same move over and over. Not making use of other mobility options so that character neutrals back to the slow awkward gait. It's like playing dmc3 and doing nothing but spamming stinger + million stab. I have seen people use tachy mode and doing nothing but the spiraling charge move over and over.
The game could definitely use a lot more polishing in this regard, to make animations in between transistion smoothly and more fluidly. The biggest crime is how slow Eve moves when not doing anything. It comes off like playing dark siders 3 or other soulslikes.
OK and? I'm going to spam parry because the game rewards you for doing so.
Thats how video games work, you want to find a way to beat a game in the most efficient matter possible.
>button masher relink
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUhIJVTN83DEJU25yloSYYP9t2R8JDOVQ
I await the full soundtrack with great interest.
I really want the Oasis theme and the Tachy mode music.
Me too.
it's actually more fun than I'd thought
lilly is so fricking cute
Good graphs, good looking chars
It's one of my favorite games of the console alongside FF16 and Elden Ring. Please have a sequel.
My favorite part so far is seeing Eve learn how to double jump. Not only is it gratifying for the player to get a basic ability like that after waiting so long but she looks like she's having a lot of fun doing it too!
show me the hairstyles
>have a decent job
>buy all the systems you want
>play games on them
its almost like the world is super simple, some here ARE poorgays/underage but dont even pretend that you dont haave a ps5 ''out of principle'' frick off
13 years ago I would have given you a pat on the back, nowadays? It is a waste of money as exclusivity means frick all
Honestly, quite enjoying it. Combat is fun, characters and environments are beautiful, OST is good. Pretty solid game.
>troony lover censored slop
No way gay, I will be back to Nikke instead.
Which has also been censored multiple times.
>Nikke
God I wish I had a brown girl as thicc and hot as Noir
Before you call Sony based for refunding Stellar Blade, just remember:
"Cities can rebuild, Zach."
It's fun beating up enemies
God I love that kick. I wish there was more hand to hand combos. Some of the face to the knee attacks she does in some qtes is pretty brutal.
Hate those goddamn horse enemies, I swear they're worse than the horse boss
>game is parry-focused
>can't concentrate because of ass
It's just another challenge of the game
very challenging
>put on skirt outfit
>they give her skimpier underwear
Dangerously based
Many such cases!
This games entire marketing was around controversies. It's basically a dig at western culture.
I don't own a ps5.
Automata wannabe with NONE of it's soul, intelligence, charm and philosophy.
Another boring "souls" game with zero skill requirement.
Back to the DMC6 waiting room.
>with zero skill requirement
>Back to DMC6 waiting room
This has to be a joke post
Post your most intricate Dante combo. Now.
>"You don't get it, the skill requirement is juggling the same sandbag in training mode for 500 hours"
I don't care about anything else you have to say.
Is it Automata or is it Souls? You idiot
Absolute moron.
>wanting another DMC after 5
Nah, Itsuno will frick that up too
The MC score is right. It's an 8/10 game, but it's a pretty strong 8/10 game. Really the only thing weighing it down is the really shitty dialogue and the fact that Eve's personality is pretty flat. I tried to look up who wrote the game, and it doesn't look like it had an actual writer or a team of writers. So that makes sense.
Combat is great, soundtrack is some of the best video game music I've heard in I don't know how long, the women are hot as frick, the visuals and performance are really good, and the length is just right. I got the True Ending I hope we get a sequel.
It might be my GotY.
>Eve's personality is pretty flat
It's to balance out her breasts.
the wasteland gigas kicked my ass, had to learn how to perfect dodge
stilldont like it her dodge feels jank as frick
I don’t think I can go from rebirth to this and not shit on it relentlessly, so I will wait for the pc version.
I just finished rebirth and its so funny how stellar blade open world design is SO MUCH better than rebirth
It also doesn't overstay its welcome by about 12 hours. Well as far as I know it doesn't, I haven't finished SB yet. But I'm willing to bet it doesn't.
There aren’t chocobos in this game so that is already a lie
It's even more stark with FF16.
good lord I hope HydraFX make a blowjob sfm with her, those lips can't be ignored
Love the freckles
The amount of undue praise that fricking Automata game gets while being one of the most brain dead garbage "action rpg" gamed ever made is frankly infuriating. And that's ONE flaw of the game.
The story of Automata is unique, but it isn't good. It's frustrating and riddled w8th boring characters, 2B being the worst offender. A complete boring archetype that youd be sick off if you d watched 6 anime in your life. "No you see, the story is great because you shoot the credits for 10 minutes". Frick you. The word pretentious is reserved for this existentialism wannabe bullshit. Nier story fricking sucks balls and the gameplay is worse than the most brain dead western AAA slop money can buy.
Freckle kisses
what censorship does this game actually have besides 2 outfits that look like aliexpress garbo (before and after) meant to be swapped immediately on getting a sexier outfit?
That's it.
>Now give your impressions of Stellar Blade after a few days of playing it.
Kinda hard to wank without using my hands, but if you insist.
Hard Mode is playing with one hand.
Saw some streamer play this. I have Nioh 2 and Code Vein in my library and I found those very fun. Does this game offer more or should just replay Nioh 2 or Code Vein?
The game has a demo you can download and try out
Although the full game had the combat tightened up a bit from the demo
dont have ps5
>work my ass off to break a boss's shield
>all that happens is they get a free unblockable cutscene attack
What is the point?
What the frick were they thinking with lily voice
???
Her voice is one of the few that works for me, the Brit accent suits the plucky engineer sidekick. It's Adam's voice that baffles me, it sounds like a scratch track they used by accident.
>dub
I can’t tell if Adam’s English VA just couldn’t give a good performance and all the takes they used were they best they could get out of him or if it was an issue with the voice director not directing his lines the way they should’ve been. Considering the entire English cast are basically no names with most of these characters being their first major roles I wouldn’t be shocked if they got a rookie voice director as well.
I heard Sony already censored some of the clothings lmao
Eve has no personality
How do you get the glasses? It improves her a lot.
I thought this outfit got censored
Only the digital version is patched.
Funny enough, nobody on Ganker believed this anon and he ended up telling the truth but I don't think this scene made a blip on anyone's radar.
This happens every single time there is a scene in game where a character gets knocked out and wakes up somewhere else. It happens with male characters too. Red Dead Redemption 2, Last of Us, GTA 5, etc.
Some of those examples were true but that's not the point. The point is that the internet lacks media literacy and has an obsession with rape and cuckolding. Some random schmuck will ALWAYS come out of the woodwork and make a claim like this without any kind of provocation. And as we all know, a broken clock will be right twice day.
It was honesty such a nothing scene I was expecting something more graphic. But we already knew that most of the airborne squad were helpless jobbers considering the whole 7th squad gets fricked besides Eve in the first few minutes.
>But we already knew that most of the airborne squad were helpless jobbers
>lily literally loses to her own pod
eve is ugly
Ninja Gaiden is better
Literally perfect.
>human isn't actually human
>monster isn't actually monster
>big bad is skynet
Oh so this is a straight ripped off of nier tomato but with worser and awkard storyline
Shut the frick up poobar.
What do you mean by poobar? And am i wrong about the story is mostly lift off from Tomato, dah android on da moon take back the earth from alien (not alien) invader? or lel mother is the mastermind and true evilm
Shut the frick up poobar.
What?
Oh, nice kingdom death figures, that board game is costed more than PS5 + Stellar Blade lol
Annoying characters and cringe dialogues.
The b***h in OP pic is probably the most annoying, obnoxious character in this game, Second is Adam fricking seamonkey, Tachy has like 5m of screen times oh dying her boss fight is pretty disappointed too since she is slow as frick and just stand still after a few attacks. Eve is typical goodie yes man MC with no personality other than lel cans
Shut up, moron.
Nice argument, kid. Done with your homework yet?
Censored or not I really like this outfit with red hair
Awful and annoying character, she look like a gremlin with stupid oversized head. She and Adam just look so fricking out of place
shit take
So if i want to refund the game do i need to wrote an email for Sony or Amazon?
Can you change the music in xion back to the first song
EVEbros?
They are not human, does they even have dick?
They meant handholding
is that the true ending?
I got to the Playstation buttons puzzle in the middle of the surprise Resident Evil pastiche and I could just tell that they filled it with their soul and passion. The timing for parries/dodges still feels awkward and completely arbitrary on an enemy-by-enemy basis, and completely unlike what my reflexes have been trained for on pretty much any other action game, but when you're feeling an encounter, you REALLY feel like you're on god mode. All of the side content has been pretty decent too, it feels like they always try to find some way to make things novel or varied for most of the sidequests and random things you encounter out in the wasteland, so it was quite a bit better than the MMO filler content I expected them to be. I don't want to judge the plot yet since I'm still only in Matrix 11, but the back and forth of doubt in Mother Sphere, or the people left behind just being petty and delusional has potential and kept me strung along so far. Eve purdy, customization options are even more purdy. Square Enix is so moronic in not releasing a third Nier by now that I'm very satisfied in seeing Stellar Blade as our spiritual Nier 3 until SE gets off their asses to make it. Somewhere between an 8 to 9 out of 10 so far, depending on how the story turns out. Most soothingly depressing game of 2024.
>people
my sunshine, my moonlight! eve!!
very trans eve there sis :3
excuse me
What's with the soda cans?
She loves em
Precious antique cans
It's disappointing, the bosses are the only part of the game i genuinely enjoy but it takes hours to get to one. The wasteland fricking sucks, i much prefer the linear levels. The sidequests are annoying. The dialogue is horrible, literally every character is moronic, but at least that makes the game kind of funny. Overall i can't wait to finish the game so i can go back to playing helldivers.
This might be the last thread that actually talks about the game for a while. I enjoyed it while it lasted thoughbeit.
Nah, as long as I'm playing the game I will always look for a thread talking about it, and if there isn't one, I'll make one.
all you have to do if you want to talk about the game is talk about the game, the rest will come
What did they mean by this shot, exactly?
SIT ON MY FACE
SIT ON MY FACE
SIT ON MY FACE
Is that modded?
Bruh, this is a PS5 exclusive, it cannot be modded in its current state. Everything in this thread is the game as it naturally is.
why don't you morons just make a general
Why would I need to do that? We have one thread at the moment.
probably so you can make less of them and likely won't be followed by censorship crusaders like me, I planned on shitting up this thread until I saw peaceful discussion
Frick off then
ok i will
Fewer
Cute!
Lily may only have 4 outfits but man they really nailed the tomboy look.
Just another ovehyped average game.
Awesome game, frick Ganker trannies
Can you actually only pick 1 of these 2 or can you just select them both later?
Barely started but I'm enjoying it so far.
Nah you can choose both
Pretty good, it feels like there are a ton of missables. Game has a lot of secrets. My hope is you can eventually go back to old areas and loot everything it's kind of metroidvania in a way.
You can just send a save to the cloud before going to space if you wanna get the collectibles but don't want to do NG+ just yet.
Actually pretty good. Any updates on the sales yet? I would think they'd announce it pretty quickly if it's doing very well.
it sold 1 million on day 1, which I told morons it would
Does anyone know what happens if you miss a cosmetic in NG0 and pick it up in NG+? I missed Lily’s red jacket for context.
Only read this post if you finished the game. It’s a tragedy shift up didnt make Tachy and Raven playable characters, or even add challenge levels to conveniently jump into fighting bosses, or blade surfing courses.
I actually think I could fap to Eve in the Daily Force outfit. White panties are lewd
So far I'm stuck on two things in the desert. The part in the upper northwest where you have to turn on the two cannons then run to the lowered platform before it all shuts down. The other is the shooting gallery mini-game. I just can't manage these.
WHY DO YOU FRICKING FREAKS KEEP PUTTING GLASSES ON EVE?!
DISGUSTING MONKEYS
All the glasses options look stupid I agree
the big aviator shades are fitting nicely imo
>not liking the square rims
Uber gay
Good thread guys, see you in the next one
The lip synching is fairly accurate for every language I've seen so far. Some of the best ever. Is this usually something studios devote time to?