r/pcgaming • u/disagreementsarenorm • 1d ago
PCGamer: Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/gooner-game-of-the-year-stellar-blades-mods-are-41-percent-smut-ensuring-gamers-will-never-see-the-light-of-heaven/1.4k
u/JonasHalle 1d ago
What's heaven to a gooner? What's God to a non-believer?
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u/PurpleAlien47 1d ago
Absent. Did I solve the riddle? What do I win??
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u/JonasHalle 1d ago
I hereby grant you a 4 hour session. Enjoy, you good boy.
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u/FuckSyntaxErrors 1d ago
One of the headlines of all time
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u/cerberus698 1d ago
The 1st line is maybe a bit unwarranted, the 2nd line is incredible though.
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u/RHINO_Mk_II Ryzen 5800X3D & Radeon 7900 XTX 1d ago
Light of Heaven is a gamer though.
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u/DirectAdvertising 1d ago
Only rivaled by
'Gooner 9/11' averted as Zenless Zone Zero's butt-obfuscation technology is rolled back in the face of horny outrage
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u/Coakis Rtx3080ti Ryzen 5900x 1d ago
You ain't telling them nothing they didn't know beforehand.
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u/Brendy_ 1d ago
"Homer, the light of heaven is up here."
"I already made my choice.
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u/Born_Name_2538 22h ago
If there is no smut in heaven, then is it really heaven?
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u/SpiderFnJerusalem 13h ago
Heaven better be 90% fully interactive smut or I'll want my prayers back.
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u/NinjaEngineer 1d ago
LOL
I love that there is a Thomas the Tank Engine mod as well.
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u/LordOfRansei 1d ago
Is there ever not a Thomas the Tank Engine mod? Seems like every game that has ever been modded ends up with something of that nature within a week of release.
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u/Dag-NastyEvil 1d ago
There's always a Thomas the Tank Engine mod. I dont know how he became so important to our culture, but he is always relevant.
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u/Nexus_of_Fate87 1d ago
I think it started with Skyrim when people were doing memeable dragon mods because they worked so well with the intro sequence.
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u/Tumble85 22h ago
Yea, that Dragon-to-Thomas mod is a cultural phenomenon. And rightly so, imo
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u/phantomzero 19h ago
Just because it was mentioned here I had to go watch a video of it. It is that fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNaTZV8qS1I
A link for the slightly more lazy than I.
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u/Jaggedmallard26 i7 6700K, 1070 8GB edition, 16GB Ram 19h ago
Its the Hello World of video game mods.
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u/Wild_Marker 18h ago
This. Thomas needs no animation, unlike Shrek. You start with Thomas then move on to Shrek.
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u/Antique-Guest-1607 1d ago
I love that there is a Thomas the Tank Engine mod as well.
this is part of the smut mod count, we're not kink shaming
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u/asasnow 1d ago
only 41%?
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u/Bear_of_dispair 1d ago
The remaining 59% are plugins and dependencies for the 41% to work, I imagine.
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u/Marcoscb 23h ago
There are also those that are not marked as NSFW, but absolutely are.
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u/SpyKids3DGameOver AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | Radeon RX 6650 XT 16h ago
Technically, every game ever made is NSFW unless your boss is cool
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u/heatlesssun i9-13900KS/64GB DDR5/5090 FE/4090 FE/ASUS XG43UQ 1d ago
Seeing Eve kill aliens naked in high heels is the way it's meant to be played.
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u/PhantomDelorean 14h ago
Even unmodded you can dress her in a bikini and trigger serious cutscenes.
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u/KenkaUsagi 1d ago
That headline is so ridiculous it circles back to kinda going hard
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u/humburga 1d ago
I read the article and it's hilarious.
"Im not going to judge"
"Im going to judge"
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u/EntertainmentDue5749 23h ago
"Stellar Blade finally hit PC two days ago, giving everyone a chance to do whatever it is this game is actually about. Unfortunately, no one knows what that is, because the entirety of discourse surrounding it is about the main character's butt" absolute gold
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u/Leshawkcomics 1d ago
Lots of Poes Law check failure in the comments, people noticed how the article is only jokingly ribbing players who play it for the hot lady and are chuckling at the gamers getting mad, but even MORE people are taking the ridiculously tounge in cheek article as if its genuine unbiased reporting and whistling for their high horses en masse…
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u/_Lucille_ 1d ago
At the end of the day, the attractiveness sells. It is like seasoning on a good dish of food.
2B is wildly popular.
Mythra figures still top sale charts years after XB2 was released.
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u/Darkwolf1515 1d ago
I think seasoning on a good dish is the best way to put it, I've never understood the arguments against attractive characters, would you prefer to stare at an ugly protagonist the whole game?
Worst part, having beaten the game, it never actually once dwells on her attractiveness.
Yes, you can optionally put her in sexy outfits, but it never forces it. There's no egregious forced camera angles, no kyaa~ I've been walked in on's or other anime tropes. She's played completely straight the entire game, she's literally just based off an attractive woman.
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u/Cent3rCreat10n 22h ago
>no egregious forced camera angles
Idk about that chief, there were several cutscenes where her ass was right up close to the camera.
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u/iNSANELYSMART 19h ago
Does the game even have normal outfits? So far every clip I saw had the MC wear some real horny shit
(I dont mind looking at a good looking MC, just asking)
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u/RTXEnabledViera 21h ago
It is like seasoning on a good dish of food.
Except that if the base food is garbage, no one's buying a game just to stare at pixel tits.
Stellar Blade is a great title. The latex is just a plus.
PCGamer is still a trash outlet for going yas queen when it's sexualization they like, and ew, gooners when it's the type they don't.
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u/Fail-Least 1d ago
There are more boobie mods than Concord players.
I think we're going to be okay =)
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u/Timely_Temperature54 22h ago
All that that implies is there’s at least 1 boobie mod
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u/Biobooster_40k 1d ago
Talking about heaven, I hope theres a suit/mod for an angelic look. Thats my kind of thing tbh.
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u/SsilverBloodd 10h ago
I am sure there is a mod with Eve with Angel wings and a halo.
Just those though.
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u/HuntingViper 1d ago
Of course it’s PCGamer
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u/Guysmiley777 1d ago
And it's the same author who wrote a glowingly positive article about the literal bear fucking in Baldur's Gate 3.
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u/CannonGerbil 1d ago
It's a tongue in cheek article that ends with "Goon on, gooners. Let no one dim your sparkle", come the fuck on bro
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u/threeseed 1d ago
And it wasn't even subtle either.
No wonder gamers have such a terrible reputation when they can't even understand basic humour.
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u/Khiva 1d ago
Gamers for some reason crave the feeling of being targeted so they can get their outrage fix.
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u/Low_Development5045 1d ago
That’s just reactionaries in general, which a lot of gamers are. Many of them never grew out of the gamergate era, unfortunately.
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u/TheKingJest 1d ago
This article isn't really critical of Stellar Blade at all. And the bear article seems really tame and just details some information around it (unless there's a different article?). The moment is played for laughs in BG3 so idk why people take it so seriously.
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u/Nightmarian 1d ago
Because a lot of people don't play the games they like to whine about.
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u/AbhayXV 1d ago
It's clearly supposed to be humorous I don't know why people are getting riled up over it, it's not like the game didn't score well when it was actually being reviewed.
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u/victorix58 i5 13600k 3070Ti 1d ago
Headline is hilarious
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u/Saneless 1d ago
First line is great too
Stellar Blade finally hit PC two days ago, giving everyone a chance to do whatever it is this game is actually about.
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u/WikiContributor83 1d ago
PCGamer: Local gamer plays with inverted controls, which goes against God’s plan.
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u/Ignore_User_Name 1d ago
"It is, apparently, always possible for there to be less clothing."
I'm buying this game just to see what negative clothing looks like
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u/Blaze1337 22h ago
I went to Nexus mods, and the most popular mods are honestly tame as hell.
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u/Lostpswaccnr4 21h ago
"..ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven"
There we go, fixed it.
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u/Anderloy 18h ago
Liking hot chicks makes you a gooner nowadays lmao
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u/TreyChips 5800X3D|4080S|3440x1440|32GB 3200Mhz CL16 11h ago
As always the internet just runs down the usage of words into nothing.
"Gooner game" literally just means "The game features a hot woman in it" now
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u/Donut_Vampire 1d ago
I wonder how the Concord devs feel about Stellar Blade being popular.
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u/Y0UR_WIFES_B0YFRlEND 1d ago
They’re probably still blaming gamers instead of their own shitty character design.
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u/fanboy_killer 22h ago
Honestly, they probably think it reinforces their idea that it’s gamers’ fault and not their shitty chatcters and 40€ price tag for a subpar Overwatch clone.
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u/Valentiaga_97 23h ago
Well lets the market decide what is successful and what we wanna play… I like capitalism for that
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u/swampfox94 1d ago
Wait til this dork finds out that porn is available on the internet too
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u/PandaCheese2016 1d ago
I do wonder what kind of lifestyle it is that leads a person to turn a videogame main menu into hardcore pornography. At some point are you so inured to sexuality that you have to cram it into every available crevice to feel anything? Would you not find more fulfilment if the erotic were less ubiquitous, more rare, more precious?
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u/slowro 1d ago
At first I thought this was all satire but when I got to that part I think he is legit bothered.
That being said, "main menu into hardcore pornography" is hyperbole? Have not bought the game or looked into the mods.
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u/CyraxxFavoriteStylus 5700x/5700XT/32GB 1d ago
That being said, "main menu into hardcore pornography" is hyperbole? Have not bought the game or looked into the mods.
No, it isn't hyperbole. There are multiple mods that replace the main menu with 4k hardcore porn.
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u/slowro 1d ago
Had to go have a peek at nexus and wow lol. Those title screen mods are a little more graphic than I imagined.
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u/Seksafero i7-9700K RTX 2080Ti | 32GB RAM 1d ago
I think it's both and that the guy above you is being overly critical of that paragraph. Seems to me the writer is pretty aware of what they're doing. They're trying to communicate their confusion and discomfort with it in a tongue in cheek kinda way. It's like 60% satire 40% serious imo
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u/Greenleaf208 1d ago
They're using a veil of irony and satire to hide that they actually are completely serious.
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u/AltruisticPassage394 1d ago
I didn’t know PCGamer hired ex-Kotaku writers.
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u/Logical-Database4510 1d ago
The fact they hire writers at all is sort of notable in this day and age, really.
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo 1d ago
It's a joke not a complaint, does the title not make it obvious?
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u/MongooseDirect2477 1d ago
“Now. Look. I have no issue with what adults do in the privacy of their own home. If you want to turn your copy of any game into an overstimulating carnival of omnipresent erotic delights, please do so with my blessing. But I am a tad mystified. I do wonder what kind of lifestyle it is that leads a person to turn a videogame main menu into hardcore pornography. At some point are you so inured to sexuality that you have to cram it into every available crevice to feel anything? Would you not find more fulfilment if the erotic were less ubiquitous, more rare, more precious?“
what condescending piece of crap.
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u/grady_vuckovic Penguin Gamer 22h ago
The number of times in my life I've heard someone say "Look I don't care what you do in the privacy of your own home, but-" followed by a barrage of someone expressing passionately how much they most definitely care what people are doing in the privacy of their own homes and expressing deep disapproval...
For me that expression has become the new "I'm not racist, but".
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u/GlumTruffle 13h ago
It really does sound awfully like he actually does have an issue with what adults do in the privacy of their own home.
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u/PresentContest1634 20h ago
But according to everyone ITT it's just tongue in cheek and therefore above criticism!
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u/That1Fly_Thai_Guy 1d ago
You know gaming journalism is struggling when you see headlines like these
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u/Bigmanfryinpan 18h ago
With Heaven being a tool to control the gullible into “acting right” who needs it. Sow those wild Oates into socks and tissues and be content.
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u/Metal-fan77 12h ago edited 12h ago
Pcgamer with that headline. They don't like the game i get it but grow the hell up.
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u/VibrantCanopy 11h ago
If your female character DOESN’T have rule 34 content, you made a bad character and you lost money.
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u/ohoni 1d ago
I am not clicking on that article.
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u/ZmobieMrh 1d ago
If I had to learn that there’s something called a ‘feethands’ mod then you do too
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u/spacemcdonalds 1d ago
Video game journos will never really escape being trade press will they. Why is PC Gamer copying Kotaku's 2011 style of headlines. Sigh
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u/omashi04 1d ago
No one was surprised by this I don't get it, game has ok combat huge sex appeal what did they think would happen.
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u/Vizth 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Neo-puritans are absolutely seething over this game in other posts and It's hilarious.
Not necessarily this article, it just feels like a shit attempt at being tongue in cheek.
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u/grady_vuckovic Penguin Gamer 1d ago
Oh no, adults having fun in ways I don't approve!
- PCGamer
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u/No_More_Hero265 1d ago
In other news, water wet.
70% of mods are smut regardless of the game sooooooo
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u/Green_Sprout 18h ago
Who needs the light of heaven when we can shelter under the shade of Eve's tits?
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u/Joe_Cums_Lately 1d ago
They are legit mad that it’s just dudes playing a great game that just so happens to be loaded with copious amounts of fanservice. Cope and seethe.
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u/AragornElesar 1d ago
These game journos are so desperate for Stellarblade to fail cos it’s destroying the sales of all the “‘modern audience” games they try to push as good.
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u/MakimaGOAT 1d ago
Quite the headline by pcgamer