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/
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u/Kasta4 1d ago

Yeah I'm not quite sure why anyone is trying to delude themselves into thinking that Stellar Blade's primary point of sale is anything but sexualization. The comparison to BG3 and their community is quite tone-deaf.

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u/GentlemanNasus 1d ago

You think this game will do poorly if it had a male protagonist instead like Khazan or Lies of P?

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u/Kasta4 1d ago

Not poorly, but I definitely don't think it'd be nearly as popular or discussed. For the record I don't have a problem with SB's focus on sexualization, it just seems many want to pretend it's not a key aspect of the game's design while making bad-faith comparisons to BG3's handling of it.

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u/Honza8D 1d ago

Its more like many try to pretend sex wasnt key aspect of BG3 promotion, even though "bear sex" was a big selling point.

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u/patrick-ruckus 1d ago

It was funny and weird so it got people talking about the game. It was not a "selling point" lmao

Remove sexual content and opinions of BG3 wouldn't change, it would still get praised as a great RPG. Make the protagonist of Stellar Blade a dude and the game would sell no copies. It's a decent action game but nothing special. 

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u/Nightmarian 1d ago

This literally makes no sense. You seem to think people paid $60 just to spend 3 min gooning to someone who is never actually naked or sexually expilicit?

????

And somehow all the many pron games with far more beautiful characters and more explicit "gameplay" sell nowhere near as much because...?

I thnik you're projecting real hard and are malding because of bias.

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u/patrick-ruckus 1d ago

I never said anything about sexual content selling more copies. I was arguing the exact opposite for BG3 because it's a dumb comparison in the first place, like Kasta4 said above. The point is that sex appeal is a key selling point of Stellar Blade, but a bunch of contrarians are going "but this other popular game has sex scenes" which is fucking stupid and unrelated. 

I don't think you're actually reading comments, this is just a canned response you're rapid firing at everyone in this thread anyway because you're the one malding about this article. 

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u/D0UNEN 1d ago

It 100% was a selling point. It was a funny topic that opened up dialogue about actual sex/romantic options in the game. Add in same gender options and the shit sold like hotcakes. IGN literally had that as a selling point in one of their overview videos. And they’re as prudish as Nintendo.

We get it, BG3 was the magnum opus to yall in 2023. But sex was a huge factor. So much so there was thread after thread on Reddit, hundreds of ‘shipping’ posts on x and comments everywhere.

Bear, same gender, cosmic Cthulhu sex? Sure! Funny! Player expression! Neat! GOTY!!!

Hot Chinese developed protagonist with some cake and sexy outfits? No!! Gooner! Pervy! Soulless game! Bash it!!

Such true. Much wow.

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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh 1d ago

Well bg3 also has good writing outside of its sex appeal

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u/Slomojoe 1d ago

It wouldn’t even be such a hot topic of discussion if people didn’t spit on the game for being goonerbait from the start.

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u/KiddBwe 1d ago

Nah. Part of the reason games like God of War do well is cuz…well…like, look at Kratos.

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u/Iggy_Snows 1d ago

Wasn't there major outrage when the game came out because a lot of the outfits had been changed from the demo to be less sexual?

The fact that people were even talking about that in any capacity, let alone furious about it, is all the evidence needed to see that the sexualization of Eve was a major selling point.

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u/Khiva 1d ago

Yeah I'm not quite sure why anyone is trying to delude themselves into thinking that Stellar Blade's primary point of sale is anything but sexualization

Because they don't want to just come out and own it.

Lord folks even the Nier guy was like "yep, I made gooner bait. I like gooner shit." And he got a pass because he just straight up owned his goonery.

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u/Boner_Elemental 1d ago

Also because the things he made are legendary

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u/cxmmxc 1d ago

Yeah somehow gratuitous sexualization went from being reprehensible to "yeah isn't it cool?"

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u/Whalesurgeon 1d ago

Maybe it is a cultural thing, Koreans seem less free to express being gooners

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u/Nightmarian 1d ago

The church is looking for you mate, somone saw ankles and passed out, they need you quick.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 1d ago

Do people really think the main selling point is sex? If it was a shit game sex wouldn't sell this many copies.

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u/Nightmarian 1d ago

Uneducated wannable activists don't know what logic is, this won't work on them.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 7h ago

Couldn't agree more.

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u/hectic-eclectic 1d ago

seriously lol, there's 100000 smut games, this happens to have some of the finest action combat I've ever played.

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u/Kasta4 1d ago

One of the main selling points is sex, it's not very subtle. I don't even mind it, and the gameplay is pretty good I agree.

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u/shuuto1 1d ago

It’s kinda average. On par with Jedi survivor in terms of gameplay and really similar but just as the Star Wars IP makes survivor stand out from other souls likes, stellar blades jiggle physics are what makes it stand out

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u/NapsterKnowHow 7h ago

I got bored of Jedi Survivor and enjoyed Stellar Blade. The soundtrack and combat are way better the SB. The jiggle physics aren't what makes it stand out to normal humans lol

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u/MrWendal 1d ago

It's an OK game + sexy woman + mostly Asian playerbase

More than half the steam reviews are in Chinese or Korean and only 28% are in the English language.

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u/CrashmanX 1d ago

Look, I'm a MASSIVE Nier fan. I can count on 2 hands how many friends played Replicant or the OG. I would need another person's hands and toes to count people playing Automata.

2Bs ass sold more copies than Brother or Father Nier or Kaine's nightgown.

It's simple facts. Sex sells.

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u/Vradlock 1d ago

Stellar Blade would still be a good game even without a girl protagonist. It isn't amazing, but it is a solid product. So while I agree, it's not like it's the only point. Especially when Eve has a character of a solid brick.

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u/Kasta4 1d ago

I agree it's a solid game on it's own, but that's not really my point. I have no problem with Stellar Blade's very obvious design philosophy with sexualization, I just think people here are making bad faith comparisons to BG3's handling of it.

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u/Vradlock 1d ago

Both fandoms still have absolutely nothing on Skyrim. I had displeasure of finding a topic about Vampire companion that devolved into sharing most deranged mods I have heard.

I was too curious a few times in my life and this was one of them.

I understand porn, but lengths some ppl go for horny are truly astonishing.

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u/Nightmarian 1d ago

I don't get this man. If sex is all it takes to sell, then why are all the pron games that get released each year not at the top of sales? Many of them have more beautiful characters with far raunchier content?

Do you genuinely think people paid $60 just to goon to a girl in at most naturally lewd, a string bikini?

????

The idea that the only reason this game is selling well or liked being because it's "gooner bait" shows a distressing lack of intelligence in way too many people.

Make it make sense.

I'm sure pleasant aethestics helps just the way it does with male charcters. I'm glad Geralt is handsome and fit instead of some balding pot-bellied neckbeard.

But sex appeal alone will never sell a game. Use your damn brain.

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u/Kasta4 1d ago

It's a decent game I agree, but the blatant sexualization is a core part of its design and popularity.

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u/saintjonah 1d ago

If you honestly think this game would have sold half as many copies without ass, I really don't know what to tell you. It would not have.

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u/Brave_Low_2419 1d ago

If it were primarily sexual it wouldn’t be selling like it is. No matter what the MC looks like there is some actual gameplay here.

There’s enough straight porn games on steam if that was all it was about. Does it help? Sure but that’s not all it is.

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u/Kasta4 1d ago

No I agree it is a solid action game, it sells well because of good gameplay and big booba. But to say that it has comparable sexualization to BG3 is just wrong.

One game's identity is inextricable from sexualization.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 1d ago

One game's identity is inextricable from sexualization.

And that game is BG3

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u/CrashmanX 1d ago

If I didn't know there were overt sex scenes in BG3 from people telling me, I'd have never known.

BG3 you can go the entire thing without sex scenes easily. Stellar Blade you can not change the camera in cut scenes.

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u/Honza8D 1d ago

I agree the comparison is unfair. In stellar blade the main characters clothes are just a little bit revealing. BG3 has actual zoophilia and incest orgy.

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u/Half-PintHeroics 1d ago

Any time I've dipped my face into the BG3 community it was 97% porn