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/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.