Poll of the Day > Stellar Blade eviscerated by the public

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https://youtu.be/vMOHLoKKBUI?si=RkKiECN5dIQmvEbz

Their goose is cooked. Game looked to be all style no substance anyways

Speaking as someone who has spent a ton of time in NYC, I would never trust the opinions of anyone from NYC.

What a bunch of annoying humans. At least one of them doesn't seem to even know what a video game is. The one who said the character looks bland should go play Starfield and see what bland really looks like.

kind9 posted...

What a bunch of annoying humans. At least one of them doesn't seem to even know what a video game is. The one who said the character looks bland should go play Starfield and see what bland really looks like.

Only a mindless dolt would say that Starfield is bland and would play a mindless goonfest game like Stellar Blade.

Sonicplys posted...

Only a mindless dolt would say that Starfield is bland and would play a mindless goonfest game like Stellar Blade.

I'm not even defending that game, I don't know anything about it nor do I have a playstation. Never even heard of it until this topic. I guess I'm defending the idea of having a sexy/sexualized character in a video game, because I'm just not a fucking prude. In terms of characters Starfield is the very definition of bland.

I don't even know what this is, nor does a video of accosting random strangers and asking their opinions on a picture tell me much.

adjl posted...

I don't even know what this is, nor does a video of accosting random strangers and asking their opinions on a picture tell me much.

Yeah, it is a very silly method to go about getting opinions on a video game. You could probably show any video game to a random sample of people on the street and get similar kinds of responses.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Their goose is cooked. Game looked to be all style no substance anyways

What substance? You didn't post anything about substance? What is the point of this thread? I've seen some click bait drama videos on youtube about the game so I'm aware there is some issue with the game but I haven't cared enough to watch them. All you did was post a video about some dude showing cherry picked clips of random people looking at pictures.

Is there some reason people are so upset about this game? Is it supposed to be good or bad? It just looks like a generic action game to me.

this topic is stupid

go make it on the PS5 board instead.

If he asked any gamer they'd say "i don't care, what's the gameplay"

Lmao who gives a shit what a bunch of fucking New Yorkers think

joemodda posted...

Lmao who gives a shit what a bunch of fucking New Yorkers think

I mean, depending on what you are selling, a lot of people, but for this particular topic I don't think very many people are going to care because it is meaningless data.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I mean, depending on what you are selling, a lot of people

Someone selling an air freshener to cover up the smell of homeless person urine would really make a killing in NYC.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Speaking as someone who has spent a ton of time in NYC, I would never trust the opinions of anyone from NYC.

Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the CHUDs.

captpackrat posted...

Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the CHUDs.

Nah, the pimps can be quite charming. And the CHUDs are easy to deal with as long as you mostly stay away from open sewer grates and tunnels.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Their goose is cooked. Game looked to be all style no substance anyways

Wow, Stellar Blade seems pretty bad. And naturally most of the people responding to this topic come off as the type of people who want everyone to know that they find Aloy unattractive.

Lokarin posted...

If he asked any gamer they'd say "i don't care, what's the gameplay"

I'm a gamer, and I wanna know why they decided to attempt another Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball.

I predict that this game is gonna run really poorly, and be a really bland experience, and that the visuals are just compensation.

I also heard that they fired like half the women that worked on this game.

BlackScythe0 posted...

What substance? You didn't post anything about substance? What is the point of this thread? I've seen some click bait drama videos on youtube about the game so I'm aware there is some issue with the game but I haven't cared enough to watch them. All you did was post a video about some dude showing cherry picked clips of random people looking at pictures.

Is there some reason people are so upset about this game? Is it supposed to be good or bad? It just looks like a generic action game to me.

Did you actually watch the video? The people reacting to it made some pretty valid complaints.

EchoBaz posted...

Did you actually watch the video? The people reacting to it made some pretty valid complaints.

As far as I could tell, the first 30 seconds just consisted of people criticizing how the character's headshot looked. Those opinions aren't invalid, but they're far too narrow to be at all meaningful.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Is there some reason people are so upset about this game?

I don't know about any broader discourse around it, but there has been some controversy over what happened with the demo. The demo was added to the PS Store, and a bunch of people downloaded and played it, but then an hour later it was pulled from the store and anyone that had downloaded it was no longer able to access their downloaded copy. It's likely the demo was just accidentally released early, since no announcements were made that it was going up, but after what happened with PT and Sony's recent well-deserved crucifixion for taking away Discovery content users had paid for, that kind of blatant "nope we're taking away the thing you liked too bad" has rubbed a number of people the wrong way.

Past that, though? I expect there's some complaining about how aggressively fanservicey the costumes are, but I don't know any details or anything about how well the game plays.

adjl posted...

As far as I could tell, the first 30 seconds just consisted of people criticizing how the character's headshot looked. Those opinions aren't invalid, but they're far too narrow to be at all meaningful.

So you're judging an entire video that's almost 10 minutes long based off of the first 30 seconds?

adjl posted...

Those opinions aren't invalid, but they're far too narrow to be at all meaningful.

They likely talked more than the 12 or so people in the video, and got similar results.

They're not wrong btw, they used a beautiful looking 32 year old asian woman, and made her into what looks like a 14 year old white woman, with marketing which mostly showed off her ass. That's pretty disgusting.

And you know what? I'm not surprised that the website that has the Playstation boards full of incels that want everyone to know that they think Aloy is the ugliest woman on the planet because she's not hypersexualized unlike most women in games in the PS3 era is dismissing the people that are disgusted by the character designs as prudes.

EchoBaz posted...

So you're judging an entire video that's almost 10 minutes long based off of the first 30 seconds?

Did the rest of the video consist of more in-depth analysis than "I don't like the design of this character based on the picture I'm being shown"? I'm pretty comfortable assuming it's all pretty similar to save 9:30, based on the fact that whoever put the video together felt the first 3-4 people I saw were representative enough of the overall point to be worth leading the video with, but I recognize that such assumptions should be made with an open enough mind to accept corrections if they turn out to be wrong.

EchoBaz posted...

They likely talked more than the 12 or so people in the video, and got similar results.

They could talk to 20 million people and get unanimous results and I'd still consider that opinion too narrow to be useful. Judging an entire game based on a single character's design (especially just a single picture of the design) is always going to be silly, regardless of which character it is, what you're judging about the character, or what the opinion ends up being. All I can conclude from these results is that people don't like the character design.

EchoBaz posted...

They're not wrong btw, they used a beautiful looking 32 year old asian woman, and made her into what looks like a 14 year old white woman, with marketing which mostly showed off her ass. That's pretty disgusting.

At a glance, it does look like a pretty generic action game that they're trying to make stand out using some good ol' T&A, and I can't say that I see any particular similarities between the main character and the model shown. Maybe the sexualization works better in context, maybe it's just cheap fanservice, maybe there's actually a good game underneath, maybe there isn't... I don't know enough about the game to judge anything, and random people on the street saying they don't like a picture of a character doesn't give me anything more to go off of.

what's really fun is to ask the "it's anti-woke u mad bro" fans about the game what the game is about

there's a lot of those types of people cheerleading for this game, like a lot, because "the females" aren't "ugly" to serve some "western agenda" that they fully believe exists for some reason, and the developers fired a bunch of employees who were "reportedly" feminists (they didn't do this at all btw)

but the game is about a world of feminist independent women in a world where men are utterly useless

so, y'know

"Stellar Blade's main character design criticized by a very small group of people whose opinions are largely inconsequential and irrelevant"

fixed ur topic title for you

ConfusedTorchic posted...

what's really fun is to ask the "it's anti-woke u mad bro" fans about the game what the game is about

there's a lot of those types of people cheerleading for this game, like a lot, because "the females" aren't "ugly" to serve some "western agenda" that they fully believe exists for some reason, and the developers fired a bunch of employees who were "reportedly" feminists (they didn't do this at all btw)

but the game is about a world of feminist independent women in a world where men are utterly useless

so, y'know

They're fine with feminists so long as they can rub one out to them.

Never heard of it. Looks like crap.

Sonicplys posted...

Only a mindless dolt would say that Starfield is bland

It is though

adjl posted...

They're fine with feminists so long as they can rub one out to them.

which directly flies in the face of some of the characters they attack, too.

such as aloy, they attack her relentlessly because...she has peach fuzz on her face like a regular person that you can only see if you specifically zoom into her face in photo mode, despite that she has an unrealistic hourglass figure and if you actually walk instead of run, shakes her big fat ass at you with a sexy hip sway walk

like they got so upset when square supposedly "censored" tifa with the "definitely totally existed square enix ethics department", and all they did was give her thigh-highs in remake, and then went rabid at square after they "censored" child tifa by putting a black crop top on her cowboy outfit, while at the same time putting adult tifa into a string bikini with jiggle physics that'd make dead or alive jealous

they're such a weird group of people who just seem to want to be upset at everything despite actually getting what they want.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Speaking as someone who has spent a ton of time in NYC, I would never trust the opinions of anyone from NYC.

As a person who lives close enough to NYC to meet a lot of NYCers and people who work there, I 100% agree.

captpackrat posted...

Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the CHUDs.

I usually think about the lack of bathrooms and over-abundance of crab juice (which still beats Mountain Dew)

adjl posted...

I don't even know what this is, nor does a video of accosting random strangers and asking their opinions on a picture tell me much.

I'd say the same to any "on the street" segments. Even taking everything off the table, somebody isn't likely to meet the best and brightest just out on the streets -- at best, it's the lower side of average people.

And in a city with a pronounced leaning, you also aren't likely to get as many genuine opinions, but instead what they think they can or should say.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

they're such a weird group of people who just seem to want to be upset at everything despite actually getting what they want.

Eeyup. They get so frantically terrified of the idea of some SJW bogeyman coming to take away their games that they ignore basic empirical reality.

Count_Drachma posted...

I'd say the same to any "on the street" segments. Even taking everything off the table, somebody isn't likely to meet the best and brightest just out on the streets -- at best, it's the lower side of average people.

And in a city with a pronounced leaning, you also aren't likely to get as many genuine opinions, but instead what they think they can or should say.

It's simpler than that. You don't need to dip into thinly-veiled classism or political victimhood, you just have to look at the simple reality of how those videos are made: The creator goes out, interviews a bunch of people, then selects which of the interviews they want to include in the published video. The format carries an air of credibility because of how casual and random it seems, but in practice all any such video proves is "I was able to find X people that hold this opinion." It indicates nothing about how prevalent that opinion actually is because the presented data set omits every data point that the presenter doesn't want to share. There's a massive selection bias there that cannot be overcome without presenting the video wholly unedited.

So even beyond the question of whether or not it's reasonable to judge a game based on a picture of a character, the whole video exists solely to affirm the beliefs of people who already don't like that character's design, not to serve as an actual poll.

Looks like I rubbed somebody the wrong way with my post, because it got modded for being "sexually explicit." That's... pretty telling about whoever marked it, really.