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Stellar Blade formally Project Eve

Dan_D said:
Even at $60 I'll take 30 hours in an incredible game over 100 hours in a mediocre one.
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There are plenty of games that offer more than 30 hours of great playtime that costs the same or less as Stellar Blade. E33 and Black Myth just to name a couple. Stellar Blade may be a good game but I'm not spending $60 on it if $60 can get me a better experience elsewhere.
 
Some of yall have such a hard on for defending this game that if someone won't pay $60 and buy it immediately on release, there must be something wrong with that person lol.
 
cvinh said:
Some of yall have such a hard on for defending this game that if someone won't pay $60 and buy it immediately on release, there must be something wrong with that person lol.
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Not at all. I'm simply stating that I don't agree with the idea that a game that's only 30 hours isn't worth $60. I think it depends on the game. Not every game needs to have 120 hours of content. Most of the time such content is bullshit fetch quests and busy work.
 
KickAssCop said:
Fucking Soulsborne crowd is the reason why gaming has gone to shit. They want everything to be 100 hours of non stop punishment. 👀🙄
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Nah, that's wrong. I like Soulsborne games, but do not like Elden Ring, due to its length.

I think TW3 is to blame for the long games these days.
 
KickAssCop said:
Fucking Soulsborne crowd is the reason why gaming has gone to shit. They want everything to be 100 hours of non stop punishment. 👀🙄
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Oh yeah, spank me harder.

Seriously though, I mostly agree, I enjoy the souls like gameplay loop for the most part but that alone isn't going to keep me engaged for 40+ hours, let alone 100. There needs to be more when hitting those game times. I actually prefer my games to start more difficult and get slightly easier as I progress while having small pockets of higher challenge. I'm kind of a sucker for the "power fantasy' when it comes to open world/RPG/rogue like-light games... I also don't have the time or patience anymore that some of these games require.

Personally, I'd rather pay $60 for a high quality, super tight 20 to 40 hour experience than the same for a 60 to 100 hour experience where 90% of it feels like padding of one type or another.
 
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KickAssCop said:
Fucking Soulsborne crowd is the reason why gaming has gone to shit. They want everything to be 100 hours of non stop punishment. 👀🙄
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It started with Bethesda games and continued on even into things like Mass Effect Andromeda. Basically everything open world is 100 hours now.
 
cvinh said:
There are plenty of games that offer more than 30 hours of great playtime that costs the same or less as Stellar Blade. E33 and Black Myth just to name a couple. Stellar Blade may be a good game but I'm not spending $60 on it if $60 can get me a better experience elsewhere.
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There is where people may disagree with you. Hours spent doesn't translate to a better experience. Would I pay $60 for a 1 hour game? Of course not, that is barely enough time to get familiar with controls and basic mechanics. But after a certain point, more hours doesn't = better. If anything I am annoyed if a game wastes my time. To many a good experience is a game of good quality, not how long it takes.

After playing Black Myth, I stopped after around 1 1/2 hours. I may re-try it again in the future but I found it bland and repetitive with a lame save system and respawning enemies which adds to the repetition. The experience wasn't good, and no way am I going to invest 50+ hours into a game I find to be a boring experience. If it was 12 hours, maybe. But 50? Very unlikely.

KickAssCop said:
Fucking Soulsborne crowd is the reason why gaming has gone to shit. They want everything to be 100 hours of non stop punishment. 👀🙄
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"Souls" games aren't bad because they're long, they're bad because of the gameplay style. A good long game is fine, as is a good short game. I don't like "Souls" games so I avoid them long or short. Though too many developers are trying to make games that are longer than Fallout 3, without designing a world worth exploring.
 
grifter_66 said:
Oh yeah, spank me harder.

Seriously though, I mostly agree, I enjoy the souls like gameplay loop for the most part but that alone isn't going to keep me engaged for 40+ hours, let alone 100. There needs to be more when hitting those game times. I actually prefer my games to start more difficult and get slightly easier as I progress while having small pockets of higher challenge. I'm kind of a sucker for the "power fantasy' when it comes to open world/RPG/rogue like-light games... I also don't have the time or patience anymore that some of these games require.

Personally, I'd rather pay $60 for a high quality, super tight 20 to 40 hour experience than the same for a 60 to 100 hour experience where 90% of it feels like padding of one type or another.
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Yup, quality over quantity (within a reason of course). I get a couple hours of play a few times a week, i don't need a game that takes me almost a year to finish, i will have moved on to other things by then. And if I am going to trade a little sleep to play longer, i don't want to be fishing or skin gathering or just level grinding in that time.

Games certainly don't have to be super long just for the sake of being long.
 
KickAssCop said:
Fucking Soulsborne crowd is the reason why gaming has gone to shit. They want everything to be 100 hours of non stop punishment. 👀🙄
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the challenge is why I love gaming...not that I won't play non-challenging games but most games are just too easy and it doesn't offer me the thrill that a good From Software Souls game does
 
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Yup, quality over quantity (within a reason of course). I get a couple hours of play a few times a week, i don't need a game that takes me almost a year to finish, i will have moved on to other things by then. And if I am going to trade a little sleep to play longer, i don't want to be fishing or skin gathering or just level grinding in that time.

Games certainly don't have to be super long just for the sake of being long.
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I am definitely in the same boat. I have all the hardware to enjoy gaming but not enough time. I already play games super fast. Soulsborne crap requires way too much time investment for a pittance of return. Just not for me so I completely avoid those games now. I do have Elden Ring but didn’t get past 3 or so hours as it was just tedium.

Back to this game. It is sublime and with a magical difficulty slider, it was very much the right amount of challenge for me to indulge. So I will support devs.
 
I buy 4K movies on disc for the best picture quality and sound. These films typically cost between $30 and $50 and I have hundreds of them.

I’m supposed to buy or not buy a game because of its length?

Also, factoring in hardware costs and renovation costs, my computer room cost me about 25K - so I’m not going to miss out on a game because the cost vs playtime ratio doesn’t appeal to me.

It’s such a non-issue.
 
Picked up the full titty edition for 90 bucks. Even though I may never play it but I felt guilty as I played it on PS5 and returned it within Amazon return period.
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Chuds can't stop winning!
 
Running around in crimson red dress better make that game popular af…

Game running at 400 fps lol. I think I can vsync it and turn off FG.
 
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Blade-Runner said:
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Chuds can't stop winning!
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surprising to see Nioh 2 that high up on the list and yet R&C:Rift Apart way, way down there. Even below RotR o_O
I'm gonna make a prediction and say the Onimusha reboot is going to be the new king once it releases. That'll most likely be a day 1 for me. But congrats regardless, it's gonna be a buy on sale for me though
 
Dan_D said:
I knew two of those references. I've never heard of Eiza Gonzalez. I'm not THAT old. I just don't get caught up in the cesspool that is social media. The HardForum is as close to that as I get.
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Eiza Gonzalez is only 35. She gained fame in the US with the From Dusk Till Dawn series, and is one of the most beautiful actresses currently active IMO. She does not fit into the "thick and curvy" category, just normal and healthy. Most recent film she was in:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvp2EYCXYwU

Was also in that terrible Bloodshot adaptation with Vin Diesel.
 
cvinh said:
That makes no sense. Of course I can play more than one game at a time. However, if you're on a limited budget, you have to pick and choose which games you want to purchase. If Black Myth Wukong offers me 60 hours of great playtime for the same cost, why would I buy Stellar Blade instead of that?
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Yeah it does not make sense. Black Myth Wukong came out almost a year ago. How is it even in the picture now? You didn't have the budget to buy it in 10 months? Also I have a hard time believing someone could afford PC gaming, but buying two $60 games is an insurmountable obstacle to them.
 
Dan_D said:
It started with Bethesda games and continued on even into things like Mass Effect Andromeda. Basically everything open world is 100 hours now.
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You could easily finish the main story in oblvion, skyrim, or fallout 3 in 25-30 hours, but you also could spend 200 hours in the world if you chose to. The problem with most new open world games is that they started tying progression to completing side content and exploration. Thus forcing you to do everything or close to everything whether you want to or not.

So the problem is not that open world games have 100+ hours worth of content, the problem is that you are forced to complete it all to get to the end screen. Fetch quests and collecting crap used to be fully optional, but since DA:I they made it an unavoidable part of games.

In the mentioned Bethesda titles you could choose between various paths of progression, ie. collecting crap, crafting, looting, buying, doing side quests, exploring dungeons, etc. In a 'modern' open world game they force you do all of these things just to keep your gear on par with your level, most notably ubisoft games are guilty of this.
 
M76 said:
Yeah it does not make sense. Black Myth Wukong came out almost a year ago. How is it even in the picture now? You didn't have the budget to buy it in 10 months? Also I have a hard time believing someone could afford PC gaming, but buying two $60 games is an insurmountable obstacle to them.
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I probably shouldn't even respond to this weird strawman you've got going here but the point was that there are dozens if not hundreds of competitors on the market that could offer a better experience and more playtime than SB, Black Myth just being one example. No one is saying SB is not a good game, sorry if I've offended you by saying there could be a better game. And yes not everyone has the same financial situation and can afford more than one game per week,month, year, etc.
 
cvinh said:
I probably shouldn't even respond to this weird strawman you've got going here
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How is it a strawman? You described a situation where someone only has the budget for one game and therefore they must choose between Black Myth Wukong and Stellar Blade. Taking your example at face value is not a strawman, a strawman is the exact opposite actually.
cvinh said:
but the point was that there are dozens if not hundreds of competitors on the market that could offer a better experience and more playtime than SB, Black Myth just being one example.
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How are games that came out years ago in competition with Stellar Blade now? Assuming you mean the hundreds of games in historical context and not suggesting there are dozens or hundreds of games coming out now that are better than Stellar Blade. Look, I'm even steelmanning your argument now and it still doesn't make sense.
cvinh said:
No one is saying SB is not a good game, sorry if I've offended you by saying there could be a better game.
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I'm not saying SB is good or bad, I don't care either way. What irked me about your post is the made up dilemma that it is necessary to choose one game over another when you are interested in both.
cvinh said:
And yes not everyone has the same financial situation and can afford more than one game per week,month, year, etc.
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I think you are tacking that "year" on there in an attempt to salvage your previous comment. Come on, stop doubling down and admit it's not a zero sum choice when multile good single player games come out. You don't even have to buy them at the same time, you buy one play it, then buy the other it might even be cheaper than $60 by then.
 
M76 said:
How is it a strawman? You described a situation where someone only has the budget for one game and therefore they must choose between Black Myth Wukong and Stellar Blade. Taking your example at face value is not a strawman, a strawman is the exact opposite actually.

How are games that came out years ago in competition with Stellar Blade now? Assuming you mean the hundreds of games in historical context and not suggesting there are dozens or hundreds of games coming out now that are better than Stellar Blade. Look, I'm even steelmanning your argument now and it still doesn't make sense.

I'm not saying SB is good or bad, I don't care either way. What irked me about your post is the made up dilemma that it is necessary to choose one game over another when you are interested in both.

I think you are tacking that "year" on there in an attempt to salvage your previous comment. Come on, stop doubling down and admit it's not a zero sum choice when multile good single player games come out. You don't even have to buy them at the same time, you buy one play it, then buy the other it might even be cheaper than $60 by then.
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If something is in the price range of SB, it's competition regardless of the time it came out. You're strawmanning because you're just focusing on Black Myth when I said "E33 and Black Myth just to name a couple." Just weird that you can't mention another game besides that in order to make your point because you know there ARE better options. And I tacked on year because you mentioned it first. Regardless, it's also weird that you're assuming my financial situation and than I can afford to buy 2 $60 games right now or even 2 $60 games in a year.
 
Armenius said:
Eiza Gonzalez is only 35. She gained fame in the US with the From Dusk Till Dawn series, and is one of the most beautiful actresses currently active IMO.
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The IMO part of the sentence is important here because beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. I looked her up, and physically she does nothing for me.

Only the most arrogant, obnoxious idiot would have the audacity to say a game isn’t worthy because the female player character is ugly.

Ugly according to who… the douchebag writing the post?
 
As far as price is concerned, these days, because of all the subscriptions available, pc gaming has never been more accessible.

Today you can play almost any game for peanuts simply by subbing for a month.

If owning your games and building a library is so important to you, and you’re not happy about paying $20 more for a game than you think it’s worth, then you probably shouldn’t be spending any money on gaming to begin with, and instead should be saving it or investing it or working harder to make more money and build wealth.
 
Meanwhile, I am pumping 400 fps in this game. Had to turn on DLAA to get to 240 fps. Also stellar titties makes my graphics card hot af. Hit 77 C during kicking ass.
 
KickAssCop said:
Meanwhile, I am pumping 400 fps in this game.
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You have a 5090 though, so maybe you’re just using this game to brag?

… oh wait, I also have a 5090. The massive one from ASUS that costs the same as a used car. lol
 
igl00jx said:
Let's bring this convo back to the game: how are the jiggle physics?
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Some of the most advanced around. Eve's tits actually react to the placement of her arms. (Her arms will push them in depending on their position.) Though TFD has butt jiggle physics, which this doesn't really seem to have.
 
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I'm very surprised this beat out 'stellar' PlayStation ports such as Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West, God of War etc
 

‘Stellar Blade’ Crushes PlayStation PC Record With 183,000 Concurrents​

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"Finally having broken free of PlayStation exclusivity, 2024 actioner Stellar Blade has absolutely dominated all other former PS exclusives that eventually headed to PC.....double the previous single-player record-holder, the 77,000 of Ghost of Tsushima, and as we head to the weekend, who knows if it could eventually triple that." (source)
  • Stellar Blade – 183,830
  • Ghost of Tsushima – 77,154
  • God of War – 73,529
  • Spider-Man Remastered – 66,436
  • Horizon Zero Dawn – 56,557
  • The Last of Us Part I – 36,496
  • The Last of Us Part II – 30,690
  • Spider-Man 2 - 28,189
(full article)
 
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