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[LectureMaster]

Preview Stellar Blade : le choc et le charme

La démo de Stellar Blade est une claque inattendue.

fr.ign.com

LMFAO folks, how is reeeeeeeee gonna handle this, they are gonna have their 23rd meltdown over this game!

Edit: For folks who's not following the drama:

 

[Laptop1991]

Sorry they got called out and it didn't work more like, but not really sorry lol.

 

[Arachnid]

So... what did it originally say? Couldn't go the extra mile to include that, huh OP?

Anyway, get fucked IGN and resetera

 

[Punished Miku]

I suspect the apology is sincere. It was a little surprising to see this commentary initially from France.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

So... what did it originally say? Couldn't go the extra mile to include that, huh OP?

Anyway, get fucked IGN and resetera

It was basically that the dev had never seen a real woman and was creepy. Real off the wall shit for a preview.

 

[LectureMaster]

So... what did it originally say? Couldn't go the extra mile to include that, huh OP?

Anyway, get fucked IGN and resetera

lol, I thought it was well known by everyone! IGN France said in their preview article that whoever designed Eve's character has never seen a real woman.

here you go

 

[The Pleasure]

You gotta apologize

 

[Trunx81]

The doll

 

[Puscifer]

So... what did it originally say? Couldn't go the extra mile to include that, huh OP?

Anyway, get fucked IGN and resetera

The craziest thing is that as much as this game just doesn't interest me I'm hoping that it starts ushering in a new edgy era.


Dead or Alive had great gameplay to go with it's sex appeal, they went all in on it to make sure you could never fault it for being just eye candy. But 5 and 6 went into this weird safe horny era and sold the sex appeal as DLC and it's bizarre as shit.

Mortal Kombat 1 had no issues with ripping people to shreds in the most disgusting manner but being a C cup is a bridge too far. I'm not even straight, I wasn't impressed with Steller Blades gameplay (felt like platinums loop and I'm so over that) but I hate what they're doing to female representation in games (shit, I love some big titties too lmao)

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Crying about media will never end

 

[TGO]

IGN is just ignoring women that's ignored them for years.

 

[darrylgorn]

Listen, I understand people want to have their ugly, fat women in games. I'm fine with that as long as we can have a fair share of beautiful ones too.

 

[proandrad]

I don't get why Bayonetta gets a pass in crazy land but Stellar Blade is too much.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I don't get why Bayonetta gets a pass in crazy land but Stellar Blade is too much.

there’s more jiggling and there’s people out there who make a big deal out of anything sexual.

The sex doll comment makes no sense. I preordered a copy because the combat was fun. I’ve played plenty of action games and the thought of her being a sex doll never came to mind.

 

[Danjin44]

Why these so called "professional journalist" act this way?

This story has gotten a little bit bigger over the past couple of days, and I've apologized for insulting Dragon's Crown artist George Kamitani.

They are free not like design, that their taste but why act like a fucking idiot and insult the artist? Dont just apologize, just be fucking decent human being.....thats not too much to ask.

 

[Kilau]

The doll

WHERE IS HER PENIS!?!

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Wut, little babies couldn't stand by their proud words? I mean, if objectification is such a big problem, why isn't IGN standing its ground and changing the world with its words? ...Oh yeah...because it's a made-up issue by people with insecurities and everyone has pointed out IGN´s own hypocrisy.

also, I hope this apology makes some people in Purple land feel attacked and in danger.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Why these so called "professional journalist" act this way?

They are free not like design, that their taste but why act like a fucking idiot and insult the artist? Dont just apologize, just be fucking decent human being.....thats not too much to ask.

A lot of people use the game industry as their toilet paper. They wipe their ass and move on. You wonder what his idea of sexy is? Ubisoft girls with bubble vest hoodies and skin tight jeans? lol the type you dare not think is sexy because she’s a lesbian and dislikes white men.

 

[zapiks44]

Well, better than standing behind that shoddy reporting, but I'm still nowhere near trusting IGN.

 

[LegendOfKage]

What other non-literal "it would made sense if you spoke French" way is there to take "A doll sexualized by someone who has never seen a woman"?

Is there an explanation I'm not understanding here, or are they just trying to come up with some sort of reasoning that doesn't exist?

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

IGNorant fucks.

At least they apologized though, guess thats something. But this woke nonsense shouldn't be happening at all. How do you in the same sentence where you criticize this game character, call bayonettas character iconic? What am I missing?

 

[ZehDon]

Cool, now they just need to apologise for all the rest of their articles and we're good.

 

[SlimySnake]

Bayonetta is an actual whore but shes a feminist icon. I cant.

 

[TGO]

How do you in the same sentence where you criticize this game character, call bayonettas character iconic? What am I missing?

Really? honestly?
Bayonetta does kinda look like a lesbian and goes to protests and posts on Reee.
Especially in the later games
so she's okay.

 

[Danjin44]

Also In this game you have different outfits, if those people dont like more revealing cloths then you choose another one for her.

These people are freaking over NOTHING!

 

[Madflavor]

I don't get why Bayonetta gets a pass in crazy land but Stellar Blade is too much.

If Bayonetta came out today it’d be getting shit too, don’t let anyone perform the mental gymnastics to tell you otherwise. That game’s cover is literally her showing off her ass.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

IGNorant fucks.

At least they apologized though, guess thats something. But this woke nonsense shouldn't be happening at all. How do you in the same sentence where you criticize this game character, call bayonettas character iconic? What am I missing?

They think/feel Bayonetta represents the LGBTQIA+ community in some weird way so she gets a pass.

 

[Kumomeme]

sooo brave and prouuuud

 

[Danjin44]

They think/feel Bayonetta represents the LGBTQIA+ community in some weird way so she gets a pass.

But this also why they got offended in Bayonetta 3 when it turns out unlike fan-fiction in their head Bayonetta was never lesbian.

 

[Astral Dog]

I don't get why Bayonetta gets a pass in crazy land but Stellar Blade is too much.

they complain about Bayonetta as well(it has some fans, but there is always a group of haters as well vomiting the same things, its just that its a good game so they can't cancel it)

Bayo has always been very divisive and even the sales show it

 

[Facism]

Can't spell ignorant without ign

 

[MasterCornholio]

WHERE IS HER PENIS!?!

Maybe its a micro penis?

Bring out that magnifying glass if you want to see it.

 

[Tangerine]

Also bayonetta is grandfathered in as been around before such crazy times as more recently, and has been adopted by nintendo, who can do no wrong it seems.

Hypocritical reeeee fucks, but that's their MO, hypocrisy, which means they actually stand for nothing.

 

[Gojiira]

My god, so not only is Eves model hot as fuck but so too is the artist who designed her…Its always women who make the lewdest art it seems (hyperbole!)…

 

[Astral Dog]

They think/feel Bayonetta represents the LGBTQIA+ community in some weird way so she gets a pass.

Its just that its campy and over the top, none of the Bayonetta games really explore any sexual themes beyond the presentation, its just a fun game

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

Maybe its a micro penis?

Bring out that magnifying glass if you want to see it.

THAT'S RACIST!

 

[Embearded]

To anyone saying real women do not look like that, google that:
Celina Smith black tape catwalk.

Very NSFW, thsnk me later.

 

[MasterCornholio]

THAT'S RACIST!

Well that's not limited to Asians. Anyone can have one.

 

[Neon Xenon]

Writer says something really stupid and uncalled for in a Stellar Blade article (and apparently the IGN France editor thought it was fine, if there was an editor), gets rightly checked for it across the Internet. Good. Suppose it's nice that IGN France apologized, but this is one particular embarrassing headache that didn't have to happen. And as Danjin44 pointed out, it's like a repeat of the equally embarrassing Dragon's Crown/Jason Schreier situation back in 2013.

More free press for Stellar Blade, then. Oh well.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Is there a way to support this game even more than getting the digital deluxe copy? Any tshirts or something? ha!
These journalists are making me wanna apply to this damn company.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Dude is a multimillionaire designing the games of his dreams with a beautiful and talented wife. He is winning.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Dude is a multimillionaire designing the games of his dreams with a beautiful and talented wife. He is winning.

The X post said that is her partner. Is the director a man or woman? Not sure who had a typo.

 

[Moochi]

Biggest IGN self-pwn in recent memory. Savory.

 

[Vroadstar]

 

[LectureMaster]

Is there a way to support this game even more than getting the digital deluxe copy? Any tshirts or something? ha!
These journalists are making me wanna apply to this damn company.

There you go, now wipe that credit card for 1000 times for the mtxs.lol

 

[Mister Wolf]

The X post said that is her partner. Is the director a man or woman? Not sure who had a typo.

The Director of the game is also the owner of the company and the character designer.

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[Gamer_By_Proxy]

There you go, now wipe that credit card for 1000 times for the mtxs.lol

I have my limits. Giving two shits about a mobile game is past my limit. haha

 

[LectureMaster]

I have my limits. Giving two shits about a mobile game is past my limit. haha

Yeah seriously, I really wish they had a steel book/collection physical edition for the game. I guess when they were planning the marketing, they didn't expect this much hype it would reach.

 

[Saber]

I don't think they appologize out of misinfortation or bad mouth. Honestly, I don't even think they wanted to edit. I'm pretty sure they did this out of fear, maybe of being sued.

IGNorant fucks.

At least they apologized though, guess thats something. But this woke nonsense shouldn't be happening at all. How do you in the same sentence where you criticize this game character, call bayonettas character iconic? What am I missing?

The only reason people there defended Bayonetta is that, according to their fanfiction, she is a lesbian. Reality check she is not, thats why some of them got mad at the sequel.

 

[Rockman33]

Give them some credit for owning up to it.