Is Stellar Blade better?

[bRice153]

For those who also played Stellar Blade, is it a better game than this? The graphics/visual style looks superior to me honestly. Wukong looks like an UE5 asset flip at times with the endless forests.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Quantum36:

Originally posted by REhorror:

Mid 90s and early 00s are all SNES, PSX, N64 and PS2.

PC gaming was ultra niche and even Blizzard only makes it super big via World of Warcraft.

The era of dominance of western games is about early 00s with stuff like Gears of War and Batman. Now it has all gone woke.

I still remember Phil Fish saying japanese games suck until he too crashes and burns.

pc gaming had some huge games in the 90's such as Doom ,Quake , Half Life , star craft , total annihaliation Duke Nukem, and then you had Medal of Honor , Call of Duty, Battlefield it also was a platform that had little to no presence from Eastern Developers, i.e Japanese devs. If they did have a presence those games never made it to US shores..

on consoles western gaming began to dominate because of the Xbox 360 which came out in 2005 Gears of War came out on the xbox 360 probably in 2006 , 2007 ish and western games continued to dominate til around 2019 when that shift started to be noticeable. It was bascially From Software and there Souls games and Capcom remaking some great games from there old Ip's and PUBG from South Korea .. Eastern devs really use to just be Japan , but now you are starting to see good titles from South Korea and China, and its not just Japan

Bro, Pokeyman, Mario, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Suikoden, Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter, Tekken, SC... these games are the big hitters of the late 90s and early 00s and have penetrated the psyche of people around the globe.

Even Call of Duty is only getting big via Modern Warfare which is the Xbox 360 era.

I do agree that titles like Half Life and Starcraft and Grand Theft Auto are massively popular but I never feel they take over the public psyche until the 360 era.

[LuBanNO.7]

monkey butt is also OK for me

[Omn1trix]

yeah i kind of like eve's butt more

[Fahrenheit]

Originally posted by bRice153:

Wukong looks like an UE5 asset flip at times with the endless forests.

Just say you can't git gud. Can't even past the first chapter.

[Quantum36]

Originally posted by REhorror:

Originally posted by Quantum36:

pc gaming had some huge games in the 90's such as Doom ,Quake , Half Life , star craft , total annihaliation Duke Nukem, and then you had Medal of Honor , Call of Duty, Battlefield it also was a platform that had little to no presence from Eastern Developers, i.e Japanese devs. If they did have a presence those games never made it to US shores..

on consoles western gaming began to dominate because of the Xbox 360 which came out in 2005 Gears of War came out on the xbox 360 probably in 2006 , 2007 ish and western games continued to dominate til around 2019 when that shift started to be noticeable. It was bascially From Software and there Souls games and Capcom remaking some great games from there old Ip's and PUBG from South Korea .. Eastern devs really use to just be Japan , but now you are starting to see good titles from South Korea and China, and its not just Japan

Bro, Pokeyman, Mario, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Suikoden, Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter, Tekken, SC... these games are the big hitters of the late 90s and early 00s and have penetrated the psyche of people around the globe.

Even Call of Duty is only getting big via Modern Warfare which is the Xbox 360 era.

I do agree that titles like Half Life and Starcraft and Grand Theft Auto are massively popular but I never feel they take over the public psyche until the 360 era.

back then there was PC gaming and there was console gaming. the two really did not mesh.. You had pc games and you had console games...

There were peeps that we're in to either or both. back then there really was a reason to own both consoles and a pc

[Quantum36]

also Street Fighter and Tekken were originally known for being Arcade games and not console games

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Quantum36:

Originally posted by REhorror:

Bro, Pokeyman, Mario, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Suikoden, Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter, Tekken, SC... these games are the big hitters of the late 90s and early 00s and have penetrated the psyche of people around the globe.

Even Call of Duty is only getting big via Modern Warfare which is the Xbox 360 era.

I do agree that titles like Half Life and Starcraft and Grand Theft Auto are massively popular but I never feel they take over the public psyche until the 360 era.

back then there was PC gaming and there was console gaming. the two really did not mesh.. You had pc games and you had console games...

There were peeps that we're in to either or both. back then there really was a reason to own both consoles and a pc

I am kinda half and half, but consoles games from the East were really dominant tho.

Hence all the need for emulators.

[leo_gear]

Originally posted by REhorror:

Originally posted by Quantum36:

pc gaming had some huge games in the 90's such as Doom ,Quake , Half Life , star craft , total annihaliation Duke Nukem, and then you had Medal of Honor , Call of Duty, Battlefield it also was a platform that had little to no presence from Eastern Developers, i.e Japanese devs. If they did have a presence those games never made it to US shores..

on consoles western gaming began to dominate because of the Xbox 360 which came out in 2005 Gears of War came out on the xbox 360 probably in 2006 , 2007 ish and western games continued to dominate til around 2019 when that shift started to be noticeable. It was bascially From Software and there Souls games and Capcom remaking some great games from there old Ip's and PUBG from South Korea .. Eastern devs really use to just be Japan , but now you are starting to see good titles from South Korea and China, and its not just Japan

Bro, Pokeyman, Mario, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Suikoden, Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter, Tekken, SC... these games are the big hitters of the late 90s and early 00s and have penetrated the psyche of people around the globe.

Even Call of Duty is only getting big via Modern Warfare which is the Xbox 360 era.

I do agree that titles like Half Life and Starcraft and Grand Theft Auto are massively popular but I never feel they take over the public psyche until the 360 era.

lol I think you're both being rather reductive.

Gaming in the 90s and 2000s was just diverse. This was the era that started to shift gaming from a niche market to main stream and it took a lot of juggernauts from around the world to accomplish with RPGs from Japan in the late 90s and MMORPGs from the west making gaming an obsession. FPS, horror, racing sims, fighting games, they came from various regions that ultimately created the boom of the 2010s along with that good ol' fashion Wii action.

I think western games get uncharacteristically shoehorned into being called 'woke' a bit much because people keep focusing on AAA games and not the indie and mobile scene that was what pushed us to the modern era where video games are just a part of regular culture instead of a niche hobby they were in the 80s and 90s.

AFAIK, China is doing their best to make an impression just like everyone else. It's just they weren't much on the scene back in the 2000s. I don't think this indicates they are the new juggernaut but they are on the scene just like South Korea starting hitting hard in the MMO scene in the late 2000s to mid 2010s. It's always a shifting spotlight.

[Double]

Still waiting for it to come out

[xabre2th]

it's not on pc. so...

[bRice153]

Originally posted by xabre2th:

it's not on pc. so...

Hence why I asked people who have played both. Read much?

[bRice153]

So judging by all the praise Stellar Blade is getting here it should be no question it'll beat out Wukong for GoTY nominee?

[Quantum36]

Originally posted by bRice153:

So judging by all the praise Stellar Blade is getting here it should be no question it'll beat out Wukong for GoTY nominee?

Depends on what you mean by GOTY

at the game awards probably not because both Stellar Blade and Wukong were attacked by the woke media...

Steam Awards , Stellar Blade cannot win that because there is no pc version

[zero.calvin]

Originally posted by Quantum36:

at this point I think Asia is rapidly becoming the epicenter of gaming, The west is to busy rehashing old tired formuilas. and is to busy trying to sell dlc and microtransactions and wokeness

asian game studio kinda dominated during the 90s and early 2000... especially in the arcade, we are just going to return back to that golden era of gaming.

also sad to inform you guys that the game studio that made stellar blade now has a DEI department... so looks like stellar blade might be one hit wonder for that game studio.

[Pnume]

Originally posted by xabre2th:

it's not on pc. so...

The PC version has been announced by the devs