Cyberpunkd
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Have you been to Korea? Because I was. Also to Japan and Hong Kong.
Stellar Blade Director Is Now One of the Richest People in Korea
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Anime waifus continue to NOT lose.
Felessan
Member
Article actually inaccurate as SB was in production way before Nikke reached success, notike Nikke funded SB, so it was a huge bet of Kim to work on 2 project at the same time
He is quite generous to the team, he gifted PS5 to every member on SB reveal
Felessan
Member
As in everywhere - some girls are cute, most are average
And even reliance to plastic surgery change it in low one-digit percentage, a very few goes for massive changes and most do little cosmetics that improve but not so much
Signalis
Member
Last year Shift Up actually did have a job posting for a DEI Officer, people caught on and the position was quickly removed from their site. But I think it is because they went public, so you are forced to publish ESG reports
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CliffBronger
Member
That Digital Foundry weirdo must be having nightmares after seeing this.
falling into hell
Member
Guy totally deserved it. Stellar Blade was awesome I can't wait for the sequel.
digimaster7
Member
I never played nikke but I did bought 2 nikke figures just because the character design is too damn goodYup and you contributed to it didn't you?
Baemono
Member
Yeah but the game is too damn hard
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
It's too damn hot.
Hard? They've added a ton of smart and not skill-insulting accessibility features and I enjoyed my time with it greatly without any difficulties.
Baemono
Member
Maybe I suck then, I dunno. But I'm pretty good at Bayonetta (witch time timing and stuff), but here I get killed almost every time. The demo was not a pleasant experience for me.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
In full game you can turn on Bayo-like deflection visibility markers and control parry timings. Tee game can even pause a little to help you with riposte. It's the way difficulty should be tweaked in these kind of games, IMO.
Hashassin
Member
When stellar blade releases on pc this summer, I'm gonna have to put my pp in a wheelchair.
Also, just yesterday I noticed a video saying Korea is over due to birth rates. Let's be thankful they got to push this out before it happened. Thank you Jebus!
PlayStaytion
Member
See, Korea has another Kojima, now it's China's turn.
Liopleurodon
Member
Signalis
Member
Are you being serious or are you joking?
Angry_Megalodon
Member
If he's used to Bayonetta (which only gets challenging in total climax difficulty), Stellar Blade must feel hard. You actually need to pay attention and know your moves. It's DMC 3 kind of difficulty.
Very happy for Shift Up and Co, but I'm still heartbroken by Destiny Child EOS. That worldbuilding and characters deserve a propler full-fledged game to shine, the potential is there.
I hope project Witches turn out good.
Signalis
Member
Makes sense I guess. I do love Bayonetta though, but even Climax Difficulty isn't that difficult. DMC 3 could get tough at times as well, DMC 5 was also tough at times, nearly quit getting the platinum trophy for it on PS5 but I persisted
Baemono
Member
Nah, serious. I mean I read that you can't spend all your time dodging, to let you learn other techniques, but I don't know I didn't like it, felt too complicated
FeralEcho
Member
It was my GOTY 2024 by far,funny enough Lies of P was my GOTY for 2023. I love this sudden rise of high quality korean singleplayer experiences and their well deserved success.
Meanwhile on the western side of things,too busy juggling DEI with bankrupcy all while finding new ways to blame their customers for their failures.
Meanwhile on the western side of things,too busy juggling DEI with bankrupcy all while finding new ways to blame their customers for their failures.
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
The future is waifu old man.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
No wonder 19% of Japanese young people (Korean as well probably) spend too much money on gatcha.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Eh, let's look at RPGs. 2023 had Baldur's Gate, 2024 had Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader, and 2025 had Kingdom Come 2 already. All three are amazing Western games. BG3 and KCD2 are some of the best RPGs ever made even, IMO. Let's not get too hyperbolic here.
Most Korean and Chinese SP games released in the West so far lack in storytelling, interactivity and character aspects. Hopefully some of the upcoming games will address that.
FeralEcho
Member
I never said they are all like that but you're describing exceptions to the rule.
For every BG3 there's 20 DEI filled failures.
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Felessan
Member
Playing with dodge is difficult in SB
Block is a primary defense even if you can't pull parry (perfect parry) consistently
30$ is too much
19% are probably students/shut-ins who have no stable income
As it was always with JRPG - East doesn't care about this stuff (storytelling is completely subjective)
ElFenomeno
Member
Stellar Blade reaches 2 millions units sold (February 2025). Estimation of 2.5M (PS5) and 1.4M (PC) by the end of 2025
Article in Korean.
m.businesspost.co.kr
Expectations are high for the performance of a two-way collaboration between two proprietary IPs in June. From the second quarter onward, information about the Stellar Blade sequel and Project Witches, currently in development, is likely to gradually become more visible as part of the IP expansion plan.
Article in Korean.
하나증권 "시프트업 중국에 쏠린 눈, 중국서 니케 성과가 2분기 실적 분수령"
하나증권 "시프트업 중국에 쏠린 눈, 중국서 니케 성과가 2분기 실적 분수령"
m.businesspost.co.kr
Expectations are high for the performance of a two-way collaboration between two proprietary IPs in June. From the second quarter onward, information about the Stellar Blade sequel and Project Witches, currently in development, is likely to gradually become more visible as part of the IP expansion plan.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
And SK and CN devs mostly produce gatchas. You can make generalizations any time but all regions produce good games. Well, US is kind of weak lately, but European devs have had a lot of success.
Steve Holt
Neo Member
Chuffed for him.
Good to see someone with strong principles and unwavering commitment in his ideas be rewarded.
Good to see someone with strong principles and unwavering commitment in his ideas be rewarded.
FeralEcho
Member
Sure,but my post was regarding DEI and the lack of it in recent successes like Stellar Blade and Lies of P compared to the absurd amount of failures in the western landscape that felt the desperate need to inject DEI into their games.
Regarding your gachas statement,while I don't play or care for them they are surefire successes in their respective regions and hell even in the western markets to some degree whereas the western's aversion towards femininity and appealing character designs have brought them nothing but failures for the last 5 years.
Hawk The Slayer
Member
U.S games for me! Space Marine 2, Oblivion Remake, and GTA VI beats Stellar Blade and any eastern games.
Although still looking forward to Stellar Blade 2 a lot.
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StereoVsn
Gold Member
Isn't GTA produced in a UK studio? Specifically , Rockstar North in Scotland?
Bethesda sucks now days and Oblivion remake is a big ??? still.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
The hero we needed. Looking forward to see more from Shift Up.
100%!!!! Absolutely!
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
It's an amazing game. Combat, music, exploration, world, characters.
It's a GENUINELY great game that happens to have very attractive main protagonist and great costumes unlocks.
I suggest playing it with default costumes for main quests - for immersion.
I knew from this trailer YEARS ago... and it's not even costumes galore yet.
What an amazing trailer... and it's all in the final game + way more
It's a GENUINELY great game that happens to have very attractive main protagonist and great costumes unlocks.
I suggest playing it with default costumes for main quests - for immersion.
I knew from this trailer YEARS ago... and it's not even costumes galore yet.
What an amazing trailer... and it's all in the final game + way more
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Well deserved!
For being at the fore front of making sick waifu tits and ass games for male gamers, we salute you, good sir!
For being at the fore front of making sick waifu tits and ass games for male gamers, we salute you, good sir!
Hawk The Slayer
Member
To be fair, there were some great western ones like the Witcher 3 cast cause there were a bunch of nice looking characters besides Ciri, Triss, and Yennifer that looked good too like Priscilla, Syanna, Keria, Shani, Fringilla, Dreamer, Anna. And there's Black Cat in Spiderman 1 and 2. Slyvanas, Alexastras, Ysera, among other WOW characters during the early days, Tomb Raider PS4, plus a lot of the old school 90s and early 2000s western game art and comics. They would have been even better had not purposely tried to make their characters weird and ugly cause there's tons of top tier western designs from shows like DC animated movies, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, 90s Spiderman, X-MEN, and various sword and fantasy like comics etc.
I actually thought Tides of Annihilation the bottom mid on the gooner chart was a western made game at first and got extra happy that the western side started designing good characters. But turns out it wasn't, still the design for Tides of Annihilation is a great blueprint because the character designs are beautiful while not being sexualized.
kiphalfton
Member
Doesn't matter how badly something fails, they'll just blame it on others.
Too bad people suck, and don't want to take accountability though.
DoktorCoktor
Member
The Witcher 3 released a decade ago, so it doesn't really fit in with the "current year" AAA Western slop that's being joked about. Things were still somewhat normal overall within Western media during those days.
Spooky Scary Skeleton
Member
Congrats. You and millions of other people did. I've been to bunch of Asian countries. What's that got to do with anything? I've also noticed that there are plenty of fugly Japanese girls in Tokyo with fucked up teeth that reminded me of your stereotypical British and Scottish girls and obvious sign of plastic surgery. Not going to say 90% of japanese girls are like that, like some dumbass who overgeneralizes everyone, since what I saw is a small miniscule example of people in millions of population.
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
nonsense.
Stellar Blade is an amazing game DESPITE costumes/Eve. Even if she had only the starting costume, the game is amazing for everything else. Costumes are just a cherry on top.
meanwhile forspoken failed DESPITE having sueper model ella balinsky 1:1 recreated in the game...
So no. The success and failure of those games is not entirely hinged on sexiness of main character.
And if all that was required was for the games to have almost nude characters... then it would be a boring world
Liopleurodon
Member
I know.nonsense.
Stellar Blade is an amazing game DESPITE costumes/Eve. Even if she had only the starting costume, the game is amazing for everything else. Costumes are just a cherry on top.
meanwhile forspoken failed DESPITE having sueper model ella balinsky 1:1 recreated in the game...
So no. The success and failure of those games is not entirely hinged on sexiness of main character.
And if all that was required was for the games to have almost nude characters... then it would be a boring world
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Pejo
Member
Lots of people in this thread misunderstanding that it wasn't Stellar Blade that made him his money.
1. His studio's mobile game, Goddess of Victory: Nikke is usually top 10 highest grossing gacha games worldwide month after month. Probably approaching a billion dollars total revenue at this point.
2. He took his company public this past year and his stock has done incredibly well due to point #1 above.
By all metrics, yes, Stellar Blade was a success, especially from a smaller studio with not much presence in the market, but it's probably only 10% of the reason of why he's so rich now.
1. His studio's mobile game, Goddess of Victory: Nikke is usually top 10 highest grossing gacha games worldwide month after month. Probably approaching a billion dollars total revenue at this point.
2. He took his company public this past year and his stock has done incredibly well due to point #1 above.
By all metrics, yes, Stellar Blade was a success, especially from a smaller studio with not much presence in the market, but it's probably only 10% of the reason of why he's so rich now.
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Funny I had to install a mod for BG3 to change the frog appearance.
Ponderling
Member
And I'll gladly make him even richer buying Stellar Blade on PC in a few months.
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Felessan
Member
Whats the problem?
As a basis most girls are average (whether someone like it or not it doesn't matter, it's a basis of statistics), same for guys, being korean with some (mostly minor) plastic surgery doesn't really change distribution.
Attempts to glorify as "every girl is universal beauty" simply pure bullshit.
Disagree. Costumes just make it perfect. There are so much for different tastes. Every choice is a hard one, how to dress Eve for next battle.
Those actually not that successful. Ero sells, porno not that much.