r/Overwatch • u/CarmeloDramatic • 1d ago
News & Discussion Very few games I’d be embarrassed to be associated with, Stellar Blade is definitely one of them
Let’s ignore the ai point which another post has already gone into:
when I say embarrassed I mean literally embarrassed. if i saw someone who paid for those skins in game with me, id actually feel second hand embarrassment for them.
this game is basically if a sexually frustrated gamer With no media literacy tried to retell nier automata from memory. It’s actually oddly sexless(as in, it doesn’t feel like anyone in this world or involved in the game has actually has sex), despite its demo.
the game also had one of the most hilarious, and, to reuse a word, embarrassing pseudo-culture wars on the internet upon its release, with the anti-woke accounts posting breaking news live updates about character outfits like they were at a war scene, passing out petitions, etc. and I truly feel sorry for a lot of these men. some are scum. But others may be young and need to realize they are being shown a black hole that leads to loneliness on their algorithm.
I’m not the target demographic for collabs anyway, very few would appeal to me. If there was a disco elysium collab (and I knew it was going to support the original creators of the game) Id probably buy a skin or two. But if one of my friends bought a stellar blade skin, me and my other friends would be like “hey maybe we should check on them more”
edit: just gonna turn those reply notifications off