I hope more korean studios will focus on singleplayer AAA PC and console games instead of endless MMO and mobile stuff!

Asia will win. Stay strong, brother.

Gamers around the world will reward great games and developers no matter were they are from. Shift Up is about to become a household name amongst gamers.

It's amazing how much Korea has progressed since they stopped eating fido. On a serious note though, last I heard of such things occurring was somewhere around the mid 2000s, likely a more rural thing but shit happens. Since then, Korea has seemingly turned into a great destination for tourism and technology, and is now looking to be on the cusp of becoming a new technological powerhouse to replace Japan. I wager, if current progression can be maintained, Korea will effectively be the new Japan in another ten or so years, and a few Korean developers will be held in equal regard to top Japanese ones. Or better even, especially when considering that many of the old marks are kinda currently pissing in their own whisky barrels these days with all the pandering to twatter leftists.

Enjoy the moment friend, and be proud of your fellow countrymen! Hope there's many more great Korean single player games in the future!

Not many are aware that this is a studio made of veterans with pretty famous games under their belt prior to grouping up under this new name.

@@Phyllion- what games?

​@@daysgone2997 im not claiming its famous, but i think a lot of them worked on Blade and Soul together

@@regulator18E I remember hearing about blade and soul. Don’t think it did particularly well. But they obviously gained some experience from that project towards stellar blade

@@XiLock_Alotx yea I think it was one of those middle of the pack MMOs that just kinda blended in with all the others that came out at the time. I'm vaguely familiar with it but never tried it, it's wuxia themed, and that's not really my thing. Stellar blade seems great so far though. I knew nothing of it before the drama started, but the demo instantly sold me, I'm a sucker for most ARPGs lol

Well, there's still plenty of games running at 1440p 60fps.

GOW R ? Horizon Forbidden West ? Because yeah, HFW is far more detailed than This. Not even talking about DMC V and his 120FPS Mode and has far ahead characters details than This.

This was supposed to be the 4k60 generation

​@@Zer01neBDTDevshhh, those games are "woke"

@@mechanicalmonk2020 Yeah, disgusting characters and writing in HZH... but GOW:R too?

i got spooked for a sec because as i was reading this comment, that comment came up in the video at the exact timing i started reading your quote lmao. That was weirdly perfectly timed

Based man of taste

I really liked he stayed serious and professional while saying and showing.

lmao, I think he was talking about the scenery though.

@@ijiikieruoh he definitely was talking about the scenery. The skin scenery.

Kaise h ji!!?? 😂 I see you love digital foundry as well karl bhaiya... Boht saare comments me dekhta hu.. Btw love your vids

Patient gamer

Karl plays DS?! my man. Love your videos bro

It most certainly did. Stellar Blade is currently #1 on the preorder charts via both Amazon & Sony storefronts in numerous countries, worldwide.

Me too. I was like okay im ready to play this asap. Then i saw the release is at the end of the month🤦🏻‍♂️😂

I mean, it's a UE4 game with no ray tracing, so it shouldn't be hard to run well, right?

@@mattmaas5790 tell that to Square and their performance mode in FFVII Rebirth that looks blurry af (also UE4 with no RT, btw)

Yeah it's a last gen game, it shouldn't be surprising that it runs well. ​@@mattmaas5790

@@Pakitorocker That game is WAY more ambitious than Stellar Blade lmao.

​@@Pakitorockertbf that game has a lot more going on than stellar blade

😅

if you listen carefully you can hear alex crying in the background

@@BigBoss-tq3oc 🤣

Context?

Alex is right tho

sight*

This almost never happen to PlayStation exclusives games. Only handful of games sometime shows some lunch but it fixed very fast. Days Gone is the only game that lunch kinda bad but it fixed within first week almost

@@scarpusgaming phone auto type lol

Don’t have a ps5, but I’m getting even stronger nier automata vibes now that I’ve heard some of the sound track

@@HowdyYTSame studio without Keiichi Okabe working on it

@@HowdyYT apparently, a lot of the soundtrack was made by the studio Monaca led by Keiichi Okabe -- the composer of Nier series soundtrack

Same, bro! I found myself humming along, haha. It's some Nier tier sounding music. 🎵

It's just ripping Nier Automata off, nothing special

Lies of P before this but yeah

@@JagsP95 I was blown away with how good LoP ended up being. I thought it was going to be just another cheap souls clone. Korea is killing it lately and not just with video games either. They have had some great TV shows come out as well.

​@@Entrepedas someone who doesn't like souls games, I actually had a fun time with lies of P for the extent that I played it and that's really saying something.

Lies of Paynus 2: Stellar Ass

Sony helped make the game

somebody misses Forspoken? :q

It also looks like a game from PS4, for full price...

Looks way better. ​@@Fytyny

​​@@Fytynylol tell me you're a salty Xbox Fanboy without telling me you are a salty Xbox fanboy 😂😂😂

Hope you stayed for the bonus new boss fight that unlocks afterwards, because I grinded that sucker for at least three hours to really test out the combat.

As do the rest of us.

Thought the saying was beside....ohh I get ya

Well there would be a long queue

Porn addiction is bad

@@tysopiccaso8711Coomers everywhere. Sad

"love and care"

@@mechanicalmonk2020 I will be shooting I mean pouring my love and care to this game as well.

​@@maineman5757I will try my skills as a one handed gamer with this one. I have to customize a controller now.

How does it look like that?

@@nayyarrashid4661 👌

Can u explain why, I don't get it

@@mattmaas5790Combat is pretty good. Music is an absolute banger. Presentation is very satisfying and feels huge, like a sci-fi epos. Visuals are also very good. And the level design feels very nice and scratches and itch that not many games did for me. This feels like a mix of Devil May Cry, NieR Automata and Sekiro and I’m all here for it.

@@mattmaas5790what EonHSD said

@@mattmaas5790 IGN employ?

@EonHSD well that does sound good. Can you explain the story a little to me? And are there skill trees for the combat?

It will! Don't doubt it, it will be nice to see.

@@ignacio6454 it will sell a few millions and thats about it... Lets be serious... It will come nowhere close to something like Bayonett or DMC, and those games' sales range from 2 to 7 million the most successful.

It's literally topped pre order charts so yeah it's sold well already

The second best way. The best way would be to have a _free_ demo. I really don't get what's behind this new trend to make people pay for what's essential an ad.

Buttonetta

Nice!

Sexiro Automata: IGN France Cry Twice

​@@venomfuryx3250IGN France may cry.

@@venomfuryx3250 🤣🤣🤣 Based

I played Blade and Soul for a few years. Stellar Blade is definitely holding back compared to his usual designs.

Lol, I was wondering why it reminded me of Magna Carta

Absolutely no one is showing any restraint with their hands after seeing these characters. We need reverend paynus.

How so?

@@baronsengir187 Parrying that is well rewarded and forgiving. Enemy attack patterns that are well telegraphed but punishing if you try to spam through them. Enemy types that require different approaches. And I say foundationally because the demo is the opening to the game, where Eve is at her most limited in terms of what she can do. For instance, one of the first free gets is a pseudo mikiri counter.

55 60 100 better

@@user-ez1kx3vs2u It varies a lot, depending on the type of TV panel, I just left one suggestion.

I really like the English vo, which is very rare for me. I play all Japanese games in Japanese and most others in German including the last of us, so those characters belong to those actors in my mind.

@@charliemilroy6497 indeed, the English one is good, much better than I expected. I usually choose that by default but for an Asian game like this, Korean language felt more fitting.

@cun7us I think the setting makes a big difference as well as the voice cast. English VO for Asian games as well as anime is notoriously bad because they often try to mimic the style of the Japanese or whatever. Yakuza has to be Japanese for me, but Final Fantasy XVI I will play in English when I get round to it. Stellar Blade doesn't appear to be a Korean setting even though the cast all seem to be Asian (not very diverse, I know), and I don't know any Korean and subtitles in games are poorly presented and/or I need glasses (I'm fine with TV and movie subtitles).

Remember to hydrate and moisturize your other hand too

@@mechanicalmonk2020 Not all of us are incels that are looking forward playing this sorry buddy.

@@andrethevegan_ So you're an "incel" that's just not into video game characters? That's fine.

​@@andrethevegan_i dont think you know what incel means 😂

@@JagsP95 you

Yeah, maybe with post launch updates they can add 40fps mode. And fix any issues of balanced reconstruction.

Where is the video of him talking about it? I'd love to see the comments 😂

Maybe you should look up what "unsolicited" means before you attempt to use big words next time champ.

Why does his opinion need to be solicited in the first place? Does he need permission from the audience to give an opinion?

@@krazyfrog Go pick a up a dictionary, champ.

@@TheReclusiveGamer I know exactly what unsolicited means, champ. The guy literally paid to give his opinions on games on a podcast where they discuss games and go around the table asking each others opinions does not fit that definition. Maybe pick up an actual dictionary for once instead of your incel handbook.

*Stellar. Just like the title.

It is still blurry as hell

Which is weird. He made a totally valid point. The character design is bland and generic fanservice. People make fun of this stuff on twitch all the time with all the e-girls, but somehow it's bad when you say it about this game?

​@@hihihi1q23there is something weird going on with the bot-like responses to this game. All from the anti woke crowd

​@hihihi1q23 just sounds like a debate between west and east. She's not bland to a lot of people. Also she will have 30 costumes. I think Tifa looks more bland and I dont dislike tifa. But so many animes have done characters like this. But when its done in live action or a game people come out of the woodwork to shit on it pretending like there aren't millions of people who love it and will pay money for it.

The clowns showing up as expected.

@@hihihi1q23Generic by what standards lmao? I haven’t seen a character like this in a while. Just say you don’t like attractive women

DD2 running at 30 FPS is honestly just embarrassing and speaks to the dev's laziness. The PS5 and XBSX are more than capable of running a game with the last gen graphics DD2 has at 60 FPS.

Capcom made DMC5 that looks better than this and has as many performance modes with more than 5 enemies on the screen at once.

​@@Karlach_I blame series s

It’s the cpu usage because of physics calculations that slow DD2 down, not much to do with the visuals. 🤷‍♂️

@@Karlach_ As someone who knows it well, I mostly blame the Engine. It wasn't made for a game of that scale, it was originally made for linear horror games and is now being hamfisted into every major Capcom project forcefully.

You were going to wait for pc on a ps5 exclusive?? Meaning you'd be waiting like a good 3 or so plus years?

@@TimeMasterOG i’m waiting for certain games like FF7 Rebirth. That game has a terrible performance mode on PS5. I buy on PS5 so long as the performance mode is good.

@@mikem2253 oh fair enough. So because the performance on ps5 is amazing your going to get it on the ps5 basically?

@@TimeMasterOG Correct. My PC demolishes the PS5 but if the game looks and runs well on PS5 i’ll never wait. Spiderman 2, GoWR and Horizon FW are all games i’ve bought on PS5. GoW 2018 is absolutely stunning on PC though.

I see you literally everywhere, you'll be commenting in my dreams next

@@MercerVerse ooh ooh, can I do that, comment in your dreams? I promise I will be nice!!!

​@@Bawrabawla Stay away bruh

@@MercerVerse 🥺😭

crazy right, their first game, and it's much better than from studios, that have been in the game for 20 years.

like what? Name some.

@@turbotrup96 everything from level design, character design, combat, performance, visual quality, game mechanics... all of this was executed with such high standards in Stellar Blade that it easily rivals the work done by much larger and more experienced dev teams

@@sabakunovedo The character design is the very generic Eastern 'waifu' aesthetic that you see in a million Korean mmos and live service games. The other elements of the game are pretty mediocre. I'd recommend you play Lies of P, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Bloodborne, or Nioh. This game had the backing of Sony, it's not like it's a tiny team with zero budget.

@@sabakunovedo Graphics' quality is on a level of PS4 games. In fact, some of said games actually look better than Stellar Blade (FF7R, DMC5, Horizon games, TLoU2). And because of that, PS5 is able to hold it all together with decent performance. (EDIT: and also, just like the person above me said, they obviously did get some of Sony's help) Artistic choices are very generic, at least when it comes to the environment; just a post apo destroyed city, not much else to see here. Game mechanics? It adds nothing new to the genre, or did I miss something? The freshest idea it's had that I've noticed was moving a footbridge while swimming, and I'm pretty sure even that is not new. I don't mind the character designs, but I also see nothing new here besides simple, tight, shiny suits inspired by works like Gantz -- being worn by typical moe characters designed by eastern asian artists. Level design, as in: platforming - is decent. I think they did a bit more than they would do in most other eastern slashers, and, especially, jRPGs.

@@hihihi1q23 yep, played all of the listed games and still appreciate what Shift Up did here If the team sucks, no amount of backing and money will help turn the game into a polished final product

for some reason japan is perpetually like 20 fucking years behind tech and optimization wise. none of them seem to understand how to fucking optimize and stabilize their goddamn games anymore. fromsoft, capcom, square, they all have been putting out just dogshit performance in their games recently.

Questionable. With an uptick of only 45% in rasterization i'm not sure.

@@D-D-- 1800p reconstructed maybe but i would prefer a enhanced perf mode @ 120fps 1440p

yeah which AA method ?

No kidding. I don't care how good a game is, I won't play 30 fps anymore. I'm glad people still enjoy 30 fps, but for me it's a major headache waiting to happen. This is especially true if the game is action focused. And for $70 per game, that 60 fps better be locked with solid frame pacing.