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Stellar Blade 2 | Summer Game Fest Trailer

With the sheer number and inconsistencies of look for her i'm more and more convinced this trailer is AI generated (I could be wrong of course, but her look is all over the place)
 
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People are so scared of being called a pedo online, they will literally burst into flames if they play a game where the protagonist's facial features are youthful.
I think its just an easy button to push on people. Everyone not in The Files more or less considers pedophillia to be perhaps the single worst trait that a person can have, often worse than being an actual murderer, so people get really defensive when anything that suggests they are getting anywhere near that territory crops up.

People who want to hate on the franchise will hammer that button with delight because it makes their flamewar rivals upset and the more upset and defensive they are the easier it is to pull the "why you so upset bro?" card.

To be fair I also think the face looks a bit too young for me in that first look at her face, but in the rest of trailer it is not nearly so noticeable and some people DO just look like that, with naturally chubby and rounded features on the face. Folks just have their panties in a twist.
 
The trailer made God of War Laundry look like a joke, which it already is.
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They are not backing down.


Good, they shouldn't. Her face is fine, if they decide to change it that's fine too, but I'd tell these people to kick rocks just out of spite. It's not like changing it will fix anything, most of the people who are attacking the game were going to attack it anyway, this is just a convenient excuse. This is the exact same playbook they used with the first game.

Exactly my thoughts. I too mistook her to be a young boy until the cloak came off. But after that, she clearly looks like an adult. Plenty of baby faced Asians out there. So are people who sleep with them pedos? That's ridiculous. If it wasn't just her face but her entire design that looked adolescent, then I can understand the uproar. Weird nitpicky controversy to be honest. Didn't even know this was a problem until I came in here now.


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There are a ton of Western porn brained men who believe being attracted to any woman who doesn't have 44EEE tits and a fat BBL type ass is the equivalent to being a pedo. Almost every time a petite Asian woman posts their photos on social media there are a couple of mouth breathers calling her a child or something similar.


With the sheer number and inconsistencies of look for her i'm more and more convinced this trailer is AI generated (I could be wrong of course, but her look is all over the place)
Nah, it's actual gameplay. They demo'd it after the show to journalists and it was the same section with someone playing. The only difference between the trailer and gameplay is that they removed the UI in the trailer.
 
Nah, it's actual gameplay. They demo'd it after the show to journalists and it was the same section with someone playing. The only difference between the trailer and gameplay is that they removed the UI in the trailer.
Very strange how inconsistent it is then, unless some parts of the trailer are from different builds
 
If you're complaining about Evie being too young, please contact GOG and Steam and demand that they remove Messiah from their stores.
You want to be consistent, don't you?

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Are you not understanding context? Messiah's camera is not zooming in this cherub's tits and ass. You are not dressing it up in sexy costumes. It's not posing on sexy poses made to show off it's body.

SB2, based on SB1, will be doing all of those things. And it was fine and fun that those things were in SB1 because Eve was CLEARLY an adult. Evie is riding the line, at the very least, given how much debate there is already. That's the problem. Context.

Jesus Christ. Am I taking crazy pills or is this forum deliberately being obtuse?
 
No one is wrong for saying that Asians tend to look younger. But he's being hyperbolic with Western beauty standards and projecting comment. With the right makeup and photographer, a lot of Korean actors and actresses can look really young. That picture is of IU, an actress/singer. This is her in her last K-Drama:

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This is her years ago in My Mister:
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She does not look anything remotely close to this:

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I've seen 1000s of K-Drama episodes, and I've never seen an adult who remotely looks like that or could pull off that look.

I don't need a Korean to tell me what a young Korean looks like and what an adult looks like.

There are also Koreans out there who think she looks a little too young:



Translate:

"
Watching SGF, there were two games that made me think, "Yeah, this is obviously a Korean game," but I reacted to them differently.

Aion 2: Okay, typical Korean-game female character design.

New Stellar Blade: Jesus, are you trying to get called pedos??
"

Im giving u this, from that pic she looks younger than adult, does it change anything tho? She is android and for south koreans(who actually make game) she looks like young adult.
But once again, i give u ur win, she looks 17(or hell maybe even 13, lets go all out) now what? Android in an action/fighting game cant look like 13yo?
Devs wont go full degen cuckman style and we wont see scenes like those in this game:

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Evie is riding the line, at the very least, given how much debate there is already. That's the problem. Context.
The only debate is what range of how much people suck at noticing how old asian women look. People already showed models in their late 20s/early 30s able to match the basic features and proportions.

This isn't some 1000 year old lolita, it's just a tomboy haircut on a girl with proportions more women in that region would actually have vs 1st game Eve that would be rare or enhanced.
 
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Are you not understanding context? Messiah's camera is not zooming in this cherub's tits and ass. You are not dressing it up in sexy costumes. It's not posing on sexy poses made to show off it's body.

SB2, based on SB1, will be doing all of those things. And it was fine and fun that those things were in SB1 because Eve was CLEARLY an adult. Evie is riding the line, at the very least, given how much debate there is already. That's the problem. Context.

Jesus Christ. Am I taking crazy pills or is this forum deliberately being obtuse?

This. Way too many defending what looks like a teenager in a game that might be sexualizing her. Like you said, it was fine in SB1 because Eve was one sexy ass adult android. But in SB2 it's gonna be as gross as hell.
 
So there really is no bad blood between Sony and Shift up?


People love to see drama where none exists because they themselves take things personally. So, they invent a world in their head where everything is personal. Nothing is just simply business. Which is the vast majority of these kind of deals in reality.
 
People love to see drama where none exists because they themselves take things personally. So, they invent a world in their head where everything is personal. Nothing is just simply business. Which is the vast majority of these kind of deals in reality.
Not to mention the studio is famous for walking the line, which directly conflicts with a Console's desire to be family friendly. The studio know what they are good at and in any case, Sony wouldn't pay very much for exclusivity now that Xbox is no longer a direct threat. In the end the studio can work with Sony, but only as business partners and no closer, their goals don't really align.
 
Not to mention the studio is famous for walking the line, which directly conflicts with a Console's desire to be family friendly. The studio know what they are good at and in any case, Sony wouldn't pay very much for exclusivity now that Xbox is no longer a direct threat. In the end the studio can work with Sony, but only as business partners and no closer, their goals don't really align.

Yeah. They both got out of each other what they needed at the time. Most developers would prefer to be able to make their own decisions and not have to answer to anyone else. Publishing deals and acquisitions don't really happen because a dev dreams of having a boss. They happen because the financial reality required it.

But people are weird. They think what really happened is that Jim Ryan or Hermen Hulst walked into the room and fucked the studio heads so good they started dating. Then Shift Up found out they were fucking other people and broke up with Sony. Like an episode of Jerry Springer.
 
That is a 15 year old girl. Its clear to me many people on this forum have never met any girls or women in their lives and have no daughters, sisters, or female cousins.
Aren't you the dude that was adamant that Diana was pedo bait in those Pragmata threads?

Yeah, I don't think you're the arbiter of what female characters look like, honestly.
 
I wonder if everyone on Neogaf clutching their pearls about Evie like a bunch of uppity Karens would be screeching "PEDO" if Stellar Blade 2 had this on the box art?
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That is a 15 year old girl. Its clear to me many people on this forum have never met any girls or women in their lives and have no daughters, sisters, or female cousins.
That is an 100% fictional character with 100% fictional face so she can have any age, especially being 100% synthetic. 🤷‍♂️
 
Eve has looks of mid-twenties woman, Evie looks around 19-20. Dunno how there is still discourse on this. Is it just "modern* beat up looking woman complaining?
 
Eve has looks of mid-twenties woman, Evie looks around 19-20. Dunno how there is still discourse on this. Is it just "modern* beat up looking woman complaining?
Eve has a face very unrealistic/doll/anime stile so she looks whatever age they choose for her. Evie looks is far more realistic but still unrealistic enough to have whatever age they choose. 🤷‍♂️
 
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Eve has a face very unrealistic/doll/anime stile so she looks whatever age they choose for her. Evie looks is far more realistic but still unrealistic enough to have whatever age they choose. 🤷‍♂️
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These are Kpop stars. 3 of them are 20 in the picture and one is 25.

I think Evie looks realistic AND 20 years old to Koreans.

To Wrsterners, and our eyes looking at Hormone laden food ingesting population that entered puberty at 13, sure they look too young.
 
These are Kpop stars. 3 of them are 20 in the picture and one is 25.

I think Evie looks realistic AND 20 years old to Koreans.

To Wrsterners, and our eyes looking at Hormone laden food ingesting population that entered puberty at 13, sure they look too young.

You just said they're Kpop stars. They have professional hair and make up artists using everything they can to make them look perfect and as youthful as possible, not to mention professional lighting and cameras to hide other imperfections. They have also almost certainly had eyelid surgery, nose surgery, and/or lip fillers. How can you possibly use these pictures as legitimate comparisons to real world women?
 
Come the fuck on.
it was a joke man.

You know what I meant. The prior post was asserting that all Asian and specifically Korean women look like these Kpop stars, when that is simply not the case. At least not naturally.
I don't think he was claiming that all koreans look like that but rather than they can look like that.

In any case Evie is a videogame character, so comparing her look to something "top-tier" like the looks of K-Pop star seems fine to me.
 
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You just said they're Kpop stars. They have professional hair and make up artists using everything they can to make them look perfect and as youthful as possible, not to mention professional lighting and cameras to hide other imperfections. They have also almost certainly had eyelid surgery, nose surgery, and/or lip fillers. How can you possibly use these pictures as legitimate comparisons to real world women?
Broseph, you are saying idealized music stars are less realistic than MADE UP VIDEOGAME CHARACTER?

Go outside for a while. You've been breathing in your own fumes too long.
 
Broseph, you are saying idealized music stars are less realistic than MADE UP VIDEOGAME CHARACTER?

Go outside for a while. You've been breathing in your own fumes too long.
I have lowkey localised his place of living, bro, lord have mercy over his soul and his dick discipline may be above top of buddist monk quality, like topher's after his 2nd immortal ascension.
Thats how young adult women look in his area only:


I would be afraid to step my foot outside too on his place, those creatures can then haunt u durning ur sleep in all kinds of nightmares, its like early stage alien parasite, just instead of in ur chest they grow out of their hair :)

U gonna need proper predator cleanup for that shit:
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You just said they're Kpop stars. They have professional hair and make up artists using everything they can to make them look perfect and as youthful as possible, not to mention professional lighting and cameras to hide other imperfections. They have also almost certainly had eyelid surgery, nose surgery, and/or lip fillers. How can you possibly use these pictures as legitimate comparisons to real world women?
And, again, Evie is synthetic "handmade" so she can look whatever they want at whatever age they want.

Come the fuck on. You know what I meant. The prior post was asserting that all Asian and specifically Korean women look like these Kpop stars, when that is simply not the case. At least not naturally.

She doesn't even look Korean to me.

This looks Korean:

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