Stellar Blade Success Helps Korean Games Thrive, Ex PlayStation Boss Believes

Lies of P is another recent and fantastic Korean-developed game. More Korean games please! They have great taste.

Between Stellar Blade and Lies of P, South Korea could be the next bastion of great AAA games and western developers continue to struggle

Say what you want about Stellar Blade (personal 9/10 for me) but no one can argue that Shift Up really have proven you can go from making mobile games to making extremely well polished AAA games, I'm already a day 1 for Stellar Blade 2, just give me a release date and I'll be there.

@Cakefish Lies of P and Stellar Blade were both fantastic. I hope both devs are hard at work on sequels to both. In full production, so maybe we'll see them in no longer then a year and a half or so

@Vivisapprentice Western Devs struggling? Didn’t they make Clair Obscur, Arc Raiders, Ghost of Yotei, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Hades II, Split Fiction etc. this year? Is that somehow inferior to making two 8/10 games in the last 3 years?

Stellar Blade is a very highly polished game on a technical level, particularly on Pro. One of the very best 3rd party games in this regard, and an incredible achievement.

But, I thought that overall, Lies of P was the MUCH better game (and also highly polished).

Game was fantastic. Perfect trophy list, wouldn’t change a thing. One of the most pleasant platinums I ever popped.

Stellar blade is an amazing game and I hope we get more games like it

The best thing about this generation for me is that we’re getting a lot more quality big budget titles coming from countries which don’t have much history in console gaming, such as Korea, China and Eastern Europe.

Stellar Blade and Lies of P have shown that there’s a lot of developer talent in Korea, so hopefully we’ll see even more games following up on their success.

It's nice to see Shift Up having a great success with Stellar Blade.

But S.Korea devs has great potential for years. Anyone plays PC MMORPG since early 2000 must known Ragnarok Online. On PS2 and PSP, S.Korea devs also made Magna Charta, DJ Max series, and handled KoF 2001 & 02.

And beside Stellar Blade and Lies of P, there's also Gungrave Gore and VR, DNF Duel, First Berserker Khazan, and The First Descendant that came out from S.Korea devs.

Like China, i think S.Korea devs became more and more experiences in the last 3-5 years. They offers great alternatives for gamers who wants to play games not from Japan, US, or EU.

@SeaDaVie shut the 🤬 up with your stupid facts! No one wants to read your level-headed responses when there are hyperbolic opinions to be made!

@SeaDaVie apart from Ghost of Yotel they are all indies. I was referring to AAA western

Every time I see an article about Stellar Blade I feel like jumping back to the game. I’m glad this was a success for Shift Up, looking forward to the sequel.

@Vivisapprentice indies? Most of those games cost tens of millions of dollars to develop. Warhorse Studio is bigger than Sucker Punch.

BG3, Cyberpunk 2077, GTAVI, RDR2, God of War, Spider-man etc. There’s plenty of big AAA games from western Studios that are critically and commercially massively successful.

@SeaDaVie look up what indies actually means, it doesn't mean small.

And just look at the likes of Ubisoft, warner Bros, EA, even 2k, they aren't having hits like they used to

I can see reason in that.

To me seeing the studio behind Kingdom Under Fire just make 3 games then an MMO was kind of sad to see on the Xbox OG/360 side of things for a Korean RPG series.

Seeing Pearl Abyss and others try to approach console audiences is interesting to see again.

I'm enjoying many Chinese or Korean games, whether RPGs, FMV and more.

Playing many AA Japanese games as well over the past few years more then AAA ones.

@Vivisapprentice So when you said AAA instead of Indie you weren't talking about the size of the game? That doesn't make sense.

Also, games like Clair Obscur and Arc Raiders are published by other companies and not self published. So what meaning of indie are you using exactly?

Also, EA just released Battlefield 6 which might be the biggest selling game of the year. Oh and they also released Split Fiction this year, that "indie" game you were talking about.

@judgmentarrows I'd rather they not - what you described is already a sizable number of AAA titles. For games leaning heavily into grit/realism (Last of Us), mundane designs are justifiable. For those not, how are "boring looking" character design not regarded as a negative - they always where, and would be for any other facet of art direction in that context?

I can understand not liking stripperiffic designs - that's certainly a matter of taste. I can't say I understand the aversion to female characters appearing feminine though.

@SeaDaVie so you're also just conveniently forgetting about the commercial failures of Concord, Suicide Squad, Saints Row reboot, Forspoken, Dustborn, Echoes of the End, Unknown 9, Star Wars Outlaws, Skull and Bones, Gollum, etc?

@mary1 Do you think 100% of games can succeed? What exactly is your point? Some games doing poorly negates all the good ones?

Do you want a list of all the atrocious f2p shovelware gacha games Korea has produced in the last 5 years?

Is the Japanese industry doing terribly because they produced Foamstars, Exoprimal, Babylons fall and Resident Evil Re:verse?

Edit: I just realised you mentioned Dustborn, a game literally no one in the world has ever heard about or cared about except terminally online mega chuds that are obsessed with it over some asinine political statement they think its failure represents(rather than it just being a rubbish have no one cares about).It’s obviously not even a AAA game. Jog on now.

Edit 2: as I suspected, your post history is an hilarious collection of one dimensional culture warrior nonsense. Go watch some YouTube grifter so you can learn your next opinion.

At the mo I'm currently turning to Korea for most of my entertainment as am sick to death of the box ticking that seems to dumb down actually being able to enjoy media in the west. Duty After School being the best recent dropping on Amazon what a show despite possibly a week ending.