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7.0

Stellar Blade Review - IGN

Great in all of the most important ways for an action game, but lackluster elsewhere.

FPSRUSSIA27d ago

7.0/10 why does IGN always rated Games Lower then Everyone else I cant wait to play it though.

Tacoboto27d ago

This guy is the same reviewer at IGN who rated FFXVI a 9 and Elden Ring a 10, among other titles like Armored Core VI and Returnal 8s, Street Fighter 6 a 9.

He doesn't review Xbox games either. So I guess you could try reading the review to answer your question.

After seeing the reviews be in line with what I expected I'm still excited with for my preorder to arrive tomorrow. Don't let a not-low score like a 7 influence you.

Cacabunga27d ago

A SONY exclusive scoring bad on ign.. really?

Tacoboto27d ago

... a 9 for XVI and 8 from Returnal just from this one reviewer. Rebirth a 9. Ghost of Tsushima another 9. TLOU Part 1 PS5 a 9, TLOU Part 2 another 10. Spider-Man 2 an 8. Ratchet & Clank a 9. Demons Souls a 9.

What of these scores from IGN are bad?

darthv7226d ago

@Caca... since when is a 7 bad?

shinoff218326d ago (Edited 26d ago )

Ff16 a 9. Jeesh I can't trust him.

Darth you know damn well all these kids and you people think 7 is a horrible game. Still doesn't make sense to me how this started. A 7 back in the day was a pretty damn good game.

darthv7226d ago

@shin... it's still a good game. 6 is okay and 8 is great. 9 is excellent and 10 is perfect. That's the scale that has been used since forever.

Bad is usually anything lower than 5, with 5 being the mid point of neither good nor bad but just... fair.

Lightning7726d ago

Exactly I'll be buying it regardless. 7 is a solid score.

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Chard27d ago (Edited 27d ago )

The IGN I know has a history of doling out 9/10 scores when they're not deserved.
Regardless, it seems you're still excited for the game, which is a good indication that numerical scores are pretty meaningless

DOMination-26d ago

"why does IGN always rated Games Lower then Everyone else I cant wait to play it though."

Honestly I don't have/can't be bothered to look at the data but my perception is completely the opposite to this statement.

The IGN review, whether people like them or not, is usually the one that matters most to publishers, developers and gamers and as a result, they usually tend to play it quite safe with big releases. When they came out and trashed SS:KTJL in a preview, people really took notice because they don't normally do that.

TwoPicklesGood26d ago

To be fair there are quite a few reviews of 6-7/10 as well as there are 8-9/10. Review scores are an outdated concept and shouldn’t be considered gospel.

itsmebryan26d ago

@FPS
The score seems in line with other reviews.. I have seen lower scores and it's at 82 right now on metacritic. 7 is not a bad , it's just ok.

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thesoftware73027d ago

I knew it; from the demo, I felt it was a 7-ish type of game(which is not bad) so be prepared for mostly mixed reviews.

Eonjay27d ago (Edited 27d ago )

IGN gave it the lowest score (bottom 10%) as anyone how hasn't been living under a rock expected. Perhaps you should check out the other 90% of scores too. A wave of ALT accounts isn't gonna change this.

Sonic188127d ago

What I find hilarious is that eurogamer gave it a 10 and think it's a game of the year contender

https://www.metacritic.com/...

Tacoboto27d ago

The worst scoring review now are two 60s.

Including from Videogamer.com, which is suspiciously not uploaded here yet...

thesoftware73027d ago

Why? I did not say anything bad about this game; why the hell is everyone in defense mode? I did see some other reviews, but I played the demo, and the impression I got was a 7-ish like I said.

Even tho I looked at other scores, why are you prompting me to go read other reviews? Is the 7 bad for you? That is a good score, and I often agree with IGN reviews.

ALT accounts? are you ok? the game gets a good 7, and you are so tight about it, wtf.

ChasterMies26d ago

Why should I assume the other scores are right? Review inflation has gotten insane, and not all games are going to fit in the 8-10 out 10 zones.

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shinoff218326d ago (Edited 26d ago )

I felt about the same playing the demo. It didn't feel day one to me but I only buy rpgs day one mostly.

For what I think I read was their first single player game it looks pretty solid though.

S2Killinit26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

Well, it is sitting at 82 metacritic, so your expectation of 7-ish was not really correct.
Its 8-ish.

thesoftware73026d ago

S2,

Huh? We are in an IGN review thread, and the topic of discussion is...they reviewed it a 7. How could I possibly be wrong when it is a fact that they gave it a 7, and I said that my assumption from the demo put it at a 7-ish, my comment was is direct relation to this review and article.

You can attempt to mingle and mangle all you want; this reviewer thinks it's a 7.

Why the hell are you guys so defensive about this game? This is so strange; it's a new developer with a new IP, and it's reviewed mostly positively; be happy and realize for their first outing, it's all good that it isn't rated 10s everywhere.

DOMination-26d ago

I don't know what's worse.

People giving a game they haven't played a score based on a feeling. Or lambasting a user for giving a score in that way because their view is (less than) 1 point apart from the average.

DarXyde26d ago

It's right around Metal Gear Rising, which is pretty much what I was expecting.

Sounds like I'm gonna love the game.

Crows9026d ago

It's actually very positive reviews pretty much everywhere.

This was also targeted by certain sites as "controversial" some can't get over the fact that eve looks a certain way.

Zenzuu26d ago

It's not mixed reviews though. The game received mainly high from everywhere else. The reception and general consensus, is the game is decent. People are not attacking you. The issue is the way you word it, like IGN is the only reliable reviewer and everything else doesn't matter.

Even though it's not your intention, but it comes across that way.

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Goodguy0127d ago

Oh boy. I think the $70 pricetag is also asking for too much as well, I liked the demo but I'll have to wait for a price drop or PC release.

Aphrodia27d ago

More like $75-80 with tax. That's way too much money to spend on a game if you aren't 90-100 % sure you're going to enjoy it.

Crows9026d ago

That's the biggest downside to most games right now. The price is ridiculous.

Blaze92927d ago

Wait a month, will be $49.99. Publishers getting carried away tagging $69.99 on every game this gen

TiredGamer26d ago

Pick your poison…. $70 in 2024 or half the time, money, effort, and risk put into game development.

Economics needs to become a core class for everyone.

Blaze92926d ago

"half the time, money, effort, and risk put into game development." that's literally still happening with the $69.99 lol

TiredGamer26d ago

So you think that Stellar Blade would have been developed, as-is, if it were priced at $39.99 in 2024? It’s not 1998 anymore. If it was okay for a game to be priced at $50 in 1998 (equivalent to over $90 in 2024), why isn’t it for a game that cost magnitudes more to produce to be priced at $70?

It’s all psychological. People can’t break through this psychological dollar threshold despite the fact that inflation has reduced a dollar’s buying power by half in two decades.

TiredGamer26d ago

In the future, when a burger will cost $30 and minimum wage will be $40 an hour, people will still feel like videogames aren’t allowed to cost more than $60. Silly.

Crows9026d ago

Like with helldiver's 2 right? No wait ..that was $40

I'll pick $40

Overspending and mis managing money is that cause for the ballooning developer costs ...nothing to do with the year we're in.

TiredGamer26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

Your are cherry picking and oversimplifying the issues. Helldivers 2 is a great game and a solid single-A or maybe even a AA experience. But it is a GAAS type game that is subsidized by micro transactions. It was a relatively low budget effort and the underneath the veneer, it is a fun game that is built on fairly simple development assets.

I’m a guy that is more interested in retro games now than I am in any of the big budget stuff coming out. I don’t have the time nor desire to care about the most intricate micro-texture maps or the most amazing sock cloth physics. It’s a world of diminishing returns and I don’t personally find value in it. But others do, and that’s precisely why development dollars keep growing.

The detail and depth to AAA game experiences requires a ludicrous amount of resource investment. The sheer number of staff involved dwarfs what was seen only a decade ago. And the problem is that we are trying to cap what publishers can recoup despite the fact that inflation is ever marching and the value of the dollar is ever dropping. This will eventually, and probably sooner rather than later, lead to a mini crash of game development. And the sad thing about that is that it will lead to only the safest and trendiest genres getting any investment. And we’ll all pay for that in shallow game experiences.

I’m all for paying lower prices. But you have to have a reasonable sense of the economics at play here. Just as it is reasonable that the minimum wage/salaries increase with inflation, it is equally reasonable that prices increase as well. All else being equal, unless something is able to be made more cheaply, things eventually HAVE to increase in price to keep up with the behavior of the time value of money. Otherwise there is no incentive to make anything.

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Elda27d ago

Gamespot gave SB an 8 which sounds about right. I really enjoyed the demo. I'll be picking up my pre-ordered copy this Friday.

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Hugodastrevas5h ago

About to plat the game, bring more stuff!

Elda4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

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purple10120h ago

if they doing a sequel, in my head, this makes a ps5pro patch, almost certain

which is where il be playing,

andy857h ago

Surprisingly this is one I didn't pick up yet. Same with Dragons Dogma. I may hold off because they would be great on the Pro

purple1017h ago

Yeh no need co compromise between performance and resolution

I know a lot of people say buy now to support the developers

But I can wait. And save the extra pennies for a 5pro