I got Expedition 33 fatigue.
>>729646113I have Slop Emblem fatigue.
>>729646113>it's real>look up who wrote itGaming journalism has always been, and always will be, a joke.
We've been here before, and yet it feels like we're beyond parody
Not if it's using 3Hs garbage engine and mechanics
Fortune wave will be the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of JRPGs
>>729646113I hope its good instead
>>729646275No shit
Japan will seethe about this game forever it seems. Hasn't been any innovation there for at least 10 years now (fromsoft) and imo it's better that way. Their whole thing is recycling not creating (Nintendo).
>>729646113When the french effortlessly mog decades of japanese making their slop with their first try, it's no surprise to see so much praise over E33 and how much it humiliates the japanese.
>>729646275>is bad at ranking BY HIS OWN FUCKING WORDS>is in charge of reviewing games
>>729646469Reminder that Edge Magazine gave Doom 7/10 and it was mostly for graphics because the reviewer thought that interactivity Ultima Underworld should be minimum standard for all 3D first person games.
Is FF an expedition33like?
>>729646626it's an e33lite
I have 3HRT fatigue
I have niggers, chinks, mexican and pajeets fatigue
Which Dark Souls is the Expedition 33 of Dark Souls?
>>729647002Elden ring
The widescale fellation of E33 is, I must confess, a laughable phenomenon to observe.An "indie" game made on a $10 million budget, with a star-studded voice cast and the backing of wealthy investors, while making use of Unreal Engine stock assets - and all propped up by an emotionally manipulative storyline that anyone who's read a book or two beyond the shallow end of contemporary fiction will recognize is trite and mawkish - sweeping every award in 2025 is perfectly fitting.Mechanically, the game completes the illusion. It is a JRPG designed for normies who hate (or rather, are embarrassed to be associated with) JRPGs and are far more interested in an "accessible and immersive" experience. The result is a combat loop that flatters the player’s sense of participation while asking almost nothing of them beyond rhythmic compliance: press the button, watch the spectacle. It's Pavlovian. The narrative is less a story than a checklist of affective cues, engineered to provoke recognition rather than reflection. It's all handled with the kind of solemn obviousness that mistakes earnestness for depth. It insists upon emotion as a substitute for thought.That this design philosophy is rewarded so thoroughly speaks less to the game’s individual failings than to the current critical ecosystem surrounding games. Awards culture increasingly favours works that resemble prestige television. E33's critical success rests almost entirely on an aggressively curated emotional register. Of course, to question the shallowness of such experiences is to risk being framed as elitist, even as the industry openly celebrates projects engineered to offend no one and challenge nothing.Don't mistake my point. E33 is not a catastrophe. It is worse than that: it is exemplary. It represents the logical endpoint of a medium desperate for cultural legitimacy, chasing validation by mimicking the least demanding forms of "serious" art while hollowing out what once made its genres distinct.
>>729646275That's just your average Three Houses fan
>>729647170Eh, it was pretty good.
>>729647170What jrpgs are in your opinion less basic than e33 though? cant think of a single japanese one that has a more complex system. FF obviously not, DQ is for kids, Persona is for teens and is barely a game. I also dont wanna say e33 is complex at all (it aint), just cant think of another jrpg with more menuing.
>>729646113Get used to it, this is gematria/numerology shit they are doing. Michael Flynn getting whacked is part of it btw.
>>729647402Xenoblade Chronicles, especially 2.Actually XB2 is the pitch perfect example of a kino game that normies will refuse to touch on account of its artstyle and comedic stylings.
>>729647854its some nintendo jrpg? you kinda contradict yourself there with your fav word. nintendo is as normie as it gets.
If Expedition 33 is so great why haven't they announced Expedition 34?
>>729648035Monolith Soft. Same guy who did Xenogears. Nintendo just have publishing rights.
>>729646113>All the nogs killed in the prologuedoubt
>>729646113fire emblem is already an established IP so this is just a dumb article
>>729648102>failed joke and didn't play the game
>>729648102The sequel to Expedition 33 would be Expedition 32 unc
>>729646113I have "retard who thinks that 'I don't like thing' is a good idea for a thread topic" fatigue.
>>729647854Its a prime example of japanese humor and everything that is wrong with jrpgs. There is no gameplay to speak of you just repeatedly press buttons for dozens of hours and let a cringe story unfold. Its like watching paint dry in a room for toddlers.
>>729648651>Its a prime example of japanese humor and everything that is wrong with jrpgsWell done for illuminating his point, dumbass. I suppose now you're going to say that E33 'fixed' these things?
>>729646113HAHAHAHA TOOTHPASTE EMBLEM TRYING TO BE A GOTY? LMAOO
