Why don't Expedition 33 fans like other JRPGS?
this meme was extremely forced
>>733963348JRPGS and most other Japanese media don't have good writing... if they want more shit like 33 but with good writing they should play a turn based western fantasy CRPG instead
>>733963598forced by the devs
>>733963739I don't think any of them speak english
>>733963348westerners generally don't like anime nerd shit. a sniff of cute anime girl nerd perversion or wish fulfillment grosses them out.
>>733963348Tourists are full of spite for Japan because they're butthurt about having to post on an anime website after Reddit kicked them out, and they see a jrpg-style game made in Frogistan as an epic own against it.
>>733963701>they should play a turn based western fantasy CRPG insteadLike what?
>>733963348I love every time this cutscene is brought up.It's supposed to be stupid, it's at the end of a lengthy side quest, it's from a rare blade that you're statistically unlikely to pull in a regular playthrough (you pull characters called Blades in a gacha style pull and rare ones that aren't generic robot-style NPCs have associated side quests), and people treat it like it's a major cutscene that everyone who has played the game will see.
>>733963348Because they hate Japanese games.
I like JRPGs, I just like old ones. New JRPGs are mostly trash. Trails is dogshit, atelier is dogshit, final fantasy mostly sucks now, etc. Anime doesn't bother me but shit like Xenoblade is basically just normie shonen animeslop for goycattle, so no thanks
>>733963756dont need to just to put this scene in game
>>733964018a scene that's entirely optional and most players wouldn't see?
>>733963919yea too bad every line of dialogue in the game is on the same level of anime trope cringe
>>733963348I do. Not XB2, though. That game was dogshit.
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>>733964061yes? Doesn't matter if it's optional. They still made it. Are you proposing that they only made it once they got confirmation someone did a sidequest?
>>733964080>saying anime trope cringe like it's a bad thing
>>733963348Xenoblade Chronicles 1 is pretty good.XC2 is straight up weeb dogshit. And the devs knew who they were aiming for, since they added a fucking gacha to the game.
>>733963904Owlcat has quite a few good ones
>>733963348I have played xenoblade 2 for 120 hours and never encountered this scene
>>733963348E33fags are afraid of anime. They have more in common with Dark Souls fags than the average JRPG fan
>>733963348Expedition 33 fans are people who hate Japanese media and aesthetics but want to play turn-based games. Now that a western developer made the kind of turn-based game Japan has a stranglehold on, all the people who loathes "weeb shit" rallied behind it with the hopes of more western developers making that kind of game.
>>733964134it's just one of several moments where a character gets humiliated/embarrassed in the game, the only reason this one became a meme was due to a single shitposter that spammed the fuck out of it
>>733964223Name some mf
You don't have to be an E33 fan to hate Japanese cringe.
>>733964140It is a bad thing, get new material.
>>733964354Ok? Does that person spamming it make these events any less awful? Nope. It's even worse when you consider its more than this.
>>733964448It means this was a forced meme.
most jrpgs are boring with shit combat/gameplay, not that deep really. they also cater heavily to loser autists.
>>733963348OMG ITS LIKE IM REALLY JAPANESE
>>733964374Why do you me to spoonfeed you when a quick google search would answer your question, lmao. Are you retarded?
Honestly I do wonder if I made a mistake buying E33. I enjoyed it a lot and it was one of my favorite games of 2025, but I mostly play Japanese games. Given how E33 is pretty much the flagship for the anti-Japanese game industry movement, I can't help but feel that I acted against my own interests. That I helped the people who would be happy to delete the Japanese games I play from existence.
>>733964223All their D&D/Pathfinder games suck ass because the D&D rules system itself is fucking boring.
>>733964656>E33 is pretty much the flagship for the anti-Japanese game industry movementI think the problem is that you spend too much time online.
>>733963348Because it's not one? It has more in common with Soulshit in terms of theme and aesthetics and the "turn-based" combat is made irrelevant by the parryslop mechanics. It's a normie consoomer mass-appeal game made in a lab.
>>733964386If you can't enjoy anime cringekino you need to go back.
>>733964702If I spent less time online it wouldn't change the fact that E33 is the current anti-Japan weapon and that buying it was a mistake.I mean, I have Nioh 3 waiting for me and I'm waiting for the Fatal Frame 2 remake to be released. I'm not the kind of person who should have supported E33, even when it was a pretty good game. I do play western games but mostly old games (I haven't touched Marathon 1 and 2 because I already beat them via Aleph 1) but not enough to write off Japanese games, which are my favorite.
>>733965205>If I spent less time online it wouldn't change the fact that E33 is the current anti-Japan weapon and that buying it was a mistake.It would, because grounding yourself in reality (the internet does not count) would help you realize that none of what you're saying is real>yes it is, look! people online are saying this and that!I'm sure some people do say that online. But have you heard people say it in real life?Well? Do you see the issue?
>>733963348>Why don't Expedition 33 fans like other JRPGS?where did you get that info from? twitter troons?
>>733965375>I'm sure some people do say that online. But have you heard people say it in real life?All the videogame discussion happens on the internet. The few people who talk about videogames in real life are simply repeating their online opinions. So when it comes to videogames if people say something online it's how it is.
>>733964702>>733965375I would be suspicious of that as well considering the amount of dick sucking it got during TGA (while Metaphor/Wukong got snubbed in favor of some shitty platformer last year). This is the same industry that was constantly shitting on JRPGs/Japanese games during the 360 era after all.
>>733963919The problem is that every single cutscene in the entire series is like this. Anytime a character starts talking at any point, I want to bash their face in with a tire iron until they stop moving. There is no exception.
>>733963348Yeah the animation is horrible but I wish more games had side-quest that felt like SoL episodes like some of XB2's.
I tried watching anime besides DBZ. They simply weren't good.
>>733963348xenoblade was never good and I dont understand why a vocal part of /v/ pretend it is
>>733967347Have you tried not being an 80 IQ brown retard?
>>733963348They like E33 *because* they hate JRPGs.
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>>733967402It's mostly Nintendo fans, from my experience. They needed some exclusive game franchise to lord over snoys and Microsofties. Now that they have FF7 Remake, they'll jerk off over that instead.
>>733967402same people who watch vtumors. this kind of shit is for failed normies that are convinced they're cultured
>>733967402jap slop good
>>733963348Xenoblade 2 Switch 2 Edition when bros? I am playing Xenoblade X first time with Sw2 Edition, this shit rocks
>>733967402it's mostly dubfags, 2 is particularly funny in this case because they'll admit its dub is mostly shit but start seething as soon as anyone suggests the japanese voices are good
>>733963348You got kicked out of /XGG/ again? XB2 sucks. Its a bad game. You only like it because you are an worthless incel who faps to moeblobshit.That said, E33 is four niggas in a row, not JRPG
>>733967402Why is it bad?
>>733964080It's literally not, but go off, retard.
>>733968505>>733968602Can you show a single cutscene in the game that doesn't have anime cringe coming off of it?
>>733968505He can't (and won't) answer that because he's just a contrarian moron that just wanted (You)s.
>>733968196Calm down tranny. OP is just a spamfaggot using that as an excuse to post that webm. And I guess 'good' just means neutered stuff with unappealing characters and no fanservice, right? Add a tranny non-binary character as well and you can even get a score as high as Shill33!
>>733963348Because they despise anime, that's it, the first game to do exactly what every other bottom of the barrel jrpg has done for decades but without an anime artstyle made them all act like it's the greatest game ever made
>>733963701>If they want a game with good gameplay and good writing they should play a WRPG, the genre with gameplay so bad its "fans" would rather spend 16 hours a day crying about JRPGs than actually forcing themselves to play a WRPG againUh...
>>733963701This implies E33 has good writing
>>733967927Soon, XB2 bro, soon! 2DE is real! Trust the plan!
>>733967528Most people played the original on PC through Dolphin because getting a physical copy was pretty much impossible.If you were on the threads back in the day you would know.
>>733968767>a game needs fanservice to be good!Sorry, not all of us are porn addicts.
shitskin cope. jrpg's are my favorite genre, E33 is in the upper echelon of jrpg's and there's nothing you can do about it.
>>733963348>Why don't Expedition 33 fans like other JRPGS?they do, it's just that most JRPGs tend to be filled with generic anime character designs and weeb tropes. Meanwhile western RPGs tend to be more gritty but the presentation usually isn't as good as JRPGs. That being said, i'll take a story with cringy weeb shit over a story/characters that are just straight boring like Pillars of Eternity.
>>733963348anime aesthetic is cringe as fuck
>>733969473It isn't
>>733969473t. Hollywood shill
>>733969664You know you can hate anime and hollywood simultaneously, right? Like I consider Xenoblade 2 and TLOU2 to be equally bad games.
>>733964109Toxo behavior.
>>733969889>you can hate anime>on 4chanNo you can't, Eglin glownigger/shartytroon. You wouldn't be here if not for it.
>>733963919>it's from a rare blade that you're statistically unlikely to pull in a regular playthroughkora is not only an easy pull in 60% of savefiles with base pull rate above 1.5%, in 20% of the remainder she is literally the slot 1 pity blade and will be among their very first non-story rare blades (once you pull 19 generics on common cores you will pull your slot 1 pity rare by default on your next roll).
>>733970010I've been on 4chan for 15+ years, so clearly I can hate anime. Plus you're not justifying this anime game.
>>733969664i just want my fantasy RPGs to be gritty like DAO or classic BG. Most anime JRPGs never do that because it would clash with the tone of the character designs. Now if they had a HnK anime aesthetic or something that could work but they don't do that.
>>733969891Brown behavior.
>>733963904Arcanum.
I tried watching DBZ besides after End of Evangelion. Itsimply wasn't good.
>these niggas still crying about E33lmao
>>733969317Based ASTLIBRA and E33 enjoyer. I loved them and hated Octopath and triangle. Kinda liked P5 and SMTV but got bored of them really fast. What japenese vidya would you recommend?
>>733970135You can get called out as a retard every time you say that. Yotsuba and the banners are there to remind you of the site's origins. If you weren't a glownigger/shartyfaggot you would just say "not into it".
>>733970213Is that a self confession before you take your butthurt and fuck off to the catalog so you can spam more cat AI slop?
>>733970778The presence of yotsuba doesn't justify trashy JRPGs that sell based solely on muh anime titties.
>>733963348I get it. It's just the visual style and anime dub voices (normalniggers don't play in Japanese). I'm 20 hours in E33 and it's beat by beat a standard JRPG in anything but the visuals and the voiceover. I can see how its "fans" can hate (or rather pretend to hate) JRPGs as a ragebait tactics because the irony is obvious to literally anyone who has even a surface level knowledge about JRPGs, I bet people feel really smart by "calling them out".
>>733964386It's not for you westoid-san, go play your goyfeed
>>733963348Expedition 33 fans dont exist. It was a fotm fad among youtubers and streamers
>>733970789Seethe more over cats you obsessed freak
>>733967205No it's not
>>733972363https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1f7jg1CfHU>OH MY SCIENCE, IT'S JUST LIKE MUH ANIME
>>733963348>Why don't Expedition 33 fans like other JRPGS?[source needed]
>>733971806>fotm fadis that why you're still buckbroken 10 months later, darkoid?
>>733964656>Given how E33 is pretty much the flagship for the anti-Japanese game industry movementare you retarded
>>733970631try Romancing Saga 2 Remake for a more gameplay focused jrpg or Trails 1st Chapter for a more traditional jrpgor Ys VIII if you want action
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>>733965936the 360 era was over a decade ago, and JRPGs came back into the limelight after Persona 5. anime games are accepted as a normal video game niche especially in a post-covid, post-genshin world. most "anti-anime" sentiment is normies seeing blue archive cunnyposters going "uohhh erotic tummy and feet" and cringing.>inb4 based gatekeepingyou're not gatekeeping, you're just embarassing
>>733967402every xenoblade game is good even though none are quite as amazing as xenogears and xenosaga
>>733972858>it is indifferent to mestupid drivel with no veracity, got it
>>733972575>anime game is animewaow
>>733963348someone made a gore jumpscare edit of this webm and since then ive been afraid to click
>>733973250The initial claim was that "oh, there are non-cringe moments, the OP is just an outlier" and I proved otherwise.
>>733969664Demon Slayer and most modern anime is complete dogshit.
>>733973329you're a retard. Xenoblade 2 is specifically designed to homage a certain era of anime. This scene is one of the popular tropes from that era.This era was also considered the "golden age" which is why Xenoblade 2 got an award for excellence because it perfectly captured it.You can find it cringe all you want but that's on you for being a fag
>>733973464anon I like xenoblade 2 but let's not pretend it's capturing late 2000s - early 2010s anime tropes, which was certainly not anime's golden age lmfao.XB2 gets way better as the game progresses but Rex is a hard sell for a protag.
>>733973464>you're a retard. Xenoblade 2 is specifically designed to homage a certain era of anime. This scene is one of the popular tropes from that era.You mean it's designed to be nostalgia bait for terrible anime. That makes sense.>Xenoblade 2 got an award for excellenceThat makes it even worse, if you have to hide behind game journos and (((mainstream media))).
>>733973414So how bad must Western media be for it to be losing ground to it? So much that you have to run government psyops on retarded subhumans to spread anti-Japan sentiment?
>>7339648194chan is actually one of few websites where hating anime is allowed for racist reasons
>>733974658Stop making this a west versus east things. Some things are just cringe anime shit. t. loves the Armored Core series, aka the only japanese mech series not tainted with anime.
>>733967402the setup of having these three friends world destroyed by a terrorist attack and watching his girlfriend die then going on a revenge murder mission was great, but its the usual shonen cringe jrpg shit other than that especially the villain shit at the end that came out of nowhere
your aveage jrpg could be as successful as e33 if they had better voice acting and scene direction.
>>733975347*average*
>>733974876ac6 is quite literally the only mecha game right now that gives you anime protagonist experience.
>>733963348after playing clair obscur expedition 33 i realized that JRPGs are poorly written and immature, just endless weeby drivel pandering to arrested development neckbeards who think edgelords screaming about muh friendship powerups counts as "deep storytelling" finally, a game sophisticated enough for actual adults like me to enjoy without cringing LMAO
>>733975557I don't see over-sexualized waifus spending 50 hours talking about love and friendship. Compare this to the average Gundam game, where 90% of the time is talking and politics and anime waifus crying and talking about their feelings. Meanwhile in AC6 you can just straight up slaughter everyone. It's a chef's kiss.
>>733975572>I needed a pretentious moviegame to realize different things have different target audiencesYou could've played pretty much any Western AAA for that. It has the same soulless discount Hollywood feeling as this.
>>733975649stop watching shounen and gundam shit.
>>733976226It's better than Hollywood tho
>>733976226>soullessskin color self-report, yikes
>>733963348lol
>>733976226Nah E33’s indie SOVL and 33 devs, sub $10M budget crushes AAA Hollywood corporate checklists and flops LMAOBut yeah you’re right JRPGS target 15 year olds with their whole “I must get stronger!!” weeb shit drivel all capped off with the galaxy brain realization that friendship fixes literally everything. Groundbreaking stuff, truly.
>>733976669"Soulless" is the perfect term to describe ExpeditionGPT: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Clair-Obscur-Expedition-33-producer-confirms-generative-AI-use-in-Game-of-the-Year-winner.1187946.0.html
>>733963348It removed the japanese humoure and added good gameplay
>>733977123kek, a jeet like you wouldn't know soul if it bent you over and raped you
>>733963919Did you believe people thought it was supposed to be serious? It's even commonly reposted as "japanese humor". The issue isn't if it's supposed to be stupid or not. It's that it's not funny.
>>733963348We don't want cringe jap autism.
>>733969664You should have picked Monster or one of those old adjacent shows if you wanted to pick something smart. Anime or Japanese media at last just ain’t that deep.
>>733977529That's not the point. Demon Slayer was competing against Hollywood capeshit and it won. Seethe. You can have this small 'victory' with E33 or whatever, but it's nothing in the big picture. Your Westroon media is still getting btfo.
>>733967943It's still crazy to me that game marketed at coomer weaaboos in 2017 had a fucking 4kids style dub complete with pointless name changes, and the core fanbase didn't bat an eye.
>>733963348E33 is high class jrpg animu cartoons is low class
>>733977660some people don't have any standards at all
>>733963598>A scene 99% of people will never see>Requires rolling that specific character then going back to a previous area you'd normally never return to>is spammed relentlessly by a mentally disabled faggot that doxxed himself because he thought MegaMan 11 was Switch exclusive
>>733977848you already lost
>>733977641>we beat hollywood capeshitNot a high bar, eh? Besides, you're forgetting plenty of smaller titles and indie games that have been BTFOing the entire industry.
>>733977848It's indicative of the game's entire method of storytelling. You could point to any cutscene, at any point, and it would be just as laughably bad. Even when the game pitifully attempts a serious moment.
>>733963919>no you dont get it, its SUPPOSED to be retarded!Uh huh, whatever you say, retard
>>733963919Anon the fact that there is gacha mechanics at all in a single player jrpg is so fucking retarded. I cant believe XB2 fans will unironically defend the dogshit gameplay mechanics that drag down a game that could have been WAY better.
>>733978362Yeah the Western industry is not dying bro! This game is the best thing since sliced bread, trust me! The freemasons worked very hard to astroturf and gaslight people into thinking so.
>>733963919>gacha in a singleplayer gamenot really helping making it look any better
>anime is cringe>he says while posting on an anime websiteWhat causes this?
>>733978627i don't even care much about E33, but indies like Pizza tower, Hollow Knight, and Environmental Station Alpha mog most AA and AAA games. When it comes to a majority of RPGs, none of them even come close.
>>733963598Japan lost the ability to be funny when animation switched from Cels to digital. Similarly true for vidya, japanese vidya stopped being funny on HD consoles.
>>733978671The state of anime in 2004 was a lot more favorable than the state of anime in 2026.
>>733979050That WAS when it was actually seen as cringe to like it. Nowadays it's beating Hollywood. You can't treat it as a joke anymore. It's a real threat to Amerimutt softpower. But I guess if you see it only through videogame lens then there isn't much besides P5 (game that the French faggot stole assets from) and Genshin.
>>733979703Why do you keep pushing this dichotomy? Just because someone hates tranime slop, doesn't magically mean that they love capeshit.
