>"Expedition 33 has become only the second game in history to complete a clean sweep and win Game of the Year at all five major award shows.>It won Game of the Year at the following events:>The Game Awards>The D.I.C.E. Awards>The Golden Joystick Awards>The Game Developers Choice Awards>BAFTA>The only other game to achieve this was Baldur’s Gate 3 in 2023."K N E E LN EE EL NL E E N K
>>737246059Well look at the fucking competition that year. Hell this year is already looking to be a shitshow as well.
>>737246059E33 deserved it way more than BG3 did.
Incoming seethe
>>737246126actually agree
>>737246113It was a fucking stacked year, what do you mean? These games were all fantastic, E33 was just that much better
>>737246113plenty of games deserved more attention and praiseit just highlights how the award shows are a failure and a popularity contest rather than celebration of games as a wholethe art direction was trash most art was asset store flips, basic animations were ripped right from the store
isn't bafta some british movie awards show lol
>>737246126BG3 is good, but it's not even Larian's best game. DOS1 and DOS2 are way better. Can't wait for Divinity though, looks like they're gonna combine BG3's production values and DOS' superior combat system.>>737246195Hades 2 kinda sucked, I found it inferior in every way to Hades 1. But Silksong is an easy 9.5/10; as much as I love E33, I wouldn't mind SS winning over it.
>>737246279>the art direction was trashYou wot? I hated the signature UE5 look, but art direction was directly inspired by surrealist paintings and is top tier.
>>737246313Sometime around the 360 era all these groups and companies realized video games were big money and needed to be taken "seriously". That's why you had fucking news papers and shit like Rolling Stone suddenly having video game opinions.
>>737246279>the art direction was trash most art was asset store flips>, basic animations were ripped right from the storeeven if that were true, doesn't that make it even more impressive? They have access to publicly available tools that literally anyone else can use if they wish, and created something so compelling that it stood head & shoulders above other games with dedicated assets/animations, etc made just for them
I'd care more about game awards if they were better at either acknowledging their biases or getting a board with more diverse tastes.Feels like every win is predictable, regardless of your thoughts on the game itself. You know what the award giving people will think independently of your own impressions, they're too homogenous.
No. Fake armored core, shitty sekiro mechanics. Play literally any other ac game instead.
>>737246059I'm brown. And they're all wrong.
>>737246402Don't waste your time. I remember when this game was based and redpilled because of the underage redhead. But then EVERYONE loved the game, so it became cringe and woke because there's a black NPC in the crowd
>>737246806>isnt it impressive this popularity contest destroyed all meaning for our show?no, no its notand yes, its true, its literally copy pasted assets directly from the store all throughout the gameyou are most likely a redditor using basic passive aggressive strategy to detract and narrate "the award show was a failure and became a popularity contest... and thats a good thing!"like bro, you arent this stupid and ignorant, open your fucking eyes, even just the basic intro the game within the first 3 minutes is nothing but pure shit tier copy pasted slop everywhere
>>737246059>>737246126>>737246152>>737246195>>737246279>>737246806>>737247878E33 fags have to be the most pretentious fags ever.The story for this game isn't even good. The first 2 acts are a generic save the world plotline, while the final act is a failed allegory for escapism.The escapism is bad message doesn't work because lumiere is basically a real dimension with real thinking people. At best you could argue the game keeps it ambiguous, but clearly it implies that the people of lumiere are real.Not to mention that using the paintings is objectively beneficial due to time dilation. You can use them to effectively extend your life.Either way, lumiere doesn't work as an escapism allegory and has no grounding in reality.The ending is also a bit of an artificial dichotomy created for the sake of melodrama.The gameplay of the game is also highly derivativeAll in all, you fags are retards impressed by shallow aestheticsThe story is not mature, and it's nowhere near a 10
>>737246059Past BAFTA GotY:2002/03 Call of Duty2004 Half-Life 22006 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter2007 BioShock2008 Super Mario Galaxy2009 Batman: Arkham Asylum2010 Mass Effect 22011 Portal 22012 Dishonored2013 The Last of Us2014 Destiny2015 Fallout 42016 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End2017 What Remains of Edith Finch2018 God of War2019 Outer Wilds2020 Hades2021 Returnal2022 Vampire Survivors2023 Baldur's Gate 32024 Astro Bot2025 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
>>737247878Pre-release threads were comfy. Shitposting about the devs' vidya taste, lusting after Maelle/Lune/Sophie...
>>737247647I like the OG AC games and nu-AC...
>>737246059I don't care about journo of the year awards. They are not experts on story telling. Frankly they're not even experts on games
>>737247878>I remember when this game was based and redpilled because of the underage redhead. But then EVERYONE loved the game, so it became cringe and woke because there's a black NPC in the crowdMany such cases!
>>737247984>ReturnalI mean, it WAS a good game...but GOTY is insane
>>737247878nah bro i hated the game then and nowyoure just revisionists trying to detract from a award show being a failure and a popular game ruining the entire premise of the awards>>737246402>generic mansion>generic assets copy pasted everywhere>ISNT THIS SO COOL?!?! THIS SWORD MODEL SPAMMED 900 TIMES I HAVE TO HIGHLIGHT IT TWICE BECAUSE ONE IS TOTALLY GLOWING! you're a pleb and you are praising pleb shit, you're also delusional go play with your deformed massive oversized heads , terrible character models and man faced women with pedo bait rug pull MC
>>737248093what was your GOTY for last year?
>>737247967Stay mad. Everyone played a game they loved while you seeth in disappointment spurred on by your overwhelming desire to be contrarion. Kek
>>737248186playing LoL and gachaslop all day doesn't make you special anon
>>737247984The only Japanese game that ever won is Super Mario Galsxy in 2008.
>>737248186>genericI think you just have shit taste, anon.
I'm glad more good artsy fartsy non-woke games are being acknowledged by a mainstream audience now. It's criminal how many people missed out on this masterpiece, for example
>>737248290
>>737248225>overwhelming desire to be contrarionMore like basic literary analysis skills>No argumentKek. Claire obscure is a childish game.
>>737248202I don't play the latest games. I wait for sale. But I was not impressed by the street of e33.
>>737248308How's the sword-riding spiritual sequel? Have you played it?
>>737248308But Jouney did not win the BAFTA GotY?
>>737248393you didn't play a single 2025 game last year?
>mfw finished this kinoe33 is the proof
>>737248410>sword-riding spiritual sequelw-what? Never heard of it
>>737248337Not really. Its just a rehashed opinion of all the large youtubers that get an audience by bashing "current game". Those guys' arguments always stick out.
>>737248393>by the street ofDamn phone auto correct I meant story
>>737248247>cant argue>starts randomly deflecting with insecurities>>737248290>cant cope with asset store flip gameyes, its generic, its store bought and unoriginalthis concept seems foreign to you, the game was a failure in many ways, its only successful due to cutscenes and writing. the gameplay is trash, the world is trash, the exploration is trash
>>737248337>More like basic literary analysis skillsWhat are your favourite books?
>>737246059How many years has this sweep been possible?
>>737248460Nah, I didn't watch a single YouTube review of e33. What big reviews share my opinion anyways?>Still no argumentChildish game.
>>737247967
>>737248472 is Moby Dick actually a good read or is it just a meme?
>>737246059who asked?
>>737247984I’m almost impressed that breath of the wild didn’t win in its year
>>737248393pussy
>>737248472The funny thing is that I don't read that much. This is all from my experience doing literary analysis in college and high school. But even I can poke holes in the story.
>>737248493technically TGA is the youngest one, starting in 2014, so about 11 years
>>737248186How does a game winning each category it's the best in ruin the entire premise of the awards? Are you saying they should have given some pity awards to the runners up? Wouldn't THAT ruin the entire premise?
>>737247967>The first 2 acts are a generic save the world plotline, while the final act is a failed allegory for escapism.Bro couldn't go one sentence without sounding like a complete retard and being blatantly and objectively wrong.>the endingDamn that's crazy it's almost as if the game has 2 endings.>>737248337He says while he is too stupid and childish to actually pick up on any of the game's nuance judging it on the most surface level interpretation humanly possible. A take so monumentally fucking stupid that a 9 year old could see it with more depth.
>>737248459https://store.steampowered.com/app/2453160/Sword_of_the_Sea/I wanted to buy it, but 30 euro for a 3-10 hour game is a bit much.>>737248558It's brilliant and as good as they say it is.[The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out.]I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet’s rim, the warm waves blush like wine. The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver sun—slow dived from noon—goes down; my soul mounts up! she wearies with her endless hill. Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet is it bright with many a gem; I the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzlingly confounds. ’Tis iron—that I know—not gold. ’Tis split, too—that I feel; the jagged edge galls me so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull, mine; the sort that needs no helmet in the most brain-battering fight!Dry heat upon my brow? Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne’er enjoy. Gifted with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power; damned, most subtly and most malignantly! damned in the midst of Paradise! Good night—good night! (waving his hand, he moves from the window.)
>>737248308Really? I feel like this game got way too much attention and prestige for what it was. It was baby's first artsy game.
>>737248630exactly, and there's plenty of evidence that they ALREADY do that, or have been known to do so, at previous award shows
>>737248613>But even I can poke holes in the story.In truth one can poke holes in any story, it's not the own you think it is.
>>737248675>It's brilliant and as good as they say it is.nice, I might actually check it out then. I have that gutenburg app which has a bunch of the most prolific books publicly available for free, pretty sure Moby Dick is on there somewhere. Last book series I read was The Dark Tower books anyway, so I could use a palette cleanser
>>737248675 [Sudden, repeated flashes of lightning; the nine flames leap lengthwise to thrice their previous height; Ahab, with the rest, closes his eyes, his right hand pressed hard upon them.]“I own thy speechless, placeless power; said I not so? Nor was it wrung from me; nor do I now drop these links. Thou canst blind; but I can then grope. Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes. Take the homage of these poor eyes, and shutter-hands. I would not take it. The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. Oh, oh! Yet blindfold, yet will I talk to thee. Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee! The javelins cease; open eyes; see, or not? There burn the flames! Oh, thou magnanimous! now I do glory in my genealogy. But thou art but my fiery father; my sweet mother, I know not. Oh, cruel! what hast thou done with her? There lies my puzzle; but thine is greater. Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun. I know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou omnipotent. There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness mechanical. Through thee, thy flaming self, my scorched eyes do dimly see it. Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief. Here again with haughty agony, I read my sire. Leap! leap up, and lick the sky! I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee!”
>>737248779holy kino...
>>737248670>Nothing but childish ad hominem>No argumentsLMAO, as expected of e33 kids>Damn that's crazy it's almost as if the game has 2 endings.Did you forget the dichotomy part I mentioned afterwards? Do you even know what dichotomy means, you man child? You should not be judging any stories at all. This is proof that e33 fags are stunted man children. You don't know what dichotomy means.
>>737248714Nah. Not this easily. And not such fundamental problems. One of the main themes of e33 was poorly delivered. You people are shallow faggots impressed by the veneer of high brow "art" while completely failing to analyze it.
>>737247967Holy TRVTH NVKE
>>737248685to be fair the experience varies wildly depending on who you get paired with, and for how long. For people lucky enough to get someone early and have them stick around through the end of the game, it's a truly magical experience
>>737247967Kek. E33 fags btfo
>>737248881Don't need to argue, you've just exposed you're a retard who hasn't played it. You have no idea what you're talking about and your opinion is so wrong that to even grace it with a rebuttal would be an insult to my intelligence. The fact that the game has 2 endings is the only counter argument you need. Despite your cope "Muh dichotomy" response it objectively proves you wrong and counters every single claim you made. No more response is needed. You are wrong.
>>737247967ULTIMATE TRVKE
>>737248970>>737249016>>737249038>gets BTFO>instantly starts samefaggingKWAB
Turn-based GODS can't stop winning
Well yeah. It was an industry plant. Claiming that E33 "deserved" getting deepthroated at the yearly industry circlejerk event translates to you thinking God of Snoy Rangarok, TLOU2 and Alan Woke 2 were amazing games.
>>737249145Journos can be retards, but you need to be able to think for yourself. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Snoy, TLOU2 and Anal Wake 2 were all awful, but E33 is actually good. Just like W3 was back in the day (though I find it inferior to W1)
>>737249020>Still no argumentKek. Keep seething you little bitch. You don't know what a basic word means. You are an uneducated dimwit. You have been completely btfo.
>>737249092You and your shitty game are the only things that's were btfo, troon. Where's your counter argument?
>>737248881>it's a false dichotomy because I said soPeak midwit post.
>>737249314No, sorry. E33 hits the same notes and appeals to the same audiences as other snoy garbage mentioned. And got wanked off in the exact same manner. The fact E33 troons act mindbroken over Japan or actual games like Silksong extra underlines what should be obvious. Normalfags begone.
>>737249314No it's not. The story falls apart in the last act. The gameplay and voice acting are good though.
>>737249447I don't need one because I'm White and right while you're brown and btfo'd. Seethe.
>>737249314Anon these people are literally incapable of forming their own opinions. They're not smart enough for that.
>>737249476It's a false dichotomy that was created for the sake of melodrama, like I said. Renoir could have locked the painting in a box and thrown it to the bottom of the ocean. He didn't need to genocide everyone. Or each side could have come up with some sort of compromise. Either way the final dilemma kind of has no analogue in the real world and is pure fantasy.
>>737249659That doesn't even address the dichotomy. You're too retarded to understand the 2 sides that are being contrasted so how can you comment on the comparison? You have no argument here.
I liked the game but it only really won goty as there was basically no competition last year. There was hardly any good games last year.
>>737249612>Again with the childish name callingFag33 fans, everyone. Manchildren to the core. It's no wonder journo troons liked this game.
>>737249145Why would the industry promote a low budget game with a BASED story about women being retarded and needing men to save them, made by a small team of White people who had full artistic control instead of being told what to make by shareholders?That's about as far from the average AAA game as possible.
>>737246059Ah yes, the long, long history of video game award shows.
>>737249743You're the one with no argument fag. There is no counterargument in your post. The two sides are very clear. One side wants to get rid of the painting while the other wants to preserve it, to summarize.
>>737246126Be careful you'll upset the chinese shills plugging both of the ccp astroturfs.>Bg3>e33>belgian>frenchboth countries are part of china's belt and road scam>How did turn based eurojank get 10m sales?>How did turn based eurojank rpg get 5m sales?They didn't. Chinese bot and shill farms. Laugh at the Divinity shills next.Reminder these threads have post protections provided by jannies because they are chinese paid shill threads.
>>737246059These two woke games that look like shit and I don't want to play, are the most lauded games in history wow...
>>737250102BG3 is a lot of fun though, the best part is that despite how woke it is you can literally murder every one of them and the story will still find a way to work
>>737246113This year actually has a bunch of games. Much much more than last year which had basically nothing. I'm not saying all of these are great but theres a lot of noteworthy games this year. For example:Crimson DesertResident Evil 9PragmataMonster Hunter Stories 3Onimusha Way of the SwordDragons Dogma 2 ExpansionGTA6Tomb Raider RemakeBlood of Dawnwalker (witcher 3 devs)That Witcher 3 expansion that got leaked Star Wars Zero Company (Xcom in star wars universe from Xcom devs)Fable 4WolverinePhantom Blade 0Gears of War E-DayGothic RemakePlague Tale ResonanceBeast of Reincarnation 007 First LightLords of the Fallen 2Mortal Shell 2Castlevania Belmonts CurseSilent Hill TownfallAssassins Creed Black Flag RemakeOcarina of time RemakeNew Starfox gameObviously they wont all be good. But there is for sure a lot more noteworthy games this year than there was last year.
>people who genuinely care about what they're doing are put in charge of making a game>game turns out goodit literally is that simple
>>737250283literally nothing on that list is worth playing
>>737246195The only good games there are EX33 and KCD2. DS2 is terrible boring tedious crap with pants on head retarded story and characters just like DS1 and the other games are 2d indie crap and a baby game.
>>737246059E33's most prestigious award...
>>737250274>BG3 is a lot of fun thoughno it's not shill
>>737250386Thats fine but it is more noteworthy than the games that came out in 2025.
>>737249612Only indians, mexicans and other shitskins are obsessed with whiteness and screaming how white they are.Source: all the "traditional whiteness" twitter accounts that got revealed to be used by indians.
>>737250421>implying silksong wasn't shilled relentlessly
>>737247967Now that I think about it, you might just be right. I was actually disappointed by the endings myself.
>>737249805Yes man, why would the industry promote a french """"""indie""""""" product made by people with Ubisoft connections? Why would they want a "success story" to just happen like that? On their own event? Truly mind-boggling.>>737250385Sure. Only one detail: E33 niggers publicly admitted they had no idea what they were doing and just messed with Unreal assets and copy-pasted code.
>>737246059>generic human>some weird mask wearing thing>generic human>generic human>generic humanWhy is the art and character design so boring?
>>737250641>devs didn't let their inexperience get in the way of making their dream gameliterally SOVL incarnate
>>737246059I thought the game was incredible, it was right down my alley which helped and im not such a shill to label it "perfect" game had its issues...But fuck it was great.Deserved wins imoThanks for reading my blog.
>>737246126nah, E33 had bad gameplay and was linear. bg3 was sandboxy and gave you unlimited choices
Lune and Sciel looked cute at the Baftas
I got turned off playing E33 by the animations and the over all look and “feel” of the game. It just felt like nothing was created and it was all pre-made assets stuck together which is just a pet peeve for me and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The over abundance of colours and effects the game uses seemed like it was the equivalent of showing something shiny and glittery to a child and they’d be like “wooaaah” to distract them.The story seemed fine but again it didn’t feel like it was anything worthy of the praise it gets, and I get a little confused by how much people seem to love this game. You can say you enjoyed it and it was good, but this level of worship is bizarre. I don’t think it deserved any awards or praise just based on these points alone. It was a cheap and tacky move by the devs.The music was really cool tho
>>737251263Unlimited choices =\= good gameplay
Does anyone even care about awards?
>>737246195>fucking stacked year>silksong and a bunch of trashzoomniggers have no standards, its sad
>Former Ubisoft director used his industry contacts+daddy and tencent money to buy up all the awardsSo impressive.
>>737246059>baldur's gate 3oh so all of these awards mean absolutely nothing then. I will continue not to play this astroturfed slop.
>>737250641>people with Ubisoft connectionsMeaning one or two people who founded Sandfall previously worked there and left because they hated it. If you think this somehow makes Ubisoft look good, you might be retarded.Again, E33 is basically the perfect antithesis of everything that's wrong with the industry. No dei, no massive bloated budget and dev time, no design by committee, just a small team of White people making a game they like. Why would the industry promote a game like that? Try to answer this time.
>>737246059I'm still never going to play this game.
>>737251770I can't believe it was that easy all along. Not a single AAA company ever realized they could simply pay money for the awards until some guy with 0.001% of the money they have came along and bought them all up.
It really opened the floodgates for AI generated games.
>>737252052yaaaas slay kween
>>737248168Its my GOTY for 2023 (when i played it on PC)I have enjoyed very games as much as i enjoyed returnal.
>>737252181>very games>very FEW games
>>737251589e33 is paper mario but never gets better, bg3 rewards you for thinking outside of the box and it is reminiscent of older game design. it is extremely difficult initially, but once you master the mechanics and understand the ruleset you can cheese it in any way you cani really hope that e33 doesn't influence the direction of RPGs, that would be terrible if they were pretentious linear baby stories with minimal customization
E33 was 9/11 for FFfags. Even after E33 fans have moved on, FFfags will not. They'll be seething forever.There is literally no reason for anyone to be mad about E33. A small (white) team made a good game not based on an existing IP and it was a hit. It's the only truly feel good game industry story we've had in a decade. It's a miracle it happened in the middle of the worst hellscape the medium has ever gone through. The ONLY reason to be mad about it is if you're a FF retard who is threatened by its mere existence. They also have no reason to seethe at Metaphor. Nobody else even gives a shit about Metaphor. Only FFfags talk about Metaphor. But E33 committed the unforgiveable crime of being popular.
>>737252381I agree that the story is overrated, but the combat was pretty engaging. You had to effectively dodge and parry boss attacks which kept me engagedE33 isn't really a turn based game, it's more so a fusion of JRPGs and sekiro with the multiple different types of defensive maneuvers that you use depending on how the enemy is attacking.
>>7372461262 years later and still causing massive seethe, I see
>>737252140We have to drop the AI gotcha now that SE is heavily investing in AI. We now have to pretend AI is a good thing so people can't use it to dunk on SE and FF in the future. Did you not get the latest internal memo?
>>737252384>E33 was 9/11 for FFfagsDo you mean nu-FFfags? As an FFXfag, E33 is basically everything I dreamed of.
>>737249501>The fact E33 troons act mindbroken over Japan or actual games like Silksong extra underlines what should be obviousI'm a weeb, I think Astlibra is one of the best game of the 2020s. Same with Silksong. Why are you getting caught up in some imaginary Us vs Them?
>>737246059nobody will remember this game 10 years from now. when you ask someone what their favorite jrpgs are at that point, it will be the same answers you'd get today, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Final Fantasy 6, 7.
>>737252381All it will do is influence JRPG devs still chasing after the west. It looked at 6th and 7th gen JRPGs then put its favorite examples through a French filter during a time where most JRPG devs are looking at what they can copy from already lazy and uninspired mobile games. That's it.
>>737253064this, FFX is my favorite game of all time and I loved E33
>>737247984>one(1) Japanese game in over 20 yearsThey're not even trying to hide it
>>737253405I still don't get what people see in Chrono Nigger. What's the appeal? It's not its writing, which is as basic as it gets. It's not its gameplay, which is braindead easy with zero depth. If you say it's the atmosphere, I can point you to at least a dozen N niggas in a row games with better atmosphere (SMT III, Strange Journey, OFF, Fear & Hunger, Middens, Hylics etc). It's not even the best JRPG on the SNES, that's either FFV or Romancing SaGa 2 depending on how much you like the job system.
>>737246059we won
>>737250507Silksong's popularity was organic
>>737246059its easy when you are running alone
>>737253742We Lost though.See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VIs_82VxUHE
>>737250386People like you don't deserve to have opinions.
>>737253891>secret superboss theme is named after the game's original titleKino...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDvNwqaF7mw
>>737247984>2019 Outer Wilds over Sekirobleak
>>737253815>trailer for a proper paid DLC releasing months from the announcement>trailer for a small free update that was released at the same time it was announced
>>737252384true
>>737248168nobody ever played that
>>737247967Reddit spacing and samefagging?
>>737254026>trailer for a free dlc update that was shadow dropped>trailer for a free dlc that was teased at the game awards in front of millions of viewersFTFY
>>737253692Remember that the vast majority of people don't know or care about JRPGs beyond FF, Pokemon, and modern Persona. Chrono Trigger simply avoiding any major mistakes is enough for it to stand out in that case.
>>737254152My bad. I thought it was paid. The rest still holds true though.
>>737253742Whos' "we", sucka?
>>737246113Elden Ring lost to Vampire Survivors, competition doesn't mean shit.
>>737253979Holy shit E33keks THIS is your goty? LMAO no wonder you never post any gameplay holy shit HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>pornbrains gate 3Thanks for discrediting E33. The last 10 years of gaming have been a dire embarassment desu. Toys for manchildren.
>>737246059>make actual good game>players rejoice genuinely for the first time in two decades Say it isn't so.
>>737249784Octopath 0 released last year thougheverbeit
>>737254418Octopath 1 was a 6/10 game inferior in every way to Bravely Default. Are Octopath 2 and 0 any better?
>>737246059>at all five major award shows.Wow, it won an Oscar, a, uhh, Grammy,,,ummmm, Emmy, Tony, and Miss America!
>>737254462Yes, 2 and 0 are way better than 1
>>737254508>GrammykekReminder that E33 didn't even get nominated for a Grammy
>>737246402The visuals are one of its worst aspects. It looks like they just placed shit randomly from an asset store
>>737254418And KCD2 and Silksong, lot of good games last year. E33 was still the best of them though.
E33fags are so cringe
>>737254669But it's got floating rocks and shit it's supposed to be surreal you wouldn't get it
>>737247984Baftas have never liked good games huh?
>>737254713Are you not familiar with surrealists?
>>737254640Hey, I know that name, Journey's soundtrack was fucking fantastic. Like half the appeal of the game. Now I wanna try Sword of the Sea
>>737247984Vampire Survivors made me laugh.And Fallout 4 in 2015? Didn’t we get Bloodborne and Witcher 3 that year? Returnal???God of War over RDR2Astrobot over Rebirth These are some shitty ass awards
>>737254814
>people are still mad at E33Why?
>>737254205Turns out slapping a tranny on some nice vistas is gonna dox you a few points
>>737247984something happened to video games around 2016
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>>737254814At least post a game that's actually trying to ape Beksinski, E33 just slapped a bunch of random debris everywhere, covered it in postprocessing vomit and called it a day.
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>>737254881"People" don't just stop being brown because they get BTFO'd. It's uncurable.
>>737254640you think the games industry is corrupt? They don't hold a candle to the Hollywood award shows
>>737254814>>737255035>>737254941>>737254879>>737255053>>737254998woah....so...le deep....
>>737255035>5/10/2022It's a never ever, anon. And you must be blind if you don't see his influence under the horrible UE5 postprocessing.
>>737255147You'd think at one point their anger would fade
>>737255250This one, for instance. Pretty sure that building overrun with trees in the first area of the game was inspired by Beksinski.
>>737246059>>The only other game to achieve this was Baldur’s Gate 3 in 2023.">Gaming has reached such a stage where a game simply being decent makes it GOTY due to 0 competition when you used to have dozens of good games each year>I'm supposed to see this as a good thing
>>737255296You don't understand how their brains work. They're intimately aware of their inferiority to the point that they're in an eternal state of seething. They simply lash out at whatever reminder of White Excellence is at the top of their minds at any given moment. They'll eventually move on from E33, but only because somthing else will have taken the spot.
I unironically don’t have a problem withE33, I personally loved it. What I fucking hate is the way shills and normies talk about the game.
>>737246059Yet I don't know a single person who played it.
>>737255475And if your problem lies with UE5 (which is fair, I hate the anti-soul gas) just look at the concept art.
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>>737255643imagine having your opinions on something swayed by other people talking about it
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>>737246059Will never reach the heights of Witcher3,Sheldon Ring and Skyrim.Even Ghost of Hiroshima is better
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>>737247967They gave him (you)s because he spoke the truth
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>>737256249
Have you guys ever seen an E33 fan who actually playedthegame and didn't just watch a playthrugh or heard Asmongold say it's good and now mindlessly repeats it?
>>737256341I've played and beaten the game
>>737256080You are right. But that’s not my problem with the general consensus. My problem lies in the fact that there are retards, specially normalfags, that will try to push for other JRPGs to imitate the general style of E33, and thus removing part of their identity. It’s like the current problem anime has with some retards trying to go and make every anime out there a pozzed piece of shit because it hurts their sensibilities. It hasn’t happen yet, but I can see this becoming a problem because I can see every new turned based RPG being compared to E33, which is inevitable at this point. I don’t know if I’m getting my point across, but whatever, live and let live I guess.
>>737246059zoomers will say be like "okay boomer. unc thinks old games were better" and then be falling over themselves to heap awards on what wouldn't have even been a top 10 JRPG on PS2
>>737256464>picrelYou didn't beat it THOUGH
>>737256341Only fan I know irl doesn't really talk about it anymore
>>737247984>2022 Vampire Survivors
>>737255159>you think the games industry is corrupt?No, you do though, rent free
>>737256816Ya e33 is good by today's standards but it might not even be in the top 20 for ps1 jrpgs
>>737246059People *really* love indie games when the indie game is made with several million dollars
>>737257154Where in the word "independent" is the maximum budget you're allowed to have stated?
>>737246059Playing it right now. Combat is the only thing that keeps me playing. Story is also fine so far. Everything else though - very mid
>>737250507Vote that way faggot
>>737257292Depends if you want to count Ubisoft, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony as indies
>>737253692>I still don't get what people see inWhy are you telling us you're autistic?
>>737246126I'm just glad both did that and that most this paid service shit like Concord and Marathon are crashing and burning. No amount of PR gaslighting can hide the truth of things now if a third game like this clears the shows in 2028 we should see a golden era of games again.
>>737246059There has to be a reasonable divide between Expedition 33 and fucking Wooden Ocean. We can't call these both Indie games. One was made by several high profile ubisoft devs, the other was made by one fucking guy over 15 years
>>737257502yea but wooden ocean sucks though?
>>737246059Deserved, and there's nothing I like more than drinking the tears of contrarians who probably didn't even play it. keep the tears coming faggots
>>737246059textbook peer pressure
>>737257292>>737257462Those double as publishers that also have full on shareholders to answer for and the last two do much more than just games. I'm with anon however and can you give better for what should and shouldn't count beyond "I just don't like them"?
>>737246059>at all five major award showsfucking who
>>737257548From who?
>>737257536no... some parts piss me off but I'd rather it be obtuse, finicky and have some friction, passion projects shouldn't ever feel compelled to acommodate me and Wooden Ocean succeeds in making me feel unwelcome, as is its goal
>>737257629So you're indie if you don't also publish games? So Cave story isn't indie?
>>737246059Well deserved. One of my all-time favorites.
>>737257462To me, indie is more about the devs having full creative control instead of being told by the shareholders what kind of game to make or by the publisher to do this and get rid of that, than any budget cutoff or lack of a publisher.I prefer this definition since it follows the spirit of the word "independent" and doesn't have some arbitrary budget cutoff, while still keeping companies that are big enough to self-publish out of the definition.By this, E33 is indie.
>>737257801cave story was fucking stolen by its publisher so yea probably
>>737257801Again, lay out a definition. Stop pretending you are so retarded that you don't know what's being ask.
>>737254703Epic false flag post. You are probably dumb enough to not notice that it was an obvious shitpost.
>>737246279I thought the game was incredibly beautiful. You can't even type properly.
E33 jeet thread.
>>737246059the oscars people have successfully invaded gaming. now only movie sloppa games will win goty forevermore, and small bones will be thrown for genuinely fun gameplay ones
Did you know Indian skin is actually transparent, they're brown because they're made of feces?
>>737257960genuinely no cohesion anywhere they all look like Unreal Engine asset packs trying to knockoff various xenoblade locations
>>737257986That's not death stranding 2 anon, an actual game with 30+ hours of gameplay won.
>not an RPG>wins best RPG>not an indie>wins indieebin
>>737257154People like anything that is cater to them. Marathon took several times the budget and it's struggling to compete with small cheaply made games from years ago. Your game is either wanted or it isn't money be damned.
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>>737258058>genuinely no cohesion anywhereIt's literally a world painted up by a young boy that then got hijacked to varying degrees by his mother, father, and older sister.
>>737258175Yeah I'd also use that premise if my goal was to buy out the entire unity engine asset store
>>737258175>it's SUPPOSED to look like shitkek
>>737246059>>The only other game to achieve this was Baldur’s Gate 3 in 2023."That's really sad. Woke Gate 3 was fucking garbage.This industry is dead.
I enjoyed e33 but even I realized the reason it won all these prices is mostly because of the absolutely sorry state of the vidya industry right now.
>>737258132define indieeveryone seething at this won't set a hard definition. and people who give an answer are ignored like >>737257862Which I think is a fine answer but I also be fine if anyone could challenge it better than crying at it.
>>737258175None of what you described is actually shown in game.
>>737258132>not an RPGWrong.>not an indieWrong.
>>737258250When would you say it wasn't in a sorry state?
>>737258310What?
>>737246279>the award shows are a failure and a popularity contest rather than celebration of games as a wholeSounds like /agdg/.
>five major award showslol
>>737257801>So you're indie if you don't also publish games?Why are you acting in such bad faith?
>>737258243god fucking forbid the roleplaying game lets you be gay in it
>>737258310It literally is, you filthy liars.
>>737258323choosing between two ending cutscenes doesn't make it an RPG>>737258290if you need to go "define X" then you know you're grasping at straws
>>737258382If part of it was drawn by a child it should look like something a child drew, but everything is realistic and even the adults draw similar shit to gestrals anyway so it doesn't even matter
>>737258343Somewhere in the mid-late 90s, early 2000s and right before 2007 although 2004-2006 was plagued by hundreds of cheap RTS games trying to chase the Warcraft 3 high. I still remember getting excited about new releases by big studios.
>>737258479>choosing between two ending cutscenes doesn't make it an RPGDamn, better disqualify all jrpgs too then.
>>737258479>choosing between two ending cutscenes doesn't make it an RPG No, but being a JRPG does.
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>>737258290Much like BG3 did with the CRPG shit people fear the bar it sets. If indie starts getting tied to high costing productions it makes the smaller cheaper games have a harder time climbing the ladder. For them to have a shot at that level of attention they need a much smaller hill to climb over. That's all this ever is, a fear of people expecting more out of what they are doing.
>>737258546>>737258551jRPGs are their own category and barely have anything to do with the "RP" aspect
christ over 2 fucking decades of misses until they finally got it right with E33. amazing.
>>737258553>Not in the base game>Wasn't in until after it got goty
>>737258634that was meant for >>737247984
>>737247984>2006 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced WarfighterBased.Rest of the list has some good games but also a couple that absolutely fucking should not be on there.
>>737258479>if you need to go "define X" then you know you're grasping at strawsThat makes no sense at all. "grasping at straws" would be if you refused clear up the issue, when asked to define things it quickly reduces any available means to bulllshit as everything has a set term and understanding. To keep it vague is to have that desperate clutching of cope to hold onto.
>>737258504>If part of it was drawn by a child it should look like something a child drewThe way painting works in the lore is that it doesn't result in something that looks like a literal painting, but something that looks indistinguishable from reality. Skill level also doesn't seem to have an effect on the detail. Verso was also pretty talented.
>>737258630Nobody fucking follows that autistic metric. Least of all in award shows were something like Monster Hunter can get shoved into the rpg category.
>>737247984>2004 Half-Life 2>2006 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter>2007 BioShock>2011 Portal 2>2012 Dishonored>2023 Baldur's Gate 3>2025 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33These are good>2019 Outer WildsThis is okay, but bizarre over SekiroEverything else is what the fuck tier. Especially Mass Effect 2, a clear downgrade from Mass Effect 1.
>>737246059It was a 7/10. It's an industry plant game. >t. straight, White pureblood (i.e. unvaccinated) male who has been playing JRPGs since before he could read
>>737258801Pretty convenient way for them to just use asset store shit instead of making their own assets
>what if someone else made your average jarpig instead of those icky japs?>10/10!!! never seen that before its a mastapiece!!didnt even outsell FFXV or XIII with the insane shill campaign it got
>>737258884you lost and got raped.
>>737259067>new ip and literal whom devs first game that cost only 10 million doesn't outsell high selling entries in the biggest jrpg ip of all timeo i am kekkin. you LOST and GOT RAPED LMAO
>>737259081At least I'm not a shit skin
>>737259215interesting strategy to claim that while disparaging THE Whitest game to come out in years, but whatever helps you sleep at night, Sukhdeep.
>>737246059Remember how this game won everything to the point people started walking out?
>>73725916810 million dollar indie btw
>>737259273nobody cares what the game is classified as, all that matters is the end result of the game. and the end result of the game buckbroke and raped you.
>>737259067Biggest takeaway the japs should care about is learning to have better dialogue and characters. It was embarrassing to see in FF7 Rebirth how they still had those retarded anime grunts and weird mannerisms and dumbfuck responses to things.
>>737259392>average JRPG dialogue
>>737259262Retard
Take a look at the BAFTA's winners for the last 10 or 15 yearsBAFTA's don't mean shit
>>737259392>some Americans misunderstand text or just ignore it, call that "localization">other Americans read the "localization", but blame the Japanese
>>737252384>>737259262Jeets really think they can control narratives, but the only things they're "good" at (coding and rape) is due to their numbers. They don't have the intelligence to convincingly turn the world against E33. That's why every anti E33 post is so botlike.
>>737260081You can also easily tell that it's always the same guy or handful of people by how they post and the words they use.
>>737246059Just goes on to show that 2025 was absolute dogshit.
>>737260391not every year can be as kino as 2024
>>737258104its movie sloppa with parry slop to lure the autistic worshipping tendencies of souls fans to help boost its signal. and it worked.
>>737261392cope
>>737251263I completely agree with you but waiting 20 minutes to finish your turn because you're fighting a huge mob is fucking stupid
>>737246126E33 is gotyslop, baldurs gate 3 was being made and they didn't care they'd get goty, they just made a good game
>>737259392https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpEd2yK8KzQ
>>737262548>baldurs gate 3 was being made and they didn't care they'd get goty, they just made a good gameThat's exactly what Swen Vincke himself said about Expedition 33
>>737262548>gotyslopstop trying to make this a thing, it's cringe
>>737246279>plenty of games deserved more attention and praiseSuch as?
>>737256341I finished it a couple days ago. I liked it, even if I had issues with some gameplay aspects of it..
>>737267382the pacing in act 3 isn't great, they should've been very clear on when you needed to stop to finish the game and how important finishing the individual character sidequests were. The vast majority of people went into the final battle ridiculously overpowered and one-shot it
>>737267845I managed to avoid that pitfall because I had been warned about it in advance, but there was another thing. How ready you were for a world map encounter was not clearly telegraphed at all. While the option to autismally grind out parry timings was always there to beat massively overleveled bosses, as a whole, the game did not encourage going up against enemies that badly outstatted and outleveled you, while simultaneously giving you no warning about you being badly outmatched until you got oneshot with the first party aoe and no opportunity to pull away either, boss fights once initiated did not let you flee.
>>737246059>ltrl Spec Ops the Line "escapism is bad hmmkayy">without the "killing people for fun is kinda weird">>737246402>>737257960>graphics straight clone of Elden Ring>sword stuck in the ground in a red area>RE MansionIt's such blatant Oscar / GOTY bait.I remember people bitching about "empty Ubisoft open Worlds"TM QTEs in everything from RE4 to metroand Shadow of Mordos endboss just being a QTE.Now people lick it up...Gaming is dead andI give up, make me one of you slop eating cattle's.
>>737269189there are tons of "GOTYbait" games that don't even get nominated for the award. Instead of some massive conspiracy, maybe the game is just......good.....?
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>>737269571You should learn to read. I already wrote why its bad.>>737269648I am a 2m tall Kraut.Stop projecting.
>>737247967Lol brown detected
I will never ever buy a turn-based game. It's an awful genre for retards incapable of basic hand-eye-coordination. It's extremely grim that video games have become so fucking bad that a quicktime event simulator sweeps game of the year. This industry is useless.
>>737270170thanks for getting straight to the point so i could stop reading after the first sentence of your worthless gay zoomer babble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJwsJXbS_Ok
I must be jaded AF because I enjoy most of vidya but this one didn't click with me at all
>>737258595>reddit spacing>defends ubislop(or in this case former ubislop)Indie is MEANT to mean made with your own two hands. You don't have access to the best of the best, you don't have access to hundreds of millions of dollars, it's a few lads in a bedroom making their dream game. When we start letting former AAA faggots call themselves indie it's just making indie a cute term they can use to avoid the stigma of AAA. Same as how Dave the Diver isn't indie since it's made by a company with a metric fuck ton of money.I'd also like to point out that this cope over the "defintion of indie" only popped up when AAA faggots like you were desperate to prop up former AAA devs with millions upon millions of dollars as indie.
>>737270303i don't know if you are aware of this or not but YOU LOST AND GOT RAPED LOL
>>737246195Everything else was sequels, no wonder it won.
>>737259604I've noticed that too>JAPAN CAN'T WRITE FOR SHIT>ask if they played it in Japanese>NO I PLAYED IT IN ENGLISH I DON'T SPEAK JAPThose same faggots will then come in and defend localizers to the death and say "why do you care?" or "It's better this way"They're like women, they can't take accountability for anything negative.
>>737270356>speaks like an ubislop shillYeah, checks out
>>737270629>E33 >ubislopfucking KEK you aren't even trying holy shit
>>737269850Manchild detected
No organic E33 thread. Just the same boring ass bait thread. Forgotten status. Find a new game to fight about niggers
>>737246059>industry gives itself awardsWow. So good. I'm so glad this astroturfed French Art Industry plant is so well received.
>>737271162you lost and got RAPED AND GAPED keep crying faggot lmao!!
>>737270943can't forget about you, anon! you also got bent the fuck over and raped, kek
>>737271203greatest French cultural export in decades
>>737271406but the french had to import the Nigerian and Islamic rapers before they exported them
>>737270825Buddha was a man child
won all the awards and their fans still feel empty inside :(
Wow a game I never heard of won a lot of awards from shows I've never heard of until now.If it wasnt for this conveniently placed advertisement on 4chan.org , then I would have never known there was an indieslop game for faggotroons like me.I'm totally going to play it now.Thanks /v/!
>"best game ever" releases>everyone forgets about it in 2 weeks>repeat
>>737272423>>everyone forgets about it in 2 weeksi see you posted in the wrong thread, try to be more mindful in the future.
