It's being aggressively shilled everywhere. Nobody had ever heard of this game literally 1 week ago, and now it's "GOTY material". People are commenting below every discussion about RPGs trying to say how X or Y game is "bad" and this is better.
What is happening? Is this Microsoft's doing? Are they employing bots and billions of dollars to astroturf this shit, literally-who game into being a success?
identity fags need something to cling to
Because it's a good videogame that released yesterday and this is (supposedly) the board where videogames are discussed
It's been heavily anticipated in jrpg forums. Not like blue prince which literally came out of nowhere, was propped up by glowing journos, and actually sucks
i'm willing to give it a go if it is just a regular good video game with no agenda behind it
It looks so ugly.
I'm too stupid and ignorant to know about great games so it must be shills!!
When this game was revealed, I muted the trailer and tabbed out after 10 seconds because I already knew it was a masterpiece and that I would buy it, and didn't want any spoilers. 10 seconds of the reveal trailer like 2 years ago is literally all I know about this game and I am buying it as soon as I have time.
It was fucking obvious to intelligent players that this game would be a must-buy. And completely unsurprising that normies are now discovering it and hyping it. You are just a philistine.
PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS GAME SINCE IT WAS FIRST REVEALED WHAT IS UP WITH YOU PEOPLE
Board about video games
Discussing videos is considered shilling
????
Its a genuinely good game and completely mogs Final Fantasy. Its embarrassing whats happened to square in the last 15 years.
I'm french so I will shill this without a second thought.
And in the same way I fell for all the cute asians while growing up, I am in love with Lune.
Because it's a good videogame that released yesterday
So why weren't people talking about it 1 month ago?
Meme.
PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS GAME SINCE IT WAS FIRST REVEALED
No they weren't. I literally never heard a single thing about this game before this month.
Its a genuinely good game and completely mogs Final Fantasy.
Just objectively wrong, and it's not even in the same category. Final Fantasy does not compete with WRPG slop.
They were
Just objectively wrong, and it's not even in the same category. Final Fantasy does not compete with WRPG slop.
This game is unironically more JRPG and more Final Fantasy than fucking Final Fantasy 16 lmao
I literally never heard a single thing about this game before this month.
Because you're an idiot who lives under a rock.
This game is unironically more JRPG
Factually wrong.
It literally cannot be a JRPG if it was not made by Japanese people.
You are a fucking retard if you think otherwise.
here it is
wouldn't be a Anon Babble thread without some Anon Babbleirgin implying every single non-nintendo game is "shilled"
Nobody had ever heard of this game literally 1 week ago
lurk moar before creating threads faggot. it’s been a regular topic for 6 months
It's simply an extremely good video game that's brimming with passion from the devs. This game is what Final Fantasy should have progressed to and more instead of the dumpster fire that series became after 10. It also looks beautiful, and I don't say that lightly. Every environment is breathtaking and I'd dare say it's possibly the best looking video game ever created, at least in its environments.
Literally nobody on earth ever heard about this "game" before this week, you stupid cunt.
Lying, ESL, and underage. What a combo!
This game is what Final Fantasy should have progressed to and more
Westernized souls-inspired slop is NOT what JRPGs should be, and only a braindead normalfaggot would disagree.
how?
Nobody had ever heard of this game literally 1 week ago
I've known about this game and have been looking forward to it since they first showed it off last year.
Between this and Metaphor there's an obvious psyop of "no no, JRPGs CAN be good as long as they remove the sexualisation and stupid anime outfits!" that the West is trying to peddle.
Frustratingly, it'll lead to a whole fucking decade of desexualised JRPGs.
I'm about 7 hours in and I really like it so far.
My only real complaint is the menu being shit but otherwise this is one of the strongest openings to a game I've seen in a while.
Doesnt matter. Its got more of a JRPG vibe than any other JRPG I've played in the last decade.
Don't care what you have to say. The game is as close to a 10/10 as a game can be. You're right it's not a JRPG. It mogs the ever living fuck out of JRPGs by being original and full of passion. The focus on French customs instead of the usual samurai bushido shit is refreshing. This game deserves every bit of praise it will get and more. It sets a new standard for what turn based RPGs should be.
what should turn-based rpgs be?
the children yearn for mid budget xbox 360 jrpgs with minimal dlc, no online ladder/battlepass grinding and a weird artistic vision where all the characters are attractive white people, its the same reason nier did so well that 2B is in a half dozen crossovers
Between this and Metaphor there's an obvious psyop of "no no, JRPGs CAN be good as long as they remove the sexualisation and stupid anime outfits!" that the West is trying to peddle.
You are getting confused.
Metaphor is an actual JRPG. It's made by Japanese people, it has a Japanese style, it's combat system is typical of a JRPG, it is simply purely JRPG.
Clair Obscur is just not that. It's westernized slop. It's made by French retards, not Japanese people. Its combat system is inspired by Souls and other westernized games. Aesthetically it is very much a western, European game made to appeal to people who think "anime" is a dirty word. Anybody who thinks this dogshit "game" is a JRPG deserves to be dragged out of their house in the night and shot.
obsessed schizo
This game is what Final Fantasy should have progressed to
It's a good thing SE doesn't listen to retards online who repeat the same engagement farming narratives.
No they weren't
People into whatever category it falls into clearly knew it was coming. One of my co-workers was talking it up as the newest jrpg or whatever it's called. I'm not a fan any type of rpg games myself... so I was just being a good sport listening to their hype up.
Clearly it's good enough to crosses over to main stream.... but I'll still pass
In France we were weeaboos long before you americunts even heard of anime.
Look it up, we were the first international market on manga for a long time, in big part thanks to a french TV show in the 70s-80s (RIP Dorothée).
Every French person younger than 40 basically spent afternoons reading manga without buying them at the FNAC, so much so that the company basically gave up and let people do it.
Anime is only a dirty word in the world of puritans like you, putain de couillon.
barely more money than koei tecmo
Thats not impressive anon
Nobody had ever heard of this game literally 1 week ago
You guys do this every single time as a cope about how out of touch you are with video games. You did it with Palworld, you did it with Blue Prince. You're doing it right now.
How hobbies work is that you go out and do the hobby. Music buffs go to record stores and concerts and dig in bargain bins. Gamers keep themselves appraised of upcoming games and out and play them before journalists tell them what to do. They go to gaming festivals and play demos and talk to developers. I just spoke to a developer yesterday.
If you're constantly out of touch with the gaming pulse, the problem is you.
Nobody had ever heard of this game
Liar
I
Not our problem.
Blue Prince
tbf this one i never saw anything about it before seeing thread on Anon Babble,but i agree with your point
Its not that fucking hard to figure out.
Its a game with a weird premise and setting that doesn't really appeal to the normal fag, so nobody really cared prior to launch.
Now that its out and people who have played it says its really good, it is now spreading through word of mouth and people are talking about it.
Minecraft became popular because Anon Babble shilled it to the point where Notch credited Anon Babble on the splash screen, and then the game became a massive worldwide success. So Anon Babble should know all about word of mouth shilling
It was well-received in the Next Fest threads when the demo was released. It appeared last year's July issue of Debug magazine, several months before it came out.
OP is just angry/angsty that he doesn't even know what is going on in his own hobby and is constantly getting bombarded with the fact that he is clueless.
OP is just angry/angsty that he doesn't even know what is going on in his own hobby and is constantly getting bombarded with the fact that he is clueless.
as opposite to consooming everything the algorithm throws at you like a mindless sheep
I keep noticing how people will randomly compare it to Final Fantasy. The shilling is so strange it definitely doesn't feel real.
This, if games like this come as a surprise to you, then you are probably just a normal fag who doesn't really pay attention to games.
Its like how Oblivion got leaked here ages ago and every normal fag was like "wow it just shadowdropped out of nowhere!" but in reverse.
Sorry, you have precluded yourself from using that argument. You did not claim that you had heard of it and opted to ignore it because you are not a mindless sheep, you claimed you never heard of the game in the first place.
Not playing turn based RPG slop but the music seems godtier so I'll either pirate the game or listen to the OST on YouTube
iu have no idea, but can i pirate it?
It's mogs every JRPG released in the last 20 years. I don't know what magic these French people used to create this game but it blows all the shitty JRPG of the past 2 decades out of the water. It's amazing that this game even exists. Just a good fucking game for once where the devs just make what they want and what they'd find fun in a game. No shitty open world to try to appeal to customer demographics, no aping off other RPGs to try and be like them. This game is bizarre in every way and it's amazing. Such a refreshing fucking game to exist in current year among the endless horde of soulless lazy cashgrab bullshit that gets shat out by other companies.
Final Fantasy does not compete with WRPG slop.
As if WRPGs didn't put JRPGs to shame constantly in gaming history. Fallout spits on any JRPG ever made.
I keep noticing how people will randomly compare it to Final Fantasy
maybe because final fantasy is the most known jrpg serie...
sometimes i wonder if you niggers have a brain
Nah people dont en mass randomly compare every single JRPG that releases to Final Fantasy or say shit like "this is what Final Fantasy should have been!" over and over. It gets constantly posted which is why it sounds like some publisher talking point. It's completely fake shit. Kill yourself shill.
yes
maybe because the other game were even worse than final fantasy in the first place you dumb baboon
I can post the upcoming games before they come out that some moron is inevitably going to claim they "came out of nowhere." It's rather easy to do. It's not complicated. Superbly simple. Practically pedestrian.
You're just lucky that the average game buyer is a fucking gullible moron and will probably listen to your shilling
Sloppa that will floppa
Nobody had ever heard of this game literally 1 week ago, and now it's "GOTY material".
Yes, that is often how (good faith) critical reception of media goes.
Just because you want a game to be bad doesn't mean it will be once it releases.
It's telling that even Steam review-leaving zoomies are more capable of critical thinking and reassessing their opinions based on evidence than many 4chuds.
>le popular = le bad
>I post on Anon Babble but I hate video gaymes; omg so ironic am i rite guyz?!
OP wants those contrarian upvotes.
here's another one that you haven't heard of that will do well.
and this one
Tired of faggots like you. I knew this ToRtanic shit would return, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon. Get out, newfag.
Horror at Highrook is expected to do well.
Bye Sweet Carole will obviously be a big streamer/horror gaming hit.
Horror games in general are huge, it's easy to count on them doing well.
This one is attempting to do a Quest for Glory style game, but with a Silent Hill style setting. Could be interesting.
Wait, let me guess. Even though it's based on the most famous fantasy books ever, you never heard of it until just this minute? It's popularity will be totally inorganic?
Here's another one, but this time it's a seminal Sci-Fi book.
Nobody had ever heard of this game literally 1 week ago
Everyone was talking about how the devs were fans of FF8 months ago. You also missed the feet threads
Literally nobody on earth ever heard about this "game" before this week, you stupid cunt.
Retard, we've been having threads about it on Anon Babble for months.
This one let's you date centaurs so that'll be a big hit.
This one is plainly trying to rip off The Lost World, they just changed the title to The Lost Wild and called it a day.
Anyway dinosaurs remain as popular as ever.
Oh this game I'm gonna mod out all the Nigger Hobbits and then install shortstack nude modes for the female Hobbits.
It'll be my fucking Magical Realm at that point.
this is a 16 year old girl
what did the french mean by this?
Well, I'm not going to play it at all because I'm not a big Lord of The Rings fan, and even if I were, I probably wouldn't bother with a game that leaves you in Hobbit-town for the whole game. But I expect it to be a big hit. I didn't even know there were black hobbits, but I can predict exactly how Anon Babble will react when this game comes out of nowhere in a few months.
Then the opposing side will initially go through the motions of calling everybody a racist at first, until they do a deep-dive into the Silmarillion and find an example of a black hobbit that they will spam everywhere. turns out hobbits were black all along, just like Hermione Granger and Severus Snape.
I dont get it, whats wrong with this?
the problem is I want to cum so deep in her asshole I get her shit pregnant
thats normal
It's an obscure francophone joke about how no girl likes to be sixteen because in French, sixteen is "Seize", but in English, Seize means kidnap.
the deves are the terrible hacker known as Anon Babble and he is holding the jannies salaries on hold unless we talk about how cute the woman are in this game
game is so good and genuine shitposters have to resort to low tier bait
gayniggers of the shire: a lawd of dem rangz game
Wow another LotR in name only game, fanfic shit for women with nigger and soiboy hobbits, that no one will care about and no one will buy as usual.
This game is going to come out of nowhere when it gets released even though the kickstarter goal was smashed by 400% which might even be a record.
It's also going to be called a tranny game because it uses the colour purple.
Every time the schizo starts sperging out the moment a popular game gets posted on Anon Babble.
nooo you're shilling Cyberpunk 2077
nooo you're shilling Baldur's Gate 3
nooo you're shilling Expedition 33
What a fag.
As it turns out, the internet is just fake shit controlled by psychopathic marketers and jews.
At best you'll find a surge of haters that arise from irritation about aggressive marketing, inadvertently further marketing the media by spreading how much they hate it.
Sincerity is dead.
Upcoming Jesus Christ simulator. It's already been featured on several major news networks because of, you know, but no one has heard of it.
Nobody had ever heard of this game literally 1 week ago
What? They showed trailers on all the game events years ago
Nah bro I'll wait for I Am Muhammad.
It looks fine but I don't like the times inputs it has, only liked that sort of mechanic in smrpg and shadow hearts, it was okay in sea of stars but I would've liked that game to have a better battle system than times inputs desu
Please take your medicine anon
kill yourself, and then go back to gaia
there's a french shill in full melty ITT holy fuck what a taunt OP, well played
Anon its a fucking videogame board. What else do you want people to talk about, damn.
500k
popular
lol
turn based rpg slop
Turn based is how rpgs should be with few exceptions. If it helps you stay engaged I made a soundboard with airh orns and electronica explosions that will autoplay every few seconds
ChatGPT: Design a cookie-cutter JRPG in Unreal Engine 5. Please directly copy Persona's UI, and throw in as many QTEs as you can.
I actually stopped caring about OP being a moron a while ago, I just enjoy going through the upcoming games queue.
It doesn't really give me ff vibes but I was definitely reminded of Lost Odyssey. That game rocked.
good game comes out
people talk about how good the game is
???
Its combat system is inspired by Souls and other westernized games
it's turn-based and literally yoinked directly from Persona 5, a JRPG
People have been asking for a turn-based FF since 15 came out
There are hundreds of posts comparing Metaphor to FF and people where laughing at Square Enix when Baldur's Gate 3 came out and did millions
Every year a big turn-based RPG comes out its the same shit, you're just blind
Is this Microsoft's doing?
yeah man it was microsoft
Silver: Dragons Dogma 2 and Granblue Fantasy
Bronze: Metaflop and P3 demake
store.steampowered.com
that game will NEVER come out
who the hell cares, it's just porn. but I glanced at Critical Bliss' past releases and it looks like they have a track record of releasing their games, so you're wrong anyway. as usual.
good game
Lazy ff/persona game design thrown into UE5 isn't good. Nothing about this game is original or interesting
You watched 2 seconds of gameplay and assume persona or FF are the game it's closest to. It's more like the GBA and DS mario & luigi games than either of those. If you weren't so poor you wouldn't have a hateboner for it and could be enjoying kino right now
Liking new video game?
NOT ALLOWED
You are only supposed to like 2000s japslop, 90s CRPG and dude sex
If you weren't so poor you wouldn't have a hateboner for it
I pirated it just because of you shills.
The frogs made a good game; albeit it may be game of the year. Every other game releasing this year is from AAA bloated slop devs.
this anime one looks decent, I'll try out the demo even though I'm generally terrible at rythym games.
someone gave the vikings dinosaurs
Because I've been hyping this game up since the debut trailer and it lived up to the hype you dumb nerd.
It's a good game. Keep seething faggot.
freddy fastbear cart racer game
stay mad
Kys tendie
Nobody had ever heard of this game literally 1 week ago
It was literally one of the most anticipated JRPGs coming out when it was announced at that Xbox conference like a year ago. You not paying attention doesn't mean it's unknown. It was so well liked that they literally made a French dub because of the sheer amount of people asking them about it.
I'm going to get a huge kick out of the fact the next big fetish to be imprinted on an entire generation is animatronics. We might really get our cyberpunk dystopia where everyone wants to fuck robots when you combine it with the upcoming Artificial Intelligence revolution.
Are they employing bots and billions of dollars
Yes, this completely new studio with ~30 people and 0 big names took 20 million dollars of loan to shill their game that probably costed ~3 millions to make. Amazing deduction, anon.
My good Nintendo bro, you really do not have to cry about it just because you can't play it. Believe me, they won't want to miss money from Nintendo fans, since they actually buy games.
Which means, I bet by the year's end you'll be able to play it on your Switch 2. And you'll feel silly for making these threads, because I guarantee you that you will love the game. It's just literally one of the best western games made in the last 25 years.
So why weren't people talking about it 1 month ago?
Because the game wasn't released yet?
So why weren't people talking about it 1 month ago?
We were talking about it and if you don't know about that, you must be a literal 1 week old newfag. There weren't many threads, true, like maybe 5 per week on average in the last ~3 months, but that's because there wasn't much info on the game before release, so with just a couple of trailers there was not much to talk about.
If you really play video games, why don't you just pirate it and see for yourself how the game is? If you're a normal (you do sound like one) and don't know how to pirate, tell me and I'll give you links.
Or are you going to depend on opinions of others?
sword fighting spinosaurus
game costs too much, but pirating it is fine
Every JRPG fan has known about this game for like a year, and it just released, and it's pretty good.
Marathon is the real shill game. There were like 10 fucking Marathon threads when Anon Babble went down.
Joke's on you, every day I check the list of all games released on Steam in the last 24 hours. Yes, I've at least seen every game released on Steam in the last ~5 years.
Here are games released yesterday that I added to my cart and I'd probably buy them already, but I can's stop playing E33, because it's so good. Still, I'll buy those three before the sale ends.
So there are other people like me out there. I quite routinely buy games from the new queue and check it daily. I actually save time by focusing exclusively on games that release demos. Generally trying it out yourself is the best determiner anyway.
Today I bought Hydra: Poseidon's conspiracy. I will also try the following demos:
store.steampowered.com
store.steampowered.com
I find that the new website, blue sky, is good for uncovering games in development if you search by the right hashtag. I used to do that on Twitter, but they locked out searches to people without accounts and I don't bother with making accounts on twitter or bluesky.
Hydra: Poseidon's conspiracy
Bazz... lives!
Pretty much this, the French want to be Japanese so badly that they'll shill any anime, manga, or JRPG they produce. It's the same case with Wukong selling 10 million copies.
All of it is cringe, of course.
Don't even bother with frogs. They want to be Japanese so badly we're back to the 'Is Avatar an anime?!' discussion.
If it isn't made in Japan, it isn't a (((J)))RPG. Like fucking hell, the game even has two lesbian party members.
what up gard dog
one time i was japanese and the french would not leave me alone
That turned based Lord of the rings on the PS2 is a JRPG now? Fuck off.
nice ragebait friend lol
You aren't insane anon, we are being raided by shilling frogs.
It's basically Final Fantasy, but good. And I mean REAL Final Fantasy, none of that "action combat" shit that FF16 and Rebirth do.
i mean the game is in english but whatever
yeah man it's a real jap-jew-french brigade in here.
It's the best Final Fantasy I've played in 20+ years. It deserves to be shilled.
soulless copying of Japanese masterpieces
So far either Expedition 33 or Romancing SaGa 2 is my favorite jrpg I've played this year. Metaphor was dogshot and 16 was slop.
You have my condolences for Ubisoft.
I assure you that most people who bought the game aren't French. Go to Steam and check how many reviews are in French.
has two lesbian party members
Proof? And no, two people lying next to each other, staring at the sky and talking doesn't mean they fuck.
Also, you're saying Blue Reflection isn't a JRPG, because it has lesbians. Curious.
Why do you want a good game to fail so much, that you spout utter nonsense? You're like a typical white lefty who gets offended on behalf of a black. You defend JRPGs from the evil French, even though you clearly never played a JRPG in your life.
Nigga half this games sales are chinks and Nippon, the steam reviews are half moon rune and it's #1 selling in Amazon Jp
Why do you think 4chàn was brought back on this particular day? Hiroshimoot bows to thé Français.
having lesbians in a game is a good thing because it allows me to educate them about the superiority of my cock, which, you can't do, if they are heterosexual to begin with
try again, loser
Ah, I knew there must exist other video game connoisseurs, who actually take their passion seriously and play all kinds of games instead of only those few that social media allow them to know about.
Haven't seen those games yet, since they're not out, but one thing is interesting about the first one, "Remake of the End of...". The idea sounds curiously close to another game, "The Last Hour of an Epic TO THE MOON RPG".
"The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time" (TRotEotGRPGoAT for short) is the last hour of a lost (nonexistent) JRPG...
vs
You like RPGs, but don't have time to play it all. . . We like RPGs, but don't have time to make it all. . . So here's (only) the LAST HOUR of an EPIC RPG !!
Everybody was all in as soon as the Game Awards reveal with that dank art style, intriguing premise, and real AFAB female uterus havers.
Any good idea is quickly replicated endlessly. Or even the bad ones. It doesn't really matter.
But anyway, here's a list of hidden gems, or, just, games I don't see people talk about, ever:
Daemon Masquerade
Death Trick: Double Blind
Ghost at Dawn
The Crimson Diamond
Killer Frequency
Between Horizons
The Tartarus Key
The Captain
The Sexy Brutale
Yuppie Psycho
Heroine's Quest
Paranormsight
I have played The Imposter Factory, which is vaguely related to To the Moon, somehow, but I doubt I care about a To The Moon spinoff.
It got revealed at the xbox showcase, shill.
This game is really good, the French actually made a genuine passionate jrpg, id compare it to FF10. It feels like japs made this and yet it wasn't made by them, haven't ever felt that before. We need more western devs to make shit like this and take more cues from Japan like Expedition 33s dev team did, the OST is pretty phenomenal too, never heard of the composer but I will be looking forward to their music in the future for games just like I love Keiichi Okabe. I would give the game a 8-9/10, it's probably as good as it'll ever get for a western made jrpg.
The other thing that confuses me is ex Ubisoft deva made this, I don't play ubislop but I'm kinda confused how they were able to really nail a turn based hybrid without having I assume any experience on the genre? I can't think of turn based games by Ubisoft. My only guess is the devs are jrpg nerds and know what makes the genre work.
The French made kamige???
Last note, the combat is really fun. I'm used to traditional jrpgs for most of the genre but this while not entirely unique is executed incredibly well. I like the cast too, I kinda expected western HR writing but instead have gotten a heartfelt tale on family and loss with a cast that is pretty funny and likable.
Whoever designed the art and monsters needs a raise, also 30 developers and some random music teacher off the street made this? That's it?
They are cool as fuck, make more shit like this.
Respect to the dev team, I think I still hate the French but I hate them a little less now.
To any anons interested or debating on buying it, just pirate it and see if you like it. I pirated it then bought it after the first hour. $45 for this game is a genuine good deal. No games should cost more than $60 anyways desu. Jrpg fans outside of complete purists will probably like this game.