It's not even a fucking RPG

what game? looks generic

It's basically an old school JRPG like, not a WRPG. Expect Bravely default, not Balder's Gate.

And FF7 wasnt like this?

thanks for being brave and speaking the truth. goty cancelled.

Of course its not a rpg, its trash made by redditors.

"hardcore" is anything autistics choose fixate on that normalfags don't.

RPGs don't need to have role playing. Go play pretend with your barbie dolls faggot

it's tailor made for journos anon, why do you think baldur's gate got away with goty?
turn based games are what's left of the early days of vidya but are still forced because normalfags can't play anything without a pause button

Anon Babble refuses to believe anyone would want to incorporate elements of newer games rather than old ones

We really like it when you give us free publicity by making threads for us :^)

J stands for Japanese.
JRPG is an rpg made by Japanese. It can be turn based, action, strategy, etc...

This is a French game

Walking simulators remind me of my job and I feel safe when i do my job.

implying devs aren't making the threads themselves

Ive been completely ignoring all the discussion around E33 but when I watched some gameplay it just looked like a shallow entry level RPG. So its kinda confusing that people are saying its GotY unless some other part of the game hard carries the whole experience

Its just shills shilling the game. None of it is organic.

I'll bite

zero interaction with anything in the world

The game rewards exploration and even backtracking as you for example unlock Esquie's ability to swim, fly and also the power to destroy Paint Spikes which opens up new loot or even side paths as early as the first dungeon

zero reactivity, player choice, branching paths

won't deny this one, since all it does is offer a different ending at the end, but that's also the same for literally 98% of ALL RPGs outside of cRPGs

zero armor or equipment

completely nonsense since you have Weapons and Pictos work as armor + accessories

almost nothing to find in the world except the same generic crafting shit

Also nonsense since the most powerful gear is usually locked behind optional areas & enemies, some of which you can do even early for extremely powerful late game tier gear early without being story/progression locked

only a few quests in the game and they are the most braindead errand boy fetch quests imaginable with zero decisions

Yeah, quest wise it's very poor, but all the side content and exploration makes up for it.

The combat (mechanics, parrying, enemy design, boss design, balance, dodging/parrying, challenge, depth) is excellent by JRPG standards and up there with the best of turn-based (certainly at least top 3 for niggas in a row combat)

The story and characters are solid.
The overworld is fun to explore and there's a good sense of exploration (even if level design is fairly basic)
Game looks mostly great, but UE5 jank is definitely present

It's like a solid 8/10 (on a scale where original FF7 is a 6/10). The combat really brings it up, it's just really fun, varied, and engaging.

going down linear uninteractive corridor

met with fork in the road

go left to proceed, right for item

""'exploration"""

Jesus fucking Christ. Please for the love of God, play Souls and learn what true exploration and sense of adventure is

extremely good AND varied visual aesthetics

phenomenal music

highly memorable moments

serviceable and somewhat novel gameplay

good amount of content 40+ hours if you want to visit and complete all areas

complete experience, no waiting on updates to finish the game or microtransactions

I have to wonder does a game like Undertale being (generally) well-loved just baffle you? When you -really- boil things down what ultimately matters for most people is how memorable a game is (or the moments in it). From an objective standpoint i think games like 33 and undertale are both fairly average when it comes to gameplay mechanics and the actual story beats, but it's the presentation and high moments of the games that really elevate them to receive the positive reception that they do.

play Souls and learn what true exploration and sense of adventure is

store.steampowered.com/app/677790/SOULS/
not playing your shitty visual novel regardless of how much you might be able to "explore" in some point and click adventure stupid nigger

Expedition 33 is miles ahead of Undertale in gameplay. Expedition 33 is a far cry from "fairly average" combat mechanics. It's like 20x better than something like FF7

Thread #62 crying over this game.

regarding the surface presentation, it's an eclectic mix of normalfag approved AAA games such as death stranding, persona 5, elden ring, horizon zero dawn, nier automata, and cyberpunk 2077

The gameplay is modern square enix, lots of passive effects that do nothing, lots of particle effects, there's huge damage numbers that let you feel good about your builds

The plot feels like something out of a netflix original. It reeks of western anime, like that nu-voltron Anon Babble and tumblr both enjoy. It's certainly has a modern-lefty kind of corporate blandness, but incorporates tropes that Anon Babble chuds also like.

The closest equivalent in that regards is something like Hi-fi Rush. Gimmick combat, Anon Babble esque writing, inclusive yet charming cast, etc. BUT for the new audience of post-elden ring normies.

The gameplay is modern square enix

Kek, no. This game runs circles around squareshit

why are you so mentally ill?

i've been a complete retard and I don't understand why I'm a retard

when you compare them to other jrpgs i would agree it's much better but even though i think it's better, i don't think it's good. It could've been if they tweaked it a bit more but in acts 1-2 it's far too easy to constantly hit the damage cap and blow enemies up (on hard mode) and in act 3 it's far too easy to absolutely snap the game in half. A friend of mine killed one of the optional late game bosses (clea) with one attack on the first turn. Didn't get to see a single one of her cool attacks. Parrying also no longer really matters since you have so many ways to gain full energy per turn and you deal so much damage that the counterattack's don't matter.

Good ideas, but they didn't land the balancing/execution. I did all the optional stuff and then saved the final main story area for last and i installed a 5x enemy health mod and the enemies still just melted and i had to pass and do nothing multiple turns in a row just to see the final bosses attacks.

bro just use shit gear/no passives and don't interact with the game mechanics at all xd

balance your FUCking game

Correct.

It is a "J"RPG.

"Player Agency" is actually cringe and gay and I am not shitposting.

made by Whites
protag is White
characters are only White
instant legendary success

Is that simple.
Never hire leftists.
Never listen to leftists.

But DO hire a small army of pajeets to shill your shit on 4chins.

Don't take God's name in vain, fuckface.

Imagine if it didn't have the enemy designs. What would be left?
Designated game bad thread. Reminder happiness or sadness are not arguments so stop posting about yourself.

Not grimdark enough for modern audiences. If it’s not super serious, normies think it’s lame.

You well never be japanese

What the chudigga!? People are calling a game with stat based progression... AN RPG!?

You are trans nigga lolol lol lol lol

shift the goalposts and suddenly it’s a bad game

I’m just trolling, I’m not gonna play it unless it gets decent Deck support.

The more shills freak out I'm starting to think they are the same ones that shill other new games that aren't good.

The more HRT I do, the more I'm starting to think I'm trans.

Good for you, sister. But isn't it usually the other way around?

and you'd be right. Theres a massive shill campaign going on and even the journos are onboard.

Oh, compilation trash isn't grimdark now? Okay.

It was pretty good but nothing to write home about. The hype around this game is fake as fuck

burger doesn't know what "in vain" means

Don't take God's name in vain. FUCKFACE.

Expedition 60 discovered the truth

The guy was about to return to Lumiere swimming but suffered a gommage

WTF? A 60-year-old man managed to swim from the island to near Lumiere

Cringe ass fake christian.

I don't want to fully believe it but i can imagine the department of french culture deciding on a shill campaign right now for a soft power move.
France could use some international good will these days and claire obscure is a strong french product. That being said, shilling on Anon Babble, really nigga?
Any shilling comes to Anon Babble from elsewhere, there are no spooks in our threads. Nobody comes here but us pathetic lunatics because Anon Babble doesn't matter to the internet.
Pays numero 1 du numérique en Europe! On shill, les mecs.

its basically FF7 just like the faggot who wrote it intended it to be.

You are dumb or dishonestl if you believe shills don't come to Anon Babble. Anon Babble isn't some secret club but a major hub where people take memes and talking points from and spread to other social media.

Nobody comes here but us pathetic lunatics because Anon Babble doesn't matter to the internet.

Dishonest it is then.

I was wondering why this game went viral. The reason is that it's a RPG made for (((journalists))).

Game desperately needed a restart battle button, not a load save button

Nope, Expert is a fun challenge, much better than your typical braindead jarpiggy slop

No it's just shills

Devs and translators/localizers come here all the time

Why would someone spend a few dollars to pay poojeets to astroturf their product here for a week and easily make back the money and more

Do people really? Its cheaper than buying ads

Je reçois 1€ par post, merci Macron !

Normalfags are hideous creatures that are killing the hobby

pasta thread getting this many replies

man this game becoming popular really made this board do a complete 180

I still see some guys writing that stuff. What you describe simply isn't the case anymore, come on anon, don't you look around the boards? It's a matter of fact, memes arrive here from other websites and are not made here. Anon Babble's not on top. We are eating the shit of other websites every day.

This post is videogames because we are playing the game of life and it's a simulation anyway.

Sciel with an S

That's some Arno shit because foreigners could end up calling her Kiel by mistake.

There exist two industries that revolve around playing both sides of every conflict.

Eventually you'll realize that marketing isn't trying to sell you shit games, but that shit games sell you marketing, i.e.: pad traffic and engagement -- they are little more than onboarding schemes to consultation rackets, e-grifting parasocialites and digitial daycare-botfarms.
The industry has been captured by PR gremlins. These PR gremlins cultivate an unsustainable economy of lies: they sell problems, rent out solutions (marginally smaller problems) and deceive everyone -- shareholders, developers, customers and players. They don't care about the quality or reception of the product, they don't care about what you believe, love or hate and they don't care to convince you of anything. The more controversy, the better for them.

Their final goal however is to distract and placate you, while high finance (read: their owners, banksters) turns your passions and lifetime into vacuous commodities.

be PR gremlins

gaslight publisher into whipping developers into frenzy to create super-slop

gobble up the majority of the "development" budget, recommend hiring nepotists

proliferate more slop to e-grifting parasocialites to fan the flames; hype a product you know will fail miserably, gaslight customers and shareholders with predatory marketing

reinvest a fraction of your hyper-bloated budget and buy copies through subsidaries and at a discount to gaslight everyone some more, after padding stats shortterm refund to ruin them longterm

simultaneousely shill for and against the product to maximize controversy and thus traffic, engagement and demand of your service and that of your buisness partners, such as consultation rackets

eventually come out of it being the sole profiteer, blaming everyone else

In other words: if you're a shareholder of a publisher or developer studio instead of an investor to a marketing agency, then you are a barely functional lobotomite.

Forspoken but white and turn-based

>>extremely good AND varied visual aesthetics

there's nothing varied or good about slapping bastardized persona UI and overdone particle effectson top of default UE5 graphics

It's nothing like Forspoken althoughbeit

It's like 20x better than something like FF7

is this a joke? QTE spam for attacks and parries is not good

In summary: whenever you see someone aggresively shill for a game, ask yourself

1) Why is the faggot not busy playing the game?

2) Why does the faggot care whether or not you like it?

The latter is relevant to faggots who unconditionally shit on games, too.

you played forspoken?

undertale and E33 are similar in that they are both shitty western "me too" clones of JRPG's. It actually makes sense that their target audience is redditors since they lack any original thoughts

Verso isn't real, he's based on the memories of the Paintress, Verso' real mother who is trapped in the Painting and Renoir is her husband and has a fake version she painted who is a dick.

Tremendous effort was obviously put in the chara designs. I just don't like particles explosions and the overbearing UI. Persona was way clearer with the style because of its simpler sharp graphics and oldFF had the textboxes out of the way at the bottom.
Can't believe i have to manually aim the gun, that's empty gameplay. Plus god damned QTE, great, fun. QTE.

Shut the fuck up you miserable whiny faggot

They're battling over thread territory, my non-combatant friend. Game good will not share a thread with game bad. I'll spare everyone my theory about internet child soldiers.

Chat, is all of this true, should I remove the game from my wishlist?

The only whine i have here is this one and i'm getting whinier by the sip.

but enough about my souls games!

The trick is to treat these combatants like the special ed kid in class.

I'll spare everyone my theory about internet child soldiers.

The terminology is very illustrative, it doesn't need elaboration, and I wholeheartedly agree: it was a mistake to allow entire generations to be raised by flashy, handheld black mirrors... and PR gremlins to exploit them.

It's also woke. Reminder Gustave used to look like this.

As long as you have a level-up system, it's an RPG. Yes, before anyone says it, that includes COD.

do we need another fucking thread
theres already 14 of them ive hidden them all and yet theres this oen and probably more
the most shilled astrosurfed bullshit ass slop ive seen in a long while, even fucking pure shit like metaphor didnt have this much BLATANT SHILLING

RPG made for (((journalists)))

sexualizing a 16 year old

not an rpg

literally the fusion of FFX with nier automata

yes it is. and it's less linear, even.

The only compilation shit that's grimdark is Dirge and everybody universally agrees it's the weakest FF7 entry, even that Japan only mobile game got more praise.

manually aiming the gun is empty gameplay

Hahahahahaha. You didn't play Simon with the Lampmaster, right? Or try breaking the Hexga crystals.
Manual aiming is great, it adds depth to the battle system.

If anything, they should've done more with the aim system:

Stalactites in the caverns can be shot and dropped on enemies

An area with explosive remnants (gunpowder crates, some magical boom plant, whatever) can be exploited to hit enemies

Poisonous elements can be shot and dropped over enemies, inflicting statuses

How do you sexualize a woman with no tits or hips
Whoa look at this smokin hot babe

how indeed

I thought you'd at least post the swimsuit since it shows skin
Are people being serious with this bullshit? Am I being trolled?

you didn't play Simon with the Lampmaster Or try breaking the Hexga crystals

I had a suspicion it would be used to influence some fights by shooting one spot over another, from the one time i saw the gun used in that gameplay video yet i put my all my chips on the idea that it wouldn't be the case as a gamble. You should praise my nerves.

Devs should've added an annoying enemy with a small, quickly moving weakpoint just to fuck with those who whine about having to manually aim.

The game was made in Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert, therefore it's a JRPG.

Welcome to JRPGs you retarded queer.

i may not make it to the end of the game
i hate exploring the stupid levels

sperging out over a jrpg not being the same thing as an rpg

are you 12? did you start playing videogames yesterday?

That's the whole point of exploring in these kinds of games, anon. You're in a fucking expedition, even.
Lemme guess, you need a minimap and Crazy Taxi-esque arrow, right?