How the fuck can AAA devs release their underbaked soulless garbage made by a team of 3000 over the span of 8 years...

How the fuck can AAA devs release their underbaked soulless garbage made by a team of 3000 over the span of 8 years for $80 when this absolute masterpiece was made by 30 people in 5 years for $45?

shut up bot go play some real games

Kill yourself

What's a "real game" though?

I pirated this, fell for the memes, ALT+F4’d in the tutorial since it was so boring, one of the cases where Anon Babble was wrong

30 + 70 out sourced people
but they outsourced to China or korea or japan idfk instead of India.

When does this game become good? I'm past the gestral village and so far despite the combat being fun, it feels pretty barebones and repetitive.

Bro didn't even get out of Lumiere

2 many cucks ruin the broth

a large army is not always a winner. history has proven this

An activity where you possess the capacity to lose. Super Mario Bros for example. If you run out of lives and don't save the princess, you lose. Consider Doom as a second: while you can freely save, not everyone has the capacity to figure out how to reach the end, nor the skill to do so. These are games. Modern slop like Skyrim and Expedition 33 are not
They are virtual interactive experiences.

How is Anon Babble still seething about this game being a success? Your rage isn't going to make it unsuccessful, youre just giving yourself a migraine

People who say this isn't a AAA game are being retards. They spent 60 million dollars on it. I'm sorry, that's easily AAA territory.
You can tell it lacks the polish of something a studio spent 100+ million on, sure, but it's minor because we're in diminishing returns territory with that kind of thing and they intelligently designed their game in a way that would minimize that being obvious or an issue (mainly being turn based).

That's not to diminish the fact that they made something good, never underestimate how easy it is for studios to fuck everything up. But They had everything they needed to make a game 90% as good as they could have under the same circumstances but given an infinite budget.

This might be the game that finally turns me into a schizoposter. I absolutely refuse to accept that there isn't a mass shill campaign for this game across all sectors of the internet.

They spent 60 million dollars on it.

Citation needed fag

Do we actually know their budget? Considering the $50 price and small dedicated core team while relying on contractors for extra labor what was their target number?
I would assume 1 million sales would've already been considered a success for them.

Skyrim isn't modern, its almost 15 years old.

What a retard you are.

Anon Babble is filled with redditors, trannies and industry shills - who all hate that this game made by a small studio is a huge financial and critic success. I bet some will even an hero after this

Now that I've seen both endings I can confidently say Aliciafags are unhinged. Verso ending was filled with mercy, remorse, and tenderness at the end. A loving and bittersweet farewell to the expedition. Alicia ending is some fucked up evil necromancer torturing a man by using his dream, confided to her in a moment of bonding, against him. What an absolutely vile cunt. I'm going to reboot the game just to kick her ass a second time.

Anon Babble really though this game would be forgotten in 2 weeks and now it's an absolute classic that will be discussed forever.

You first, fuckface.

You're not unique
There's a long list of retards like you that give themselves mental illnesses because youre stunted and cant imagine the world beyond your own mind.
Its a fucking video game you fucking retard. A game people were excited for and talking about since its reveal a fucking year ago.
You mightve missed all those threads and discussion but that doesn't mean the world fucking stopped when you weren't looking.

God youre such a fucking NPC. You have no idea how many fucking retards here on Anon Babble specifically have done the exact same mentally ill hivemind bullshit over the years simply because a game they didnt pay attention to got popular.

It's important to remember that most of the moderation team on Anon Babble.org, including those who moderate Anon Babble, do NOT play video games. They use this site to shitpost and to "mine the Chans" (look it up). Most just goon to each other all day on discord. We've seen the leaks when the sj party teenager hacked this dump, so we know it's true and have the receipts. THAT is why you see this level of room temperature IQ posting over a good game.

The best JRPG ever made

Thought provoking multiple endings to faction

Hot women

Yep. They are either the following: npc, non-white retard who shits on beaches or a mod/janitor who thinks his epic shitposting is owning le chuds.

They spent 60 million dollars on it.

the first horizon game cost ~40 million, had 10x the employees, and was in development for longer

It's quite obvious really. This was the first video game made solely with AI. If you zoom out for a second, you can really start to pick up the themes that make this obvious. Subcreation, determinism, post-death resurrection from data. The game is too good in every dimension. Music, visuals, story. There's an uncanniness about it. Every aspect is tailor made to appease, but there's just the slightest thing missing. Hits on every dopamine rush and emotional vulnerability.

Consider as well the Masonic and Gnostic themes present through the entire subtextual and visual experience. AGI exists and this was a test-case.

when you see "AAA" devs push for a $100 price tag

Do devs and publishers really think they'll be able to justify that shit after this?

The main thing about this game is that I think it's the only UE5 title I've played that doesn't have baked in shit performance regardless of system.
Before it game out I did think it had the kind of UE5 slop, foresaken, immortals of aveum look to it. And it kind of does, but the over the top French shit helps tie everything together a bit more cohesively.

Bing bing wahoo

Why? When smash bros on switch came out there was easily a dozen or more threads at a time and the mods allowed it because, and I quote, it's a "cultural phenomenon". I don't mind multiple threads for a game as long as they have a specific subject related to it, but when the OP is either identical to an earlier one or just completely uncreative and only there to have another thread when there's already 5 up then they should be deleted and the posters banned. There are also losers who spend all their time on Anon Babble and want "their thread" to get a lot of posts.

Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that the inorganic nature of the threads is more likely from terminally online fags and maybe a couple cheap chink or indian marketers, but the general positive reception and popularity are real. It all depends on the quality of posts inside them, if the first 5-10 are unfunny faggotry and short nothing posts then yeah, they're shills bumping it.

What anime is this? Thought it was Space Dandy at first.

made by 30 people in 5 years

It's both more and less than that, Sandfall itself were only 6 until april 2021, 12 in 2022, 22 in 2023 but also hired outside studios, if we're talking about purely development-related, be it visual, animation or QA elements, ~90 people worked on it, which isn't unusual for JRPGs, Xenoblade 2 for example was done by ~60 people.

It's not 30 but still way lower than the absolutely bloated numbers of AAA games.

People still bought Monster Hunter Wilds to 10 million. Name brand sells a game more than polish.

Yeah, and that's 90 here and there. I think it'd be more accurate to count the man hours since I doubt AAA studios actually have thousands of people working on just one game for nearly a decade.

The game wasn’t made by 30 people though, that was debunked
rockpapershotgun.com/no-clair-obscur-expedition-33-wasnt-made-by-30-people

rage of bahamut, it's kinda shit.

This place is Anon Babbletendo, anon. The other poster is just coping that another banger isn't on Switch.

I liked Callisto Protocol and TLOU2, I'm okay with the occasional shit. Thanks anon.

Friendless insufferable spergs who DON’T PLAY VIDYA post on Anon Babble, they constantly seethe at good games.
It’s a vocal minority.

it's 30 people on the main team and some contractors, lmao at DEBOOOOONK, retarded concept.

also I think it's cool that they contracted koreans for the animations, because the animations in battle are amazing, I imagine all gacha do the same and get this same level of polished animation.

I think you are part of it but I will bite. Discord trannies are falseflagging as marketeers to sway you opinion in favor of Metaphor and Rebirth

Never said it was, flaming faggot. A small studio can be a few hundred talented people, not a bloated, dying studio of 19000 street shitters. Fuck off and die, please.

TLOU2

Kek, get a load of this fucking troon

Never ever post quicksave games as an example of skill ever again. You also did not by any

God youre such a fucking NPC

ironic coming from a monkey that plays and shills FOTM

did you play the game? its generic af. the only thing it has going for it is the interesting art and music.

just get to the aquatic zone then stop there and drop the game. dont even read the wikipedia summary. just imagine the game is good and live in bliss.

Generic? It’s by far the most unique RPG to have come out in decades. Even BG3 which everyone slobbered all over is just generic DND shit compared to the sheer creativity on display with E33.

To be fair to him there are like 6 other threads up, all of which feel like mindless spam or intentionally stupid (ie calling it a JRPG or jerking it off like this OP but not talking about the game at all)

redditors, trannies and industry shills

aka E33's target audience

You didnt play the game and rely on people to give you opinions to you to regurgitate.
Youre low IQ and an NPC.

still falls for the only 30 people meme

if that's true the credits wouldn't be five minutes long

he thinks 5 minutes is a lot

ass creed nigsuke edition credits in two hours long

Anyone who responds to criticism with "you didn't play the game" is being paid to post. But there are a lot of people who genuinely enjoy it.

That's not what he said
You can literally go watch the credits right now, count the names and realize it is a larger number than 30.

Team sizes vary over time and a contracted studio might have a lot of names despite only doing a small job and why am I explaining this to you

The Manor’s theme has been stuck in my head for days.

Was gonna buy the soundtrack for this only to find out that track is excluded.

The point is that a former Ubisoft employee made a better game than current bloated Ubisoft teams despite having much less resources at hand. Would current Ubisoft even consider trying to make such a game? I don't think so. They're simply trying to milk the AssCreed franchise until it dies.

chatgpt post

The point is [...]

Then just say that, you don't need to lie

I'm just a random anon, that was my first post in the thread. I wish for a renaissance of the industry.

French here
Le characters are ugly. They look like Chucky dolls
Le French humor is cringe
Le plot wants to be a final fantasy plant so bad it’s cringe too
Le only good thing is the music

I actually enjoyed the game and am happy for its success. There's some pretty obvious bot spam and company wars retardation about the game though. A few less low quality dumb threads isn't a big ask.

They spent 60 million dollars on it

No they didn't fag; The budget is 20M

you are a retarded subhuman shill

T'es pas français Mamadou.

There is a shill campaign, but not THAT big of one. Check the publisher's track record and the budget, including marketing. They're not going to have something Ubisoft level. The fundamentals apply. If you find someone who LOVES the fuck out of the game, but doesn't actually want to talk about what they love, and can't talk about the game in depth, doesn't know a picto from their own penis, is just hyping up the game, and trying to get traction talking about "enemies" of some sort. They 're either a shill, a really dumb fanboy, or a shitposter.

You can also tell by OC. Shills don't have the budget to generate OC. Hardcore autistic fans will put huge amounts of effort into taking screenshots, and actually making new shit about the game. That's hard to fake.

I thought it was high AA, but I don't see official budget figures. Given their team size and dev time, it's high AA, low AAA.

Plus que toi, Karim. Personne n’aime les arabes. Retourne dans ton pays. Indice : pas la France

The game is too good in every dimension. Music, visuals, story. There's an uncanniness about it. Every aspect is tailor made to appease, but there's just the slightest thing missing. Hits on every dopamine rush and emotional vulnerability.

Maybe it's just a really good game bro, this seems insane.