In the end, there was no special trick to its success...

People hate on Valve here but they really had a good idea with the rolling desks and making an effort to keep nearly everyone in the same level of the hierarchy.

Except Valve takes forever to release a game and their approach to development results in a constant cycle of prototypes being made and scrapped, which is a lot of wasted resources and not applicable to most other studios.

Your shitty JRPG flopped in Japan.

Just FYI.

You know a game is a masterpiece when it has a dedicated schizo having meltdowns in every thread.

UHHHHHHH, I saw people talking about it on a videogame forum and I think maybe they're fake, so can one of you fake people tell me if there are real people who like it?

I think you've outed yourself as someone immune to the message of this story. Maybe go back to gooning for the rest of your life?

Spam another thread in an attempt to astroturf your slop, shillbot.

You don't know what the word shill means, and you're an idiot if you can't figure out why the beautiful new videogame is being discussed on the videogames forum.

It's physical units you retard, they sold out lmao

kek, it's BG3 all over again, the only thing missing is some made up cuck shit that the schizo pretends is in the game

IS THAT.... GAME DISCUSSION??? ON VIDEO GAME BOARD??? AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH I AM GOING INSANE

I know what a real posts look like and I know what forced narratives look like. E33 posting is so obviously the latter. I'd never even heard of this game before the shill wave hit.

Clearly their focus has shifted to maintaining the steam store and their live service games. Doesn't change that it was a good idea originally.
Truth is there is no formula to continued success in this industry but more often than not its a smaller team of peers who communicate with each other that come up with something unique and fresh.

You're an actual fucking retard if you think this user score is normal and totally not botted and fake. Wake up you stupid motherfucker, an indie low budget game barely anyone heard about is THE HIGHEST RATED METACRITIC USER SCORED GAME OF ALL TIME. How in the fuck is this not sus as hell?? fucking retarded shill

sorry your porn thread got bumped off the board anon..... best of luck!

Switch 2 runs games at 360p

Lol, lmao even.

They have been viewbotting Twitch as well, but they had a huge fuck up and accidentally sent all of the bots to Pirate's channel.

116K viewers for vidya stream is completely abnormal. Especially for a smaller streamer like Pirate.

Truth is there is no formula to continued success in this industry

Yes, even From Software started trend chasing once they became too big to risk failure. Though I wonder if Larian can keep up the momentum they have going since DOS1.

Anon is so jaded and bitter he can't comprehend people liking a game

Physical copies sold out in Japan

Trannies in discord collaborate to get a literal who article posted on Anon Babble with a misleading title

Though I wonder if Larian can keep up the momentum they have going since DOS1

History says they wont.

I'd never even heard of this game before the shill wave hit.

Because it had limited marketing and hadn't released yet, retard.

I-IT's IMPOSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO LIKE A GAME

Actually it turns out that we're just tired of having ugly niggers shoved in our face with propaganda, and we strongly approve of the beautiful and positive message of this fun to play game you jaded schizo fuck. Go pirate it if you're so skeptical.

an indie low budget game barely anyone heard about is THE HIGHEST RATED METACRITIC USER SCORED GAME OF ALL TIME

Tomorrow is here, bitch.

there's a difference between liking a game and botting the shit out of everything

It's jeets. You see it every time a AA game becomes a huge success. But you never see those schizos in AAA game threads. The reason is they are scared $100+ mil budgets and thousands of outsource jobs will be a thing of the past. Poos are literally afraid they won't have a job as AAA projects fail and AA projects succeed and AA doesn't throw hundreds of millions on indians. So they seethe and try to bring successful AA down.
Tic tok rajeesh! Soon you will shit up vidya no longer!

Because it had limited marketing and hadn't released yet, retard.

limited marketing

like 30 million dollars

gotta source for that figure, bucko?

Actually it turns out that we're just tired of having ugly niggers shoved in our face with propaganda

how fucking ironic

beautiful and positive message of this fun to play game

It really doest have one, it's unavoidable tragedy due to character failures from imperfect and selfish people.

People were just starved for something that's not complete shit and respects their intelligence. It's an 8/10 game but when you put a 7/10 girl next to muttoid hambeasts she suddenly looks like a 10.

This game completely mind broke the weebs lmao, they're deathly scared that the age of the moe moe animu waifu games is over.

The reason is they are scared $100+ mil budgets and thousands of outsource jobs will be a thing of the past. Poos are literally afraid they won't have a job as AAA projects fail and AA projects succeed and AA doesn't throw hundreds of millions on indians.

This is actually happening, but with "professional" game Dev staff.
gamedeveloper.com/business/-deprofessionalization-is-bad-for-staff.https
They are seething that smaller teams with tight knit devs with a vision that do multiple jobs are a threat to the gaming industry since the interchangable professional cogs won't have a job anymore

NTA, probably was even more

The entire game ripped off Japanese mythology and culture.

So I just watched the trailer and I'm more skeptical than ever. It doesn't look good or interesting it just looks like that game with the indian chick that flopped.

and thats a good thing!

thousands of outsource jobs will be a thing of the past.

???

Hahahha it's literally the same schizo, everybody fucking called it lmao

zero argument

thought so

This game sucked

The streamer deals they had were leaked and that already amounts to at least a few millions.

In the end, there was no special trick to its success

Actually the trick was a relentless paid shill campaign

SAAAAARRR DO NOT REDEEM 100 KOREANS BLOODY BASTARD HIRE 5000 SUPERIOR INDIANS SAAAAAAAAARR

The entire budget Kepler set aside for Sandfall was $10M. On a ~5 year dev schedule, that's $2M/year for 33 employees. There are 220 total names in the credits but those are outsourced contractors.

If you hadn't heard of the game until word of mouth two weeks after launch then why do you think it had a $30M marketing budget? Where's the pre-launch and launch marketing? You think a $30M marketing budget was withheld until almost a month AFTER launch? And you believe this because you can't believe that people like the game of the century?

Fucking pirate it and look for yourself. Listen to the OST. I'm not asking you to buy it, just participate in this because it's a permanent addition to human culture. Yes, it's that good.

You mean the Korean that was doing fighting game reels on youtube, then got blind emails asking if he wanted to work on the game, and brought his friends from his gook animation school with?
That's a great dev story. Do they not have animation schools in Hyderabad?

you can seethe all you want but the game being made by only 30 people is a fucking lie and you dumb zoomer cattle fell for it

If larian can put out one more good big game they will be in "too big to fail" territory. Which means a death of creativity.
Putting out multiple good games in a row going forward will take a miracle but will cement them as one of the best developers ever pretty much.

japs cater to the "modern gamer"

their shit collapses

frogs say fuck it: let make it better but french

beat the japs at their own game

japs weebs AAA studios seethe cope a dialate

word of mouth

Nice try on changing the narrative, but no, that was and this still is an advertising campaign.

10 NPCs in the background of the first 30 minutes of the game

1 named character who dies in the prologue

Yeah, this is indistinguishible from black aragorn and that bugeyed nigress that's a main character in everything. You're right, the game's entire budget went to paying everyone on Earth to trick you into thinking the game is good, but not until a month after launch.

116K viewbots on Twitch

Jesus Christ.

This is officially the most intense shill campaign in vidya history.

Yet they still didn't hire thousands of jeets, which the original post talked about. Your inane seething just proves everybody right you street shitter

nobody ever likes videogames ever, you must be paid for it

What a sad life.

it must be an advertising campaign

I know it to be so because I have never posted about a game I liked, only when I am paid to do I post about games

must come as a shock to you ranjeet, but people who play games talk about games they like

Physical copies sold out in Japan

The game is on sale on Amazon, and you know that, shillbot.

It really doest have one

The game is aggressively pro-natalist. The mantras of all the main characters are about perseverance. Suicide is confronted as relatable but bitchmade. The story is a tragedy, meaning it's a completely avoidable sad outcome caused by the lack of virtue the story is denouncing.

Specifically, it's a tragedy about the seduction of illusions, grief foremost. The positive messages are

Tomorrow Comes

When one falls, we continue

This is not a game, Alicia! This is your life! And every day you spend in here has a cost!

Grief is an illusion that you have to let go of, not hang on to

He's right though. These marketing pajeets must think we're fucking stupid and don't notice when there are dozens of posters using the same key words, phrases and talking points. eg nobody thinks this game looks "beautiful" but you keep using that word all the time.

Yeah, it's genuinely unthinkable that a lot of people would be interested in one of the most well written stories in gaming

Studio of 30 contracts studio of 8

220 total names on the project

Yeah that's comparable to Shartfields 5,000 Indians.

you dont like our games? learn 2code and make your own

bien i wil make ze game

dabs on the entire gaming industry with a shoestring budget

I'm not the kind of person to cry foul on this sort of thing. In fact, this is the only time I've ever done it. It's obvious to anyone with a brain just looking at the screenshots and connecting the dots on how much money was invested into the project. It's further corroborated by leaked generous streamer deals. Just don't try to paint it like some indie project when it's backed up by huge amounts of money and you would have less of a problem.

The story is a tragedy, meaning it's a completely avoidable sad outcome caused by the lack of virtue the story is denouncing.

the sheet death and suffering could have been avoided if Alicia wasn't afraid to confront the other half of the world she belongs to instead of avoiding it completely, and if Verso wasn't completely blindsided by his selfish obsession to kill himself

Maybe you have a point here

leaked generous streamer deals

I'd read a source if you have one

you are a retarded subhuman shill

How many times do I have to call you a nigger before you realize I'm not a marketer?

See how the marketer tries to adopt our language to fit in. Don't let their lies deceive you.

Seeing fals patterns is the biggest symptom of schizophrenia

1 guy was view botted while playing the game

this mean that the game is botted and not the hated streamer

All the other people streaming the game had normal number you retarded nigger

AAA slop:

cogs in a machine making a game that their bosses think will make a lot of money according to their charts

expedition 33:

devs who have played great games that wanted to make a great game

the "fitting in" section of Anon Babble shill training materials must be hilarious

Exactly. There’s a massive difference between a small team outsourcing specialist tasks versus an entire studio vomiting out asset flip slop with half the credits reading like a Mumbai phonebook. People pretending it’s the same thing are either dishonest or just media illiterate.

We are legion

Pirate Software

It's not the first time it happens on his channel, there's like a 99% that this retard is the one who bought the bots for visibility, the game he's playing is irrelevant he had the same kind of botting during wow.

devs who have played great games that wanted to make a great game

Fine, good for them. However I take offense to being shilled at in this manner and won't be playing it. It's insulting.

nobody thinks this game looks "beautiful"

fpbp

Shan't be playing this slop, no matter how hard it is shilled by bot networks.

It's obvious to anyone with a brain just looking at the screenshots

threads like these are an indictment how retarded Anon Babble really is. or is plagued with thirdworld fags

The great brilliance of this plot, and the reason this story will outlive its original medium and become foundational to future cultures, is twofold.
1) Every character has only one flaw and it's the same flaw
2) The seduction of the story and its grief is inflicted equally on the audience, so that the flaw is made relatable and also pointed out in the audience. Tell me you didn't feel exactly what Alicia felt in the final gommage of the story.

Yeah, at first it was kinda fun to call bad AAA games like Veilguard "slop", but now it's just shitting on literally every game, and these people don't even play any games, they only come here to fight.

It's obvious to anyone with a brain just looking at the screenshots

True

They can't run games on their phones, please cut them some slack.

the fotm slop flopped

They wanted turn based plus a realistic visual design which is why ff used to be so popular

What do you mean? Yoshida-sama thinks "DMC but you faceroll" is the future of the genre, and a man with so much experience in the industry can't be wrong.

Nothing. I'm shilling it for free because I liked it.

plus a realistic visual design

There are mods out right now to change the raytracing and shaders to photorealistic design. Makes the game look like generic slop. The artistic style is surreal Belle Epoque.

Truer words have seldom been spoken.

This cuckslop is so bad, that it must be shilled by bot networks 24/7.

I want to become the next president just to send the CIA on every single EX 33 shill

Based

The game will be good in the Game of the YoRHa edition, when they let pAlicia bitchslap her retard brother and his new psycho imouto into some sense.
The cope supply never ends.

Anyone's got any wallpaper sized pics like this lo-fi girl meme here?

This guy is getting hundreds of dollars every day for that video, will you are reposting him in every single thread as an offensive thing. lmao

Based screenshot dumper
If you have any of pClea or pAlicia, post them please

I'm fond of this one. I'm mostly posting in-game shots to prove a point, but many of the cutscenes are in-engine anyway.

fpbp

Imagine falling for the incessant paid shilling and actually playing this garbage.

Good taste. I'm just dragging the steam page for others' screenshots right now since I didn't take any. Sadly best girl is overlooked for sexo and feet, who are admittably GREAT supporting characters.

these outfits are all boner-poison.

They are professional expeditionary uniforms chud

Save such critiques for your usual faire.

ESL jeet proving the anon he's replying to right

I know this post was buried and done nearly an hour ago but nice try Ranjeesh, you bloody bitch basterd.

Yeah, I can see how having a story not aimed towards teenagers is appealing. I respect that, I just don't think the story is that interesting. People like it more for the TV show-style direction and voice acting, which is going to be the standard now in RPGs after BG3. This is the only one that has tried to do something similar so far.
I also agree with this anon . Visually the game is mostly ugly, and the musical style isn't my cup of tea.

This is the only good outfit posted so far unless it looks shit from the front.

Visually the game is mostly ugly

This looks like garbage.

Also shoot the responsible for the lighting.

True. The game doesn't look very interesting.

I am also not interested in turn-based games.

This game looks like shit lmao, keep dumping your screenshot folder faggot, you're just proving my point

By denying beauty, you out yourself as ugly.

The story is it's weakest element by far

Japan also has turbo shit taste though

yeah sure, Indians are the only ESL on the planet you retarded ape

this game sounds like a cyberpunk 77 scenario, minus the bugs
everyone i know shitting their pants over it and praising it to the moon and one of those retards who lose their minds over anything slightly above average

THE HIGHEST RATED METACRITIC USER SCORED GAME OF ALL TIME

Yes it is. What about it?

no special trick

I don't understand the shilling myself. It seems very unauthentic to me.

post hand and prove you're not a jeet

I second this. OP needs to post a picture of himself. Show us what he's done with his canvas. Tell us what he enjoys.

with a shoestring budget

120million dollars

Would you like to play the game you made

Oui j'adorerais

Would you like to play the game you made

WHAT IS YOU MEANING SAAR

Here's the difference yeah

post hand to disprove my schizoid retardation

no, I'm a frog if you want to know
"so you are still biased !!! " maybe but that doesn't change that your botting point is retarded since you can go and check that others streamers had normal numbers for their stream of E:33.

It's just a good game. And fags like >710452906 get to die mad as it sweeps GOTY.

as it sweeps GOTY

*blocks your fucking path*

Not so fast, baguette fag

There was a trick and it's called "sincerity".
Heartfelt storyline, emotional music, actually funny jokes without whedonesque immersion breaking sarcastic quipping. Characters who feel like actual people and not cardboard cutouts.
We get a game like this every year, and they are always remembered as something special, this one just had overwhelming production quality on top of it.