Thread 714091876

is it actually good? too many of my normie friends are praising it which is usally a bad sign

>>714091876 (OP)
>my normie friends
You don't have any friend anon.

>my normie friends
Friends are for normies.

>my normie friends
I hate to break it to you but if all your friends are normies.....


Also play it you double nigger it's a rare good game and missing out on it to be a spiteful child who doesn't want to play something popular makes you a fag

>>714091876 (OP)
I don't know I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes, it looks like shit to me and the dialogue didn't help

>>714091876 (OP)
>nice story
>nice music
>nice characters
>shitty gameplay
>shitty optimization
just pirate it

>>714091876 (OP)
>please tell me what to like/what's good!
I guess you're a normie too.

anyway, Gustave dies at the end of Act 1, everyone's just painted and living inside a canvas, the whole game is about a family grieving about their family member who painted said canvas, and the paintress is the mother of said family member who can't let him go, meanwhile the father wants to destroy the canvas to save her from wallowing in her grief forever. oh and Maelle is the daughter of those two but reborn with her memories wiped.

>>714091876 (OP)
yeah. gameplay is top notch and its pretty fun trying to get your characters as overpowered as possible.
the story isnt as amazing as people make it out to be but i thought it was interesting enough.
if youve played a bunch of jrpgs in the past, you will most likely like this one.

>>714091921
>>714092019
>>714092128
My core friend group is full of fellow freaks and weirdos such as myself, my normie friends are dudes i've known since childhood who are good dudes and we generally get along even if we don't share the same taste for a bunch of stuff. I don't hang out with them as often but I do keep in touch with them. Its literal friendgroup A/B shit that you'd know about if you all weren't asocial retards.
>>714092140
>>shitty gameplay
that's all i needed to hear

>>714091876 (OP)
Do you like PS2/PS3 era jrpgs? If so then yes, it is very good.

>>714091876 (OP)
>is it actually good?
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Yeah

>>714092337
>STUPID GOY STOP ASKING FOR THE QUALITY OF MY PRODUCT AND JUST GIVE ME MY MONEY

It's pretty great yeah. /v/ has officially entered the "it's popular therefor bad" cope so don't count on a lot of good discussion here.

>>714092423
>My core friend group is full of fellow freaks and weirdos such as myself
You sound like a deeply boring person. I bet its lit when you all share 4chins memes in the 'cord!

>>714092423
The gameplay is actually very good for a jrpg. You should already know if you like timing based attack/defense. That’s common enough but what the game does really well is offer build customization while still maintaining mechanical identity for each character. Each character has bespoke mechanics but you have gear and a bunch of slottable abilities to let you tune how the fit together. It’s very enjoyable given the game is working within the constraints of a very traditional “dudes in a row” turn based battle system.

>>714092423
>i wanted someone to tell me no rather than read opinions

Why even make a thread then you could have seen people seethe in other e33 threads for free.

>>714092770
we get it anon, having friends is for losers and real men stay locked up in their room having hissy fits online all day.
>>714092956
I've read the opinions and so far the gameplay sounds like dogshit, one source is outright telling me its bad and another is telling me is parry/timing shit (paper mario garbage). If making this thread has informed me this much then i'd say it was worth it.

>>714093513
0/10 bait

>>714093513
>all my friends say it's good :(

>stranger online tells me it's bad :)

Tell me what kind of games you play right now.

>>714091876 (OP)
It's really awful unreal engine 5 asset flip slop.

>>714093513
Sounds like you don’t enjoy jrpgs at all. If so, then sure. Skip it.

>>714093751
Lets not play dumb anon, if a coworker who constantly raved about how much he loved fifa and battlefield/cod suddenly came up to you talking about a hot new turn based rpg, you'd naturally be a little apprehensive about it. I'd probably not trust their judgment much purely from past recommendations.

>>714094110
>not liking paper mario (baby's first jarpig) = not liking the genre as a whole
let me guess, next your gonna say if you havent played persona 5 you're not a REAL jrpg fan

>>714091876 (OP)
It's a JRPG for guys raised on Sony AAA exclusives and Souls games.

>>714094302
Shut the fuck up, p5 is literally better than any piece of garbage you've played. If you can't appreciate it then I don't see how your (underdeveloped) brain can even begin to enjoy e33. Fucking retard

>>714094209
Again post games you play or this thread is just bait.

>>714094302
I’m not sure what to tell you. If you like jrpgs you will almost assuredly like E33.

>>714094451
SMT mainline is better.

It's not a bad game, but it definitely feels as if it's made to be entry level and easy for the modern audience to get into. One thing I don't like that people don't mention, the timed hits in this game are awful, in the sense that they feel like filler they put in for the sake of putting them in. None of the prompts match any sort of animation and they're just lazily slapped on.

>>714092956
>JUST BECAUSE THE GAMEPLAY IS BAD DOESN'T MEAN THE GAME IS BAD
kys

>>714091876 (OP)
if you haven’t played more than 5 games I could see you enjoying it
>paper mario combat is better
>dull aesthetic, battle animations are bad on purpose because of “muh old games”
>music is mid
>game is too dialogue heavy, most characters die and are uninteresting to begin with
>age old story of do I side with with the lesser people who are more human than me and I have an artificial connection with or the person who is more correct but I don’t have any connection with them because they just didn’t happen to be the main character
it’s one of the most middle of the road rpgs ever made but it looks good by comparison if you only compare it to this generation of games

>>714094302
The fact that your touchstone for timing in turn based combat is Paper Mario (Not even Super Mario RPG or the many other subsequent examples) and you seem eager to dismiss it on that alone is telling.

>>714094828
NTA but everyone normally combined the 2 franches supermario RPG and Paper Mario are generally interchangeable for most.

>>714094693
Post 5 games with a similar plot since it's "age old"

>>714092337
>everyone had amnesia and were all secretly related
How riveting.

>>714091876 (OP)
OP having friends is causing E33fags to have a melty. Lol.

>>714094693
>if you haven’t played more than 5 games I could see you enjoying it
We all have that piece of shit game from child hood we look at fondly just because it was one of our firsts. Since this is /v/ and we actually don't play games here, I could definitely see E33 being one of their firsts.

>>714095121
>playing games for the story
read a book

>>714094528
>dude post games you enjoy so i can shift my opinions and shit on them
fine I'll bite, last 5 jrpgs i played were:
SMTIV duology
Baten kaitos (<-- dogshit)
Chrono cross
SMTII

>>714095331
>SMTIV duology
That only counts as 1 game. I asked for five. I accept your concession.

>>714091876 (OP)
It's very rare that you find a game that exudes the love and passion that was put into making it. This is one of those.
t. 35 year jrpg vet

What other games do normalfags play? I haven't been outside for years

>>714095331
>Chrono trigger shit
>SMT
KEK, never talk shit about e33 again tasteless faggot.

>>714095602
just search top streamed single player games of the last 10 years

>>714095602
Clash Royale, a Clash of Clans spinoff
My co-workers spend more time playing that at work than they game at home.

>>714095762
That's mostly kids watching that shit. I wouldn't count them as normies.

The visual direction and world are somehow really bland and vomit inducing at the same time.

>>714095534
god i wish it counted as one game, ended up having to emulate Apocolypse because that shit costs an arm and a leg which is a shame because all the death animations are fucked and i'll always enjoy using the ds/3ds family of handhelds
>>714095602
fortnite, fifa, valorant stuff like that. Also whatever some e-sports streamer is currently peddling
>>714095904
you'd be surprised how many 20 year olds still watch streams, its honestly kinda grim

>>714096274
true to france

>>714096401
>its honestly kinda grim
Not really. We've had friendship simulators for a long time. Grownups of the time thought they were sad time wasters too. TV, Radio, and even newspapers.

It's a "j"rpg made for people who hate jrpgs
>>714095618
>>714094451
Case in point

>>714095331
Buy the game. If you like SMT lore wise and gameplaywise (minis creature capture) then you'll like e33 it's a perfect jrpg aesthetically and gameplay is top notch. The tutorial and game opening is about an hour long. That leaves you with 59 minutes after Lune joins you to test gameplay and first boss. If you don't like the combat refund. It's on sale right now anyway.

Does it run okay on steamdeck?

>>714097154
not like you could tell. game looks like shit

>my normie friends are praising it
should be a warning
it wasn't worth the pirate in my experience. I also had metacritic delete my early review for criticizing it so that they could give (((journalists))) their
>ZOMGZ IT'S THE HIGHEST RATED GAYM OF ALL TIME!
headlines

>>714091876 (OP)
Gameplay is good but the story is highly overrated.
It loses steam and has pacing problems in the latter half

>>714097405
>mainstream critic
I would say it fell just as far as sharten tomatoes but I don’t think metacritic was ever believable

>>714093513
are you fuckin retarded? just pirate it and try it for yourself for ffs

>>714097572
once you become a working adult you very quickly realise time is too precious to waste on shit you don't like, i'd rather avoid the situtation of wasting an entire afternoon trying to enjoy it only to delete it after realising the game was bad.

>>714094110
I don't like JRPGs and I loved it. Mainly because it appeals to my Western tastes as somebody who i not remotely interested in Otaku culture and thus lacks the frame of reference to appreciate Japanese storytelling. By adding parries, they also introduce something that is missing from most JRPGs which is action. I'm not particularly interested in games played entirely through menus. Clair Obscur's combat has just enough variety to keep it interesting.

>>714097721
Nta but I pirated it and dropped it early, I wouldn't bother if you aren't some francophile like half of /v/ seems to be.
I have an rtx 5080 and ryzen 9950x3d and the game ran like shit with constant stutters at medium fucking settings too.

>>714098043
I played for $1 on gamepass and dropped it after an hour also

>>714094637
This. On top of what you said, I got a perfect on 99.9% of all of them in my playthrough, and on the VERY rare occasion I didn't, I just lost a nothing burger amount of damage. I legitimately can't think of a reason as to why they were included beyond keeping ADHDfags interested, and I'm surprised I don't see it being criticized more

It's just another one of those "thing is good so zoomers with zero experience think it's the best thing ever because they never watched, read or played good media before"

But it's still definitely good it just isn't a generational masterpiece

>pajeet and his e33 shitposting crusade
lol
lmao even

>>714099085
>I just lost a nothing burger amount of damage
Main story mobs are piss easy besides first battle Renoir. Some of the bosses in optional dungeons are insanely hard to dodge and deal a shit tonne of damage

>>714099530
he played on story mode and these dumb browns only played for an hour anyway so they don't actually know jack shit about the game

>>714099463
I've played all the classics in the genre and am 31, this is a generational masterpiece.

>>714091876 (OP)
The rhythm based combat is a deal breaker for me.

Anyone else get the feeling people who type in all lowercase are third-worlders?

>>714099085
What? The QTEs do not only contribute nothing burger damage.
On buffs they are the difference between single target buff or party wide buff, which can legitimately lose you a fight on harder battles.
Don't get me started on the abilities for Lune and Monoco that whiff or cause self-damage if you miss them.
Did you play the game?

>>714091876 (OP)
>is it actually good?
If you like JRPGs, yes. It's somewhere between "very good" and "once in a generation" depending on the person.
If you don't like JRPGs, this one isn't going to change your mind.

>>714099085
Strange. I only played Act 1.
For me it felt like the timing was a bit off, and there was at least one occasion where a single missed parry could wipe out my entire team.

This game is unironically a masterpiece.

>>714100078
If you stopped at act 1 you're missing out

>>714091876 (OP)
It’s fantastic, though it is slightly overhyped because people want to prop it up as a middle finger to Ubisoft, and also it only feels revolutionary if you’ve never touched a JRPG aside from Persona before.

Overall, it’s a very competently made JRPG with a few balancing flaws, and it makes an excellent “babby’s first JRPG”.

>>714099463
E33 is the best turn based game of all time and Elden ring is the best action game of all time.
Seethe

>>714100293

Based and correct

>>714100023
Can you read? I said I perfected almost every timed hit. Of course I haven't seen most of the miss effects

>>714091876 (OP)
Best story, one of the best OSTs if not the best, gameplay is fun and rewarding, I can't say enough good things about the game. Went in with the mentality of "what's this overhyped bs" and came out a believer.

>>714100293
>E33 is the best turn based game of all time
Was Final Fantasy X really dethroned? I'll have to try out this Clair Obscur shit.

it'll be remembered as the FF10 of the 2020s

>>714094693
lol i can tell you haven't played it and are just regurgitating shit you've picked up from reddit and here. fucking retard.

>Final boss has a 10/10 boss theme and some cool spectacle
>none of it matters because you can easily two tap the final boss if you’ve done side content before hand

Kind of a wasted opportunity desu. Also, I fail to see why they give you a choice of ending when the Verso ending is so obviously better and a much more cathartic end to the story.

>>714091876 (OP)
>is it actually good?
music is good
story is better than in most games
acting is weirdly bad for how well-received it is
gameplay is fast and snappy, which is great. There are no random encounters and encounters aren't slogs like in some other RPGs (e.g. Sea of Stars)
parrying. do you like parrying? it's an interesting mechanic in this game, but it starts to feel boring by the end.
length is good. game is dense. ~30 hours, I think I 100%'d in <50 or 60
pacing falls off in the final act.
character builds can get really cool.
not very many party members.
there are a lot of cutscenes sometimes.
ran well for me, idk what that other dude's issue was.

Up to you anon. I would recommend it.

>>714100513
It takes a lot of inspiration from FFX, if you liked FFX then you'll like E33, granted you don't autistically seethe about QTEs and timing parries like some retards here do (seriously, this board has to be the worst board at playing vidya skill-wise)

>>714100813
>acting is weirdly bad for how well-received it is

They’re fine English dub has great acting aside from Lune. The French dub is good all around.

>>714100687
Honestly i consider anyone a subhuman who defeated sprong and the giant flying snake before the final boss, side content is always after the main story

>>714091876 (OP)
its okay but its not great, gameplay is alright but the Mario RPGs do it much better. Story starts off interesting but kind of drops the ball once act 3 starts. OST is a mixed bag some tracks are honestly god-tier while others are just forgettable trash.

>>714100171
I wasn't really enjoying the writing, and felt underleveled at the start of Act 2.
Didn't feel like grinding, so I just put it down.

>>714100929
Yeah maybe I'm just a snob about it. The real main characters are good. People do jack off about how the recordings were done with actors in the room together rather than individually

Why would you come to /v/ to ask about how good a video game is? People here don't play fucking video games, They only come to bitch about games they don't play.

I did 70 hours of this game in one week, I haven't binged a game so hard since I was a teenager. The game is amazing. If you disagree, you're absolutely fucking retarded.

>>714091876 (OP)
It has a strong narrative and for what it is the gameplay is enjoyable, but it does have the parryslop problem of obfuscating the actual JRPG mechanics with QTEs

I will say, act 3 outside of the conclusion really wasn't that compelling to me. There really isn't much character stuff and it's just small little diversions and combat

Its worth playing absolutely, but yeah it's overrated

>>714091876 (OP)
It is very good. Play it on console unless you have a very powerful PC. It's horribly optimized on PC.

>>714101364
>The game is amazing. If you disagree, you're absolutely fucking retarded.
most level-headed e33 shill

I learned from this game that timed hits are revolutionary apparently, and that the FF7 remakes combat is too hard for normies

>>714091876 (OP)
I say this with no ego, no hyperbole, it is an amazing game 9/10 if you wish for a rating.
There is only one thing that drags that single point down but it's worth playing. Don't spoil yourself on the story, you'll enjoy the game far more if you go in blind.
It's so good that you can do a second playthrough and still it feels fresh.

>>714092140
The gameplay isn't shitty. For a turn based RPG, it's quite good. Maybe you just don't like turn based RPGs.

>>714101431
Its not badly optimized at all, i have medium specs and i get 90fps.
Actually badly optimized games are dogshit like dragons dogma 2

At least this game shows people still have an appetite for JRPGs. I don't know what it is about this game, but it makes me think of Lost Odyssey

>>714101584
What are your specs and resolution?

>>714100687
The latest update added challenge modifiers to flags. You can multiply enemy HP from 2 to100x or cap your damage to 99k or 999k

>>714101431
They patched it

Prior to the patch it had a lot of problems with Nshitia's older (stable) drivers

>>714101602
Lost Odyssey is basically a Final Fantasy game in all but name, it's the superior FF13 in my opinion as it's made on the XBOX360 just like FF13 is made for that console generation.
It's from Sakaguchi and it's worth playing if you lads can get your hands on a copy and a 360 or emulate.

>>714101665
4060
I5-12400f
16ram

4K is a meme

>>714101841
Lol, you must be running it at like 720p then.

>>714101895
Works fine on 1080p

>>714099463
It is a generational masterpiece, what other games come close, in the current game generation to Exp 33?

>>714101836
It really deserves a modern release, crazy that it's stuck on 360

>>714101841
Because of UE5, the game looks absolutely abysmal at resolutions below 1440p

>>714100624
>you have to eat the whole turd before you know it’s shit
ok lil zoom zoom

>>714101841
anon you just just admitted to not having a 40/5090, you're gonna get hordes of indians begging you to send money to nvidia you've doomed this thread

>>714091876 (OP)
It's probably great, but it's still 8/10 at most and it's woke

>>714102013
Looks fine apart from Maelle's spaghetti hair

>>714101573
Lemme guess, the twist is that they live in a simulation and have to rebel against their creator

>>714091876 (OP)
>reeeeeeeee popular BAD

>>714102286
yes actually

>>714099916
They are. I've been discussing this game since the reveal last year.
Most of its detractors have very (very) poor syntax.
It's not really a surprise though, as 2 of them were exposed as literal pajeets and the other one was Farquaad.

>>714091876 (OP)
Lune's bush!

>>714100687
Yeah I didn't realize the final boss area would be so weak so I did a bunch of side dungeons first to level up kek. I assumed it would be too hard if I didnt..
Ended up 2 shotting the final boss even with the 10x health modifier.
Though the real final boss is Simon, still cant beat his 2nd phase and my team is very OP

>>714102439
I'm so tired of 3D fags putting abs where they don't belong

>>714102407
Kek, this shit was already old when Xenoblade did it 15 years ago.

>>714100687
>>714102548
They put difficulty sliders in act III a month after release for this problem. Play with Renoir having x100 his base HP and doing x100 the damage and get raped as intended.

>>714102548
For me the final boss was hard as fuck but Clea was a joke.

>>714102286
Their creator is actually dead, and his family is fighting over if they keep his creation or not. Said creations have no say in it.

>>714102286
>Let me guess the plotline of the game with absolutely no hints that I totally did not watch a streamer fag play, guys honest!

>>714102735
Wow that's fucking stupid

>>714102580
Lune is very athletic, her having abs wouldn't be surprising.

>>714102286
The point of the story is not the twist. The character writing around the twist is what makes it interesting.

>>714102735
Anon he's shitposting, he knows the plot of the game because he's seen it.

>>714091876 (OP)
Its the greatest RPG of all time, nothing even comes close

>>714102806
It makes perfect sense in the context of the story.

>>714102816
Those oversized abs look retarded compared to her noodle arms

>>714102686
Clea was harder for me, just cause it took me a while not to fuck up the parries on her attacks

>>714102548
Simon tip: stunlock him and skip the final phase completely

>>714102882
The Dark Souls of RPGs

>>714102909
She probably is harder but having so much damage ruins the boss difficulty

>>714102992
Dark Souls is mid

>>714102949
how? just keep using end bringer at A rank?

>>714102838
It was anon that said it's far more enjoyable unspoiled.

>>714091876 (OP)
it's a Jrpg for people who don't like Jrpg's.

>>714091921
If you're urr posting here, you don't have friends. None of us do.

>>714103153
It's for people that like JRPG stories in the form of netflix dramas

>>714092140
Has fitgirl cracked it yet?

>>714103078
There are probably multiple ways to do it. In my case I used Monoco's level 3 gradient skill over and over again.
>end bringer
I never figured out how that "reapply stun" mechanic worked tbdesu

>>714102882
Certainly the best niggas-in-a-row.

>>714092140
>shitty gameplay
>shitty optimization
It literally has the best turn based combat in gaming. It also runs at 100fps with zero stutter on my RTX4070.

>>714102439
SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIF

Sciel's vagina

>>714091876 (OP)
It is good enough to pirate, but the turn-based combat is boring, which is honestly nothing new.

>>714102013
I played at 1440p with DLSS set to quality i.e. rendering at 960p and it looked amazing. If you mean output resolutions below 1440p then you might be right.

>>714105089
Hell yeah.

>>714091876 (OP)
As a resident contrarianfag it’s probably a good bet if even I think it’s kino.
Hard to say without spoiling, but story is handled really well (though the bar for this medium is currently the Mariana Trench). If you’re not a plebbit “muh immersionfag” I think you can really appreciate it.

Combat is fun but flawed bc parrying is objective superior to anything else making defense builds (or literally any ”build” not focused on high DPS) kinda pointless.

Other than that there’s some UI and balance issues especially in the final act but last patch added and HP modifier which is a decent bandaid for the moment.

>>714100994
If you felt under leveled then you just suck. Either turn the difficulty down or be filtered

>>714092423
>>714091876 (OP)
holy lack of self awareness, its been a while since I've seen such a massive faggot
not even worth giving an actual response just kys already

>>714091876 (OP)
>too many of my normie friends
sorry to burst your bubble but your bubble but you´re also a normie

>>714091876 (OP)
>too many of my normie friends
sorry to burst your bubble but you´re a normie too

>>714109042
Nah. I'm pretty good at games.
Just have low tolerance for repetitive content.
I was underleveled because I skipped enemy encounters in the previous area.
I skipped enemy encounters because I did one, and then the very next was identical.
Just sat and watched the exact same battle with the exact same strat and parry timings...
Surprised I didn't get a shitload of XP from beating the boss at a low level, but whatever.
My characters are underleveled and will die if I miss a parry in Act 2.
Can't be bothered grinding, and not that invested in the story, so I'll just play something else.

>>714099463
>generational masterpiece
what would that even be in the last decade?

>>714091876 (OP)
Yes, it's excellent

>>714100975
when I finish the main story I usually immediately lose interest unless there's some true ending final boss hidden around or a long questline that unblocks some endgame content that isn't one-off quests. So if I don't do side content before, I'm just going ot miss out.

>>714096401
too retarded to hack your 3ds, retard? E33 is fucking amazing and anyone who actually loves jrpg's loves the game. if you're not white don't bother playing it because you won't get it

>>714103248
Fitgirl doesn't crack games. But yes, it had a repack available pretty much day one

>>714100687
The Maelle ending is so bad its defenders have to make up a false dichotomy about muh genocide when almost literally nobody in Act 3 gives a single fuck about Lumierian sentience including the two surviving Lumierians. Literally everything out of Maelle's mouth towards Renoir is I I I Me Me Me the actual thing the game wants to talk about is pretty obvious when you're not a mentally ill twitter-brained dipshit. Then you get to the actual ending and it's a nonstop horrow show lmao

>>714091876 (OP)
How long is the playtime for someone that likes to play through games meticulously doing every side quest?

>>714115431
I think anywhere between 40-60 hours

>>714115235
There are literally only three painted humans left by that point, plus Esquie and Francois. Monoco is the only non retarded gestral. It is a grandis genocide? It feels like they would agree. I don't know where people go look for this genocide, 99.99% of humans of the game world are already erased by that point.
Based on their reactions to the Verso ending, they all embrace it, only Lune is butthurt at the verdict.

>>714115656
I mean the grandis would agree with Verso.
It's really just Lune disappointed she won't get more BFC.

>>714115431
probably around 55 if you don't look anything up
I left the game on while cooking/eating a few times and got hard stuck on some optional minigames

>>714115431
60 hours give or take. Bit more or less depending on how much you allow yourself to bask in the atmosphere instead of powergaming through.

Yeah it's really good. The OST deserves an award, especially.
https://youtu.be/cNbB-gzZAiU?list=RDcNbB-gzZAiU&t=173

>>714091876 (OP)
It's pretty good, but immensely overrated.

>>714103423
>It literally has the best turn based combat in gamin
nta but best turn based is still turn based and that always comes with the obvious flaws.
it's fun enough, but it's heavily carried by the style and design rather than the gameplay.

>>714091876 (OP)
It's amazing. Really, really good. Amazing graphics with super fast load times. 10/10 music. Amazing story. Engaging combat.... It's GOTY for sure.

>>714103423
>It literally has the best turn based combat in gaming.
It has zero depth. Go play Slay the Spire or something.

Above average JRPG but made for the baldur gate crowd so it gets 10/10 across the board.

>>714091876 (OP)
I get the sense that the people who praise E33 the most are the ones whose knowledge of video games is limited to the 2010's and up.

>>714117867
not really, no. most are boomers nostalgic of the FF7-10 era.

>>714091876 (OP)
Just pirate it and play an hour you fucking loser

>>714117867
31 years old. First game I ever played was Zelda 1. First console I ever owned was a Sega Genesis when I was 4. Have owned every console ever made since, have played pretty much everything, including all the old-school JRPGs (Suikoden, Final Fantasy games, Breath of Fire, Lunar, SMT) along with all of the great CRPGs.
Clair Obscur is far and above the best game this year with KCD2 being the closest.

>>714118985
what games you got on your genesis bro? 33 yo boomer here, for me it was Ghouls 'n Ghosts

It's a game for people who like games as experiences, kind of like new God of War. That's not really to say it has bad gameplay or something, it's just that the focus is on how the game makes you feel rather than how you actually play the game.

>>714119158
Sonic 1+2 and X-men.
Filtered by the computer for like two decades

haven't played it yet but it looks cool. that said, I've been listening to the OST and its pretty mid so far.
like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yakOBIoyoik&list=PLC4e5UAZcgAecRPu894IWOqClBum-Kyjp

this has 1.8 million views but it doesn't really hook me at all compared to masterful JRPG OSTs like NieR or XBC or Chrono Trigger

>>714091876 (OP)
It's good for the first 5 hours, then becomes vomit inducing once you start noticing the usual western game patterns.

>>714122383
red pill me on this

>>714100687
Just past turns until you saw every move and dodged every attck perfectly, then kill him, are you people fucking stupid?

>>714111417
Dark souls 1,just look at the countless souls clones it spawned, it created a fucking genre

>>714122151
I mean thats the title screen theme, it's just alright, Some of the boss themes are great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo8OvFEdxGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r2iKZ1NWTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV69V4vFZxc

>>714123616
yeah its ok but i dont feel anything. Compare that to something like this at 0:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi0M9SIaLb4&list=PLWXWbr9ex3iVqtmHSJ0OIeEnD2hOZnp2Q&index=9

>>714103423
>best turn based gameplay
>stole concepts from LoD and LO
>still pressing buttons to navigate menus
Fuck off Pierre. Go choke on a baguette.