Explain to me why games need to be 80 dollars when something like Expedition 33 is only 50

>>715022604 (OP)
buy an ad

>>715022604 (OP)
not defending $80 but e33 is insanely low quality in so many aspects it's not even funny.

>>715022604 (OP)
E33 was made by a nepobaby as a vanity project

>>715022653
>>715022751
>>715022780
>months after release and faggots are still malding over this game being successful.
I legitimately don't know why you dumbasses don't kill yourselves already with how obviously miserable you are

>tendies still mad to this day

>>715022604 (OP)
publishers pushing price. online platforms like steam take something like 30% of the profit.

>>715023153
You'll call me miserable but you won't call me a liar.

>>715023245
I'll just call you a tasteless retard instead

>>715022751
name 1, no really just 1, AAA game released this year that is higher quality in your opinion
I feel like laughing a little bit

>>715023381
Death Stranding 2

>>715022604 (OP)
T-they just can't goy! Pay up the $80.

>>715023473
You did not disappoint me, you did make me laugh, thanks anon

>>715023563
Can you vocaroo your laugh

>>715023381
NTA, DS2. I love both games, and E33 is only strictly superior in its story and narrative. Music is arguably in E33's favor since it is all original work BUT DS2 uses its tunes more organically in the gameplay. In everything else DS2 mogs it.

>>715022604 (OP)
>paying for a free game pass game
Stupid faggot

>everyone keeps gushing about this game's OST
>give it a spin
>it's just plagiarized slop
Really? This is your GOTY?
https://youtu.be/hHvwRImMuFY
https://youtu.be/lYMyFgIva_Q

>>715022604 (OP)
Expedition should be a $30 game

>>715023563
Have you played DS2? Why do you think E33 is superior?

>>715023381
mario kart has better music, gameplay, and animations unlike E33 where maelle's eyeballs are wide as fuck like shes a crackwhore.

>>715023962
>better music, gameplay, and animations
not even you believe what you just typed, come on now

>>715023245
I'm not going to call you liar because you more than likely actually believe this retarded nonsense you're saying, you're just wrong and retarded

>>715024120
Please correct me. Sorry but mario kart is fucking iconic for a reason. Just cause you have no friends to experience how kino the game is, isnt the games fault. E33 also has some of the stiffest animations in the industry and the music is Oscar bait tier in which people think 'muh epic sad piano' music makes it godlike

>>715022604 (OP)
I want to play Donkey Kong Bananza and Metroid Prime 4. I do not want to play E33. Neither do any Japanese people. That's why E33 is $50 or less and those Nintendo games are $80.

>>715024120
Tendies are just like that dude. They think the games they play with are refined experiences because they are extremely well polished toys

You need to stop pushing this turn based combat bullshit down our throats the genre by default isnt even a real game

>>715023774
>remixing this 18th century song is plagiarism
the amount of dishonesty in your post to try to hate this game is so unreasonable that I wouldn't even make a strawman this stupid

>>715024579
>d-doesn't count
I accept your concession

>>715024437
>>715024120
It's unironically true though, have you even played MK World? The animations of the characters are immaculate and everything they do has unique facial expressions, plus all the different enemies and other cars and environmental shit all going on simultaneous. Everything is ridiculously well animated, playing a 4k Nintendo game feels like you're playing a peak Pixar film. And the soundtrack is literally hundreds of remixed and reorchestrated Mario music from every era of Nintendo. Would honestly pay money to watch a Mario Kart Orchestra perform live.

https://youtu.be/0oU9G1xxSQg?si=KP55EShf_nuQWvR_

>>715024437
>because they are extremely well polished toys

Video games are toys retard.

>>715024337
I’ve had some fun in World, I’m at 8500 VR right now. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the gameplay is bad. You are driving in a straight like in like 4/5 matches online. Bagging is absolutely broken and ridiculous this time around. Now that I’m in a high VR the race starts and literally half the lobby just waits and doesn’t move so they can get triple mushrooms and coins right away. Almost all races are determined by how OP the item combo is that you get right before the third lap ends.

Is it MKW bad? No, it does have very tight and fun kart handling and it can for sure be fun. But I wouldn’t really say the gameplay is good, in fact it’s completely unbalanced in a shitty way, far worse than MK8D

>>715024634
you would call Drakengards soundtrack plagiarism by your own retarded definition when NOBODY is retarded enough to claim such a thing
https://youtu.be/qoRGva8Y7QI?si=ONntIeJ5OdvEi5om
I know you're basically baiting because no one is actually this stupid

>>715023962
The track music kinda sucks in mkw while the shit part of the game gets lofi remixes of good songs.
Gameplay is also mixed since you can only play the fun part in time trials.
Animation is the only thing I'll give you, but visuals in general are scuffed in mkw since they fell for the open world meme instead of making each individual track look as polished as it's characters

I didn't actually believe nintendo-fagboys shitting on every game not nintendo was real on /v/ but this thread is proving otherwise.

>>715024801
Holy your the reason why games are shit. Take your competitive shit to Valorant or fucking leauge not mario kart. Your the reason why we cant have games like MW2 that were broken and fun as fuck cause developers are constrained on making every little thing balanced.

>>715024940
Do you not see the thread you are in retard? MKW is the defacto 80 dollar game so what did you expect?

>>715024940
I mean we are only reacting to the insanely disingenuous vitriol and fake controversies that have been throw at Switch 2 and Nintendo the past couple months. No shit we’re going to start reminding everyone who the real top dog in video games is. If you don’t want us to be obnoxious, stop attacking us.

>>715023473

>>715022604 (OP)
She's beautiful, even in death.

>>715022751
It's better than far cry 5

>>715025126
Not my fucking problem that driving in a straight line isn’t fun. Not my fucking problem that half the lobby intentionally drives like shit so they can stay in the back the entire race.

play the fucking piano

>>715024801
these games are made for children

Should I be playing the game in the hardest mode? I was led to believe the game is super hard but I'm having a pretty easy time. The hardest thing would be the pink sheep thing

>>715024689
I'm sorry but in what world you look at this https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wtjfgiHFt6U
And say with a straight face that it looks higher quality than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffIRtLx1aqg
You ask anyone who doesn't know either games which one costs 50 dollars and which one costs 80 dollars and I doubt a single person would guess it correctly

>great tracks
>except driving in a straight line is so much better
>drive anywhere
>except right on the edges of the road where lakitu picks you up like ICE on an illegal
>great music
>except you can't hear any of it and you don't get sound options either
>great facial animations
>except you're looking at the back of your character's head the whole time

MK8 is still better, and E33 is many miles better despite being made by the >French

>>715025270
Couldn't stand this mary sue bitch
Seeing her seethe silently as she's about to get erased and powerless to do anything about it was the highlight of the ending

>>715025329
That’s fine just don’t be surprised when a game for adults like E33 wins over this toddler crap

>>715022751
>Best soundtrack
>Best narrative
>Best turn-based gameplay
>Best art direction
>Players' choice
>Game of the Year

What award *won't* it win this year?

Investment firms expecting a huge return.

>>715025393
when I'm in a disingenuous competition and my opponent is an E33 glazer

>>715025235
MKW is not my first thought when trying to compare to Expedition 33 and in fact I had forgotten it was even that expensive, what's fucked up is you even actually trying to justify the price hike.
This whole fucking argument is retarded because there's other $80 games you could shit on but your only frame of reference is nintendo

>>715025514
>mary sue
you don't even know what the means if you fucking think Lune is one of all people. did you even play the game?

>>715022604 (OP)
very good point. if games are going to be boring, asset-flip sloppy shite, they should at least be cheaper like E33.
still regret pirating it for free because it was so retarded

>>715025405
>>great tracks
Yup
>>except driving in a straight line is so much better
Ignores the jetski sections with dynamic water design, ignores the bridge which has multiple areas of traversal, ignores the flying sections off giant hills, ignores the turns, ignores the variations of height.
>>drive anywhere
>>except right on the edges of the road where lakitu picks you up like ICE on an illegal
Works for me
>>great music
>>except you can't hear any of it and you don't get sound options either
Get better headphones maybe?
>>great facial animations
Yea they are kino
>>except you're looking at the back of your character's head the whole time
Maybe press X and be aware of your surroundings maybe thats why you are shit at the game. Also ignores you can visually see other players aswell

>>715025641
so you really can't say it looks higher quality with a straight face, I knew not even you believed that

>>715025514
>t. raging incel threatened by the sight of a capable woman

>>715022604 (OP)
Prepare your anus, E33fag

>>715025586
Wins what? You actually care about the game awards lmao. Dont be surprised when MKW outsells E33 by a metric fuck ton while being 80 dollars and on one system

>>715025786
Name 5 flaws that she has
>she's le.... autistic!
Not a flaw

>>715025674
>Expedition 33 and in fact I had forgotten it was even that expensive

Are you that brain dead? Do you not see the thread you are in?

>>715025786
He's a lowly Gustave self-insert who never recovered from getting BTFO'd by the camp scene.

>>715022780
Good. More nepobabies should do this.

>>715026026
>she's not a mary sue guise
>now look at how smart and correct and better than the mc she is
lol

>>715025798
>E33 has no DEI! (You) should all play this indie (((masterpiece!)))

>>715025875
>Checks metacritic for the last game made by the bananza studio..

Yup E33 fags on suicide watch

>no names dropped in the OP
>tendies somehow feel attacked
the fuck is this thread?

>>715025882
Roblox and Fortnite make more money than every Switch exclusive combined, guess they’re better games than every single Nintendo game put together huh buddy

>>715022604 (OP)
But how else will a company give a return on investment to our shareholder? You wouldn't want to deny them a third yacht right?

Imagine simping for smelly hag feet Lune when Maelle is right there. Couldn't be me!

>>715022780
Nepotism is only bad if the beneficiary is incompetent. I never played E33 but it seems people loved it.

>>715026219
They’re becoming as annoying as Snoys were during the PS4 era. But at least Snoys gave us funny memes like gold face, never ever, and WHIRRRRRRR, nincels give us nothing but tears and bragging about software sales in Japan

>>715026306
>Checks biggest IPs of all time. See Mario and Pokemon.

You are still wrong lmao

>>715026219
They don't have E33 on the Switch 2 yet. They really don't like that.

Reminder that E33 is the first fully fledged vidya of AAA calibre to be developed by an exclusively millennial team. Millennials saved vidya and just BTFO of Gen X. Carry the torch, zoomies. It's time to move on from Minecraft.

>>715025393
Yes, Mario Kart looks higher quality. It looks like it was meticulously animated by a team that truly cares about detail and characterization. E33 looks like slightly above grade UE-slop. Any other affirmations you need?

>>715026196
huh? I wonder what else they made

>>715026356
She's hot but her head is just a bit too big. It's a bit uncanny.

>>715025993
the point was (YOU) brought up MKW out of nowhere for no reason and immediately became defensive when the OP didn't even mention Nintendo
you forced Nintendo into the discussion first

>>715026461
>Mario: started 1981
>Fortnite: started in 2017
Yeah faggot it has almost a 40 year head start are you seriously this retarded?

>>715023962
>mario

>>715022751
I want more low quality AAA games for $50 and I'm not kidding

>>715026405
Who feels attacked? Someone just mentioned mario kart in relation to OPs post and E33 fags went ballistic like they were struck with rabies

>>715026635
Only Nintendo does $80 dollar games though, the rest of the AAA industry moved up to $70.

>>715026356
sex

>>715026635
Yea and? OPs post was about how games are 80 dollars compared to 50 in comparison to E33. Simply put because MKW has better music, animations, gameplay, world, etc, is it really that hard to understand? E33 has tons of shortcoming which is why its 50

>>715026603
nasty
coomers really have no taste

>>715026603
sssssssssssex

>>715023962
>uh...my bing bing kart racer for toddlers is better than GOTY because uh...one of the characters has big eyeballs
lmao

>>715026461
Anpanmanchads... We won

Think Eriksholm is only 30 dollarydoos too

>>715023730
>BUT DS2 uses its tunes more organically in the gameplay.
Lol no it fucking doesn't. Kojima just throws that shit around randomly whereas in the first game he had some restraint.
>DS2 mogs it
No it doesn't. Own both, like both, but E33 blows DS2 out of the water in everything save sheer production value.

>>715026825
mkw has tons of short comings too that werent present in previous fucking mario kart games, so by that logic mkw should also be $50, which is what every normal person payed for it so I suppose its a moot point.

>>715026853
>Uh...E33 is GOTY cause of 'muh sad piano music' and 'le sad emotional story' masks the shit level design, UI, non-innovative gameplay etc.

LMAO

>>715026825
>world
What the fuck does that even mean? You mean graphics? Because then E33 looks much better. Or do you mean shit to do? Because E33's overworld also has more shit to do too.

>>715026825
>MKW has better music, animations, gameplay, world, etc,
I'm not even going to engage with this because I can immediately tell it's going to be like talking to a brick wall

>>715027052
>mkw has tons of short comings too that werent present in previous fucking mario kart games

Like what can you explain? MKW literally has the most content by far. It has the best music, gameplay, animations, graphics, most characters, etc.

>>715027187
Yea unless you think stock unreal engine 5 assets with stiff animations and non innovative gameplay is better than mario kart then sure.

>>715027319
E33'a gameplay is pretty fresh. Sounds like you're coping.

>>715027319
>non innovative gameplay
bruh, Mario Kart's gameplay was innovative 30 years ago

>>715027319
Yea bro, MKW definitely hasn't reused the exact same characters and featured the same exact gameplay for decades now

>>715027403
It's literally just Mario RPG

>>715027476
I don't think you know what the word "literally" means

>>715027403
>E33'a gameplay is pretty fresh

Its literally exactly like paper mario if not worse cause atleast in paper mario the level design opens with abilities gained throughout your playthrough beyond its core gameplay.

Has E33 fags played any other turn based games before?

>>715027476
>>715027535
You guys wish it was as boring as Mario RPG.
>Has a tendie played anything besides a Nintendo game before?
Obviously not.

>>715027319
Expedition 33 is simply a well put together game on a low budget that gets very closes to AAA quality while feeling like a game from the past (in a good way)
for a $50 it a genuinely well packed game and experience and the music and gameplay are top notch.
MKW is simply not justifiable for $80+ a new console. It's delusional and the game is never going to be good enough to justify such a investment.

I know my post is going to go in one ear and out the other because you come off a stupidly stubborn and fanboyish so I'll just leave it at that.

>>715027523
>side stepping the point
>>715027626
Concession accepted

>>715027535
I mean, even by your logic, Paper Mario came out in 2000 while Mario Kart came out in 1992, so yes the gameplay is fresher in comparison

>>715023962
E33 literally has the best soundtrack of all time and the best turn based combat of all time. Animations are also top notch as well, not the best ever but definitely above Mario Kart
>>715024790
Games like Expedition 33 prove that games can be much much more than just toys. E33 can legit compete with the best cinema of this century.

>>715027785
It's closer in spirit to FFX, Lost Odyssey or even Legend of Dragoon than it is to Mario RPG. However
>Do tendies even play anything other than Nintendo games?
So I forgive your retardation. Do not insult E33 by lowering it to the level of Nintendo trash.

>>715027207
>has less tracks than mario kart wii and 8 when it first came out.
>music is only good in free roam which only fags play
>graphics look like blurry shit because they had to make a dumbass open world which no one wants to play in but faggots
>online is fucked right now so unless you really like playing time trials theres nothing else to do in the game

they can fix some of this shit later on, but right now it kinda sucks honestly.

>>715027971
>in spirit
lol
Concession accepted once again

>>715024802
>no one is actually this stupid
you really underestimate pajeets.

>>715027917
>E33 literally has the best soundtrack of all time and the best turn based combat of all time. Animations are also top notch as well, not the best ever but definitely above Mario Kart

Literally not one memorable song beyond Lumiere, everything else blends together in a non coherent fashion throughout the rest of the game. All my buddies said the exactly same thing after they beat E33. Incorporating music and weaving it into the gameplay is an important aspect which was lost in E33. Just cause its 'classical' which is indicative of 'prestige' doesnt make it any better than MKWs soundtrack for example, this type of thinking is why the no one gives a fuck about the Oscars and you have generational iconic movies like star wars winning nothing.

>Games like Expedition 33 prove that games can be much much more than just toys. E33 can legit compete with the best cinema of this century.
Wrong. Games are simply just that. Toys. Whether you like it not. Its just entertainment.

>E33 can legit compete with the best cinema of this century.
Absolutely not lmao. Tons of stories like this have been told in cinema before.

>>715028005
>has less tracks than mario kart wii and 8 when it first came out.
Sure, but the game also has tons of variety in terms of the P challenges, and also the open world nature makes it have the most content in that regard.
>music is only good in free roam which only fags play
Music is fucking kino throughout the whole game, and again has the greatest OST out of any MK game
>graphics look like blurry shit because they had to make a dumbass open world which no one wants to play in but faggots
Game looks way better than 8 which in turn makes it by far the best looking mario kart game. (Maybe get a oled)
>online is fucked right now so unless you really like playing time trials theres nothing else to do in the game
Online is the same as in every mario kart.

Yea sorry but the game has essentially no shortcoming compared to prior entries.

>>715028426
It’s not about whether stories like this have been told before, it’s about how WELL they’ve been told. E33 surpasses the best cinema from the past many years when it comes to the execution of its elements.

>>715022604 (OP)
Because AAA studios are bloated and filled with talentless hacks, hire out actual programming to pajeets, and have overpaid management.

/v/ might just be the only place in the entire internet that defends Mario Kart World being 80 dollars

A lot of autistic faggots in this thread. It would be a lot less embarrassing for these guys if they just told us they were <14 yrs old, even if they were lying. But playing bing bing wahoo as a grown ass adult (presumably alone) puts them in same camp as the retards that buy FIFA and 2K every single year.

E33 is one and done slop. Meanwhile Mario Kart World is a masterpiece that's going to get updated over the years with new content and things to do. It's more than worth it's price if you split it between 8 years for the next mario kart game, $10 a year is well worth it.

>>715029115
It’s bait anon. Genuinely thought /v/ was above falling for this shit by now.

>>715022604 (OP)
Because corporation are greedy fucks?

>>715029115
Nintend-rones will defend anything. Even the switch 2 and $80 games.
>Why is it hyphenated, Anon?
Because the fucking mods even shill for this fucking company.

>>715025287
Far cry 5 music is slightly better. (And you know it)

>the insane pajeet tendie was triggered again

>>715029336
>Nintend-rones will defend anything. Even the switch 2 and $80 games.

Switch 2 is based. Why are you seething?

>>715025798
Capable of getting erased, lmao!

>>715026356
Maelle smells like a (burnt) marshmallow.

>>715022604 (OP)
I'm gonna be honest. The publisher underestimated the demand for turn-based JRPGs and if they had the chance to price it again, it probably would have been $70. You can bet your ass the next game is gonna be $80.

>>715028118
>Has never played a single listed game outside Mario RPG
Damn all these rpgs be giving me Mario rpg vibes...

>>715028965
funny you say that considering how divisive act 3 is narratively. It gets a pass because it's a video game and the gameplay in-between story beats makes up for any flaws. If the point of this was to purely tell a story through visuals like cinema then there is no way it beats any of cinemas highlights in the past 50 years

>>715026676
Wouldn't low quality AAA just be AA?

>>715031179
low quality AAA is just Ubisoft

>>715022604 (OP)
Because apparently 50 dollars only buys you turbo dogshit that gets jerked off by non-gamer millennial faggots desperate to feel like grownups by consuming slop that screams about how artistic and mature it is to distract you from how retardedly and shittily made it really is.

>>715023381
tarkov will release this year

>>715022751
Based

>>715025514
lune is so perfect it's almost criminal

>>715023153
The game's sales don't change the fact that you have no prospects in your own life. Any success it accrues will never be a personal win for you. You'll still be that same autistic lower-class manlet.

>>715032310
What fucking brainrot are you on?
I enjoyed the game, I'm laughing at people mad at this game existing. When a game I don't like has a thread about I just IGNORE IT unlike 99% of autistic shitposters.

>>715022604 (OP)
I suck cock at least once a week AMA

nigga said mario cart

>>715031907
Imagine writing this and posting it.

>>715032543
>knows he's been singled out as an autist who hinges his sense of self-worth on the slop media he consumes
>scrambles to start acting aloof and calling others autists
When this game wins game of the year from all the fag journos that are just as good at games as you are, it's going to be the best moment of your entire year, and that's one of the least pathetic things about you

I'd rather pay 80 to avoid having to have gays in the opening scenes of my video game, social commentary is nice but I'm there for the gameplay, ya.

>>715032652
Imagine moving from twitter to 4chan because you're a faggot manlet that can't stay in his place

>>715032715
>I'm there for the gameplay, ya
"wait for the whoosh sound and then parry/dodge for 30 hours or more" isn't really that much better than an opening with fags

>>715026676
I also want more low quality games like E33. Honestly if the industry could just dump a huge pile of garbage games like that on my plate, it would make my day. Multiple days, even.

>>715032685
Stop projecting, retard.

>>715024802
Drakengard OST is top tier stuff.

So is there a point to killing all the friendly nevrons after doing their sidequests

>>715025391
I am playing hardest mode and have been purposefully leaving stats and weapons unleveled, and banking like 100 lumina points.
I think you definitely need to be careful not to overlevel, especially with a decent build.

>>715032310
he thinks that E33 is high art literature and it winning GOTY will validate some opinion that he is in fact intelligent

>>715022604 (OP)
Because expedition 33 is the bioshock infinite of this year. Mediocre, horribly paced writing that coasts by on the basis of its pitch and concepts instead of getting criticized for its dogshit execution because games journalists and the twitter discourse addicts in this thread have no taste or standards. Dogshit uninspired gameplay that's easy to pitch to negroids who lack the cranial capacity to actually break down a game's mechanics, and instead only care about "hype moments" and "aura farming" with clips, a fixation for which this game's 90/10 split between focusing on parryslop and focusing on actual turn based design is perfectly tailored. In a year or two, not a single person will be able to tell a single interested turn based element in any of the main quest boss fights. All they'll recount to you will be dodge and parry combo strings, as if they were talking about a souls game. This game's "turn based" design is as innovative for turn based games as the stealth in The Last of Us was for the stealth genre. It's worshipped only by gayass millennials that want to be taken seriously for playing games, and are always searching for their "great literary novel" moment. Absolute unmitigated 7/10 slop that's going to win GOTY because its most important quality isn't anything that's inside the game itself, it's the real world narrative of "30 devs and a dog" taking on le AAA industry to show them how it's done. The most extreme case of vidya oscarbait since The Last of Us 2.

>>715028426
>Literally not one memorable song beyond Lumiere

You have to be baiting. Did you even play past the first 10 minutes??

>>715033156
Pretty much this

>>715033232
It's so obvious that you're one of those faggots that like Yuka Kitamura's music just because you've seen every other faggot online praise her

>>715032685
you're still malding over videogames. Expedition 33 is objectively great and the thought that I and many people believe this genuinely makes you so incredibly mad for no reason.

>>715033376
>games journalists
>people
and then on top of that you're a spic

>>715025941
Her skills suck. There, done.

>>715033376
yeah the game awards are 100% going to be the biggest day of your entire year kmfao

>>715033376
>Expedition 33 is objectively great
"People" say the same shit about rockstar games too, dipshit. E33 reminds me more of Bioshock Infinite but it's way more forced

>>715022604 (OP)
E33 uses tons of UE5 store assets and is obviously of lower quality than most modern games so it makes sense that it's cheaper. Voice acting and music is where the game shines and where most of their efforts clearly went.

>>715022604 (OP)
Because the suits not working behind the scenes need to buy a bigger house and a new boat. Rich people are the reason things are a lot worse than they need to be, because they feel they have the right to have much more than everyone else, despite not working half as much.

>>715033336
I asked a simple question and you immediately seethe like a schizo LMAO

>>715033717
There's more than one person in here laughing at your shit taste fag

>>715033480
>>715033615
>>715033616
whether it wins GOTY or not doesn't matter. You can't even enjoy a games anymore.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Clair Obscur. The nuance is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of metaphysics most of the subtext will go over a typical player's head.

>>715023473
what do you even do in that game? I've never seen a single webm of gameplay besides carrying boxes.

>>715033978
>You can't even enjoy a games anymore.
why does this game attract so many ESL tryhards

>>715026404
The only flaw the game has is that there will never be a sequel. FUCK it's so good.

>>715034179
You're trying way too hard

>>715022604 (OP)
Are you too retarded to see the difference between AA and AAA projects/budgets?

bros is there a way to run this fucking game in my rx570 powered potato? I'm still in lumière so I don't know if the rest of the game is just as hardware intensive but I'm getting like 28fps in those crowded areas while using the low preset and 45ish on the rooftops
is there some .ini where I can tweak graphical options that aren't listed in the game

>>715025941
>asian
>woman
there's two bitch

also
>not gargling my dick AND balls

>>715022604 (OP)
Explain to me why Expedition 33 is $50 when I could have much more enjoyment from smashing my testicles with a claw hammer for $8.

>>715034152
>
the opposite is true. A bunch of brownoids like yourself cried that the game is too white and the other half complained about not getting the story.

>>715033865
So you're seething on behalf of another schizo and you're taking screenshots to prove it? That's about as faggy as it gets.

>>715034442
Oh. It's you.

>>715034263
i'm a racist cunny lover, white and 6'2. i don't have to try. what i say goes.

>>715022604 (OP)
Someone's gotta pay for denuvo's fees. And it ain't gonna be the devs or publishers.

>>715028426
>Literally not one memorable song beyond Lumiere, everything else blends together in a non coherent fashion throughout the rest of the game.
t. didn't even leave on the expedition

https://youtu.be/bTAlomrlDvo?si=Q2YSAi1yA7S2Oe6o
https://youtu.be/Zcu5B8iBclk?si=kCxDuuXicOfbEtt0

https://youtu.be/HF11KimKdFo?si=xCkMQHMx8850lYL2

https://youtu.be/r6Nas0ft2ME?si=XDUMD94HZyOKV_zL

https://youtu.be/3kMbTzomh94?si=1Qe8_yjfTpjvifFf

The only way you can say the composer, singer, and sound designer didn't nail it is if you're tone deaf and autistic, or a contrarian faggot that thinks acting like a retard is cool.

>>715034597
its like an 8 hr soundtrack and you people always spam the same 5 songs

>>715034530
I wish you were as funny as your downs syndrome led you to believe.

>>715034318
I played it on a 4090 strix and a 13900k with 64gigs of ddr5 ram, all drivers updated (though some of the fags on the steam forums said that that's actually bad and you SHOULDN'T update em) and the game looked like a dogshit PS4 game the whole way through. The world map would be fine for about 1.5hrs to 2hrs and then it'd start crashing every 15 minutes on the world map. One of their patches made a fix to some other elements that was related to memory leaks, so it's definitely a memory leak problem from the game having been coded by talentless homos.

>>715034797
you're brown

>>715034354
it spawned people who hate it because they didnt pay attention, but it also attracted pseudo intellectuals who believe this is ranks on the same level as reading a book

>>715034776

>"Th-Th-Th-That's not fair! You're not supposed to use the good songs as examples of good songs!!!"

>>715034597
I personally really love Aline's theme
https://youtu.be/vGVeDm4118Q?si=YxFgPyh0n6LiJBKT
https://youtu.be/XVIVOoeocMY?si=x1LeCtPF-OXWlt-2

>>715022604 (OP)
Explain to me why any game should be fucking 50 bucks you disgusting shitskin

>>715035016
I never said that. All I'm pointing out is that the supposedly greatest soundtrack in years only has 5 or so good songs. The rest is either forgettable or remixes

>>715034008
>Listen—Clair Obscur Exp 33 isn’t a narrative, it’s a bloody cosmic lobster hierarchy spiraling through the Logos: the protagonist dives head-first into primordial chaos, wrestles the serpentine shadow coiled round the Tree of Being, and discovers—terrifyingly—that the snake’s venom is the very fragmented shards of his own soul. Order flickers, chaos roars, time devours itself like an existential ouroboros, and unless you shoulder that burden—clean your metaphysical room, integrate the dragon—you’re already entombed in the underworld of tyrannical nihilism, and heaven help you, because no one else will.

>e33 fags happily taking the crown from gachafags for "the most defensive fanbase that loves to bitch about boogeymen"
god damn

>>715035239
E33 album hit #1 on the classical billboards charts. You need to take the L already and admit defeat, cockboy.

>>715022604 (OP)
>E33fags think they're mature because they get the Big Mac instead of the Happy Meal
>Mature people save money by cooking nicer food at home and with their saved money can get real sushi

E33fags are happy with more generic slop just because it's cheap and not japanese.

>>715035310
>>715035373
>E33 superior to all competitors
>Continues to inspire this kind of cope
Love it.

>>715035310
all I see is this thread full of fags like you complaining that people even dare like the game at all. do you not see the amount of nitpicking bitchiness is in this thread? because you're not attempting to even try to be objective.

>>715035373
>Mature people save money by cooking nicer food at home and with their saved money can get real sushi
>he needs a savings account to go and get some sushi

>>715023473
i chuckled

>>715027917
>legend of dragoon in unreal 5 has the best turn based combat of all time

>>715023473
Post Office Simulator is objectively better tho.

>>715022604 (OP)
They don't. Just like you don't need to buy them.

>>715035426
>>715035440
>uhhh cope cope cope le bitching you are le complaining because people le like the game i genuinely believe everyone who disagrees with me is the same person
>there is not a hint of irony in what i'm saying
you're only reinforcing my point, knuckleheads

>>715035536
>Anon doesn't know the difference between maki and nigiri
>Anon just orders the California Roll because he hates raw fish

>>715035440
Every E33 thread I have seen have been bait threads. E33 can not insist upon itself.

>>715027917
>the point of turn-based combat is letting you play and think at leasure
>throw in qtes and gay glitter everywhere to satisfy millennials and their adhd
It's RTwP.

>>715035957
>Anon doesn't know the difference between maki and nigiri
>Anon just orders the California Roll because he hates raw fish
Bro, you're not going to win this one. Good on you for liking sushi though.

>>715035985
>throw in qtes
I remember a time when games with QTEs consistently shit on here

>>715036046
Bad on you for hating something just because it's Japanese though.

>>715032962
Yes. If you visit a nevron on a floating island(I think) in a corner of the map they give you 100 lumina

>>715036301
>hating something just because it's Japanese though
I... don't?

>>715036364
Oh shit don’t kill the nevron’s my bad and then they’ll give you 100 lumina

>>715022751
And none of it matters. I don't even like the game cuz it's a zoomy turn based instead of a realm turn based but obviously whatever it is, that's all game has to be in terms of quality. Also Elden ring could have made plenty of profit at $50 too

>>715025607
Sauce?

>>715022751
we get it, it hasn't released on switch 2 yet

>>715024689
MKW animation is incredible but it is obvious fans hold it tó a different standard. When any other game does something exceptionally well but neglect other things it is criticized. MKW is getting excused. There is no online party system in the game which is in every single other MP game. I don't even begin on the SP content or the open world. It is not worth 80 at all.

>>715032790
>Imagine moving from twitter to 4chan because you're a faggot manlet that can't stay in his place
Imagine writing this. What does this person look like.

>>715022604 (OP)
Because Expedition is a budget game. You can see the many corners they cut, especially with Act 3 which is nothing but optional bosses and bland dungeons with nothing really in them but meaningless boss, with a very tiny amount of exceptions.
Game is still good but come on.

>>715037603
Nintendie projection kek

>>715033553
Wrong
Lune is incredibly strong in Act 1 and 2.

>>715037603
>game has kind of an interesting premise and decent start to the story
>twist is revealed too soon or everything after the twist is dragged on for too long
>the ending is very unsatisfying
>just like my Kdramas
Was the story written by a Korean woman?

>Alicia still has life to smear, Verso's in the abyss, Lune weeps
What did the Alicia lyrics mean by this?

>>715037768
No, retard. I haven't owned a Nintendo console since the 64. I like E33, but it's definitely not a AAA game and didn't cost as much to make as they do. Which is why it's cheaper.

>>715026986
>Kojima just throws that shit around randomly
when I say organic, I mean there are many moments which are not scripted wherein the music you play can elevate the atmosphere while doing deliveries. I think this is special because it is emergent and is a result of different factors (graphics, gameplay, music) coming together to create a unique experience for the player.
For scripted moments I think it is a mixed bag - in particular the different versions of BB theme were used well, the Magellan tune is iconic, and the high impact moments use Amekara Nijie and BB's Theme extremely well, more than any scene in DS1. That said, I do think that DS1 is more consistently good with the scripted music that plays during deliveries.

>E33 blows DS2 out of the water in everything save sheer production value.
Production value has an impact in many factors - especially visually. Not that E33 is a bad looking game, I think it's art design is fantastic, but the lack of budget shows in the uncanny faces of some characters and animations out of combat. The visuals in the overworld and in the levels also feel plastic-y, maybe it's the UE5 look.

Gameplay wise they are too different to be compared meaningfully, but I personally enjoyed DS2 more. E33's advancement system is a bit shallow, it's just a spruced up FF9 system with allocable stats - but I like how the Pictos/Lumina system is tied to the story.

DS2 is also more humorous, and is a more "fun" game to play - it doesn't take itself too seriously (I know this is highly subjective and can vary wildly per person).

>>715024337
Kino
Its just arcade racing, yes i played them and i feel like i could play normal game in this time

>>715038872
Fair response. I still consider E33 head and shoulders over DS2, but I still enjoy both games.

>>715022604 (OP)
Is that why people like this garbage so much? Because it’s the only game they can afford? Poorfags should be sent to camps

>>715039014
yeah same, it's been a good year for games. I played a ton of E33 because I wanted to learn more about the world, story and characters, I played a ton of DS2 because I wanted to build road and zipline networks, so I can amazoncuck easier.

>>715022604 (OP)
I genuinely would not have bought this game for 80 Euros like the cost of all other games now in the Eurozone and with the cost of the pre-order for this game being 45 Euros I knew I would get my money's worth, but what I didn't know was that I'd get one of the best games of the last few years.

>>715022604 (OP)
writing, art, music and ideas aren't necessarily expensive

>>715022604 (OP)
Kept thinking it was recency bias but nope. Still one of the best I've ever played. Top 3 easily. Go suck some chink dick kojima/ff fags.

>>715022604 (OP)
Is this game really that good? You guys won't shut the fuck up about it.

>>715022604 (OP)
E33 used marketplace assets and animations are terrible. That's why AAA games got pajeets creating assets unless you want every game to look almost exactly the same because you know game do need a shit ton of assets.

why are the heads so huge in e33, gives me dragon age veilguard vibes

>>715039461
It’s painfully overrated. It’s a turn based combat with a dodge/parry system. But once you get somewhat decent at parrying, all the difficulty disappears and you’re stuck playing on story mode for the rest of the game. The story isn’t even that good, it’s basically just the schizo fantasy of one of the characters

I still don't know what Kojimbo is trying to say in DS2.

>>715026131
>bitch fuck your indigo tree ima go get mayel now stfu and float along

>>715034347
why do a diy transition when you can float as lune instead

>>715039880
>because you know game do need a shit ton of assets
Imagine shitting on pajeets when you're even more ESL

>>715036416
can you kill them afterwards

>>715034347
Do it and post vids or youre a fucking faggot poser

the goty seethe is gonna be fun

>>715038872
>DS2 is also more humorous, and is a more "fun" game to play - it doesn't take itself too seriously
I dunno, for me both DS1 and DS2 take themselves VERY fucking seriously. Otherwise Kojima wouldn't be so hellbent on explaining every single intricacy of the plot to you for hours and hours to make sure you understand his genius.

>>715023473
lol i like both games but look at them struggle to counter this. morons.

>>715023381
Pirate Yakuza

>>715022604 (OP)
cuz of capitalism n shieet. get a job retard.

>>715035310
The defensiveness is genuinely psychotic

>>715037353
You type like a trannoid failson

>>715023153
i get paid by AAA gaming studios to promote their shit so of course i'll mald and seethe over CO:E33...

>>715039461
People are jerking off the game's pitch because they don't care about games in general enough to scrutinize its execution of that pitch. There isn't a single element that's god-tier, the story fumbles a basic inception-tier "artists get lost in their art to cope with loss" premise by fucking the pacing with amateurish decisions, and the gameplay is a childish kitchen sink concept that feels like genre mad libs ("DOOD what if we made a turn based game but like... we INNOVATED and like... CHANGED the genre forever??" "hmmm... how would we do that?" "idk... Parries?"). the only thing that the main quest encounters force you to learn, even on expert, are parry and dodge timings. There's no challenge on the critical path that ever pushes you to really learn lumina and team synergies. When you hear people discuss their experiences with the main story encounters, none of the side stuff, the core game that you need to beat in order to see credits, you'll find that they sound exactly like people discussing a souls game, not like people discussing a turn based rpg. It's the narrative around the game that's going to get it GOTY at Keighley's show. 30 devs and a dog. Little indie team that could. The composer was from soundcloud, shit like that. It's the gaming equivalent of Oscar bait.

>>715043051
>The composer was from soundcloud
Hey to be fair that guy did well
Him and most of the voice actors, I can't really find fault with those

>>715040893
>the goty seethe is gonna be fun
Yes anon we know it's going to be the best thing that happens to you all year long, we've established that already

>>715043138
Everyone other than verso was fine. Ben Starr has no fucking range.

>>715039461
the bioshock infinite comparisons for this game are the most accurate assessment I've seen of it. everything else is insane overzealous hype

>>715032310
Absolutely insane schizobabble rant. Imagine getting this upset over someone enjoying a video game. Get off the internet you fucking loon.

>>715023774
>9 hour soundtrack
>within one track there is a two minute segment that is a heavy rethread of a track from 1750
Please anon, go to court for plagiarism. You'll bury them.

It's funny to see /v/ trademark contrarianism in action. /v/ used to like E33 when it first came out, but the secons it became popular, they started shitting on it.

>>715043459
You're on the wrong site, twitter troon faggot. Kill yourself.

>>715043850
It's not /v/, it's a very dedicated group of discord trannies that do this anytime a game is well received. They purposefully make threads just to shit on the game. ER, Dragons Dogma 2 and quite a few other games I can think of off the top of my head have been on the receiving end. While some of the discourse might be genuine, a lot is forced.

E33 was exempt from this for a time because it was a sleeper hit, something that didn't have much hype or marketing and gained traction mostly through word of mouth, so they didn't have their months in advance of planning to execute their retardation. You're only seeing it now because they didn't know about it and probably didnt expect it to be popular.

Their attempts to try compare the game against Death Stranding 2 is the exact same shit that they did with Elden Ring and Dragon's Dogma, trying to pit two fanbases against each other, for some reason.

>>715044314
You have no prospects in your own life. Any success you accrue will never be a personal win for you. You'll still be that same autistic lower-class manlet.

>>715043850
>they
>/v/
It's just a few literal kids and brown people that just wanna take a shit on everything for the sake of it (they are brown).

>>715025391
The main story is pretty easy on normal difficulty, only a handful of the bosses and mini-bosses pose a real challenge.

Games should actually be way cheaper than $50. I regularly buy games that individually offer dozens of hours of quality content for under $10

>>715043850
Your discord isn't /v/

>>715044818
>Outs himself
'Cord trannies lost

>>715044916
Broken bot or shartycuck hmmm it's really hard to tell.

>>715045031
Hmm, likewise bro.

>>715022604 (OP)
They updated a few tracks, they sound way better now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMbTzomh94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anD2aeIrMOs

>>715023381
KCD2 easily shits all over anything not named DS2 this year.

>>715033178
the only good post in this thread desu

>>715051083
samefagging yourself 6 hours after no one replied to your shitty bait is pathetic

>>715051509
whatever helps you sleep at night anon

>>715022604 (OP)
E33 should have been $20 at most. There's so many unreal engine store assets used that it makes the game look cheap. Also most of the animations are very poor. Character models also have that weird big head thing going for them that was also a thing in Dragon Age Veilguard but unlike that game, E33 doesn't have a stylized artstyle but aims for realism which looks super ugly when the heads are huge.

>>715040983
He can be too on the nose with his exposition yes, his storytelling is obvious, meandering and sometimes repeats itself too much. That doesn't exclude itself from it being very fun though, just look at the whole beach sequence and higgs fight.

Kojima's themes are serious and philosophical but variable in execution, sometimes wacky, sometimes straight, sometimes a mix of both and you really can't tell. It's exactly why his games are fun to play - Matosis said it well it's a mix of highbrow and lowbrow.

>>715040038
holy fucking shit i thought i was being crazy noticing that. it took me out of the game so hard when some sad bullshit was happening

>>715037927
MC + Maelle are way better.

Finally got to the third act of the game and while I enjoyed most of the way through it, I finally felt some battle exhaustion from constantly having to counter and dodge. It felt like a series of boss fights that just didn't end.

Also, I think the story's big plot twist was pretty poorly dunked on you in such a sudden manner, it felt as bad as the Final Fantasy 8 plot twist where they just sprung it out of nowhere for no reason.

So far, before I finally go for the finish, I'd give the game a solid 7/10, maybe 8/10 because there's a lot to like, but holy crap the things that aren't good are very much highlighted in your face.

>>715050736
She's perfect

>>715054381
Tell me how Maelle does 120k damage with one button by the end of act 1

>game could easily pass as a 60 or even 70 dollar AAA
>uhhhh actually e33 has the lowest quality in any video game ever and isn’t even worth 10 dollars
This is why no one takes /v/ criticism seriously, it’s just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian

>>715054491
>120k
Stendhal can do literally close to a billion damage, scrub.

>>715054780
>act 1

>>715054854
Who cares about Act 1? By that logic the wooden training sword is an amazing weapon, because it's great in the first 5 minutes of some RPG when you need to kill a rat.

>>715054416
>out of nowhere for no reason.
>the paintress
>chroma
>ink
>alicia looking just like a decolored maelle
Yeah, out of nowhere.

>>715055515

Oh yeah, I'm sure you figured all that out without reflecting on it for a few hours with your fellow retards here.

>>715054854
>>715054780
>>715054967

Aren't you damage capped at 9999 until you unlock the appropriate Picto, which you get at the start of Act III?

>>715022604 (OP)
Because e33 is a mediocre indie game and it feels like one

>>715055649
NTA but even if you don't guess the whole twist, it makes perfect sense once it's revealed.

>>715055658
Yes, but Lightning Dance hits twelve times

>>715023153
>fan boy faggot seethe
Kys with your shitty overrated game you low t cuck

>>715054416
Why didn't you just kill the enemies before they get a turn?

>>715022604 (OP)
Deltarune is $25 pixel shit and it's more worth it than $80 AAA slop

>>715024437
They think Nintendo is their friend

>>715057018

Ah right. Yeah, I went with Maelle, Lune and Monoco. Apparently Sciel is super broken and I think Verso has some "endless AP" bullshit he can do but I liked my team. Even Simon was reasonably beatable and I didn't have full 99s to do it. Had to oneshot him at around 50% to avoid the "your party FUCKING DIES" bullshit

>>715059994

I blame S E G A's marketing campaign in the 90s which pitched them against Nintendo. SEGA died but N*ntendrones had to create and enemy and coined the term "Snoy" and shitposted endlessly

>>715022604 (OP)
To pay HRP for the devs

>>715054416
I'll give them credit that the twist aligns with everything the game tells you up to that point, if you go back and actually listen to all the cryptic dialogue from Acts 1 and 2, they make perfect sense with the reality of the world as you come to understand it by the end. The twist barely even matters desu, if just refocuses the narrative from a "Kill god and save the world" story to a very compact narrative about family grieve and overcoming trauma

>>715022604 (OP)
I played the game for 12 hours or so. It really made me realize this isnt a discussion about a game anymore. Just a commentary on the industry and how people dont want games to get expensive or have big studios with massive layoffs afterwards. Most outlets that praise the game talk less about the game itself and more about how t his is a proof that games don't need to be AAA to be good anymore or some arbitrary stuff.

A lot of the game is wonky, from the awkwardly paced story, bland areas, animation on enemies that make timing parries and avoids more confusing that fun and dull characeters. The music I thought was going to be fine, but I don't really get any variety from it. It's all the same sombre song, except for maybe one battle theme in the red fairy forest where it becomes a Eurovision summer song.

>>715023156
Expedition 33 is on Steam though, and games aren't any cheaper on epic which takes a smaller cut.

>>715022604 (OP)
think of the poor nintendo

>>715055649
I don't claim to have had it all figured out but some of it was clear even without playing detective. For instance I knew the paintress was the mother of Verso and probably Maelle long before the end of act 2, and that she was the one fueling some of the life in that universe (which is told almost explicitly by painted Renoir and Alicia). There were obvious dark zones and misleading foreshadowing (for instance the White nevrons referring to their mistress was obviously intended to lead to the paintress despite it not making sense). The fact the curator and the paintress had the same gommaged appearance made it obvious they were related and that there was a point in preventing you from seeing their faces.

>>715062128
>A lot of the game is wonky, from the awkwardly paced story
Clearly you don't play enough Eurojank, my friend.

>>715022604 (OP)
greed

The good thing about 4chan is that it's extremely consistent with its' contrarianism, which makes it easy to tell when something great has been released.

>Zelda journoheadline poster is in this very thread