Expedition 33 - /v/ (#715058705) [Archived: 447 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:50:52 PM No.715058705
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Why is this ending so uncomfortable?
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:51:32 PM No.715058748
>>715058705 (OP)
cute male
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:52:28 PM No.715058797
>>715058705 (OP)
Because it's shit and you realize you have to commit to spreading your garbage online to everyone.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:53:41 PM No.715058867
This is the best ending, by the way. Not because it's the "bad" ending, not because it's the "good" ending. But because it's the tragic ending. This whole game is ultimately about tragedy, and the way this ending twists the knife is beautiful to me. It's beautifully disturbing, and just thinking about it gives me chills.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:53:44 PM No.715058869
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>>715058705 (OP)
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:54:57 PM No.715058937
>FOTM33 really was FOTM33
who woulda thunk
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:59:52 PM No.715059242
>>715058705 (OP)
The Maelle ending is just the Verso ending but delayed. Eventually Renoir, Aline, and maybe Clea will reenter the portrait at full strength to bring back their daughter and all 3 are much, much better and more experienced Painters then Alicia and they will either rip her out of the painting by force or talk her into leaving. The Maelle ending is basically a kid playing on their gamebox until their parents come and take them away. The ending does however extend Verso's tenure in the piano mines, so that's a plus to me.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:03:54 PM No.715059492
>>715059242
>The Maelle ending is just the Verso ending but delayed
No, this is your headcanon. The whole point of showing her fucked up face is that she's going to die in there, just like everyone else. She's the master of that world, and will kill or imprison anyone who tries to take her away.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:18:15 PM No.715060409
they're not real and all their emotions are fake so >play the fucking piano for my amusement, Verso
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:23:36 PM No.715060774
>>715058705 (OP)
Because it's the bad ending
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:27:46 PM No.715061083
>>715058705 (OP)
Because it's fucking horrible. Imagine enslaving Verso's soul and prolonging his suffering just to keep living in your little make-believe world until your real life body dies because your family is incapable of pulling you out.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:31:48 PM No.715061393
>>715058705 (OP)
Because it's the best ending
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:32:41 PM No.715061460
Other than what others have said, everyone is also looking super uncomfortable and the Gustave and Sohphie almost feels artificial in some way
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:33:24 PM No.715061510
>>715058705 (OP)
Because in the end you realize all painters are cunts and if you dont care about the painted world you are just like them
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:34:24 PM No.715061586
nobody would side with the eldritch abomination if it weren't a jailbait pubescent redhead
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:34:32 PM No.715061596
>>715058705 (OP)
>Americans can't comprehend ending other than like ones in Disney movies
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:51:14 PM No.715062769
>>715058705 (OP)
because you realize renoire was right and Maelle is essentially slowly dying via remaining in the painting. She becomes a god figure in the painted world that is able to bring back whoever she wants and can create her own perfect world, but is also forcing verso to keep living
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:02:42 PM No.715063570
>>715059492
One day a fully rested Renoir, Aline, and Clea show up to bring Alicia home. Explain how Alicia stops the trio of better Painters.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:11:59 PM No.715064184
>>715061586
this
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:17:06 PM No.715064536
>>715063570
>Explain how Alicia stops the trio of better Painters.
The only reason the player party could defeat the paintress is because of Maelle. She's shown to be the better painter, and frankly, the more ruthless one, compared to her mother or father. Now that she's in charge, she has absolute control over everything that happens in the painting. She is inextricable from the painting, and I think this sense of tragedy and despair is the whole point of her ending. At least that's my interpretation.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:36:25 PM No.715065931
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>>715060409
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:37:26 PM No.715066005
Because its wrong.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:38:09 PM No.715066059
>>715058705 (OP)
Let it go already this game was ass
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:38:44 PM No.715066103
>>715066059
Top 3 all time. Stay mad.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:39:10 PM No.715066132
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Why the fuck do people keep posting spoilers of this game in the OP picture? This is like the 4th intentional spoiler just this week. Every single thread about this game has a spoiler in the OP.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:39:33 PM No.715066161
I wish there was more of a balance between the two endings but it does fit the whole clair obscur motif.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:41:05 PM No.715066282
I, for one, quite enjoy the pianoposting.
Might even try a game, but first i must finish playing the game
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:42:42 PM No.715066383
>>715066161
It's what people deserve for getting gaslit by a 16 year old junkie.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:42:57 PM No.715066408
>>715066132
Because its worth full price and if you've held out for a sale then you dont deserve the full experience

You cheapened it yourself
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:43:02 PM No.715066412
>>715066132
is it a spoiler if you dont understand the context?
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:44:22 PM No.715066503
>>715066132
because there are people who post on this board out of spite trying to ruin your enjoyment of your hobby
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:44:52 PM No.715066534
>>715058705 (OP)
They had to go hard on the emotional manipulation to kinda balance the fact that the other ending includes a little genocide.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:46:35 PM No.715066684
>>715066161
If you actually use your brain instead of your emotions they are pretty balanced. Might even lean in the other direction.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:47:47 PM No.715066772
>>715066684
How so? Emotions are the only thing that could make someone pick Maelle's ending, so it's actually far more lopsided if you use your brain.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:50:09 PM No.715066961
I picked the Maelle ending because she's just a cute disfigured and mute girl trying to escape reality. Like me :)
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:53:21 PM No.715067293
>>715066132
it is quite literally the only part of the story worth discussing
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:54:51 PM No.715067416
>>715067293
>literally
Why is every post containing this word retarded? And does this rule also apply to posts quoting it?
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:55:19 PM No.715067452
>>715058705 (OP)
because escapism le bad
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:02:17 PM No.715067984
>>715058705 (OP)
>best girl becomes a god and a totalitarian
>why dis so baaaad
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:05:38 PM No.715068241
>>715058705 (OP)
>Reddit 33
Please, PLEASE play more games.

Older classics like Planescape Torment BLOW this slop out of the water.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:11:46 PM No.715068696
>>715068241
cringe
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:21:43 PM No.715069524
>>715067416
>>715068696
Sandfall doesn't care about you, defending a video game isnt noble or worthwhile
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:22:21 PM No.715069570
>>715068241
At least E33 has an 8/10 game attached to it unlike Planescape Borement.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:24:55 PM No.715069782
>>715069524
>i liked thing
>thing is shit you're shit for liking thing
>ok fuck you then
>why are you defending company
The autism is off the charts.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:29:17 PM No.715070117
>>715069524
Its a very good videogame from an indie dev company. Better than 95% of the slop made by AAA companies in the past years. It's worth defending.

It's ok if you dont like pizza anon, go someplace else and eat an hamburger or something instead of throwing tantrums inside pizza joints :)
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:31:47 PM No.715070278
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>>715061586
I dunno senpai, that Nylarthotep be talkin' reparations n' shieet, bruh don't even get me started on Shub Niggurath's tax policies...
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:37:05 PM No.715070660
>>715066961
But unlike you, she has a Vagina and a Rich Family so even though times are tough for her right now, she can find a husband to milk up her womb and birth babies, which will give meaning to her life.

Or ya know, she could spend her time jacking it in a vr drug world pretending to be something she isn't and dying shortly there after.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:39:17 PM No.715070820
>>715058937
>3 months later
>still 20k+ players on Steam on a daily basis

>>715068241
>>715069570
Funny that you mention these two in the same thread. I have over 500 reviews on Steam and there are only two 10/10s among them: Torment and Clair Obscur.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:47:09 PM No.715071428
>>715070820
Can I add you as a fellow Steam reviewer? What's your FC?
t. 200+ reviews
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:53:37 PM No.715072001
>>715058705 (OP)
Because the writers of the game are telling you that you chose the wrong ending, so it's bad. They're also telling you that Alicia and Verso are the only characters that matter by this time, so your focus was likely on the wrong part of the game's plot or setting. There is only one objectively correct way for this to end.

That is why that ending is framed the way it is
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:53:39 PM No.715072006
>>715064536
I don't think so. Alicia and co. only defeated Aline due to decades of Clea weakening Aline and they couldn't even hurt Renoir without a weakened Aline helping them. I just don't see how Alicia could take on 3 more vastly experienced Painters and in her current situation of a benevolent demiurge, she has no impetus to improve her own painting skills.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:59:19 PM No.715072463
https://files.catbox.moe/svintn.mp4
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:18:20 PM No.715073941
>>715072001
the point of the endings is to generate discussion, the director said himself thats what he wants
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:21:05 PM No.715074152
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>>715072001
>Because the writers of the game are telling you that you chose the wrong ending,
wrong
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:23:11 PM No.715074306
>>715072006
She won against them while having less chroma. Now she has all the chroma under her control. That's how she wins.
If defeating the paintress was so easy then Renoir wouldn't have planned on hungering her out for another 33 years.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:41:29 PM No.715075670
>>715072001
>authors basically push the words "BOTH ENDINGS ARE BAD" in your face
>"hmm, I reckon one of the endings is good"
They overestimated gamers' IQ, it seems. They should have explained in detail the meaning of "relative reality".

>>715074152
>Writing is the ultimate RPG and I get to play every single character!
Based. As a kid I liked writing fantasy stories and it felt exactly like that, as if characters were doing and saying things of their own volition.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:49:39 PM No.715076313
>>715074152
>a characters actions and dialogue is a product of their history and upbringing
I'm sorry no hate to the author she seems very passionate but why is this always posted like it's some profound knowledge about literature composition. Is this not the bare minimum knowledge needed for writing? I feel like even a teenager writing Ao3 fanfic understands this intuitively
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:51:44 PM No.715076484
>>715058867
>Aaaah, I want the characters to.. SUFFER
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:53:33 PM No.715076631
>>715076484
>t. mind too weak to stand story that hurts the fee-fees
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:54:19 PM No.715076696
>>715074306
>She won against them while having less chroma
She won against a demented aline and a fcuking tired renoir while needing her mom and the rest of her party (they had no way to get around sirene)
Renoir fought to a standstill with Aline who was controlling the chroma in the canvas, alicia is fucking doomed in contrast.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:55:46 PM No.715076818
>>715058705 (OP)
Because it's the bad ending.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:58:50 PM No.715077072
i hope kojima wins GOTY because this amount of dog shit shilling for 33 is silly at this point
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:59:09 PM No.715077105
>>715074306
Aline: The leader of the Painter's Guild, is the literal #1 when it comes to Painting
Renoir: Probably best Painter after Aline
Clea: Scion of her family and clever enough to redirect chroma away from away from her mother

vs

Alicia: discovered her Painter powers maybe a week ago.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:59:12 PM No.715077110
Let's carve a path
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:02:29 PM No.715077395
I hope they release it on the Switch 2, because this amount of dog shit shitposting against 33 is silly at this point.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:02:42 PM No.715077416
>>715077072
Yeah, nothing like the guy with the vanity project wasting money to be around celebrities and with the cult fanbase.
THAT is organic.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:11:38 PM No.715078146
>>715058705 (OP)
I picked this ending because fuck verso i want Lune to be happy.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:14:32 PM No.715078381
>>715076631
Why would anyone bother "standing" something inherently negative, disappointing and dismal?
Do you also consume those japanese cuck fetish visual novels because you can handle it?
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:15:39 PM No.715078464
>>715058705 (OP)
i will always pick the ending where lunes feet survive
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:24:44 PM No.715079146
>>715076313
Have you seen Veilguard or numerous other western vidya slop writing over the past decade? There's no such thing as "bare minimum knowledge" in modern day writing, we have to pray for basics nowadays
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:28:27 PM No.715079484
>>715078381
Because art isn't there to make you feel good. Art is there to make you feel. Feeling all kinds of emotions is a good thing.
If it made you feel bad, then it did its job, you just don't realise it yet, because you still treat media as simple entertainment and escapism.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:28:59 PM No.715079526
>>715058705 (OP)
Because it's the Bad End.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:41:46 PM No.715080587
>>715079526
But everyone lives
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:41:46 PM No.715080590
>>715079484
If that is what art is to you, then so be it. If someone views art as simple entertainment and escapism, then so be it as well. Art can make you feel a range of emotions, good and bad. Some value that, like you, while others don't. Both are valid. Do you see how you can spin it anyway? Because art is subjective, each individual will perceive it differently due to a difference in life's experiences. Telling someone they don't understand it's purpose because they are viewing it through the wrong lens is useless
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:43:27 PM No.715080741
>>715079484
Fart-huffing pseud faggot who was tricked by intelligent but malicious people into poisoning his mind with demoralizing shit.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:50:52 PM No.715081391
>>715080590
You repeated what I said.
>Feeling all kinds of emotions is a good thing.
I never said if it makes you feel good emotions, then it's not art or that it's worse.

>>715080741
Have a (You) for the trouble, lad.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:54:00 PM No.715081662
>>715081391
>I never said if it makes you feel good emotions, then it's not art or that it's worse
you are either Hideo Kojima or the most pretentious pseudo-intellectual in the world AKA the perfect audience for this game
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:59:51 PM No.715082125
>>715081662
>if a story is deeper than "plumber goes to save a princess", it's "le pretentious"
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:02:24 PM No.715082348
>>715080741
>what is Greek Tragedy