Thread 718449995

My life is depressing enough why do i need to be depressed while playing a game

the music especially fucks with me, every track is utterly depressing

>not wanting to end it every night
Casual

>>718449995 (OP)
That's the point, it's cathartic. If you play a happy game it won't change your mood it'll just feel fake.

>>718449995 (OP)
Thats the point of this game.

>>718449995 (OP)
The game's themes of depression and tragedy are regularly talked about and advertised, so why would you get a game about depression if you didn't want to play a game about depression? Some people aren't depressed, and playing games about depression lets them feel emotions they don't often get to experience.

>>718449995 (OP)
git gud

>>718449995 (OP)
Gods I loved this game, especially the soundtrack

I loved this game but the ending was so bad lol. So contrived. I was half expecting a piano to fall out of the sky and land on Maelle's head because why not, that's miserable right? But I suppose it is the French, a people to whom nihilism is considered a virtue

People who cry over Expedition 33 are mentally challenged and should seek more education and story comprehension immediately.

Protip: The next time you see an Expedition thread, look at the posts.
Most of the posters have blatant misspellings in their posts. Capitalization and punctuation is forgotten, and Youtube-style idiocy is emphasized.

This exemplifies the low intelligence level of Expedition fans. It isn't without reason either.

Expedition is simply a story that was overly dramatic and tragic, a story that should've appealed to anyone with a sense of heart. However, most people have seen this strategy in the forms of books, movies, real life, or some other medium.
The dramatic, tragic story has been done many many times, and an over-dramatized death of a character should no longer affect the intellectual in a drastic way.

However, Expedition's target audience consists of 13 year old boys who have never experienced higher forms of storytelling. If one were to watch Expedition without having experienced stories with sadness in them, they would use It as the base value for the genre. However, if one were more educated on the aspects of dramas and tragedies, one would regard Expedition as a poor attempt to appeal to their audiences.

Once the dramatic and tragic elements of Expedition are removed, the remaining dregs are composed of cute girls and pitiful comedic scenes. Essentially, this is what Expedition is to the educated and informed. A simple show which has no appeal whatsoever. However, to the uneducated, Expedition represents a new flavor of game they have just experienced.

>>718452993
Your post doesn't mention music, which is the entire appeal of the game. The gameplay and story are a vehicle to deliver the soundtrack, which is what most fans seem to praise the game for.

>>718449995 (OP)
All I want is her being where she belongs, in r34...but the cowards aren't even making anything with her naked

>>718449995 (OP)
Whatever. Still the most overrated game of this year.

It's a huge downer, which makes all its attempts at comedy kinda hilarious.
It's also part of the reason why I'm not upset about the twist: the world is mega fucked.
For a JRPG everything in this game is shockingly grim.

I'm the only one who likes the combat but thinks the writing is mid?

>>718457376
Go back to Twatter

>>718457376
I agree, as far as gameplay goes it was the best thing I've played in a while, but much of the writing was irritating and very millennial, and the less said about the direction that the story decided to take in the final few hours the better.

>>718457921
twitter? how about you go back to 2016 weirdo

>>718458065
*twatter. stephen colbert ass faggot

>>718457376
>>718458002
need more games with the same combat, its so fun(until you break it and 1 shot everything)

>>718449995 (OP)
its a cool game but it does feel like some kind of weird spiritual demoralization propaganda to lay the groundwork for "medical assistance in death" and/or a high casualty military stalemate over the next 5-10 years, normalizing the idea of dying for the greater good etc..
i'm prob just a schizo tho

I think the big problem that I had with the story is that it asked me to suddenly prioritise the Dessendres, a family of demigods who appear to have a moral compass so far removed from mine or the characters I've spent most of the game with. This is shown by their willingness to create and destroy universes of sentient, intelligent life for their own convenience or amusement - and also by Clea's decision to put her little sister into a painting for SIXTEEN YEARS, from which she emerges at the end of the game as if she's simply had a nap. Seriously, what the fuck? These characters are so far removed from the human experience that I was completely baffled when the game seemed to expect me to agree that billions must die in order for this family of greek gods to sort out a quarrel.

>>718458065
>>718458103
You're using tourist lingo. Shut the fuck up and kill yourself.

>>718458212
It doesn't normalize the idea of dying for the greater good. It tells you that doing so it foolish and pointless.

>>718458519
Counterpoint - all of the Dessendres are much more interesting characters than pretty much everyone in the canvas.

>>718452993
>reddit spacing
Go back

>>718458565
By that point in the game their predicament is more interesting than the main characters', that's true - I would be interested to see what kind of story a sequel would have and what would be done with the 'writers', because the concept sounds really fucking cool, but yeah the game's implicit argument that the lives of everyone in Lumiere and it's existence altogether is entirely subordinate to the world of the Dessendres and thus disposable at convenience sat really strangely with me

>>718459148
I DONT WANT TO WRITE ANYMORE

NOOOOOOOOOOOO
*dies*

>>718459186
NO I WONT TELL YOU WHAT MY SISTER WROTE

YES I KNOW ITS OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE THAT WE COULD HASH THIS OUT INTO A SOLUTION THAT DOESNT REQUIRE EVERYONE DYING BUT THE GAME WOULDNT BE SAD IF WE DID THAT

>>718459253
Name the obvious solution that would stop Alicia from becoming addicted to the painting.

>>718458519
That's the interesting part of the game, by all accounts the main character duo are
>a literal god with power over life and death whose interest in the world she wabtsxui save depend on her sake brother existing move
>the one who got fucked over the most by said gods, but who still prioritizes them

>>718459294
>she wabtsxui save depend on her sake brother existing move

>>718459253
>the 100 year old femcel trusted her original version to be different from the rest of her family
I wish you could see her face during the final argument of the game.

>>718459294
It's interesting sure, but I don't know how other people's attachment to these characters survived finding out that they are demigods who consider the lives of everyone else in the game's world no more valuable than toys

>>718458560
That's a message I can get behind. Interesting.

>>718459735
I'm just nitpicking with all of this shit of course but the ending with Maelle waving at the ghosts of the lumierians as they vanish into mist with a relieved smile on her face was a really bizarre note to end such a genuinely horrific event on and it ticked me off

>>718458002
the best way I can describe the writing is that's serviceable. The characters say and do what you would expect characters like them would to say and do in a story written for tv. None of them have an individualized enough personality to actually stand out as human beings. And the moment-to-moment of the narrative itself is not engaging enough to carry their lack of personality.

The combat though like you said is very satisfying. Especially if you play on the highest difficulty and try to beat the optional bosses early on.

>>718460005
Yeah I agree with you for the most part, honestly I think the VA and the facial animation, both of which were fucking excellent, did a LOT of heavy lifting for the games story

>>718449995 (OP)
le subvert your penis

>>718459253
>obvious solution
Tell us anon, please go on.

>>718460260
>>718459283
'they would become addicted to the painting until they die no matter what' is lazy and contrived

>>718460095
I kept seeing Charlie Cox do the stare into the abyss asif he was blind like he does with the characters he plays now because of being daredevil too much

>>718460342
>no solution provided
That's what I thought

>>718460095
I think it's also that people have been so long without a game that looks good and actually has a proper story, that's not filled with bullshit. If this had come out in the early 2010s It would have more competition.

>>718460342
Anon. Do you think a meth addict can recover if they know there's a bag of meth sitting in the next room?

Yes, we know that this game is "artistic" normalfag slop.

>>718460458
No one gives a shit about videogame story. Maybe consider posting about some actual VIDEOGAMES with decent gameplay, not UE asset flip paper mario.

>>718460594
What do you mean by 'artistic', anon?

>>718460540
It would be extremely difficult, which makes it even more confusing as to why Clea would inflict this on her sister as casually as she does in the flashback that we play briefly. The more I think about the shit that happens in this story the less it makes sense

>>718460773
>why Clea would inflict this on her sister as casually as she does
ok you're either playing or just retarded

>>718460660
Fans gushing over stupid crap like "MUH STORY MUH CHARACTERS MUH MUSIC MUH SCENES OH MY SCIENCE ITS SO THEATRICAL" then ending it with "oh gameplay exists I guess"

>>718449995 (OP)
Why are zoomoids so mentally weak that their imaginary stories always have to be sunshine and rainbows?

>>718459735
I agreed with Renoir, because his plight was really humane.

>>718449995 (OP)
>every track is utterly depressing
BOWOWOW
BOWOWOW

>>718461249
based

>>718454824
Why can't you freaks just goon to Lune like a normal person?

>>718460943
3-4 niggas in a row gameplay is popular, people like it and not only normalfags.

>>718449995 (OP)
The writing is so unbelievably bad. I'm not surprised that this game is such a hit with normalfags and zoomers. They have no standards.