Thread 719704184

Arthouse project for pretentious nobodies

>>719704184 (OP)
GODDAMN DUDE! I LOVE MARVEL DC COMICS SO MUCH! OH MY WAIT EXPEDITION? WHAT DO YOU MEAN FRIENDO? OH I GOT A PING FROM REDDIT LETS CHECK IT OUT!!! HOLY ITS MY FRIEND HE BOUGHT ME AGAME! EXPEDITION 33 SINCLAIRE? I WANTED THIS EVER SINCE I SEEN THE TRAILER!!! DAMN IM GONNA PLAY IT! HOLY SMOKES FRIEND SAYS HERE ITS GOT A GREAT STORY. YOU MEAN YOU GET TO LIKE PAINT FALSE WORLDS AND ESCAPE REALITY BUT SOMEHOW ITS MIXED IN WITH OUR WORLD AND LIKE WATCHING CHARACTERS ARE SUFFERING AND HAVING FUN INSTEAD OF ME EXPERIENCING THE GAME? PLUS LIKE DID YOU GET IT WHITE PEOPLE ARE FOR THIS GAME THEY LOVE IT ITS A WHITE GAME EVEN THO ITS GOT DIVERSE FRANCE WITH BLACKS AND ASIANS (TOTALLY 1800S?? AUTHENTIIIIC!!) WOWZERS!!!! ITS INDIE TOO????? GOTTA SUPPORT THE INDIES MAN. (EVEN THOUGH THEY GOT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES AND A BIG PUBLISHER AMAZING RIGHT??? INDIE INDIE INDIE!) MAELLE IS MY WIFE THE REDHAIRED BEAUTY ISNT SHE BEAUITUFL. AND THE MECHANICS! OH MY GOD DUDE REVOLUTIONAAARY! PARRYING IN A JRPG? RIGHT ON!!! I LOVE THAT SHIT! PRESS A BTTON WATCH THE FLASHY MOVES!!! JAPAN AINT GOT SHIT ON DEEZ!!! THE MUSIC I GOTTA TELL YOU THE MUSIC IS *MWAH* I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOOOOVEE IT!!!1 I GOT IT PLAYING ON SPOTIFY 24/7 BLASTING IN MY ASSHOLE!!! HAHAHAHAHA! OH WOW THIS GAME IS GONNA WIN GOTY.

>>719704184 (OP)
You didn't play it. You don't play games.

>>719704184 (OP)
Using AI and asset store -assets disqualifies E33 from being "arthouse".

>>719704184 (OP)
it's a good thing we're on an anonymous website and we're all nobodies then

>>719705153
Speak for yourself
I'm fairly well known irl
No I will not elaborate

>>719704184 (OP)
Essential NormieCore

>>719704441
Is this a pasta that's just like... making fun of someone's ability to be content and enjoy what they spend their time doing ?? God the creator must be miserable.

>>719705075
Bullshit of the year goes to you

>>719705454
uh oh

>>719705521
Considering the whole schtick with this game is that they designed it out of pashion and would have been conscious of healthy workload, cutting anything that would be too extravagent or noisy, its not hard to understand that these would be low quality assets that most players will spend like 2 seconds looking at. They knew this, and thus didn't waste any extra time on it.

If it is actually AI then okay, I genuinely don't know, but I won't acknowledge this unless it is brought up outside of 4chan by a credible source.

>>719704184 (OP)
And it's fucking great, I wish more games were like this.

>>719706150
AI slop?
No thanks bro.

>>719704665
This kind of crap is for normalfags who don't play games.

>>719704184 (OP)
when have the french made anything remarkable? they're the most mediocre when it comes to philosophy, their history is a series of defeats and surrenders and the greatest frenchman is a 5"2 incel
im not playing this garbage, and neither should you

>>719704184 (OP)
"Pretentious" is non-criticism.

>>719706383
You didn't play it.

>>719704184 (OP)
normiecattle's first RPG

>>719704184 (OP)
This isn't arthouse. There's nothing artful about it. It's like an aislopper making ai remasters of The Wizard of Oz. It's a horrifically poorly written and paced game with an insanely unimaginative "twist" on turn based gameplay.

filtered by kino

>>719709584
At least 10 different games have better visuals than that, with 4 of them being from softwares only

>>719704184 (OP)
This isn't arthouse. There's nothing artful about it. It's like an aislopper making ai remasters of The Wizard of Oz. It's a horrifically poorly written and paced game with an insanely unimaginative "twist" on turn based gameplay.

>>719704184 (OP)
I liked it

>>719708485
>The Wizard of Oz
amerimutt only """"cultural"""" reference kek

>>719706489
coping bong lel

>>719709896
what a worthless infograph. this takes into account neither the duration of the wars nor how many they've been in

For me it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dffRUOBNGB8

>>719709584
Awful graphics

>>719704184 (OP)
>turn based snoozeplay
Yeah ill pass

Name one (1) thing he did wrong

>>719706489
hate the french all you want but that is just plain bullshit

>>719704184 (OP)
The seethe this game causes here tells me the game might actually be good.

>>719711641
>still won't bring up a single remarkable thing about the french
ok pierre

>>719709584
i already played elden ring

>>719704184 (OP)
Why are Final Fantasy fans like this?

>>719705224
>popular with local police for hiding in women’s bathrooms

>>719712693
invented photography and cinema

>>719711620
He did not bring Fran Fran with him to meet Clea

>>719711620
He didn't fuck Maelle and whispered "by the way this is a painting and I'm based on your real life dead brother" right as he came inside her tight teen pusy

>>719709584
AI can crank out pretty decent visuals.

>>719710912
>Visages
>Siréne
>Monolith
PEAK as the kids say. Literally one of the high points of vidya history.

>>719705862
You can find those in game, they actually have french text on them. Someone went out of their way to AI-ify that pillar to try and shit on the game, lmao

persona for self conscious people not proud enough to play anime games

>sar it uses the AI
do indians just not have any capacity for shame? does it not bother them that all of their insults are "you are like me"?

>>719704184 (OP)
I tried to play it but its simply too French for me

>>719711620
He chose the wrong sister to save

>>719704184 (OP)
It's just strong story telling, with great art direction and some interesting gameplay on top.

>>719705521
Yeah, they forgot one placeholder texture that they immediately fixed afterward. It's over.

>>719711620
Killed his wife. Let Gustave die. Overall very dishonest.

>>719718172
>game has actual storytelling with a protag that isn't a blank slate for the player to project himself on to
NO NO NO THIS ISN'T VIDEO GAMES AT ALL WHY DOESN'T VERSO ONLY DO THINGS I LIKE?

I tried it out
But honestly? killing the main protagonist 10 hours in? not ok, only shitty games do this

>>719711620
Robbed us of a romance between him and Gustave

>>719718493
>not ok, only shitty games do this
Why?

>>719718803
relying on shock factor or trying to invoke an emotional reaction in your public by killing off your main guy is naaah just cheap

>>719710602
Well, if you want to go that way, the founding battle of the kingdom of England was literally a defeat inflicted by a french duke, which technically puts England as a potential french colony the french crown never claimed.
So even if we only have to talk about important battles, the frogs are ahead.

reddit game. i really liked it but it's a reddit game for sure.

>>719718946
So there's simply no circumstance where it's okay to kill a main protagonist?

>>719712853
I'm a FF fan and E33 is better than every single singleplayer FF since X except possibly Rebirth.

>>719719054
Not if you want to make a good game

>>719718983
Norma but yeah English aristocracy spoke French for ages. England is a mutt kingdom but the anglo saxons that arose from it dominated the entire world. Doesn't change centuries of french military supremacy that preceeded them, of course.

story was so-so. characters were pretty bad. graphics were nice looking but the environments and maps were cluttered and annoying. world map was atrocious. but the combat was really fun.

>>719719109
But E33 did that and is a good game, how do you reconcile those two facts?

>>719719218
it's simple
E33 is not a good game

>Gamers getting filtered by YA tier storytelling
Don't do this. You're embarrassing yourself.

>>719705407
Enjoying things became "cringe" in 2009 or so and the phenomenon has only amplified since.

>>719719269
But E33 is a good game, how do you reconcile those two facts?

worst thing is the half assed relationship building sections that felt completely soulless without the anime tropes that usually accompany them. except francois' of course, those were legit good

>>719719398
uh not Francois the big guy

>>719705407
Fun has been illegal for over a decade

>>719719470
>animefag intellect

>>719719398
>sex with lune
>souless
Begone, you massive homo.

>>719704184 (OP)
how is it anyway arthouse or pretentious? the plot is melodramatic young adult fiction comparable to something like harry potter or the hunger games. you genuinely have to be a borderline retard to actually consider this as anyway pretentious, whether you like it or not.

>>719718946
especially when he was immediately replaced by a character who looked the same, acted the same, spoke the same, and had the exact same abilities. i like the game overall but this felt extremely cheap.

Hard to believe this game is still buck breaking /v/eddit

>>719704184 (OP)
I haven't played it yet but I saw how angry the hot girls made the trannies, how angry the 3rd worlders got that they couldn't run it, and how angry it made journos by being made by a small/cheap/white team so I'll definitely pick it up when I have time for an rpg.

>>719706489
France is the core of post-antique Europe in terms of driving most of continental/universal changes from institutions, mores, manners, arts and letters, etc. From the high middle ages up to the 19th century the rest of the world (Arab, Turks, Iran, Chinese, as well as Russia and Greece compared to western Europe) just used to call everything in Europe France, and "French" was used interchangeably with what we would today call "western" and within Europe all the upper classes roleplayed as Frenchmen (when they weren't French transplants in the first place) even when they were at war with the kang of France, aside perhaps from Spain at selected times and the weirdo supremacists in Germany from the 1848 revolution on, and it was still seen as the high culture of reference a century ago even in the US. Whatever slop you're eating to spout your comment is a result of plebeians getting a say in recent times and hating on what was (unfortunately was, today they're the same retards as everyone else) an elitist culture.

>>719719856
>looked the same
>acted the same
>spoke the same
Some abilities were similar but the rest is straight bullshit, lmao. You did not play the game.

>>719720004
browns will of course continue seething.

>>719705407
Sharty niggers generally are.

>>719721050
>REEE they look completely different anon! you see this one has a silver streak in his hair, whereas the other ones hair is completely brown! the only way you could possibly think these 2 characters look the same is if you didnt actually play the game!!!!!!

fucking retard.

>>719723417
>immediately starts pretending he didn't also say "acted the same" and "spoke the same"
agreeing with anon, you did not play the game. i will additionally add "kill yourself".

>>719723417
>different hair color
>different eye color
>different nose
>different clothes
>one is covered in scars
They have the same skin color and are both men, I guess that's enough for a brown person to think they look alike.

>>719723417
kek are you fucking blind? and what happened t o "talk and act the same"? Why do indians try so hard to shit on games they don't play?

>>719723417
Gustave and Verso are polar opposites in terms of personality. The only similarity is that they fill a similar role in the party and that in early production, they were the same character.

>>719723645
>acted the same
both played the same role as a father/brother figure to maelle and had the exact same personality.
>spoke the same
i played with the french dub so they both spoke fucking french i.e. they spoke the same retard

if you cant see that the characters were intentionally meant to be parallels you have genuine brain damage. thats why they had the same abilities fucktard.

>>719718237
Even if it's just one (it isn't), their willingness to rely on AI generated assets even for placeholders, greatly cheapens the game. On top of that the asset store animations and environment assets cheapen it even further. It's a disgrace and it sucks that UE5 enables talentless hacks such as these to make slop that gets shilled like no tomorrow by people who think this is somehow "art".

>>719723772
>exact same personality
kek, this is the last (You) I'll give (You).

>>719723807
>environment assets
such as?

>>719723692
>different hair color
if i dye my hair am i different person
>different eye color
no one can see that in game anyway
>different nose
literally just false
>different clothes
if i change my clothes am i a different person?
>one is covered in scars
if i get a scar am i a different person?

people on this board really are fucking retarded

>>719704184 (OP)
That's not even true. You don't really have to make up words to describe why it's bad, it's just painfully middle of the pack. The art "style" is just a fucking mess of cluttered asset store flips, the animations are wonky and I'm tired of pretending they're not, and incorporating roll/parry slop into an RPG was dumb. The music is...okay. The story is good and interesting UNTIL the 'twist', which I hate, and made me uninstall the game. Way to invalidate any fucking world building you had going on in this mildly interesting setting. Fucking Frenchoids.

It's just that in a sea of shit, things that aren't complete shit tend to float to the top, and when people are accustomed to eating shit, even a single non-shit item will taste like heaven. And, like Hollow Knight, you won't be allowed to criticize this game in a year or so. It will be remembered as a 10/10, perfect game, massive warts and all.

>>719720542
nice word salad to say absolutely nothing pierre, mMUHH ELITIST CULTURE guess what so was rome a superior culture at some point, so were the greek, the anglo saxons etc
this doesn't mean anything, the french are still a bunch of annoying stuck up midgets rapebabies from the colonies and rapefugees they had, still makes you wonder why's the french history not as common as rome or the english empire if it was so great?

>>719723939
>THEY LOOK THE SAME
>no they don't
>OKAY SO IF I LOOK DIFFERENT I'M A DIFFERENT PERSON?
It's offensive seeing you try to speak English.

>>719713096
No, I'm not a tranny.

>>719724053
because how else can i explain to you that just because they didnt use the exact same fucking model they can still look the same. you are meant to have fucking eyes. just look at the picture and you can see how fucking similar they look.
>but one has black hair one has brown hair!
so? they still fucking look the same. use your fucking eyes.

>>719723807
>their willingness to rely on AI generated assets even for placeholders, greatly cheapens the game

No it doesn't. Get a real job.

>>719723772
>same abilities
Gustave has lightning based attacks and Overcharge. Verso has light based attacks and DMC style attacks. They have some narrative parallels, but combat wise the only similarity they have is filling the role of “blank slate swordsman who can be built a number of different ways”.

>>719704184 (OP)
A lot of the discourse on this game is bait but I genuinely agree this was a shit game with a shittier story. Embarrassing. I hope jap devs don't learn from it.

>>719724161
Based faceblind autist.

>>719724014
The plot was elevated by the twist. It’s just a generic “kill god” JRPG plot without it.

>>719724331
You're talking to an indian that's elated to be paid pennies to shit on a game he didn't play (instead of shitting on the street, like usual).

>>719724331
as well as the fact that they have the exact same abilities. jfc are you autists being deliberately obtuse? i even said i like the game overall. just found gustaves death extremely cheap, and cheapened further by the fact that he is immediately replaced by a direct parallel.

>>719723417
lol the thread was about to die when you dropped this fresh turd of a post, i'm telling your supervisor

>>719723417
they look the same.

>>719724645
>lie
>"Sir i said i am liking the game, you must do the believe of my statement. You are bloody believing me now sir!"

>>719723938
No one can say, but it looks like stock assets damnit!
It was one after magna carta!

>>719704184 (OP)

Great game. 33/10. Stay mad.

>>719724778
name 3 abilities gustave can use that verso cant
>hardmode: they have to actually be functionally different, not just different renamed.

>>719724014
The world building from the start is beating you over the head with the fact that the world is inside of a painting. Chroma is a term they use in painting. The Gestrals are clearly made out of brushes and those wooden artist's posing figures. The apparent god of the world is called the Paintress. c'mon.

>>719723417
I get why people think Gustave looks like Renoir but not Verso.

>>719725423
Because they don't
Arguments for them not looking alike:
>eye color
>nose
>hair color
>hair stylr
>scars/lack of scars
>different facial hair
Arguments for them looking alike:
>Don't you have EYES?
Indians are just paid to say things, not make substantive arguments.

>>719710912
xenoblade x has better music fag

>>719725637
this is verso after i shoddily face swapped gustaves face ontop he literally looks exactly the same LMAO

>>719725984
We on a WHOLE different planet!

>>719726129
>indians think these look like the same person
Gustave with verso's hair looks like a fucking ditto took verso's form lmao, you are deranged

>>719726129
what an own goal.

>>719724194
Yes it does.

I've yet to see someone show proof of one store bought asset being used.
Not that it would even matter that much.

>>719726956
the running/jumping animations are from UE5 and they don't look good, but indians can't take that simple W and instead add on lies about other assets.

>>719726129
are (You) face blind? did all the turd water in new delhi give you brain damage?

>>719726129
Damn, never knew pajeets were this faceblind and retarded

>>719726129
>How do you do, fellow Expedition 0 members

I really dislike turn based battle systems with QTEs, I really wanted to like Shadow Hearts, that one Sakaguchi game for the 360 or this thing but it gets turbo repetitive and tedious after 5 minutes. Am I missing something!?

>>719727639
In terms of the attacks, you're not missing anything. If you overlevel in E33 by doing side content early combat just becomes tedious. But if you go mostly story content until the paintress, the need to dodge should keep you on your toes. In the end it's simply not a difficult game.

>>719705521
I didn’t get the outrage over this. It’s a place holder and they paid somebody in the end to cover it up, nobodies job was in harm.

>>719726129
LMAO

The amount of copium from people who just now realized they've played AI slop is hilarious.

>>719704441
See Jack seethe.
Seethe, Jack, seethe.

>>719727056
those do look noticeably shit.

>>719728032
prove it's AI

>>719728032
>woah this game was 10/10 I loved it from start to finish
>wait some anon on 4channel says it was ai? oh no I must hate it now
Even if it were AI I wouldn't care at all. I'm not some "starving artist" living in California.

>>719728365
see >>719705521
It's tainted bro I'm sorry for your loss.

>>719704184 (OP)
I might have been more interested if the characters/world were more stylized.

>>719728480
there are numerous newspaper things like that in the game that I can walk up and see that they don't look like that. I've seen some say it was a placeholder, why should I believe it was ever there, ranjeet?

>>719728480
Prove that's AI.

>>719728620
>>719728646
Holy copium, Batman.
How much stock did you guys invest in this studio anyway? This is really funny.

>>719728480
I'm gonna piss off both the "its AI so its slop" and the "that's not AI" crowds but hypothetically, so what if it was? Genuinely, why would or should anybody care when the product delivered was so good? They made some better mining equipment and didn't need as many miners. Why is it suddenly different for office jobs?

>>719728920
No, why is it "obviously" AI? People have bugs in their brains about this stuff.
If you saw that in any old game, you'd assume it was just a background asset you weren't really meant to pay attention to, and they put some nonsense squiggles there to represent text.

>>719704184 (OP)
I agree but stop seething bro.

>>719728996
It gives humans an existential crisis to see machines start to do things on their level, or better than them.

>>719704184 (OP)
But enough about Death Stranding

>>719728920
>sir you consumed the ai and also the verso and the gustave are looking the same

feel like shit, lads. Just want Indians back in the stone age, where they belong.

>>719724161
>because how else can i explain to you
same same, but different.

>>719729171
I just don't get it. To me its like somebody shouting at a train because its better at transporting people and things than their horse carriage. Its just a tool to be used.

>>719718493
its ok because he gets replaced with a better character who could have saved gustave but didnt

>>719718493
Name another game that does this

>>719723417
>all them white people look the same

>>719737719
>>719723417
Now post Sophie, Emma and Clea next to each other

>>719724331
desu both have selfheal, team powerful, and need to be charged up for max damage (charge/perfection)
now im NOT saying theyre the same but they sure could be a bit more different

>>719725330
its kinda amazing how the city is full of some dried paint spills, shit is floating everywhere, and chroma is everything at once, and yet it is so easy to just roll with it without a second thought

>>719704184 (OP)
>soulful family drama about something anyone can possibly relate set in fantasy world
pretentious

>>719704184 (OP) (OP)
>soulful family drama about something anyone can possibly relate set in fantasy world
>pretentious

>>719738468
>Clea
all them white people look the same
>Sophie, Emma
you have a point there but i wont fault Gustave for having a type

>>719705397
I've played all these except subnautica it's just too terrifying

>>719704184 (OP)
What pretense?

>>719704184 (OP)
what is with the immense seethe behind this game?

>>719742720
mix of general contrarianism and the fact it's not on a nintendo console