Thread 723297656

Maelle's game is about to win GOTY 2025, how will you celebrate?

by enjoying some french wine while I watch /v/ seethe endlessly

>likeable French people
Best fantasy game ever.

>>723297656 (OP)
take me to your FINEST porn of her.

>>723297656 (OP)
>Maelle's game is about to win GOTY 2025
Seems unlikely.

no such thing as an official goty since there exists no official gaming authority. Its just GOTY according to whoevers sponsoring the show

>>723297786
She's 16 you sick fuck

>>723297968
Actshually, she's 32 because she also lived in the painting for 16 years!

>>723297656 (OP)
I feel nothing. I think it's a good game but nothing special. I guess it might as well win GOTY. Who cares.

>>723297754
fpbp and based

>>723298005
Then the porn of the PAINTING version. She's double protected because it's art of a painting.

>>723297841
Huh. I though hades2 released last year. In any case, I think it gets the sympathy indie nomination at best.

>>723297656 (OP)
Why would I celebrate? I'm not Maelle.

>>723297841
>he doesn't know

>>723298070
which app is that i wanna gamble too

>>723297656 (OP)
I uninstalled it 10 hours in.
I regret having installed it at all.

>>723298070
>Galaxy user
Probably an E33 jeet btw

>>723298101
nvm i am blind lmao

>>723298101
not an app, just google goty bet

>>723298068
Ok verso, back on the piano

>>723298123
>>Galaxy user
no?

>>723297656 (OP)
maelle dies at the end of act 2
it's alicia's game

>>723297656 (OP)
Never gonna happen. AAA(A) gaming is currently crashing head first into a mountain and an indie game winning GOTY would seal its fate.

>>723298070
You know people betting won't vote right? Journos decide who wins and the winner is clearly Hades 2.

>>723298305
let's see last year's results.. Hmmmm

>>723298356
>Wukong
This just shows up how retarded they are.

>>723298356
You had to be a special kind of retard to ever think Dark Souls: Monkey would win

>>723298356
astroturfbot only won because sony already paid for concord but we all know how that went..

>>723298356
>highest metascore won
Looks like Hades 2 is locked then, I accept your concession.

>>723298356
I still don't know wtf astrobot even is

>>723297656 (OP)
I hated the ending and felt like the character relationships needed better development. Otherwise everything about it deserves GOTY, especially the soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Nas0ft2ME

>>723298356
>"Hades 2's the highest rated game this year."
>"Oh yeah? Let's look at last year."
>"Highest rated won."

Okay.

>>723297656 (OP)
Verso's game.

>>723298547
>>723298648
>this much cope already

>>723298681
Play the fucking piano. I am not asking

>>723298547
>>723298648
Hades 2 released last year, journos didn't get silksong review copies. E33 has this in the bag.

>>723298804
It's called logic. Why would a lower-rated game win an award show decided by the journalists who make the reviews?

>>723298884
>Hades 2 released last year
Early access meant shit, that's why all reviews dropped this year. Definitely a 2025 game and the GOTY.

>>723298887
Ask sekiro?

>still coping about the fact e33 is going to win
Unsightly.

E33 deserves GOTY. It's a fun game with great artstyle, great characters, great writing and a great musical score.

>b-but cope
>still no arguments
Concession accepted, can't wait to see your crying face.

>>723297656 (OP)
My mom is white, so I'm going to celebrate for my white side by raising a toast of franzia (that's wine, for any uncultured plebs on here that can't appreciate true art) and then throwing up a couple Romans. then I'm gonna come on here to laugh at all the browns seething because their brown games made by indians lost

>>723299026
>1. Monaco
>2. Esquie
>3. Gustave
>4. Sciel
>5. Verso
>6. Maelle
>7. Lune

>>723297656 (OP)
It will be Ghost of Yotei solely because these people are the ones who vote on it.

>>723298356
Lmao RIP betfags

>>723299128
>then I'm gonna come on here to laugh at all the browns seething because their brown games made by indians lost
Same, going to be here to see all jeet seethe when E33 loses.

Hades 2 is an iterative sequel that nobody is actually talking about, it would be an It takes two tier pick

>>723299256
Journos don't give a fuck if the game have been talked about, only here you see that retarded "muh cultural impact" discourse.

>>723299129
Very good. Those are indeed the characters.

>>723297786
This astroturfed dogshit is irrelevant in Japan so it gets 0 porn.

>>723297656 (OP)
>no tendie games will win goty

>>723299813
seethe about it tranime weaboo

for real though this game has insane eye tech

>>723298878
>*Dies within a matter of weeks because she's not a fraction as talented or strong as her mother, spitting in the face of her brother's sacrifice, rendering it meaningless*

good ending btw

>>723300703
>*Dies within a matter of weeks
headcanon
>spitting in the face of her brother's sacrifice, rendering it meaningless
sucks to be Verso

>>723300703
>Dies within a matter of weeks
So she has decades and decades of healthy and happy life among people who love her and don't treat her like a failure.

>>723300879
happy creepy dollhouse lmao

>>723303674
Fanfic

>>723297897
Is that why we have a Fallout 4 GOTY edition?

>>723298621
Shitty

Maelle endingfags get the rope.

>>723297656 (OP)
Gustave sexo

Can we have a full count of Verso lies and omitted truths? Off the top of my head:
- Said he couldn't make it in time to save Gustave
- Didn't mention Renoir is his father
- Didn't mention Esquie had wine
- Hid the flying rock from Esquie
- Didn't mention that killing the paintress would kill everyone
- Didn't mention he was immortal to the search party

>>723303674
Just like your life.

>>723297656 (OP)
>game starts in a wonderland like world with blobs of paint everywhere and the Eiffel tower literally smeared
>people are literally erased 30 minutes in after someone paints a number in the sky
>first area after prologue has a song with English lyrics talking about paint and canvases
>OMG THAT ACT3 TWIST CAME OUT OF NOWHERE I FEEL INSULTED AND BETRAYED
Do brainlets really...?

>>723307843
To be fair, the game isn't even trying to play it up as an epic plot twist. The story is very open from the start about what is going on, you are just missing the vital context.
>the second Maelle shows up on screen, Alicia's leitmotif starts subtly creeping in.

>>723297656 (OP)
Don't you mean Verso's game?
She just took over his save file.

>>723298621
Sony's answer to Super Mario: Sunshine/Odyssey

>>723298629
>especially the soundtrack
hell yea nigga
also great song choice, one of my favorites too

Can I be a fan of a game if the only things about it that I interacted with are the ost and the porn?

>>723308573
Works for touhou

>>723308432
for me it's poeme d'amour from the sirene fight

>>723297656 (OP)
e33 is a faggot game made by faggots for faggots

>>723297656 (OP)
e33 is a white game made by whites for whites

>>723300703
>Ending #1 is the selfish wish fulfillment of a single family of evil, near-immortal wizards.
>Ending #2 is regenerating and resurrecting an entire world of sentient, thinking, feeling humans at the cost of Verso having to live a few decades more.

How exactly is this a difficult choice?

I still don't under

>>723308573
no, because I'm tired of discussing video games with people who don't play video games

>>723298629
Like I said in the other thread, I want to see "Une vie à t'aimer" performed live on TGAs.
But Geoff would most likely lose his shit, so that's out of the question.

By still not playing this cinema slop lmao

>>723297754
Not talking shit, but how did you get that many hours? I took things EXTREMELY slowly, did all end game content, 100%, and still was at less than 100 hours.

>>723310364
what if I want to play it but it doesnt run on my pc

>>723310212
Why is Maelle brown? In OP image she has black eyebrows and sand-colored skin.

>>723310545
>sand-colored skin
she was made by sandfall interactive

>>723310342
I agree, it's an easy choice. I wouldn't hesitate to put a dead child's soul out of his misery and prevent my sister and mother from ruining themselves, if it means giving up my world and my fake life.

>>723297656 (OP)
This was peak. One of the best stories in gaming bar far. The dialogue and voice acting is actually the best in any game period, how did they do it

>>723310406
Maybe multiple playthroughs?

>>723310545
she's literally a ginger, you dumb fuck

>>723310662
Being a contrarian doesn't make you interesting.

>>723297841
Hades 2 is maybe a 7. It just has the tranny + nigger bonus. E33 is rated purely on its own strengths with no bonus.

>>723310342
which ending would he choose and why

>>723310406
80 hours of picrel

>>723310342
To be fair, what happens to Alicia in Verso's ending is needlessly cruel towards her. I get the philosophy behind this, but every semi-competent therapist can outright tell you that both Renoir and Verso handled Alicia's case in the worst way possible.
The only reason the poor girl didn't kill herself after being forced to leave the canvas is because the writers told us it'll somehow be fine. Sure, I'm not buying it, but you do you, game.

>>723310969
Which one involves children not dying?

>>723297656 (OP)
A10 eyes greatness
How can Aerith compete

>>723310342
This. Maelle's ending is obviously the more positive one. Putting aside the notion of "an entire world vs. a single family," Verso will still die - Maelle obviously is allowing him to age.

>B...but it's unhealthy escapism.

It's her choice.

>>723297656 (OP)
Ugly game with a racist fanbase

>>723311134
neither

>>723311556
Actually both.

>>723311124
"modern" therapy sucks and is ineffective seeking to over medicate victims rather than getting down to the root of the problem and working on improvement. Instead people wear their mental illness like a badge of office. Yeah no. I prefer the classic methods.

>>723311124
alicia's burn scars and all other trauma can be healed by gallons of my cum albeit

>>723311713
I fail to see how beating the everloving shit out of your crippled and traumatized daughter and telling her get over because you can't be bothered with her problems is going to help her get better.

>>723311713
You are retarded and clueless.

>>723297656 (OP)
by impregnating her

>>723297968
>>723298005
She has been in paintings before this so she could be anywhere from 32 to several hundred years old.

WHERE'S THE UPDATE??

>>723312845
She actually hasn't. Clea just calls her a NEET that never cared much for painting to begin with.
Also, that's not how it works. She's still physically 16.

>>723300703
The shitstain verso will be used as fuel until the that last drops of his worthless soul burns out, Alicia will spend the remaining time of life at peace, Clea will lose against the based writers and the retarded family has no future. Yes, it's a good ending.

>>723297786
she has the body of a 12 year old girl

>>723308573
Yes, but you should give the game a chance and pirate it, the first act is fun.

SHILL MORE SAARS
WE NEED PAPER MARIO FRENCH EDITION TO WIN THIS OR WE DON'T GET PAID

>>723311124
>The only reason the poor girl didn't kill herself after being forced to leave the canvas is because the writers told us it'll somehow be fine.
She's heavily medicated and barely conscious from the morphine she'll be taking like candy, she's at a serious risk at overdosing any day but I can buy her surviving long enough for the funeral to be held.

>>723313124
More like 14 and that's what makes her so hot

>>723313417
Anon, the Painters aren't regular people. Renoir himself is at minimum over a 100 years old.

>>723297656 (OP)
don't care i dropped it after like 4 hours (1 of which i had to troubleshoot why it constantly crashed)

>>723297656 (OP)
great game desu

>>723310813
passionate devs with an actual vision and no diversity hires or blue hairs. crazy what can be done under those circumstances

>>723297656 (OP)
She is very fortunate her game came out in 2025 and not 2026.

>>723313904
poorfag issue

I like to think of it as a prequel to Alan Wake

>>723313849
I like her butt

>>723314075
Alain Eveillé

>>723314065
Not OP but it's weird about performance.
Out of the box, it looks too hazy and smeary, but with one config mod I got it to run smoothly even on my girlfriend's shitty laptop with integrated graphics and it looked okay (except the hair that looked like a disaster).

>>723314075
>>723314163

The developers in one interview all but confirmed the Writers are related to the Myst games, which are all about people writing worlds into existence.

>>723313879
What does that have to do with anything? If you are implying that we should ignore basic physiology because it doesn't apply to them then there's no point in considering them human and any part of the story relating to them is completely meaningless.

>>723314129
ohlala

>>723314348
>no point in considering them human
You're supposed to view them like the gods of Antiquity - extremely powerful but possessing all the flaws of humanity.

>>723297841
Expedition 33 is #1 if you go by user score.

>>723314629
n-no anon you can't just sort by user score, you HAVE to listen to the opinions of mutilated faggot "journalists". gaydes 2 is the real goty, trust me goyim.

>>723314629
>If you got by the thing that can be easier manipulated than the critic score

Nah I'm good. It's a good game. Probably deserves Goty over other competition in 2025. But if this were 2017, 2015, 2010, 2007, 2005, or 2004 it wouldn't win.

>>723314825
To me it's the best game ever so I'm happy it's popular, usually I disagree with popular opinion.

>>723314885
You haven't played many games if you think it's the best.

>>723314913
But (You) have, so tell us what the best game ever is

>>723297656 (OP)
AI slop

>>723314913
I have played video games for a long ass time. I have slowed down a lot in how many games I play though, since I think most games are pretty bad these days, I'm tired of old tropes as well.

>>723297656 (OP)
I liked Verso's game but Metaphor already won GotY

>>723315018
Mario 64, RE4, Bloodborne, Chrono Trigger and Zelda AlttP all instantly comes to mind. Straight to gameplay, was original in each games case and each influenced the whole industry. The replay value in each is vastly superior to E33 as well.

>>723315442
listing those as examples of games better than E33 just shows how great it is. personally I rank E33 above them but it's not my favorite game of all time, ff9 is

>>723297656 (OP)
Every day I play her game is a celebration.

>>723299026
>fun game
if you're a black retard who thinks parrying for 40hrs is good gameplay because you lack the brain capacity to desire good strategic challenges, sure
with great artstyle
it's disgustingly ugly UE5 slop
>great characters and great writing
if you've never read a single book, maybe. also, even within its own bounds, the story relies on the characters being turned into lobotomite retards by the writers on order for it to play out at the dogshit telenovela pace they intend for it
>a great musical score
again, this is true if you've never listened to anything before in your life

it's a masterpiece in the same exact way that Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite were: a showcase of ARTISTRY™ for low iq fags who've never engaged with anything more compelling than a children's coloring book, or maybe goosebumps

>>723297754
None whiter!

>>723297656 (OP)
>how will you celebrate?
By finding some UE5 mods/filters that make it not run like ass, hopefully.
I like the game, but damn that performance

>>723297656 (OP)
By playing with maelle nude mods

>>723318037
it runs fine, stop being poor

>>723297656 (OP)
By making that backstabbing asshole Verso play chopsticks again.

>>723310342
Because a lot of fans took the idea that the clearly sentient people of the canvas aren't and ran with it.

E33 will win due to being a new series from a new studio, this alone has immense power

>>723310342
It's clear to anyone with a moral compass that Alicia, Sciel and Lune are the heroes, they do not harm anyone innocent, they fight to protect innocents etc.

Meanwhile Verso tricks his friends into killing everyone they care about and themselves, Renoir mass murders people to get what he wants, Clea tortures and kills people for her own sake...

Hmmm I wonder who is the bad guy. Of course I will not reward team psycho in the end.

>>723310662
Said soul was perfectly fine in canvas until Aline and Renoire went full retard inside of it.

>>723317897
not reading all that. post playtime.

>>723317897
DO NOT REDEEM GOTY BLOODY BASTART BITCCH

>>723297656 (OP)
You mean versos game

>>723313879
Yeah, but outside of the painting they are just regular people. That's kinda the point of Maelle's plea. She doesn't want to live outside of the painting, where she's a crippled and traumatized girl with a face that only a mother could love and her mother despises her.

>>723297841
These posts always make me there. There are two possibilities:
>indians genuinely have no standards for their shilling, they'll never improve beyond being a laughing stock
>somebody was mindbroken enough by e33 to genuinely believe fucking hades 2 is going to win goty, and they're going to melt down when it doesn't
The world's a nice place.

>>723318414
>SB (UE4) runs fine, Grounded2 (also UE5) runs fine
>this runs like molasse
Stop sucking nogdicks, frog

>>723300703
She'll live for a while but lumiere is fucked. Either everyone's aged and the city is still destroyed with only the opera house fixed, or no time has passed, she fixed the opera house first, and now she's already going insane.

>>723308084
>if you don't pick up the flower, maelle doesn't let you progress
From the very beginning she's controlling people lmao
>>723307843
The game's presentation was great, they relied on the players engaging with things on a surface level to not predict the twist and it worked flawlessly. Linen and cotton's fucking lyrics:
>Mother
>Daughter
>Sister
>Paintress

>>723320654
Cope. upgrade your pc.

>>723311124
every time

>>723320837
Nope, hire better artist but keep the writers

>>723315442
>Troontendo and Fromshart come to mind
FUCKING KEK kill yourself you literal subhuman npc

>>723298629
I disagree on the soundtrack being great. It has plenty of great songs in it, but it lacks cohesion and does not have memorable themes. There's no Crystal theme like song that pops in your head when you see the cover art.

>>723315018
Metaphor is a better JRPG than E33 so he doesn't have to try as hard as he's trying
Trails too while we're at it

>>723314057
What is going to happen in 2026?

>>723297656 (OP)
versos canvas=versos game

>I disagree on the soundtrack being great.
Man even the indian shills had to drop this tactic from getting roasted so hard.

>>723321949
Correct, there's no one song that does that, because multiple songs are memorable enough and representative of the game to do it. Alicia, Lumiere, un vie a taimer for just about everyone, and a few more that will be more personalized to individual players.

>>723322206
post playtime of both games, tranny

>>723320893
Every time you have no rebuttal and concede

Will games media give it to something else to subvert expectations?

>>723321949
I agree there's no catchy song that gets stuck in your head, but saying it lacks cohesion is just wrong. There's a few recurring leitmotifs within the songs that eventually culminates during boss fights.

>>723321949
>does not have memorable themes
If you have no inner voice, maybe.

>>723323270
Why don't you post photos of both your hands, faggot

>>723321949
>>723323994
I dunno I was singing the tin tin tarara tin tin tarara tin tariram clair obscur lala clair obscur song today at work, pretty catchy
that melody returns in at least 10 other tracks in the ost in various ways too
also
https://youtu.be/Akplrzf5CkE?t=58
https://youtu.be/TcEdif_2PNY?t=10
absolute bangers

>>723297754
fippy bippy, sounds fun

>>723324831
everyone already knows I'm White due to the fact I love Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the White mans game. post playtimes and I'll post a blue eye for you.

>>723299129
>Maelle and Lune last
/lgbt/ is that way --->

>>723297656 (OP)
By disposing of all her made up fantasy friends

>>723325602
this, not sure how it's possible to have such shit taste

>>723322431
Metaphor Refantazio Royal Edition

>>723326882
I'm excited for that but more excited for new Trails, both Kai 2 and the SC remake, though I'm not sure SC will be out by next year

As long as Kingdom Come II: Nigger and Gay Sex doesnt win it, I'm happy

>>723297656 (OP) its not even her game. Verso and monoco are clearly the main characters and most fleshed out in entire story

>>723327234
>monoco is more fleshed out than Alicia
Nigger what?

>>723297656 (OP)
I'll fucking FUME.
this game pissed me off like no other, even more than mass goddamn effect 3
there was no fucking point to play it past act 1 because they killed my character off for some bullshit reason, then they gave me some dickhead to play with instead who gets away with pretty much every wrongdoing
fuck that shit, fuck this game, fuck verso and renoir, fuck the devs, fuck france
justice for my nigga GUSTAVE
at least in the maelle ending he gets some happy time and that piano playing cunt gets to suffer a bit

>>723327359
killing off characters is a good thing.

>>723327323
Alicia died in fire lmao. Shut up nerd

>>723313124
Out of 10!!!

>>723327359
>he got attached to a fake character

>>723327359
DLC will give Gustave the justice he deserves.

>>723297841
If Tranies 2 wins goty I will pirate every game for the rest of my life

>>723328575
Never ever.