Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[Vergil]

Are there mods yet to remove manual dodge/parry/QTE?

"Former"

[Norfleet]

I'm watching a playthrough

Why are zoomers like this?

If people can get the same experience of watching the cutscenes on YouTube instead of playing the game you failed as interactive medium.

It’s speaks volumes more on the game then the actual zoomers.

This is what I've been doing a lot, and I'm too old to even be a Boomer, so it's certainly not a "Zoomer" thing. The fact of the matter is that most modern "games" are barely even games, but just a series of motions where you rubberstamp a decision the developers have already made for you, and there is nothing for the player to really DO.

[Nemesis]

Are there mods yet to remove manual dodge/parry/QTE?

No. However, there is a mod that makes parrying and dodging easier.

[rusty_shackleford]

There's no way to 'fix' the dodging mechanic

[1998]

What's wrong with the dodging mechanic? Also not a fan of it, don't play any souls game and combat is quite boring here as well. But...it works as intended?

[1998]

Probably not that much longer



Setting, story, writing, presentation all good. But combat and char system pretty boring. Still this could be GOTY material, which is not saying much obv.

[LMR843]

I will post, without spoiler, that the protagonist is a bait-and-switch protagonist.

I'm curious what you mean by this. Can you tell me behind a spoiler flag what the actual protagonist of the game ends up being?

Story spoilers for the entire game:

► Show Spoiler

The real protagonist is and always has been Shadowheart's voice actor. Maelle or whatever. Her real name is actually Alicia. She is the daughter of the "Paintress". The entire world of Lumiere is not real. It's a "dream world" created by Alicia (or maybe her mom, I don't remember) because they are magical or something. This is because Verso, Alicia/Maelle/Shadowhear's real life brother outside in the real world died saving her from a house fire.

This lead her mother to fall into depression due to her grief and thus created this imaginary world. Gustave is itself a "clone" or fictional echo of Verso. That's why when he dies, we get a Verso join the party in the imaginary world. This Verso is also not real, it only exists in the imaginary world. Why have 2 clones of the same dead brother? Who knows. Woman writing.

The Act 2 twist is that the Paintress was good all along and that she was actually trying to save the people in the imaginary world from the REAL villain, the Curator, who helps Maelle in the beginning of the game. Drama ensues, and at the end of the game Alicia reawakens and fights Verso. The Player can decide their choice of ending:

Choose Alicia: You kill Verso, revive everyone in the imaginary world without the Paintress or anything. "Happy" ending because everyone you know from Lumiere is alive and well. But, the ending frames it as a bad ending because Alicia will remain obsessed with her dead brother and will succumb to her grief just like her mother or some ****. Bad player, you are not supposed to actually make this decision. You suck, Player.

Choose Verso: Now we are talking. Kill fake!Alicia. Destroy the imaginary world and everyone in it. Alicia wakes up in the real world and has to learn to live without her brother. This is the actual ending the game wants you to choose.

That's it. Peak woman writing. It was all a dream! But more than that, it was a grief dream painted through the magical magic of french something women because they couldn't cope with the loss of their son, for the Paintress/Mom and brother for Alicia/sister.

At the end of the day, turns out the real Expedition 33 where the parries that we made along the way.

There you go. Don't ever let anyone tell you this game sucks. Many people are saying this is the best JRPG to come out in 20 years. It was so good its already in talks to get a ******* movie! The gaming industry has been officially saved, everyone. We did it, Reddit! Turn-based games are BACK, baby!

So your telling us the game that has pretentious visuals and music made by pretentious french hippies has a pretentious story. sacré bleu !
Everything about this game is pretentious, they spent most of their budget on the voice actors and probably funding their ****** movie.
The crowds in the early intro dont move around, hell they dont even stand correctly. I guarantee you their initial idea was probably to make a action game (like most western studios do), and then they probably decided they dont have the talent or the budget to do all that work so they stuck to muh "JRPG". Everything from the hiring of famous voice actors, announcing a movie before anybody has even played the game to the excessive overproduced visual design comparable to one of those UE5 demos stinks of trend chasing and an appeal to the normie movie game swallowing subhuman crowd.

But hey good looking chicks in the game and a male protagonist so must be based

Subhumans just hate pretentious when its not giftwrapped, and it seems that this piece of turd is gift wrapped to perfection.

[1998]

[Silver]

1.3k for Trannyguard

[1998]

1.3k for Trannyguard

Currently, there is another 75% discount available if you are on the fence.

[Silver]

Currently, there is another 75% discount available if you are on the fence.

I would rather never be able to purchase games again and only have access to the backlog of old ones I currently own than EVER entertain the thought of touching that cursed game.

[1998]

Currently, there is another 75% discount available if you are on the fence.

I would rather never be able to purchase games again and only have access to the backlog of old ones I currently own than EVER entertain the thought of touching that cursed game.

[1998]

This should also receive a badge, as players are actively participating within a month.

[1998]

Never becoming a fan of that souls system, it doesn't even feel rewarding once you have figured out the timing if needed. But ****, after totally controlling the Paintress a massive FU gatcha and you are cursed/dead within 2 rounds. If a game needs that to get you to lose an encounter, they ****** up.

[1998]

And once you know what's coming, it's essentially an auto-win. Equip everyone with Cleansing Tint and you are essentially running in god mode.

[KOS-MOS]

89k vs 121k

I was told this game was a huge hit? BG3 has 800k all time peak player

[Demonic Fate]

Decided to give a try. Early impressions (I am still looking for Maelle):

- Game is very, very pretty. The grass/rocks/waterfalls are generic, but they keep adding enough unique elements that it doesn't look like a tech demo. Runs smooth in 4K.

- Soundtrack kicks *** and the theme is stuck in my head. More games should use pianos.

- Dodge/parry was off-putting at first, but I practiced a bit against Maelle in the tutorial and eventually got a feel for it. Then later I found the first 'boss' (Chromatic Lancelier) and got to retry it a half-dozen times because it OHK if it landed any attack. Still, it didn't feel unfair, the animations are consistent. The next boss (Eveque, or whatever it is in english) was much easier and I parried a ton of his attacks first try, we'll see if that keeps up.

- On that note, I can't remember the last time I played a RPG that actually allowed you to grind, it's super offputting (I wasn't joking when I said this is literally my first JRPG ever.) But hopefully that's something that won´t be required, even for optional bosses. How long would it have taken to grind up enough stats that the Chromatic Lancelier didn't one-shot me?

- Again on the dodge: I think it was a strange design choice to have an on-screen cue for attack QTEs but not for defensive QTEs. Seems like it should have been both or neither (paradoxically, you'll see your own attacks a lot more often, so it should be easier to learn the timing).

- Curious to recruit more people and see if I can unlock more interesting powers/intricate combos that way, because if feels like a lot of upgrades are 'number go up' busywork. I picked up a couple of passives that hint at the potential for cross-party synergy (char1 sets burning, char2 gets bonus from burning, stuff like that), hopefully they are competitive.

- Points for making consumables rechargeable to avoid hoarding. A point off for not making that at all clear in the UI or tutorial, unless I missed it.

- Narrative side, it seems a bit clumsy. The prologue was perfect, but then it immediately switched to grimdark, but then it also immediately reveals that we can communicate with the Nevrons? I can't tell if these guys are intended to be a group of competent adventurers or a bunch of civilians thrown to the slaughter, like Emma suggested.

- Gustave really, really looks like Robert Pattinson.

- Had a laugh when The Frenchest Woman Ever gifted The Frenchest Man Ever a nice suit for him to wear, in a very romantic moment, and it turned out to be a pseudo-hogwarts JRPG protagonist robe that clashed horribly with the rest of the Belle Epoque prologue.

[DDC]

I wrapped up the second act and following plot stuff and wow that story sure went nowhere. They really squandered what was an amazing setting and premise on the most inane **** possible. I had reserved judgment on the protagonist swap, but the judgment is now in and it really detracted from the game. The replacement is just a generic Game of Thrones "mysterious adventurer who knows more than he's letting on" archetype who doesn't have a single good line the whole game.

After the strong opening, I was willing to indulge the stereotypical "native tribe" chapter that has destroyed the plot momentum in so many JRPGs, but here unfortunately the momentum never came back. Every other scene is just characters cryptically dancing around what the real plot of the game is long after the player has basically figured it out, all building up to a big exposition dump where you get told what you've known for more than 10-15 hours.

It doesn't help that you can unlock the best abilities pretty early if you run straight for them on the skill tree, so there is not that much change or growth for the combat during the back half of the game.

[Finarfin]

This should also receive a badge, as players are actively participating within a month.

Gotta say I'd like a Badge with the 33 from the game.

[Makirige]

Is it worth buying or not? Or its better crack ?

Forget what I said. I found it for 20 euros.

[CheesusCrust]

- Narrative side, it seems a bit clumsy. The prologue was perfect, but then it immediately switched to grimdark, but then it also immediately reveals that we can communicate with the Nevrons? I can't tell if these guys are intended to be a group of competent adventurers or a bunch of civilians thrown to the slaughter, like Emma suggested.

- Gustave really, really looks like Robert Pattinson.

- Had a laugh when The Frenchest Woman Ever gifted The Frenchest Man Ever a nice suit for him to wear, in a very romantic moment, and it turned out to be a pseudo-hogwarts JRPG protagonist robe that clashed horribly with the rest of the Belle Epoque prologue.

the prologue (and narrative) was a weeb's wet dream without ******** oppai lolis, but with familiar "nobody ******* asked for" dramatic speeches, camera angles, isekai-style fights and horrid pacing. they also executed the portrayal of impending doom poorly, all i saw was 100000000 times romanticized Edwardian era/Romanian/Victorian ******** (i'm looking at you Bloodborn *****) with glitter, baguettes and roses, while characters not giving a single **** about disappearing from this world. Robert Pattinson face was even more off-putting than the fact of painfully clean Frenchies with teenage superpowers running ****-stained fractured streets of 𝒶𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓉𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 ruined town in the most edgelord outfits average tumblr user can think of.

the music was nice tho.

[Nemesis]

- Gustave really, really looks like Robert Pattinson.

Bless those who don't know what he looks like. Otherwise, it's impossible to unsee it.

[methoxetamine]

89k vs 121k

I was told this game was a huge hit? BG3 has 800k all time peak player

It is a huge hit, BG3 being an extreme outlier doesn't change that. There's nothing even remotely comparable about the two anyway, it's like saying BG3 wasn't a hit because Wukong hit 2.4 million. Also it's at a new all time peak at the time of this post of 135k, which means it's still going up 10+ days after release even after people have finished the game

[Tangerine]

89k vs 121k

I was told this game was a huge hit? BG3 has 800k all time peak player

It is a huge hit, BG3 being an extreme outlier doesn't change that. There's nothing even remotely comparable about the two anyway, it's like saying BG3 wasn't a hit because Wukong hit 2.4 million. Also it's at a new all time peak at the time of this post of 135k, which means it's still going up 10+ days after release even after people have finished the game

It was also significantly cheaper to produce than Failguard if the figure of 80 devs (30 in-house, 50 out-sourced) is accurate.

[Demonic Fate]

89k vs 121k

I was told this game was a huge hit? BG3 has 800k all time peak player

It is a huge hit, BG3 being an extreme outlier doesn't change that. There's nothing even remotely comparable about the two anyway, it's like saying BG3 wasn't a hit because Wukong hit 2.4 million. Also it's at a new all time peak at the time of this post of 135k, which means it's still going up 10+ days after release even after people have finished the game

It was also significantly cheaper to produce than Failguard if the figure of 80 devs (30 in-house, 50 out-sourced) is accurate.

And no less importantly, in half the time!

Failguard started development in 2015 immediately after Inquisition. Sandfall Interactive was founded in 2020.

[KOS-MOS]

89k vs 121k

I was told this game was a huge hit? BG3 has 800k all time peak player

It is a huge hit, BG3 being an extreme outlier doesn't change that. There's nothing even remotely comparable about the two anyway, it's like saying BG3 wasn't a hit because Wukong hit 2.4 million. Also it's at a new all time peak at the time of this post of 135k, which means it's still going up 10+ days after release even after people have finished the game

Let’s see in a few months if this game is still as popular as everyone claims it is right now.

[Demonic Fate]

I've had the full 8 hour OST playing in the background at home all day and not once was it any less than pleasant. We'll see if I go all the way with the game itself but I'll definitely be replaying that one a bunch.

[Breathe]

89k vs 121k

I was told this game was a huge hit? BG3 has 800k all time peak player

It is a huge hit, BG3 being an extreme outlier doesn't change that. There's nothing even remotely comparable about the two anyway, it's like saying BG3 wasn't a hit because Wukong hit 2.4 million. Also it's at a new all time peak at the time of this post of 135k, which means it's still going up 10+ days after release even after people have finished the game

Let’s see in a few months if this game is still as popular as everyone claims it is right now.

Nobody will talk about it a month from now.

[methoxetamine]

There is zero chance anything other than this wins GOTY, so plenty of people will be talking about it for quite a while

[Cipher]

There is zero chance anything other than this wins GOTY, so plenty of people will be talking about it for quite a while

You really liked the story?

Let's detach the dork souls faggotry inserted in this JRPG. Did you really liked the story? Because that's one of the worst aspects of the game.