Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[methoxetamine]

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.

It has it's problems but overall yes, it was very good

[Finarfin]

Sure is better than the average jap story tho "Muh lets go on some wacky adventure and then kill God" or " Muh we have to bully countries that don't want their lands flooded with foreign masses"

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I been seeing a bunch of comments about this game having a budget of 5 million. I very doubt that’s this case especially when there are a bunch of celebrity VA’s in game but I wasn’t to get confirmation for dev cost .

[Tangerine]

I been seeing a bunch of comments about this game having a budget of 5 million. I very doubt that’s this case especially when there are a bunch of celebrity VA’s in game but I wasn’t to get confirmation for dev cost .

No way it was 5 million. The core dev team of 30 people over 5 years would cost around 30 million (200k average employee cost X 30 employees X 5 years). You might drop a few million if they scaled up over time and if they were fully remote, but there's 0 chance it was less than 20 million.

Edit: Forgot they were frogs. Their average employee cost is probably less, but even at 50%, you're still at 15 million. And that's not including the cost of the outsourcing.

[methoxetamine]

I been seeing a bunch of comments about this game having a budget of 5 million. I very doubt that’s this case especially when there are a bunch of celebrity VA’s in game but I wasn’t to get confirmation for dev cost .

Even taking the VA's entirely out of the equation, there's no ******* way this game cost anywhere near that little to make. I'm not saying it was massive or anything but there's just absolutely no way it was 5 mil

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I just want to say to the people who keep saying the following for this game.

• “is a game changer”

• ”redefines JRPG’s”

• ”Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is embarrassing the game industry”

• “Expedition 33 Is a wake up call”

• “Masterclass in storytelling”

• “Expedition 33 Broke the industry”

• “Expedition 33 is peak gaming”

Please do yourself and everyone else the favour in doing a summer salt flip off a short cliff.

[rusty_shackleford]

No idea how anyone could have completed the game and thought the story was good

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

No idea how anyone could have completed the game and thought the story was good

People who have very low standards that think marvel movies are peak cinema comparable to Citizen Kane.

[rusty_shackleford]

No idea how anyone could have completed the game and thought the story was good

People who have very low standards that think marvel movies are peak cinema comparable to Citizen Kane.

It's way below low standards.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

No idea how anyone could have completed the game and thought the story was good

People who have very low standards that think marvel movies are peak cinema comparable to Citizen Kane.

It's way below low standards.

When almost everything else is utter dogshit even a way below low standard game is considered a masterpiece to people.

[Cipher]

People who have very low standards that think marvel movies are peak cinema comparable to Citizen Kane.

It's way below low standards.

When almost everything else is utter dogshit even a way below low standard game is considered a masterpiece to people.

Not just any masterpiece, please don't sell this gaming event short. This is a JRPG, nay, an immersive ludo narrative experience that toppled the AAA houses and single-handedly changed the gaming industry forever. Nothing like this has been since in the past 2 decades, if ever. Wait until the movie comes out and does the same to Hollywood. You naysayers are pathetic but, I guess haters are gonna hate. Reddit was right about you guys.

[J1M]

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

It's May.

[Tangerine]

My money is on Oblivion Remaster for GOTY.

[KOS-MOS]

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

I don’t give a **** about GOTY—dogshit games win that all the time, it means absolutely nothing.

What actually matters is how many copies it sells and how many people are still playing it. And right now? The numbers aren’t even that impressive. Schedule1 is stomping your “goty” without even trying

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

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

I don’t give a **** about GOTY—dogshit games win that all the time, it means absolutely nothing.

What actually matters is how many copies it sells and how many people are still playing it. And right now? The numbers aren’t even that impressive. Schedule1 is stomping your “goty” without even trying

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had a peak of 145,000 players this weekend . Not earth shattering but pretty good numbers for a AA game.

[rusty_shackleford]

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

I don’t give a **** about GOTY—dogshit games win that all the time, it means absolutely nothing.

What actually matters is how many copies it sells and how many people are still playing it. And right now? The numbers aren’t even that impressive. Schedule1 is stomping your “goty” without even trying

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had a peak of 145,000 players this weekend . Not earth shattering but pretty good numbers for a AA game.

Yeah well Avowed had 6 billion players thanks to slop pass, what now?

[KOS-MOS]

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

I don’t give a **** about GOTY—dogshit games win that all the time, it means absolutely nothing.

What actually matters is how many copies it sells and how many people are still playing it. And right now? The numbers aren’t even that impressive. Schedule1 is stomping your “goty” without even trying

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had a peak of 145,000 players this weekend . Not earth shattering but pretty good numbers for a AA game.

"Huge hit"

[methoxetamine]

I just want to say to the people who keep saying the following for this game.

• “is a game changer”

• ”redefines JRPG’s”

• ”Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is embarrassing the game industry”

• “Expedition 33 Is a wake up call”

• “Masterclass in storytelling”

• “Expedition 33 Broke the industry”

• “Expedition 33 is peak gaming”

Please do yourself and everyone else the favour in doing a summer salt flip off a short cliff.

I love the game a lot but I would never utter any of these things because I'm not a homosexual

[Statesman]

No idea how anyone could have completed the game and thought the story was good

I could see someone coming from your latest slop [insert your favorite Battle Royale/FPS/Gacha here] and thinking this is groundbreaking in comparison.

[Nico]

So I've been curious enough to get this game from a fit girl. I'm in Act 2.

It's okay so far but no way is it a masterpiece or any such hyperbole.
But I guess when you're dying of thirst in the desert, even stale water feels like heaven.

On a different note, I had finally got accustomed to the parry / dodge / jump dodge QTEs and this ************ of a game introduces yet ANOTHER, DIFFERENT parry with the Gradient stuff. That's now 4 different QTEs to speed react to and 4 different keys to reflex press correctly.
And all I can say is :

[NezahualDoomer]

Good game but It's indeed woke, can't play defense for a game just because you happen to like it or else we are just allowing cultural marxism to keep spreading.

This is my review of this game.

WOKExpedition 33

[DDC]

The game did somewhat of a U-turn in the final act. I was completely sick of the combat by the end of act 2 and the overlong, extremely tedious "final" dungeon didn't help matters.

Then it suddenly became fun again. They bust the damage cap, high level pictos supersede your stats and let you min-max your builds (there are some that give more health than a maxed 99 VIT stat), new moves unlock, new passives greatly up your energy generation, and throw a lot of cool optional bosses and areas at you. You pretty much have to break the game to beat these and they're epic. You have to pump out insane damage to win and they are throwing ridiculous combos back at you that in some cases can full-wipe you, and sometimes with multiple boss-tier mobs in the same fight. It's one of the better endgames I've seen in a while.

You may need to be careful how you build and who you give your lumina points to because some characters may not be able to scale up as damage dealers and that would make the game very difficult. These are my observations:

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Maelle seems essential because she gets a 5-hit attack that has a damage multiplier based on how many burn stacks the enemy has. It doesn't seem like any of the other characters can compete with this. I gave her over 300 lumina points to fully take advantage of it. Lune has a decent 8-hit all target attack that is good as secondary DPS but it can't scale nearly as high. Her typhoon is also great because you can set it up to where the heals from it are generating energy for her and use that to help spam other expensive moves while being passively healed for several turns. I did not see a way to pump out high damage with Verso, but he is good as support to mark enemies and apply full-party powerful (and Rush), he is reliable for breaking, and his weapon that lets other characters have his perfection damage multiplier helps Maelle.

I did not use Monoco much, but he eventually gets a gradient skill that gives shields, so he could potentially replace one of Lune or Verso because shields are really good. I have no idea if he can scale up to massive damage, but I have not seen a way to do it. Same with Sciel, I did not see anything in her skill tree that looks like it can compete with Maelle's damage.

There are a lot of luminas that give things like crit/damage/self-healing/energy for attacking burning enemies, so this seems like it may outdistance other strategies. Act 3 is very different from Act 2, where the optimal build was whatever could do the most 9999 hits. You need to do millions of damage per turn to beat some of these fights in a reasonable number of turns.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

[DrSneed]

Aside from the visuals and music this is a 6/10 game that people on here are being overly harsh to because media is astroturfed
This is news somehow

[1998]

Aside from the visuals and music this is a 6/10 game that people on here are being overly harsh to because media is astroturfed
This is news somehow

Would agree with that. If you are into QTE combat probably even higher.

[fork]

Gave the game a third chance and now I'm doing nothing else, lol. It's quite enjoyable, despite the aforementioned flaws.
Just beat everything with solo Maelle. Anything else as broken as Medalum & Stendahl?

[methoxetamine]

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Maelle seems essential because she gets a 5-hit attack that has a damage multiplier based on how many burn stacks the enemy has.

The funny thing about that is the strongest ability in the entire game is a single hit attack of hers, Stendahl. Not sure if that's the case until endgame though, I didn't even start using it until I did the "superbosses" (which it trivialized)

Anything else as broken as Medalum & Stendahl?

Hell no, with the right build, weapon level, etc you can one shot anything in the game multiple times over

[fork]

Yeah, it even trivializes the Endless Tower.
The game balance is kinda whack. You really have to beeline the main story before doing any side content in order for it to remain challenging.

[methoxetamine]

Yeah, it even trivializes the Endless Tower.
The game balance is kinda whack. You really have to beeline the main story before doing any side content in order for it to remain challenging.

Yeah I'm glad I didn't know about it until after I did the Endless Tower, I didn't even have Medalum at that point either. My Verso was pretty OP but nothing insane like Maelle is capable of. I did some side content in act 1 but after that I pretty much just rushed the story because I knew I could finish the side content after and I didn't want to be too op for it, but honestly I'm not sure how they could've balanced it better without actually scaling the story stuff to your level/gear

[fork]

A somewhat flatter power progression curve may have been better, but on the other hand all the powerful pictos enable quite a bit of build variety.
Stendahl is really busted though, I wonder whether that's intentional or a bug.