Yeah it just has the veneer of being high art so normies pretend to like it to seem cultured.

name twelve better games that came out that year.

>>737049684
>dune runes

I'm inclined to agree but when I mention what I DID consider my GotY I'll be immediately disregarded and called a retard so that's all you get from me.

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>>737049684
E33 fags have to be the most pretentious fags ever.
The story for this game isn't even good. The first 2 acts are a generic save the world plotline, while the final act is a failed allegory for escapism.

The escapism is bad message doesn't work because lumiere is basically a real dimension with real thinking people. At best you could argue the game keeps it ambiguous, but clearly it implies that the people of lumiere are real.

Not to mention that using the paintings is objectively beneficial due to time dilation. You can use them to effectively extend your life.

Either way, lumiere doesn't work as an escapism allegory and has no grounding in reality.

The ending is also a bit of an artificial dichotomy created for the sake of melodrama.
The gameplay of the game is also highly derivative
All in all, you fags are retards impressed by shallow aesthetics
The story is not mature, and it's nowhere near a 10

>not GOTY level

how so? GOTY is subjective

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>>737049684
Goty doesnt mean anything.
It's given out by game critics at the end of the day. And those guys are not experts on story telling.

>>737049684
Just accept that a lot of normal, well-adjusted people loved it. The gameplay and aesthetics never interested me personally.

>>737049684
what was the competition for GOTY?

>>737049684
sure, but it came out in a slow year and the game was the vidya equivalent of pure oscar-bait.

>>737050397
If only /v/ actually accepted that.

>>737050863
KCD2, Silksong, Hades 2, DK Bananza.

i thought it deserved it. KCD2 was equally as fun being a murdering thieving drunkard in bohemia though. didnt play hades or donkey kong

>>737049684
>This game not GOTY level of being good
Good morning, saar

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For me it was The Roottrees are Dead, but I liked E33. It's still better than the other games that were nominated, hell, it's better than most of the games that have been called "GOTY" for the past decade.

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>>737049684
that's an interesting attempt at English, friend.

>>737049684
For 2025 it was. 2022, 2023, 2017 and 2019 and 2026 it would have lost.

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>>737049684
Cope

>>737051420
I somehow doubt Ubisoft has any money at all to waste on shit like this these days. They're practically bankrupt.

I'm glad the honeymoon period is over.

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>>737051493
>2026 it would have lost

What even has come out this year? Although I'm interested in Pragmata.

>>737051675
GTA

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If you hate this game, you are BROWN. I don't make the rules, but it is what it is

silksong was better

>>737051675
I've loved RE9 and Pragmata looks good too. I don't see it besting GTAVI and OoT Remake if it dropped this year.

>>737049684
>This game not
hello Rajesh

>>737049684
to be goty you just need to be better than the other games released, last year was one of the worst years in video game history.

the nominees:
>KC2 with gay sex and atrocious combat gameplay
>Walking simulator 2
>Some nintendo game
>2 indie shitters

>>737050223
>>737051017
>>737051420
>>737052087
>Timmy posts shit bait and anon instantly fall for it
We have mastered English better then you

>>737052237
it's "than" THOUGH

>>737049684
It is because it won goty like fifty times

>>737049684
Wrong. Thanks for weighing in, though.

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>>737049684
>This game not level of being

name a game better than e33

>>737049684
I just liked that it put so much effort in the music department, I love good music in games. Nier games are some of my most favorite games because of this. Combat is nice as well. It amazes me that you people still seethe to this day. The game is like 8.5/10 but everything else that came out last year was abyssmal dogshit, which is why E33 was unironically GOTY. It's not that hard to comprehend.

>>737052756
We'll be here all day listing games

>>737049684
only brown hate this game, it was game by the white man

>>737052756
The Minecraft Movie

>>737049684
Agreed, but as they say, you don't have to outrun the bear.

>>737050284
Trvthnvke
>>737053543
Jews are brown, and indians are being paid to shill this masonic jewish nepo baby garbage, and call anyone who doesn't like it indian.

>>737054340
truth bomb

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>>737054340
you got almost all the buzzwords in

>>737049684
Look Outside is objectively superior as an RPG and journos didn't play it because it's not a movie.

>>737049684
Correct. It's GOTM level of being good.

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>>737052756
>>737049684
Lost to Tainted Grail lmao

>>737053376
it's incredible to see not a single one of you can name a better game

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Terrible bait OP. Try harder.

>>737050223
That's more like poo runes t b h

>Indian filename
>doesn't like E33
Telling.

Wasn't my GOTY. I didn't like the story and the gameplay was too repetitive. Music was good though.

>>737049684
>This game not GOTY level of being good
This thread is very obviously a false flag, but you are correct. Expedition is not really GotY tier. That said, it might actually have been GotY out of the games that were nominated. My personal GotY was Look Outside, but it wasn't nominated for anything. Silksong won the Steam awards, which is actual real people voting, not industry plants, so Silksong probably deserved the win the most, but I haven't played it or Hollowknight.

>>737058530
>real people voting
You mean the one who can drum up their rabid fanbase the hardest wins

>>737049684
Turn-BASED mogs actionslop any day of the week zoom zoom lol.

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>>737058530
>Silksong probably deserved the win the most, but I haven't played it

>>737050284
true, it's typical french pseudo philosophical nonsense

>>737049684
It's funny how as soon as it turned 2026 this game just evaporated from relevancy
Didn't even last 9months despite the relentless industry supported shilling

>>737058812
I don't understand why you're keking. Steam is real people. TGA is not real people. And Silksong won the real people vote.

>>737052756
Dark Souls
Deus Ex
Majora's Mask
Persona 3

I played it and liked it but I do wonder why so much hype. Act 3 both thematically and gameplay wise is a bit of a mess.

>>737060230
>I'm gonna give you a list of the most shilled games in history, take that e33 shill!!!
incredible, and all those games are worse than e33 btw

its too hard

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>>737060386
It was the "kino" aspect. The game was cool, that always leads to a disproportionately positive reception. Hype breeds more hype. It's a great game even with its flaws, but I think people who claim not to understand the hype at all are being a little obtuse on purpose or just shitposting.

>E33 is now out for jailbreakable PS5's
>suddenly there is ton of threads about e33

>>737050284
>The story for this game isn't even good. The first 2 acts are a generic save the world plotline, while the final act is a failed allegory for escapism.
Nobody is talking about the plot when they praise the story. The plot is good, formulaic to some extent but it serves its purpose. When people praise the game's writing they're talking about its emotional resonance, pacing, characters that feel real and flawed, who undergo development and make you care, dialogue which feels conversational and natural.

>>737049684
Better than Astro Bot

>>737060230
Those 4 games are great actually. And could easily be argued to be better than Expedition 33. The most recent of them was released 15 years ago though. Not shifting the goalposts, since I'm not the anon you're replying to, just making my own point that you have to go back that far to compare the game negatively. It isn't a flawless game but it is definitely a beacon of light that big budget games with mainstream appeal can still be good, amidst all the shit which plagues that section of the market today.

>>737060830
I love Maelle's fencer gimmick. I would have liked to have seen or heard a little bit about her fencing training at some point though, we heard plenty about her being a courier but nothing about that. Unless it's just something they teach in the Expedition Academy and she's been training there for years.

>>737049684

Show me the other good games of 2025 then. Because it beat them all through French foreign wankery by Californians voting and thinking themselves better than everyone else as usual.

>>737050284

Either ending is too cruel for what anyone else would have done realistically. The Fading Boy throughout the entire game is constantly complain everyone is ruining his painting by involving themselves for their own reasons rather than caring about his or his world. Just have Alicia leave the painting, unpaint Verso and then hide the damn painting somewhere safe and leave everyone inside it to their own devices.

Instead we're forced to take the scorched Earth approach both ways whether the player likes it or not. Total death resulting in a crippled girl being forced back into reality or a beautiful sustained fantasy with reality bleeding into the Canvas once again gradually.

>>737049684
>played 2 hours

>>737066714
>Instead we're forced to take the scorched Earth approach both ways whether the player likes it or not. Total death resulting in a crippled girl being forced back into reality or a beautiful sustained fantasy with reality bleeding into the Canvas once again gradually.
It's that way because Verso orchestrated it that way. He lied to the Expedition, he discarded his sister's letter to Maelle, he let Gustave die on purpose. He did all of this to bring about the exact circumstances he needed to force his mother out and end everything in his own way on his own terms with no room for compromise. Alicia at least seemed to have hope that Maelle could have been a force for peace, wielding the power to sway the fight between two weakened painters in either direction and thus being in a position to insist upon a diplomatic resolution. We will never know how A Life to Dream may have played out because Verso's obstinacy deprived us of that ending.

>>737066714
>Just have Alicia leave the painting
She won't. Also the fading boy is miserable because he never wanted to spend his whole existence painting, his family playing with him made it tolerable but they're gone. There's no good end for verso's soul except oblivion.

>>737065651
Weirdly, pAlicia fights the same way. It might be something Alicia was doing in real life before the fire and then subconsciously gravitated to and "learned" it as Maelle.

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>Weebs are STILL seething
I thought E33 was going to be forgotten, though? Curious!

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I liked it, fuck you.

>>737065124
this is all fine but the peoppe of lumiere are completely sidelined by act 3 and its ridiculous.
lune and sciel are killed and resurrected and find our they are painted and barely react. "oh btw verso wanna fuck?"

>>737049953
Fpbp

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>when one falls,we continue
>for those who come after
...
>actually fuck that noise, none of their sacrifices meant anything, TOTAL LUMIERE DEATH, youre le bad and a toxic escapist if you dont want to kill everyone you spent 30+ hours caring about

yup its a cheap asset store flip shovelware game for plebs
movie games aka cutscene simulators will always win GOTY because most gamers lack critical thinking or emotional maturity to not latch onto obsessively to any game that they spent 60+ hours in

actual gameplay, navigation, overworld, combat, storyline and everything is sub par and plebs just praising it for cutscenes . a C tier movie from hollywood has better performances, better acting, better story

>>737067589
This. All of it could have been handled if Verso wasn't such a fucking coward. Gustave's death unironically fucked everything up and made reconciliation impossible, especially once Maelle figures out that Verso intentionally let Renoir kill him because he was afraid...of what exactly, one cannot truly fathom, because all he had to do was tag along with them and gradually reveal the truth at pivotal moments. Alicia gets to see her brother once again and go on a final magical adventure with him to save the day, work through her grief and then fucking leave, Gustave gets to be a big damn hero and saves his world while forcibly ejecting both of the idiot parents out of the painting and everyone is satisfied in the end and he would certainly find a way to convince Maelle/Alicia (Malicia) to leave the painting.

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>>737075039
>Gustave's death unironically fucked everything up and made reconciliation impossible
Alicia forgives him immediately
>especially once Maelle figures out that Verso intentionally let Renoir kill him because he was afraid...of what exactly, one cannot truly fathom
He says why in the game
>work through her grief and then fucking leave
She's not willing to leave, just like Aline wasn't
>everyone is happy in the end
Not Verso's soul.
>muh golden route
stick to anime RPGs

>>737075378
He's going to be playing that piano for a very long time.

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>>737075489
Definitely, despite being the bad end, Alicia's ending is 10x more kino.

>>737075576
Verso can get fucked and if Alicia wants to kill herself, that's her choice. He has no business pleading her for death anyway, it was Aline that messed with the canvas to begin with, so he should take his complaints higher up the totem pole.

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>>737075685
He did, he had Aline kicked out.
>that's her choice
Nah she's 16, daddy knows best. She'll get over it, so will you anon.

>>737076409
Painted Renoir mogs him so hard it's not even funny, Alicia is a better painter by far.

>>737076595
Aline.*
Who had the fucking idea to name them so similarly?

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>>737076595
>literal slave to an insane woman, painted to be a copy of a man with all of his own will removed, killed by the original
yeah mogged
>aline is the better painter
yet with the entire canvas's chroma at her disposal he still fractures it and locks her in a stalemate, seems like she's some kind of retarded. Based sandfall making an entire game about how women need to listen to men.

>>737076959
>reddit tier image
Yikes.