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i couldn't get into expedition 33 and im not sure what the big deal is with it (hexbear.net)
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typically when there are popular games i cant get into, i still get why people like them. but i tried this game out and made it maybe 20 mins. granted im not a fan of turn based battles, i can get into turn based games if the rest of the story is good

but all i saw in my few mins of playing was some lame ass british people (even worse, the JRPG version of british people) and then movement that literally felt like an unreal engine asset flip. you dont feel connected to the world at all and the design of the world doesnt feel like its made for that movement system. after feeling the movement in the game and then doing the battle tutorial, i thought “this is not for me” and uninstalled it

i feel like the biggest fucking idiot on earth tho. im the only person who cant get into this game.

can those of you who enjoy it explain to me what’s good about it?

does the movement feel less janky as you get used to it? it just felt terrible to me. no weight to your character or anything

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[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

The movement is bad. I like your description of UE5 asset flip. But since the movement isn’t really important (except for the mostly optional plat forming—why the hell did that include platforming, so weird) it didn’t really turn me off. I found the physical environment design to be a little weird and repetitive—it works well at the overland scale but feels kinda vague and goofy when you’re in an instance.

But I found the story intriguing, and honestly, the combat just hooked me. The combo of the turn based format with some reactive skill elements was appealing, and it continued to be interesting because of the vast array of pictos/luminas. I also thought the Act pacing was strange, after act 2 it feels like they kinda ran out of steam and you just wander around grinding up to kill optional world bosses.

Anyhow I enjoyed it, but it doesn’t seem crazy to me that if you weren’t that into turn based combat to begin with, you didn’t click with the game.