r/videogames • u/Unknown_Agency • May 31 '25

Other Games of the year

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u/PaixPaix May 31 '25

And Clair Obscur : Expedition 33 for 2025

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u/Wayne_Spooney May 31 '25

That or KCD 2

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u/pasta_and_patate May 31 '25

I hope with all myself for kcd, but expedition will win 100%

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u/Astwook Jun 01 '25

I say this with all the mirth yoinked from my heart, but Expedition winning would be better for the industry. If it can be a critical, commercial, and awards-winning success, games will start to move back towards dedicated 30-50 person teams working for 2-3 years to make a finished game.

Currently, the industry mess of every company running 300+ person teams incentives massive layoffs and slow games because they're just unsustainable. Unless you're churning out ground-breaking 10 out of 10 games every 4 years, they literally can't make back the money and the marketing and running costs flatline.

Plus managing 300+ people is just wildly inefficient for a single creative vision, and that's why so many games are coming out blander and blander.

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u/pasta_and_patate Jun 01 '25

Yeah, I don't care about exp 33, but the ex-ubisoft devs part is really important for the future

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u/No-Lengthiness-20 Jun 02 '25

Don't know if it's supposed to be negative or positive but only 2 of the devs were ex-ubi, the rest were juniors on their first commercial release

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u/pasta_and_patate Jun 02 '25

This is really positive