Clair Obscur: Expedition 33—The Contrast Between Light & Dark

CGM spoke to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Lead Writer and Lead Game Designer to pull the curtain back on one of 2025's most anticipated RPGs.

[jznrpg]

So many games to play right now. I’ll get to this sometime this next couple of months

[FACTUAL evidence]

This is one of my most anticipated, and I’m hoping it lives up to expectations. Hoping it has a normal leveling system and not just a skill tree.

[jznrpg]

It is up there for me as well. The problem for me is I have a stack of games that are right there with it. I have it preordered to support the devs but for time to actually play it, it’s going to be a little while

[JEECE]

I can't imagine the devs of this one are pleased about the Oblivion news, especially if it actually drops tomorrow. Seems like an unnecessary decision to put Oblivion so close to this game.

[UnbreakableAlex]

What if I told you, you can play one after the other?

[JEECE]

@UnbreakableAlex

Of course you can. But it's very silly to pretend that everyone pays the same amount of attention to games that people on here do. Of course people who are already specifically interested in both games will still play both, if they really want to. But a lot of people will only play a game if it breaks into the public consciousness, and having a big game in the same or similar genre launching close to your game is one of the worst things that can happen to you if you are a dev. Look what happened to Titanfall 2. You sometimes even see publishers move the launch of their game to avoid launching near larger games that will draw a lot of attention away.

[Fonsecap]

Today, Oblivion Remastered and Obscur on Thursday? I'm going to have a few good months of gaming. (I only play RPG's on weekends)