r/JRPG • u/Marinebiologist_0 • Apr 27 '25

News Clair Obscur has achieved the highest concurrent player rate ever for a JRPG on Steam.

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Incredible numbers, this doesn't even include the Xbox Gamepass player count. The last time I remember a JRPG getting this level of attention was Persona 5 and NieR Automata in 2017. It'll be interesting to see how massive Persona 6 will be, if it launches day 1 on all major platforms.

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u/andrazorwiren Apr 28 '25

If I had watched it alone or with one other person and expected a good movie, I’d probably have a similar opinion.

Thankfully some buddies of mine went on a whim while it was in theaters and that made it totally worth it. Clowning on it with a group of people was awesome. Some of Denzel’s line deliveries were just…incredible. And the CGI was shockingly dated.

But yeah, definitely the stupidest movie I’ve seen in a long time, and I saw The Accountant 2 today haha

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u/shamshire Apr 29 '25

I'm curious as to what cgi you're referring to? I just watched it last night and I thought it was pretty damn good albeit a little long (didn't see the first gladiator)

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u/andrazorwiren Apr 29 '25

The whole movie is a CGI fest where they might’ve been better off focusing their huge budget on a couple of big scenes instead of spreading it through the entirety of the movie, but the most egregiously out of place scenes were the monkey fight and the naval battle, particularly the sharks which honestly felt like they came out of an early 2010s/late 2000s movie.

Taste is subjective so if you liked it then that’s all that matters, but I put “gladiator 2 cgi” into google for the first time just now and the predictive text showed me that my friends and I were hardly the only people bothered by it lol

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u/shamshire Apr 30 '25

You should watch the corridor digital video on it! It's what got me to watch the movie in the first place. The boats at the beginning and castle were all physical sets, and so were the boats at the naval battle! Unfortunately they couldn't use real sharks, that would be a bit dangerous lolol