I just played this for the last 4 days, and i feel like i slept only about 3 hours and i am now officially french.
(great game. absolute instant classic)
I once bought a second hand cabinet from a young French couple who were moving back to France. Cabinet was heavier than I expected and I was planning to take it back by bus. The bus stop at the beginning was like 5mins away which would have been very difficult to go all the way by myself and the guy offered to help me carry it all the way to the bus stop, without me even asking. The stop where I get off was almost next to my flat so that was fine. That French guy lives rent free in my head and is the reason I can’t talk shit about French people any more. It was also a lesson on power of simple good deeds for me.
I’m french and I agree with this. Especially parisians, they’re insufferable, soooo fucking full of themselves for no reason.
I think it’s a “country/region capital” thing. The more central a city is to the management of an area, the more insufferable the people it produces are.
I fully agree. Places of power are alienating and attract the most predatory profiles.
Another example of why Steam reviews are worthless.
You can use this logic for any kind of review just the same
No, there is a unique culture of acceptance to these bullshit lying “joke” reviews on steam specifically. They even added a “this is funny” button to encourage it instead of a button to report the “joke” reviews and ban those accounts from ever reviewing again.
I don’t understand the upvotes here. This is fucking obnoxious to the developers. Nor do I understand why a French Captain is posting this here. I thought he liked his country.
You the same person advocating murder?
Hypocrite
Oh nice, Mods being unnecessarily unpleasant to posters when they call out bigotry. Even Reddit isn’t usually this bad
Of the serial rapist, child trafficking, mass murderer? Yeah, you’re goddamn right I am. Why am I a hypocrite?
Stop with the damn stereotype of “French bad”, even as a joke. The only objectively bad thing about the French I’ve heard was specifically about the locals of Paris being annoyed at foreigners’ pronunciation and rhythm of their language.
They committed state-sponsored terrorism on my home country, and Mitterrand (the president at the time) personally authorised it. In response to their terrorist agents being caught they threatened to cut off trade access to Europe for New Zealand.
Blame Mitterrand, not people that just so happened to be housed in that region.
I’m British so hating the French is a core part of our culture steeped in centuries of tradition and I’m not going to let a god damnned Yank tell me I can’t practice my own cultural traditions
I’m Australian so hating the British is a core part of our culture steeped in a couple of centuries tradition and I’m not going to let a god damned Yank tell them they can’t practice their own cultural traditions
The nice thing about Paris is most of France isn’t there.
Hating the French and anyone who obnoxiously insists on using their dying language for no reason is the only unfounded hate I can condone, because jokes at the expense of the French by Monty Python are too funny not to play along.
I’m Australian and since the 90s insulting The French, Italians, English, Scottish and Germans was an every day thing
As an Australian. I don’t think I’m better than any people who work hard and are caring for others.
The French (99% Parisians) seem to think that their language is superior and they are superior and that for me makes me want to insult and annoy them.
I feel the same towards many other countries that feel they are superior without actually being able to be superior. Just get in your own lane and behave… Stop acting like you’re better than everyone else when you constantly need help from other countries.
I’m thinking of at least two other European countries when I said that last part.
This is a funny review of a game. Lighten up a little bit on that high horse.
Every country has their dipshits that farts rainbow
Well you certainly have me there mate. Drunkenly posting my opinions is why I got banned on Reddit.
I guess I didn’t learn my lesson.
Just like the French didn’t learn their lesson ;)
Now excuse me while I go back to go quoting Futurama and the Simpsons endlessly and making fun of myself.
Don’t forget French Canadians. Its rare a colonizer is justified in looking down their nose at another colonizer. After all, the only thing worse than a colonizer is a double colonizer.
you all hate-filled mobsters mindlessly repeat english anti-french propaganda
I also have to agree, i know its usually meant in jest, but it sits wrong with me to just continually lambast them like this.
Yeah, ultimately the french can be annoying with the idealization of their culture, but the anti french jokes drown even that out. I’m not a francophile by any means, but part of what I liked about Expedition was how french it was. Hell it opened me up to the possibility that I may be interested in more french media.
Yeah turns out for all people mock emo french art, it turns out that at least sometimes I really like it, especially since as I’ve gotten older I’ve grown more and more appreciative of media that’s more artistic.
Expedition 33 makes me want to contemplate some Claude Cahun photos over a cigarette before having some artisinal cheese, a good crusty bread, and a glass of wine.
Their language still makes the Dutch look good though.
I think the fact that it was completely unprompted makes it especially trashy as a way to behave.
Both OP and the reviewer seem to want to indulge in bigotry to make themselves feel superior, and think if they pick a target that’s not on the classic protected lists, they won’t get called on it. But it’s still the same ugly activity even when it’s not against a marginalised group.
Excusé moí it’s Amę Rican anti-Franch
propagandainformationI hate the English too though?
Joke reviews are so fucking mean to people who pour their heart into games. You’re not clever.
These sorts of reviews hardly ever get seen, they get pushed down by well rated reviews. This game has over 100,803 reviews.
Exactly. It’s shitty jokes that nobody will ever read, but they still tank the overall average which is what actually matters for sales.
As someone who’s does work that get app reviews, luckily I haven’t had to deal with joke reviews, but it really sucks when there’s some very temporary problem for a day or two, and suddenly you start getting a bunch of ‘it used to be good but xyz is broken’ reviews that never go away because when its fixed, they never come back to update it.
Please be a responsible reviewer and if its something temporary, update your review! Ive even replied and let them know its fixed and it stays forever.
I think it can be a life lesson about fixing issues ahead of time. Users may just want to go about their needs, and aren’t volunteering to keep checking back after periodic updates to see if things are better.
I’ve had times where I report an issue, a developer (or release note) claims it’s fixed, I try it out, and the issue is still there. That can be very different from a direct communication asking me to try out a beta release that might’ve fixed it. In one of those scenarios I’m asked to QA test, in the other I’m implicitly forced to be one.
Are you seriously saying write flawless software year after year after year? It doesn’t exist.
Take a closer look at the review. “It used to be good but XYZ is broken” - means at one point things worked relatively well. The demand for progress might have been the thing that broke it.
Quite often, I think the balance goes a bit too much in the wrong way towards making things newfangled at the expense of breaking standard functionality. Sometimes being lazy about a project is the better approach.
Or you know, google and apple are constantly changing rules and things break on one OS on specific phones because the OEM breaks the API google provides.
It was just an example, im not getting review bombed because I slaughtered something horribly like the send button doesnt work anymore!
Sometimes things just happen.
Edit: also, if youre not working on your app adding features that people ask for, upgrading dependencies over time, the language etc you’re going to lose users and might not even be able to publish anymore, and will even get your app removed after a period of time. Software is ever flowing even if you dont see the changes. I can’t even count the amount of times ive had to change alarms and background tasks because of rule changes by google, and you’d never know as a user.
I tried playing E33 and spent a good 12+ hours. I dunno, it feels like it really just does not live up the hype. Am I missing something?
The gameplay is nothing particularly mind-blowing. The storyline is though.
The gameplay was just a refined, interesting, and thematically appropriate version of turn based rpg combat. It was good, but it wasn’t something I’d recommend the game for. The story was absolutely incredible. The art was gorgeous. And more than anything I think the game really excels in how it all came together. It’s got ludonarrative sychrony, the art (both visual and musical) consistently added to the story, the voice acting (at least in English) was top notch. It created an immersive experience that made the story and world building shine and left me constantly feeling strongly and asking questions.
All said, it’s an art game and if someone doesn’t like art games it’s not for them. I’m more likely to recommend it to a cinema nerd than someone who’s only really into competitive gaming.
It entirely depends on what you wanted out of the game.
You what
Did you like the old story driven semi open world turn based combat games it reminds so many people of?
Yes, I generally do like that kind of gameplay. For some reason E33 just didnt hit me like it did other people 🤷♂️
Okay, a few things, “French” is a nationality, the nation of France is a country with several different and very distinct cultures and ethnicities. Also the origin of this meme is most likely BRITISH and not American, both from the spelling and also because hating the French with no actual leg to stand on is a very British thing. The rivalry goes back MANY centuries and stems from so many things including the mutually incestuous royal families competing over Empires and more recently from how France shook down during WW2 (far more complicated than usually portrayed in British humour) and just from competing in sports. Some anti French sentiment exists in the US of course, partly from WW2 and “War on Terror” propaganda but mostly because of people growing up on British comedy especially Monty Python and Top Gear and parroting things and also because Paris is notoriously unwelcoming to tourists and for many those two things are their only real experience. To everyone, lighten up, and not everything, especially hating on the French in a nonsense and silly fashion, is about America.
The rivalry goes back nearly 1000 years, with William the Conqueror’s takeover, after which he almost immediately went back to war with France. We say frogs, they say rosbif. We say Agincourt, they say Dunkirk. There’s a mutual history that makes it an actual rivalry rather than just randomly hating on the French.
Just to note, in the UK it’s specifically the English who have a historical fascination with shitting on the French. Scotland has the Auld Alliance with France so you get far less of it north of the border.
How is this not just racism, and why is it allowed to be posted here?
Is french a race???
The Tour is
I had to speak French to save my life. I regret it to this day - Werner Herzog
