French President [Emmanuel Macron] publicly congratulates Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, calling the Game of The Year win "a historic first"
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Even more of a reason for me to never want to play it
Imagine not playing a videogame because some guy in France likes it and he also (and I’m only guessing here, but this is lemmy) supports Israel
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Well, with old and elderly people you get Trump, Putin and Netanyahu; so I am fine with broadly politicians to catch younger generations.
You really think Macron has done good for France?
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Could be worse, could be a marathon run of the Metal Gear series with a ban on skipping cutscenes. Also the fuck did you expect from an aggressively French JRPG style game, FFS JRPGs are defined by their cutscenes.
When I develop my game I’m going to prevent players from skipping cutscenes on first viewing.
Gods, some people are just undeserving…
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I did myself the disservice of watching a synopsis of the game to see what the hype is all about. All spoilers known.
Holy shit am I going to buy the hell out of this game anyway.
Honestly, I think knowing might help get through chapter 1. You know something’s up almost immediately, but they drag the mystery out way too long for my patience, where I felt like I was being fucked around with and having my time wasted. I would have dropped it if not for my partner insisting I’d like it, and the rest of the story did end up being worth it.
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I do have a question playing this game: how many decided to play with French language and subs? Somehow it feels that is the way intended with this game
English Esquie is one of the most delightful things I’ve ever had the joy of experiencing. He’s voiced by the same person in both, but in French he just sounds French. In English he gets to have a French accent. Every character with a French accent is at odds with the main cast in a way that’s very flavorful. It just makes all the Frenchness really pop, like mixing sweet and salty.
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Imagine not playing a videogame because some guy in France likes it and he also (and I’m only guessing here, but this is lemmy) supports Israel
Macron has done worse.
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in English… Mostly for Jennifer English
They should get Dawn French to do the French dub
Is Dawn really the Frenchest name you could think of?
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I need a distinction between VIDEO games (interactable videos with fail cases so it’s a game in the end but barely) and video GAMES (games you can see and not imagine, like basketball: no story, no progression, just rule based win/lose thing)
I think you’re looking for “genres”, the problem isn’t the term “video games”.
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Wtf? Lol
Outside of America many countries have a strong sense of pride especially when something is overtly representing them and their culture.
As a Canadian if they made this game with hockey and toques I’d damn well expect the prime minister to applaud them when they won game of the year too.
Throw in some poutine and I’m on board.
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Imagine not playing a videogame because some guy in France likes it and he also (and I’m only guessing here, but this is lemmy) supports Israel
Macron liking it is just the cherry on top, I also just really hate jrpgs
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Even more of a reason for me to never want to play it
If you don’t like the games that other people make, then why don’t you macron?
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If you don’t like the games that other people make, then why don’t you macron?
Can you elaborate? I feel like I am missing context or some words in your comment for it to male sense to me.
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I still cannot get into the mood to finish it. I just got the bouncy giant and moody boy #2, but I’m too zapped to continue. It needs to become an animated series like Arcane
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Is Dawn really the Frenchest name you could think of?
Dawn French was (is) one of the most recognisable English actor (English, as in the country, not the language). Getting her to do the dub just because she has “French” in her name was the joke.
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I loved the fight mechanics and I’m sure there was a good story in there if I cared but one thing that really grinded my gears was the goddamn cutscenes. Not only that but the incessant cut scene that leads into another cut scene that leads into another cut scene. Seriously I spent half the game skipping cut scenes.
I mean, the whole point of the game is the storyline. The combat is really mostly secondary to it.
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I don’t play JRPGS and never played metal gear. I played Clair because I heard of the sekiro type mechanics and was interested.
What Sekiro type mechanics? It basically has nothing outside of the timed combat mechanics which are far from unique amongst various games, hell I’m pretty sure Jedi Academy which has combat mechanics closer to Daggerfall or Mount and Blade had a timed party mechanic though I could never figure it out.
Do yourself a favor and look at the tags for a game before playing it. Looking at the steam page it has both story rich and JRPG as tags, this is basically tag speech for long fucking cutscenes.
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When I develop my game I’m going to prevent players from skipping cutscenes on first viewing.
Gods, some people are just undeserving…
Please don’t, unless it’s a toggle in the menu like with the Renpy engine. I don’t want to watch a long cutscene that I know by heart just because I’m playing on a new thing without my local saves.
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French president holding to shred of relevancy and noteworthiness tries to coopt national success he had nothing to do with. Now to our main story tonight, is the weather getting colder?
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I need a distinction between VIDEO games (interactable videos with fail cases so it’s a game in the end but barely) and video GAMES (games you can see and not imagine, like basketball: no story, no progression, just rule based win/lose thing)
Sure, you have walking simulators and Bomberman. There you go.
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Compared to dictators (or wannabe), I get that Macron seems attractive. But he’s proven to be pro-rich (taxes on the rich have been drastically cut under Macron) and anti-democratic (he’s ignored the result of the last election and nominated a plethora of prime ministers from parties who lost).
And pro police violence. Repeatedly.
