I had to speak French to save my life. I regret it to this day - Werner Herzog

Does anyone know the reason behind hating on the French being a thing? Is this some US import?

I'm Polish writing this from a French instance but I'm asking without duress /s

There are historical anti-French sentiments, but I honestly don't think this is related to them much. I think it's just a meme gen Z decided to run with because they thought it was funny. Like the birds aren't real thing.

im a millennial and its been like that for my generation too.

Anti-French sentiment is new to USA from the 20th century, portraying the French as weak and needing rescue was a popular approach for those against war in Europe.

Historically France has been one of the best of friends to the USA.

Hating the French has typically been a European thing (and very English) because of the whole France dominating Europe time and again over the millennia.

Only 20th century kids will remember …

I have never really seen much of hate. The only things I have seen my entire life is the stereotype that french people are rude and bitter. I have no clue how true it is since ive never traveled or seen a ton of french people. The closest would be people from Canada and they are all very nice. I think the biggest example I have seen is they hate US tourists and treat them with a cold shoulder. Considering how rude and entitled a lot of US tourists can be I probably don't blame them if it is true.

Dates from when France refused to be complicit in invading Iraq in 2003. A big anti-french movement was pushed by American conservatives then, and it just became an internet thing afterwards.

However the French are not really liked outside due to French tourists being arrogant and always saying things (usually food) are better in France.

Also this review was probably not posted by an american due to the spelling of "favourite".

not even funny as a troll. your typical eric rohmer film has more charisma than the entirety of the east coast.

imagine living in america and criticizing a culture that doesn't demonize sexuality and leisure and thinking you're on some kind of high ground if you're not a mormon.

Checks notes Nope. Must be a commie French spelling.

That wasn't posted by an American. We don't spell favorite with a "u" and there are way too many big words.

Paris is basically an overpriced amusement park staffed by surly employees.

This is a Canadian thing, Quebequois are stereotyped as being incredibly rude and entitled as a general rule, and are constantly trying to force the rest of Canada to adopt their heritage/culture. The dislike of quebequois outside of Quebec kind of merged with Quebec's hatred of French (for not being French enough) and now all of Canada enjoys a good "French are terrible people" meme.

British also hate the French because of hundreds of years of war. Canadians also hate the French because we're basically Temu-British, and also because we hate Quebec.

Only slightly tongue in cheek.

This is the real answer. I have a chud 3%er man-child for a father-in-law, and he legitimately hates the French, can't abide hearing the language, calls French fries "freedom fries", the whole thing. He doesn't even even know why though, it's 100% virtue-signaling conformity with US American chud culture. The same man won't buy meat labeled as "Halal". (Though he will buy/eat it if he doesn't notice the label.) Like I said, utter child.

Making fun of the french is older than 2003

I've only visited Montreal twice, but both times everyone was super nice. (My baseline is NYC)

I think some people band wagon jumped onto the Simpsons bit about cheese eating surrender monkeys, and some Republicans followed their crowd during the bush era.

For most people I just read it as a "look at me I'm part of the in-group" sad pandering, like when people would repeat "EPIC BACON" or other low grade memes. They just want to feel like part of the group.

Posts like this are the punchline.

This post lands kind of flat, lacks charisma.

My dude, this is VERY obviously written by a Brit, making fun of the French without an actual leg to stand on is famously British culture.

Just been on holiday to rural France with very little French. Everyone was lovely, and although few people had much English either, we managed to get by fine just meeting in the middle.

Anti French sentiment is stupid as hell.

Canadians think it’s funny because of that; Americans because of W-era anti-French sentiment combined with antielitism and a historical association of French products with luxury; Germans and English people (at least, very possibly more of Europe) think it’s funny because of their countries’ constant historical antagonism; and people in former colonies think it’s funny because fuck the fr*nch.

Obviously not all of them, but I think it just hits for a lot of people.

I got filtered by the combat in E33. I think the Mario RPG games have the right of it by only having one extra input for attacks. Going the Legend of Dragoon method of multiple inputs for every single attack and dodge is too tedious for me.

Paris as a whole no, but the touristic parts definitely.

nice try, macron

Yep, it's fine for bossfights but ugh did it get tedious for every trash mob fight.

Also, accessibility should provide an option to 'auto-win' these. As a person with limited motor skills it was a huge pain.

I never got very good at it. I feel like they were worried that not enough people enjoy turn-based combat these days and were trying to spice it up.

I love turn-based combat though and think it would've been just fine without the additions.

Do Canadians think Letterkenny is funny? I checked out from them at some point but I liked it for a long time. Never watched any spinoffs

Ironically, you saying E33 has Legend of Dragoon style timing attacks just bumped it to the top of my "how have I not gotten around to playing this yet" list. LoD is one of my top RPGs of all time, and we are either blessed or cursed that we have not gotten a remake of it.

Oh, I’m not Canadian, I was just going off of the parent comment.

Eh... even 26 years ago the gimmick wore thin by the time you reached disc 3. A major distinction between the two is E33 kind of lives and dies by how well you dodge and parry. Unless you specifically build your party with huge HP pools (making every fight a long slog) there are a lot of attacks that just one-shot if they connect. This means in addition to timing inputs for all your own attacks you have to learn input timings for bosses and countless trash mobs.

A lot of them do that Elden Ring thing where the animators can't help but sprinkle in some feints to trip you up.

Even worse, do Canadians think trailer park boys is funny

checks out.

• A québécois who has been told "ooh, you're one of those people" in Alberta on my way to the NWT.

Yes. People in Paris can be a bit gruff, for the same reason people in New York can, it's a massive city that gets the most tourists of anywhere in the whole world, there are constantly millions of things competing for attention. But IMO even there people are pretty nice if you make a little effort, and elsewhere they're truly lovely.

How is this not just racism, and why is it allowed to be posted here?

sprinkle in some feints to trip you up.

That sounds awesome~

In all seriousness, obviously I can't speak for all, but I love you guys. My own french language skills may suck, but I'm glad you're part of our country and I appreciate your distinctiveness and all the other things you bring to the table for us. I think Quebec in particular deserves a lot of credit for preventing the rest of us from becoming so easily Americanized that we would've actually ended up the 51st state eventually. Culture's a hell of a weapon, and you guys defend yours fiercely, and that's both understandable and awesome in my books. Any teasing is directed mainly at my fellow anglos, and I know from personal experience that some Albertans can be real bigots, so that fits what I saw in my few decades living there too. I hope it's sufficiently clear that my comment is a joke and that it's coming from a place of love.

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.

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?

Worry not! It was my single bad experience in two and a half year in the NWT / Northern AB area.

And we also got our fair share of bigots. They seem to be everywhere these days, and borders don't seem to matter in how they proliferate.

Is french a race????

But it got a political and web powered revival due to the 2023 2003 Irak war refusal which likely has a stronger impact on internet culture today than the WW2 has.

Oof someone can't take a joke well

As a filthy American, it's just because of propaganda on this side of the pond. Union busters successfully portrayed the French as lazy and entitled because of all the strikes/protests over workers' rights. Gasp! Oh the horror!

That's genuinely it. And the fact that Americans are fucking stupid and eat that shit up, because our dumbass society romanticizes "working hard" and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps." My father-in-law just the other day made a joke about the French being lazy after I said something along the lines of "we could learn a thing or two from the French on how to protest."

Idiots.

Funny as hell, too

Well for me it's the other way around. I can't stand turn based combat, it's an instant turn-off, but E33 spiced it up just enough for me to enjoy it

I found the feints way more annoying in E33 than in Elden Ring. In ER they're mostly found in bosses, but in E33 they're pretty much everywhere, so even trash mobs can be tedious

Joke reviews are so fucking mean to people who pour their heart into games. You’re not clever.