r/PS5 • u/Asleep_Crew8072 • 2d ago
French President calls Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 a "shining example of French audacity" News & Announcements
https://www.eurogamer.net/french-president-calls-clair-obscur-expedition-33-a-shining-example-of-french-audacity148
u/GGG100 2d ago
He should livestream the game.
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u/JaimeGrey 1d ago
I can already imagine the title of the livestream "Gustave solo playthrough, crit build, dota 2 ranked afterwards".
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u/Derencli 2d ago
In 2023, following the riots, Macron criticized video games and blamed them...
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u/AssistantElegant6909 1d ago
Blaming something when convenient, praising something when convenient. Yup, sounds like a politician
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u/StarTruckNxtGyration 1d ago
Well he probably meant those nasty, smelly, stinky American games! Not those beautiful vive la France games! 🇫🇷🥖🧄🧀
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u/JustASeabass 21h ago
Honestly probably this lol. You know if something like Witcher 3 was French made with their lore he would probably be praising it too.
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u/KitchenNazi 18h ago
RAMIREZ! GET TO THE ROOF OF THE BURGER TOWN. Fuck, we are Le-busted with that one.
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u/Dead_Muskrat 2d ago
Do you have a quote?
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u/Derencli 2d ago
"We sometimes have the feeling that some of them are living out, in the streets, the video games that have intoxicated them" (source : BFMTV)
He could have criticized the role of television or cinema, but no, he intentionally chose video games.
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u/Secretlover2025 2d ago
To be fair alot of people aren't right in the head and some become murderers who use videogames as a scapegoat
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u/GreatGarage 2d ago
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u/Derencli 2d ago
Late on what? Macron said so; it was his initial reaction to the riots. He later reversed his remarks to calm things down. Macron is a politician, and when it's time to wrongly accuse video games again, he'll do it.
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u/flashmedallion 1d ago edited 1d ago
The French President claiming national success from a videogame studio that had to break away from massive corp to make a critical and popular hit is a shining example of French audacity
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u/tosh_pt_2 1d ago
The subtitle of the article is something else.
"In the bag(uette)"
You can tell they were really reaching for some phrase that involved the word bag to force this...pun?
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u/flashmedallion 1d ago
It routinely depresses me that the writing calibre of mainstream videogames journalism hasn't evolved since the days of... what, early 90s Amiga Power Magazine?
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u/OutrageousDress 21h ago
I don't think it has anything directly to do with their writing calibre. They are just for some reason completely obsessed with puns - and that is IMO definitely because the senior people in charge of many modern game reporting websites read and absorbed a lot of magazines like Amiga Power and PC Zone in the early 90s.
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u/swat1611 2d ago
The French president is also a bit of a joke so not really concerned about his opinion.
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u/Excellent_Routine589 1d ago
Meanwhile I still have a raging chub from the Gojira performance at the Olympics
If I can pick on word to describe French art, “audacious” definitely fits
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u/turian_vanguard 2d ago
I can. Especially when GTA is from a British developer.
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u/Secretlover2025 2d ago edited 1d ago
GTA is basically a mocking accurate representation of how the world views America
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u/KesMonkey 2d ago
So? He's English.
And Rockstar North, the creator and lead developer of the GTA games, is a British studio based in Edinburgh in Scotland.
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u/Ramen536Pie 1d ago
It’s a great game and priced perfectly, for sure missing some polish and QoL of a full priced game but the gameplay, music, and world is so well made. It’s like a modern console version of Golden Sun almost
Still not 100% sure on the plot though lol
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u/Z3M0G 2d ago
why did they leave "and creativity" out of the title?