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.

If you have F1TV I can’t recommend https://multiviewer.app/ enough.

Just classic inconsistent stewarding. Bizarre but that’s FIA. Hamilton/Russell should just have been a racing incident anyway.

Wild that Lewis gets a penalty for that. I don’t think that’s right.

You should play Titanium Court, it might be the antidote you need. I can’t really say more without spoilers, in fact I’ve already spoiled too much by even saying this, probably.

Yes, and that reaction also fucked me up completely and gave me imposter syndrome about my own diagnoses.

I enjoyed it. After reading it a couple of times I think I’ve come around on how it breaks the meter. Rust in peace is nice with the sword imagery and the last line is pretty good.

Tack för tipset, speciellt rabattkoden som jag kan bekräfta fungerar. Skönt att det finns ett bra alternativ att gå över till.

That’s beautiful, makes me want to get out there too.

I enjoyed it, but it’s a lower budget AA game so you gotta take it for what it is and be able to tolerate some jank. I liked the setting, the art direction, the music. Environment design is great and level design is good too. Combat can be a bit clunky but it has some interesting ideas at least with the element system, status ailments that have both positive and negative effects, active skills and hot-swappable loadouts.

I’d rather a flawed game with interesting ideas and charm than a competent but bland game that is okay at everything but doesn’t excel at anything and doesn’t do anything too interesting. But I think my jank tolerance is pretty high compared to most people so YMMV.

I was thinking Jackass but bum fights is probably more accurate. God humanity is bleak sometimes.

The ultimate weapons for each character in FFX are all locked behind minigames, most of which are unfun (barring Blitz Ball), most being extremely difficult and some being almost broken (looking at you, chocobo racing). You might remember jumping to dodge lightning bolts 200 times in a row or chasing down butterflies in the trees.

I agree with most of your criticisms, but the jumping puzzles and beach challenges I don’t really think should factor into the overall rating too much. They were deliberate nods to inane and frustrating minigames in older Final Fantasies and I think they succeeded in that regard. Anyone who has tried to assemble all the ultimate weapons in FFX knows what I’m talking about. They’re also completely optional in E33, contributing neither important lore, plot or item rewards. They can be totally ignored without consequence by anyone that doesn’t enjoy them.

It’s a shame to me because it divides the modding scene, and plenty old but stable mods will never be updated to work with the remaster. But it is what it is. I guess it will be nice for console players as F:NV is practically unplayably broken without mods.

Absolut. Men det är bedrövligt at EU-komissionen pushar för detta.

Just don’t break mods, please.

I’m the same. One game at a time, for the most part. I might mix in a non-story game in parallel sometimes like a roguelike, but only ever one story based game at a time. My brain can’t handle switching back and forth, I need to dedicate my full intention hah.

I agree. This is a fantastic video essay that goes through everything in more detail than I could here, and I recommend it thoroughly. It’s a good game, that manages to enthrall most players into thinking it’s a great game through a combination of a phenomenal soundtrack and some standout moments that sort of jolt their critical thinking faculties out of order. I was victim of this too - I liked the game way more as I was first playing through it, but the more I went back through it and the more I actually thought about it the less I liked it.

I still appreciate E33 for what it is (overrated does not mean bad), but for me Blue Prince was the GOTY 2025.

Bedrövligt. Vet inte vad mer jag kan säga.

It is a decent hack to get around inertia. I’ve done similar things too in the past, with varied success. But it does genuinely help sometimes. Actually starting something is definitely the hardest part, so anything that gets you doing that to any capacity is good.