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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

English surely? The French are ours to fight. We had to fight Hitler when he had a go at them.

Americans do it because "cheese eating surrender monkey" is funny, and acknowledging the sacrifice and fierceness of the French and how we've relied on them in nearly every conflict is not funny. Therefore Americans do the latter a hell of a lot less than the former.

Edit: I know there is a lot of typos/mistakes... too lazy to correct them

French person talking, i think the hate for french people is very occidental. Japanese for example loves the french culture and they have a lot of restaurants/stores trying to serve french food or clothes with french words on them adapted to japanese standards.

For the hate i think it has multiple factors:

For america it is the Marechal Petain surrendering to the nazis during ww2, and our refusal to invade irak. Making us "surrender monkeys", which is very funny when you look at france war history.

For england: it is the victory of the hundred years war and the countless other wars we had with them.

Germany has always been our ennemy since the fall of the roman empire.

For Africa and particularly algeria and congo: it is the severe repression against insurgencies in our colonies, government manipulation, our implication in salvery, robbery of natural ressources and cultural assets, and forced conversion to christianity/"good maners" of indigenous populations, all leading to the rise of multiple ultra radicalized groups and terrorism.

So for every country we are either the bastards who sold themselves to the nazis or the bloodthirsty war criminals who are here only to kill, rape, and steal.

Added the fact that Paris is one of the most visited cities in the world making it also one of france's rudest and unwelcoming cities for tourists, And the cultural differences we have with english speaking countries in terms of politeness/expected behaviour, and in the way we are choosing friends/partners. Makes us the perfect hate target.

But i think if you visit France and go to more remote places and genuinely try to interract with people/try to speak french (altough we will immediatly switch to english, we like when you try and it is seen as a sign of respect) you can find very warm welcoming people. Just dont expect to become BFF immediatly or feeling as part of the family, it does not work like that, and it will be very akward for everyone.

Seems to me to have always been a meme, even before the internet. I suspect it's some amount of shit-talking going to an extreme, propaganda that has long just turned into an incomprehensible slush, or it's adopted from other countries' hate of france being treated as self-explanatory and just becoming a given.

Very rarely is the hate for france real, it's pretty much just a joke anytime it's been used while I've been in earshot.

The joke template is: Anyone: *says something disparaging about the french that is either very vague or about them being snobbish or quick to surrender*

Everyone else: *agrees without question or elaboration.*

I'm sure some portion of the US genuinely does view the French in a bad light, but I've yet to meet them.

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.

These sorts of reviews hardly ever get seen, they get pushed down by well rated reviews. This game has over 100,803 reviews.

nice try, macron

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.

Funny as hell, too

Oof someone can't take a joke well

I hate the English too though?

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.

Excusé moí it's Amę Rican anti-Franch propaganda information

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.

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.

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.

That's actually why I love the combat. It was super addictive to me and it wouldn't be the same if it were like Mario RPG where there aren't really consequences for missing the timing, other than doing slightly less damage or taking slightly more.

I've played my fair share of turn based RPGs and I really appreciate the interactive element of e33. There's tons of slower paced RPGs out there already so it felt new, even though it's been done before.

You the same person advocating murder?

Hypocrite

You what

Did you like the old story driven semi open world turn based combat games it reminds so many people of?

The gameplay is nothing particularly mind-blowing. The storyline is though.

It entirely depends on what you wanted out of the game.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You can use this logic for any kind of review just the same

I really loved it, and I'm not a big story-game person.

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

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.

This post lands kind of flat, lacks charisma.

Posts like this are the punchline.

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

The nice thing about Paris is most of France isn't there.

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.

Is french a race????