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The game systems, graphics, feel, etc are a bit dated. It feels like something from 10-15 years ago.

Graphics??

You can dislike the gameplay and stuff, but the graphics? It’s peak UE5 and well optimized, 99% of the players I’ve seen were making "wow" sounds at the prologue visuals and details, the underwater level and many more.

I haven’t tried low settings tho, I’m playing 4K epic, but graphics are definitely 2025.

Lumière, Alicia, déchirer la toile, une vie à s’aimer… I have so much little green hearts 💚 next to Clair Obcur titles on my Spotify.

I agree that it is very refreshing to see French inspiration, we are not very used to that in video games and they embraced it to the joke level. The baguette outfit were, quote from Guillaume Broche (CEO & Art director, creator of the project): "A joke we had on our internal discord and it went too far".

Clair Obscur is an art style, the game takes place in the Belle époque (late 1800s early 1900s) and you can see plenty of references to that time, for example the pattern on the robe of the first flower seller in Lumière, just after the red and white tree.

This time period is never explored in games so that is also very cool to see.

Esquie is the best friend indeed, and he has a perfect French as the voice actor for English and French is the same. But all voice actors are amazing, English and French, it’s funny that you can hear the English ones struggling a bit with the French swearing (they tend to say "poutain" instead of "putain").

And no, no Tabarnak, this is exclusive from Quebec and very much not a thing in France (or any European French speaking country). It doesn’t really have an equivalent as they use it for various emotions. I’d say it’s the Quebec F word, so the French P word (putain).

The game was made by French from France, so no Belgian or Swiss specific French language, only the one from continental France.

It shows after you meet François, in both languages Esquie says:

• Ahahah François you got smashed
• Ahahah François qu’est-ce que tu as pris cher.

"Prendre cher" is very very French street language and means something like "pay dearly" but always in a bad way. You got hurt doing something stupid? Tu as pris cher.

It started from the city of Lyon I think and like plenty of French slang has Arabic influence, this one being the word "Cheh".

Cheh is a Moroccan (and probably Algerian) onomatopoeia for "serves you right", so if I hurt myself being silly, I will hear a little and discreet "cheh" from my Moroccan wife in the other room. One magical onomatopoeia to say "I told you so, that serves you well".

For French language differences, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco and Switzerland are very close and we can understand each other without strong complications. Same goes with Northern Africa and most of Africa. It’s mostly an accent change and most vocabulary stays the same.

It gets a little bit difficult with the Caribbean French and other far away islands as they often use their own local language mixed with French.

Then you have the final boss, the endgame, Québécois. Oh Canada… You have strong accent + different vocabulary + slang. Dudes from Quebec HAS to make efforts to be understood in France (or Switzerland or whatever) cause we won’t understand them if they don’t 😁

Maybe we could with a little training, but as a famous languages school said in an add: "Time to learn French, because they won’t learn English"

What about it ?

The writing, the characters, the dialogues, the story, everything is new and perfectly done. It is pure art and something like 98% of the 3+ millions players would disagree with you.

But you must be part of that 2%, meh to each their own 🤷🏻‍♂️

Same here, I am in love with that game and I can’t stop listening to the 8h soundtrack or watch YouTube reactions videos of streamers crying in front of it.

Being French probably doesn’t help me from loving it… I finished the story 4 days ago and instantly reloaded my save to explore everything in the end game, unlocking every picto, every skills and Steam achievements.

Those Gestral beach mini games are annoying on purpose as they are a reference to final fantasy mini games. The platform parts are hopefully not very present, and I feel lucky to have killed that chromatic boss you’re talking about on the third try with full parry/counter.

Some few/nice advices, spoiler free but I’ll tag them anyway:

2025: Clair Obscur Expedition 33.

Even if the year is not finished, this game is such a perfect work of art on so many levels that it became the new favorite to me, and to plenty other players.

Yes to all. Programs are run from whatever launcher you want to use, default KDE or another one.

Default Key Bindings

Well that was my main motivation to try KDE, everything is working fine out of the box and is highly configurable/rice-able.

It just needed that tiling wm love. So far I have nothing really bad to say about this configuration. You can have a very i3 feeling by adding gaps, rounded corners, removing title bars, have transparency or blur etc. Or you can do a mix of both worlds to make it easier for the rest of your household (example, having title bars makes the windows movable by mouse. I kept them for my significant other, she hates not being able to choose the windows size but it makes it easier for her to watch YouTube…)

Keyboard shortcuts are configured in kde settings, so there will be conflicts at first between "normal kde" binds and tilling plugin binds, but nothing impossible to change.

I haven’t seen any bugs, my dual screen is working great. I have yet to finish my personalization but I’m at about 80% and it as become my daily driver for working.

I am not certain about your different config by localhost as I now sync the dotfiles and packages across the two pc (laptop + mini pc) which are the same hardware and so, exact same look and feels. When not in laptop mode they share the same dual screens so it makes sense to me.

The only downside I see is that it relies on a community GitHub. The one I linked is the only one I found to be updated. There are plenty of forks or similar projects not updated since 2022.

So unless KDE officially does it one day (and does it well), we have to use community plugins and hope that they stay updated.

Mandatory over compressed screenshot (in night theme and night light cause, well it's still night... It will transition everything to day at sunrise)

All four, I took those four pills off alcohol abuse.

I was an i3 and sway user but I lapsed to the dark side.

I tried KDE with Krohnkite tilling extension on a new laptop and liked it way too much. It’s slowly becoming my main DE.

It’s configured with i3 shortcuts of course, so there’s that.

I'm surprised your main gripe with places like LA or NY are that they're too big and sprawling and not that they're dirty and full of unseemly things like homelessness and drug use

Oh it is as well but I was trying to be somewhat positive.

I think my real main gripe with LA is the immense social fracture between rich and poor. You can see an homeless man with his feet turned black for not having shoes and right next to him a fucker trying to impress girls with his Lamborghini.

Getting to the country side to see normal life and normal people was exactly my goal, just getting to a bar in a small town and making friends because of my obvious French accent. I was there for the social part and the nature sighting (and it was very nice!)

I've been to many small places around Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota etc (that middle part full of nothing), voluntarily. Trying to do a road trip "Supernatural style" (the TV show, with burgers but without the monsters). I really liked that but I wanted to see real normal America, not the bells and whistles TV front.

Not to be rude but your huge cities (mostly NY and LA) sucks as a European. It's not even the lack of public transport, it's just that they are way too huge. Paris, London, Madrid, Warsaw etc are big, but not THAT big.

My plan for the next trip was to do rural Texas, I wanted to see real rednecks with my own eyes.

But... That was before the fire nation attacked. Now I'm staying in Europe, plenty of things to see here.

I’m not anti extraction shooter. It’s just that when I read that I can’t stop thinking about"ok so bungie did a Ubi(soft)"

Meaning they made a game because it is trendy and they can keep it going as a live service, selling tons of battle passes and cosmetics. This reeks game being made out of C suits economic interests and not out of love for games.

And just like Ubi, they jumped on the hype train two years late, most probably because some corporate analysts said "there’s shit ton of money to make, that’s what the public wants"

Except that I’m fairly certain 75% of the players don’t want another live service extraction shooter, they would prefer a new IP born out of love for gaming.

Oh and of course it's another extraction shooter.

Now they'll blame their failure on that bad buzz instead of admitting it was only a cash grab attempt.

Ah thanks for the link! I was looking for that information but could not find it.

Over 400 seems a bit high to me but the size vs cost argument remains. Those external voice actors, animators, QA testers etc were all paid. Kepler Interactive even gave them money to have known actors for VA (they probably aren't cheap).

So that's very probably a several million budget (rumored to be between 5 and 25 mil according to non reliable source, thanks to Kepler and the early Gamepass contract).

Ok that's not a 500 million budget, rather a 50 mil one (to be very large), but it's definitely not a 500k budget.

And yet they sell it 45$.

Anyway, it just prove that you can build a Waguy steak alternative for cheaper while keeping the taste and without abusing your workforce.

• iPhone 13 mini (only ok small phone available at the time)
• Huge gaming PC (Windows because of some games)
• Framework 13 (OpenSuse Tumbleweed)
• Minisforum X1 pro (Same hardware and OS as the framework)
• Homemade ITX NAS (unraid)
• Pi 4 with some docker containers (OpenSuse, always)

I have to sell my older NAS and Steamdeck now. The framework 13 is my new workstation/steamdeck thanks to the new AMD Hx 370.

80$ is a steal, yeah right…

(Screenshot from isthereanydeal just for simplicity, avoid grey market when possible)

Oh damn, I’m adapting that to Switzerland and French then put it on a wall at my job!

Thanks for the inspiration OP.

PSA: You can still sign EU petitions even if you don’t live in the EU anymore.

There are two layers in the form. The first and the one that counts is your nationality, your passport. This one needs to be EU.

Then later your residency address can be outside of EU and you can select "other country" if you moved to UK, Switzerland, Thailand or whatever.

I can’t wait for it to be the next AAA failure getting wrecked by a smaller indie game two weeks after release.