💯 so much garbage. The 2-3 hour fan made cut-down versions are good though.

Made me even more pissed that they left Tom Bombadil out of LotR.

Good answer.

Yep. Leading up there were red flags but, like you said, so many green flags as well. What a let-down! Helped nerds brace for impact when Star Wars came back though

Few things have broken my heart quite like Bethesda’s downfall.

I remember sitting there thinking “holy crap! I’m going to see a Star Wars in the theatre”!¡!

It came out when I was a kid and I thought it was okay. Seeing the amount of toys that came out of the prequels, I don’t think it was meant for anyone past the age of 15, lol.

Yes I was a freshman in high school went it came out and me and my friends went opening nite and we were so excited afterwards, then I went by myself the next nite and yea it wasn’t good. Even now watching it it’s not great. The pad race was good but that’s it.

Yeah I was a senior in high school and everyone was skipping class on opening day to see it. What a goddamn disappointment!

I largely agree on the modern games thing. The problem isn’t even technology for me. It’s scale. Modern AAA gaming is made by such large teams, often multiple studios each with hundreds or thousands of people. With that many people, you just end up with generic crap, and the studios are investing so much money on any one game that generic crap is all they’re willing to risk making.

Take that budget and spend it on 100 small games made by teams of ~100 people or so and we’d get some really interesting stuff. Sure, a lot would fail, but they can afford that. Let artists make art, not business-people.

Probably BluRays. DVDs were much better than VHS, but

… sony lobbed a crazy amount of payola to beat Phillips, even though blu-ray had worse error-correction and became unusable faster.

As a kid in the 1990s I was really hyped up about the concept of VR, but lacked the ridiculously expensive gear to try any of the interesting stuff that was out there.

Nowadays I’m idly interested in the concept of VR, but lack the ridiculously expensive gear to try any of the interesting stuff that’s out there.

In general this was my experience as well. There is one important exception for me which was Google Earth. Being able to sit in a chair and drag a huge model of the earth beneath me and view distant places like I was a bird is just magnificent. Doesn’t make me motion sickness the way most games do.

Agreed it wasn’t even in the so bad it’s good category. It was just bad.

That movie is magical! … just … not exactly on purpose, nor too related to actual Mario.

You mean this one? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/

I feel like I saw through the hype on that one. I like space games, but you can’t make what they promised interesting without some incredible things that the game didn’t have. It’s just going to be nearly infinite boring generic planets. Without systems to make them unique then there’s no reason to care about any of them.

I did follow it up to launch, and I pirated it when it launched because I wanted to see it. Yeah, it sucked. I tried it again a few years ago because they supposedly made it actually good, but I still don’t get it. It’s still got the issue where no planet is interesting because there are infinite like it. Yeah, you can build a base now, but I couldn’t get into it. Some people seem to love it now though, so good for them.

Yes I fell for that game too. I was so hyped for it, I bought the soundtrack (which slapped actually) but yea it was bad.

Wasn’t that the game that killed video games for six years? Or at least was pinned as such by reporters lol

While I disagree, yeah why would you buy an expansion when you didn’t enjoy the first campaign. That’s just sanity there.

I got my PS5 just before this came out and almost bought it, but before it was released, I remember seeing a lot of reviewers online saying they had to sign agreements that they would not fully disclose the state of the game and I knew at that point this wasn’t going to be good. The memes were thought.

I’d say, if you want to, just pirate the DLC and give it a try. It is better than the base game. With that said, if you played the base game after the DLC released and didn’t like it, you probably just don’t like the game, and that’s fine. Personally, I think it’s pretty good, but I also mod the hell out of it. There’s a lot of smaller things I don’t like about the game that mods can fix, like removing the hacking minigame and things like that.

(Tangent: why does every game thing they need a hacking/lockpicking minigame?! I’ll be enjoying the game, then suddenly I have to spend a minute on some boring ass minigame that doesn’t do anything except take you away from the gameplay. Why? The old-school method of your character just doing a skill check is great, and it doesn’t waste our time. Can we go back to that?)

I always thought that was Saw’s doing

He wrote a significant part of the script before he died. Personally I think he would have approved.

The weirdest part was they included the setups for the jokes, then skipped the punchlines.

I really liked how they had Mr. Prosser (the guy with the bulldozer), wearing a fur lined Mongol hat, but if you hadn’t read the book, you’d have no idea why that was funny.

“Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn’t know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.”

I’m using a very very old nook and enjoy it. I kinda want whatever I use to be just for reading, and nothing else. This way it all points to one thing. I also have like a first or second Gen kindle but it, while technically better, is slow as heck and filled with bloat.

I am tempted by modern colored e-ink, but I hear it isn’t super color accurate yet.

I was on vacation, under a shade tree on a beautiful beach, sipping a piña colada, and turned my Kindle on to continue reading this really interesting book I had started on the drive.

Brick.

I was so mad I just put it away. I wasn’t going to waste any vacation time trying to figure it out. Glad I decided that too, it was well and truly a paperweight.

Never again

I just use a crappy Android tablet I got for $20 on Amazon. Any yes, for that price it’s utter garbage, but all I need is an epub reader and an SD card.

WHY HAVE THEY NOT MADE ONE GOOD GAME OF THRONES GAME???