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💯 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.

I feel like dictionaries are over rated as a form, since they lead to nit-picky comments like this :P

The ending part with the FPS was kinda ok they should have just made the whole movie FPS like hardcore Henry.

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.

That's because HD-DVD was the real new standard, but Sony killed it.

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

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.

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

The only good part of the game is the amazing original teaser trailer and the netflix show.

Man, that trailer. We thought we were going to get something with the depth of Disco Elysium and Witcher level worldbuilding, but instead got "future pew pew" fps railroading that barely worked.

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.

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

I always thought that was Saw's doing

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

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.

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.

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."

The excessive flashbacks were what got to me. If any movie could expect that fans would've watched the first movie 50+ times and be able to quote most of it, I think Happy Gilmore would be on that list.

I was mostly disappointed by the story, acting, and stiff characters. The environments? Top notch. The gameplay? Pretty solid, although the gunplay left some to be desired. The return of Mass Effect 1 style tooling around in the Mako? Everything I'd hoped for.

Too bad the game being so poorly received pretty much killed any forward momentum on similar games in that vein.