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Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?
It's not that obscure, but Perfect Blue (1997) has not left my mind since I first watched it.
Steambot Chronicles for the PS2. It's my favorite game by a wide margin. I almost never replay games, but I've played that one all the way through over a dozen times. It's just chock-full of so many choices of what to do and how to do it, and the graphics and music come together to make the perfect atmosphere.
Cloud Atlas is my usual mention.
Favourite movie and it's usually a fairly even split between people like myself who love it and people who think it's garbage.
Not much middle ground
Rewatched it with my wife recently
Sat on the edge of my seat as the stories came together... Wife was completely non-plussed
I went into it blind, and immediately had to go read the book.
This isn't alone as a movie steering me towards a book. But nothing else has spurred a drop everything else response like that.
Couldn't stop thinking about that film for weeks after watching it.
Games: Epistory and Nanotale. Both typing games from Fishing Cactus. Absolutely beautiful games that have interesting stories and you get to practice with your typing skills. I love both of these games so much.
Tv: Sliders. It was fairly popular when it was running and got kind of weird at the end, but I love that show. It was one that my family got together to watch every episode each week when they were on broadcast. I was also part of an early online petition to save the show and move it to the SciFi channel. I was also part of the early online petition to save MST3K, back when online petitions actually worked.
Movie: Ghostbusters Answer the Call. People will disagree with me but I unapologetically DGAF. That movie is hilarious and I love putting it on when I work out. It’s a far better Ghostbusters movie than the last two garbage ones that were put out. It has everything from the original: dark adult horror comedy about scientists who save the world. The last two were not true GB movies, they are family friend teen coming of age movies with a plot that depended so heavily on nostalgia that they felt like a crappy cash grab. ATC is my second favorite GB movie behind only the original. Holtzman is my hero!
Movie: Ghostbusters Answer the Call.
If anyone's giving it a chance for the first time, I do recommend the extended edition. For some reason the theatrical cut out the low point of the relationship arc between the two main characters.
I don't think all the humour lands, but enough of it does, and the movie has a good heart. At the very least it remembered that Ghostbusters is a comedy. The new movies have the same flavour as every Marvel superhero outing.
Better off Ted. I dont think it is underrated, but it definitely seems to be not well known and only got a couple of seasons. It's the first time I got mad at Netflix canceling a show I loved.
It's an excellent show.
But don't be mad at Netflix. It aired on ABC, and they cancelled it (presumably because it had lower ratings than the network's other comedies). Netflix just picked up streaming rights after the fact.
I've never met someone IRL that has seen this show. I work in the biotech industry so I recommend it to all my coworkers.
It looks like a cutesy Zelda clone, but it's so much more than that. It's dark with extremely atmospheric music. It is a "knowledge-based" game, with metroidvania/Zelda aspects.
The puzzles are phenomenal, and I don't think it can ever be replicated.
I just started playing tunic a few weeks ago. Its brilliant. Need to go finish it.
Not a single piece of media, but I want to make an apologia on behalf of amateur sci fi writing. No the prose isn't going to wow you, but I love seeing other people's unfiltered imagination at work.
I'm very much into worldbuilding, and I'll devour fan wikis without even consuming the source material. My knowledge of Warhammer 40K and D&D is almost exclusively from various wikis. Seeing regular people build their own little paracosms, with or without accompanying art or fiction, I find very engrossing.
As for actual media, judging by how little representation the series gets in the US, I'd say Custom Robo. I thoroughly enjoyed the single entry on GameCube that Nintendo localized here.
Don't Trust The B in Apt 23
I think The Good Place is one of the best things to ever happen to tv. I know it's not some secret piece of tv that nobody knows about, but it hit the right notes in my soul that I don't think people are singing its praises loud enough, even a decade on from its release.
One of the rare "10/10, no notes" series from start to finish. Amazing finale too. Fantastic rewatch value.
My wife and I go to watch it, open Prime, put it on. Watch for a bit, things seem odd, but I don't question it. We're having a tough time following exactly, but I've heard good things about the show so I'm letting it breathe.
We get like 20m in and I say okay what the fuck. I pause, it's the season finale of season 1, prime just felt, when we start a new show, that it was best to start off on the most recent episode, despite not having seen the rest of them. Frustrating, to say the least.
Joe Pera Talks With You
It's a treasure and it's hard to get people to watch it. I've watched the series all the way through at least four times, by now. It's sadly short, so not too hard to do.
Within a Deep Forest Freeware, came out in 2006, by Nifflas. You're a ball.
Love the soundtrack, love the controls, love the design. It's perfect.
