It could be an album, movie, tv show, whatever.
Cyberpunk 2077. Hands down.
Disappointed doesnt even fully encapsulate my feelings throughout knowing this games existance
Heres a list of a 100 words that describe what I felt at various stages; Since its been announced all the way to the last hour I sunk into playing this game
7 years of developement time for one of the worst releases in gaming history
Not even an RPG as orignally promised, just another futuristic shooter.
Just missed damn near every mark, I’d time machine back just to tell myself to let that game go
Have you played it? Like after the stability fixes it’s probably one of the best modern rpgs.
From start to finish, and its not that I didn’t have fun with it after they made it stable. Its that fact that as someone who is heavily into the genre of cyberpunk and love rpg gameplay with wide range of customization and choosing your own adventure in a content rich world, it was underwelming for all the hype.
At first, it was severly lacking, not getting what was a major selling point for what could of been a revolutionary AAA cyberpunk game was a big slap in the face for peeps like me who waited so long to play the game.
Sure its fun now, it was fun even with the hilariously game breaking glitches; however, thats not what was promised and that disappointing part of the experence cant be push asided
thanks for the dictionary piece! i watched a lot of videos but it didnt get me.
I’m kind of annoyed that it’s still used as a benchmark performance basis despite the game coming out in a buggy and subpar visual state lol.
Batman Arkham Knight being peak visual fidelity a decade later is really not so funny anymore when no one seems to use actual high fidelity games to compare instead of the latest EA or Ubisoft slop.
Avengers End Game - after years of build up and creating the entire MCU, it felt like a cop out for them to fix everything with a time travel plot that they set specific rules for. It was just lazy writing.
Everything Everywhere All At Once. People hyped it, I watched it and thought it started out OK and then just became a stupid mess. And I really like off beat movies.
The TV adaptation of Preacher. The comics were more like a western but with a dark sense of humour that popped up when the moment called for it. The tv show was ‘wow, this is so wacky and wild!’ I get the impression Seth Rogan liked the comics but didn’t actually understand them at all.
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Concept was great but I really didn’t like how the story developed past book 1. I know the series has its fans, but it’s a big nope for me.
I’m certainly one of those fans.
I read His Dark Materials way back, when I was perhaps 13, and that was probably the right time in my life to read it because I’d never been as emotionally invested in a character before as I was in Lyra.
I genuinely feel like reading that trilogy made me a better person, weird to say.
I haven’t read the books in a long time, but they have place on my bookshelf in recognition of what they meant to adolescent me.
The Netflix version of Cowboy Bebop.
The cast was great but the script was just horrible and really ruined the show.
If that cast and production crew had made an original show about a dark funky future and bounty hunters and whatever, clearly inspired by Bebop but not trying to be it, they could have knocked it out of the park so hard.
They would, of course, have had to get some decent writers instead of just feeding the original anime scripts to crack-smoking monkeys and then smearing their poops onto script paper.
I can’t think of a better example of disconnect between source material and output. Just… What happened? It’s like it was written by a focus group.
On a related note, I was really underwhelmed and disappointed by last year’s new Shinichiro Watanabe anime series, Lazarus.
As a huge fan of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo (and to a lesser extent Space Dandy) I was really looking forward to another serious anime helmed by Watanabe. What we got was, for various reasons, not the least of which being the untimely death of Bebop writer Keiko Nobumoto, really boring and subpar at best.
I struggled to finish it, and I probably wouldn’t have bothered it it wasn’t by a creator that I like and respect.
it was genuinely baffling how superficial and shallow the writing was, how underwhelming the direction was and how uninteresting the character designs were (I genuinely can’t remember a single one). The animation and music were great but overall it basically felt like a painfully average Netflix flick rather than a Watanabe.
Yes, I agree. To me it is almost like they ignored the original storytelling and the story and instead wanted to make something more “hollywood”.
It is the deep background and how the stories are told along with the awsome music, that makes Bebop so good. Not flashy one-liners
I have zero hope that there will ever be any good live-action remakes of anime. I remember how everyone was excited that the Ghost in the Shell live-action was just mediocre.
Perhaps controversial but I don’t think animated shows should ever be translated to live action, at least where fantasy, sci-fi, and exaggerated action are pivotal to the story or art style.
One Piece turned out okay.
Especially when they try to make it available and shoe-horn it to a wide general audience that probably haven’t seen the original show.
Oh, most of them.
Episodes 7 through 9 of Star Wars. Yeah 7 was a retelling of the same story almost but we also live in a world where we’re repeating history so… It provided some New Hope for the series but 8 was total subversion of everything though I doubt it was all that well planned out to begin with. There were some questionable decisions and characters in that movie. And 9, I didn’t even bother to watch it after I found out Palpatine is back. Just…yeah.
I at least appreciate what 8 was trying to do, even though it really needed more time in the oven and probably would have worked better as a side movie, but 9 was an abject disaster. It convinced me that JJ Abrams literally can’t concieve of a Star Wars story that isn’t just the original trilogy with a different coat of paint. He deliberately undid everything in 8 so that he could cram ESB and ROTJ into the same movie. Hell, he got Adam Driver onboard with 7 by telling him that Kylo Ren wouldn’t be a rehash of the Vader plot, then rehashed the Vader plot with Kylo anyway. At least 8 showed some form of creativity.
My roommate has only experienced 9 by way of Lego Star Wars and said the characters side-eye the camera every time the plot doesn’t make sense. I’m pretty sure that’s the best way to see the movie.
7-TFA was too afraid to establish a new status quo in the Star Wars universe. It was just the Empire up against the rebels again. It didn’t feel like any of the struggle and victories from the previous movies mattered. The New Republic technically existed but we never really saw it enough to get invested. We just saw the confusing Resistance. Han Solo was still a smuggling bum wearing a vest. It was vapid nostalgia bait.
8-TLJ was made by someone who seemed to actively hate Star Wars. Somehow a Star Wars movie starting with a Yo Mama joke managed to just get worse and worse.
9-TROS isn’t even worth discussing. I don’t think anyone wanted to make or see it, but it had to be pushed out by obligation.
I really liked episode 8 and was let down by episode 9. I feel like the sequel trilogy was poorly planned. Abrams and Johnson were trying to take it two different directions. Some fans preferred Abrams’ vision and others preferred Johnson’s, going back and forth between the two resulted in an ending that was sort of meh for everyone
Every Resident Evil movie.
You know whats funny? I was way too old before I realized that the movies had anything to do with the games.
Lost never delivered on its initial promise of cool science fiction mystery. It became increasing clear as the seasons went on that the writers had no fucking clue where they were going with any of this stuff and just gave up and everyone-was-dead-all-along was the only way out even though they promised early on that wasn’t the case. Fuck that show and Abrams in particular.
I think this aimlessness is more common than people realize.
For instance, dare I say it: Half-Life. The games were made with questions never meant to be answered, and even the supposed “concluding episodes” have kind of landed with a thud. Even the release of Portal with Episode 2, tying Aperture Science into the world, didn’t end up making much sense or having direct effect on anything.
I felt utterly betrayed that they never explained the smoke monster!!!
my two favorite media franchises are Star Trek and Sonic. how long have you got?
Oh god… Star Trek just got… I dont even know how to describe what had been done to it.
Basically star Trek died after ST: Enterprise
Anything after that was vapid shitty pew pew cgi flare fest sci-fi, and the Picard series ruined TNG for me for years. I used to watch ST at least a few times per week, DS9, TNG, mostly. After ST :Picard i stopped. I couldn’t anymore, it was ruined for so fucking long
But there was a small ray of light, though
Watch “The Orville”, it’s made by Seth McFarlane after he rejected what the execs wanted for star Trek. It’s basically TNG updated for the 2020s and the first two seasons are amazing and have a BOBW episode, even, and hell, even a “family” type episode after. Seriously, it looks and feels like modern TNG, has great episodes like TNG used to have. The third season kinda went the pew pew direction as well, very few very long episodes where the good writing got replaced with loads of CGI, but it’s still doable.
There isn’t a fourth season, yet, anyway, but Seth recently said he is finishing writing the fourth season, let’s see what happens
Those first two seasons though, are star Trek magic, the Orville magic
Basically star Trek died after ST: Enterprise
Many trekkies said that Trek couldn’t be a Saturday morning cartoon and that after TAS would never survive, there are people who said that after TNG came out star trek was dead because the captain was bald, and some people who said DS9 killed it as a space station was not exploring, then some people complained that VOY killed it because the ship had infinite torpedos and a lot of people said ENT was the franchise’s death knell because touch screens, and OMG what did JJ Abrams do? After DSC came out some people said Star Trek was over because people dont cry in space, After PIC came out some people said it ruined everything that came before because space captains can’t change, some people said that LDS was turning ST into Rick and Morty fan wank, a horde of people said that PRO was trying to be be Clone Wars and that it gave the franchise a terminal diagnosis, it was the consensus of many fans that SNW was shitting on the memory of Kirk and crew, a loud group of trek consumers suggested that there couldnt be female Jem’Hadar and therefore SFA caused the franchise to flatline…
Yet there is more trek in development, that will be loved by some and derided by many
*edit: Section 31 definitely murdered the franchise because Rachel Garrett something something, irish vulcan space robots?
First, The Orville is excellent and for anyone who watches Trek I always recommend The Orville. It’s a little crude when it starts, but it’s levels out and is really great.
Second, since you didn’t mention it, Strange New Worlds is the modern Star Trek in universe show you’re looking for.
SNW can be ok, but it leans pretty heavy on the action, and the moral quandary episodes are hit or miss to a high degree. I can’t think of a single high concept scifi premise episode of SNW that made me say “Wow.” and stuck with me. The war PTSD episode with the transporter buffer triage was very good, but more emotional and less scifi high concept. And I’ve already seen MASH.
Season 2, episode 2, Ad Astra per Aspera is my go to answer for best episodes that I think about. It’s clearly inspired by TNGs The Measure of a Man while that episode will always be the best, the SNW episode still scratches that itch.
I’ve watched them all, and none of them really felt elevated for me. Ad Astra per Aspera was fine, but I didn’t come away with any new interesting thoughts about anything from it.
I’m honestly so confused by (presumably) adults who consider Sonic as their favorite media franchise… Just… What?
Have you, like, tried reading books or watching movies since you’ve become an adult, or…?
I don’t want to sound judgmental, but I kind of feel bad for people like this. If you enjoy it, you enjoy it, I guess… But you’re missing out on like actual good shit lol
Heaven forbid an adult should enjoy video games. It’s also possible to have a favorite franchise and read books, including outside of that franchise.
Prole, why do you always have so many hot takes?
People who grew up with the games have a certain fondness for the series that even better written franchises cannot replicate.
What’s wrong with people deciding the franchise that made them happy in their childhood should continue making them happy in their adulthood? None of this suggests they haven’t tried or enjoyed better written stories.
None of this suggests they haven’t tried or enjoyed better written stories.
It kind of does though. They said it’s their “favorite media franchise,” not just that they were a fan.
It’s for literal babies
And I have a problem with it, because it’s not a rare thing and it demonstrates a lack of curiosity that I find to be dangerous for a modern society.
If the video game for babies that you played when you were 10 is still your favorite media franchise, then you need to expose yourself to more media.
You are very judgemental and keeps repeating the same argument I’ve already addressed as to why someone can have their favourite franchise be something that is not the best thing they’ve ever read. I think you need to expand your perspective a lot more about the world. Being so narrow-minded is even more dangerous for modern society.
Oh no I’m judgmental whatever will I do.
Maybe it’s the person who’s a grown adult and still considers Sonic the Hedgehog to be their favorite media franchise is he one who needs to expand their perspective.
I want you to be honest, do you actually know what the plots of these games are like?
You could, you know, be less judgemental, especially for something simple like a favourite media franchise.
You’re still refusing to acknowledge my point about why someone would consider it their favourite, and it has nothing to do with not expanding their perspective. It’s you that refuses to expand your perspective beyond your own capacity to understand stuff.
Do I need to care what the plot is like? My favourite media franchise has a pretty terrible plot, as well. It’s not the reason I love it. You seem unable to grasp such a simple concept.
you can enjoy all types of media at the same time. Someone who enjoys Sonic or a franchise of similar caliber doesn’t ONLY enjoy Sonic and nothing else.
They said it was their favorite media franchise, not that they enjoyed it.
Have you ever seen the “plot” of a Sonic game? If you’re an adult, and that’s your favorite media franchise, then you should be embarrassed
Destruction’s Least Successful Human Cannonball
Season 3 of Forever Knight. An embarrassing, cartoonish end to a good show with a great premise.
invincible season 2-4, the animations are pretty subpart compared to the first one. part of the blame is hiring expensive celebrities to do VA, and letting ROP suck the budget out of the other shows.
Just recently, Daft Punk’s album Homework.
I like the song Around the World and decided to listen to the rest of the album. It was awful! It was electronic dance music, but was so boring and repetitive it almost felt bored with itself.
I then listened to their album Discovery. WOW! What a difference. So much energy and movement. It’s a complete and total 180 to Homework.
Homework is ok, but Discovery is their masterpiece.
The Alive 2007 live album is also very good.
