Starfield.
All Bethesda had to do was make it at least as good as Skyrim. Not Oblivion or Morrowind, but Skyrim.
But they couldn’t even manage that.
Few things have broken my heart quite like Bethesda’s downfall.
I was holding out hope until recently that things would be improved with updates kind of like No Man’s Sky or through DLC like what Phantom Liberty did for Cyberpunk 2077.
I haven’t read a lot of reviews because I like going into games blind but from what I’ve heard a lot of the issues really seem baked into the core of the game.
They added a car and a shitty side quest. That’s about it.
Justified: City Primeval
I LOVED Justified… The new series was pure shite… Timothy seemed like a fucking side character and went from being a cool badass with a heart, to a joke.
And don’t get me started about his forced love interest… Holy shit that was awful.
VR seemed like it would be exciting, but in a small room and being older it is difficult to not hit something or to not get some sort of vertigo and feel sick. It just isn’t for me despite really wanting it to be!
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.
What is the interesting stuff you’re interested in? The only things that appeal to me would be Star Wars flight sims, being a superhero of some kind, or that survival game in the Alien universe.
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.
Oh, that’s interesting! My son has the MetaQuest3 and I wonder if that’s available for that to try out some time. Might be cool!
3D TVs. Not that 3D and very little content. Not worth the money.
I really wish they’d been more successful
Yeah, the tech is there but content is not.
I was really excited that everyone was finally getting on the Internet.
fucking Starfield
Hostel! It was mega hyped for a year and Tarantino wouldn’t fucking shut up about it, but then it was shit and ushered in that period where no horror movies were made except torture porn :(
I always thought that was Saw’s doing
You’re actually right saw released 1 year earlier I must have missed it at the time
That’s so weird… I swear I heard about hostel way before saw. Like early teens compared to late teens difference. I wonder if the cultural wave was just weird where I lived.
I had the same memory, maybe it’s just because the first Saw didn’t get such a huge hype cycle so we didn’t notice it as much ?
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, I don’t think I’ve ever matched this level of disappointment while sitting in a Movie theater since.
Oh, I guess it’s cliche but Star Wars Ep 1 for me
I was 12 when that came out, and while I recognized it wasnt good, the pod racing was cool enough I wasn’t too upset to have seen it. I did not watch the next two in theaters, we just rented them.
I’m old enough to have been a big fan of the originals and drove with friends to see it opening night
It was a really fucking bizarre experience. The crowd in the theater was packed, and ecstatic for new Star Wars. There was cheering and whooping when tbe title came up, etc. It was all fans.
But during the walk out of the theater…NO ONE TALKED. Like, literally no one. Everyone just silently shuffled out.
This.
Outer Worlds. Not really a spoiler but it felt linear as hell up until the very end
No Man’s Sky
The sequel to “The Man from Earth” which was called “The Man from Earth: Holocene” (if memory serves). The first one was so good, probably my favorite movie ever. It was hard to imagine they would top it, and they really didn’t.
Phantom Menace
Rogue One
Last JediR2-D2 was a bisexual opportunist.
The last Jedi was so bad I wanted to leave the theater after the fight with Rey and the red troopers but I had my 10 year old niece with me and she was into it so I didn’t lol.
I walked out of Rogue One when it hit “Yer a
wizardrebel now!”
Waaaah…
Menace and Jedi sure, absolutely trash. But Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie.
Unless you’re looking for characters and a plot that makes sense…
You do you, we’re all entitled to our opinions but super duper hard disagree there.
On characters alone it shows up the originals, Jyn and Andor have much more nuanced reasons to be in the rebellion than than either Han or Leia which leads to stronger story arcs.
I’ll give you an example of something that straight pissed me off as well as an explanation for how it happened.
Cassian is introduced by straight up murdering an innocent informant. Clearly they were going for a “Han shot first” moment, but picking an innocent target is something the Empire would do, not a Rebel. So bad characterization from the jump.
Roll forward, Cassian is assigned to assassinate a legitimate military target, the designer of the Death Star, but when he’s in position and sighted in, suddenly he’s all sweaty, conflicted, and OH - JUST - CAN - NOT - PULL - THE TRIGGER!
To be clear, there’s no character development between the two scenes. In one, he’s a cold blooded murderer. In the other, a conflicted assassin unable to do his job.
So why the difference?
Well… Gareth Edwards, the original writer director, was fired from the job and replaced with Tony Gilroy who claimed his super power was he never liked Star Wars.
Edwards burned time and money every day shooting footage off script that looked great, but had no purpose:
https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/6/14195898/rogue-one-star-wars-trailer-jyn-erson/
So Gilroy came in and found the film as it existed was an incomprehensible mess and had to write new material to try and salvage… something… out of it.
https://collider.com/tony-gilroy-saved-star-wars-rogue-one/
“I don’t like Star Wars—not that I don’t like it, but I’ve never been interested in Star Wars ever, so I had no reverence for it whatsoever, I was unafraid about that and they were in such a swamp… they were in so much, terrible, terrible trouble that all you could do was improve their position.”
So you get material like Cassian murdering an innocent person, or Vader force grabbing everyone and everything in the hallway EXCEPT the one thing he’s there to get (because the Death Star Plans have plot armor), or Vader watching the plans fly away with his own eyes, counter to the iconic opening of Star Wars.
Rogue One is a disaster of a film, not even as a Star Wars film, it’s a disaster of a film in general.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
I was hyped up for that game. Twilight Princess was from way at the beginning of the Wii era, and then way at the end was finally another game, they had released some cool artwork for it, who was this mysterious maiden figure…
GOD what a trash game.
It’s kind of good to hear this. I LOVED Twilight Princess but missed out on Skyward Sword because life got really hectic. Glad I didn’t really miss out from what it sounds like.
The Hobbit (trilogy)
I love the LotR trilogy, just so well done. I knew De Toro started the Hobbit and I was hyped! Then he departed and it was a bit concerning, but Jackson was coming to the rescue so it couldn’t be that bad, right?
It did not need to be a trilogy. Adding more characters who are women was a good idea, but doing it for a romance subplot was stupid. Legolas didn’t need to be included at all, there were enough characters already and another dude didn’t help out.
Then there was the inconsistent tone, the stupid barrel ride crap and goblin caves super mario scene and the whole thing missed the point of the book which was about a bunch of bumbling dwarves, most of which were past their prime, hiring a hobbit to be a spy to raid a dragon horde. Instead we got superhero dwarves doing outrageous stunts and a ton of side characters padding out a trilogy.
Ugh.
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
If you want a hate binge on this topic I’d suggest watching Lindsay Ellis’ two-part piece in the hobbit trilogy.
💯 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.
It’s weird, because OP says “form” of entertainment, but everybody is reporting “piece” of entertainment.
I’m drawing a blank of form of entertainment. On piece of entertainment… I mean, I don’t know. I don’t get excited for things pre-release. Hopeful, at most.
I’ll say that the first Spider-Man movie is SO much worse than you remember.
I feel like dictionaries are over rated as a form, since they lead to nit-picky comments like this :P
You asshole! By asshole I mean kind, loving gentleman!
Kind of a free for all if there is no dictionary
I don’t know, I don’t like throwing dictionary definitions around in arguments as if they carried any authority, but in this case those two phrases mean very different things. I genuinely misunderstood what the OP meant. I think if people don’t understand what you mean it’s not really nitpicking.
It’s not a well-phrased question even beyond your mention of form vs piece. My brain kept freezing up the second half because one word didn’t make sense following another. I had to turn my mind off and unfocus to read the title as a whole to understand what they were asking.
