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I ADORED the first Inside Out, so naturally I was super excited when I heard the news that a sequel was in the works.
Then the marketing started to roll out, until the release, then the critics.
Quickly realized in was a really bad sequel, that suffered because of Disney's anti-LGBT problems, and generally lacks a soul.
Never bothered to watch it. Don't want to ruin the first movie.
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.
💯 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.
Probably BluRays. DVDs were much better than VHS, but storage got a lot cheaper to get me the quality I wanted from films from downloads.
I appreciate that BluRays have a need, so I wouldn't call them trash. I just don't need them.
Also not really a new form of media, but modern video games. There isn't enough of a technological jump anymore. The last thing that got me excited (or at least curious) was VR. But that's not really approachable for me, so I can't enjoy it.
I don't usually watch series. But I had so much hope after a friend made me watch Westworld. Then when Westworld 2 came out your title describes how I feel about it.
Most recently, it was probably Rebel Moon. I didn't have high expectations and thought it was going to be schlocky, but it was not the fun kind of shlock in the end.
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
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.
As a Guild Wars 1 player, I was very excited and really followed the hype for GW2. Only to be disappointed to how different it was from the one. Can't blame them for innovating, but it was not the continuation of what me and my friends wanted. The shift to being more of an actual MMO made me feel completely insignificant in PvE, using just the basic automatic attack or doing my best to combine my skills didn't make a difference, the mob would kill the monster anyways. In GW1, all of PvE is instantiated just for your small group, so in general, everyone's action is important. The PvP felt very generic and didn't have the uniqueness of the 8v8 of the 1 anymore. I really appreciated the constant gameplay innovation from Mike O'Brien and the art direction, but it was just too different of a game.
You can definitely still get that thrill of highly impactful combat, just not at any of the major meta events. The world at this point is so big that if you're anywhere that's not on the event timer you'll probably be roaming by yourself. If you find a small event chain and it's just you pushing it, it can be exciting and suspenseful. Knowing that if you get downed, all of your progress will reset, it's a great moment when someone else runs up and starts reviving you and helps you succeed.
There are also instanced scenarios like dungeons, fractals and raids where you and a team have to be strategic with your classes and builds and how they synergize, and then there's the added dimension of much more demanding movement and maneuvering than in the first game. I loved both games, they're different but both great in their own ways IMO. If you only ever played in some of the starting maps I highly recommend giving it another go.
Mass Effect Andromeda. I loved the original trilogy, even the third one, and I was hopeful that they'd live up to what they were promising. Instead, we got a garbage game that completely tossed the idea of exploring a new galaxy. I tried to play it 3 different times, just to give it a chance, and I couldn't go through with it.
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.
The Doom movie.
It wasn't even originally written to be Doom; just a bullshit, mediocre sci-fi nobody would have cared about until they forced the Doom franchise upon what would have worked better with Resident Evil because it was less Doom and more Resident Evil in spaaaaace. It also made me dislike The Rock because he lied his fuckin' ass off about the movie.
Mario Bros would be here, but it looked like crap even from the trailers as a kid.
The ending part with the FPS was kinda ok they should have just made the whole movie FPS like hardcore Henry.
No Man's Sky. So much of what was promised was missing, the world just felt empty. It's a much better game now.
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.
Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace.
Yeah I was a senior in high school and everyone was skipping class on opening day to see it. What a goddamn disappointment!
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.
the Dragonball movie. fucking RUINED my birthday it was so bad.
Agreed it wasn’t even in the so bad it’s good category. It was just bad.
ET for the Atari 2600. Yes, I’m old.
Pac-Man might not have looked like the arcade version, but it was close enough, and we played the hell out of it. ET was a confusing snooze.
Wasn’t that the game that killed video games for six years? Or at least was pinned as such by reporters lol
Yes. They buried the unsold cartridges in the desert.
The Atari crash was a lot more multifaceted than that, but E.T. is often credited as one of the biggest factors. Though it was arguably more of a symptom of a lack of quality control as the market was being flooded with rushed titles.
I don't care what anyone says, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a snoozefest. So disappointing. I was so hyped for so long.
Full Disclosure: I haven't played Phantom Liberty because I can't justify buying it when the base game is still so mediocre.
I enjoyed it, but I thought that I was going to get more Bethesda RPG and less Grand Theft Auto going in from all the comparisons I'd heard.
I also felt that while the production values were very high, they got limited gameplay out of the asset creation that they did. Like, for any given piece of city, Grand Theft Auto had a lot more time playing over it than did Cyberpunk 2077. There were huge chunks of meticulously-created map that I maybe saw once in the distance while driving past, if that.
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.
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.
Spore (video game) The original demo was amazing, what actually hit retail just was trash in comparison
The original Super Mario Bros Movie.
That movie is magical! ... just ... not exactly on purpose, nor too related to actual Mario.
Game of Thrones
WHY HAVE THEY NOT MADE ONE GOOD GAME OF THRONES GAME???
Probably because the base material sucks (any "everyone is an arsehole" story sucks)
Plus, all the projects are cash grabs by capitalists with zero sense of taste or style.
Percy Jackson series. Followed the production religiously and when it came out didn't even watch the last episode. It was just so unexciting
The two that come to mind are Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Farcry 6.
They might have been ok games if the previous ones hadn't been so damned good.
At least with Breakpoint they tried to make it right with a new mode, but still don't enjoy it as much as Wildlands.
Leveled enemies and weapons are just not something I'm going to play.
