I mean, but so what? There will never be a world where only good movies get made. “Hell on earth” seems like a major overreaction. I get that it’s supposed to be maybe humorously melodramatic (maybe?), but the humor isn’t really coming through.

I know, right? I got the Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt NES for Christmas as a kid, I spent a year of college playing Mario Kart 64, and I’m excited to see this movie with my kids tomorrow because they can enjoy something I grew up with and then moved past. I’m expecting a colorful kids movie with a few nods to older…

The nerd press is going to stay mad that Nintendo decided that to not make a Mario movie for middle-aged nerds.

“If a good movie is successful, people will make bad movies." Is this a joke I'm missing? 

I’ve already bought the movie rights to the 1998 hit Playstation game Punky Skunk. Best $1.50 I’ve ever spent.

ok, there’s precedent for this. The first game was basically given to everyone during the early stages of COVID. Also, the second game was packaged into bundles that were (probably) the easiest way to get a PS5. I wonder if either got any more engagement when those happened. I’m not sure how much more a PS Plus…

I’m just one of the absolute trash humans that just didn’t think the first game was all that special. Cool concept, interesting robot dinosaurs, beautiful visuals, been-there-done-that gameplay mechanics, bland-as-hell story, unnervingly stiff facial animations, lifeless voice acting. And all the usual open world…

It feels like this series was really good at setting up its central hook- wtf happened to the world?!- but then not as great at solving it or expanding on it. 

It is...and yet I restarted Skyrim last week and it still feels like something special. The setting, the voices around me, the music...god the score is so fucking good...that it just feels good to play. Most every other open world game I’ve dabbled in in the last several years jus felt flat and unappealing in compare.

I feel like the issue is that this felt a lot like another expansion versus an entirely new game and also pandemic delays and this being a PS4 game kinda affected this game.

Also, Open World Fatigue.

I feel like a lot of the issues on these articles are huge reaches because they generate clicks.

see also the walkman. it should have beeen a panasonic shockwave!

Plus they’re supposed to be in an abandon mall.  You kind of need to show real stores to make it look like a real place.

That’s my take as well. Plus The Turning was supposed to be a rip-off of Mortal Kombat because Druckman said they didn’t want to have to build a version of it in the DLC and pay the licensing so they just made a fake game that’s basically the same thing. Plus, what works in the DLC of imagining the game because the…

Kids...more detrimental to Arcade Cabs than the apocalypse. 

Yes, I really couldn’t give a flying f about what happened in the game. I am watching the TV show.

(which for TLOU gamers is pure foreshadowing)

Feels like a pretty cynical way to look at things and a pretty big reach. I mean it’s obvious to anyone that “The Turning” is not just a random fighting game and very specifically meant to be alternate Mortal Kombat of some variety. So of course they would use it for real if they had the chance.

Mortal Kombat’s huge impact is far more likely to ignite some sort of emotional response from TV viewers than a fake game that is mentioned a couple times on a videogame they probably didn’t play.

Mortal Kombat scene doesn’t feel like an Ad at all. For actual people who grew up going to arcades in the 90s and 00s its one of the most iconic games.