I believe you’ll find this to be a pretty common sentiment among the fandom. Zero Dawn set such a high bar with the central mystery and the way it unfolded (one of my personal favorite gaming experiences) that, lacking that intrigue, it’s hard for a sequel to live up to.

Why didn’t I get a Community notification for this??

Iirc (tried to read the book a couple times but never finished) Dune is even about deconstructing the White Savior Chosen One archetype - given that the Bene Gesserit have been manipulating things for generations in order to create the Muad’dib. Which kind of begs the question of what a Chosen One really even is.

Old Man’s War seems like a no-brainer to me.

It’s almost like X-Men fans have been waiting a really long time for attention and a high-quality production in a media entry that’s made with a lot of passion for the franchise and respect for its characters...or something.

I mean, he basically wanted human beings to...stop being human beings.

You nailed it.

Your opinions are wrong and you should feel bad.

Wasn’t Roddenberry the creative force behind Star Trek 1? And then they kick him to the curb, give the reins to people like Nicholas Meyer, Harve Bennett, and Leonard Nimoy and suddenly the movies are awesome. (Give or take a William Shatner fever dream.)

The difference between George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry is that Roddenberry died relatively early in the lifetime of the franchise, and since he is no longer around to remind us all how terrible he is, then it’s easy to fill in the gaps and pretend like he was a saint who made no bad decisions whatsoever.

DS9 violated a bunch of Gene Roddenberry rules (no religion, no wars, no inter-personal conflict) and is the best Star Trek there is.

I adore Galaxy 1 and was pretty let down by 2. As I recall, it was because they abandoned the gravity physics that was the heart of 1's gameplay, and I had nowhere near the same amount of fun.

He pretty much gave birth to the modern movie soundtrack.

Hook, Schindler’s List, and Jurassic Park (91, 93, and 93) are peak John Williams for me.

I’m genuinely curious to see how the Switch 2 plays out. The Wii was a big financial success for Nintendo (in large part by chasing more casual gamers) but then the Wii U came out and everyone who wasn’t a gamer asked why they would want to buy another Wii and just moved on.

Dance Dance Resolution is just a perfect half hour of television.

I played Remake without ever having played 7 and did just fine. I know there were a probably a ton of easter eggs and references I didn’t get, but it didn’t negatively impact my experience.

I get such a kick out of that subreddit. Ted Faro is such a fantastic villain because he is so very, scarily human. And he is exactly the kind of person you can imagine coming out of today’s corporate-greed-billionaires climate and inadvertently triggering the end of the world through incompetence and ego.

Learning Elisabet Sobek’s true fate is one of my most memorable gaming moments of recent memory (followed up by learning what Ted Faro did to Apollo and the other Alphas...).

I actually kind of see it a different way. The Horizon games are, imo, unfairly compared to the likes of then new Zeldas, Skyrim, and Elden Ring because of its open-world design, yet I would argue that they have very different intentions. The other open-world games are about ‘go off and do your own thing and there may…