I used to work for a large publishing company back in the early 2000s, and the head of production one year held a big meeting just questioning being a presence at E3, because it was a gigantic time and money sink with little return when we could have gained the same results with simple media marketing promotion. But…

MGS was so many things at the time. It was definitely the game that pushed the medium forward, with quality voice acting, overall audio effects, storylines, and creative gameplay ideas that all surpassed the technical limitations of the PS1. The heavily pixelated modeling didn’t stop the game from being a significant…

I forgot about that one, good call. Yeah, I don’t think I even made it past the first few scenes. That’s the one that started with Prof X and Magneto de-aged, right? It began to feel like those last couple of Star Trek TNG movies, where they started to cater more to the fans than the general audience. It’s a fine line…

I think the best way to watch the Star Wars prequels is to watch their trailers as a collection of sound bites. I have to admit, there were a bunch of scenes across all three movies that were pretty cool as far as meeting the Star Wars standard, but the other 90% of each film... oh lordy.

Yeah, I’m kind of the same way. I think the last movie that Spielberg’s name held any clout with me was Saving Private Ryan. Still, the jury was out on him as far as I was concerned even with that film. Nowadays, his name holds zero weight for me. It’s more of a “Oh, Spielberg is involved. Probably some outdated…

Alien 3 is a good one. All that work James Cameron put into the characters in Aliens, getting the audience invested and giving a shit about the surviving characters, only to see them brushed off right away in the next one. I remember sitting in the theater, turning to my friend and saying “WTF? This is bullshit. They…

My first-time big pop culture disappointments? As far as film and games go...

Damn, I totally forgot about this game. Now we need to have Nintendo make a new one. lol

Florida? Florida.

LOTRO was pretty ambitious. As far as supporting the lore and trying to expand on things, I don’t think there are many other games that can claim that. The landscapes were all there, combat systems were decent (obviously they had to be mmo-grindy), but as a game I think they got farther than any game before or since.

I just unknowingly repeated what you said, because my lazy ass didn’t bother to scroll ahead before I posted to see this. lol But yeah, this all day.

That’s all well and good, but unfortunately we all know that developers will just scale all of their assets upward to where we’ll all still be waiting on load times. They’ll come up with some shit like, “Let’s data stream underwater levels in an MMO in 8K that can render 5,000 players at one time on-screen!”.

Well stupid, the solution is to not just throw free dessert at someone when you screw up, and assuming that will fix things. Don’t even bother with that bs, it’s just insulting and prolonging the obvious damage control. Want a solution? Best they can probably do is a refund, since the waiting times were already burned…

I don’t need to be a fucking waiter to know that if that was my JOB’S PRIMARY PURPOSE, I would be constantly asking myself, “Hmm, did my tables get their orders?”

I mean, yeah Stan was good at PR, so I can see how it might look like his co-creators might be getting the short end of the stick, but it’s not like they are always trying to sweep them under the rug and pretending it was all Stan. They’ve done stuff like this: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/jack-kirby-b…

Sharknado 90210. That would be awesome.

This is right up there with Nic Cage’s Superman. Well ok, maybe in 2nd place behind Cage.

The sincere action would’ve been to not assume the op’s preferences by just dumping some easy throwaway desserts at him/her. That kind of assumption would just piss me off even more. The solution? How about not fucking up the order in the first place, do your job by checking in on your tables every 5-10 minutes to…