Tell that to the musicians cashing their $0.000001 checks from Spotify.

The internet was a mistake.

I still remember freezing the clock on my PSone version at 99:99:99, the result of wandering around the world and seeing if there were any things I missed. But that was me expecting what was already a massive game for its generation to be larger than a game of that era could realistically be. It sounds to me like…

These are videogames. The point of this medium is not to efficiently get thru a plot, it’s to interact and play with things.

This is a pretty silly take. No one complains that a novelization has more content than a film. The difference here is its really only as long as you choose to make it.

This. FF7 was the first game I put over 100 hours in getting everything before finishing. I remember golden Choco breeding taking a massive amount of time  and probably have a couple hours alone in watching Bahamut Zero’s animation

“never meant to be this long”?
I spent about countless hours in the original FF, doing all kinds of quests, grinding to lvl 99 before the final confrontation, trying to get every Materia possible, golden Chocobo breeding... the list was endless.
How can a remake be “too long”?
I mean - it is FF7, most people who buy…

Dune is a story that takes place 10,000 years in the future. Commenting on the presumed improper ancestry of the actors playing the main characters is more than a little silly.

No one is asking for literal casting in a fantasy movie.

Yeah it’s literally about a colonized planet.

This whole review, sentence fragments and all, reads like hastily scrawled first impressions. 

Yeah...I’m pretty sure they made it immensely clear this was only half the story; the review goes on:

“when the story is clearly borrowing from myths and folklore from a particular part of the world, perhaps the casting could have been more diverse.”

“Most audience members were surprised by the ending, which set up a continuation of the story.”

It doesn’t do that at all, unless you’re an obsessive fan looking to pick a fight.

Pretty much. The images look fine to me and I think this is perfectly capable of being a fun movie, much like Jumanji.

What the hell are you talking about? I have no dog in this fight, barely played the first game, don’t care about the movie one way or the other. But there is nothing, absolutely nothing in these TWO still pictures that would indicate the movie is bad or good. JFC.

Yeah, I get the sense the author’s view has more to do with his preexisting beliefs about the movie, more than anything he actually gathered from the photos.  The movie was extensively reshot, has been in development forever, and is based on a game series that is past its prime, so there are lots of reasons to expect…

I dunno Zack, kinda feels like you’ve lost track of what joy is in general. Like, this is the kind of overreaction Kotaku used to mock back in its heyday.

I also consider myself to be a Borderlands fan. These photos look about like what I was expecting. It’s not clear from the article why they disappointed you. The vibe of the solo shot is “Lilith has an attitude,” which we all knew. And the vibe of the group shot is, “There’s something in that hole.” They’re not the…