Starfield.
All Bethesda had to do was make it at least as good as Skyrim. Not Oblivion or Morrowind, but Skyrim.
But they couldn’t even manage that.
Few things have broken my heart quite like Bethesda’s downfall.
Mulan. The live action remake was so bad, but I had high hopes because I like the original.
And it had questionable casting
VR seemed like it would be exciting, but in a small room and being older it is difficult to not hit something or to not get some sort of vertigo and feel sick. It just isn’t for me despite really wanting it to be!
As a kid in the 1990s I was really hyped up about the concept of VR, but lacked the ridiculously expensive gear to try any of the interesting stuff that was out there.
Nowadays I’m idly interested in the concept of VR, but lack the ridiculously expensive gear to try any of the interesting stuff that’s out there.
What is the interesting stuff you’re interested in? The only things that appeal to me would be Star Wars flight sims, being a superhero of some kind, or that survival game in the Alien universe.
In general this was my experience as well. There is one important exception for me which was Google Earth. Being able to sit in a chair and drag a huge model of the earth beneath me and view distant places like I was a bird is just magnificent. Doesn’t make me motion sickness the way most games do.
Oh, that’s interesting! My son has the MetaQuest3 and I wonder if that’s available for that to try out some time. Might be cool!
The sequel to “The Man from Earth” which was called “The Man from Earth: Holocene” (if memory serves). The first one was so good, probably my favorite movie ever. It was hard to imagine they would top it, and they really didn’t.
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, I don’t think I’ve ever matched this level of disappointment while sitting in a Movie theater since.
Oh, I guess it’s cliche but Star Wars Ep 1 for me
I was 12 when that came out, and while I recognized it wasnt good, the pod racing was cool enough I wasn’t too upset to have seen it. I did not watch the next two in theaters, we just rented them.
No Man’s Sky
3D TVs. Not that 3D and very little content. Not worth the money.
Probably same reason why the Nintendo 3DS died.
Very gimmicky.IMO: VR is better anyway.
VR is too expensive for mass adoption
So was 3D.
Remember the prices for 3D TVs?
I bought one. It was expensive but nowhere close to VR.
I really wish they’d been more successful
Yeah, the tech is there but content is not.
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.
If you want a hate binge on this topic I’d suggest watching Lindsay Ellis’ two-part piece in the hobbit trilogy.
💯 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.
Good answer.
Streaming for movies and TV series. The idea was great on paper but there is hardly anything worth watching and the execution is so awful. I did multiple trials for different services and they all sucked. Music streaming however is great, it’s not even 2 Eur for one month and the execution is amazing.
Hostel! It was mega hyped for a year and Tarantino wouldn’t fucking shut up about it, but then it was shit and ushered in that period where no horror movies were made except torture porn :(
I always thought that was Saw’s doing
You’re actually right saw released 1 year earlier I must have missed it at the time
That’s so weird… I swear I heard about hostel way before saw. Like early teens compared to late teens difference. I wonder if the cultural wave was just weird where I lived.
I had the same memory, maybe it’s just because the first Saw didn’t get such a huge hype cycle so we didn’t notice it as much ?
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
You asshole! By asshole I mean kind, loving gentleman!
Kind of a free for all if there is no dictionary
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.
It’s not a well-phrased question even beyond your mention of form vs piece. My brain kept freezing up the second half because one word didn’t make sense following another. I had to turn my mind off and unfocus to read the title as a whole to understand what they were asking.
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.
That’s because HD-DVD was the real new standard, but Sony killed it.
I largely agree on the modern games thing. The problem isn’t even technology for me. It’s scale. Modern AAA gaming is made by such large teams, often multiple studios each with hundreds or thousands of people. With that many people, you just end up with generic crap, and the studios are investing so much money on any one game that generic crap is all they’re willing to risk making.
Take that budget and spend it on 100 small games made by teams of ~100 people or so and we’d get some really interesting stuff. Sure, a lot would fail, but they can afford that. Let artists make art, not business-people.
Probably BluRays. DVDs were much better than VHS, but
… sony lobbed a crazy amount of payola to beat Phillips, even though blu-ray had worse error-correction and became unusable faster.
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.
That movie hurt my feelings. They couldn’t even be demons?!
The ending part with the FPS was kinda ok they should have just made the whole movie FPS like hardcore Henry.
Almost falls into the “so bad it’s good” category for me.
Almost.
I bought a kindle to do the ebook thing a while back to save space. It’s so buggy and slow it gave me the ick for ebooks. Like the way it looks, like the idea of it, but the way it works is another ballgame.
I just use a crappy Android tablet I got for $20 on Amazon. Any yes, for that price it’s utter garbage, but all I need is an epub reader and an SD card.
I was on vacation, under a shade tree on a beautiful beach, sipping a piña colada, and turned my Kindle on to continue reading this really interesting book I had started on the drive.
Brick.
I was so mad I just put it away. I wasn’t going to waste any vacation time trying to figure it out. Glad I decided that too, it was well and truly a paperweight.
Never again
I’m using a very very old nook and enjoy it. I kinda want whatever I use to be just for reading, and nothing else. This way it all points to one thing. I also have like a first or second Gen kindle but it, while technically better, is slow as heck and filled with bloat.
I am tempted by modern colored e-ink, but I hear it isn’t super color accurate yet.
Diablo III
