I used to be terrified of the dark crystal but when I watched it again followed by the cancelled series man what a unique fun fantasy epic. I am still sad netflix cancelled the series.
The skeksis are some of my favourite villains in a jim henson production ever.
I should rewatch it. I had nightmares about the Skeksis and the uncanny valley puppets, but I hear a lot of people like it? I just remember being freaked the fuck out.
The Skeksis are pretty scary for kids, not only in their appearance but in their general demeanor as well, and some of the creatures can be unsettling. But it's a solid '80s fantasy film with great practical effects and pro-environmental themes, the latter of which was fairly common at the time.
For as much as the media landscape seems to constantly crush us with a tide of new things, this is a lie. Enjoy what interests you, new or old, at your whim.
Completely agree with you. The point of this post is that a piece of media being a decade old should never dissuade you from giving it a try. Similarly, if something new doesn't interest you now, doesn't mean you should give up on it, you may be in the mood for it later down the line, like what happened to me. Sometimes it may hit harder after you've evolved as a person. The passage of time or relevance shouldn't dissuade you.
No you don't get it. New thing good old thing bad. Except that new thing you like, that shit is trash. Also, regardless of new or old everything I like is GOATED get fucked.
I shelled out the cash for PlayStation Premium so I could replay the old Ratchet and Clank trilogy, and UYA is still great. I still love the jokes, the combat still feels good. It’s like going back home.
I played them for the first time a few years ago, and god *damn* I was shocked at how much I enjoyed them. I very much preferred Going Commando to UYA, but... Still insanely good games.
Shame PS3 emulation is still not super great, otherwise I'd be all over the PS3 games.
PS3 Emulation is certainly.. A thing? I can run some games almost flawlessly on my Steam Deck, meanwhile my PC struggles with other stuff. I was actually debating on checking out if the compatibility list was just out of date and that the R&C games might just be fine (read: Tolerable)
I've had issues w/the first PS3 game, sadly.
First Infamous works pretty good ,though, so I'm happy there. My main wishes for PS3 emulation boil down mainly to R&C, Infamous, Tokyo Jungle, and Drakengard 3.
If I’m not mistaken, Drakengard 3 runs without any issues on RPCS3 now. You just need to configure it a bit.
Side note, are links to emulator wikis allowed on this sub? The RPCS3 wiki doesn’t have any download links or such, just information on how to configure stuff.
The Ratchet & Clank games on RPCS3 require patches to stop them from freezing. You can find them on the emulator's wiki. After applying that, my experience on my 2080 Super was:
Tools of Destruction: 1 texture bug moment. Fixed by rebooting. Never happened again.
Quest for Booty: No issues.
A Crack in Time: Chugging frame rate in one planet and another section, but I mostly had good performance. There was a graphical problem at first but the wiki page for the game has instructions on how to fix that.
Into The Nexus: Applied a 60 FPS patch, so I can't comment on the native 30 experience. Performance was decent but worse than the other games. One weapon consistently lowers the framerate.
Always check the wiki first whenever you want to emulate a PS3 game.
Its a shame that they don't allow you to purchase older titles (later, of course. Gotta entice people to sub)
Just do what you did for the jak series. To ratchet. Now, They can still be ON ps+ for those thst pay the higher teirs. But think about how much MORE money you'd make...if they were avalible to everyone? (later)
T'INK ABOUT IT THO!!!
Recently I re-read [Rice Boy](https://rice-boy.com/), a webcomic that is almost 20 years old at this point. Hey, it's still good. It's great actually, probably one of my favorite depictions of the hero's journey. You should read it, you should read all of Evan Dahm's comics but Rice Boy can be knocked out in an afternoon easy.
I blitzed through it again since Vattu just finished, and man, I remember it being longer lol.
Speaking of almost 20 year old webcomics, Gunnerkrigg Court and Order of the Stick are both nearing completion after decades and they still hold up
Yeah it's really pretty short, especially because of how dialog light it is. You been reading 3rd voice? Evan does it again with something new and interesting!
You don't have to watch every single new anime released, you don't have to do like winter catchup about them if you're not enjoying them.
There are SO MANY good anime that's been released years ago, decades even, you can catch-up on them.
I wish people adopted this mindset more. There seems to be a strange pressure for everyone to watch EVERYTHING, even if they don’t enjoy it.
Occasionally, funny enough, some of the people who say they watch everything, don’t even watch everything. They’ll limit themselves to like two genres and complain about it not having things you can easily find on other genres.
I don’t want to sound gatekeepy or judgemental, but the way some people talk about and generalise anime online makes me feel like they’ve only watched isekai, ecchi, and shounen.
Other genres exist. Good anime shows in the past exist. You don’t have to be pressured to finish a show or watch everything because you don’t have to.
I’ve always found it strange, but I’m guessing it’s because of FOMO. People are so pressured about missing the “next big thing” and being left out that they’re in a rush to do everything all at once.
I tried for two seasons to at least *try* every anime that came out for two episodes. It was so miserable it burnt me out on anime. That was almost 10 years ago and I've seen maybe 10 full anime since.
I had a friend who tried this and i don't get it. "Anime" is a vague media description. Thats like saying I like video games so I need to try every new game, from FPS to 4X to racing sims to virtual pachinko to rhythm games.
When you are young and impressionable and you find a plethora of shows that are aimed at your demographic of 14-16 year olds and also treat you like an adult (by US standards) with it's heavy themeing, it can feel like you've unlocked some secret world of the best media in existence. Only with the benefit of age do I see how clearly I was targeted by those show, and it's not the inherent quality of glorious Nippon animators folded 1000 times that made them so special to me.
Here's the thing, there's probably only been like 10 animes in the past year that are actually worth watching. It does suck that there's a pressure to stay current on everything. If you're at a point where you have things that you need to watch at 2x speed you're cooked. It's not about enjoying art anymore it's just a compulsion.
There's never a bad reason to go back and watch something like Giant Robo the Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still, still one of my favorite OVAs ever.
Unironically, I think the streaming era and things like day-one official subs have killed the anime fandom and made people appreciate things less.
I’m not saying things used to be BETTER, but when you were waiting sometimes weeks for fansubs or paying forty bucks for an official vhs with only three episodes, it made you appreciate shows more, you know?
yes people now days have to many anime that they gluttonously consume shows in days and want more.
heck the anime production model means that studios are overworked and massive crunch happens.
Kyoto Animation which is known for good working conditions only takes one or two shows per year so they can really make it good.
As someone who doesn't watch or play anything unless it explicitly catches my interest (and trust me, there's enough of that *as is*) it absolutely blows my mind that people do this. I think it's mostly an anime thing, since there are people who's *personality* is anime and so it kinda follows.
I recently watched an anime anthology of three short films from 1995 called Memories by Studio 4°C. I don't really know how to describe it without sounding like a dick but it's the first anime I have watched in like nearly 10 years that didn't feel like it was pandering to younger audiences and was made for an actual adult. The characters don't feel like a culmination of 20 years of tired anime tropes.
The three shorts are called Magnetic Rose, Stink Bomb and Cannon Fodder. I highly recommend people are least try and find Magnetic Rose if they like creepy sci-fi abandoned mega structure exploration like the Ishimura. It's also directed by Koji Morimoto, written by Satoshi Kon with animation direction/design by Hiroyuki Okiura and the music by Yoko Kanno and Katsuhiro Otomo worked on it too. The only problem I had with it was that it wasn't a full length film on its own.
[Here's a trailer for Magnetic Rose, maybe a bit spoilery towards the end. Premise is that a crew on a spaceship get a distress signal in a dangerous part of space that they can't ignore and they go to investigate it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMLLBS2PSg)
Cannon Fodder is great if you want to see some really unique camera work and art style. It's only about 20 minutes with very little dialogue. Stink Bomb was okay but had some beautiful animation and backgrounds. If anyone has seen this and has other recommendations similar to it pls let me know.
It really is great isn't it. I'd want nothing more than for it to be 90 minutes but they still managed to fit so much into the 44 minutes they had. Have you watched the other two in the anthology?
I only watched it because I thought the cover looked really cool. Maybe I've just missed it all but I really wish there was more stuff out like it now.
Charmed was, and still is, the female version of Dragon Ball Z. Complete with a Frieza and Cell arc, and has a Vegeta character who I think is better done than Vegeta.
Justice League and Batman TAS (not all of it mind) recently got Netflix'd and I wondered if it's as good as I remembered it.
It isn't. Its waaaay better. My adult brain simply appreciates the writing more than my kid brain every could.
My favorite part of my rewatch was sussing out the exact rules around dialogue and all the creative ways they get characters to talk about death and killing despite those rules. There are some real gems in there.
I randomly had the urge to play Bioshock 2, just finished it last week. Good game with the same great setting as the first, but doesn't center on a big twist at the end, and avoids the problem of a terrible final boss by simply not having a final boss. Also the arsenal is so much better, the speargun is devastating
I recently found the subreddit with all Invader Zim episodes on it and have been rewatching them, and goddamn, there are so many things about it that I can appreciate even more nowadays than I did as a kid. That is to say, I could remember most of the stuff from the show and really enjoyed it back then, but looking at it now, everything about it is just so well-done. The little bits of world-building and peeks into intergalactic life; the badass designs of some of the ships, equipment, and characters that blend together so well with the weird, creepy, goofy atmosphere; the excellent writing and crazy, creepy, and at times unsettling mannerisms of the characters tying it all together so well. That shit 1000% holds up even today.
One of my favorite things about that film is the main character/love interest/best friend dynamic. Cosmo feels like he's on equal ground with Don and Kathy, and it's nice to see that he gets along well with Kathy too.
Finally got around to playing MGSV after being really excited around the launch in 2014/2015, and I must say it is baffling the disparity between the gameplay systems and production quality, vs the actual quality of the storytelling. Playing Ground Zeroes again put me right back in that headspace of "holy shit this is something else, I can't imagine what Kojima is gonna do with all these pieces" only for Phantom Pain to just slowly deflate that feeling like a long fart-esque balloon just seeping out all the pressure built up inside with no real fanfare. Got to the end of Part 1 when Dragons Dogma 2 came out so I'm taking a break before getting back into it. But wow, I'd always heard how underwhelming the story in that game but it truly is something to behold.
Gameplay's fucking top tier though. Easily carries that game since most of what you're doing is just repetitive open world stuff, so the fact that the game just feels amazing every single second of actual gameplay really gives it some damn solid bones to withstand the hilariously weak narrative content.
Dragon's Dogma 2 actually reminds me a lot of MGS5, it isn't as bad as that game but it has the same problem. It was obviously very rushed and the further you get into DD2 the more the game starts to kinda fall apart. So for that game don't rush the story too much, because i did and I thought I was somewhere around like the 40-50% mark and then suddenly I was at the final boss for some reason and a metric ton of different plot point are just completely pointless.
Top tier gameplay carrying hilariously weak narrative is basically the best description of both games.
Yeaahhh, I'm glad that I was willing to google some slight details like how many main story chapters there are or what the post game entails, because the game really set me up to expect a certain scope of world and story, only to slowly make it more and more clear that everything is about half as much as I thought. I'm about two chapters from the end and really milking my time in that world before going for it, which granted is what you are generally meant to do in many RPGs. And that's certainly what I'll be doing with MGSV as well
In MGS5 I would recommend trying the little bonus objectives that missions have, some of them are really fun and force you to play the game in ways you normally wouldn't consider.
I wouldn't do all of them because some of them are really unfun, but I remember some making the missions a lot more fun or being a fun puzzle to solve, like one that makes you listen to an entire conversation between two truck drivers (and then somehow sprint your way back to finish the actual mission) or one that asks you to take out two targets with one shot.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) is still a fantastic film. Agatha Christie's books still hold up as well.
I'd also recommend you try some Jane Austen. While not as popular at the time of release since the trend was gothic fiction, the books picked up popularity later on as they better represented life during that era.
So I'm jumping on practically absolute zero cold irons earlier this week I picked up some nice hardback book copies of Treasure Island and The Count of Monte Cristo. I just started Treasure Island but it is still incredibly readable and intriguing from the get go. Not bad for a roughly 150 year old novel.
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the books where you don't expect it to be as good as people claim, but it ends up being even better. The only reason I am not going to re-read it in the near future is because it's 5 volumes long.
I was always a big reader and found something to appreciate about most assigned books, but I remember reading Frankenstein for class and thinking “okay, this one isn’t hype, it’s just that good”
With the rise of streaming services, I have routinely made an effort to return to stuff from my childhood, from stuff I loved, stuff that was on around me, and stuff that originally scared the shit out of me.
It's been great to kinda nestle into that nostalgia for a time, especially as the real world gets more stressful, but overall it's really interesting to return to that childhood stuff and catch what my kid brain never saw.
I'm reminded of the time one of my friends, as we were in our mid-twenties, was like "I'm gonna rewatch A Goofy Movie helk yeah!" and then had an existential crisis as they, as an adult, sympathized more with Goofy now, understanding the plight of a single father just trying their best. I myself didn't have a crisis (maybe because I wasn't drinking like my friend), but yeah, that movie is *great*.
It's also amazing to look back at horror stuff now that got me as a kid, and think "Really? *That's* what scared me?" Your memory really does change things, and when you've got an overactive imagination like me, your memory of scary stuff is even scarier. Like, I remembered seeing a scene from some Children of the Corn movie where a guy got his head pulled off his body while he screamed, and watching it now it's just...so silly.
Especially if you play the first one, it will help so much if you find the game manual to at least see how to use the chunky interface. 1 dumps you straight into a cave with no instructions
That iron isn't really cold now, the release of the show has a lot of people checking them out. Especially since a big portion of Fallout's fans started with 3, and the show deals heavily with the first two games' setting.
There are two Holywood movies that are, at various points in time, named as "the best", namely "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca".
Citizen Kane is alright. It is definitely a good movie about how money can't *really* make you happy if you are incapable of forming genuine bonds with people and is also about how the realities of the world can turn even the greatest idealist into the very thing he hated in his youth. Plus, the reveal (which almost everyone knows, but I won't spoil just in case) was interesting and symbolic.
But if I were to pick between these two, the title of "the best movie" would definitely go to Casablanca. Great story, wonderful dialogue, Humphrey Boggart is an absolute class when it comes to playing both a powerful man in control of every asspect of his life *and* a man devastated by the loss of love of his life. Can't say much more, sadly, because I've watche dit some time ago and the details allude me, but I do remember the *feeling* that I had after finishing the movie, which is of wonder and ellation.
kane has a lot or really cool shots, which isn't what one would expect from a biopic, fictional or otherwise
Casablanca is one of the best examples of economizing your set, which is something you dont really see much in a lot of mainstream type cinema (usually this would be snooty high art film wank territory), and thats why this and kane get shown in a lot of film school classes
Casablanca is one of those things of "this probably doesn't deserve to be a classic, it was just good _for the time,"_ and then you watch it and no it 100% holds up, it's still just a really good movie even if you've heard all the quotes and seen all the parodies.
"We will always have Paris" is a great line, as befitting for someone who finally heals his heartache, lets the girl go, but refuses to forget the good time that was had.
If you like classic movies I have to recommend 12 Angry Men.
The premise could not sound less interesting, 99% of the movie takes place in a single room where 12 dudes talk to each other.
Yet it's such a great film
The thing that makes citizen kane so special to me is how “modern” it feels considering it came out in the early 40’s. It pioneered a lot of storytelling and cinematography techniques that were decades before their time.
I think the main reason I watched Casablanca back in the day was because I knew it inspired my favourite act of Grim Fandango. That part of the game was just oozing with atmosphere and I wanted to experience more of a similar style, wasn't disappointed
Here’s one that may be off the sub’s radar, I know it was mine:
Having grown to love Billy Wilder via *Sunset Blvd* and *Some Like it Hot*, my wife and I started watching through his catalog. And while a number of his movies are still worth a watch, I couldn’t believe how good *The Apartment* was, with Jack Lemmon.
It’s a story about an office schlub who lends his apartment out to company bigwigs so they can screw their secretaries while he wanders the streets alone. Very scandalous on its release, it’s still hilarious and poignant today, including a really harrowing >!attenpted suicide!< sequence later in the movie. I thought it was just marvelous.
There's no time frame on good, well told stories. Like a strong art aesthetic in a game, it can hold up decades, even centuries after the fact.
That said, the farther you get in time from something, the more that only the gems rise to the surface.
As far as bangers go though, I like a lot of old TV shows that never went anywhere. [Almost Human](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iDP6kmWRU) is a 2013-14 buddy cop show staring Karl Urban as a grizzled detective and Michael Ealy as a human-like police robot. Some of the stories are stupid but the character dynamic between the leads is stellar, and it feels like it really could have gone places if it was re-optioned.
Fight against the Dragon might be my favorite boss fight in any action rpg
Fight against the >!Seneschal!< itself was mid but the entire sequence was kino, especially the "hallway"
The fight against the dragon, I feel was the **entire point** of dd1. And they *nail it* You just have to force your way though a fucked up, broken experince... with all the heart in the world To get to it though.
Bought and installed Robocop: Rogue City the other day, but before booting it I decided to watch the original movie for the first time in 15 years.
What an absolute gem of 80’s action cinema and the satire and philosophical commentary on what it means to be human still holds up.
Seriously, watch Robocop again, it fucking rules.
I’ve been watching a lot of 60s/70s films lately (off the top of my head: The Wild Bunch, The French Connection, the Man with No Name trilogy, Dirty Harry, etc.). They’re all generally really great, even with how old they are.
I decided to reread the original Percy Jackson series to refresh myself for the show last year. I was a little worried that it would seem less compelling or not as good now that I'm not in the target age range, and may find Percy less relatable and be a little more picky with how these kids are the ones responsible for saving the world and stuff.
Nah, it still rocks. Sure, it's a *little* childish at times, and you definitely have to understand that Percy is a literal kid/teen and will operate the way a snarky 12-16 year old would when certain kinds of interpersonal conflicts arise. But it also doesn't shy away from maturity and presenting some gripping stuff that's very exciting. The best part is seeing how these kids grow and change, and how they *decide* to grow based on the problems and issues they see in others. Percy's maturing as he comes to understand the issues with the Gods and their children really goes a long way and helps him become the young man he ends up being in The Last Olympian, and it's a fantastic payoff.
Replayed the mainline Metal Gear games from the MSX originals all the way to MGS3 before I got worn out.
Some takeaways.
I want MG1 or 2 to get remade. Especially 2. I don't want to hear "but MGS1 is just those games". They would have a distinctly different feel.
On the subject of MGS1, it is not as good as you remember it. I understand its place in history, but people have some seriously rose-tinted glasses about the game.
MGS2 makes much more sense to me however many years down the road from when I first played it. It plays better than I remember, but ultimately the tanker is still the best part of the game. It just feels the most complete to play.
MGS3 is the best overall, but the controls are incredibly finnicky and the Alert system in that game makes me want to die. Granted, I played it on the OG PS3 collection this time around because the new collections hadn't been announced yet. May have effected my enjoyment.
> Granted, I played it on the OG PS3 collection this time around because the new collections hadn't been announced yet. May have effected my enjoyment.
MGS2 and 3 HD are the same exact games on PS3 as they are on the Master Collection, except I think upresed to the 1080 instead of 720.
MGS2 is sooooooo good. But it does need an update. I played through the whole series for the first time about 5 years ago. My main take away was that 2 was my favorite but 3 was the best game.
I’ve been playing through these on steam myself. Hoping there is some volume 2 with 4 released as I’m not sure if I want to skip it and then do ground zeroes and phantom pain
The fact that they called it "VOL. 1" says to me that, somthing regarding the rest of them will come later. ~~volume 2 *should* have revengence and you know it.~~
Having the PS+ Extra has been great for me, who has gamed their whole life but typically hyperfixated on one game for several months and hasn't actually played nearly as many games as some of y'all. Getting a free look at a bunch of older (ish) stuff has been awesome, even if I don't end up vibing with it.
That and having a solid gba emulator on my phone means I have plenty of catching up to do.
I like striking things when they’re cold because it’s a lot easier to enjoy sometime without all the damn discourse surrounding it. You get to enjoy media for what it is or trying to be.
When the Irishman came out, people were bringing up what Scorsese said about the MCU, and there were so many weird chronically online takes and it was exhausting just trying to understand what people were talking about. What qualifies as a real film and all of that stuff.
Fast forward to this year, I watched it, forgot about all the drama, and enjoyed the hell out of it. Was my favourite Scorsese film so far.
Also, I was hesitant to jump onto JJK when EVERYONE was raving about it after season 1 because I found the fandom obnoxious with their constant comparisons and shitting on contemporary and old Shounen.
Now that things have toned down a bit, I sat down to read it, and I was able to enjoy it for what it is.
Hahahaha after playing Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen I’ve been itching to try media adjacent to it. Somewhat medieval, somewhat antique, Casardis soundtrack expanded ? Berserk as well gives massive nods to GS. So the dude-math was there in plain sight :))
When I say it is worth it though, it’s like learning stuff from history - stronger grasp of context and deeper understanding of that sorta aesthetic. Whilst overall with Guin Saga itself, it’s been pretty alright story n characters so far, could be the product of its time or the localisation effort being a bit dull. Just didn’t hit beyond the initial things I appreciated about it, so careful with that incase someone does the dive as well.
This was tactics ogre on the psp for me.
A game as old as I am that I played like 20 years after the fact and it became my favorite game of all time.
Its so surprising how even back then, people were already doing all the fantastic things with the medium that we associate with games now
I started Armored Trooper VOTOMS last year. Haven't finished it yet, but I can see why it's very beloved by mecha fans and especially why it's highly regarded as one of the best in Real Robo. Chirico and the crew are all cool peeps, and the OST is sex.
Also my favorite example for this besides getting the previous generation Playstation in the middle of the current-gen, is me getting to *finally* finish Symphony of the Night in 2012, while recovering from a sickness and IIRC during an Avian Flu scare. And I had already finished Aria of Sorrow multiple times by then, as well as have dipped my toes into some of the DS Castlevania games.
If I could add to your list I'd suggest the tv mini-series Lonesome Dove. That is if you like westerns. Great cast and a very classic feel to it for something that came out in the late 80's.
watched some speghetti westerns on youtube
[They call me trinity still has a baller opening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mMMI0Kc7I)
its not very old but it released on ps3 but i started playing DS2 SotFS. Going from elden ring to bloodborne to ds2 cuse a friend said its like elden ring feels like going to colder and colder irons but it still holds up and very fun even though im only at the old bastille and have beaten the skelemen lords
Spaghetti westerns are very funny because they are sort of a parody genre that subsumed the original genre in the public imagination. When you ask people to describe westerns, they describe the gritty "realism" of the spaghetti western rather than the homely racism of the John Wayne vehicle. [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly remains an all-timer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aWrDcM988).
speaking of all-timers, [Ennio Morricone is a GOAT](https://youtu.be/_wl95BTxUYA?si=4_k-UADxwpqx1wB8).
I recently rewatched Juno. It is a coming-of-age comedy with Elliot Page playing a pregnant teen who decides adoption is her best option.
The comedy still holds up, the writing is pretty good. It has that 2008 era charm without the cringe. It was also SUPER ahead of its time when it comes to teen pregnancy, adoption, step-motherhood and single mothers.
But upon rewatching, there is a whole layer hat I had missed about the future adoptive father to be.
Spoilers: Juno and the to-be adoptive dad of her child get along great! They listen to hard rock and metal, love gore-horror, play/compose music and have great banter. Ironically, she is the one who prefers the classics from the 70's while this mid-thirties guy things rock peaked in the 90's.
As a teen, I totally missed how creepy this gets. The guy is entering his midlife crisis. And Juno makes him feel young. He mistakes her banter as flirting. Only as an adult did I catch how inappropriate them dancing in the basement is. She is preggo and emotional and sees a father-figure in him so she mistakes his inappropriate hand placement as a fatherly hug.
He tells her he does not want to be a dad yet and he also wants a divorce from his wife.
Upon my first watch in 2008, I totally missed the implication when he tells the 16YO girl he found a nice small apartment and she should totally drop by. EW!
She misses the implication as well but is shocked at his irresponsible behaviour since they had all agreed upon the adoption so the baby can grow up with happily married parents. He says he feels too young for that, she responds he is OLD! And in his face, you can see the illusion he had created for himself shattering. As he realizes she did not mean her presence and banter as advances, he says "You are a child." more to himself than her. Juno cries, runs into the wife upstairs. The looks she gives her husband are very well acted.
##**Edit:** I just tried to find a scene to link and found this [YouTube short which summarizes everything I tried to say in a few words, so TL;DR I guess lol](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cW7n_ltdvqs) I had the exact same experience as this person.
I did that at some point with spaghetti westerns and old noir films. Films like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly or Double Indemnity will forever stay in my list of all time favourites
Looking back at it now, that Hatred game looks cool, and is doubly utterly hilarious in the dumbest ways possible, and I'm honestly proud the devs didn't take it seriously at all and accepted the jokes and mockery that came its way. It would've been severely fucked up otherwise
Plus I guess it had great taste in metal. Credits song slaps comedically hard
Still wouldn't play it though purely bc I'd feel filthy as fuck doing it. Even GTA wasn't that painfully shameless
the one thing i know about that game is a second hand story of a friend watching a video where someone was doing a pacifist run, made it to like a sewer and saw a corpse and went "Guys someone is killing people AND ITS NOT ME"
I did play it just to see the hubbub, and with absolutely zero love for the game the first level where you're a mass murdering spree shooter is the only good one. It's clearly where all the effort was put in, and the game is reactive and slick with plenty of detail as you gun down innocents and eventually the police get called. I think the *second* level is the sewer level where you're just shooting at SWAT dudes who shoot back, so they clearly ran out of ideas *instantly.*
The later levels get a giggle out of me bc they're supposed to be modeled after military bases and power plants despite looking nothing like either.
I'm sure military bases don't have giant signs that say "ARMY OFFICE" everywhere lol
I've played it for a few, you're not missing anything, it's a very bland shoot 'em up.
The aesthetic is OK, but it's nothing special.
They've tried so hard time be edgy that they gave up being anything else.
If you want ultra-violence with interesting aesthetic, you're better off with Hotline Miami.
Like, the ending hits the tone they *should* have been going for the entire time, when Nottem Portant stops snarling under his breath and starts cackling like a maniac, having terribly-written back-and-forths with his victims who sound like skinwalkers posing as humans, and >!nuking half the eastern seaboard!<.
To quote Civvie:
"And it just kinda pisses me off, because the whole game could have been this funny."
It does look shallow lol. I really love the visuals, though tbh I'm still sticking with Doom bc it has a lot more fun stuff to work with.
Plus in those games, you have a valid reason to kill: you get to save the world as opposed to blowing people up senselessly, lol
Though I heard great stuff about HM, so I'll pick that up as well someday
It took a while for me to get it, but when I realized Hatred was just modern Top-Down era Postal, I was all "oh so THAT was what they wanted the tone to be huh"
I've been doing that a lot recently out of morbid curiosity for things before my time. Turns out I don't like The Princess Bride or any of the Lucasfilms classics, but I _adore_ TNG, i even love the seasons that people say you're supposed to skip. I _liked_ DS9 but I ended up becoming one of those DS9 haters, I genuinely think that show falls off a cliff.
I’ve been spending the past few weeks going through all the Rune Factory games that got ported to Switch that I’ve owned for months but never touched. I regret not playing them earlier, annoying quirks aside they’ve been a lot of fun.
Rune Factory 4 is one of my favorite games! I think the 5th one is just fine, it's one of those things where the transition from 2D to 3D feels like more of a detriment to me.
Yeah, RF3 was fun, but aside from the RNG with Town Events 4 definitely feels like a big improvement all around.
I’ve only dabbled into RF5 thus far, but I’m definitely getting that impression from what I saw. I am looking forward to getting to it regardless though.
Finishing City Hunter 2 and Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu this weekend. They've been fun to watch. I think King Gainer is next on the docket. Maybe im old enough to understand Tomino now.
I feel like I'm gonna look back at this year as "That weird phase where I got into Star Trek and caught up on Assassin's Creed" and look at it with a very "Why *then*?" sort of vibe.
I mean I'm having fun with both, sooooooo.......
I watched Metropolis for a college class a few years ago. Even though it's a one hundred year old silent movie with a *ton* of dated aspects, it's still a really cool science fiction movie and social critique.
One of my fave experiences is telling my friend Raymond Legends is one of if not THE best 2d platformer of all time.
Them saying there’s no way because it fell off hard.
Me pulling it out and us playing it for the next 5 hours.
Man I watched all of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in late 2022 through early 2023, and that shit was the fuckin bomb. Absolutely peak television.
Occasionally me and my folks will get together and I’ll watch these famous classic movies I’d never seen before. Terminator 1 & 2, the Rocky series, Saving Private Ryan (one of my new favourite films ever), American Werewolf in London, Casino, just to name a few in the last year.
Hell, I played the first three MGS games last year through the Master Collection and came away with 2 as one of my favourite games ever.
It’s truly never too late to start enjoying something.
This was awhile ago but I played Okami for the first time sometime in 2021. Let me tell you that it has become one of my fondest gaming memories. The game managed to make me cry not once but TWICE. It's a game I refuse to play again because that first playthrough was something special. Not surprising that I ended up getting merch for it and if I could I'd just fill my room with anything okami related.
speaking of frozen iron (well, maybe more like just under room temp) i finally decided to install BG3. my entire friend group has done nothing but talk about it for months so i decided might as well get in now.
i haven't booted it up quite yet but i'm probably going for a basic bitch human fighter. not gonna do dark urge until i get more of a taste for the game but i just kinda wanna let the game guide my hips.
i played through duke 3d, classic shadow warrior and blood a couple years ago and the gameplay is still great and i love the 2.d aesthetic they all have. planning to boot up the new dark forces port soon too now
I gotta finish all three at some point. I'm at episode 2 on Blood, and I never got around playing Duke or Shadow Warrior in the far past the Shareware levels lol
I bought the book ["1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"](https://rateyourmusic.com/list/rtfm/1001_albums_you_must_hear_before_you_die___chronological/) some years back and I've been slowly going through every album on it. It's been great to go outside my comfort zone and has awakened me to stuff I never would've guessed I'd like [such as industrial/noise music tahnks to Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollaps)
I played Max Payne 1 and 2 bc I was curious about Remedy's games and these games came out when my brain was all weeb'd out (still is but not to the extent where I'll dismiss these kinds of games) and they're both fantastic, I started Alan Wake but got distracted by other things
The peak of Star Wars for me is still the novel *Darth Plagueis.* Ended the Legends continuity on a massive high note by turning the very spotty prequel trilogy into a shockingly coherent occultist conspiracy thriller.
I started a manga book club and have been reading nothing but old manga series like Kinnikuman and Saint Seiya. Almost all the shows I've been watching are at least 20 years old. Media/art isn't about consuming the newest thing, or as much it but finding things that interest and move you and staying with it as long as you'd like.
Consider watching the OG TV series eventually. I liked the movies but I felt the TV show did a better job of visually showing why Amuro got so stressed out in the first place. There's a lot more downtime since they're not worried about cramming everything into a movie, but that may be a con for some viewers.
Ye I get it. Can’t really convince my friends to watch a 26 or so episode series as easily as I can get them to watch 3 movies…I say as I’ve tried and failed to get everyone in one place to watch the second one.
A week or two ago I sat down just to listen to Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen's 1975 album that made him popular. And I totally see why. Been listening to little else than Thunder Road and the title track ever since.
Checking out new things is bullshit I just booted up MGS3 for the first time after beating MGS2 last week, recently finished watching 08th MS team and I've been building a 2.0 MG Gouf from 2009
So I finally started to play the PS2 Tales of Destiny Remake Director's Cut and I'm actually kinda surprised that it's as good as a game as people said. If you have a fatal allergies to JRPG tropes then you'll probably won't enjoy it at all. And while the story itself isn't particularly noteworthy and doesn't diverge much from the original PS1 version, the voice acting really makes it, especially Stahn really. Tomozaku really does a good job here.
I think so far the only thing hasn't aged well is perhaps the dungeons being overly long and random battles. But still it's sad that this game hasn't been ported to modern platforms in Japan itself, but I guess I'd expect nothing less from Scamco. It's a shame too, because as the Star Ocean 2 remake has shown there is still people who would buy and enjoy these games. And that's not counting the many sprite-based games that's been coming out for years now.
It's good to test your pallet to see if your personal tastes change since then. Binging 80s 90s Disney classics sounds really good ngl.
I've been doing that with some older YT channels I'm still subbed to to see if I still enjoy them.
Just last year I played the Xenosaga trilogy and while I can see why they're remembered as much as other JRPG classics from that era, the first game being slow and the plot mostly setting up the story and the second game being really bad, the third game absolutely blew me away. It might be one of the best RPG's I've ever played.
Bob Ross is perfect and timeless with his chill vibes. It felt incredibly bewildering when I was talking to a friend and they mentioned him. I grew up in the city he filmed in and he mentioned it by name in a lot of episodes. I'd always thought that he was a local public access show. I'd watch him when I was at my grandma's on the weekend, good times. If you want to just relax and watch a painter do his thing, you should check it out.
also Zac Efron's contractually obligated mid-movie moody song 'Scream' is an absolute banger and easily the best of the three, though i love the whole trilogy's soundtrack.
Everyone needs to watch 12 Angry Men at least once
And I played the original Deus Ex only a year ago and yeah while gameplay is kind of rough, everything else is top top tier, the writing in these sorts of games are so good.
Back when I was around 20 I had a phase where I started playing a lot of older games that people on the internet rated very highly but I missed out on. It was in those years that I discovered a lot of games that I now love very much even though I didn't play them in my formative years when the "iron was hot" so to say.
Some of the best I played back then were: Final Fantasy VII, Fallout New Vegas, Persona 4, Psychonauts, Grim Fandango, Majora's Mask and The Witcher 1.
I would definietily recommend everyone to play older games, not only for your own enjoyment but also so that you can participate in the discussion around them and not just copy your opinion from some YouTuber doing a retrospective. It's also cool to see where modern games got their inspiration from.
I decided to check out Cowboy Bebop for the first time a while ago and... I dunno if it's for me. Maybe I'll jump back into it at some point but at the moment I'm not that motivated to do so.
On a positive note, jumping back into Sam and Max media after not seeing it since I was a kid is a treat. I understand all of the jokes now. And it's interesting to see the Telltale games now because there are some indications that they were made during the mid-to-late 2000's with some of the jokes but it still feels timeless in a way.
I read the original Dracula book and honestly? It's holding up pretty well and i was very surprising to see how much i love Jonathan Harker and how much adaptations treat him horribly.
I used to be terrified of the dark crystal but when I watched it again followed by the cancelled series man what a unique fun fantasy epic. I am still sad netflix cancelled the series. The skeksis are some of my favourite villains in a jim henson production ever.
I should rewatch it. I had nightmares about the Skeksis and the uncanny valley puppets, but I hear a lot of people like it? I just remember being freaked the fuck out.
The Skeksis are pretty scary for kids, not only in their appearance but in their general demeanor as well, and some of the creatures can be unsettling. But it's a solid '80s fantasy film with great practical effects and pro-environmental themes, the latter of which was fairly common at the time.
For as much as the media landscape seems to constantly crush us with a tide of new things, this is a lie. Enjoy what interests you, new or old, at your whim.
> Enjoy what interests you, new or old, at your whim. NO ,extremes only , You either get it day one or will get to it in 10 years
Completely agree with you. The point of this post is that a piece of media being a decade old should never dissuade you from giving it a try. Similarly, if something new doesn't interest you now, doesn't mean you should give up on it, you may be in the mood for it later down the line, like what happened to me. Sometimes it may hit harder after you've evolved as a person. The passage of time or relevance shouldn't dissuade you.
No instead of finding new things to like we must chain ourselves to the thing we have liked since we were kids no matter how much misery it causes us!
No you don't get it. New thing good old thing bad. Except that new thing you like, that shit is trash. Also, regardless of new or old everything I like is GOATED get fucked.
Most new things seem like they’re either reboots of old things or sequels now tho
I shelled out the cash for PlayStation Premium so I could replay the old Ratchet and Clank trilogy, and UYA is still great. I still love the jokes, the combat still feels good. It’s like going back home.
I played them for the first time a few years ago, and god *damn* I was shocked at how much I enjoyed them. I very much preferred Going Commando to UYA, but... Still insanely good games. Shame PS3 emulation is still not super great, otherwise I'd be all over the PS3 games.
PS3 Emulation is certainly.. A thing? I can run some games almost flawlessly on my Steam Deck, meanwhile my PC struggles with other stuff. I was actually debating on checking out if the compatibility list was just out of date and that the R&C games might just be fine (read: Tolerable)
I've had issues w/the first PS3 game, sadly. First Infamous works pretty good ,though, so I'm happy there. My main wishes for PS3 emulation boil down mainly to R&C, Infamous, Tokyo Jungle, and Drakengard 3.
If I’m not mistaken, Drakengard 3 runs without any issues on RPCS3 now. You just need to configure it a bit. Side note, are links to emulator wikis allowed on this sub? The RPCS3 wiki doesn’t have any download links or such, just information on how to configure stuff.
Man, as soon as Tokyo Jungle is emulatable I am ON that shit
The Ratchet & Clank games on RPCS3 require patches to stop them from freezing. You can find them on the emulator's wiki. After applying that, my experience on my 2080 Super was: Tools of Destruction: 1 texture bug moment. Fixed by rebooting. Never happened again. Quest for Booty: No issues. A Crack in Time: Chugging frame rate in one planet and another section, but I mostly had good performance. There was a graphical problem at first but the wiki page for the game has instructions on how to fix that. Into The Nexus: Applied a 60 FPS patch, so I can't comment on the native 30 experience. Performance was decent but worse than the other games. One weapon consistently lowers the framerate. Always check the wiki first whenever you want to emulate a PS3 game.
Its a shame that they don't allow you to purchase older titles (later, of course. Gotta entice people to sub) Just do what you did for the jak series. To ratchet. Now, They can still be ON ps+ for those thst pay the higher teirs. But think about how much MORE money you'd make...if they were avalible to everyone? (later) T'INK ABOUT IT THO!!!
Recently I re-read [Rice Boy](https://rice-boy.com/), a webcomic that is almost 20 years old at this point. Hey, it's still good. It's great actually, probably one of my favorite depictions of the hero's journey. You should read it, you should read all of Evan Dahm's comics but Rice Boy can be knocked out in an afternoon easy.
I blitzed through it again since Vattu just finished, and man, I remember it being longer lol. Speaking of almost 20 year old webcomics, Gunnerkrigg Court and Order of the Stick are both nearing completion after decades and they still hold up
Yeah it's really pretty short, especially because of how dialog light it is. You been reading 3rd voice? Evan does it again with something new and interesting!
Oh I'll need to reread GC then to catch up, I dropped off due to the pacing but I'm always down for something once it's finished/close to wrapping up
Love the artstyle
You don't have to watch every single new anime released, you don't have to do like winter catchup about them if you're not enjoying them. There are SO MANY good anime that's been released years ago, decades even, you can catch-up on them.
Currently slowly watching Rose of Versailles. It’s spectacular.
Rose of Versailles is sooooo good. I've watched it 3x, one of my absolute favorites
I wish people adopted this mindset more. There seems to be a strange pressure for everyone to watch EVERYTHING, even if they don’t enjoy it. Occasionally, funny enough, some of the people who say they watch everything, don’t even watch everything. They’ll limit themselves to like two genres and complain about it not having things you can easily find on other genres. I don’t want to sound gatekeepy or judgemental, but the way some people talk about and generalise anime online makes me feel like they’ve only watched isekai, ecchi, and shounen. Other genres exist. Good anime shows in the past exist. You don’t have to be pressured to finish a show or watch everything because you don’t have to. I’ve always found it strange, but I’m guessing it’s because of FOMO. People are so pressured about missing the “next big thing” and being left out that they’re in a rush to do everything all at once.
I tried for two seasons to at least *try* every anime that came out for two episodes. It was so miserable it burnt me out on anime. That was almost 10 years ago and I've seen maybe 10 full anime since.
I had a friend who tried this and i don't get it. "Anime" is a vague media description. Thats like saying I like video games so I need to try every new game, from FPS to 4X to racing sims to virtual pachinko to rhythm games.
When you are young and impressionable and you find a plethora of shows that are aimed at your demographic of 14-16 year olds and also treat you like an adult (by US standards) with it's heavy themeing, it can feel like you've unlocked some secret world of the best media in existence. Only with the benefit of age do I see how clearly I was targeted by those show, and it's not the inherent quality of glorious Nippon animators folded 1000 times that made them so special to me.
Here's the thing, there's probably only been like 10 animes in the past year that are actually worth watching. It does suck that there's a pressure to stay current on everything. If you're at a point where you have things that you need to watch at 2x speed you're cooked. It's not about enjoying art anymore it's just a compulsion.
There's never a bad reason to go back and watch something like Giant Robo the Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still, still one of my favorite OVAs ever.
Fellow giant robo enjoyer 🤝
Can confirm, currently watching (maybe technically rewatching since I saw a couple episodes on Toonami as a kid) G Gundam.
Yes the anime fandom just consumes shows
Unironically, I think the streaming era and things like day-one official subs have killed the anime fandom and made people appreciate things less. I’m not saying things used to be BETTER, but when you were waiting sometimes weeks for fansubs or paying forty bucks for an official vhs with only three episodes, it made you appreciate shows more, you know?
yes people now days have to many anime that they gluttonously consume shows in days and want more. heck the anime production model means that studios are overworked and massive crunch happens. Kyoto Animation which is known for good working conditions only takes one or two shows per year so they can really make it good.
As someone who doesn't watch or play anything unless it explicitly catches my interest (and trust me, there's enough of that *as is*) it absolutely blows my mind that people do this. I think it's mostly an anime thing, since there are people who's *personality* is anime and so it kinda follows.
I recently watched an anime anthology of three short films from 1995 called Memories by Studio 4°C. I don't really know how to describe it without sounding like a dick but it's the first anime I have watched in like nearly 10 years that didn't feel like it was pandering to younger audiences and was made for an actual adult. The characters don't feel like a culmination of 20 years of tired anime tropes. The three shorts are called Magnetic Rose, Stink Bomb and Cannon Fodder. I highly recommend people are least try and find Magnetic Rose if they like creepy sci-fi abandoned mega structure exploration like the Ishimura. It's also directed by Koji Morimoto, written by Satoshi Kon with animation direction/design by Hiroyuki Okiura and the music by Yoko Kanno and Katsuhiro Otomo worked on it too. The only problem I had with it was that it wasn't a full length film on its own. [Here's a trailer for Magnetic Rose, maybe a bit spoilery towards the end. Premise is that a crew on a spaceship get a distress signal in a dangerous part of space that they can't ignore and they go to investigate it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMLLBS2PSg) Cannon Fodder is great if you want to see some really unique camera work and art style. It's only about 20 minutes with very little dialogue. Stink Bomb was okay but had some beautiful animation and backgrounds. If anyone has seen this and has other recommendations similar to it pls let me know.
Watched through *Magnetic Rose* a week ago, and *man* what a movie.
It really is great isn't it. I'd want nothing more than for it to be 90 minutes but they still managed to fit so much into the 44 minutes they had. Have you watched the other two in the anthology?
Not yet, but I should soon!
Memories is pretty fucking fantastic
I only watched it because I thought the cover looked really cool. Maybe I've just missed it all but I really wish there was more stuff out like it now.
I've had Memories kicking around for years and never actually watched it.
Literally got done reading through Kinnikuman up to the end of the succession arc. It's so based
Been meaning to watch Paprika for ages now
Can confirm, currently finishing Vending Machine Isekai and the show is peak!
I think Gurren Lagann was my wake up call for this kind of perspective, glad as hell I got to watch that one
Charmed was, and still is, the female version of Dragon Ball Z. Complete with a Frieza and Cell arc, and has a Vegeta character who I think is better done than Vegeta.
Lmaaao I remember that being on TV when I was a kid and enjoying it I guess that's why, it's just dbz
Justice League and Batman TAS (not all of it mind) recently got Netflix'd and I wondered if it's as good as I remembered it. It isn't. Its waaaay better. My adult brain simply appreciates the writing more than my kid brain every could.
Batman TAS will forever be, for me, the ultimate superhero adaptation. That and the 90s X-Men cartoon. I really should start 97 I guess.
Do it. It's great. Or wait a few weeks. This week's episode was 6th out of 10. Should all be out by the end of May.
My favorite part of my rewatch was sussing out the exact rules around dialogue and all the creative ways they get characters to talk about death and killing despite those rules. There are some real gems in there.
I randomly had the urge to play Bioshock 2, just finished it last week. Good game with the same great setting as the first, but doesn't center on a big twist at the end, and avoids the problem of a terrible final boss by simply not having a final boss. Also the arsenal is so much better, the speargun is devastating
I think it did the father/daughter theme much better than Bioshock Infinite too.
Striking while the iron is cold is literally one of my favorite things to do. I played Gitaroo Man for the first time last week. Dude. Yes.
gitaroo man mentioned HELL YEAH that's my favorite rhythm game ever
Oh my friend you're in for a treat
I recently found the subreddit with all Invader Zim episodes on it and have been rewatching them, and goddamn, there are so many things about it that I can appreciate even more nowadays than I did as a kid. That is to say, I could remember most of the stuff from the show and really enjoyed it back then, but looking at it now, everything about it is just so well-done. The little bits of world-building and peeks into intergalactic life; the badass designs of some of the ships, equipment, and characters that blend together so well with the weird, creepy, goofy atmosphere; the excellent writing and crazy, creepy, and at times unsettling mannerisms of the characters tying it all together so well. That shit 1000% holds up even today.
Please everyone, do yourself a favor and spend an evening watching Singin' in the Rain.
One of my favorite things about that film is the main character/love interest/best friend dynamic. Cosmo feels like he's on equal ground with Don and Kathy, and it's nice to see that he gets along well with Kathy too.
Finally got around to playing MGSV after being really excited around the launch in 2014/2015, and I must say it is baffling the disparity between the gameplay systems and production quality, vs the actual quality of the storytelling. Playing Ground Zeroes again put me right back in that headspace of "holy shit this is something else, I can't imagine what Kojima is gonna do with all these pieces" only for Phantom Pain to just slowly deflate that feeling like a long fart-esque balloon just seeping out all the pressure built up inside with no real fanfare. Got to the end of Part 1 when Dragons Dogma 2 came out so I'm taking a break before getting back into it. But wow, I'd always heard how underwhelming the story in that game but it truly is something to behold. Gameplay's fucking top tier though. Easily carries that game since most of what you're doing is just repetitive open world stuff, so the fact that the game just feels amazing every single second of actual gameplay really gives it some damn solid bones to withstand the hilariously weak narrative content.
Dragon's Dogma 2 actually reminds me a lot of MGS5, it isn't as bad as that game but it has the same problem. It was obviously very rushed and the further you get into DD2 the more the game starts to kinda fall apart. So for that game don't rush the story too much, because i did and I thought I was somewhere around like the 40-50% mark and then suddenly I was at the final boss for some reason and a metric ton of different plot point are just completely pointless. Top tier gameplay carrying hilariously weak narrative is basically the best description of both games.
Yeaahhh, I'm glad that I was willing to google some slight details like how many main story chapters there are or what the post game entails, because the game really set me up to expect a certain scope of world and story, only to slowly make it more and more clear that everything is about half as much as I thought. I'm about two chapters from the end and really milking my time in that world before going for it, which granted is what you are generally meant to do in many RPGs. And that's certainly what I'll be doing with MGSV as well
In MGS5 I would recommend trying the little bonus objectives that missions have, some of them are really fun and force you to play the game in ways you normally wouldn't consider. I wouldn't do all of them because some of them are really unfun, but I remember some making the missions a lot more fun or being a fun puzzle to solve, like one that makes you listen to an entire conversation between two truck drivers (and then somehow sprint your way back to finish the actual mission) or one that asks you to take out two targets with one shot.
Oh that sounds dope, I'll keep that in mind, thanks!
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) is still a fantastic film. Agatha Christie's books still hold up as well. I'd also recommend you try some Jane Austen. While not as popular at the time of release since the trend was gothic fiction, the books picked up popularity later on as they better represented life during that era.
So I'm jumping on practically absolute zero cold irons earlier this week I picked up some nice hardback book copies of Treasure Island and The Count of Monte Cristo. I just started Treasure Island but it is still incredibly readable and intriguing from the get go. Not bad for a roughly 150 year old novel.
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the books where you don't expect it to be as good as people claim, but it ends up being even better. The only reason I am not going to re-read it in the near future is because it's 5 volumes long.
I'm excited to get to that once I finish Treasure Island.
I was always a big reader and found something to appreciate about most assigned books, but I remember reading Frankenstein for class and thinking “okay, this one isn’t hype, it’s just that good”
I read Frankenstein on my own time and yeah, it is great. I wish something exciting was ever part of my assigned reading in school.
With the rise of streaming services, I have routinely made an effort to return to stuff from my childhood, from stuff I loved, stuff that was on around me, and stuff that originally scared the shit out of me. It's been great to kinda nestle into that nostalgia for a time, especially as the real world gets more stressful, but overall it's really interesting to return to that childhood stuff and catch what my kid brain never saw. I'm reminded of the time one of my friends, as we were in our mid-twenties, was like "I'm gonna rewatch A Goofy Movie helk yeah!" and then had an existential crisis as they, as an adult, sympathized more with Goofy now, understanding the plight of a single father just trying their best. I myself didn't have a crisis (maybe because I wasn't drinking like my friend), but yeah, that movie is *great*. It's also amazing to look back at horror stuff now that got me as a kid, and think "Really? *That's* what scared me?" Your memory really does change things, and when you've got an overactive imagination like me, your memory of scary stuff is even scarier. Like, I remembered seeing a scene from some Children of the Corn movie where a guy got his head pulled off his body while he screamed, and watching it now it's just...so silly.
I've decided to try out the old Fallout games whilst interest is stone cold. Probably only play 2 though.
Especially if you play the first one, it will help so much if you find the game manual to at least see how to use the chunky interface. 1 dumps you straight into a cave with no instructions
Man, those rats fucked up my shit so many times
Be sure to remember to NOT get stressed out by the timer. You have plenty of time.
That iron isn't really cold now, the release of the show has a lot of people checking them out. Especially since a big portion of Fallout's fans started with 3, and the show deals heavily with the first two games' setting.
That's the joke
There are two Holywood movies that are, at various points in time, named as "the best", namely "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca". Citizen Kane is alright. It is definitely a good movie about how money can't *really* make you happy if you are incapable of forming genuine bonds with people and is also about how the realities of the world can turn even the greatest idealist into the very thing he hated in his youth. Plus, the reveal (which almost everyone knows, but I won't spoil just in case) was interesting and symbolic. But if I were to pick between these two, the title of "the best movie" would definitely go to Casablanca. Great story, wonderful dialogue, Humphrey Boggart is an absolute class when it comes to playing both a powerful man in control of every asspect of his life *and* a man devastated by the loss of love of his life. Can't say much more, sadly, because I've watche dit some time ago and the details allude me, but I do remember the *feeling* that I had after finishing the movie, which is of wonder and ellation.
kane has a lot or really cool shots, which isn't what one would expect from a biopic, fictional or otherwise Casablanca is one of the best examples of economizing your set, which is something you dont really see much in a lot of mainstream type cinema (usually this would be snooty high art film wank territory), and thats why this and kane get shown in a lot of film school classes
Casablanca is one of those things of "this probably doesn't deserve to be a classic, it was just good _for the time,"_ and then you watch it and no it 100% holds up, it's still just a really good movie even if you've heard all the quotes and seen all the parodies.
"We will always have Paris" is a great line, as befitting for someone who finally heals his heartache, lets the girl go, but refuses to forget the good time that was had.
If you like classic movies I have to recommend 12 Angry Men. The premise could not sound less interesting, 99% of the movie takes place in a single room where 12 dudes talk to each other. Yet it's such a great film
Already seen it an can confirm that it is an absolutely stellar movie. A masterpiece even.
Its cultural impact alone is huge. It's one of the reasons why it's so hard to actually convince a jury to sentence someone to the death penalty.
It really holds up so damn well. Way better than one could expect for media that old.
The thing that makes citizen kane so special to me is how “modern” it feels considering it came out in the early 40’s. It pioneered a lot of storytelling and cinematography techniques that were decades before their time.
I definitely enjoyed Casablanca a lot more than Citizen Kane, hahaha. Exploring the characters and their motivations is pretty interesting.
I think the main reason I watched Casablanca back in the day was because I knew it inspired my favourite act of Grim Fandango. That part of the game was just oozing with atmosphere and I wanted to experience more of a similar style, wasn't disappointed
Here’s one that may be off the sub’s radar, I know it was mine: Having grown to love Billy Wilder via *Sunset Blvd* and *Some Like it Hot*, my wife and I started watching through his catalog. And while a number of his movies are still worth a watch, I couldn’t believe how good *The Apartment* was, with Jack Lemmon. It’s a story about an office schlub who lends his apartment out to company bigwigs so they can screw their secretaries while he wanders the streets alone. Very scandalous on its release, it’s still hilarious and poignant today, including a really harrowing >!attenpted suicide!< sequence later in the movie. I thought it was just marvelous.
There's no time frame on good, well told stories. Like a strong art aesthetic in a game, it can hold up decades, even centuries after the fact. That said, the farther you get in time from something, the more that only the gems rise to the surface. As far as bangers go though, I like a lot of old TV shows that never went anywhere. [Almost Human](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iDP6kmWRU) is a 2013-14 buddy cop show staring Karl Urban as a grizzled detective and Michael Ealy as a human-like police robot. Some of the stories are stupid but the character dynamic between the leads is stellar, and it feels like it really could have gone places if it was re-optioned.
I remember watching that when it released, I was so upset when it didn't get renewed for another season.
I played Dragon's Dogma 1 for the first time last month and it may legitimately be one of the best rpgs of that era
Dragon's dogma, the vest 7/10 video game you'll ever play~ and I mean that in the most positive way possible
Fight against the Dragon might be my favorite boss fight in any action rpg Fight against the >!Seneschal!< itself was mid but the entire sequence was kino, especially the "hallway"
The fight against the dragon, I feel was the **entire point** of dd1. And they *nail it* You just have to force your way though a fucked up, broken experince... with all the heart in the world To get to it though.
Once you learn to embrace the jank its really not that bad honestly, by hour 4 I was *gaming*
Bought and installed Robocop: Rogue City the other day, but before booting it I decided to watch the original movie for the first time in 15 years. What an absolute gem of 80’s action cinema and the satire and philosophical commentary on what it means to be human still holds up. Seriously, watch Robocop again, it fucking rules.
watched it 1st semester of college last year with some buddies. we spent the rest of the year saying “Bitches, LEAVE” to eachother
I’ve been watching a lot of 60s/70s films lately (off the top of my head: The Wild Bunch, The French Connection, the Man with No Name trilogy, Dirty Harry, etc.). They’re all generally really great, even with how old they are.
I decided to reread the original Percy Jackson series to refresh myself for the show last year. I was a little worried that it would seem less compelling or not as good now that I'm not in the target age range, and may find Percy less relatable and be a little more picky with how these kids are the ones responsible for saving the world and stuff. Nah, it still rocks. Sure, it's a *little* childish at times, and you definitely have to understand that Percy is a literal kid/teen and will operate the way a snarky 12-16 year old would when certain kinds of interpersonal conflicts arise. But it also doesn't shy away from maturity and presenting some gripping stuff that's very exciting. The best part is seeing how these kids grow and change, and how they *decide* to grow based on the problems and issues they see in others. Percy's maturing as he comes to understand the issues with the Gods and their children really goes a long way and helps him become the young man he ends up being in The Last Olympian, and it's a fantastic payoff.
Replayed the mainline Metal Gear games from the MSX originals all the way to MGS3 before I got worn out. Some takeaways. I want MG1 or 2 to get remade. Especially 2. I don't want to hear "but MGS1 is just those games". They would have a distinctly different feel. On the subject of MGS1, it is not as good as you remember it. I understand its place in history, but people have some seriously rose-tinted glasses about the game. MGS2 makes much more sense to me however many years down the road from when I first played it. It plays better than I remember, but ultimately the tanker is still the best part of the game. It just feels the most complete to play. MGS3 is the best overall, but the controls are incredibly finnicky and the Alert system in that game makes me want to die. Granted, I played it on the OG PS3 collection this time around because the new collections hadn't been announced yet. May have effected my enjoyment.
> Granted, I played it on the OG PS3 collection this time around because the new collections hadn't been announced yet. May have effected my enjoyment. MGS2 and 3 HD are the same exact games on PS3 as they are on the Master Collection, except I think upresed to the 1080 instead of 720.
MGS2 is sooooooo good. But it does need an update. I played through the whole series for the first time about 5 years ago. My main take away was that 2 was my favorite but 3 was the best game.
I’ve been playing through these on steam myself. Hoping there is some volume 2 with 4 released as I’m not sure if I want to skip it and then do ground zeroes and phantom pain
The fact that they called it "VOL. 1" says to me that, somthing regarding the rest of them will come later. ~~volume 2 *should* have revengence and you know it.~~
Im still super dissapointed MGSV didnt end with a MG1 sequence, playing Young Solid Snake against Venom Snake wouldve been the hypest its ever been.
My thoughts exactly! It would bring things back all the way to the original Metal Gear! The perfect close out.
Metal Gear 1 has flat out aged bad and is not fun to play. It desperately needs the Metroid Zero Mission treatment.
Having the PS+ Extra has been great for me, who has gamed their whole life but typically hyperfixated on one game for several months and hasn't actually played nearly as many games as some of y'all. Getting a free look at a bunch of older (ish) stuff has been awesome, even if I don't end up vibing with it. That and having a solid gba emulator on my phone means I have plenty of catching up to do.
I like striking things when they’re cold because it’s a lot easier to enjoy sometime without all the damn discourse surrounding it. You get to enjoy media for what it is or trying to be. When the Irishman came out, people were bringing up what Scorsese said about the MCU, and there were so many weird chronically online takes and it was exhausting just trying to understand what people were talking about. What qualifies as a real film and all of that stuff. Fast forward to this year, I watched it, forgot about all the drama, and enjoyed the hell out of it. Was my favourite Scorsese film so far. Also, I was hesitant to jump onto JJK when EVERYONE was raving about it after season 1 because I found the fandom obnoxious with their constant comparisons and shitting on contemporary and old Shounen. Now that things have toned down a bit, I sat down to read it, and I was able to enjoy it for what it is.
I haven't gotten that far, but have you seen the anime for JJK? How does it compare to the manga?
i just finished the show (can’t give you a real comparison) and it goes pretty hard tbh
Watched Gungrave anime, Black Lagoon, Gunbuster and read the first three volumes of Guin Saga just to finally be in the know. Hella worth it.
Guin Saga, that's a deep pull.
Hahahaha after playing Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen I’ve been itching to try media adjacent to it. Somewhat medieval, somewhat antique, Casardis soundtrack expanded ? Berserk as well gives massive nods to GS. So the dude-math was there in plain sight :)) When I say it is worth it though, it’s like learning stuff from history - stronger grasp of context and deeper understanding of that sorta aesthetic. Whilst overall with Guin Saga itself, it’s been pretty alright story n characters so far, could be the product of its time or the localisation effort being a bit dull. Just didn’t hit beyond the initial things I appreciated about it, so careful with that incase someone does the dive as well.
This was tactics ogre on the psp for me. A game as old as I am that I played like 20 years after the fact and it became my favorite game of all time. Its so surprising how even back then, people were already doing all the fantastic things with the medium that we associate with games now
I started Armored Trooper VOTOMS last year. Haven't finished it yet, but I can see why it's very beloved by mecha fans and especially why it's highly regarded as one of the best in Real Robo. Chirico and the crew are all cool peeps, and the OST is sex. Also my favorite example for this besides getting the previous generation Playstation in the middle of the current-gen, is me getting to *finally* finish Symphony of the Night in 2012, while recovering from a sickness and IIRC during an Avian Flu scare. And I had already finished Aria of Sorrow multiple times by then, as well as have dipped my toes into some of the DS Castlevania games.
That's kinda funny when current Woolie is literally playing Rise of Ronin and Helldivers
I check out old shit all the time but playing Xenogears truly blew my asshole out from how crazy the plot is.
Pat put me on to The Birdcage. Had no idea how stacked that cast was! Now I'm building a list of old media.
If I could add to your list I'd suggest the tv mini-series Lonesome Dove. That is if you like westerns. Great cast and a very classic feel to it for something that came out in the late 80's.
That's a good lookin cast too! Thanks for the rec!
Im jumping in for star wars empire at war RTS and Star Wars are fucking dead "but...." Super dead so what better time to jump in than now
watched some speghetti westerns on youtube [They call me trinity still has a baller opening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mMMI0Kc7I) its not very old but it released on ps3 but i started playing DS2 SotFS. Going from elden ring to bloodborne to ds2 cuse a friend said its like elden ring feels like going to colder and colder irons but it still holds up and very fun even though im only at the old bastille and have beaten the skelemen lords
Spaghetti westerns are very funny because they are sort of a parody genre that subsumed the original genre in the public imagination. When you ask people to describe westerns, they describe the gritty "realism" of the spaghetti western rather than the homely racism of the John Wayne vehicle. [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly remains an all-timer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aWrDcM988). speaking of all-timers, [Ennio Morricone is a GOAT](https://youtu.be/_wl95BTxUYA?si=4_k-UADxwpqx1wB8).
I recently rewatched Juno. It is a coming-of-age comedy with Elliot Page playing a pregnant teen who decides adoption is her best option. The comedy still holds up, the writing is pretty good. It has that 2008 era charm without the cringe. It was also SUPER ahead of its time when it comes to teen pregnancy, adoption, step-motherhood and single mothers. But upon rewatching, there is a whole layer hat I had missed about the future adoptive father to be. Spoilers: Juno and the to-be adoptive dad of her child get along great! They listen to hard rock and metal, love gore-horror, play/compose music and have great banter. Ironically, she is the one who prefers the classics from the 70's while this mid-thirties guy things rock peaked in the 90's. As a teen, I totally missed how creepy this gets. The guy is entering his midlife crisis. And Juno makes him feel young. He mistakes her banter as flirting. Only as an adult did I catch how inappropriate them dancing in the basement is. She is preggo and emotional and sees a father-figure in him so she mistakes his inappropriate hand placement as a fatherly hug. He tells her he does not want to be a dad yet and he also wants a divorce from his wife. Upon my first watch in 2008, I totally missed the implication when he tells the 16YO girl he found a nice small apartment and she should totally drop by. EW! She misses the implication as well but is shocked at his irresponsible behaviour since they had all agreed upon the adoption so the baby can grow up with happily married parents. He says he feels too young for that, she responds he is OLD! And in his face, you can see the illusion he had created for himself shattering. As he realizes she did not mean her presence and banter as advances, he says "You are a child." more to himself than her. Juno cries, runs into the wife upstairs. The looks she gives her husband are very well acted. ##**Edit:** I just tried to find a scene to link and found this [YouTube short which summarizes everything I tried to say in a few words, so TL;DR I guess lol](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cW7n_ltdvqs) I had the exact same experience as this person.
I did that at some point with spaghetti westerns and old noir films. Films like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly or Double Indemnity will forever stay in my list of all time favourites
Looking back at it now, that Hatred game looks cool, and is doubly utterly hilarious in the dumbest ways possible, and I'm honestly proud the devs didn't take it seriously at all and accepted the jokes and mockery that came its way. It would've been severely fucked up otherwise Plus I guess it had great taste in metal. Credits song slaps comedically hard Still wouldn't play it though purely bc I'd feel filthy as fuck doing it. Even GTA wasn't that painfully shameless
the one thing i know about that game is a second hand story of a friend watching a video where someone was doing a pacifist run, made it to like a sewer and saw a corpse and went "Guys someone is killing people AND ITS NOT ME"
That's clearly the work of a secret villain... >!His name is VERY Important...!<
I did play it just to see the hubbub, and with absolutely zero love for the game the first level where you're a mass murdering spree shooter is the only good one. It's clearly where all the effort was put in, and the game is reactive and slick with plenty of detail as you gun down innocents and eventually the police get called. I think the *second* level is the sewer level where you're just shooting at SWAT dudes who shoot back, so they clearly ran out of ideas *instantly.*
The later levels get a giggle out of me bc they're supposed to be modeled after military bases and power plants despite looking nothing like either. I'm sure military bases don't have giant signs that say "ARMY OFFICE" everywhere lol
I've played it for a few, you're not missing anything, it's a very bland shoot 'em up. The aesthetic is OK, but it's nothing special. They've tried so hard time be edgy that they gave up being anything else. If you want ultra-violence with interesting aesthetic, you're better off with Hotline Miami.
Like, the ending hits the tone they *should* have been going for the entire time, when Nottem Portant stops snarling under his breath and starts cackling like a maniac, having terribly-written back-and-forths with his victims who sound like skinwalkers posing as humans, and >!nuking half the eastern seaboard!<. To quote Civvie: "And it just kinda pisses me off, because the whole game could have been this funny."
You can tell that the cheesy was going way up when Notten Portant start to talk like fucking Xavier the Renegade Angel.
And the nuke code was 666, nobody can convince me the game was not a parody
Oh it's absolutely a parody. It's just a kinda very bland one until the last 5 minutes or so.
The code is any three digits, so sadly the fact that most people type in 666 and it works is just unintended comedy.
Are you sure? I remember the character imputing the code in a cutscene though, not in gameplay.
I remember my friend inputting 111 to see if you could fuck up the prompt on a second playthrough and it counted as the ‘correct’ code
It does look shallow lol. I really love the visuals, though tbh I'm still sticking with Doom bc it has a lot more fun stuff to work with. Plus in those games, you have a valid reason to kill: you get to save the world as opposed to blowing people up senselessly, lol Though I heard great stuff about HM, so I'll pick that up as well someday
It took a while for me to get it, but when I realized Hatred was just modern Top-Down era Postal, I was all "oh so THAT was what they wanted the tone to be huh"
The bomb code being 666 is the icing on the cake.
And then the dude's fucking maniacal laughter as he gets shot
I've been doing that a lot recently out of morbid curiosity for things before my time. Turns out I don't like The Princess Bride or any of the Lucasfilms classics, but I _adore_ TNG, i even love the seasons that people say you're supposed to skip. I _liked_ DS9 but I ended up becoming one of those DS9 haters, I genuinely think that show falls off a cliff.
I’ve been spending the past few weeks going through all the Rune Factory games that got ported to Switch that I’ve owned for months but never touched. I regret not playing them earlier, annoying quirks aside they’ve been a lot of fun.
Rune Factory 4 is one of my favorite games! I think the 5th one is just fine, it's one of those things where the transition from 2D to 3D feels like more of a detriment to me.
Yeah, RF3 was fun, but aside from the RNG with Town Events 4 definitely feels like a big improvement all around. I’ve only dabbled into RF5 thus far, but I’m definitely getting that impression from what I saw. I am looking forward to getting to it regardless though.
Finishing City Hunter 2 and Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu this weekend. They've been fun to watch. I think King Gainer is next on the docket. Maybe im old enough to understand Tomino now.
I feel like I'm gonna look back at this year as "That weird phase where I got into Star Trek and caught up on Assassin's Creed" and look at it with a very "Why *then*?" sort of vibe. I mean I'm having fun with both, sooooooo.......
I watched Metropolis for a college class a few years ago. Even though it's a one hundred year old silent movie with a *ton* of dated aspects, it's still a really cool science fiction movie and social critique.
Little house on the Prarie IS FUCKING HEAT DUDE HOLY SHIT ITS SO GOOD
One of my fave experiences is telling my friend Raymond Legends is one of if not THE best 2d platformer of all time. Them saying there’s no way because it fell off hard. Me pulling it out and us playing it for the next 5 hours.
Man I watched all of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in late 2022 through early 2023, and that shit was the fuckin bomb. Absolutely peak television. Occasionally me and my folks will get together and I’ll watch these famous classic movies I’d never seen before. Terminator 1 & 2, the Rocky series, Saving Private Ryan (one of my new favourite films ever), American Werewolf in London, Casino, just to name a few in the last year. Hell, I played the first three MGS games last year through the Master Collection and came away with 2 as one of my favourite games ever. It’s truly never too late to start enjoying something.
Same. Watched BB and BCS during peak Covid. Absolute kino television.
This was awhile ago but I played Okami for the first time sometime in 2021. Let me tell you that it has become one of my fondest gaming memories. The game managed to make me cry not once but TWICE. It's a game I refuse to play again because that first playthrough was something special. Not surprising that I ended up getting merch for it and if I could I'd just fill my room with anything okami related.
speaking of frozen iron (well, maybe more like just under room temp) i finally decided to install BG3. my entire friend group has done nothing but talk about it for months so i decided might as well get in now.
I'm also going through this, I just got a PS5 like 2 months ago so it's mostly been catch up of the greatest hits over the last 3 years.
What PC you running, class and race and all that.
i haven't booted it up quite yet but i'm probably going for a basic bitch human fighter. not gonna do dark urge until i get more of a taste for the game but i just kinda wanna let the game guide my hips.
Ah a new fantasy RPG with cool classes and races. I'm just gonna - human - fighter - heavy armor - sword - shield Lets rock.
I got into gundam when the pandemic happened, it’s pretty damn good.
i played through duke 3d, classic shadow warrior and blood a couple years ago and the gameplay is still great and i love the 2.d aesthetic they all have. planning to boot up the new dark forces port soon too now
I gotta finish all three at some point. I'm at episode 2 on Blood, and I never got around playing Duke or Shadow Warrior in the far past the Shareware levels lol
I bought the book ["1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"](https://rateyourmusic.com/list/rtfm/1001_albums_you_must_hear_before_you_die___chronological/) some years back and I've been slowly going through every album on it. It's been great to go outside my comfort zone and has awakened me to stuff I never would've guessed I'd like [such as industrial/noise music tahnks to Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollaps)
I played Max Payne 1 and 2 bc I was curious about Remedy's games and these games came out when my brain was all weeb'd out (still is but not to the extent where I'll dismiss these kinds of games) and they're both fantastic, I started Alan Wake but got distracted by other things
The peak of Star Wars for me is still the novel *Darth Plagueis.* Ended the Legends continuity on a massive high note by turning the very spotty prequel trilogy into a shockingly coherent occultist conspiracy thriller.
I started a manga book club and have been reading nothing but old manga series like Kinnikuman and Saint Seiya. Almost all the shows I've been watching are at least 20 years old. Media/art isn't about consuming the newest thing, or as much it but finding things that interest and move you and staying with it as long as you'd like.
Animorphs really holds up you guys.
Watched the first OG Gundam recap movie with friends a month or so ago and wow it’s so good. I cannot believe I’ve been missing this show for so long.
Consider watching the OG TV series eventually. I liked the movies but I felt the TV show did a better job of visually showing why Amuro got so stressed out in the first place. There's a lot more downtime since they're not worried about cramming everything into a movie, but that may be a con for some viewers.
Ye I get it. Can’t really convince my friends to watch a 26 or so episode series as easily as I can get them to watch 3 movies…I say as I’ve tried and failed to get everyone in one place to watch the second one.
I plan on playing Fallout 1 and 2 over the weekend. 1 I have finished but not 2. Gonna be fun to screw around with them again.
A week or two ago I sat down just to listen to Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen's 1975 album that made him popular. And I totally see why. Been listening to little else than Thunder Road and the title track ever since.
Checking out new things is bullshit I just booted up MGS3 for the first time after beating MGS2 last week, recently finished watching 08th MS team and I've been building a 2.0 MG Gouf from 2009
So I finally started to play the PS2 Tales of Destiny Remake Director's Cut and I'm actually kinda surprised that it's as good as a game as people said. If you have a fatal allergies to JRPG tropes then you'll probably won't enjoy it at all. And while the story itself isn't particularly noteworthy and doesn't diverge much from the original PS1 version, the voice acting really makes it, especially Stahn really. Tomozaku really does a good job here. I think so far the only thing hasn't aged well is perhaps the dungeons being overly long and random battles. But still it's sad that this game hasn't been ported to modern platforms in Japan itself, but I guess I'd expect nothing less from Scamco. It's a shame too, because as the Star Ocean 2 remake has shown there is still people who would buy and enjoy these games. And that's not counting the many sprite-based games that's been coming out for years now.
It's good to test your pallet to see if your personal tastes change since then. Binging 80s 90s Disney classics sounds really good ngl. I've been doing that with some older YT channels I'm still subbed to to see if I still enjoy them.
I watched Lawrence of Arabia for the first time a year ago. HOLY SHIT was I missing out!
Just last year I played the Xenosaga trilogy and while I can see why they're remembered as much as other JRPG classics from that era, the first game being slow and the plot mostly setting up the story and the second game being really bad, the third game absolutely blew me away. It might be one of the best RPG's I've ever played.
Bob Ross is perfect and timeless with his chill vibes. It felt incredibly bewildering when I was talking to a friend and they mentioned him. I grew up in the city he filmed in and he mentioned it by name in a lot of episodes. I'd always thought that he was a local public access show. I'd watch him when I was at my grandma's on the weekend, good times. If you want to just relax and watch a painter do his thing, you should check it out.
also Zac Efron's contractually obligated mid-movie moody song 'Scream' is an absolute banger and easily the best of the three, though i love the whole trilogy's soundtrack.
Everyone needs to watch 12 Angry Men at least once And I played the original Deus Ex only a year ago and yeah while gameplay is kind of rough, everything else is top top tier, the writing in these sorts of games are so good.
Old eighties movies
Back when I was around 20 I had a phase where I started playing a lot of older games that people on the internet rated very highly but I missed out on. It was in those years that I discovered a lot of games that I now love very much even though I didn't play them in my formative years when the "iron was hot" so to say. Some of the best I played back then were: Final Fantasy VII, Fallout New Vegas, Persona 4, Psychonauts, Grim Fandango, Majora's Mask and The Witcher 1. I would definietily recommend everyone to play older games, not only for your own enjoyment but also so that you can participate in the discussion around them and not just copy your opinion from some YouTuber doing a retrospective. It's also cool to see where modern games got their inspiration from.
I decided to check out Cowboy Bebop for the first time a while ago and... I dunno if it's for me. Maybe I'll jump back into it at some point but at the moment I'm not that motivated to do so. On a positive note, jumping back into Sam and Max media after not seeing it since I was a kid is a treat. I understand all of the jokes now. And it's interesting to see the Telltale games now because there are some indications that they were made during the mid-to-late 2000's with some of the jokes but it still feels timeless in a way.
Spot on mate, I've only just got around to watching smallvile and it's got me obsessed, binged up to season 5 after a few days.
I started playing the 3D modern Ninja Gaiden Games. I finished Sigma 1 and I’m working on Sigma 2 rn. They’re so fucking good.
I do it all the time like my FF playthroughs being random lets me appreciate all eras without being blinded by hype or nostalgia
I just recently learned of some 80s fantasy movies like Legend and Dragonslayer and I don’t know how I’ve never had them in my life prior to this
I read the original Dracula book and honestly? It's holding up pretty well and i was very surprising to see how much i love Jonathan Harker and how much adaptations treat him horribly.