For me, 2 things come to mind; Berserk & the Long Walk
Berserk may sound controversial, but I just didn’t have a good time watching the 90’s anime. I felt angry while watching it. I just didn’t like the characters for how dickish they were (especially Guts & Casica) and the setting was too miserable for me. And some of you may go, “but the comic is 10x better” (I know it’s manga, I’m just calling a comic to piss of people) I also just don’t like dark fantasy in general, since they’re edgy, pretentious, and worst of all… they’re ugly. There’s a reason why I never played the Dark Souls games, outside of the difficulty
The Long Walk movie is really well made movie with amazing acting. But man was it a miserable movie to go through. Seeing all those kids getting shot by soldiers for being slower was painful to watch.
Side note: there’s a lot of critically acclaimed stuff I like (Cowboy Bebop & the Dark Knight). It’s just that entertainment is so subjective that it’s not mutually exclusive to writing.
Assassin’s creed. I was okayish game, till I downloaded Hades, and I completely forgot it even existed on my pc.
Star trek ~ it just didn’t hook me for some reason
supernatural i never watched it when it first came out, like only like during the end of the pandemic i was binging on the clips. S1-S5 were the best, since its by kripke. but 6-15 were just cringey because its also gay/fiction by the fans.
ISAIP after season 12, were wierd and off putting, with mac roid use and him trying to defend it for some reason as a secret knowledge only he knows,(its not a secret people in hollywood are taking peds to make them look buff), and stretching his face to look younger.
1season and 2 were a really god monster of the week hunting show. Downhill from there but still watchable
I tried very hard, but I did not enjoy The Outer Wilds.
For those who don’t know, it is a first person exploration game over ~12 planets within a small solar system. There is a core game loop that lasts about 20 minutes wherein you can fly your ship anywhere and explore until the cycle ends.
The thing I really disliked was that you only got ~10-15 minutes of exploration before you had to restart the cycle back at home and go back to where you started. There was also a plethora of environmental hazards that were instant death, all while you had oxygen and fuel to manage. Dying would also reset the cycle so it wasn’t uncommon to spend 5+ minutes getting somewhere only to die and restart a few times. It just made me frustrated.
I did complete it with the help of mods that let me teleport to the key locations. People really liked the story but it really didn’t hit for me. I feel like I was born with the cilantro gene for this game because I really didn’t like it.Loved Outer Wilds, but yeah, some clever “time dilation” could be applied while exploring inside of planets or particularly complex segments or close to a goal. So many times I had to go into Ash Twin to try to finish a puzzle before the sand rises. It does help that translator pauses time though, and options let you pause conversations too.
A few months ago I bought Slay The Spire. I do love roguelikes, I do enjoy card games. I even like roguelike deck builders (balatro is fantastic).
But after a few months I can say for certain, I hate Slay The Spire. I would like it more if it was fun.
The Florida Project. It’s a great film, but I wanted to strangle a lot of the people in the movie because they’re so perfectly and realistically obnoxious. Especially the six year old. They’re all great actors and I never want to see the movie ever again. Still glad I saw it once. Kinda like how I’ll never rewatch The Wire, I just felt gross after.
Final Fantasy. There’s too much 😭
They aren’t contiguous. If you actually want to try, preview their soundtracks and visual styles and pick based on what you like the most and just play that one.
1-5 are old af, 6 is old but the pinnacle of them, 7 8 and 9 were on newer hardware, 10 was on even newer hardware and is widely considered the last good one. 11 was an mmo, 12 was bland as fuck, 13 was less bland but the whole game was a hallway going one direction, 13 has a few spinoff/sequels, 14 is an mmo, 15 was 12 but newer and worse, and 16 is trying to be partially dark souls and is kinda boring.
Honestly, if you can put up with ps1 music and graphics, pick from 7, 8, and 9. Or just play 10 from the ps2.
And if you can’t decide and only can put up with playing one, just play 7. Apparently it was the very first AAA game ever. Which is weird to think about.
the latest on seemed to be connected to machine god in ff13, bhunivelze, his own creation were loosely responsible for the lore of the later FF games.
Breaking Bad. Well, the episodes I watched.
I think I just watched two or three episodes and just wanted them to catch one small break but it was just downward spiral which kind of made me lose interest. If they don’t have any success then what’s that point of them losing.
I’m sure it changes later but I didn’t have it in me. I understand that it’s a masterful series.
Yup. That show sits in an odd place for me where it’s genuinely interesting but it’s too intense.
Every character sucks unrepentantly and I can’t watch it. Same issue with Boardwalk Empire, there are zero good and likeable characters in the entire show, everybody is awful.
Fair. I loved breaking bad mostly because of how well it balanced crime and personal life of Walter white. But he’s a horrible person, so are most characters, cause it’s a crime thriller. It’s just I could overlook that part cause story kept me engaged enough.
Great characters and some interesting plotlines, but the whole thing revolving around drugs and their distribution has been a great put off. I found Better Call Saul more enjoyable for that same reason.
The Office
Back when it was still Twitter, I posted “when does the office get funny? I’ve watched about 6 episodes across 3 seasons and haven’t LOLed once, I just keep wondering why this show is popular”
Lord of the rings. I watched the whole trilogy of movies, and I tried to read the Hobbit. They’re all so boring, I don’t get the appeal.
I’m glad I saw them in theaters. I’m glad they contributed what they did. They’re cool every many years. But holy fuck those are long movies. And people always want to watch the super extended directors cut versions that are like 4 hours each. One time we watched the first one after eating brownies. What a horrible mistake. That felt like literal days. I couldn’t believe how slow time was passing, and then when we were done, it was only the first movie.
The Hobbit book isn’t great. The Lord of the rings books are great. They’re just written differently.
The Godfather. It insists upon itself.
Game of Thrones. There needs to be something positive, even just a sliver.
Same. GoT always struck me as scripted misery porn
Very apt description
It’s always sunny in Philadelphia
I never got into it because I found the shouting off putting. The characters just seem to shout their lines at each other and it damages my calmthe later ones were total cringe. 13+ are exactly what they joked about in the earlier seasons. thier alarming Hollywood face transformation(mar-a-lago equivalent, but hollywood style). i dont think the later seasons were well written, like the earlier seasons(the cast were the main contributors in the earlier seasons) but they gave up after 11-12. Kaitlin turning into a a karen, and ROB getting on roids and getting buff, and all the subsequent drama of him trying to sugar coat it. Rob macs, change his name recently. and his very questionable partnership with ryan reynolds, and a retired football star.
They made an episode about that btw. The Gang Desperately Tries to Win an Award.
The Witcher games. Everyone tells me how great they are and I have tried playing them, but it just feels like a chore and it never hooks me.
While each one of those games climbed mountains mechanically, they started in daggerfall and ended in Morrowind, with less charm.
Liked Witcher 3, but absolutely hated Gwent that most people seem to love. What do you mean players use their own cards? How could this be even remotely balanced? I ended up simply running out of cards three times I tried to play.
(The sentiment applies to IRL card-hoarding games)
Yeah, I didn’t like the gameplay.
Watching quest highlights on YouTube is a good way to enjoy it, though.
TW2’s combat and overall gameplay I could stomach and even enjoy, but for some reason I could never do the same with TW3 (and RDD too, they just felt so slow). Which is a pity cause it looks like a great game if I could just get over its, well, gameplay. 🙃
Dr. Who
All of them. I have tried.
If you watched through peter capaldi’s entire run and didn’t like it, you’re free from ever needing to try it again. Some of those episodes were masterpiece magnum opuses, built, layer by layer, as towering behemoths of interwoven , humanistic cultural lore. You cannot watch them. You just earn them. Much of doctor who is like that, especially as it gets super fucking good. I’m talking probably some of the best television that exists, maybe one in the top three tv things that exist.
And if you couldn’t get there, that’s okay. People have different tastes, different experiences, different enjoyments.
With doctor who, though, it’s really easy to hate if you don’t understand it or tolerate the British cheese.
I’m curious what you’d put as your top tv things (shows, eps, stories, whatever), and also why you didn’t like doctor who.
Good input. Yes doctor who is very divisive, either you like it or not.
However it’s always pronounced doctor. Never Dr. Fight me, lol.
I love Dr who, but I don’t ever recommend it because it’s a very… specific taste…
Tweed. The campy British, passionate and dramatic but goofy and grinning with unabashed British culture. I found no easier way to describe the taste and style than just calling it tweed.
It’s kind of silly.
I watched some. A lot? I don’t regret it, but I came away with the feeling I got dropping Supernatural: I’m not nearly done, yet I watched too much already.
