Hola Otters, after an understated but satisfying conclusion to Breaking Bad, I got to thinking about various media that are still on, but we've had our fill of - but still appreciate.
Thus:
Be it a video game, movie series, or TV show, what media 'thing' do you have benevolent feelings toward, but either had your fill of, or are content to let others enjoy?
I have a few of these, most notably Dr. Who, which I understand is a good show with good characters, and great whimsy and writing - all things I typically enjoy in a show, but for whatever reason - probably tons of people posting about it on facebook like it's their job (when they don't have real jobs), has dissuaded me, even though I have checked out a few episodes. And happily admit it's well written.
True Blood - I've seen...three episodes and if I cared about this kind of thing I'd just hit up my local S&M club for the same results and better pay out. Simply one of these shows I do not get, though I've never been a big fan of fantasy elements in 'realistic' settings unless it's in the guise of dudes in spandex fighting evil. Similarly I guess some folks watch shows for their 'skin' content, but since, ya know, 1996, I haven't needed television to provide softcore sexiness.
Dexter - Lost this one after the fourth season, specifically when Dexter had the shovel to the Jigsaw(?) killer's throat, and because there were...3 episodes left in the season, I knew there had to be some sort of way for the guy to get out of the situation, and he did, and it was stupid. The show was great in the first three seasons when, despite it's brutal nature, was sort of wholesome in its own bizarre way.
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Thus:
Be it a video game, movie series, or TV show, what media 'thing' do you have benevolent feelings toward, but either had your fill of, or are content to let others enjoy?
I have a few of these, most notably Dr. Who, which I understand is a good show with good characters, and great whimsy and writing - all things I typically enjoy in a show, but for whatever reason - probably tons of people posting about it on facebook like it's their job (when they don't have real jobs), has dissuaded me, even though I have checked out a few episodes. And happily admit it's well written.
True Blood - I've seen...three episodes and if I cared about this kind of thing I'd just hit up my local S&M club for the same results and better pay out. Simply one of these shows I do not get, though I've never been a big fan of fantasy elements in 'realistic' settings unless it's in the guise of dudes in spandex fighting evil. Similarly I guess some folks watch shows for their 'skin' content, but since, ya know, 1996, I haven't needed television to provide softcore sexiness.
Dexter - Lost this one after the fourth season, specifically when Dexter had the shovel to the Jigsaw(?) killer's throat, and because there were...3 episodes left in the season, I knew there had to be some sort of way for the guy to get out of the situation, and he did, and it was stupid. The show was great in the first three seasons when, despite it's brutal nature, was sort of wholesome in its own bizarre way.
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1. GTA: Online is out today, anyone try it? How is it?
2. NBA 2k14 is out tomorrow! Who's excited?
2. NBA 2k14 is out tomorrow! Who's excited?
So sick of the Dr. Who hype. I like geeky stuff but Who has become the new "bacon" of geek culture.
ReplyDeleteThe Simpsons. I still watch it from time to time and I'm not mad when I do, but it seems like they've said everything they have to say. Their humor now is also not quite what it once was. It used to be a very witty commentary on contemporary family issues and now it's a sort-of funny commentary on pop culture. I don't know how South Park has managed to stay relevant as long as it has, but I feel like South Park now is what The Simpsons aspires to be.
ReplyDeleteI'm not mad about it, though. I still watch from time to time, but I'm not the devoted, line-quoting fanatic I once was. If other people are, that's cool, good for them.
I am, too, and I really enjoy Dr. Who, but it's just not strong enough to support all the hype. At the end of the day, it's a campy sci-fi show about a dork and a hot chick in a time machine police box.
ReplyDelete"Argueing talking head" sports debate shows. PTI was great the first few years, but after Around the horn, first take, numbers never lie, etc., im just so sick of the format. I know espn has tons of programming hours to fill but give us something new.
ReplyDeleteYeah I mean that show is so Iconic that if you grew up watching it it's nearly impossible to watch it now without a bit of cycnicism for how 'good' the show was back in the day. I will say I have kept up with it occasionally, and it's really not bad depending on who's writing it. Definitely worth checking out even now. Not great, but not an embarrassment, either.
ReplyDeleteI love Sports Nation, but I hear you on PTI and Pardon The Interruption - They lost me when I had to watch five minutes of Sports Center to see the big finish.
ReplyDeleteCan't say enough about Sports Nation though - great stuff.
Ring of Honor. I was a mad fan of that company from '06 to 2010 or so, but my interest weaned as its heart and soul seemed to gradually disappear. I haven't watched a show since Border Wars 2012 (which I was at.) I see no reason to start following them again and I doubt I ever will.
ReplyDeleteI liked Sports Nation when Beadle was on with Colinheard. She was one of the real likable espn personalities imo. Kinda stopped watching after she left.
ReplyDeleteTeam Sports: Particularly Football... people obsess over "their" teams both real and fantasy and expect everyone else to be as into it as they are... and when I express my lack of interest they don't seem to understand that I don't hate the sport in question, I just don't care.
ReplyDeleteSouth Park has the ability to comment on things in real-time, so that helps.I feel the same though, The Simpsons have done...everything. I'll keep watching out of habit.
ReplyDeleteThough, the premier of the Simpsons last night was pretty good, if predictable. The Family Guy premier? The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome- suffering child of comedy.
Family Guy is really hit and miss - I mean when your entire premise is essentially: gagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagaggagagagag for 22 straight minutes, you either nail it or you don't.
ReplyDeleteCall Of Duty, and games of that ilk. I'll never enjoy them, but goddamn if we didn't use to sell a fucktillion copies.
ReplyDeleteThe ep last night barely had jokes. It was...odd.
ReplyDeleteIts weird to me that you like a fake simulated sport and not real sports. Are there any sports you enjoy more then others, or just dislike them all? Did you ever play sports when you were younger? Im just curious
ReplyDeleteYou work in a gamestop?
ReplyDeleteI like Baseball quite a bit, and did so into my 20's when my interest waned. Never been much into football but didn't start to hate it until I started working with bigger groups of people, and dealing with social media where you could just never get away from it no matter what you do. I never had much of an opinion on NBA, NHL at all... and yeah I played little league baseball for about 10 years as a kid.
ReplyDeleteTHIS! FPS and their spawn have ruined a lot of the console gaming experience for me.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that I've never seen an episode of Breaking Bad seemed to piss flair4dagold off.
ReplyDeleteUsed to. Great job, except for the people running the company. Also, the people who bought the shit.
ReplyDeleteI def dont have nearly the interest I did when I was younger, but definitely still enjoy them as an entertainment form. I do find it really weird when grown ass people live and die with "their" team and loss all objective rational thoughts concerning them.
ReplyDeleteI'm playing timesplitters 3 for ps2. That's a real FPS, not a spprts game with guns.
ReplyDeleteIve never watched one either...or seen a minute of The Matrix movies.
ReplyDeleteI've skipped a lot of the big hyped TV shows. I don't have premium cable channels, and I'm old fashioned. I like network TV even if I know it's a dying medium.
ReplyDeleteI watched Damages until it moved to Direct TV, that was the only cable drama I ever watched. And Friday Night Lights too, but only on NBC
Motherfucking facebook! Deleted my 3 account 3 ago and never looked back. No, I dont want to "like" the 20th straight picture of your kid youvr posted. Fuck you, stop "poking" me, what does that even mean? What is this game with farming and planting shit? If you want to tell me something, any friend I have, call or text me, dont put it on a facebook wall and expect me to know it.
ReplyDeleteI think you mean ambivalent. I think. But benevolent means well-meaning & kindly.
ReplyDeleteHowever, to answer the question, I will go with How I Met Your Mother. I understand it has a wonderful following, is supposedly well-written, and stars the awesome NPH. But however, it does nothing for me.
Honorable mention: The Big Bang Theory.
I mean Benevolent - "Good for these shows, but I could care less"
ReplyDeleteI always wanted too but I worked in a Circuit City once and had to alphabetize shelves for 6 hours and promptly gave up.
ReplyDeleteNetwork tv still produces good stuff, if you can just filter through some of the trash. I got sucked into Homeland but watching series like that, breaking bad, etc is like a job man. Gotta stay up to date on it, avoid spoilers, etc.
ReplyDeleteyou sound upset.
ReplyDeleteI DVR enough shows as it is, usually sitcoms. I don't have premium channels so I can't do stuff like Homeland
ReplyDeleteYea, if that was to subtle...fuck you facebook
ReplyDeleteThat would be more along the lines of apathetic.
ReplyDeletedisclaimer: I'm not trying to be a smart-ass. It's an interesting topic, nonetheless.
Same. I just want that name to go away forever. I don't hate FPS games in general, but much like Guitar Hero, that title has just completely oversaturated the market.
ReplyDeleteI take facebook sabbaticals. I'll deactivate the account for a month or two at a time, and then log back in to check out photos & whatnot.
ReplyDeleteThat's not what Benevolent means...
ReplyDeleteYeah, ambivalent would be the proper usage here.
ReplyDeleteI like FPS, or shooters in general, or most of all RPG shooters (Mass Effect, Fallout)
ReplyDeleteThat said, I hate what the Multi-player driven FPS boom has done to the industry.
I was at that show!
ReplyDeleteAlmost nothing with that level of hype deserves it.
ReplyDeleteI love watching star wars--but the movies aren't THAT good!
This may be blasphemy here, but I have no desire to spend time and money on GTAV. I had a lot of fun with GTA3 (and I even had fun playing GTA1&2, before anyone really knew about the series), but I burned out of the series with Vice City.
ReplyDeleteI think it's awesome it did so well in sales, I just won't add to it...
I've never seen it either. As I said in the other thread, I've never seen any of most of the big hour long dramas. Breaking Bad, 24, Lost, Mad Men, Dexter..
ReplyDeletePick one and the odds are very high that I've never even seen a clip.
I'm quite detached from it all..
So the employers are no good, and the customers are no good, but OTHERWISE it's great?
ReplyDeleteI'm much the same. I can watch almost any sport for fun, but the capacity to FOLLOW a sport and care about it is absent in me.
ReplyDeleteI used to follow hockey a bit, but not even that for a few years now.
It's weird because I find that peole hate Family Guy but love American Dad or Vice-Versa.
ReplyDeleteEh, I can leave them both.
ReplyDeleteSouth Park just does it better
Nothing is worth the hype.
ReplyDeleteI did the same to Facebook. The funny thing is when I shut my page down all my friends/contacts were wondering what the hell happened to me. I told them there is a new invention called a PHONE. If you want to contact me, use that."
ReplyDeleteI got tired of that show awhile ago. I think the last episode I saw was the "Fish Sticks" episode with Kanye West.
ReplyDeleteThat might be an interesting QOTD - what movie / show / etc that seemingly EVERYONE has seen, have you not seen, and why?
ReplyDeleteI have a HUGE list of shows like that, the most notable ones are Seinfeld or Friends.
ReplyDeleteSaw the first one, didn't see the others.
ReplyDeleteExactly!
ReplyDeleteWow, Seinfeld and friends? How?
ReplyDeleteWow that surprises me just because there were a couple of years there that you had to really work at avoiding those 2 shows. I had never seen an episode of Friends until they had wrapped the series though.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a moment of a Rocky movie, or a James Bond movie.
Used to work nights. By the time I got home didn't really want to watch the syndicated stuff.
ReplyDeleteThats the winner right there. There are a ton on major movies ive never seen like all the Matrixs, Sixth sense, fight club, etc. but its bc im not huge on movies. Those two are always on syndication so its tough to have never seen those
ReplyDeletewhat he's describing isn't really mixed feelings, though. He's saying that you wish X well, but don't personally enjoy it anymore. I think benevolent fits- you have well meaning and kindly feelings for something, you wish it well, but don't personally enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteHere's the funny thing. I BOUGHT some of those movies but they are still home wrapped in cellophane. I just never watched it.
ReplyDeleteMy friends look at me like I either got out of jail or came from a communist country when I say that.
Ha yea. Sounds like youre just not into tv and movies, or am I wrong?
ReplyDeleteI stopped when people started acting as if it were real life. I think the South Park episode on Facebook summed it up nicely.
ReplyDeleteYep. Not into it all. Never got into the whole, "Let's see a flick when it first comes out." or whatever the must see thing of the moment is.
ReplyDeleteIm with you, Ive seen maybe 3 movies in the theaters the past 3 years. Im usually disappointed in most of them so stopped going
ReplyDeleteThe following represents a small sampling of TV that I have never laid eyes upon, but have always heard good things about:
ReplyDelete1. House
2. True Blood
3. Dexter
4. Homeland
5. Parks & Recreation
6. Boardwalk Empire
7. Breaking Bad
8. Mad Men
9. Sons of Anarchy
10. The Killing
I would like to watch these shows, but having the time to invest usually escapes me.
1. was a personal fave, 3 and 6 I've seen bits and pieces of because my on again/off again/on again/off again/on again/off again/on again/off again girlfriend watches it.
ReplyDeleteThe other shows I've never seen.
Co-signed on all but House. I've seen a bit of that and it was good, especially the earlier seasons.
ReplyDeleteSame here. Really seems like the promotion lost it when they got the TV show (much like ECW when they went to TNN).
ReplyDeleteCoD is pretty maligned by the hardcore gaming community. It is the sem-casual gamers that go nuts for it (the same people that insist on buying the new Madden each year).
ReplyDeleteHere's a fun Facebook thing I've noticed. Any girl that you went to high school with that uses her kids as a profile pic instead of herself turned into a fatass.
ReplyDeleteThat's up to you, sir, but I gotta say it's a real freaking trip. I went back and played a little Vice City the other day and it's literally NIGHT and DAY. Give it a red box.
ReplyDeleteBenevolent is like being a good person; well meaning or kindly. It's the opposite of malevolent. Like, Hitler was malevolent, but Churchill was a benevolent leader.
ReplyDeleteThe word you really are looking for IS apathetic..
Seen a few HIMYM's and it is ok, but I still think it is a dumb concept. He's telling all this shit to his kids??
ReplyDelete"And then Uncle Barney had a THREESOME!"
Apathetic means indifferent.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. GTA has always bugged me because there is no challenge to being a criminal. You can walk down the street gunning down people and then just swim across a lake or something and you're cool.
ReplyDeleteGenerally true, but I've got one absolutely dynamite girl that has done that and if anything she looks BETTER now in her early 30s than she did in high school. Two kids later and she can rock a skimpy bikini.
ReplyDeleteIt's really quite amazing. Girls like her are a rare breed.
ap·a·thet·ic
ReplyDelete[ à ppə théttik ]
indifferent and unenergetic: not taking any interest in anything, or not bothering to do anything
am·biv·a·lent
[ am bÃvvÉ™lÉ™nt ]
unsure: having mixed, uncertain, or conflicting feelings about something
be·nev·o·lent
[ bə névvələnt ]
kind: showing kindness or goodwill
charitable: performing good or charitable acts and not seeking to make a profit
I want the shows I mentioned to do well, but ultimately found they were no longer for me. Benevolence.
I'm still waiting for my "Dante from Clerks 2" pussy fountain to start flowing.
ReplyDeleteThat's not how it works at all. You need to 1) Get out of the cops FOW, then hide behind a wall to stay out of it, then hop into a different car. It's really more like Metal Gear Solid, now.
ReplyDeleteHeathen!
ReplyDeleteI see it.
ReplyDeleteYou have positive feelings (not mixed, or indifferent), but still don't take a personal interest.
1. Some really great episodes but very formulaic.
ReplyDelete2. Chick show...lots of naked Anna Paquin.
3. Just pretend it is a 4 season show and it is awesome. 5-8 get progressively worse.
4. Never seen it
5. Not a fan of Amy Poehler so I never got into it. Liked the bits I've seen
6. Never seen it
7. Watch it now. Absolutely worth of the hype
8. Hey look! Everyone in the 60's was racist, sexist and smoked everywhere!
9. Never seen it
10. Nada
Right, whereas most people are apathetic to this tangent.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't count if she's in the pic with the kids. Has to be kids only.
ReplyDeletei've never seen an ep, either.
ReplyDeletealso have never seen dexter, walking dead, the wire, the shield, mad men, oz, sopranos, game of thrones, and all those other shows peeps have probably ruined for me by building them up to incredible heights that probably will never be reached
I totally agree. I've only ever watched a few NFL games (Super Bowls) and I never got into the sport at all. I enjoyed baseball as a kid, and basketball in my late teens & 20's, but football has never interested me.
ReplyDeleteLOL.. I've only seen one or two episodes of Seinfeld and I have never seen Friends either.
ReplyDeletemy answer is simple for not having seen stuff: the more peeps talk about it, the more i'm going to get sick of hearing about it and the more its actually going to turn me off.
ReplyDeletethough it might seem like i'm doing the "avoiding the shows just cause theyre popular and i dont conform" thing, in reality its that i want to discover stuff on my own terms, when it will actually mean something to me
dexter, game of thrones, breaking bad, the wire, the shield... that stuff is ALL over the place (even the series that have ended), and i dont feel like getting into things just cause theyre the current trendy-in thing
this might not be the best example since theyre polarizing, but it was like with me for coheed and cambria. for the longest time EVERYONE was raving about them and how they were THE BEST NEW THING out there (and it was everwhere for me since i'm way into prog, metal, and prog metal). And i avoided them like the plague cause i was so sick of almost being told i HAD to listen to them. but once the mood eventually struck me to listen to them, i find I like them quite well and am happy to listen to their albums and attend their concerts. but that was a decision i had to make for myself cause i wanted to try it, not cause "HOLY SHIT, IT'S THE SHIT"
i'm more willing to give the wire and the shield a chance now that its all said and done and you dont have the world breathing down your neck thjat you just HAVE to believe the hype.
fuck you, i'll get around to it if and when i'm ready!
Totally. For a few years anyway. Video games are my big hobby, and the first few years it was more about "Tell people which games they should play, and hey, try and save them some money" and it turned into "Pester them about fifteen goddamn things and also, hey, hawk a used game that only has five dollars off the new copy. Also, if you don't talk about preorders a dozen time per customer, you're fired"
ReplyDeletefriends is a good example. i like to watch it on nick at night now,. but back when it was on and everyone (including scott) just wouldnt shut the fuck up about it, i had NO interest in seeing it
ReplyDeleteYeah, i know. I fall into that hardcore gamer pie-slice.
ReplyDeletei never saw avatar and have no desire to
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's brutal. I've never worked retail but I can't stand shopping in general because employees are, by and large, trained to repeat the corporate selling points, and not at all to actually HELP the customer.
ReplyDeletearrested development
ReplyDeleteTake the Matrix, Tarzan, Fern Gully and add a dash of the Last Samurai and there you go. For the 3D effect, eat some 'shrooms.
ReplyDeleteIf you've gotten this far, then carry on. That movie was a whole lotta nothing.
ReplyDeleteI used to love helping people. That was looked down upon, because Jesus Christ, you didn't have 50 preorders on -Insert Year and Sport- that hour.
ReplyDeleteWhen it was EB Games, it was amazing. When it was Gamestop, It was brutal.
I never really thought of that, but yeah, for real.
ReplyDeleteI don't really like the show much to start with. I can watch it if someone else puts it on but not a fan really.
That's still not how you use that word.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_license
ReplyDelete1. A brilliant medical drama show for the first 3 seasons or so, then it didn't so much go off the rails as become firmly entrenched in its formula while slowly killing everything awesome about any of the characters. That said, as a "Hey, there's an episode of that show on" it serves well, kind of like Law and Order in that you don't really need to follow the overall plot to sit down and enjoy an episode and you know exactly what you're getting into going in.
ReplyDelete2. Decently written show, fair amount of nudity. Of all the shows that I watch with my girlfriend, this is one of them. Worth checking out.
3. Brilliant for the first 4 series until is stretches itself beyond credibility. I'll still watch season 8 for completion's sakes, but I don't think I'll enjoy it.
4. A solid (if overrated) show: Claire Danes is good in it, and the plot keeps you guessing. I've only seen the first seaons, apparently the second goes a bit over the top.
5. Hilarious: Definitely worth checking out. Also, Rashida Jones and Aubrey Plaza...
6. Great period drama, an awesome role for Steve Buscemi. A little slow, but it pays off.
7. One of the best TV shows ever, as confirmed by the finale.
8. An even better period drama. If you know your American history, tons of great easter eggs: Excited to see how they wrap it up. Also slow, but so worth it.
9. Just started it, excited to see if it lives up to the hype.
10. Only seen the first season, which is great.
I dont rave about much as far as tv stuff but do yourself a favor and watch homeland season 1. I put it alongside certain seasons of the wire, oz, and curb as the best shit to ever be put on tv.
ReplyDeleteMe neither. Never really appealed to me.
ReplyDeleteDoes WWE count?
ReplyDeleteI mean, I still watch every "Raw" and "SD", but it's definitely not what it used to be, and many people basically just like to "keep tabs" on it through reading results.
Sure it does. Hell, the only reason I even kind of know what's going on in the WWE is because of this blog.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
ReplyDeleteI was forced to attend a racial sensitivity seminar and got a hardcore down dressing from some attorney who worked for my boss all because of a few Facebook posts. I paid an intern 100 bucks to eat an entire supermarket bday cake and put the video up and apparently we had some kind of social media monitor. They saw this and then found a picture I put up from inside of titty bar where I was getting bottle service and I posed for a pic with a few strippers and the bottles, and I used a young jeezy lyric as a caption (these niggaz is jokers, what they spent on their reup I spent up in Strokers) and I was called into some meeting and was sent to a racial sensitivity seminar since I had the "n word" on my page. After that I tossed my account since I don't want my job monitoring my drug and alcohol use and I would never eeeeeeeever use it to promote work shit. So yeah, fuck our voyeuristic society
ReplyDeleteI like the Simpsons (who doesn't) but I stopped watching episodes both new and old because I've just had my fill. Same with family guy/ad.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, I don't care for GTA but I'm enjoying Sleeping Dogs (which is basically GTA: Hong Kong). I guess a good hand-to-ahnd fighting engine is what can pull me in.
ReplyDeleteOne of those things is not like the other...if you ever start watching those shows go with #6 first, its amazing
ReplyDeleteHahaha. Great story. All I can think of is the episode of the office where Michael quotes Chris Rock and is reprimanded with a racial sensitivity seminar by a black guy, Mr Black.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the 100 dollar cake eating challenge above all else.
http://thisversusthatotherthing.blogspot.ca/2011/06/016-apathy-versus-ambivalence.html
ReplyDeleteApathy means the lack of opinion either way.
Ambivalence is being unsure.
Therefore: apathy.
Either way, benevolence wasn't the right word.
yeah Sleeping Dogs is really good!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry all grammar slams must be presented in triplicate and signed by a notary.
ReplyDeleteNever seen it, no desire to see it.
ReplyDeleteSons of Anarchy...biker culture is beyond lame to me.
ReplyDeleteI liked that show but I started to wonder like, okay, so they sell weapons...and....?
ReplyDeleteSee I thought we had this bond going - we'd shit all over crappy KickStarters, go back and forth about the proper context, and now you're telling me you'd tell me to go masturbate myself, which I do on my own anyway.
ReplyDeleteI thought we were friends man. I thought you were cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is4SNL98e_I
ReplyDeleteYou gotta stand for something. In my case it's using words in their proper context.
I've never once even considered starting a Facebook account.
ReplyDeleteI've seen one or 2 episodes of 24 and Breaking Bad, but have never seen the other 3 you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteI'm the same way, last movie I saw in a theater was Fahrenheit 9/11. Hell, I only own 3 movies on DVD.
ReplyDeleteOutside of the Metroid Prime series I hate FPS games with a passion.
ReplyDeleteI used to be like that about football, but not anymore. Even though I bitch about the 49ers, deep down I really don't give a fuck.
ReplyDeleteHockey, though, that's another story. It's probably a good thing that we don't get many Avalanche games in my market, especially seeing as how their probably going to be terrible this year.
I haven't been watching too much lately (I think I'm 3 weeks behind at the moment), though it's more due to lack of time rather than lack of interest. Putting the belt on Jay Briscoe only to strip him 2 months later sure didn't help though.
ReplyDeleteHighly Questionable is the only one I can stand to watch, and that's only because of Papi.
ReplyDeleteMax Kellerman is a douche.
ReplyDeleteFamily Guy has been shit for the past 3 seasons.
ReplyDeleteDances With The Last Pocagully
ReplyDeleteI've played too many of them, CoD doesn't feel like it brings anything I haven't seen. Also helping to kill splitscreen multiplayer does it no favours in my book. And yes, I'm aware splitscreen was dying anyway, still pisses me off.
ReplyDeleteIt really has been. It's felt like a combo of bad attempts at pop culture humour, and the writers going "We're ollllld, (X) annoys me terribly. Why don't you laugh at my highlighting this petty inconvenience?"
ReplyDeleteI always hated split-screen, though I never really had a big TV growing up, so that's probably why. Playing a game of Goldeneye or Mario Kart 64 with 4 players on a 19" TV just blows. With better graphics and better (and bigger) TVs it would probably work better toady. And I wouldn't blame FPS games for killing splitscreen, I'd blame online gaming, and plain old greed. Why let 4 or more people play one copy of a game when you can get those 4 or more people to each buy a copy of it.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, all FPS games are the same to me. My brother will spend hours on end playing zombies in CoD (fuck it, whatever keeps him out of trouble...), and I don't get it, though he doesn't get how I can play nothing but sports and racing games. Between my 360, XBox, and Wii I have 31 games, out of that 6 are not either sports or racing (I consider Tony Hawk and WWE games sports games), and 3 of those 6 are GTA games.
Yeah, I should have clarified that I meant the online aspect, my bad.
ReplyDeleteI grew up split-screening on N64, but I can totally see how someone wouldn't dig it. What pisses me off is stuff like racing games only being 1-player, or Online co-op Only. Stupid, irritating shit driven by, as you said, greed. Thankfully, games like Borderlands (The first, not that awful second one) seem to understand gaming is about finding another person, a couch, a console set-up, and an empty weekend.
What is Borderlands? The only games I can think of that allow 2 people to play on the the same console are Madden, MLB/NBA 2K, and other licensed sports games. And there's no reason any racing game shouldn't allow split screen. And what also sucks about it is that it makes it impossible to find used controllers anymore. I hate paying full price for anything video-game related (Funny thing: the only games I've bought new in the past 10 year or so were those 3 GTA games), and it's damn near impossible to find a used 360 controller, and if you do find one it costs so much that you might as well just get a new one (as an aside, there's no fucking reason at all that a controller needs to cost $50). Even the s-type controllers for the original XBox are pretty rare.
ReplyDeleteBorderlands is like a diablo-style dungeon crawler fused with an arcady-style FPS. A shit-ton of randomly generated guns, different characters with skill trees to upgrade, and a big crazy world that constantly re-spawns enemies. I dunno if you'd like it, but it's pretty cheap these days.
ReplyDeleteUsed hardware was always a funny thing. The companies don't want used stuff being sold, so they never lower the price on the new stuff, so a company like Gamestop never lowers the price on the used product(Never explained, but in reality it was/is because GS doesn't give a fuck if people buy anything used, as long as they get that sweet warranty/Discount card money) Nintendo does the same thing with their 1st party games.
And get this: in the waning days of Xbox/Ps2/Cube, a new Box s-type still solf for 49 fucking 99. It never went down, we eventually were told to box ek up and ship them back to head office.
ReplyDeleteGamestop is a fucking horrible company, at least from a customer's perspective (I saw elsewhere in this thread that you worked there). Sucks living in a relatively small city, the I only have 2 independently owned stores nearby, one has salespeople so aggressive that a Gamestop employee would be like "Dude, back off man", the other is that fat dickhead who's shop is about the size of my bedroom (and I live in a pretty small apartment) who likes to insult people like Randall from Clerks does and mostly specializes in retro stuff. And I don't do online buying. I mean, I'll hit up Craigslist and meet the guy in person if I want to buy/sell something, but it's straight cash, homie, I don't even have a credit card. So most of the time I have to go to Gamestop.
ReplyDeleteThe first store lets you play games before you buy them though, so I'll check out Borderlands next time I'm there.
Weren't PS2 controllers about $25 or so? Then again, you get what you pay for, I swear the PS2 controller was the least durable controller ever made. Come to think of it, the 5200 joystick was worse.
ReplyDeleteHa, we had the prick who specialized in over-charging for retro stuff too. He's long gone, fucking dick.
ReplyDeleteMy choices are my former workplace, or Walmart. Yippee. Of course, an Indy game store is the equivalent of shoving your life savings up a whales ass and letting it swim away, so I don't blame people for not giving it a go.
Yeah, they were, then down to twenty. And i've Never broken a ps2 controller, or any controller for that matter. But i'm pretty lucky with my software and gear. Hardware is another stpry.
ReplyDeleteThe prick actually has really fair prices, both buying and selling, and he's a 5 minute walk from my house. But he's such an asshole that I'd rather not deal with him most of the time.
ReplyDeleteI've never spent one God damned motherfucking cent at Walmart, but that's a whole other topic. The first store I was talking about actually does pretty well, but the prick needs to just cash out as best he can right now, because the retro game craze bubble is already starting to burst. Someone once told me that "The gravy train runs the fastest right before it's about to run off the tracks". I'd say that's good advice.
I'm surprised it hasn't popped, but then again I just sold five loose SNES games for fifty bucks. Not even good ones at that.
ReplyDeleteReally? I probably went through 9 or so when I had my PS2, those things shatter like they were dunked in liquid nitrogen or something if they hit/get hit by any kind of hard surface. I only had to replace my Xbox controller once in the past 7 years, and that's because like a dumbass I always wrapped the cord around it too tight and it eventually pulled the wires loose on the inside.
ReplyDeleteI had 5 PS2s, and I'm on my second XBox (original XBox, I'm still on my first 360, though I only got it about a year ago). They just don't build them like they used to... Though I never had even the slightest problem with my Gamecube, outside of me dropping a big hunk of steel on it and breaking it, and I actually bought it used from Gamestop and paid extra for the 6 month no-fault warranty, so I got a new one for free. Say what you want about Nintendo, but they build their shit to last.
Nice! What games were they?
ReplyDeleteMegaman X, which IS a good game, Tinstar,Batman Returns, Robocop vs Terminator, and Double Dragon V.
ReplyDeleteNintendo makes their shit out of UFO metal, to steal a Keith-erism.
ReplyDeleteI've smashed controllers against the floor by accident, dropped them down stairs, have had shit head puppies chew them...nothing. I'm super lucky, like I said. I've chronicled my hassles with Boxes and ps3s before, i'm on my last ever of each. If they shit the bed, fuck it.
Wasn't Robocop vs Terminator pretty decent?
ReplyDeleteEh, it was okay. Really basic duck-jump-new gun,yes!-crap I died and my pistol sucks- gameplay. It looked badass though, and the termies where practically invincible.
ReplyDeleteActually, to be fair, only tinstar sucked. Shitty superscope (Optional) platformer.
Wikipedia says there was over 40 million SNES systems sold. I'm willing to be that 99% of the ones that were even remotely taken care of still work.
ReplyDeleteagreed, haha. Sometimes I cannot help myself. Blame my gene pool and lack of self-control.
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