Must share this very-acquired-taste song about Castlevania II:
I'd say this game gets lots of attention, but it's mostly negative attention or apologist YouTubers. A lot of kids had an issue with how obtuse it was, others just remember the good times.
That's funny about your brother deciding final form bosses were enough to make him quit gaming. I kinda get it. lol
This reminds me I've never seen Lawrence of Arabia.
I want to say it was What Remains of Edith Finch? Also a good game for very, very different reasons. lol
Winnie the Pooh on Netflix also isn't a remake, so that makes sense. I have mixed feelings about throwing money at Disney for remaking a cartoon that was already fine, but my friends wanted to go and I had a good time, so it is what it is.
Nah, they could have had more monster fights and less humans within more or less a similar structure.
I might have been too tired, cause I went for a matinee not expecting much, but I just wasn't invested in any of it.
Weirdly enough, I loved Aladdin and I had no expectations for that either. I figured they'd screw it up, but it ended up being a really fun time for me.
STAGE SELECT: What's the most personal story you feel comfortable sharing on the show? If you'd rather not share that, what video game character turns you OFF the most? Just makes you never want to have sex ever again, because if there's even a small chance of your children creating a similar character in the future, you'd rather not risk it?
Bonus points if you have a personal story that reminds you of a video game character so bad they made you never want to have sex again.
Cage Match: Tony Hawk's all the way. I wasn't even that big a fan of Goldeneye at the time, and everything it did has been changed or dramatically improved upon not long after it came out. It's an outdated time capsule.
THPS is also an outdated time capsule, but in the best way: you couldn't release a blockbuster hit with that soundtrack today, but that soundtrack is awesome. The gameplay in THPS is solid and was added to and iterated on in later entries, but the core mechanics still work well/are intuituve/are not clunky, much unlike Goldeneye 007.
By the way, I no longer study or work/teach there, but Tony Hawk came to Stephen F. Austin only a couple months ago to give a business speech and I got to see him in person.
Beyond all that, there's still something I find inherently cool about skateboarding. Really wish I could have gone beyond doing an ollie and keeping the board straight when I was little and had that Star Wars Episode I Anakin board.
Now if Street Sk8er had been involved, my nostalgia goggles and the song "All My Friends Are Metalheads" by Less Than Jake may have won out, but no. THPS is the winner today!
I saw all of these except the Rifftrax one.
Captain Marvel was ok, but I agree Wonder Woman was better.
Endgame was way better than I expected it to be. I realize it relies on 21 other films to work as well as it did, but they knocked it out of the park imo.
Detective Pikachu was also pretty decent. Not my favorite by any means, but had some good laughs thanks to Ryan Reynolds and some heart thanks to the main character. I thought the CGI worked really well in more of a Roger Rabbit sense than a Jurassic Park sense.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters ... actually kinda bored me. I'm sorry to say that about something from your childhood, but it just didn't grab me. Monster fights are cool and I didn't hate the human characters, but I just needed more monsters and fewer humans still. And when the monsters did show up, they and their surroundings just didn't look real to me. I dunno.
I liked Shazam! ok.
8-bit to 16-bit was a huge leap ...
I know you don't think you lost anything with the May games, but Overcooked is a blast!
That's not to say I don't understand why you didn't though. I've definitely forgotten to download PS+ games before.
I mean, I have shoes. And the snakes would have been a problem if my fracture hadn't healed anyway.
