@dmblum1799: to be fair, there’s still quite a lot of human dramas like those being made today. It’s just that with precious few exceptions - like Oppenheimer, The Joker - they aren’t big box office hits. Most of them are much smaller releases.

And what happens every year when a lot of the fine films in this milieu get enough buzz? The wide audience writ large reaction is a largely a big pejorative yawn - “I’ve never heard of any of these movies!”. If the wide audience taste hadn’t shifted stuff like Banshees of Inisherin would approach the popularity and ubiquitousness of the excellent films you listed. So many people deselect for them these days and decry such movies for being slow and pretentious or heavy handed. I could go on.

@greatquantum: I would like that. I am pro good games being successful.

@sladakrobot: gotcha. Good to hear.

Unless there is cross play with pc/ps it’s kind of hard to see the point. This ship might have sailed - quite a while ago. If there isn’t cross play I’ll be curious to see what the population is like.

@sol_01: they already did abandon in droves. Before the rebrand it was down like 60+ percent in year over year ad rev. This rebrand will see that increase even further.

Of the 3 games I have on here, I’ve bought 3, 2, and 2 versions of them. Damn it.

Edit: forgot RDR2, of which I do only have the 1 copy. I recently gave my other copy (pack in with PS4 Pro) to my brother.

These old articles are getting out of hand lol

@nilsdoen: since at least Ghost Protocol they have been really great. Rogue Nation and Fallout are really phenomenal.

@mooglestar: to be clear I was pretty much agreeing with you, in contrast to the rest of the comments calling it really bad. It’s clearly not. If I recall correctly it was the 2009 GOTY here and the remake improves on it massively. Souls wouldn’t have took off like it did if DE were rubbish. It brought the original souls juice and Dark Souls was eagerly anticipated by so many because of it.

@mooglestar: these comment sections aren’t often a place of wisdom. I just beat it a few days ago. It’s objectively a good game with some rough edges due to the age of the design (tendency systems). It’s actually kind of remarkable how well it holds up after 14 years. They iterated on it and improved the core design a lot with the 6 games since but the guts are there. 3 of the 5 archstones are still impressive imo (2 and 5 not so much). It’s gorgeous throughout.

It’s definitely easy now. We’ve played it before, it was the original game and we have six subsequent titles of experience though. It shows most of its age with the boss encounters. Almost all of them either are remarkably easy or are flat from a design perspective (Dragon God). Flamelurker, Maneaters, and Allant are good. Penetrator could be good but can also be more or less automatically beaten by an NPC if you talked to him previously.

Id personally give it an 8/10.