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[–] TommySoda 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Halo, Thief, Heroes of Might and Magic, and Turok.

All things I was incredibly hype for new stuff. All incredible let downs with some more than the others.

Star Wars - Pretty much all previous games and books got retconned out.

Lord of the Rings - Started with the Hobbit and has been downhill since then.

Halo - Halo 4 was okay but everything after that basically changed everything about the lore.

Heroes of Might and Magic - Favorite game as a kid but Ubisoft ruined it and doesn't even make them anymore.

Turok - The reboot is so far from the original they could have renamed the character and just called it something else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

God Thi4f is an obscure pull but with my username I obviously feel the pain on that one.

[–] LeafOnTheWind 6 points 11 months ago

The Hobbit at least had good moments and is almost salvageable with the fan edits (the last one is pretty rough though)

[–] TheKracken 3 points 11 months ago

For HoMM check out Songs of Conquest. Not a 100% match to the old HoMM but it's really good.

[–] Mathazzar 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Star Wars was always my favorite sci fi universe for so long..

Now with what Filoni and Disney has done with it, i just dunno any more. I feel lost. I loved Andor and Rogue One though, but apparently they aren't the most popular?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I loved Solo but fanboys killed that.

[–] Mathazzar 1 points 11 months ago

My only gripe with solo is that I preferred the EU version of his backstop. More in the imperial pilot thing.

But I had already accepted that there would be new canon.

[–] redhorsejacket 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You may be interested to know that there is an open source engine port of HoMM2 that released within the past year I think. I know many people are big on HoMM3 and lots of nodding work has been done on that game to keep it fresh and playable, but 2 was my entry to the franchise, so the FHeroes2 team deserves my endless thanks and admiration.

[–] TommySoda 2 points 10 months ago

HoMM2 was my favorite game as a kid. It was my first entry too. I'll have to look into it. Thanks friend!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Lord of the Rings - Started with the Hobbit and has been downhill since then

Technically, the hobbit existed before lord of the rings. It was a story Tolkien wrote for his kids, that he later expanded and continued into lord of the rings. Initially, the ring wasn't a ring of power, just a novel trick. And Gandalf wasn't all powerful, he was an old friend caught up in bilbo's shenanigans.

Now if you're explicitly talking about the movie adaptations, yeah. The hobbit kind of lost its magic compared to the lord of the rings movies.

[–] CitizenKong 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Hobbit movies being shit is due to greed and imcompetence by Warner Bros. They knew they had only a small time window to do these movies until the rights reverted and they fired Del Toro who was already deep in preproduction because they thought he was too slow. Which forced Peter Jackson, who rather did it himself instead of Warner ruining it completely, to start by scratch and do the movies under horrible circumstances. Scenes were shot without knowing where they fit in because the script was written during shooting, CG had to be shoddily used because Weta couldn't get practical effects and make-up to work quickly enough. Ian McKellen broke down crying because he had to do whole dialogue scenes in a green screen room alone. The making of also shows Peter Jackson being absolutely exhausted and disillusioned. It seems to have broken something in Jackson too, since he hasn't done any movies except documentaries since.

[–] TommySoda 1 points 10 months ago

Yes I was talking about the movies. :)

Loved the Hobbit and LotR books. Had them all when I was a kid and would always reread them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thief. How the fuck did they mess up such a beautiful game.

Turok I love but it didn't have a super strong identity to start, so I can see how it went off the rails. Although re-playing 1 and 2, I was surprised that I actually prefer 1 after all these years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Turok I love but it didn't have a super strong identity to start,

Are you aware of the comic books?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Definitely, but I meant the N64 game

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The comic books came first, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, and maybe if they'd taken more style inspo from it, the later games wouldn't have gone off the rails.

Still a couple fun games, though

[–] Contramuffin 35 points 11 months ago

Plants vs. Zombies. EA bought out Popcap and kicked out the developer after he refused to add monetization to Plants vs. Zombies 2

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Command and Conquer, EA killed it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this one was tragic.

[–] Mathazzar 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always get excited when I see a new CnC tiberian sun trailer has dropped... but I should know better..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The original version lives on.

https://cncnet.org/tiberian-sun

[–] wintermutehal 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fallout. Look what they did to my boy. We could be getting a Baldur’s Gate 3 style fallout, but noooo. Todd had to go and screw it up for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Todd ruins everything he touches. The only exception being Morrowind. And I have my suspicions about his actual involvement in that.

[–] wintermutehal 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Preach! If you want a good laugh, check out the song by the YouTuber Grimbeard titled Todd has a plan for us all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I prefer "It Just Works" by The Chalkeaters.

[–] Tattorack 22 points 11 months ago

Quite literally the current state of Star Trek.

The future of humanity is supposed to be a post scarcity utopia where people don't care about material gain, or at least where material gain isn't the goal anymore, but the current writers have been trying to... reduce that idea.

Several characters, Seven of Nine specifically, have been regressed rather than developed. Turned into something shallow.

[–] SpaceNoodle 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You destroyed it with a cannon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

OP can't spell canon?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That's probably what EA calls the process of destroying beloved franchises.

[–] Telodzrum 9 points 11 months ago

Brian Herbert

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Prey, the remake had nothing to do with the original. NOTHING! And in the original you played a Native American man who grew in ability by reconnecting with his ancestors to fight child eating aliens! How do you not make a sequel to that?