Powerpuff Girls managed to be bad enough to have several bad reboots until I stopped caring or paying attention to them.

Transformers started as a glorified toy commercial and even at its best didn't wander far from that, but the Michael Bay era almost killed my fondness for the setting and its characters. Almost. The Bumblebee movie seemed like a sincere apology attempt.

The bloated and unnecessary Hobbit film trilogy. :why-angel: Check out the short and beautiful Rankin Bass animated movie instead.

Most Disney live-action remakes of animated films sucked, but the Mulan one was especially insulting and utterly missed the point of both the literary original and the animated film that was a lot more respectful to it.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Fallout: This hurts the most. It was my gateway into CRPGs when I was too young to be playing them. My favorite part was the atmosphere. The world felt hopeless and like the survivors’ hanging on was futile. Fast forward to Bethesda and everything now is quirky and funny and retro!! It sucks the mood right out of the game. 76 dialed that up to 11.

    FO: Atomic weapons are frightening to the point of religious significance. The Glow is a genuinely terrifying place.

    FO76: Use le nukes to spawn epic bosses to loot epic loot! :so-true:

    Mass Effect 3: That was the last time I was really excited for a game. I loved BioWare’s work at the time and was ready for the end of the trilogy which turned out like ass.

    I retroactively disliked the previous games a lot more after ME3 and started seeing the reeking liberalism as well. Fuck Great Man Theory and fuck above the law black ops tacticools being glorified by the narrative.

    Diablo 3: I spent a lot of time in Diablo 2 and was very hyped for the sequel. Visuals aside, what I disliked the most was the writing. IMO once they got into WoW where they had to write more than an RTS cutscene’s worth of dialogue, they fall into this campy way of writing that just kills it for me.

    I'm glad I stopped with Diablo 2 and moved on to Torchlight. Somehow, Torchlight maintained the mood better without the le edgy demonology aspects. It helps that one of Diablo's actual founding devs was behind it, someone that the rapey fratboy chuds at NuBlizzard said "fuck that loser" to on Twitter when he criticized the auction house grifting in Diablo 3.