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CloseEvery remake of La Femme Nikita
Men In Black II: They honestly should have just skipped this one. This is the only series I know of in which I liked the third movie better than the first.
Same goes for Iron Man II, except as much as I liked the third movie, it still wasn't as good as the first.
The Dark Knight Rises: Too many things wrong with this movie to count. Even Christopher Nolan didn't want to do it because he thought it was going to suck. Let's illustrate.
The most recent edition of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. Come on! Every version of this game has always been great. Why do we now have to screw it up with a Disney kids theme?
Agree with almost every ST: TNG movie. Generations and First Contact had a lot of untapped potential and were mostly enjoyable. Insurrection and Nemesis were obviously cash-cow milking attempts by writers with burnout to keep their own vision alive when they really needed to hire new blood to do it right. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga should be strapped onto a shock therapy table while being forced to watch the shittiest episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise (a series that just didn't get the writing it deserved) that they wrote and produced for the rest of their lives for what they did to Star Trek.
Let me add Star Trek V: the Final Frontier to this list.
Star Trek: Into Darkness: A Wrath of Khan remake isn't good enough for Abrams. NO! It has to be an ass-backwards remake!
The Dukes of Hazzard movie.
The Bionic Woman TV remake (This could have been done so much better). In fact, any of them: Dallas, Hawaii 5-0, Battlestar: Galactica (Sorry. It's a good a show on it's own, but it needs to be its own show.)...
Stargate: Atlantis after season 5.
Alias season 4. After 3, just skip right to 5 and make the season 4 finale the season 5 opening.
The X-Men movies. They're an insult to fans of the comics. Give this series to someone who will do it justice.
Again, agree with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The thing is, this movie was as strong as any of the other three until the big reveal turned out to be aliens (That thumping sound you hear is my forehead hitting the monitor).
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. No comment.
A number of Mario Karts can be added to this list. There's eight of them now. What's the point?
Tomb Raider 3, Tomb Raider Chronicles. There was a time when Lara wasn't doing so well. These games aren't bad...you're just playing the same game you played in the first two.
I'm going to have to disagree with the poster who says everything after Final Fantasy X sucks. While I haven't played XI, XII comes in as third favorite for me. There was just so much to do this game, it was insane. XIII I'm not so hot about but hear that Lightening Returns is quite a bit better. I'll reserve judgment until I've played it. X-2 strikes me as being made for anime fangirls. I enjoy it for what it is, but I agree that this one was an unnecessary addition to the series.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Don't get me wrong. This game is awesome. Easily the best of the series. The story however, was completely unnecessary. It only ultimately served to introduce characters and elements that we would see in Guns of the Patriots, and that could easily have been done with a few cutscenes. Truth of the matter is, after Snake Eater, I'd really prefer a story arc that follows Big Boss...oh wait (looks at the jacket of Metal Gear Solid V...).
Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi Special Edition. In 1997, George Lucas used computers to tinker with the Star Wars movies and do things he couldn't do before. He did great on A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back, but in the case of Return of the Jedi, he diminishes the quality of the movie. First: The Sy Snoodles musical bit just didn't do it this time around. It jars out of your state of suspension by momentarily changing the pace and tone of the movie and this is what Lucas failed to account for. In the original version, everything had a certain feel. You're in the movie. The remastered musical sequence changes everything; color, atmosphere, rhythm. When it hits, you're momentarily kicked out of the movie. You're back in the theater. You don't want to be thinking about the movie when you're watching it. You just want to be in the movie. 2nd: the Sarlaac pit creature. Again, how does giving him a beak improve him? In fact, after what C3PO tells about Sarlaac, the beak actually makes him less intimidating, as it promises a faster death. Think about it? Which was more ominous? The slimy toothy pit or that idiotic green beak? My last real complaint here is the ending sequence. This could really have been done better. Showing the different planets celebrating could have added depth and dimension, but the way it was done, nobody understood it. Plus, it replaced the original music with a new score that DIDN'T MATCH THE REST OF THE MOVIE. Once again, this sequence jars the experience. It kicks you out of the movie.
Devil May Cry 2. Should have been Devil May Cry bonus levels.
I'm going to stop now or I'll go on forever.
Men In Black II: They honestly should have just skipped this one. This is the only series I know of in which I liked the third movie better than the first.
Same goes for Iron Man II, except as much as I liked the third movie, it still wasn't as good as the first.
The Dark Knight Rises: Too many things wrong with this movie to count. Even Christopher Nolan didn't want to do it because he thought it was going to suck. Let's illustrate.
Catwoman: what was the point? What did she do for the story? Same with that pseudo-Robin cop that helps out. How is he contributing to the story line? Bane: Not-Really-Master villain builds an army of homeless bums and orphans and takes over Gotham City...really? Again with Bane: see plot twists thread and what we're talking about with plot twists for the sake of having a plot twist. Turns out Bane wasn't the big bad after all. It was some girl who worked for Wayne Enterprises. In the beginning of the film, we learn Bruce's knees are ruined and he can never use them rigorously again, and later Bane breaks his back. Almost immediately after recovering, he climbs a 10 story rock wall crumbling with age! Take a minute to think about that!
The most recent edition of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. Come on! Every version of this game has always been great. Why do we now have to screw it up with a Disney kids theme?
Agree with almost every ST: TNG movie. Generations and First Contact had a lot of untapped potential and were mostly enjoyable. Insurrection and Nemesis were obviously cash-cow milking attempts by writers with burnout to keep their own vision alive when they really needed to hire new blood to do it right. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga should be strapped onto a shock therapy table while being forced to watch the shittiest episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise (a series that just didn't get the writing it deserved) that they wrote and produced for the rest of their lives for what they did to Star Trek.
Let me add Star Trek V: the Final Frontier to this list.
Star Trek: Into Darkness: A Wrath of Khan remake isn't good enough for Abrams. NO! It has to be an ass-backwards remake!
The Dukes of Hazzard movie.
The Bionic Woman TV remake (This could have been done so much better). In fact, any of them: Dallas, Hawaii 5-0, Battlestar: Galactica (Sorry. It's a good a show on it's own, but it needs to be its own show.)...
Stargate: Atlantis after season 5.
Alias season 4. After 3, just skip right to 5 and make the season 4 finale the season 5 opening.
The X-Men movies. They're an insult to fans of the comics. Give this series to someone who will do it justice.
Again, agree with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The thing is, this movie was as strong as any of the other three until the big reveal turned out to be aliens (That thumping sound you hear is my forehead hitting the monitor).
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. No comment.
A number of Mario Karts can be added to this list. There's eight of them now. What's the point?
Tomb Raider 3, Tomb Raider Chronicles. There was a time when Lara wasn't doing so well. These games aren't bad...you're just playing the same game you played in the first two.
I'm going to have to disagree with the poster who says everything after Final Fantasy X sucks. While I haven't played XI, XII comes in as third favorite for me. There was just so much to do this game, it was insane. XIII I'm not so hot about but hear that Lightening Returns is quite a bit better. I'll reserve judgment until I've played it. X-2 strikes me as being made for anime fangirls. I enjoy it for what it is, but I agree that this one was an unnecessary addition to the series.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Don't get me wrong. This game is awesome. Easily the best of the series. The story however, was completely unnecessary. It only ultimately served to introduce characters and elements that we would see in Guns of the Patriots, and that could easily have been done with a few cutscenes. Truth of the matter is, after Snake Eater, I'd really prefer a story arc that follows Big Boss...oh wait (looks at the jacket of Metal Gear Solid V...).
Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi Special Edition. In 1997, George Lucas used computers to tinker with the Star Wars movies and do things he couldn't do before. He did great on A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back, but in the case of Return of the Jedi, he diminishes the quality of the movie. First: The Sy Snoodles musical bit just didn't do it this time around. It jars out of your state of suspension by momentarily changing the pace and tone of the movie and this is what Lucas failed to account for. In the original version, everything had a certain feel. You're in the movie. The remastered musical sequence changes everything; color, atmosphere, rhythm. When it hits, you're momentarily kicked out of the movie. You're back in the theater. You don't want to be thinking about the movie when you're watching it. You just want to be in the movie. 2nd: the Sarlaac pit creature. Again, how does giving him a beak improve him? In fact, after what C3PO tells about Sarlaac, the beak actually makes him less intimidating, as it promises a faster death. Think about it? Which was more ominous? The slimy toothy pit or that idiotic green beak? My last real complaint here is the ending sequence. This could really have been done better. Showing the different planets celebrating could have added depth and dimension, but the way it was done, nobody understood it. Plus, it replaced the original music with a new score that DIDN'T MATCH THE REST OF THE MOVIE. Once again, this sequence jars the experience. It kicks you out of the movie.
Devil May Cry 2. Should have been Devil May Cry bonus levels.
I'm going to stop now or I'll go on forever.
I'm taking personally all this hate for FFX-2 ):
Come on, it's an awesome game ;-;
;---------;
and I's never think "this would be better without that", since everything is cool when you like the franchise and stuff *u*
*waits eagerly for a remake of Mystic Quest*
Come on, it's an awesome game ;-;
;---------;
and I's never think "this would be better without that", since everything is cool when you like the franchise and stuff *u*
*waits eagerly for a remake of Mystic Quest*
Rast
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author=pianotm
Stargate: Atlantis after season 5.
I could have sworn Atlantis only had 5 seasons anyways, as it was cancelled shortly after. I enjoyed the whole series anyways.
Speaking of Metal Gear Solid, it would have been better without Metal Gear Solid 2. It wasn't terrible, it was just..eh. Arm possession and all that other stuff(which was later hand-waved as "Oh, I was faking it."). And don't even get me started on the end fights. Trivializing the signature Metal Gear by having you fight an army of them was stupid. Ending the game with a sword dual, while cool, just sort of made the entire story make less sense.
Hearing about how the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock was hilarious, though.
Snake Eater stood out for me because it actually forced you to pay attention instead of relying on that handy radar you had in the previous games. That along with certain boss fights like The End(assuming you actually fought him the normal way) gave the game a much more realistic feel to it.
I am of mixed feelings about Metal Gear Solid 2...I wasn't pleased to not be playing Snake. In the demo packaged with Zone of the Enders, you played Snake. In the beginning of the game, you played that demo through again. When we meet Raiden, I feel like Hideo Kojima tricked me. You see, he told me I was playing Metal Gear Solid, but it turns out it was really a different game pretending to be Metal Gear Solid. I decided to get to know the character. It turns out that I mostly enjoyed the game, but I don't like Raiden one bit. He's selfish, arrogant, whiny, and in the moments when you start to feel sorry for him, he does or says something that completely undermines any sense of empathy you might have developed. You can't really like the guy until he becomes determined to save Olga's child. The ending is completely unsatisfactory: not only is the Metal Gear fight (as you said) idiotic, but Olga has died, and you know she's left an orphan behind, so not only are you totally depressed by the end of the game, but then Raiden hands off the child rescue to Snake so he can go get even with Solidus, and then when that's done, he ditches his fiancee. To make matters worse, the game literally rubs it in your face that it was really just cloning the plot from the previous Metal Gear.
You see, I got into the story of Sons of Liberty. It left me disappointed, but I felt like it really did expand on the Shadow Moses story.
As for The End in Snake Eater: Normal way? I used a sniper rifle and found a perch. How did you fight him?
You see, I got into the story of Sons of Liberty. It left me disappointed, but I felt like it really did expand on the Shadow Moses story.
As for The End in Snake Eater: Normal way? I used a sniper rifle and found a perch. How did you fight him?
author=JosephSeraphI agree. I preferred X-2 to X. I think the reason people didn't like it so much was because they went in expecting everything to be the same in Spira when, why should it? I mean, the world had changed - even they political dynamics. Add to that that most people probably had high hopes (and expectations) for the first FF sequel game, and that they were expecting something world-endangering like, IDK, Sin returning or some other GREAT EVIL to save the world from and I can understand why people didn't appreciate it as much, but it's still a good game.
I'm taking personally all this hate for FFX-2 ):
Come on, it's an awesome game ;-;
;---------;
and I's never think "this would be better without that", since everything is cool when you like the franchise and stuff *u*
*waits eagerly for a remake of Mystic Quest*
I liked it a lot. It was different. It was about piecing life back together after the world was saved, about a world that was always in terror of the colossus Sin, finally being able to relax and live without worry that Mssr Giant and Killy Death Being would jump back into the picture and kill everyone for no reason again. About learning how to work together without the fear and coming together without the pressure of death at every turn. It was very different from other FF games, but that was what I liked about it - that it was different.
Also, that battle system... hnnnnnng~<3
As for series being better without stuff...? Hm... Twilight without Edward. Wait, listen a moment! Twilight was tolerable - tolerable! - when you first meet Bella. She was interesting-ish and wasn't too annoying. Then she met Edward and ugh. No. Please go away. Look, werewolf with-actually ignore him. Date the cute guy who likes you in class. No, not the 108 year old virgin with the glitter problem! Ugh, why...? ;.; Then the books just ughed everywhere.
Hm... maybe... yeah, some of the prose/descriptions in Ill-Made Mute. It was a decent book series but there were a few too many sunrises and sunsets described (and not ironically or to set a mood... just... because).
turkeyDawg
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I thought everyone hated on X-2 for skimpy outfits and pop-diva GRRL POWER bubbliness or whatever. I haven't played it, so that's just my impression...
Also, all this talk about Back to the Future reminds me that I haven't watched any of them in like, 10 years... I should probably rewatch them sometime soon.
author=kory_toombsNintendo will tell you those never happened, so the series is technically already without them. Now, YouTube on the other hand...
Zelda Phillips CD-i games
Also, all this talk about Back to the Future reminds me that I haven't watched any of them in like, 10 years... I should probably rewatch them sometime soon.
author=pianotmAnd the less you talk to my sister about SG: Universe the better... though she would probably say something similar to what I said earlier in that its not that it shouldn't exist, but that it shouldn't have been botched so much. However, since its unpopularity and cancellation apparently led to the movie being cancelled, she might agree with the idea of the series being better off if it never happened.
Stargate: Atlantis after season 5.
author=pianotmPretty sure its one per system. It might seem redundant when you own other systems, but otherwise it makes sense for them all to exist. Whether or not they do enough new stuff is debatable, I guess. I only have Super, 64, and Double Dash, so I can't say much about that. I heard the Arcade ones kinda bombed, though.
A number of Mario Karts can be added to this list. There's eight of them now. What's the point?
Rast
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author=pianotm
As for The End in Snake Eater: Normal way? I used a sniper rifle and found a perch. How did you fight him?
Well, I snuck up on him and held him up to get his camo, and tranq'd him. I was going for a no-kill run, though. That or the sniper rifle method would be the normal way I suppose, but you could do it two other ways. You could literally wait(real life time, not game time) a week or so and the next time you start the game he'll die of old age.
You could also go out of your way to get an SVD early and snipe him immediately after the cutscene where they wheel him out in his wheelchair.
author=Rastauthor=pianotmWell, I snuck up on him and held him up to get his camo, and tranq'd him. I was going for a no-kill run, though. That or the sniper rifle method would be the normal way I suppose, but you could do it two other ways. You could literally wait(real life time, not game time) a week or so and the next time you start the game he'll die of old age.
As for The End in Snake Eater: Normal way? I used a sniper rifle and found a perch. How did you fight him?
You could also go out of your way to get an SVD early and snipe him immediately after the cutscene where they wheel him out in his wheelchair.
O.O Wow. They aren't kidding about that realism in their games, are they?
Star Gate was a good movie. Then I rented Star Gate SG 1 thinking it was a movie. I never watched anything related to it since. So it should have just stopped after the first movie.
CSI New York
The Steve Wilkos Show
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
Star Wars: Episode 7 (Being made now!)
Everything after the first Police Academy.
