MisterBananaFoam

@AlexanderSheen

Yes. Oh man, I tried watching some of the first season of Chuck and I thought it was pretty neat, but I couldn't ever pick it up from there.

@Clairabel

Tumblr is pretty much the hive mind for anything Homestuck. I agree, though, every time I move to a new browser or forget to go back to it I just get tired of trying to look, and there's about a bazillion pages of the Homestuck story left. I haven't even gotten to the trolls yet I can't for the life of me finish it.

Some other ones I forgot to mention:

Pokemon Black/White - I loved the hell out of Pokemon Platinum, which is pretty much where I started my foray into the Poke-universe (yeah, I know, I suck), but I cannot pick up the game anymore. Maybe it's because I might be growing out of the formula as quickly as I got in. Maybe it's because none of the Pokemon in this generation look recognizable compared to the first few games, or just look like a bunch of crossed wires underneath a home theater system (an ice cream cone Pokemon? Really?). Either way, I stopped after the sixth gym or so, and haven't picked it up since.

Prototype 2 - I honestly thought I was going to love this game. There's a new protagonist, it's a sequel to one of the goriest games on the market, and there's more challenges you can do! Sadly, it all fell apart when I took a look at the ATROCIOUS writing. Heller is trying to kill Alex Mercer because supposedly he killed his wife and child, yet gets infected by Mercer for one of his grand schemes against Blackwatch. The writers of Prototype 2 try to get you invested into James Heller as a character since his wife and child are dead, but really, that's the most cop-out excuse I've ever heard. Besides that, it doesn't even fucking work! James Heller is still the manifestation of the virus! He can EAT PEOPLE! In fact, HE DOES EAT PEOPLE! It's required to finish the damn game, and he doesn't just eat people, oh no, he consumes their memories. I'm sorry, Free Radical, but I cannot get emotionally invested in AN AUTO-CANNIBAL.

I really liked most of the rest of the game, but I didn't like the writing at all, and James Heller's VO doesn't sound like the right person to portray him.

@believer258: Funny that, I have the exact opposite problem. I can't seem to finish Fallout 3. (it's made even harder by me letting my friend borrow it and not asking for it back for a long time)

I'm certain a lot of people know what I'm talking about right away, but I'll elaborate. Is there something that you've watched/played lately, whether it's a movie, video game, book, TV show, or anything else, that you wish could have been good but in reality you know it's bad?

I'll go ahead and list mine (and to be honest I'm probably going to lose a lot of credibility on these topics but whatever)

The Big Bang Theory - I only see nerds on television as token characters in most sitcoms or dramas, like Steve Urkel in Family Matters, but I never really saw a show that encompassed the truth behind being a nerd and being funny. I then saw previews for this show, and I thought it could turn out alright. If Chuck Lorre and his band of co-writers do their research and manage to avoid the schlock we've been used to seeing up until now, it could be funny. But dammit, I was wrong.

Instead, I get a show about a Playa disguised as a nerd with glasses, a genius jerk (who happens to be the funniest character, according to everyone who watches the show), a jewish momma's boy who often undermines himself and the token Indian. Oh, and some hot chick. Of course. Every sitcom has to have a hot chick.

A couple of moments of the Big Bang Theory are somewhat funny, but most of it repeats the same pattern: "Sheldon undermines the rest of the cast, says something scientific which confuses Penny and someone makes a joke about a colonoscopy." Sure, other things can go on in the show, but most if it is boring clutter and the nerd stereotypes presented aren't humorous. For people who don't play video games that enjoy the "OH MY GOODNESS HE'S PLAYING A NES HAHAHAHA" humor, it's right up their alley, but it bores the hell out of me, and evidently my parents always drag me downstairs to watch it. Hell, someone even took out the laugh track on one of the scenes and, as it turns out, none of the dialogue is that funny. Way to dash my hopes, Chuck Lorre.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts - I loved the first two Banjo games with all of my heart, and to be honest, the third one isn't even that bad, but I can't call it a Banjo game, no matter how hard I try. The vehicle creation is really detailed and fun, but I can't imagine Banjo driving around in a vehicle when he didn't even spend any time in vehicles in the first game, and very little in the second. If Rare called this game Bumper: Nuts and Bolts (after the badger from Diddy Kong Racing), I would have liked it a lot more, but it wasn't at all what I thought of when I thought of Banjo-Kazooie.

Saints Row The Third - Here I go again, dumping my gaming credibility out the window.

Anyways, Saints Row had plenty of wacky and hilarious fun to go around, and the sequel has even more stuff to do. The third sequel was pretty great, but in my humble opinion, didn't capture the same essence that I got when I picked up Saints Row 2. You start the game gunning down guards in a bank robbery, but now that you're famous, even some of the guards ask for your autograph. You eventually get dumped into prison, where you meet the Syndicate, a gang of villains who demand tribute from the Saints. Of course, the Saints tell them to fuck off, only to be captured and held hostage high above Steelport, the game's new location. Sadly, while you're completing the intense mission, Johnny Gat gets killed offscreen, and you have to skydive into Steelport.

But why am I so distasteful towards this game? It seems to have started off pretty well. Well, for one, the story is incredibly short compared to the first two. (that might have something to do with how Respect now levels your character up instead of unlocking missions) In the first two games, it took me about 16 hours of playtime to finish the story, and I didn't even complete the game one hundred percent. As you can probably tell, I fully completed all of Saints Row The Third's missions in about six hours less of playtime.

I feel like THQ tried a little too hard when trying to make Saints Row The Third a wacky and engrossing game. It's kind of like Portal 2 to me; it's a game I don't play as much of, but enjoy more of it than most games on the market. It might also have something to do with the fact that I really didn't want to buy a DLC pack, but in any case, I don't think Saints Row The Third lived up to the hype of its predecessors.

@MikeGosot: Man, that game sucked. Way too short and the graphics looked terrible.

@Godlyawesomeguy: I didn't mean for it to come off like that. I'm sure people have made dance songs with a deep message hidden in them. I just wanted to make it clear that it wasn't what LMFAO was aiming for, they just wanted to make a dance song and that's what they did. Your mileage may vary on how catchy it was, but at least they hit their mark.

Where did that series go? I managed to catch a few clips on Youtube and it's actually one of MTV's funnier shows, albeit it was annoying at times. I wish it came back today; there's a lot of celebrities out there today that I'd like to see get their skulls caved in.

Also, I heard they actually did revive it at one point in '06-'07 but it sucked compared to the first, mainly because Eric Fogel wasn't part of the production team. If it weren't for that, I would be dying for another season.

Also, it had Stone Cold Steve Austin, my favorite wrestler ever, as a recurring character. And he was one of the show's assistants. Awesome stuff.

I never finished Half Life 2, Skyrim, or Alan Wake, and I haven't played any new games this year besides maybe Gotham City Impostors. I'm eagerly awaiting Max Payne 3, though.

Oh, and Bulletstorm, Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Assassin's Creed Revelations (I have it, I just want to beat 1, 2, and Brotherhood first), Mario Party 9, and maybe Binary Domain.

@captain_clayman: That was my thought for a long time and still is. I can't help but like it though, it's just been in my blood to like techno-ish songs, I guess.

But hey, even then, its badness doesn't hold a candle to their godawful Sexy and I Know It. God, screw everything about that song.

I just got done watching a review of Party Rock Anthem by Todd in the Shadows, and... I really don't know what to think of it now. I mean, yes, the song is essentially just incredibly dumb dance music and it's blatantly obvious that LMFAO isn't even trying with the lyrics... but did they really go into this song thinking, "Hey, I'm going to make a dance song, and add lyrics about serious, edgy topics like rape and war that diverges from the common dance tropes we use today?" No, no they didn't, because then it would sound five times more retarded. That's the problem with reviewing music made by someone like LMFAO, critics don't take into account that maybe, just maybe, the guys of LMFAO actually set out to make a techno track. What's wrong with that? There's too much of it in the market already? I don't mind that, as long as it doesn't seem like blatant plagiarism of other songs (which, okay, LMFAO pretty much stole one of Rick Ross's chorus lines and rewrote it for the common culture, which is inexcusable). The lyrics suck? That's like saying that a video game sucks solely because of the story. Games don't have to provoke powerful emotions in human nature to be good. I mean, look at Tetris, Mario, Katamari Damacy, EA Skate, Team Fortress 2, Minecraft, Worms, Super Meat Boy, SSX, the Street Fighter games, Mega Man and countless other titles. Do they have a great story? Mostly, no. Some of them have decent ones, but they're nothing to write home about compared to other narratives. My point here is, believe it or not, you can sell stuff to people that doesn't torque their emotions and it can still be good, and that's what I think the case is for Party Rock Anthem. It doesn't have the subtlety or message of songs made by other artists, but it knows how to get people dancing, and that was EXACTLY what LMFAO was gunning for.

Case in point, comparing Party Rock Anthem to genius lyrical masterpieces is like comparing Trials HD to Heavy Rain, or Brad Pitt to Miley Cyrus, since they don't even qualify to be in the same category let alone be compared with one another. Sure, it's overblown, it's overplayed, and most of LMFAO's songs make my gut wrench, but I think people have been looking at Party Rock Anthem the wrong way. If you think that's wrong and it sucks ass, well, good for you, I guess, but Party Rock Anthem is upbeat, jumpy, and manages to meet its goals as a crazy club song, and I say there's nothing wrong with that.

What's your take on PRA? I'm pretty sure I can predict the usual response, but I'd like to hear from the opposite spectrum anyways.

EDIT: Derp, posted on the wrong subforum.