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This really is a pointlessly small nitpick about a fairly old movie, but in The Mummy Returns, the scene where they're racing to get into the pyramid before the sun hits it. They're racing ahead of this wave of oncoming daylight on the ground, and dive in just at the last moment just as the...

So that we can feel superior when saying we watched the authentic black and white version.

Waiting for the time a 'person' is found collapsed in a hospital corridor, and staff spend half an hour trying everything to revive them only to find that they just needed a reboot.

I can't say I ever really saw the steampunk genre as predominantly optimistic. More like, it was cynical about different things. And then there's Shadowrun.

Steampunk evokes the traits of the actual Victorian era, and that was a time of great empires and political machinations. Corporations exist in service of the Crown, or its equivalent. It's also an era of great invention and innovation, where the ideas of a few people can drive large-scale...

Making Rime of the Frostmaiden as an Icewind Dale sequel would work well from a marketing perspective, and the early to mid game has a decently open sandbox quality to it. The last couple of chapters might need some work to break up the two-long-dungeonsness of it all.

Also, everyone else in Budd's Buds were such weiners, even the ringleader. Where was the next Hank or Stephanie in that lot?

Plus there's no soulslike "bonfire" system that has you constantly backtracking, it uses a standard console-style checkpoint system, and a generous one at that - I don't think I was ever set back by more than a minute or so of gameplay after dying in a fight.

No, certainly not. It does tend to be confused with Sekiro, which came out around the same time. Ghost of Tsushima is a standard open world game, no soulslike game mechanics at all.

Have you played Ghost of Tsushima? It does have a similarly large-scale open world experience, though you do need to go through a few specific quests early on to unlock some of your main abilities. Once that's done, though, there's plenty to explore in the wider world, and no need to engage with...

It has a certain "cowboy simulator" aspect to it such that you need to do a degree of routine upkeep to keep your character in tip-top condition. It's less extreme than survival modes in games like Fallout 4 but still in a similar vein.

Have you tried Avowed? It has a fairly large environmental exploration element interspersed with its various quests and side quests, and you can easily while away some time doing nothing very much if you're not into engaging with the main plot right now.

Eurgh. Spider-Man clone saga. So many changes introduced over a long run of stories, only for each and every one of them to be painstakingly reversed and set back to an established status quo, regardless of how ludicrous the explanations were for some of them (I mean, Darth Maul returning has...