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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAlkaizer" data-source="post: 9733661" data-attributes="member: 7024893">Oh man. I don't know how I missed this thread. I don't tend to yuck other people's yum, but I'm very opinionated and love discussing art and culture.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Hobbit movies get a lot of hate. But I actually think the first one is absolutely excellent. The other two quickly go down in quality.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I think Rogue One is overrated. It's a good movie. It shines by comparison with the atrociously low quality of other Star Wars medias. But there was some weird parts.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I think the classic D&D settings like Mystara, Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms are incredibly boring. Not saying there's not some interesting nuggets, but overall I think it's all nostalgia. In all honesty, I haven't dug really deep, but I do own and have read some of the products and adventures.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I actually think most TTRPGs a pretty poorly designed. I think that most people don't understand what designing means.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I think the D&D movie was pretty bad (it seemed to be well received on this forum notably).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I think a lot of the older D&D books (original D&D, ad&D) are near unreadable and poorly edited. If you put me on a desert island with them and no knowledge prior I would not be able to tell you what to do with it. The OSR gets some flak for being a romanticized reimagination of a way of playing that never was exactly that way, but at least they make some effort to make their stuff readable and comprehensible.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Any franchise that shifts into time travel or multiverse has a 98% chance to become naughty word. I don't know they all do it, but it always ends badly.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I like Critical Role and I like Matt Mercer. But I think his worldbuilding is quite bad and uninteresting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Gonna take the word confessional at face value: I like bikini chainmail and sexy sword-wielding ladies. I'm generally sensitive to having interesting and developed female characters and having a good representation. But I think Conan and the fantasy pulp genre just broke me that way.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Superman is utterly uninteresting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I don't watch that much anime, but the aesthetic made it into video games. It absolutely shocks me how incredibly popular games portray what is essential little girls in very sexualized outfits. People catch them, collect them and all these weird patterns. I don't know it gets a pass.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I think the overwhelming majority of board games are boring. There was a huge wave of heavily thematized games, especially with Kickstarter. They're all boring. The simple, more abstract board games are way more fun. You won't make me feel like I'm a Viking sacking islands. I'm playing with cards, meeples and a cheap cardboard printed in China. I think I don't have this problem with RPGs because of the theater of the mind, it takes me away from the absurdity of what's going on at the table.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I think the Fallout games are pretty bad, and the aesthetic and concept of it is way too weak to carry a full franchise. Yes that includes New Vegas. It's a decent game, the only one I really put some hours into without pushing myself. But I don't think it's as good as people make it to be.</li> </ol>That's what comes to mind.</blockquote>

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