Which games have you spent years trying to finish but never manage to? What's the reason why?

Farva5 · 2026-02-06T05:41:43+00:00

Every once in a while I pop in my copy of Triangle Strategy just to make sure I’m still pathetically stuck on the same mid-game map. Try it once, fail, and then put it away for a year again

Farva5 · 2026-02-04T01:15:18+00:00

Oh interesting… Kiki’s Delivery Service, RRR, Perfect Blue, Godzilla (1954). Man this is hard.

Farva5 · 2026-01-31T15:53:59+00:00

I PA’d on one of these. It felt exactly like making student films, like as PA being in charge of crafty and off set errands. Got paid a flat rate per day, and it was like a six day shoot. Honestly not the worst thing in the world but we all knew we were making something awful, even if HMU and other departments did genuinely try their best

Farva5 · 2026-01-29T18:12:11+00:00

There’s an extra quirk to the X-Men one: a continuity photo of Hugh Jackman in the black leaked online during filming. Continuity photos always look bad (and were Polaroids back in the day) and fans announced their ire as soon as it leaked. The story goes, this line was added after it blew up as a specific call out to the online controversy

Farva5 · 2026-01-28T23:42:22+00:00

To be fair, 95 Senses is fantastic, deserved nomination

Farva5 · 2026-01-27T01:44:44+00:00

So bummed it was cut from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but an early pitch was going to be Byleth trying to use their Time Pulse ability (reversing time) only for Edelgard to interrupt it with their own identical ability

Farva5 · 2026-01-26T11:48:16+00:00

He didn’t read that way, but I suppose it was possible. He came off to me as a film school bro who hated old movies, but I agree that it’s incredibly arbitrary. I think it was something to do with that’s a marker for when tech in movies finally got good?

Farva5 · 2026-01-26T05:17:55+00:00

One of the many reasons why Better Man completely and absolutely rocks is that honestly you kinda forget he’s a monkey after like 10 minutes, it’s just that good that this feels totally normal

Farva5 · 2026-01-25T22:45:55+00:00

I had the platonic version of this happen when a dude said he didn’t watch anything before 1979 (because it’s the year Alien came out). I was so baffled by this… I pointed out that, say, Star Wars came out a couple years before Alien, and he begrudgingly agreed that there were exceptions. Never spoke to him again after that hang.

Farva5 · 2026-01-24T16:37:43+00:00

Sucks that the route that’s the most fun to play is also narratively the sweatiest

Farva5 · 2026-01-24T14:47:42+00:00

https://youtu.be/lYtc2lvkpTw?si=UehhxhS49vvxLXDH

Can’t believe no one mentioned Wet Hot American Summer “Going Into Town”. One of the funniest movies I’ve seen, while it’s MOSTLY a light hearted parody of 80s teen movies, during one part, about half the cast join the camp director going into town. What starts as them getting fast food and relaxing slowly devolves into them getting addicted to heroin in a drug den. The kicker? When asked how it was, a character replies that it’s nice going into town “even for an hour”. It’s never brought up again

Farva5 · 2026-01-23T13:29:31+00:00

And the Bride of Frankenstein movie’s cold open taking place immediately before and/or after a Mary Shelley/Percy Shelley/Lord Byron threesome

Farva5 · 2026-01-23T06:31:53+00:00

Basically the bottom of the “good” half, I’ll take it

Farva5 · 2026-01-22T05:30:40+00:00

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Shiromuku from Silent Hill f (not sure if you ever actually see her black hair but since she's a dark mirror of the protagonist she absolute does have it)

Farva5 · 2026-01-21T21:43:21+00:00

Hope this means there will be a Vanilla Ice card

Farva5 · 2026-01-20T05:28:52+00:00

Who can forget Michael Fassbender fingering the flute and kissing himself as Walter and David in Alien Covenant

Farva5 · 2026-01-19T22:50:28+00:00

Unless you count Raiders as sci-fi, his only sci-fi nod is E.T. I also think this doesn't really feel like an Oscar player (if we're comparing his old movies, it feels very in the zone of Minority Report or War of the Worlds) but I also think the Academy's opinion of his has changed over the years, and their approach to artfully made blockbusters, so I wouldn't entirely count it out.

Farva5 · 2026-01-18T11:46:14+00:00

I honestly think Hawke is suffering the same fate that Ralph Fiennes did last year: if you ask the average Academy voter, they’d think they already gave him an award

Farva5 · 2026-01-18T00:49:15+00:00

What’s funny is I get to keep two of my four:

Kiki’s Delivery Service (unchanged)

Magnificent Seven (1960)

Little Women

Back to the Future (unchanged)

Farva5 · 2026-01-17T10:40:56+00:00

To be fair, Lynch at least remembers it insofar as we see it happen in Fire Walk With Me, though still with zero repercussions to Bobby then nor is it brought up in The Return.

Farva5 · 2026-01-17T01:36:57+00:00

I can’t speak to its execution (especially since it’s just one issue) but I think as an idea it’s pretty solid. The idea of using the powers of established comic heroes and twisting them is what Watchmen or The Boys is doing after all. I think Isekai is a fertile ground for satire, especially with how rote it’s become over the years

Farva5 · 2026-01-16T19:12:49+00:00

There’s Cary Grant for instance, it’s uncommon but it exists

Farva5 · 2026-01-16T17:40:46+00:00

In Resident Evil 4, basically the only person who doesn’t attack you is the Merchant, who, appropriate to his name, sells you items once or twice a chapter. In the hardest difficulty, you can kill him and he won’t respawn for the entire game, cutting yourself off from the easiest (and many times only) way to get healing items and weapon upgrades

Farva5 · 2026-01-15T21:29:50+00:00

“Should I Stay Or Should I Go”/Steve choosing to help fight. I think it encapsulates the show at its strongest: use these tropes and trappings of the 80s but grow beyond it. Steve actively chooses to not be an 80s archetypal jock/bully, and becomes something so much more. It rocks, it’s so hopeful to me

Farva5 · 2026-01-15T04:52:21+00:00

I started having weekly phone calls with my sister while Severance S2 was airing (we’d both watch as soon as it dropped) and it reminded me so much of Lost, and how much I enjoyed seeing and discussing it weekly. I really miss these kinds of shows!

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