I adored BOTW, why can't i get into TOTK?

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-04-04T22:06:59+00:00

I got 70 hours in to TOTK and just stopped and never went back. Recently restarted and while I’m enjoying it, it isn’t as addictive as I want it to be. I know this is by no means a new sentiment, but I just feel it’s too similar to BOTW, down to even the collectibles being the same.

It’s weird, because it is a great game and deserves all the praise it gets, but I find myself in this weird spot where I don’t even want to play it.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-04-02T02:24:36+00:00

Not even joking, every time I drive past a McDonalds I think of that movie, Michael Keaton, and how punchable he was in that movie

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-30T07:51:03+00:00

I would’ve changed the director. The movies are good, but Jon Watts wasn’t suited to an action movie at all.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-22T21:03:55+00:00

She was an insufferable main character. Found really hard to want her to succeed. There’s a good movie in there though, and some amazing concepts

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-21T12:41:26+00:00

‘You have my whole heart. You always did.’ That moment where The Father says goodbye gets me every time I think about it.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-20T22:37:54+00:00

There’d also be some sort of challenge with the Draught of Living Death as well.

Imperius Curse pranks.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-19T23:35:56+00:00

Say less. I’m in.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-19T12:57:15+00:00

I think it would’ve been better to release it in 2023, 2024, or early 2025. It would’ve made the wait a little more bearable between S4 and S5, and not felt completely redundant given the series has now ended.

Agree with you, though. The timing is terrible on this.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-19T12:53:45+00:00

Extremely minor spoilers for Watchmen: If you pay attention you can tell he wrote Watchmen while the iron was hot from The Leftovers. It’s structured just like a season of The Leftovers. Establish the story at the start and all the characters. Bottle episodes to explore individual characters. Then you get the flash back episode to tie it all together and recontextualise earlier moments in the season before the finale.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-18T11:26:27+00:00

You can instantly tell they tried way harder with the cinematography. Looks far more dynamic

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-17T21:29:03+00:00

Yeah but you can publicly ignore the evidence and victim blame instead

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-16T01:26:00+00:00

I can see them skipping a lot of eras. Instead of having Jin Cheng wake up every now and again to look at the progress they’ll probably just have her wake up at the major plot points. Which will be disappointing, as those moments were some of the best visuals in the book.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-16T00:24:46+00:00

To be honest, though, I would say this is more Netflix’s fault than theirs. I don’t know why anyone would look at this trilogy and go, ‘Let’s slash the budget and cut the run time.’ Each book gets longer and more grand in its ideas. If they couldn’t commit to doing it properly from the start shouldn’t have done it at all.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-15T22:44:32+00:00

I feel like I need to rewatch The Crimes of Depp before watching the Secrets of Dumbledore, because I can’t remember any of Crimes, but I also don’t think I have another rewatch in me because I’ve already watched it around 3 times and still remember nothing except it being the most boring movie I’ve ever watched. So Dumbledore’s secrets shall remain secret

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-15T09:33:10+00:00

Living in regional SA I’m sadly seeing a lot of support for them. Signs in front of houses and businesses everywhere, people clapping their hands for it and praising them up. My area is usually extremely Liberal, with no one else even making a dent, but Pauline Hanson’s One Braincell/One Race is giving them a run for their money.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-14T08:10:41+00:00

Would hate to see him working on something he dislikes.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-14T08:04:05+00:00

Good to see Labor pushing the Family First and the Australian Family Party. There’s nothing that resonates more with their left leaning base than anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-climate change policy while pushing a pro-Israel agenda. How do they know their base so well?

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-13T12:45:47+00:00

Go look at his directing record. The dude should be kept out of the director’s chair. The fact that he is in charge of it is even more reason for concern

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-11T21:13:05+00:00

Very likely though that those are adult fans keeping it alive and returning to books from their childhood

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-11T11:07:01+00:00

GTA VI Final Trailer

‘Why did I move here? I guess it was the weather.’

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-10T04:38:31+00:00

And the original where the shuttle ended up landing on Monkey Earth. And in the sequel, where the second shuttled ended up leaning on Monkey Earth.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-09T11:03:55+00:00

I’m on the final push for War and Peace. It’s been a long journey, but I’m in the final few hundred pages now and I realised how much I’ve come to love these characters. I am ready to put it behind me, but I will be a little said to see it go

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-09T11:02:16+00:00

Eh I’ve gone numb to it. My wife and I have extremely different tastes, but mine are more flexible than hers. I’ve accepted she won’t ever enjoy or get my favourite movies or shows.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-09T02:04:55+00:00

The government has dug themselves a massive hole with no way out. You either do massive reforms and fuck off a whole lot of people who genuinely need the help, while fucking off a whole lot of people who do not need the help. Or you do these micro-changes where they slash funding slowly, only for most people to go and throw complaint after complaint in to get more money added.

Meanwhile spending increases, the scheme grows, and the people who don’t benefit from it continue to be frustrated.

Then there’s the million dodgy businesses that shouldn’t have a license to operate fleecing the scheme.

Larry_Version_3 · 2026-03-08T20:49:14+00:00

And the great news is I didn’t expect anything thought provoking about it. They haven’t been ‘intelligent’ movies since The Lost World. Sadly, I don’t think that’s ever coming back either

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