Poll of the Day > Is there anything that you love but you cant bring yourself to recommend it?

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For me its probably War Thunder. The game is fun, unique, and interesting. But the grind and freemium aspect of it is horrible.

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The show Legion. Great show, fantastic cast, but its hard to convince people to respect mutants.

JoseAAV posted...

The show Legion. Great show, fantastic cast, but its hard to convince people to respect mutants.

The show is really incredible. Way better than some typical superhero show. Fargo is made by the same dude and it is just as good if not better imo

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Yea, and it's a gacha game

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Mead posted...

The show is really incredible. Way better than some typical superhero show. Fargo is made by the same dude and it is just as good if not better imo

Ill check that out.. they have a huge cast in comparison.

Not really. If it's something that has an issue, I'll usually recommend it but mention the issue. As people have probably noticed, I'm pretty big on qualifying statements. Other than maybe the Broadway musical Hamilton, I'm not sure I've enthusiastically praised anything in the last few years... and even then it's not so much as a recommendation, just in that I still think it has a great cast recording and -- other than the shitty version on D+ -- is a solid production.

I mean, fuck, I probably love the Simpsons almost as much as Oguri, but I drop qualifying statements on that all the time or criticize elements.

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Soda. I love it with all my heart but it's really bad for you.

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JoseAAV posted...

Ill check that out.. they have a huge cast in comparison.

each season is its own unique story so thats why it probably seems that way, new cast each time

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sabin017 posted...

Yea, and it's a gacha game

This, I would never recommend Genshin Impact to anyone.

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Most of the things I recommend to people come with an asterisk

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Zareth posted...

This, I would never recommend Genshin Impact to anyone.

Bog why? I'm playing it now, what is Gotcha about it?

You get plenty of chars while just playing the game (though i think I was a bit lucky), and it's tons of fun...as well as being freaking HUGE.

No pay wall or anything that I can see, no need to ever spend any money on it (let alone $60 or something for any games of this size in the past).

Seriously it seems as good as Path of Exile for a free game. I'm actually enjoying it more than I enjoyed breathe of the wild to be honest (least freaking weapons don't break etc).

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Escape from Tarkov.
I fucking love it and I frequently have friends that see me play ask about it, but it is not a game I would recommend to anyone.

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Gotta be SS13
Nothing like it in the universe, the closest thing is dwarf fortress.

shadowsword87 posted...

Gotta be SS13
Nothing like it in the universe, the closest thing is dwarf fortress.

What does SS stand for?

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hypnox posted...

For me its probably War Thunder. The game is fun, unique, and interesting. But the grind and freemium aspect of it is horrible.

Ha, my old weed dealer played this so much. It still looked pretty cool, but I could tell that stuff too.

Hmm, definitely a lot of music I like most of all. It's hard to recommend Mr. Bungle.

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wolfy42 posted...

What does SS stand for?

Space Station 13.
2-D pixel spessmans with a horrifically complicated atmospheric system, a wide varied set of jobs (including cargo, medical, security, command, the science team, engineering with sub-jobs for each section), rotating gamemodes, and really dynamic storytelling.
It's all wrapped up in the most awful and ancient system imaginable that's been hammered away until it's presentable, but still has a horrific amount of jank.

Zareth posted...

This, I would never recommend Genshin Impact to anyone.

This might blow your mind but you don't have to spend a single cent if you don't want to.

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aHappySacka posted...

This might blow your mind but you don't have to spend a single cent if you don't want to.

Yeah, honestly havn't seen a free to play game that let you do as much without spending money, even Path of Exile really needs you to spend at least a bit on stash tabs (which is fine cause I wanted to support the game and they are so not greedy).

Dungeons and dragons online also can let you play a ton without spending money, but honestly at least getting 1 month (but 3 months for $20 makes more sense) of VIP makes a ton of sense if your gonna play it.

Genshin Impact literally seems to not need you to spend a dime to get the full experience. Luck is involved somewhat, but even that doesn't seem to be that big since you get a decent number of good characters automatically just from playing (including 2 fire characters which is really important and Barbara who is the best healing in the game I believe).

Honestly already put in 30+ hours into the game and havn't spent a sent, but I would be totally willing to actually spend some money just to support the game since I'm enjoying it so much. I'll eventually probably look up what the best method is of spending money on the game since I'll want to support it at least a bit (If I play something over 100 hours, I figure it's worth at least spending $20 to support it).

It reminds me a bit of Marvel Heroes in a way, since the may thing you could spend money on that game was to obtain additional characters (But you could eventually get them all just by playing if you wanted). I spent quite a bit opening up characters for that game before it shut down (with many chars I barely got to try after buying them!!).

Anyway I highly recomend Genshin Impact, even if you do buy tons of games etc, like I said, I am enjoying it more then I did Breath of the wild...which I bought on release for full price.

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The campaigns in the CoD series

I couple of co-workers have brought it up in discussion (usually around the time a new game drops) and the conversation either end with me saying "oh, no, I just play it for the story mode" or the co-working saying "you dont play multiplayer" followed by a brief chuckle

I loved MW2, I got it as a joke present but I was glued to my set for hours

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Yeah a lot of video games I love but I'm already sure the internet has tainted their opinion on before they even played it.

Same with DC movies. They aint on marvels level but they aint bad. As much as I like harley Quinn her movie was the only one i didnt care for. Had to watch it twice to remember how it ended.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Yeah a lot of video games I love but I'm already sure the internet has tainted their opinion on before they even played it.

Same with DC movies. They aint on marvels level but they aint bad. As much as I like harley Quinn her movie was the only one i didnt care for. Had to watch it twice to remember how it ended.

There are some older games like that for me as well. Fallout 1 and 2 for instance were GREAT, but if you go back and try and play them now, it's like pulling teeth they are so slow.

Many other older games though (like Might and magic World of Xeen for instance) are still great.

Meanwhile some older movies/shows fall into that category, either because they just flat out end horrible (or don't get a real ending) which makes it actually SUCK that the show is so good, or because they just don't hold up well over time.

As far as DC is concerned I didn't really like the new HQ movie (Birds of prey), but the first suicide squad freaking HQ stole that show, basically making Will Smith look like a chump.


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wolfy42 posted...

There are some older games like that for me as well. Fallout 1 and 2 for instance were GREAT, but if you go back and try and play them now, it's like pulling teeth they are so slow.

Many other older games though (like Might and magic World of Xeen for instance) are still great.

Meanwhile some older movies/shows fall into that category, either because they just flat out end horrible (or don't get a real ending) which makes it actually SUCK that the show is so good, or because they just don't hold up well over time.

As far as DC is concerned I didn't really like the new HQ movie (Birds of prey), but the first suicide squad freaking HQ stole that show, basically making Will Smith look like a chump.

Yeah I liked the suicide squad movie. Even liked deadshot. My complaint with him was the costume looked great but he seldom wore the mask

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wolfy42 posted...

Bog why? I'm playing it now, what is Gotcha about it?

genshin starts to feel really gacha after a couple months when character progression falls off to being horribly slow and you realize you need 5* characters and weapons to make any sort of real progress anymore

look at how overwhelmingly useful venti has been for a week 1 limited gacha character (until they did that rerun recently, but I stopped playing before then). the difference between doing spiral abyss with and without venti is absurd. same thing with the power level difference between 4* and 5* main dps

you can play on a casual level and still have fun, but if you main dps xiangling for fire out of sheer lack of options due to luck and ever play coop with a diluc, it just gets kind of depressing

especially once you reach around adventure rank 40-45 where you have to start farming 5* artifacts, the power difference becomes VERY apparent. this is the part where if you've been stuck with only starter characters and shit luck, you might not be able to clear content solo anymore

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Yeah, you don't HAVE to spend a single cent, but would the person I'm recommending it to do so?
I don't want to recommend a gacha game to someone who might have an addictive personality and end up spending thousands of dollars on it.

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NieR really because for most people it's weeb pervy fanservice but my god is it enjoyable

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Mead posted...

each season is its own unique story so thats why it probably seems that way, new cast each time

That first episode of Fargo was over a hour long but what a great episode. Might take a while to finish when each episode is 50 mins long

Surprised no one has said heroin yet.

Broccoli souffl

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Homestuck. I've read it twice (serially and all at once). I love it, it's one of my favorite works of fiction, and I was one of those kids in high school so it holds a really special place in my heart.

but man I can't recommend a 9000 page story to someone, especially when the first 1500~ are kinda bad lmao and hard to push through, and certainly read like they were written in the early 10s. there's also aesthetic roadblocks

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wolfy42 posted...

Yeah, honestly havn't seen a free to play game that let you do as much without spending money,

Have you not seen many f2p/ptw games? >_>

mooreandrew58 posted...

Same with DC movies. They aint on marvels level but they aint bad. As much as I like harley Quinn her movie was the only one i didnt care for. Had to watch it twice to remember how it ended.

I think they're all about the same level, in that most comic movies still kinda suck. Every now and again, you get a good one, but they're kinda far and few between. The biggest thing that the MCU has going for it is just the sheer number of films

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i think it'd be really easy to recommend homestuck to certain crowds though, like doctor who fans, zero escape fans, or people who really like mechanic-exploity isekai. just not... people in general

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Zeus posted...

Have you not seen many f2p/ptw games? >_>

I think they're all about the same level, in that most comic movies still kinda suck. Every now and again, you get a good one, but they're kinda far and few between. The biggest thing that the MCU has going for it is just the sheer number of films

Nah I think the overuse of comic relief helped them a lot. Only time it bugged me was doctor strange. Felt forced in that one. But as a DC fanboy i gotta give marvel props for their ability to take lesse popular or downright obscure characters and have a successful movie. Nobody gave a fuck about iron man before the movies and only harcore comic fans knee of guardians of the galaxy.

Oddly with DC the 2 least popular characters to get a movies winded up being their biggest hits


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Aquaman was unbelievably predictable, but the action scenes were really solid and some of the humor was surprisingly good

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Opiates. I dont do them myself these days and I was never addicted, but I do like the feeling quite a bit. It makes me feel normal or how I imagine normal people must feel most the time. The potential for abuse, addiction, and life destruction is too much for me to comfortably use opiates recreationally, so its not something Id recommend to others either.

mooreandrew58 posted...

Nobody gave a fuck about iron man before the movies

Hahahaha, no. He was widely featured in games, he had a cartoon, and he was one of the best-known Avengers, which -- at the time -- was either Marvel's first or second best-known team (depending on where you put X-Men) which is why he was so often parodied. While I'm not sure he made the cutoff for the top 10 best-known Marvel heroes either then *or* now, but he was a solid 25.

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Zeus posted...

Hahahaha, no. He was widely featured in games, he had a cartoon, and he was one of the best-known Avengers, which -- at the time -- was either Marvel's first or second best-known team (depending on where you put X-Men) which is why he was so often parodied. While I'm not sure he made the cutoff for the top 10 best-known Marvel heroes either then *or* now, but he was a solid 25.

So i exxageratted a bit. But take me. Id say im typical for my age group when it comes to Super heroes. Wacthed cartoons and shit but didnt read the comics (I read some now though) and i really only knew about him not really anything about him.

Him having a cartoon doesnt mean much. Couldn't have been that big as I dont recall anyone ever talking about it. It was all spiderman xmen justice league batman teen titans and young justice as far as what I recall being popular cartoons.

Point still stands though. He was far from than most popular hero yet they decide to kick off their series of movies with him and it was wildly successful then they pull out the guardians whom I and many othees had never heard of and it was successful.

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Zeus posted...

he was one of the best-known Avengers, which -- at the time -- was either Marvel's first or second best-known team (depending on where you put X-Men)

LOL. The X-Men were always massively more popular than the Avengers. It was never even close.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

LOL. The X-Men were always massively more popular than the Avengers. It was never even close.

Yeah I didnt know about them untill my teens. Of course I knew cap hulk and thor as individuals just not as part of a team.

Only reason I even knew iron man was capcom vs marvel 2

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****ing Transgender Chicks...

Oh, I totally forgot an obvious one.

Smoking lots of weed :p

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Cats

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Star Trek Online.
There is no other game I have invested my time into more, but I would never recommend it to anyone under any circumstance.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Him having a cartoon doesnt mean much. Couldn't have been that big as I dont recall anyone ever talking about it. It was all spiderman xmen justice league batman teen titans and young justice as far as what I recall being popular cartoons.

Well, from the other cartoons you cite, you might have been too young to have seen it? It ran for 2 seasons in the early 90s, alongside a lot of other Marvel TAS. Keep in mind that the FF, which was once Marvel's biggest team, only ran for 2 seasons back then as well.

Metalsonic66 posted...

LOL. The X-Men were always massively more popular than the Avengers. It was never even close.

Which is completely untrue although, again, you'd probably too young to know any better. Until the X-Men revamp in the late 1970s, the comic had been performing poorly for years (even to the point of being cancelled) which is why the whole roster got revamped in the first place.

Was trying to find some numbers to illustrate things, but I guess I'll have to settle on the best-selling Marvel comics for 1973:

https://trendingpopculture.com/best-selling-marvel-comics-of-1973-40-years-later/

More importantly, I didn't say "more popular," I said "best-known." Those are completely different things. In any given decades, certain titles might suddenly get big among comic fans but elicit a "who?" among the general population.

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Zeus posted...

Which is completely untrue

lol no.
Zeus posted...

More importantly, I didn't say "more popular," I said "best-known." Those are completely different things.

In this case, the X-Men were both more well-known and more popular than the Avengers for the vast majority of their existence.

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GameFaqs

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Metalsonic66 posted...

lol no.

lolyes, as I literally already showed you.

Metalsonic66 posted...

In this case, the X-Men were both more well-known and more popular than the Avengers for the vast majority of their existence.

No, they haven't been more well-known for the majority of their existence. The Avengers was as well-known as the Justice League almost from its inception, whereas the X-Men only became well-known among the general public in *maybe* the late 1980s or early 1990s.

As for popularity, the top ten highest-grossing comic book movies of all time consists of 4 Avengers films, Captain America Civil War (which featured the Avengers), Black Panther (who is an Avenger), and Iron Man 3 (also an Avenger), along with Spiderman Far From Home, Aquaman, and... well, long story short, no X-Men.

In fact, on the top 50, you don't even see Deadpool until #28

https://www.cbr.com/superhero-movies-highest-grossing-ever/

Even adjusting for inflation, the X-Men still aren't up there.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093424014/

The idea that the Avengers might be more popular than the X-Men is by no means crazy.

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Zeus posted...

lolyes, as I literally already showed you.

No, they haven't been more well-known for the majority of their existence. The Avengers was as well-known as the Justice League almost from its inception, whereas the X-Men only became well-known among the general public in *maybe* the late 1980s or early 1990s.

As for popularity, the top ten highest-grossing comic book movies of all time consists of 4 Avengers films, Captain America Civil War (which featured the Avengers), Black Panther (who is an Avenger), and Iron Man 3 (also an Avenger), along with Spiderman Far From Home, Aquaman, and... well, long story short, no X-Men.

In fact, on the top 50, you don't even see Deadpool until #28

https://www.cbr.com/superhero-movies-highest-grossing-ever/

Even adjusting for inflation, the X-Men still aren't up there.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093424014/

The idea that the Avengers might be more popular than the X-Men is by no means crazy.

Why you citing movies to show their popularity. When my claim was the movies is what made him popular.

I'll take the word of my step dad who is a huge comic nerd that owns like 2000+ comics and probably about 100 toys stills in the original packaging. Hes a marvel fanboy and hes the one who told me iron man was at best a b grade hero before the movies in terms of popularity.

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Yeah, the Avengers are more well known now. That's the whole point.

But they were B-listers at best before the movies

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