I just played Morrowind for the first time. If you talk to someone not facing you, they will not rotate to look at you. This feature is still in Starfield
R&D as an analogy, if the game does something new, creates a new experience then it's worth extra because you can't get it anywhere else until poor copies appear in a few years
Replayability and Flow. Length doesn't matter look at AC games. But I could re run RE games or Respec new build in Elden Ring and feel the rush of making decisions on the fly and anticipating the dodge when an enemy could almost touch me
Beauty, same as movies I guess when you get to experience people's creativity, not in overproduced generic stuff like Amazon or Apple TV shows or Asscreed, but when there is a good art direction. Good design beats out fidelity any time
If you wonder why public companies with billions in revenue can't make a Steam competitor is because they can't think long term, being a private company allows Valve to just work on what they want and grow If they need to
After Mando and the MCU, I thought they'd go in the direction where you create different genres set in the Sta Wars universe, instead every genre is a Saturday morning cartoon.
Mandolorian - Western with a villain of the season and the wanderer goes to a new planet/sector
Andor - Gritty spy/war drama
Police Procedural - A Jedi solves crimes in local town while in hiding
Book of Boba Fett -mob crime show like breaking bad, sopranos
Rom Com - An ex storm trooper and a rebel fall in love
Sitcom - the office but set in a moisture farm
Heist - like Leverage with a bunch of criminals
Horror - A powerful Sith is hunting Jedi
Obi Wan - Slice of life, Ben the hermit does gardening and chores for the townsfolk, tries to fend off attraction for the local blue milk maids, sharpens his mind into razor sharp focus instead of swinging a baseball bat around. Uses wit and logic to solves problems
if you like pop culture references.
-if you like creative cinematography
if you like Michelle Yeoh
if you like Jamie Lee Curtis
If you like Ke huy quans comeback
This movie is maximalist, so it hits a lot of things at the same time, so naturally people may tack on to whatever they are attracted to. If none of the above fits you, then so be it
Definitely not as good as the first episode, maybe a 6/10.
Brad had way too much screentime when it should have been Sylvie. The whole Dr Who time travel thing wasnt really expanded, they just dropped by the 80s for a few mins.
Seems like they were filling time again and so early in the season
I could have seen it as a Stardew valley-esque Hobbit farming Sim, you start with simple farming, interacting with lore accurate villagers, fishing, cave gathering as Smeagol.
Then after a certain point of the game in a quest you find the Ring and your memories start getting hazy and your farming skill starts deteriorating and your cave gathering skills improve and the Ring blanks out part of your days and suddenly you find Deagols body and get flashbacks to what happened.
In the epilogue you start your usual day in the cave 'bed' instead of your Hobbit hole bed and you go gathering and meet Bilbo. Then cut to black
Don't get it