How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.
GTA 4 was still solid, in my opinion. It’s a way better game than 5.
I’m looking forward to 6. I’m hoping 5 was a minor blip sandwiched between great games, like GTA 2. I never play online but I hope this game is truly on par with Vice City in quality.
Well, maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but they should die.
I don’t want to spoil it all for people given the community’s tendency to play games really late but not many major characters die so the few that do die in the original make a huge impact. Even minor characters like Jessie dying, makes it feel meaningful. But not dying just makes it just like any other game.
I can’t remember them all off the top of my head, especially because I didn’t play it but we can also only know a limited amount of changes because they have only released 1 of 3 parts.
But I remember hearing they spend an inordinate amount of time building up Jesse and that Avalanche crew who quickly dies anyway and aren’t a major part of the plot at all. They are just prolonging that stage of the game with fluff. And they made it so the relatively quick, plot-driven Midgar part of the early game is also extended with required but pointless cliché RPG quests like collecting some guy’s chickens, delivering mail for some person, and so on. There are other changes but I’m too heartbroken and disappointed with that game to read up on them again.
I don’t know if this counts but Assassin’s Creed Origins sucked and its story was cringe. It could be fun at times but generally wasn’t great, I’d prefer the original two games.
Also, Final Fantasy 7 Remake should have not deviated from the story of the original FF7 and it’s taken way too long to be developed/released. I bought Part 1 during presale and picked it up Day 1 and even bought my PS4 to play it but I don’t know if I’ll bother getting the others much less playing them. But I haven’t even played Part 1 because I was waiting for all Parts to be released and play all at once, then I heard about the changes to the story and was disgusted. I don’t even care to play it anymore. I think the original FF7 is the greatest game of all time.
Philology Professor at Oxford, no less.
From reading his biography, it seemed he mostly liked creating languages and then crafted stories and worlds based off them.
Tolkien’s the GOAT.
I see what you mean.
But I don’t think elevating Frodo does a disservice to anyone. Frodo was the first to voluntarily go out on this journey to, essentially, sacrifice himself for the Shire and the rest of the world. And he lost more than any living member of the Fellowship, everyone gains after the journey but Frodo loses his sense of self and his form of life. He does not return the same person, nor a stronger person, he returns a broken person. He deserves the recognition he receives and more.
While I love Sam and what he did was extremely important because he made it possible for the Ring to be destroyed, but what he did was basically support Frodo. Everyone in the Fellowship supported Frodo and no one contests it as being a lowly task, it is an all-important task. We know that what Frodo did no one else could have done because we are literally told that. Frodo carried an all-powerful, seducing demonic entity around his neck day in and day out while going through all sorts of OTHER trials and obstacles. When Sam temporarily held the Ring in Mordor, he was already being seduced by it. There is no way he could have carried it the way and duration that Frodo did. To my knowledge, despite it not being possible for Frodo to have gotten that far without Sam, it is never stated that no one else could have done what Sam did. In other words, that Sam could not be substituted for someone else to support Frodo on that journey. It’s possible to imagine that there is someone else in that world that could support Frodo all the way, the way Sam did, maybe even one of the other hobbits. But it’s not possible to imagine anyone else, including Sam or the other hobbits, doing what Frodo did.
This is not to put Sam down. Sam is a hero in his own right and I don’t actually think anyone could replace Sam because Sam is irreplaceable and incommensurable, the same way everyone in the story is unique and incommensurable. But Frodo is honestly at a different level of tragic, self-sacrificial humility and goodness that should be seen as the only thing that can bring the destruction of powerful evil. Everyone can be unique and valueable in their own way, while still acknowledging how particularly special and important one individual is. I think Tolkien makes Frodo so important and says that Frodo is the only person who could have done that, not because of the character of Frodo himself or the desire to make the main character necessarily the most important, but because he wants us to see that Frodo’s uniqueness lies in his extreme sense of goodness, humility, and self-sacrifice and only those things can bring evil to the brink of destruction.
Frodo is the most beautiful and tragic of the hobbits.
I can’t stand anyone who denigrates him to idolize Sam. I broke up with my ex girlfriend of many years who thought Frodo was lesser to Sam, not necessarily for that reason but it didn’t help her case. I love Sam too, but I don’t think Frodo needs to be taken down just to build up Sam. Sam was instrumental in what he did but Frodo was the only individual in the world that could do what he did.
Is he jerking off or what?
Dude, be realistic, by the time this comes out there won’t be enough people retiring anymore to justify the existence of retirement homes.
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Breathtaking. Thanks for sharing this!
Yeah, I don’t understand why people are confused by this. Haha
My favorite episode!
I wonder if when Gandalf fought the Balrog it gave him a chubby too.
Oh, shit.
Thanks for responding!
What .ml fiasco?
I can see that, too. It is smaller but I liked the return to Liberty City but in a new and improved engine. It was fun and had the kind of classy setting I liked from driving around at night in GTA 3 to classical music.
GTA 5 really disappointed me because that was the actual spiritual sequel to San Andreas. 5 had one large city but the rest was rural areas and small rundown towns. It made it feel way smaller than San Andreas’ three cities to me. I still prefer San Andreas to 5.