This sounds great. I use to watch more of your videos years ago and somehow drifted away from them. With these new shows and whatever you have going on now, it will be a great time for me to reintroduce myself to them. Thanks for the update.
@naryanrobinson: I'd create an Elephant Man sim, I wonder... can I have the others recoil in revulsion at first? Then I can start a story of loneliness, a man staring out of the top floor window at humanity as they walk by. He only goes out at night to walk... Hmm, maybe his personality will win the others over much later?
@boobytrap: I enjoyed the movie but your point was spot on that Netflix has put movies into theaters to make them eligible for awards. It's a nice marketing tactic to say, "Netflix has this movie that won these big awards..." Others have done the same. Maybe it's also in a contract if you are getting some big names involved (actors, writers, directors) and that is something that helps them with their resumes too.
I love this game! I enjoy survival games like Subnautica, Ark, etc... and Grounded is a great game to add to that list. In your summation to your score it's mentioned the lack of furnishings and fashion items. I think that's very minor. Sure, more furnishing can be fun (loved it in Subnautica) but the game shines with what it has and is not diminished in whatever they are missing now.
The game provides a wonderful (light) story that has a nice charm to it, but the environment to explore is outstanding. One of the best. Each session I discover something new, an area, a bug that I can now kill, ... From the drops you get or resources you find again this leads to new recipes for the creation of new items. Rarely does a session end without me excited to return to try out some new found knowledge.
Right now I'd score this game a 9 but only because I have not finished it. (I'm not rushing, I want to enjoy every corner of that back yard I'm exploring.) But by the end it might be worthy of a 10!
I'm hoping for updates and more yards to explore as a miniaturized person.
Spielberg is in his own world and it's not ours. No one threw movie makers under the bus, studios need to run their business and with the pandemic found a way to keep movies being made and shown. And what's wrong with helping to grow their new streaming businesses? I love movies from the comfort of home.
This reminds when video tapes/DVDs started coming out and studios were freaking out that they would lose millions, their entire business... Then Spiderman is sold on DVD and makes more money its first weekend then its entire run in the theater. Oops, I guess it's a way to make more money... Thanks to streaming more folks are watching their films. Is that bad? Oh wait, they care more about the money than the viewers... Gotcha!
Plot twist, our culture continually changes and so does business. This is one of those time. I will say I am near 3 AMC theaters and their monthly program works for me. For a fee I can watch 3 movies a week. (I average 1 though.) There are times that a new "epic" film on IMAX almost costs my monthly subscription fee. So that's a great deal for me. (I'm retired, if I had to play ticket prices individually I just wouldn't go to the theater anymore.)
I will add, make great films. Film makers are a bit (ha) self-involved and wrapped up in their own self-importance. They think everything they make is some sort of great statement to the world and most times it's a poor attempt and just garbage. Pet peeve, I love science fiction, please put back the epic ideas into movies. The worst is these idiots will just write their own (amateur hour) or take a great book and then strip out all that made it amazing and dumb it down that it's just a waste of 2 hours. What happened to blowing our minds again?
Spielberg can whine all he wants, but he's disconnected from the real world. Yes, folks love movies, but you do need to cater to your customers. If you don't, then don't cry about them not coming back to the show.
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