@Rikardo91: If you think that the Resident Evil movies are a travesty, then I suspect that you've not seen a lot of movies. Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave, some "Syfy" movie with a space alien that's a horribly CGI's velociraptor, C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D., and Creature come immediately to mind. That's not even counting the stuff lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3,000.
It's a shame that the movies aren't better or closer to their source material, but for high-budget B movies they're certainly no worse than the latest Thing movie, prequeling John Carpenter's cult classic, or the (re-)reboot of the Evil Dead movies.
@sellingthings: Considering how much people love to hate on the movies it is indeed something. It says that no matter how much they hate it, no matter how vocal they are about that hate, that more than enough people still want to watch the movies, even if it's the same thing as watching a train/car wreck for them.
@rikku45: I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that at least some of the hate comes from it being a franchise with an A list budget, frequently one or more A list celebrities in the movies, A list graphics, special effects, and so on, but a "B movie" plot that sometimes seems better suited to Resident Evil fanfic or Marvel's "none of this takes place in the same universe as the comics and is all alternate reality stuff" environments than a serious Hollywood production based on existing source material.
It probably doesn't help that the "B-ness" of the movie has done nothing but increase as more schlock has crept in over time. The first movie was good in that it had relatively little schlock. The second movie had a bit more creep in, and from the third movie onward it just escalated. It also doesn't help that we have lots of unanswered questions like "Why does Alice have digital eyes" and "How did Pyramid Head not only get into the RE franchise but get in through the tiny ass holes dug by the digger zombies, and just how the hell did they "smell" the people in the prison in the first place?"
I can't help but suspect that a lot of people wanted A list movies, especially given the names and apparent budgets that these movies had, and are disappointed that they're simply very good looking B movies.
@duckofdeath: If "putting an A list actor in the lead" is enough to constitute a "reboot" then shifting the focus of the plot from the John Connor character to John Connor's Girlfriend while simultaneously making the John Connor character a wuss (to be polite) qualifies as a "reboot" as well.
Mind you I'm not saying that you're right or wrong. My points are simply that Salvation does not, from my perspective, constitute a reboot even if it takes place post-Judgment Day and that Rise of the Machine does more things in line with a "reboot" than Salvation does. As such if Salvation is a "reboot" then so too is Rise of the Machines, and it goes right back to either two or four reboots in a row but not three.
@john_matrix_007: If it's the same quality as Rise of the Machines, yeah, it can be worse than Genisys. I'm not trying to defend Genisys mind you, but bottom of the barrel is "T3," not the reboot.
@Devil_wings00: It's not the series it describes so much as the "Hollywood exec" when it comes to something that makes money. For that matter it also describes big-name game publishers like EA and Activision pretty well.
@oneligas: What do you mean three? Salvation wasn't a reboot, and if you are considering it a reboot then you should probably consider Rise of the Machines a reboot as well given what it did to trash John Connor as a viable hero character. That would make it either two reboots in a row or four, but not three.
@bigrob007: What weird stuff? Trying to play games like Dragon Age: Origins which never ran for me, and it seems quite a few other players, under Windows 10? Moving the User profile off of the OS drive so that if the OS crashes to the point where the drive is irrecoverable I don't lose anything? Fully utilizing the hardware in my system in spite of nVidia? Prevent Windows Update from "updating" from the best drivers for your current setup to something that doesn't work?
Playing games, ensuring data integrity, maximizing hardware performance, and preventing automated software from screwing your PC up seem like pretty normal, not weird, things to do.
As for hardware PhysX making games "run slower," that's all graphics options. Borderlands 2 yields a great example of a game that utilizes hardware PhysX in a decent fashion with no demonstrable negative impact on performance beyond the need for beefier hardware. It's not as if hardware PhysX induces a 200ms delay in input/output response despite getting 60 FPS, and it's no different from SSAO in this regard.
@guitarist1980:Problem is that "latest and greatest" isn't always synonymous with "upgrade." In my case I gave Windows 10 a fair, honest shot when I ran it for a month this past May.
During that time I had multiple hardware compatibility issues, over a dozen games refused to play "out of the box," one never did run while several required workarounds bordering on the asinine, and even the OS itself fought me as it functioned for 48 hours after installation only to lobotomize itself and refuse to function properly due to my having moved the User folder off of the OS drive. Windows 10 compounded that last issue by refusing to reinstall properly every time I moved the folder off of the OS during installation. Even after giving up on that issue because it was just a test install the OS still fought me as it over-wrote the only 100% fully functional drivers for my GTS 450 (drivers released before Windows 8.1 no less -_- ) resulting in a situation where any game utilizing hardware PhysX generated a BSOD.
If Microsoft can work out the kinks in Windows 10 I might consider switching back to it. Until then I'm dreading the idea of upgrading my hardware because of Microsoft's decision to not support new hardware in Windows 10. If those kinks are still in place when I absolutely must upgrade to hardware not properly supported under Windows 7 I'm going to strongly look at Linux.
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