There hasn't been a Half-Life game in literally 10 years. As much as love those games, the franchise will probably never see another installment ever again, even though everybody wants a new Half-Life and it would rake in millions for Valve.

Halo is still relevant and going strong. Halo 5 is still popular multiplayer wise (the last time I heard at least), and Halo Wars 2 came out this year. I fail to see how exactly it's irrelevant compared to a franchise that's been in purgatory for a decade now.

I think horror movies are dead in general (no pun intended).

I mean, yeah, there are horror movies that are still getting released in the theaters, but we all know intuitively that they're going to suck because they're derivatives or knock-offs of critically acclaimed horror movies.

Plus, if you think about it, I feel that there's no reason for the movie industry to try and invest into creating new gory, slasher flicks because there are already well-established franchises that are so iconic that they're practically untouchable. Think about it, here we are 30-40 years later, and we're still getting installments of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street.

Plus, the genre itself isn't deep to begin with, so of course no one is going out of their way to create a new franchise because there really isn't a demand for it, and like I mentioned before, there are already established franchises that have succeeded in that gore, slasher genre. So the movie industry isn't going to risk millions of dollars on a new horror franchise when they can clearly go back to the already iconic and loved franchises, because they know those franchises will make money regardless of how shitty the newest re-boot or re-make of the said established franchise might be.

But hey, that's just me.

Finished Nier: Automata, then found out that it was only Ending A that I got.

I actually don't mind going through the game again.

Movies based off of Stephen King books tend to better than the actual books.

Finally saw Arrival.

Very bleh. A big budget movie with A-list stars but they play unappealing characters with an obvious underlying theme that isn't expanded upon well, i.e. humans are trying to communicate with aliens, but humans still don't know to communicate with each other. Kind of predictable, then of course they throw in time travel because why the hell not.

Turns out the director Denis Villeneuve is also behind the new Blade Runner sequel too. My hopes for that movie just crashed after watching this.

Why is big budget sci-fi so disappointing these days?

Alright, just joined the System Wars Discord account.

Not sure what it is, other than a chat room, but it seems cool.

1. Resident Evil
2. Resident Evil 4
3. Resident Evil 3
4. Resident Evil 2
5. Resident Evil: Code Veronica