• Dalacos@lemmy.world
    76·
    4 days ago

    Depending on who you ask, Tron: Legacy.

    (I personally love the movie and rewatch it every couple years but it didn’t do well, IIRC.)

    I murdered a lot of reapas in Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer to some of those songs.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    There’s a game for the SNES called Act Raiser, I think it was by Quintet or Taito or Square, one of those. You play Actual God taking back the world from Probably Satan, you do this partly in a side scrolling platforming combat style, and partially in an overhead city building style. Surprisingly good soundtrack for a game as weird as it is.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      2·
      2 days ago

      Actraiser is one of my all time favorite games; I replay it every couple of years.

      The combination of Sim & Platformer always kind of apealed to me because I play a variety of genres and weird combos like that are always interesting.

      Actraiser 2 dropped the city building and I lost interest.

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
      141·
      4 days ago

      If Spawn counts as a mediocre movie with good music, then you’d think Flash Gordon would be in the same category. But I don’t think either of those movies are mediocre.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        19·
        4 days ago

        I mean, cool, I fucking loved it, but let’s be real that outside of John leguizamo, the performances were mid. And it had almost no lasting impact. It’s just kind of an “oh yeah that was a movie wasn’t it” mid 90s comic book schlock.

        But that album was like, actually peak 90s metal/ hardcore.

        • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
          82·
          4 days ago

          I might have a strange definition of mediocre, but basically, I think that if I had seen the movie once, and then I decide it’s worth watching again, then somehow it must not be mediocre. I’ve seen Spawn several times.

          • Dalacos@lemmy.world
            5·
            4 days ago

            I think “mediocre” in this context would be mediocre to most people. Rather than you specifically. At least, that’s why I added some brackets explaining my Tron: Legacy answer in this post. (I personally don’t think it’s mediocre but imagine most did.)

            • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
              2·
              4 days ago

              I think “mediocre” in this context would be mediocre to most people.

              I think you cannot ask about something subjective without getting people’s personal opinions. If you ask about an aspect of a mediocre thing, then you can expect at least some debate about what counts as mediocre, and probably none of the people’s answers will be correct.

              For me, a “mediocre” movie would be something that I would only watch again if a friend wanted to watch it, but if it was just an option and I got to choose, I’d never choose it. But if it was just “on”, I might not change the channel. Let’s see, like The Rock directed by Michael Bay.

              And then there are “bad” movies that I wouldn’t watch even if I had a friend who wanted to see it, like any other Michael Bay movie that I’ve seen. Armageddon had pretty good music, but it wasn’t mediocre. It was bad.

              • Dalacos@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 days ago

                /shrug, you do you. I’m just leading a horse to water. But I cannot fill a cup which is already full.

  • chunes@lemmy.worldOP
    20·
    4 days ago

    Imagine slotting

    into your SNES in 1993 and hearing THIS. The game kinda sucks but the music keeps you going.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    A Rose in the Twilight. Pretty unexciting and quiet puzzle platformer with a main character that’s slow and hard to control and dies easily.

    Then past the main credits, it pulls out a secret final boss fight with this banger.

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    The TV show Suits has a great soundtrack, but I’d argue that it’s not mediocre though.

    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      I’ve been trying to get into that because I crave juicy legal stuff. Bit tired of the supergenius-assholes trope we see in Sherlock, though, and it seems like Mike is a super genius and his boss Harvey is a genius asshole. Yes I let YouTube shorts dictate what new shows I delve into ✋😔

      • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 days ago

        It’s not a super-genius thing, it’s a perfect memory of thing’s he has read and the super memory trope is rarely used in the show. So you’re safe. Even when it is used, it’s somewhat explained well.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
    15·
    4 days ago

    Movies

    • Sucker Punch
    • Transformer 2 and beyond. The movies were shit but the score was top notch
    • Blue Hawaii

    Tv Shows

    • The Book Of Bobba Fett
    • Star Trek Enterprise
    • Dalacos@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 days ago

      Recently got reminded of this (sadly) due to Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa passing.

      The first “MORTAL KOOOOMBAT” yell from the song still owns some space in my head.

      • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        I assume your tongue is fairly firmly in your cheek, but I can’t think of a better example for “mediocre movie” than Mortal Kombat. Lots of stuff to like about it (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Robin Shou’s hair, Goro, several of the sets, etc), mixed in with mostly underwhelming martial arts and cinematography, with characters whose depth reflects their origins. Don’t get me wrong, I like it, but I’m not crusading to convince people of Paul W.S. Anderson’s misunderstood genius lol

          • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 hours ago

            Admittedly I don’t remember a tremendous amount of it, but my recollection is mildly positive. If the 1995 movie is 2.5 stars outta 5 (in my personal rubric, that equates to ‘I like it, but acknowledge it’s not good’, and also happens to be where all of Paul W.S. Anderson’s films live), I’d give the 2021 version 3 stars.

            It benefits from making use of the R rating, and having better fight choreography and stunt performances. I think those are much more important to get right than characterization or plot, at least in a Mortal Kombat movie.

            For what it’s worth, idgaf about the lore of the franchise, so a fan of the games may take issue with that take, but my perspective is one of a fan of martial arts movies, not necessarily an MK fan.

            • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              5 hours ago

              I never met an action movie I didn’t like. If it’s good it’s good, if it’s bad it’s funny. Plus this is Mortal Kombat we’re talking about here so I’m predisposed to like it. I agree it was better than the first, I’d say much better though.

              What about Event Horizon? Has to be his best movie. I think it’s a pretty damn good film.

              • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
                1·
                17 minutes ago

                I agree, Event Horizon is the best Anderson movie I’ve seen, with the caveat that I haven’t seen his post-Resident Evil stuff, nor Soldier, and I’ve got a big soft spot for Kurt Russell. However, I am slightly more lukewarm on Event Horizon than a lot of folks. I haven’t watched it in some time, but I recall being underwhelmed. To some extent, I think it was over hyped to me, as my dad raved that it was terrifying when he saw it in the theater. I did not find that to be the case, but, in so far as haunted house movies go, it’s a decent one of those (IN SPAAAAAACE). My letterboxd says I gave it 3.5 stars and that still feels correct to me.

                The thing that holds it back is that I think, in a different director’s hands, there is a legitimately terrifying movie to be made using most of the same ingredients. I’m by no means equivocating these movies, but an interesting point of comparison is the Solaris remake that Soderbergh and Clooney did in the early 00s. They share the conceit of “there is a mysterious entity in space which keeps showing one of the characters visions of his dead-by-suicide wife to disastrous effect” (insert weird-that-it-happened-twice.gif).

                By all accounts, the Solaris remake is not an exceptional movie (in fact, EH is rated slightly higher with a 3.3 vs Solaris’ 3.2, for whatever that’s worth). Also, Solaris is very much a character drama first and foremost, but there are a few sequences which I found legitimately unsettling in ways that EH mostly failed to evoke, despite covering similar beats.

                In fact, I think I’ve talked myself into doing this as a double feature. Solaris I saw on television probably close to 20 years ago, and Event Horizon I watched on a laptop in Afghanistan, so I could stand to revisit both of them. I’m curious if watching them together will enhance the experience in any way, or if it will just give me tonal whiplash lol

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      I thought for a sec you were talking about the game and not the movie. I’m not into fighting games or gore for the sake of gore but the game is a cultural landmark.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
    14·
    4 days ago

    I want to mention like three different games, but for each one someone would rightfully come after me for saying the game itself is mediocre. So I’ll just say I personally love these games, but I see with pretty clear eyes that aspects of them haven’t stood the test of time.

    Mirror’s Edge, The Neverhood, and Yuri’s Revenge all have amazing soundtracks.

    And after that disclaimer if you still try to pick a fight about how they’re not mediocre games, I’m going to also pretend I’m fighting the person who called them mediocre and then crawl out of our cartoon fight cloud.

    • marquisalex@feddit.uk
      3·
      3 days ago

      Terry Scott Taylor has an incredibly deep back catalogue on his Bandcamp page - some pretty middle of the road, and some totally weird, worth having a rummage and seeing what you get… For those who don’t want to play lucky dip, there’s the full soundtrack to Neverhood, plus a couple of related albums (Songs from the Neverhood Vol 2 which was the platformer sequel, and Return to the Neverhood - which was released as a companion to the graphic novel).

    • sleepdrifter@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Just started another playthrough of catalyst after 5 years, absolutely serene soundtrack. Sure the game has issues but it’s for sure one of my favorites

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          4 days ago

          According to this list, the annual release count peaked around 2000, but RTSes are still coming out at a decent clip, maybe half the rate as they did then.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real-time_strategy_video_games

          Some thoughts:

          • The genre as it ran in its heyday was really aimed at keyboard+mouse play. I don’t think that it translates incredibly well to mobile or console. I remember trying to play Supreme Commander on a gamepad and not really liking it.

          • Depending upon how one classifies games (the above list appears to treat real-time tactics games as a subgenre, which I wouldn’t), some real-time strategy games might go into a different bucket, the real-time tactics genre.

          • I think that RTSes gave birth to some child genres, like MOBAs, that to some extent compete for marketshare.

          • There were a lot of 2D RTSes that came out around 2000. I mean, it was something of a glut. I think that it was just a good match for the game hardware and computer capabilities of the time. But…you’d kind of expect some subsequent decrease if that’s the case. Other genres have had similar booms based on being a good match for the hardware of the time. For example, third generation consoles and fourth generation consoles saw a huge number of side-view 2D platformers, because they were a decent match for what the hardware could do. There are still modern side-view platformers that come out, but it’s a far smaller percentage of the game market than it was then.

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      1·
      4 days ago

      The Neverhood is a flawed gem, one of those fantastic point&click adventure games that have some of that moon-logic malaise so common in Sierra games, up to an absurd point.

      Yet every other aspect of the game is polished and fantastic enough I would recommend it with enough warning.

      I would definitely not call it mediocre, it is anything but that, it is also in retrospective a worse “game” than some contemporary titles like Broken Sword or ToonStruck.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        That’s just it - the writing, animation, music, the art direction, the voices - all stunning. But, the gameplay lets it down. What makes a mediocre game for me is, if watching someone else play a thing is a preferable experience, it’s not such a good game - speaking strictly of the “gameplay” aspects of the work.

        • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
          2·
          3 days ago

          I could catch a lot of flak from this opinion but I wonder if Cyberpunk 2077 could fit in this category: I have probably something around 100 hours in that game just because I like going around in the city and there’s some great writing, both for the main questline and even some random side-quests. But as much freedom I have from choosing how I want to deal with a mission, neither combat nor hacking is fun IMO. Hacking feels more like an overpowered magic ability that if you put enough points into it, it lets you cheat the game, and fighting is mostly a big mess, be it physical or shooting.