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I think a lot of the quests are still great, while I think the writing generally is worse it’s not bad. I’ve spent hours building ships, I really like just jumping around system to system not even landing. I would say there’s a higher ratio of non combat options which I enjoy. You can spend a long time just running around talking to people- which for some is a negative, I love my RPGs roll play heavy over combat

“Let’s make a TV show to teach kids instead of actually fixing our education system”

100% agree, there’s lots to love. I admit that it has a lot of failings and they totally over promised what the game was going to be. But the way people talk you’d think it was an actual bad game.

I have a lot of fun with starfield, and enjoy the DLC, but admit it’s the weakest game they’ve made.

And as is typical the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Most people haven’t seen it and jump on whatever the most popular are saying.

I enjoyed Megalopolis but I won’t pretend it’s absolutely amazing and perfect. It’s a mess, but it’s a beautiful mess that was entertaining and thought provoking. What you’re complaining about isn’t a problem of the younger generations, but of the studio execs pumping out Movie Product after Movie Product

I really enjoyed the Ryujin quest line, the quest where the world was shifting, and there’s tons of great smaller quests and interactions, but I agree the generation ship was a big miss, the main quest flounders and flops hard about half way through and overall they didn’t do enough with universe building.

Still give a try, it’s not for everyone and it’s not to the same quality as their previous games but it’s honestly not a bad game. At worst I’d say it’s aggressively average. But I still have a great time with ship combat and exploration, the loading doesn’t bother me as much and people act like the quests and writing are BAD, They are not, it’s just not to the level of their previous games. But there are still a few quests I absolutely love.

Nah it’s just an expensive passion project art movie. It was never going to make money, it was Francis Ford Coppola finishing his last project that’s he’s been working on. I quite enjoyed it, despite there being obvious flaws, and many things that would make your average viewer not really care.

It can be a bit dated in references but generally they all land. There isn’t really a single unifying message which is what I would say is the biggest problem. It’s more interested in asking questions and posing that against our current real world than actually trying to answer them.

Apart from that the performances are generally all good, and while the characters feel like archetypes as opposed to clearly defined people, it works, for me at least.

It’s also just really weird. There’s dream sequences but seemingly they aren’t, just a perspective shift of what’s actually happening.

Overall I’d much rather watch Megalopolis than whatever Disney Corporate Movie Product comes out next. I’d prefer misses the mark but tries for something different and interesting, over cookie cutter formulaic plot beats and generic quippy characters.

Everyone I’ve seen say that haven’t seen it. Also it’s an arty heady drama, of course it’s gonna feel slow at times and be more vague than your average viewer will like.

I liked it. It was kind of a mess, but it was interesting, thought provoking, and visually very good. As much as there are improvements that could be made or changes to make it more palatable to a wider audience, I’d prefer the weird way it is, and especially movies like this over the next Disney/Corporate Movie Product TM