HiImThomasPynchon

Okay 2 state solution but one of the states is in Doncaster

Fallout and Skyrim had the benefit of being part of a much beloved franchise. Among Us didn't really take off until two years after release because kids were playing it during lockdown. Elden Ring got major hype for being a collaboration between the creators of some of the biggest franchises in TV and video games in the 2010s.

Starfield certainly has the benefit of being the new thing from a well-known studio. However, it's also a "new" IP from a studio that isn't known for making their own IP and is known for crummy writing on the IP they own. Not to mention that there's just...so many more video games these days.

None of this is to say I think Starfield is any good. I haven't played it, but I have seen others play it and it looks real boring. Being the next big thing just wasn't in the cards.

Honorable Mentions:

You Don't Know Jack 4: The Ride

Dragon Quest VII

Battletech

The Shadowrun series by Harebrained Schemes

F-Zero X

Broke: Epstein killed himself

Woke: Epstein didn't kill himself

Bespoke: Epstein is still alive

Hilarious watching nearly 30 year-old Steve McQueen acting as a teenager in The Blob

God that is such a busy design. And so little of it relates to Rome. He looks like a tokutsatsu mech.

It's the self-titled by Small Faces.

Edit: They're hobbits, they literally have small faces.

If life imitates art, it might be a hit.

Though we already had "Heil, Honey, I'm Home!" That guy even made a bunch of money off the flop.

But the point is that it's in poor taste. A 9/11 musical wouldn't be in poor taste because we have documented evidence that the US is responsible for 9/11.

I mean it was the director who said it and those types tend to toot their own horns a lot.

"eerily predicting punk..."

It was 1976, punk was already happening.