It comes down to the franchise, Hitman or Star Wars would always peek my interest. Avatar on the other hand I have zero interest in watching in the cinema.
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The thing is, nobody really cared about Avatar to begin with, certainly not any sequels. That movie was about the 3D spectacle, nothing more. When James Cameron announced that he had plans for two more movies, then three, then five, nobody ever cared. The story itself was already being mocked for not being interesting enough to carry a sequel, never mind so many, and the 3D spectacle likely wouldn’t take a second time, especially after so many years and after so many films rode the 3D wave in the years that followed. I’m amazed Cameron is actually going ahead with this, and actually plans more sequels. I’ve been proven wrong about films before, but I highly doubt the franchise will go anywhere after this second one.
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Oh, the poll is not centered around Avatar. I was just using it as an example of a sequel that I was interested in 13 years ago. But the poll is reguarding any franchise, be it movie, game or otherwise.
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I know, I was just pointing that out while you had mentioned it, and to show why you’re actually in the majority in the lack of interest Department.
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never seen avatar. i assumed it was just a big budget pocahontas with smurfs.
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Essentially, yeah. The visuals are indeed awesome, and the ecosystem created for this alien planet is phenomenal, and if that’s all there was, that’d be fine, but the actual story is a snoozer. I’d recommend watching a YouTube clip of all Pandora scenes if anyone has cut one, and that’ll serve as all you need to enjoy the movie. The 3D isn’t even necessary.
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I don’t really know Nazareth. Even if I’m slowly, but steadily, going out of it I’m still on the young side of the spectrum.
So, a difference of 5 to 10 years is less a reflection on a loss of interest due to time, and more due to me changing from age.
To give you an idea : Skyrim and GTA 5 released when I was 18-20. I was hyped for one, really enjoyed the second after word of mouth caught me in it. If a sequel to them happened soon after, I would have looked them up.
Now ? Now I don’t care about any of those franchise. But I don’t know if it’s because I grew out of them (I think it’s the case for GTA), or because it’s been so long that I just don’t care anymore (I think it’s more to the point for the elder scrolls).
Then there are other franchises that never stopped, but I stopped caring about : I have some good memories of going to see phase 1 of the MCU with friends in highschool, now I don’t care. Assassin’s creed did the same.
I also never cared for any “legacy” franchise that ran for multiple decades. (especially in books or movies).
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I chose 5-10 years, but in actually, it’s very franchise dependent. I enjoyed watching the last Matrix movie, even if the movie itself wasn’t that great. I was interested in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, even though it had been quite a while since the previous one. I don’t really care at all about Avatar movies, although I didn’t see the first one until well after it was released on DVDs.
Some sequels do seem to come out way too long after the earlier movies in their franchises. I never saw the original Top Gun and didn’t bother with the sequel but it felt like it was too much time between them. I hear they’re making a sequel to Twister and I can only say “why?” It’s been too long.
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I’ve never understood people who move on from things they were interested in. I never let go. Anything that’s been something I enjoy, I assimilate it into my being like the Borg and find space for it, somewhere, some time. There are things I love that I haven’t partaken in for years and years, mainly because new things that are my immediate focus keep getting in the way, but I always compare those new things to them, and have every intention of going back to them once the things I’m currently focused on simmer down. From my five-year-old self’s hero Godzilla, to the obscure Sega Genesis answer to Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage; once I’m a fan, I never stop.
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sometimes you just move on from certain properties and franchises. Maybe because yer tastes have changed or your interested waned over the years. You still obviously like them deep down but not as much as you did as first. sometimes people just wanna experience new things without clinging to the old
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Don’t confuse “moving on” from “not having room for additional material”. We hear all the time about how the sequel trilogy “ruined” Star Wars. Whether the Sequel Trilogy is good or not, it has no bearing on whether the Original Trilogy is good or not. If you like the first three released movies, why does the existence of three later movies have any impact on that?
I loved the original three Matrix movies. The fourth one was “meh”. I’ve seen the first ones over and over and over but the 4th one only once (and don’t really see any need to rewatch it). It’s not that I “moved on” from that franchise, it’s that I don’t see any need to revisit that particular universe.
I am currently disappointed in the trend of moving the Marvel Cinematic Universe towards “genius teenagers”. I don’t really have much interest in seeing those types of characters but I still very much enjoy the earlier entries in that series.
I will also love the experience I had first playing the Dragon Age games but I may not ever go back and replay them. The flaws in those games now outweigh that initial experience I had playing them.
Often I find that a game or movie franchise that I consider great is better left as the experience I had when I first played it without any need on my part to go back and revisit it. Other times I will happily go back and replay or rewatch. I will never insist that I never liked it and then refuse to acknowledge it but I may not need any additional content in my life.
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That always was confusing to me too. In any event, I haven’t ever really had anything that I loved that then added new entries that I disliked and would go back to the earlier stuff for comfort. With the notable exception of season 5 of Fear The Walking Dead. Holy jumping fucking Jesus, to call it a dumpster fire on top of a train wreck would be an insult to words. I’ve been hesitant to catch up. And when I, of all people in the world, don’t love a thing simply from its association with another thing, you know it’s bad.
I can think of a few movies or games that I disliked and then returned to earlier offerings that were better, but they are relatively few and far between. Usually it’s the first one that makes me swear off the whole thing and I’m just too stubborn to give it a second chance.
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For me it depends on how much I loved the previous one. I just recently was 10,000% excited to read Heat 2 by Michael Mann. The first one (which was a film) came out 28 years ago. Didn’t matter at all. I was pumped for the sequel. I preordered and I loved it. Avatar 2… Im not so interested.
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With character creation/customization and PC mod tools being pretty common in games these days, who becomes targets or victims 
of your digital recreation?
- Yourself
- Your crush
- Your family or friends
- Real life celebrities
- Fictional characters from other series
- Your own original characters
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Myself, if frustrated in real life i am always a tad bit happy when i can torment myself online and not in real life.
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i tend to make whatever looks coolest and most appropriate to me within the game’s graphics/engine or narrative.
i do have a tendency to go for gunslinger/ninja/samurai archetypes in combat focused games because i’m a boring old weeb and middle aged man-child. i straight up made jamie foxx django and clint in rdr2, so the occasional celeb slips in.
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In games with such a feature I always try to create 47 first. If a game allows me to make a bald caucasian man with blue eyes, I WILL do my whole playthrough with him (and if there is a black suit and a red tie to be found in-game, the better).
That’s the story of how 47 went to Los Santos (I made him in GTA Online with the suit, driving gloves, and a rainbow ski mask on his head), how President 47 fought the aliens in Saints Row 4, how 47 became a top capo for the Corleone family, and how Big Boss turned out to actually be a brainwashed 47 all along.
I downloaded Sonic Forces yesterday and tried to make 47 there too but it didn’t exactly work out. I wanted to make the Miami pink flamingo for my avatar but I didn’t like how it looked, so I went for Coldsteel the Hedgehog instead…
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Personally not a PC player myself but I love building my own characters from the ground up.
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I have some family members I would really like to see in this scenario. >:^)
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