Lmao why. You turn on Netflix when you want to watch movies or TV shows, the battle is already lost in less than a second if you want people to care about your video games.
you don’t think trying to find the thing you want to watch is kinda already a puzzle game if you use the TV embeded client. I was not a sub for a long time and last time at my friend’s place we tried to find something using the TV client it really painful. Maybe making it a arcade game so you have to win to watch a show when they buffer everything at higher quality in background is a win?(oh and throw you some ads if you lose and the buffering is not done yet.)
ps. I basically get the however many month free from a deal and then just cancel it before it ends since I don’t watch/follow tv shows that much, I watched like 4 episodes of stargate and the streaming quality is really not up to par at the time.
Ridiculously poor management of originals, how did they end up with such huge gaps between seasons, they even release them all at once so they know fairly immediately if they are going to renew and can get the ball rolling. How is there more of like every other streamers main shows than Stranger Things
They could’ve just filmed some "choose your own adventure“ stuff and called it a game. Would’ve attracted more people, especially with their wealth, name, and the amount of books they could use.
Yeah, here’s the thing. I ain’t paying for Netflix, and I don’t like games-as-a-service in the first place. I barely hold a positive view of xbox gamepass, and thats entirely because it’s a cheap way to (legally) play a lot of one-and-done games. This is with Microsoft having access to decades of successful games, and control of major studios and platforms.
The game catalog is pretty decent. I had an issue where I downloaded a couple games from Netflix and then found they didn't work on my flight because they needed a network connection. Pretty annoying
They still have pretty good value compared to competitors. I don’t like it, but when other streaming services are competing to see who can be more hostile to customers, Netflix is on the better end of the spectrum.
That said, if Netflix is one of the better ones, I’m seriously reconsidering having any streaming apps at all and just buy shows and movies directly.
For games, I honestly don’t see the appeal. I just buy the games I want, and it’s absolutely not something I want a subscription for.
Genuinely not a bad idea, if you lean into the nearly transhumanist power fantasy of a guy taking on an alien armada with a jetpack and a rifle. It’s an excuse for ridiculous set-pieces where a proper aircraft or vehicle would not work. You can’t sustain that continuously for two whole acts - but fortunately, every time the guy stops, he is just a guy. The difference between standing around talking and zooming away at face-melting speeds is whether he feels like it.
The major downside is that Tony Stark’s already been there.
I was thinking something more like a sci-fi, existential horror film where Harrier is the only force preventing the utter ruination of the universe by an endless horde of Lovecraftian monsters, and his loneliness and indestructibility drives him to extremes, but the Iron Man-esque angle could work, too.
Ooh. So the jetpack-and-rifle angle emerge as he figures out he’s got an Unbreakable situation. Some tinkerer builds increasingly glass-cannon hot-rod fighter jets that are never as maneuverable as he wants. All his miraculous close scrapes in crash landings are really a result of whatever force trapped him in this surreal choke-point holding back the forces of chaos. Once he figures out he’s cursed with immortality, he doesn’t care if his guns leak deadly radiation or glow white-hot, so long as they spray plasma downrange. All of it is just a means to deliver him in-person to whatever elder god is trying to swallow Earth. So he can twist its dicks off.
Which is quite a thing to imagine, from squid-faced-Khorne’s perspective. You’ve found a thriving civilization that’s barely scooting around its solar system. They couldn’t even block your portal on their homeworld. Seems like easy pickings, maybe a few million scorpion-horse-locust minions killed by their measly bullets, then you get centuries of driving people mad and cracking open juicy mineral-rich planets. Your divine adversary blessed one guy. Token resistance. An admission of futility. But… your dudes keep failing. Plenty get past him, but none manage to stop him. You send the big fuckers straight for him, really nip that in the bud, and hours later he’s right back up in another flimsy contraption. They can smack him to the ground and he just runs closer. You are a four-dimensional entity older than this universe. You have despoiled countless galaxies guarded by valiant forces. You were not previously aware that you could sweat.
Seriously though: the dumbest answer that might work is Daytona USA. A live-action anime that’s relentlessly cheerful and energetic. Like the Speed Racer movie, but with less melodrama, less surrealism, and not two hours long. Establish a rivalry with no villains, some stakes low enough that the protagonist might lose, and the sort of heightened realism you get in musicals. If the pit crew do a choreographed spin before changing the tires, you think nothing of it, because it happened in time with the soundtrack.
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