What did you thinK about Secret Level?

[Knud den Store 🧙‍♂]

There is this anthology show about videogames that is airing right now.
I only watched the Unreal Tournament episode so far because that and Armored Core are the only ones that interest me to be honest. I don't care for D&D or Pacman....why is it ALWAYS Pacman?
The animation is impeccable but the story telling is bad, awful really.

It does not feel like the writing staff approached the creators and based on this episode alone it feels like I am about to watch a lot of slop. I mean, yeah the references are cool and all, yeah the rocket jumping scene was awesome but the story is so boring and does not get the feeling of the game at all.

Johnny Five rebels against Le Bad corporate empire or whatever, seen that a million times.
Meanwhile the aliens species are introduced immediately with no background and they are easily the best part about the episode. They just fight and they kick ass, that is all that needed to be.

[Dr. Weird]

Johnny Five Aces or Nova Robotics Number 5?

[Knud den Store 🧙‍♂]

Postat inițial de GigaChud:

Johnny Five Aces or Nova Robotics Number 5?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ5MI8tsKWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-AexO_PPU
Also related, the 2010s equivalent...Chappie.

[GlaceonChireiden]

I've only watched the two series that interested me, the pacman and warhammer ones, and I thought it was neat.

The warhammer one was just cool mindless action, and the pacman one was actually a lot more interesting than I thought it'd be. It's probably my favorite of the two I've watched.

I'm wary for the megaman one (mainly because I think it just looks ugly), but it's a shame it's only 5 minutes long for some reason.

[Ȼħⱥꞥꞥēł8753452]

Haven't seen it, only interested in the warhammer and armored core ones

[ナルゴ]

More overhyped marketing content. People want actual gameplay footage, not cinematic trailers.

[Ȼħⱥꞥꞥēł8753452]

Postat inițial de Nargo:

More overhyped marketing content. People want actual gameplay footage, not cinematic trailers.

It's a show not a game.

[Ray Rook]

I enjoyed all of them.

D&D was awesome to watch, but I didnt like the shaky camera.
The New World one was funny.
Sifu was cool.
Crossfire was my least favorite.
Warhammer 40k was awesome, but I can understand being frustrated if you don't know what's going on.
Unreal Tournament was cool.
Pacman was not what I was expecting but also not bad really. Just not what I was expecting.
Armored Core made me want to play the game.

[Knud den Store 🧙‍♂]

Postat inițial de Nargo:

More overhyped marketing content. People want actual gameplay footage, not cinematic trailers.

This nibbler wants to watch twitch, lmao @ your life fr

Postat inițial de Ray Rook:

I enjoyed all of them.

D&D was awesome to watch, but I didnt like the shaky camera.
The New World one was funny.
Sifu was cool.
Crossfire was my least favorite.
Warhammer 40k was awesome, but I can understand being frustrated if you don't know what's going on.
Unreal Tournament was cool.
Pacman was not what I was expecting but also not bad really. Just not what I was expecting.
Armored Core made me want to play the game.

The writing on crossfire needs work, they should had not keep repeating "we are not that bad guys" and just keep that line for each side at the end and it would had been better.
That aside, I liked that episode a lot but damn Crossfire is super old, I did not know it was still active. It is as old as TF2.

[talemore]

Cloud atlas is better.

It takes place in the matrix.
Smith is in the movie as well as Neo.

[Adversary]

It's kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥' hilarious that there's going to be an episode about Concord, but otherwise I am generally indifferent to the continued existence of that series. Then again, circa 99% of everything pushed out by Amazon's media apparatus is haute garbage.

And to say nothing of The Washington Post!

[Knud den Store 🧙‍♂]

Postat inițial de Adversary:

It's kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥' hilarious that there's going to be an episode about Concord, but otherwise I am generally indifferent to the continued existence of that series. Then again, circa 99% of everything pushed out by Amazon's media apparatus is haute garbage.

And to say nothing of The Washington Post!

Being objective they have had good stuff.
Terminal List was great.
Vox Machina is okay
Secret Level joins the list as 1 of the 3 things total to watch on the service.
I am indifferent about Invincible.

Everything else is so very bad.
The Boys is incredibly out of touch and the Fallout Tv show, you can tell there are like 4 people that actually care for Fallout but their voices are being drowned by the type of morons that have been running the entertainment industry for the past 14 years and we all know Amazon is an evil corporation, they are pretty bad.

Their employees have to resort to Jarate.
They have outsourced so much stuff to China which they themselves outsourced to Best Korea, for example, Invincible was animated in NK studios, which reminds me of this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ReoBPl4mM

They overcharged customers during the pandemic and never bothered to improve their working conditions. They are essentially Temu since their store mostly carries Chinese made products, they are also pretty awful to all the small business that have worked with them that do reside in America and they have been hit by several anti-trust lawsuits that are still pending resolution.

So shows like The Boys and Fallout are so very irritating for their stupid messages they convey, the Unreal Tournament episode is ruined by similar messaging.

[abcd]

If it was printed out of a chatbot I would not be surprised.

[Ray Rook]

Postat inițial de Knud den Store 🧙‍♂:

Postat inițial de Adversary:

It's kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥' hilarious that there's going to be an episode about Concord, but otherwise I am generally indifferent to the continued existence of that series. Then again, circa 99% of everything pushed out by Amazon's media apparatus is haute garbage.

And to say nothing of The Washington Post!

Being objective they have had good stuff.
Terminal List was great.
Vox Machina is okay
Secret Level joins the list as 1 of the 3 things total to watch on the service.
I am indifferent about Invincible.

Everything else is so very bad.
The Boys is incredibly out of touch and the Fallout Tv show, you can tell there are like 4 people that actually care for Fallout but their voices are being drowned by the type of morons that have been running the entertainment industry for the past 14 years and we all know Amazon is an evil corporation, they are pretty bad.

Their employees have to resort to Jarate.
They have outsourced so much stuff to China which they themselves outsourced to Best Korea, for example, Invincible was animated in NK studios, which reminds me of this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ReoBPl4mM

They overcharged customers during the pandemic and never bothered to improve their working conditions. They are essentially Temu since their store mostly carries Chinese made products, they are also pretty awful to all the small business that have worked with them that do reside in America and they have been hit by several anti-trust lawsuits that are still pending resolution.

Reacher series is good.
The Expanse is good.
I hear good things about Carnival Row, but haven't seen it.
Wheel of Time is alright, but I like the books and want it to continue.
I like The Boys.

[C4Warr10r]

I loved the hell out of two episodes, and I agree, the storytelling was kinda crap for most of it.

First, I loved the WH40K episode because "Astartes" actually has really good storytelling, and this is much the same thing. Same animator, beautiful rendition of what a Space Marine would be like, and the touch of cosmic horror that really shows what they're up against, and how they can ever lose. The design of that demon was great, possessing a monstrous eye that reflects others back into themselves, and makes them kill themselves.

Personally, I have no such fear. I know what humans are already and it's glorious, not monstrous, but so many are often cowed by that fear. I'm not sure vengeance, or pure rage is the best expression, but against the powers of Chaos, it always is.

Second, the Armored Core episode really hit me. "Asset management" made me think it was going to be about one of the Corpos, but in true AC fashion, it isn't. It's about an AI controlling everything, and the mere illusion of choice that it presents. "Screamer" says as much during multiple parts of the film. The pilot and the mech are part of her, not the other way around. And to make sure she has supremacy, she's eliminating all competition.

That final scene, which harkens to Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam", is very impressive. There is already a god, and during the whole episode, "Screamer" keeps assuring the pilot that no-one is is like him, only to end on the haunting note that there is no-one like us, with the final shot being the cold glare of the ACs sensors. She was controlling him all along. It was HER contract.

The rest of the series, well, I either never played the games or didn't give a ♥♥♥♥. Not in comparison to that storytelling. Uh, Pac-Man was weird. But full credit where it is due. Most of the animations graphics were so good that I wondered if they were using live actors for a few minutes. Very talented artwork in that respect!

[Psycho]

this is just from seeing the commercials of it, not knowing anything about it... but i thought it looks really cool. i loved the art style and the idea of a video game show