Does lego count?
Does Final Fantasy count?
Makita. They put out a fucking tool for everything and when you’re looking at them you’re kinda like “that’s a bit stupid I can just put a bit extra effort in and do it with the tools I have” but then you see that tool that perfectly simplifies something you do and you’re like “ok I need this it make my life so easy” and it does.
Despite what a subset of its fans say - Star Trek is still putting out decent content, on average. We get 10 episode seasons now and the majority of it is fun adventures and when it tries to do social commentary it never takes as hard line as it used to. But at least in the shorter seasons there’s less chance of a Threshold or a Subrosa. Maybe its just me but I could watch Lower Decks on rotation
Lower Decks is the best, and most faithful, Trek since TOS.
Fight me.
What about TAS?
I could never get into TAS. That is probably more a character flaw than failing of the series. I just… I don’t know. I guess I’ve just never much cared about cartoons that weren’t Looney.
But you’re probably right, considering who went into making them.
Yeah that sunset is small.
Strange New Worlds has been pretty damn good and a return to form. Though you could say Season 2 went a little too hard with all the genre swapping per episode. I hope they tone it down and do a bit more of the anomaly of the week kind of thing in season 3
One Piece. The worldbuilding has yet to crash down on itself after 25 years.
Genshin Impact. Yes, it’s gacha, but there’s mountains of content you can play without spending a dime, and they continously expand both content and quality-of-life factors.
This is completely my opinion but I feel like Stellaris has milked the fuck out of those DLCs, but they’re also good lol
Resident Evil
(i’m talking about the games primarily, the shows/movies are hit or miss)
I still enjoy Pokemon. They deserve the criticism they get but I grew up with it and I enjoy monster battling games.
Walkabout Mini Golf has been going strong and still cranking out new courses regularly.
Mario. Also Zelda
It’s been milked endlessly but definitely not disrespected a la Sonic. You know when you pick up one of these you’re in for a good time. It’s the kind of reputation Nintendo knows it relies on.
Super Mario. It’s been milked for what it’s worth and more, but whenever there’s a new Mario game you just know it’s going to be good.
The last Teenage mutant ninja turtles movie was fire … and there’s a non zero chance there’s already been another one released while I typed this.
For me, it’s Dragon Ball. Across 3 mangas, 4 shows, and like 25 movies, the latest content is still enjoyable. Dragon Ball Super, both the anime and manga, are just super fun successors to the originals. It’s the only comic book I actually read when a new issue comes out.
- Marvel but it’s waning
- Grand Theft Auto
- South Park
- Cheers / Frasier saga
Marvel has put out anything good in the past 5 years?
Guardians 3 was good.
Mostly because they weren’t trying to shoehorn future movie plot setups into it.
On that note, the Holiday Special was also pretty good.
Shang-Chi wasn’t a bad movie… Not one I’m likely to rewatch much, but a good popcorn movie…
Other than that, no Marvel has started falling into producer interference mode, where every movie must explicitly set up the next, even if they don’t have a full plan for what’s next.
They’ve lost sight of the key to their success; telling a tight, self-contained story made by people who love the characters.
