I first played the Demon's Souls remake a couple of years after it had come out. All through the first couple of worlds I ran, I would often notice the same ghost player (based on their appearance) basically in lockstep with me, we seemed to be on the same schedule for when we played and progressing through the game at the same pace.
I've always wondered whether seeing a ghost player in Souls games means that they can also see you at the same time. I hope you can because it was just deeply satisfying to feel like I was in the same game as this stranger from who knows where, a silent companion exploring this deep, dark, dangerous world alongside me.
C'mon man, it's not a matter of the actors being slightly older than their characters, their appearance is laughably incongruous with the setting. I'm fine with some suspension of disbelief but its incredibly jarring in every scene. It wasn't an issue I had with the show until this season. Like, they somehow seem to look older than they actually are irl, MBB looks fucking 30 in the show.
The dialogue is fucking awesome
I dunno how to respond to this, the whole thing could have been written by AI it is so basic and by the numbers. Half the scenes are just exposition where they might as well be talking at the camera.
If people are insulting you its because you're just being pretty obnoxious and childish. It's easy to get annoyed by someone who is convinced that they are right and everybody else is wrong, especially when they are so obviously wrong.
I mean, I assume you're a troll? I don't get offended by trolls. But I engaged with you here on the off chance that you're not, hoping that you might see some reason. But instead you've just doubled down on your own crazy ideas. Like, best of luck to you (if you are indeed genuine), you seem relatively harmless. Try and broaden your horizons, it'll do you good.
Ok, I'm having a slow arvo so I'll throw you a bone and try to explain what's going on here.
Everything you've said here, you talk about as if it is a given that it's true. e.g. "When you concentrate on a thing you ignore pretty much everything else. Do it enough and that ignoring becomes blindness. And habitual.". The reason people are laughing at these claims is because its just provably false, at least as an ironclad rule. Most people know people or know of people that this just isn't the case for. I personally know a bunch of scientists, artists and engineers who are highly successful at their job and also very well rounded people with a wide range of interests. Even if there was some general data on tendencies towards the kind of behaviour you claim, you don't provide it.
So, the fact that your "unpopular opinion" is based on a fact that basically only you in the entire world believe to be true, means that everyone thinks your post here is nonsense, crazy, a very young child, or trolling. I assume you've had some experience with the kind of people you're talking about, but even if every single person you ever met had this exact characteristic it would still be a hopelessly small sample size to make any claims about the population at large. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and you provide exactly zero proof for this extraordinary claim.
Dude, it is ridiculous! The old-ass actors playing children alone is enough to completely explode any possibility of taking it seriously. Them riding around on the bikes that are now way too small for them is hilarious. I'm amazed anyone is even remotely invested in it.
It is hilariously bad, like, beyond parody. All the kids look 30 and haggard, all the dialogue is just soulless exposition, random people are getting murked with these big emotional cues like we're supposed to care about this bit part character, its full of product placement so brazen and intrusive that it looks like satire, 11 is doing superhero training montages, there is a straight up hentai tentacle rape scene. It's like an SNL skit of Stranger Things, it is truly, deeply bizarre and awful on every level.
Get really stoned and watch it as if it is a parody comedy and it kind of works though.
I call this the Jersey Shore Effect. Something starts out as an object of ridicule but through media saturation people are exposed to it so much, for so long, that it becomes normalised and then aspirational, purely through conditioning; it's in people's brain all the time so at some point they decide they like it.
It's the same way that music worked back in the days of radio: play something enough and undiscerning people just start liking it, because its in their head all the time.
It's great to have a modern version of it to play. But they really missed the mark with the aesthetics, imo. It has a very different feel to the original and they arbitrarily changed a lot of details in designs that have meaningful impact on the lore and worldbuilding.
This video that talks about it is probably a little overly-pedantic in some ways but I agree with most of what they say. I didn't notice all of the specific stuff he mentions here, but I definitely noticed the different feel and atmosphere to the game compared to the original:
I first played the Demon's Souls remake a couple of years after it had come out. All through the first couple of worlds I ran, I would often notice the same ghost player (based on their appearance) basically in lockstep with me, we seemed to be on the same schedule for when we played and progressing through the game at the same pace.
I've always wondered whether seeing a ghost player in Souls games means that they can also see you at the same time. I hope you can because it was just deeply satisfying to feel like I was in the same game as this stranger from who knows where, a silent companion exploring this deep, dark, dangerous world alongside me.