It would get panned for having such an unbearable protagonist. Both boring and incompetent, he bungles his way through one tedious life event after another. Nothing of meaningful consequence happens.
A lot of older games assumed you’d never played a video game before so had quite extended tutorials. It’s a tough balance to get it right for complete novices and gnarled grognards alike.
Generaly I like movies with a good twist, or that require a bit of thinking, so things like The Usual Suspects, Seven, Memento or Shutter Island (though not so much films that fall into this category but which I feel cheat, like The Prestige.
I also quite like 'clever protagonist outsmarts the antagonist(s)' films, like The Amateur, Law Abiding Citizen, or, I suppose The Usual Suspects also falls into this group as well, though I prefer it when the cleverness is plausible and not crazy accurate prediction on exactly how people will react to chnaging evens (Law Abiding Citizen has a bit too much of this).
But they're not really guilty pleasures. My guilty pleasures are American Hich School movies, like 10 Things I Hate About You, Heathers, or even Bring It On. Bonus points if it features an unconventional teacher or coach who turns underdog teams or academics around, like Coach Carter or Dangerous Minds.
I love southern US style BBQ, and if they do a good 'Jacob's ladder' beef rib I'll be there on the regular.
I also love a good curry, but it has to be either authentic Indian, or authentic BIR. If it's the former then I love a Dosakaya Pappu, an authentic Goan Pork Vindaloo, or a Mutton Paya. If it's the latter then I love a good Lamb Madras or Chicken Jalfrezi.
I love good Mexican food, there was. a place I used to go to in London that did an amazing seafood enchilada, but they've taken it off their menu and it's the only thing I ever ordered it was so good.
But, for favourite it has to be a good steak house. And in an ideal world, I'll have the ribeye, cooked as the chef suggests (which usually means a medium rare for a ribeye) with a bonemarrow butter sauce, thick cut chips, and maybe a couple of portabello mushrooms.
Yeah, I use The Ecstacy of Gold from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It starts quietly and peacefully so doesn't startle me but builds to a crescendo which guarantees my awake attention.
I've been working on a new kind of spaceship designed to act as both ark and engineering station for the construction of dyson spheres. So there's that, although I've not got very far with it yet.
Probably all about the teaching. I understood maths up until we hit differential calculus. Then I didn’t understand what we were doing to numbers or why. And my teacher was incapable of explaining it.
Perhaps not but they did have printed manuals.