Missing:

Resident Evil (2002) $103m ($180m adjusted)

…of the rest of the movies on your list, I have only not seen Hitman and Five Nights at Freddy’s; but I would be pretty safe in betting that they would both be more enjoyable than Borderlands.

The alternate ending was official, and was released as a Special Feature on the DVD box set. So IMO it’s the canon ending, and the originally aired one was just a fever dream following a bad ‘sandwich’.

The alternate ending is still the superior (and IMO canon) ending.

I’d still prefer they not throw away and waste Robin & Barney’s emotional growth, as well.

Pretty sure Lord GabeN still holds a grudge against us from that time the ACCC sued Steam over local pricing and consumer protection laws; so we’re very unlikely to ever see local hardware releases.

I ended up getting mine through an eBay seller a year ago - no regrets so far.

It’s because most game devs are owned by publicly traded companies; shareholders searching for constantly improved earnings man’s that games are rushed out the door, incomplete and packed to the gills with monetisation.

Balder’s Gate 3 is a perfect counter-point to this mindset; games can only launch once - so launch it properly.

As an aside; I do wish that there was a millennial billionaire who grew up playing some Konami classic titles, and were in a position to take over the company, take it private and focus on restoring it to its former glory. But there is no such thing as a benevolent billionaire, so it’s just a pipe dream.

To steal a term bandied about when talking about AI; this is the worst it’ll ever be again.

Yes, it’s an absolute mess - but with a passionate enough community, someone will develop a front-end to automate and streamline this process.

Getting the data was the biggest challenge.

It saddens me to know that if everyone who went out and kept blindly pre-ordering games from Konami, Blizzard (or any formerly great studio that is now just trading on their name and pushing out the jankiest titles); instead put that money towards shares of that company - they’d have enough of a voice to dictate that companies future, and have them produce something other than the microtransaction ridden, poorly thought out, barely put together, live service garbage we’ve been getting for the past 2+ console generations.