And those are just the skins my friends and I use.

It might be an incredibly one-note joke, but it’s one that doesn’t seem to get old.

But playing Fortnite always feels kind of gross for the same reason.

Do you not love IP?

Fortnite is a major offender but far from the only one.

you’ve got the option to be Nikki Minaj and shoot Paul Atreides from Dune inCall of Duty.

you’re free to beat on Bugs Bunny as Batman inMultiVersus.

I gotta say, I never expected any sort of video game adaptation of the movie Nope.

it’s possible for you to ride a Ghostbusters-inspired speeder bike inDestiny 2.

They’re all stripped of meaning and stamped out as if from an assembly line.

The World, and Masters of the Universe.

I never once managed to land on the air craft carrier in Top Gun on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

There are also a bunch of secret levels and characters you could uncover, referencing all kinds of stuff.

It was the time of the tie-in video game.

The Harry Potter people are currently trying to convince us that Quidditch is cool with a game tie-in.

I still have my copy of Ghostbusters for NES and that game suuuucks.

Movies and TV shows still get video games made about them.

Read through the Wikipedia list ofgames based on moviessometime, because the old ones get pretty wild.

Yes, most of these were absolutely cynical cash-grabs, and many felt like it.

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But sometimes, you could get something really exciting.

Their value begins and ends at “Hey, I recognize that.”

I want more doofus adaptations of barely family-friendly comedies and Robin Williams movies nobody liked.

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I want something more than $10 skins that remind me of things I previously enjoyed.

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