Better Versions Of Your Favorite Entertainment Juggernauts

For every popular, played-out game, comic, book, or band, there’s a better one you’ve never heard of.
Better Versions Of Your Favorite Entertainment Juggernauts

We're not here to judge. Actually, let us restate: we're not here to judge you. It's actually our job to judge lots of stuff, like movies, tv, candy, you know, the stuff of Cracked. But we thought, why should we have all the fun?

We felt like it was time to hear from you guys a bit. After all, you’ve proven your instincts to be laser-light on much of the time.

So we got to thinking: is the stuff everybody thinks is so great really that great? There's a glut of incredibly popular entertainment out there. People cleave out whole parts of their lives to binge-watch this or that or listen to podcasts about a show that wrapped up ten years ago.

The thing is, a thing isn't necessarily popular because it's good. We asked our readers to come up with better, lesser-known versions of popular games, music, books, and other pop culture staples.

The best one is below, but first, the runners-up:

Finished reading Harry Potter for the 7th time? Try The Kingkiller Chronicle. PATRICK Tias Rller PATRICK k PATRICK ROTHFUSS ROTHFUSS ROTHFUSS THE NAME
CRACKED.COM If YOU love the nerdy rap of chris. you'll love the literary rhymes of the man more posive than AnDre.k., MC LARS
I'S really hard to top any title of the Legend of Zelda series... But if any game has ever beaten them in their own genre, it's OKAMI. CRACKED.COM
CRACKED.COm Blown away by the battle mechanics in Batman Arkham games? BATMANS 8--A -M MAD MAX Don't miss out on the Mad Max video game, which has sim
Feeling like IA is overplayed? Jackson's Check Elly out synth pop LA style is just as powerful H OU X and danceable as Sia, but with more fun and much
IF YOU LIKE GUITAR HERO... 7038 BOt Wli 038 GIVE OSU! A TRY 7 REPL 300300 300 300 300 300 300 THIS RHYTHM-BASED MUSIC GAME REQUIRES SIMILAR SKILLS, IS
but bored Love survival-horror franchises? same-old with the EVIL... skipping RESIDENT Try And try out DARKNESS! ETERNAL This little-known Gamecube re
CRACKEDCON Find Lego sets a little too easy to build? LEGO BW nanoblock. Then you'll enjoy Nanoblock, which comes in smaller pieces, is a lot cheaper
If you like Hearthstone, but are tired of how grindy and random it can be, try Eternal. 0/6 1 Kler Meybeexhwtede tie to aftack any anem Lnit 566 Preda
CRACKED COM Enjoy Cthuhlu mythos stories, but have trouble with the ancient language and racist subtext? Read Peter Clines' Threshold 14 novels! 14 an
CRACKED COM FORTNITE If the most popular battle royale game right now is not cutting it for you and you think building belongs on Minecraft, try H1Z1,
Like crazy hack & slash gameplay? Bored with games that try too hard to be cool like DMC: Devil May Cry? Wanna see something completely bat-$#!% insan
SMCITY Tired of Simcity? Try Cities: Skyline, with details its pricier counterpart can only dream Of. CIGIES SKYLINES Each citizen has their own ident
If collectible figurines are your jam, you probably know FUNKO'S oP! Line, but butwhatyoushould get to know. is what Quantum Mechanix's Fig FIG LINE C
GRAGKEDCOM If like you PARAMORE but want bit a mone punk in pop op-punk, sink your teeth into They're catchy and THE DOLYROTS!! fun, but kept that cla
Better Versions Of Your Favorite Entertainment Juggernauts
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