It gets really good after the first 31 episodes

For PvP centric games they absolutely get better at max level. You finally are at parity for numbers, and so skill plays a larger role.

“The game starts at max level!”

Diablo 4 fans be like

Conversely, too many good games get bad reviews because of lacking endgame. So go play the next thing in your overflowing backlog. Some games do what they came for, and that's fine.

It's like giving a bad movie review because the concession stand was closed when you left the cinema.

My brother is 100% this…”ohhh you just have to get through the fetchquests of ARR and then the story is SOO good”

Also the tutorial shouldn't take an hour.

I've said that about FFXIV lol

It gets so much better though when Heavensward enters, it's insanely good

That's why I don't play japanese rpgs despite liking them. You have to "play" for 10 to 15 hours before the game actually starts. And during this time it's a whole lot of cinematic and dialogs with minimal gameplay. Sometimes it gets ridiculous. I can't remember which game, but after few minutes of dialog you'd be walking for less than a minute to then have dialog again... I want to play and have fun damn it.

Yeah no I can't do games like that. I don't have as much time for ma vidja games as I used to or as much as I would like these days I can't afford to wait 50 hours for enjoyment to start. If it takes that dn long for a game to be fun its just bad game design

Not to be that guy, but once you get past the first 35 levels of story in FFXIV (which is a lot faster than 50 hours) it really picks up quick. Like a lot.

And each season is 20 episodes

I recently watched a video called Why Do We Play Games We Hate? I feel it applies to other media as well.

The thing that stuck out to me was that some people don't feel ready to decide whether or not they like something until they've totally completed the experience. They feel it isn't fair to judge the partial product, so they'll stick it out through the end, even if it's terrible, just so they say without a doubt they did not like it.

I can understand the mentality, but sometimes you have to just jump ship.

I have a friend who grimly stuck it out through Wheel of Time long after he stopped enjoying it out of completionism.

Screw that.

This week's episode is actually really good. You just have to watch the other 1071 episodes first and I swear you'll like it.

My GF loves One Piece, she started me at just one episode quite a ways in - the one with Bink's Sake - basically just to say "hey look, this story is actually going somewhere". Then we started at like episode 60 or so and kept watching from there - it's definitely a lot rougher, but I'm hooked enough now to watch it with her!

I can't deny this lol. Sometimes you like it from the start, but the start is very corny since it was made in the 90s, so it doesn't grab everyone right away, but it matures really well over time and becomes more timeless. But even then I have to admit it can be an acquired taste with its cartoony style and wacky characters/world.

It's unfortunate that it is true. No going around it - the first 25 or so episodes are cartoonish and the old drawing style kept a lot of people away. I tried to convince people to stick with it but most of my friends left it around episode 2 or 3.

It's also evident that it is perceived as a dumb teens series since producers brought it to TV to a channel named 4Kids. And then they quickly realized by the second batch of episodes that kids definitely shouldn't watch that.

That's why I'm hoping the live action becomes a success. One piece has a lot of amazing things, but the anime adaptation is just shat out of someone's ass every week. I can't recommend that to anyone.

If Netflix is successful in recreating the one piece experience - and so far it looks like they are - I'll finally have something to show people why I like this story so much.

let me start on episode 6 and get back to you.

I mention Bojack to pretty much everyone I care about. I am just worried there's someone out there that could love the show as much as me and just doesn't get the chance to.

The first few episodes of Bojack were super rough. I think I had a friend that loved the first few episodes and fell off as the show went on.

Guess I need to give it another shot lol

Well, yeah, I get that, even if I don't find those episodes bad myself, but I do think episode two, Bojack Hates the Troops, is a really good satirical episode that shouldn't be missed.

Yeah, S1 was trying to be the office too much. The camera shots and everyone's delivery was just off a bit.

And I don't think it really landed until season 3 with the cast change.

I like that after Mark leaves, he's never even mentioned in passing again.

Yeah, on rewatch I generally start at season 2. Same with The Office (US). Both shows are phenomenal, but they take a while to find their footing.

However, I'd certainly argue that even on first viewing, the first seasons can be skipped. You might miss a bit of backstory, but you'd be able to understand most things perfectly fine.

Your mom is a great character.

Even then, you could skip half or more of season 1. I can't remember which to skip, but there's advice online somewhere I'm sure.

And Rikers Beard is glorious.

After GoT and all the cancelled shows on Netflix, Prime, etc. I refuse to get into a show until it has a few seasons under it's belt. Nothing like getting invested in a show only for them to cancel it.

Guilty

on my first watch of tng i straight up just jumped to s3 or 4, you pick up what you need pretty quick and skip to the good part

And Enterprise. It improved so much in s3, but good luck getting through 50 episodes to get there.

DS9 at least gets good towards the end of season one, and hits it's stride in season 3. It never stops being good from there.

TNG I swear is mediocre until like season 5.

Me too. It's a fun watch, getting introduced to everything. It just had the poor luck of being the least polished season of one of the best shows ever made.

Same here. I like the more OG feel the first and second season have, and some of the characters that are only there for those seasons. RIP Tasha Yar 😥

What is tng?

Seriously? Breaking Bad was awesome all things considered. But if you are not hooked by season 1 you won't like it, period.

The middle part of the series was a drag, too many filler episodes. Strong start, strong end, but if you don't like the start don't even bother.

Literally the one show that got me hooked in the first episode.

how?

I'm your worst nightmare. I refuse to get to s2 or s3 until I finish the dredge that is s1 because I'm of the belief that CR is only good because the people who watch it went through s1 first

Am I misremembering or does it have a lot of made up terms?

The first few seasons were so good.

I agree with your take on the first two, but s3 was so gratuitous I could barely stand it. A reunion episode would have been fine, but they didn't do the story justice.

Yeah they completely lost me with the ending of S1 and I gave up on the show.

But RLM said S3 was actually good, so I watched it. Completely skipped S2. Nothing of value was lost. I guess Raffi and Seven are in a relationship? I think that's the only thing that happened in S2 that carried over.

I think I'd have liked S3 more if I was a big TNG fan. But as it was, it was basically the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, just that it brought back a beloved character rather than killing off a beloved character in the middle part of the story. Which of course made it so much better. But still, it's basically the same kind of thing. It was fine. A good ending for the TNG crew.

I hope the Legacy thing can happen, I want to see how things are going on DS9 because that's my Star Trek.

TNG, DS9, and VOY really.

I feel like this comic should be letting in people who convinced others to stick with DS9.

I literally just started with season 3 (for the first time) and I loved most of season 1 and 2

Yeah, but the thing with the old shows is you can just skip ahead. It was all made for an age where everything was self contained. The most you'd get was a two-part episode.

Now it's all made for the Netflix binge generation, where every new episodes assumes you've seen all the previous ones. I mean, there's nothing inherently wrong with that, and it gave us great shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad, but it does mean they need to get their shit together immediately, and not have several seasons of shit before they find the story they actually wanted to tell.

I guess I really just love the show then haha

But JoJo got good long before halfway through. For me it starts with Battle Tendency but for many it's good from Stardust Crusaders on. That leaves many more seasons and even more manga.
My advice for anyone getting into JoJo would probably be start with Stardust Crusaders, they explain why Dio is a big deal in the narrative and the mask isn't relevant anymore so none of it really matters.
You are right that the first season is a total drag and very skippable though.

It's exactly what a sitcom is supposed to be. Light watching that's generally funny. Also if you miss an episode or two here and there it's easy enough to pick up what's going on.

At least American episodes come out more than once a decade

But, there's only one season? And its all fire!