Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Story and gameplay both get good around the end of chapter 3.
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Trails/Kiseki fan reporting in. It's the same thing with trying to get friends into the series (though the remake of the first game helps tremendously) but there's so many games and so much dialog and it's a massive commitment if you want to get through the series. But we have to say the story really only kicks in during the final chapter and the second game.
Still worth it.
I would not watch 36 episodes or play 150 hours. But...
... don't dismiss something too quickly. I watched One Cut Of The Dead, and the gimmick of that movie was (I thought) that it was filmed in one take. But holy shit, bad acting, bad sfx, and super cheap production quality. Dropped it after twenty minutes.
And then I read fantastic reviews, thank god spoiler free. So I sat down again, started it, and somehow made it through the first thirty minutes. And holy fuck, it had a brilliant pay off! More than worth it to pay attention this half hour!
With anime I give them three episodes to get me hooked. For games I draw my personal line for 5 hours.
But not 36 episodes. Or 150 hours :)
Now I need to give One Cut of the Dead another go.
I also stopped 20 minutes in. Twice.
Nice! I hope you can enjoy the hour that follows the first thirty minutes like me! Just a hint: Pay attention in the beginning, the more you have an eye for details the more fun it gets!
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Yeah, Heavensward and Shadowbringers are undoubtedly the best bits. Endwalker isn't far behind.
But then MMOs aren't typically played for the story anyway.
Idk about everyone else but One Piece is literally our comfort show (watched all all of it- we think 6 times by now) and we’re rewatching again atm via the One Pace edit and even started reading the manga aswell (in Spanish as we’re learning Spanish rn).
So far in One Pace a lot of small details are removed which we personally dislike, but the overall concessions and it being a faster pace edit it’s pretty good ngl. If your looking for a good run through of the anime, the One Pace gets the job done.
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I can’t tolerate anime noises for hours. Put the entire game in the trash. *gaham*
I get it. Anime noises killed my interest in the Final Fantasy 7 remakes.
Wat? FF14 is good like immediately.
I remember buying Final Fantasy XIV on Steam some years ago, and something about doing that made it so I completely missed out on the free trial. So now I'm not sure if I want to try to disassociate my Steam account from my Squeenix account and make a new one for the latter and see if that gives me access to the free version; or wait until I'm either comfortable paying the subscription or if a private server gets off the ground.
Final Fantasy XI private servers are alive and well in the meantime, and that's a game I still need to experience as well. Also PSO Blue Burst.
The FFXIV free trial let's you play like the first 3 expansions (heavensward, stormblood, shadowbringers) without paying a dime and with no time limit (there are some limitations like how much in game currency you can amass and who you can private message). The downside is that if you buy the game you don't qualify for the free trial anymore.
Sadly the Steam version can't be disassociated from your account so you're screwed there. But if you really wanna try out the game then just make a new trial account, you just need an email address for it and that's it. Just make sure you don't buy the game on that account as that will void the free trial and ask you for a sub.
The free trial is worth it for the content it provides with such little commitment.
Edit: I forgot to say that the free trial gets updated so they add in a new expansion to it whenever they release the newest one. So for example when they release the expansion after Dawntrail the free trial will be updated to contain the first 4 expansions (heavensward, stormblood, shadowbringers and endwalker).
Okay, cool. That sounds like the way to go. I'll just use a different account and email for the free trial, then switch back to my main if I ever start a subscription.
Parks and Rec. The entire first season is trash. No idea how they were able to turn it around to abruptly.
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FF13 had a similar argument.