• Vlyn@lemmy.world
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    Not just for series, this is the same with games.

    “The first 50 hours of Final Fantasy 14 suck, but the expansions afterwards are worth it!”

    “The game starts at max level!”

    I can’t stand it. And it’s not like the game magically gets much better, it just feels pretty okay for someone who just wasted months of their time on the bad parts. Of course you’ll enjoy mediocre parts later on after suffering through that crap.

    A game has to start being fun ten minutes after the tutorial tops. Why play it otherwise?

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        Nah, Diablo 4 is much more fun when leveling from 1 to 70 or so. 70 - 100 is just doing the same things over and over with barely any rewards. It’s the other way around there, leveling is fun, endgame is dogshit.

        Usually “game starts at max level” is used for MMOs like WoW. Where all the leveling is seen as annoying bullshit fetch quests and at max level you do dungeons and raids.

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          That would not.apply at all to EvE Online. Levels? What levels? Game content? Only if you make it happen. Lol.

          Don’t get me wrong, I love the game, but it certainly isn’t for everyone

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        This is not true for D4 unless you’re trying to max level as fast as you can. I took my time and did most of the side quests, and I intend to go back and finish them all. The quests are interesting and engaging and voice acted all the way through.

        D4 is quite a good leveling experience if you don’t play it zoom-zoom.

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    Me with Bojack. I straight up tell most folks to skip the first 5 episodes and start with 1-6. The jump in quality the show does when it gets to “The Telescope” is staggering, it doesn’t feel like the same show.

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      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.

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        Ok, yeah, my partner loves the Mc Neal Seal puns, and even when we were watching it he was like “season one is supposed to be the bad one? Jesus the show is good then”

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    I was told to stick it out one more season for each season of breaking bad. Watched the whole show and it never got better. I hated it.

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      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.

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          I consider Breaking Bad to be one of the most consistent shows. If you don’t enjoy the first few episodes, you’re unlikely to enjoy the rest of the show. I’m not sure what your friends were on about.

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    Shit, if a show doesn’t interest me after 30 minutes I’m done with it. If the story only gets interesting after the forced exposition dump part of the script, then the script needed more work before they filmed it. In my opinion anyway.

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    This image is fucking with me because the way it’s drawn reminds me a lot of Family Guy, and Family Guy is one of those rare cases where this concept is inverted and the show starts going to shit after season 3.

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    Star Trek TNG.

    It’s literally Season 3, too.

    Annoyingly, there are one or two really good episodes in Seasons 1 and 2. But the majority are total crap.

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    I really don’t get the hate for friends. It’s just a tv show with funny bits here and there.

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      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.

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        I love shows like that, after a long day of mentally draining work. I don’t want to think, I just want to drink a beer and zone out. Even though I’m still thinking about work lol

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    Yep, went the same route myself. I’m looking at you, Critical Role campaign 1 👀

    But for others I always recommend start with the 3rd now.

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    Honestly my biggest blunder of this was telling my boyfriend we watch Miraculous Ladybug and that it gets really good in season 5. I honestly lucked out that we both found it a riot from start to end, it’s now one of our favorite shows.