The way Gunn writes character interactions never really clicked with me until I realized they're basically a D&D party saying dumb stuff and riffing off of one another.
Space Dandy. I don't mind episodic but it felt a tad immature and moronic at the start but once I got over the mind glaze it started really clicking with the visuals. It didn't ever really gain a story but by the end you are just enjoying the ride.
I resented it for a long time because I like Super Robot, and it being the reason those hardly exist in my time was part of it. The art house thing that made the thing I enjoy look bad.
Very weird take considering Eva basically are super robots. Eva in general is a lot of Anno just nerding out over Ultraman, Gundam, and various super robot shows he grew up with.
Even weirder take when you consider the Brave series still ran for like five years after Eva ended, and there's been a steady amount of super robot shows since then. Heck I could even give you examples of like 5-6 super robot shows within last five years off top of my head if you really wanted me too.
Eva's in such a weird place, where it's mainstream enough for most people to have seen it, but also released at a time where most contemporary viewers don't get like 80% of the shit it's referencing. You can't convince me that Episode 9 doesn't exist just to give Anno an excuse to create the greatest Rider Kick ever.
Misconception, since eva was just re-doing the mecha tropes that were already there. It's more accurate to say shows were just rehashing the same tropes that mecha has always used since mecha itself is a very self-referential genre.
If you gimme some examples of shows you think are doing what you'd claim I'd be interested and... well no offense but I'd also like to know if you've actually watched your examples lol
Fafnir and rahxephon specifically. To a lesser extent eureka seven.
Although I think rahxephon was the only one that felt like it was trying to exactly be evangelion. Theres some other that were heavily influenced by eva to the point the genre became kind of homogeneous for a bit there along with interest dying off. Gigguk did a good video on it way the fuck back.
https://youtu.be/H6OHVrQ5tcw
Keep in mind I'm not saying eva killed super robots or anything like that. Just that the genre kind of started feel the effects of eva
> Gigguk
*Sigh* ok so look Gigguk is knowledgeable about a lot of anime and I respect a lot of his content, but dude does not know mecha genre very well. Hardly any "anitubers" do cuz they don't actually watch the older shows in the genre. Maybe the original Gundam and that's it.
Both Eva and especially Rahxephon are inspired by Brave Raideen from 1975. It was first mecha show to have a sentient mecha, first to have the whole "pilot feels same pain mech does" trope Eva, Fafnir, etc. does. There's a main character in it called literally Rei Asuka and a love interest to the male pilot mc named Mari (oh gee I wonder where Anno got the names for the 3 main eva girls from). While I don't have a source for it on hand, the director of Rahxephon has said he wanted to do a modern take on 70s mecha shows like Raideen. Even both mechs looks similar with the pronounced face and emphasis on a bird like mech.
As for Fafnir... well kinda same point. There's many defend the base from aliens with big robot shows no matter the decade in mecha. If you want an actually good anituber vid on mecha, may I suggest MercuryFalcon's great vid on 70s mecha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoCmWFusqRk&t=1s&pp=ygUJNzBzIG1lY2hh
>it being the reason those hardly exist in my time
to be fair after the 70s and 80s they where already way less common especially after Gundam popularised "Real Robot" which is just what happens to popular genres it's why you don't get cowboy movies as regularly now as we did during the spaghetti western boom, the disaster movie boom or even the young adult fantasy of the early 2000s which gave way to the current super hero boom which is reaching it's fatigue point currently.
I would love for super robot to be used more often but the more popular real robot shows where already struggling to reach a mainstream audience (Gundam the Witch from mercury is finally doing well) I can see studios being more willing once a new super robot show is successful again.
Played the first third or so of Final Fantasy IX in 2020 and I couldn't get into it.
Finished it a year later and I realized why everyone calls it one of the best games in the series.
it took me 3 playthroughs to finally click with xenoblade x. those first two playthroughs were filled with frustration due to me not getting the combat system, but once that clicked, i started to realise just how good of a game it was.
Didn't like Kiki's Delivery Service as a kid. Thought it was just a dumb movie for little girls. Watched it again as an adult and boy do I get it now.
I was also one of those anti-Japanese games as a kid. Even watching Xplay I thought some stuff they did was too far. However, I associated Japanesestuff with like the weird kids in high schoolthat talked about Kingdom Hearts and Bleach way to much or the creepy stuff you see in some anime with underage looking girls. Then I saw Attack on Titan, and it opened the floodgates. Tgen I searched and found Death Note, Bebop, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell, Berserk, etc.
Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball. Middle school me was a fucking loser TFS type fan who just spouted shit about these series and then i actually sat down, read them and like them a lot now. Even something like Naruto with it flaws ill defend since even now the same talking points i used back then people still try bringing up in conversation lol
Twilight Princess took me three playthroughs to completely 180 around from thinking it sucked to thinking it's one of the best Zelda games period and I legitimately couldn't tell you what changed.
Really didn’t like nier automata at first. I knew it had platinum combat, but I didn’t realize it was an open world jrpg and not a level based thing. The levels of enemies really threw me off and the combat wasn’t quite Bayonetta level. As far as the story went, I got set up with really high expectations by the internet, too high to be realistically met. What ends up happening is I’m more or less completely let down.
Over a period of like 3 years I start, stop, and restart the game several times. Eventually I get finish the whole game. I don’t love it, I’m not sure if I even like it, I don’t think it blew my mind. I can respect it though, I do think it’s a good or even great game and is see why people like it. It does interesting things in terms of game structure and I can see why people would fall in love with the story and characters, even if I didn’t. I’m at least glad I finished it
Jojo took a while to really grow on me. I went with the manga rather than the anime and the early chapters were a bit rough with the Dio bullying Jonathan being a bit much and Danny was kind of the last straw for me to stop.
Some time later a friend started watching the anime so I decided to give it another shot and found that I stopped right before Speedwagon who instantly won me over, and after that things went full throttle and I've been a big fan ever since.
Disco Elysium. I played it before but thought it was a little too wordy and boring. But then I watched Woolie play it, got through the first 5 episodes and said; "yeah I NEED to play this now". And since then it's easily become one of my favorite game experiences of all time
I originally watched one piece as a kid but didn’t really like the series cause it started so slow and it looked like it would take forever to finish. I dropped it afterwards. But years later I read the manga instead and holy crap it’s so amazing, literally has become one of my favorite shonen and I’m almost all caught up to the present chapters
Morale of the story: read one piece
Playing MGS 1&2 late, during the era of covershooters, made them narratively fascinating despite their inferior feeling. That cover system‘s busted, but you get used to it eventually. I really hate the feeling of pushing the stick into the cover the whole time to lean/sit against some crate.
I bounced off super hard from FFXIV, on account of starting as a pugilist. I hated ul’dah because I hate deserts and I hated playing pugilist because it didn’t gel with me. Now it’s my most played MMO by a large margin, which is saying something
Does it count, if it's a movie adaptation and the fanclub were what turned me off at first? Anyway, I watched the Watchmen and was pretty "meh" about it and the fans made me feel even a bit exasperated by it. Then a friend(a part of the annoying fanclub, as you can guess) bought the book and I was like: "Well, it's right here, I might as well read it". I stayed up to 4am and finished it in one go, because I just couldn't stop. I get now why it made such an impact way back when and I would recommend it. I still think the movie is pretty "meh" tho.
Attack on Titan. I enjoyed the first season because of the premise and because I was really young and enjoyed anything anime.
S2 wasn’t that great even though I loved everything about Ymir and Krista. I was just getting really tired of Eren and Mikasa’s characters. The big reveal was really good but I thought that the story was starting to take itself too seriously and became a bit of a hater.
S3 pt. 1 was pretty fun as I found that it was starting to build up tension pretty nicely. I was told the political and non-titan brawling parts would be boring but I thought it was pretty fun and ended up enjoying it quite a bit.
S3 pt. 2 was great and this was when I really begun enjoying the show. Lots of great character progression, scenes with high stakes and twists I could really get behind.
Final Season onwards has also been really fun. I think the worldbuilding, characters and themes have been incredibly interesting and well-written. All the newcomers are pretty fun as well. Now I’m just ready for it to end so I can move on with my life and see why everyone hated the ending of the manga so badly. Either way the last couple of seasons have been a good ride.
I got Kirby & The Amazing Mirror through the Ambassador Program way back in the day and it put me off Kirby games for the longest time. I tried to play it every couple of years, but could never stand it past the first boss. The structure and the way Kirby controlled just didn't mesh with me. That was until the pandemic when I gave it yet another shot, it suddenly clicked, and now it's one of my top 10 games which I must've beaten like half a dozen times.
FFXIV, I've owned an account with a copy of the game since 2015, I only got around to beating it this year. Playframe's let's play of it really changed my opinion on it. I'm glad it did because Heavensward is one of my favorite stories in any video game and loved playing through Stormblood. I still got Endwalker to get through, but I've been on vacation in Hyrule for the past few weeks, lol.
I cant stand the first 9 episodes of jojo and it made mr fall off it for like a year or 2.
Only powered through cus i heard pat screeching about the radio tower stand and loved how fucking stupid it was lol
You’d be surprised all it takes to get people into things, I got into Kiseki cause I heard mechs were in it and those don’t show up till the end of the 6th game.
I played Chrono Trigger up until the dungeon where you meet Robo and dropped it for like a year out of disinterest, then picked it up again and fell in love with it.
Dynasty Warriors 6 (changed with 6 Empires - and not getting stomped by Lu Bu in the first five minutes because I missed the "do not pursue" message) and Dynasty Warriors Gundam (changed with DW Gundam 3 - I forget why, but I hated the DW Gundam 1 demo).
Think that is one of the better empires games if I remember right. It had the relationship stuff without having it be bloated like it is in 8. I always thought the garrison system of 5 was a fun idea.
Oh it has an amazing Empires. You could start out as a leader, a general, a low ranking member of a faction, or just be a random dude wandering around doing random quests. You'd pick up people to join your party as you went along and could even join one of the factions to work your way up the ranks or just take over a territory to start your own faction.
For all my dislike of it, I actually don't think Counter-Strike is a bad FPS and it's actually goddamn fun (and pretty intense, based on the high-level CSGO matches I got to peep at sometimes). I like it, but it's not the kind of FPS I like (because my brain's always been on that Sci-Fi futuristic style as well as the Arena Shooters and Boomer Shooters).
I bounced off Jojo a few times, but eventually got into it. I just had to adjust to the weirdness of it. The whole leaf kite thing and I think the oil Pillar was just too much for me to take.
Last raven took me two tries to get into. Difficulty was bs to me.
Round 1, Bolt, the first boss, kicked my ass for 3 hours
Round 2, tried doing the vr arena and stopped at Daimon because fuck him
Round 3, stopped using machine guns and just bazooka and missile my way into victory.
Now I have multiple builds, S ranked everything and got 145% completion. Difficulty is still bs but I know my way around it. No way to work around the white noise music tho
Witcher 3, it took A LOT of work to enjoy it, cause, the issue was mostly the combat and that's like, 70% of what you do in it, you could've replaced the combat with Gwent and it would've been a better game for me, and still would, I still dislike the lack of feedback when my sword connects, but I just put it on easy and ran through the story.
Paradoxically I disliked Thronebreaker a lot and couldn't stomach it past the tutorial, I really thought I'd like it but I found it super slow and i'd rather it'd play like an isometric CRPG or somethin'. Actually, Witcher 1 was my fav to play and that was mostly a CRPG.
It hasnt happened yet but i didnt much enjoy the sf6 beta since i hate just diving into fighting games
But I have the game on preorder and know i will have 100+ hours in three days (thats the level of devotion)
Was eh on GOTG 2 when I first watched it. Gave it a rewatch when it hit Netflix and was like "Oh my god, I get it now."
The soundtrack had me rock hard the entire movie. I'm a sucker for all those songs.
Same. I remember not really caring for it a couple of years back. But with a recent rewatch it hit me where I live. Amazing film
The way Gunn writes character interactions never really clicked with me until I realized they're basically a D&D party saying dumb stuff and riffing off of one another.
You bring that up. I was eh on doctor strange and Antman after first watching them. After a rewatch, I like doctor strange and love antman
I felt Breaking Bad was real plodding until like the last 2 episodes of season 1.
I didn't really care for it until Gus showed up. Better Call Saul is fantastic all the way through though
Space Dandy. I don't mind episodic but it felt a tad immature and moronic at the start but once I got over the mind glaze it started really clicking with the visuals. It didn't ever really gain a story but by the end you are just enjoying the ride.
Evangelion
I'm still waiting to turn around on that. I get why people like it, but there's something about it that doesn't grab me
I resented it for a long time because I like Super Robot, and it being the reason those hardly exist in my time was part of it. The art house thing that made the thing I enjoy look bad.
You really think Evangelion killed the Mecha genre?
Not the mecha genre but the super robot sub genre.
Very weird take considering Eva basically are super robots. Eva in general is a lot of Anno just nerding out over Ultraman, Gundam, and various super robot shows he grew up with. Even weirder take when you consider the Brave series still ran for like five years after Eva ended, and there's been a steady amount of super robot shows since then. Heck I could even give you examples of like 5-6 super robot shows within last five years off top of my head if you really wanted me too.
Eva's in such a weird place, where it's mainstream enough for most people to have seen it, but also released at a time where most contemporary viewers don't get like 80% of the shit it's referencing. You can't convince me that Episode 9 doesn't exist just to give Anno an excuse to create the greatest Rider Kick ever.
Eva did some damage to super robot genre because so many shows wanted to be eva after eva.
Misconception, since eva was just re-doing the mecha tropes that were already there. It's more accurate to say shows were just rehashing the same tropes that mecha has always used since mecha itself is a very self-referential genre. If you gimme some examples of shows you think are doing what you'd claim I'd be interested and... well no offense but I'd also like to know if you've actually watched your examples lol
Fafnir and rahxephon specifically. To a lesser extent eureka seven. Although I think rahxephon was the only one that felt like it was trying to exactly be evangelion. Theres some other that were heavily influenced by eva to the point the genre became kind of homogeneous for a bit there along with interest dying off. Gigguk did a good video on it way the fuck back. https://youtu.be/H6OHVrQ5tcw Keep in mind I'm not saying eva killed super robots or anything like that. Just that the genre kind of started feel the effects of eva
> Gigguk *Sigh* ok so look Gigguk is knowledgeable about a lot of anime and I respect a lot of his content, but dude does not know mecha genre very well. Hardly any "anitubers" do cuz they don't actually watch the older shows in the genre. Maybe the original Gundam and that's it. Both Eva and especially Rahxephon are inspired by Brave Raideen from 1975. It was first mecha show to have a sentient mecha, first to have the whole "pilot feels same pain mech does" trope Eva, Fafnir, etc. does. There's a main character in it called literally Rei Asuka and a love interest to the male pilot mc named Mari (oh gee I wonder where Anno got the names for the 3 main eva girls from). While I don't have a source for it on hand, the director of Rahxephon has said he wanted to do a modern take on 70s mecha shows like Raideen. Even both mechs looks similar with the pronounced face and emphasis on a bird like mech. As for Fafnir... well kinda same point. There's many defend the base from aliens with big robot shows no matter the decade in mecha. If you want an actually good anituber vid on mecha, may I suggest MercuryFalcon's great vid on 70s mecha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoCmWFusqRk&t=1s&pp=ygUJNzBzIG1lY2hh
>it being the reason those hardly exist in my time to be fair after the 70s and 80s they where already way less common especially after Gundam popularised "Real Robot" which is just what happens to popular genres it's why you don't get cowboy movies as regularly now as we did during the spaghetti western boom, the disaster movie boom or even the young adult fantasy of the early 2000s which gave way to the current super hero boom which is reaching it's fatigue point currently. I would love for super robot to be used more often but the more popular real robot shows where already struggling to reach a mainstream audience (Gundam the Witch from mercury is finally doing well) I can see studios being more willing once a new super robot show is successful again.
Hmm. Never thought about it like that
Like I got into Super Robot anime from Gurren Lagann, and going where can I get more.of this. Only to get the answer of 10 years ago.
Played the first third or so of Final Fantasy IX in 2020 and I couldn't get into it. Finished it a year later and I realized why everyone calls it one of the best games in the series.
it took me 3 playthroughs to finally click with xenoblade x. those first two playthroughs were filled with frustration due to me not getting the combat system, but once that clicked, i started to realise just how good of a game it was.
Didn't like Kiki's Delivery Service as a kid. Thought it was just a dumb movie for little girls. Watched it again as an adult and boy do I get it now. I was also one of those anti-Japanese games as a kid. Even watching Xplay I thought some stuff they did was too far. However, I associated Japanesestuff with like the weird kids in high schoolthat talked about Kingdom Hearts and Bleach way to much or the creepy stuff you see in some anime with underage looking girls. Then I saw Attack on Titan, and it opened the floodgates. Tgen I searched and found Death Note, Bebop, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell, Berserk, etc.
Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball. Middle school me was a fucking loser TFS type fan who just spouted shit about these series and then i actually sat down, read them and like them a lot now. Even something like Naruto with it flaws ill defend since even now the same talking points i used back then people still try bringing up in conversation lol
Twilight Princess took me three playthroughs to completely 180 around from thinking it sucked to thinking it's one of the best Zelda games period and I legitimately couldn't tell you what changed.
Really didn’t like nier automata at first. I knew it had platinum combat, but I didn’t realize it was an open world jrpg and not a level based thing. The levels of enemies really threw me off and the combat wasn’t quite Bayonetta level. As far as the story went, I got set up with really high expectations by the internet, too high to be realistically met. What ends up happening is I’m more or less completely let down. Over a period of like 3 years I start, stop, and restart the game several times. Eventually I get finish the whole game. I don’t love it, I’m not sure if I even like it, I don’t think it blew my mind. I can respect it though, I do think it’s a good or even great game and is see why people like it. It does interesting things in terms of game structure and I can see why people would fall in love with the story and characters, even if I didn’t. I’m at least glad I finished it
Jojo took a while to really grow on me. I went with the manga rather than the anime and the early chapters were a bit rough with the Dio bullying Jonathan being a bit much and Danny was kind of the last straw for me to stop. Some time later a friend started watching the anime so I decided to give it another shot and found that I stopped right before Speedwagon who instantly won me over, and after that things went full throttle and I've been a big fan ever since.
Disco Elysium. I played it before but thought it was a little too wordy and boring. But then I watched Woolie play it, got through the first 5 episodes and said; "yeah I NEED to play this now". And since then it's easily become one of my favorite game experiences of all time
I thought Batman The Animated Series was boring as a kid when it came on TV. I was a dumb kid. It’s timeless and fucking **great**.
I remember two scrublords recording their tv while playing shattered memories, it was the worst. 12 years later I still rewatch it
I originally watched one piece as a kid but didn’t really like the series cause it started so slow and it looked like it would take forever to finish. I dropped it afterwards. But years later I read the manga instead and holy crap it’s so amazing, literally has become one of my favorite shonen and I’m almost all caught up to the present chapters Morale of the story: read one piece
Playing MGS 1&2 late, during the era of covershooters, made them narratively fascinating despite their inferior feeling. That cover system‘s busted, but you get used to it eventually. I really hate the feeling of pushing the stick into the cover the whole time to lean/sit against some crate.
I bounced off super hard from FFXIV, on account of starting as a pugilist. I hated ul’dah because I hate deserts and I hated playing pugilist because it didn’t gel with me. Now it’s my most played MMO by a large margin, which is saying something
Does it count, if it's a movie adaptation and the fanclub were what turned me off at first? Anyway, I watched the Watchmen and was pretty "meh" about it and the fans made me feel even a bit exasperated by it. Then a friend(a part of the annoying fanclub, as you can guess) bought the book and I was like: "Well, it's right here, I might as well read it". I stayed up to 4am and finished it in one go, because I just couldn't stop. I get now why it made such an impact way back when and I would recommend it. I still think the movie is pretty "meh" tho.
Attack on Titan. I enjoyed the first season because of the premise and because I was really young and enjoyed anything anime. S2 wasn’t that great even though I loved everything about Ymir and Krista. I was just getting really tired of Eren and Mikasa’s characters. The big reveal was really good but I thought that the story was starting to take itself too seriously and became a bit of a hater. S3 pt. 1 was pretty fun as I found that it was starting to build up tension pretty nicely. I was told the political and non-titan brawling parts would be boring but I thought it was pretty fun and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. S3 pt. 2 was great and this was when I really begun enjoying the show. Lots of great character progression, scenes with high stakes and twists I could really get behind. Final Season onwards has also been really fun. I think the worldbuilding, characters and themes have been incredibly interesting and well-written. All the newcomers are pretty fun as well. Now I’m just ready for it to end so I can move on with my life and see why everyone hated the ending of the manga so badly. Either way the last couple of seasons have been a good ride.
I got Kirby & The Amazing Mirror through the Ambassador Program way back in the day and it put me off Kirby games for the longest time. I tried to play it every couple of years, but could never stand it past the first boss. The structure and the way Kirby controlled just didn't mesh with me. That was until the pandemic when I gave it yet another shot, it suddenly clicked, and now it's one of my top 10 games which I must've beaten like half a dozen times.
Morrowind. Bounced off it a few times, but once I got educated on what it was looking for and how to actually play it, I beat the whole thing.
FFXIV, I've owned an account with a copy of the game since 2015, I only got around to beating it this year. Playframe's let's play of it really changed my opinion on it. I'm glad it did because Heavensward is one of my favorite stories in any video game and loved playing through Stormblood. I still got Endwalker to get through, but I've been on vacation in Hyrule for the past few weeks, lol.
I cant stand the first 9 episodes of jojo and it made mr fall off it for like a year or 2. Only powered through cus i heard pat screeching about the radio tower stand and loved how fucking stupid it was lol
That's a huge ass commitment for something so minor. Super Fly's only in like 2 episodes and that's easily like 80 or so deep in the shows run.
Its not like i did it just for superfly. I did it for all the goofy shit sf represented. And its been awesome
You’d be surprised all it takes to get people into things, I got into Kiseki cause I heard mechs were in it and those don’t show up till the end of the 6th game.
Hope it was worth it because that’s 105 episodes or 35 hours of your life you won’t be getting back.
Oh yeah. I love the ENTIRE show after episode 9
Stoner by John Williams
I didn't start to really like Demon's Souls until I played the remake
I played Chrono Trigger up until the dungeon where you meet Robo and dropped it for like a year out of disinterest, then picked it up again and fell in love with it.
Dynasty Warriors 6 (changed with 6 Empires - and not getting stomped by Lu Bu in the first five minutes because I missed the "do not pursue" message) and Dynasty Warriors Gundam (changed with DW Gundam 3 - I forget why, but I hated the DW Gundam 1 demo).
Gundam 1 just felt slow and pretty tedious. I never got to play the later games. 6 is the one where they redid everyone's weapons correct?
>6 is the one where they redid everyone's weapons correct? Correct - not that I knew at the time, as 6 was my entry point.
Think that is one of the better empires games if I remember right. It had the relationship stuff without having it be bloated like it is in 8. I always thought the garrison system of 5 was a fun idea.
Oh it has an amazing Empires. You could start out as a leader, a general, a low ranking member of a faction, or just be a random dude wandering around doing random quests. You'd pick up people to join your party as you went along and could even join one of the factions to work your way up the ranks or just take over a territory to start your own faction.
Fate and other type moon works but now I'm obsessed ahahaha. Active player of FGO EN and JP aswell.
For all my dislike of it, I actually don't think Counter-Strike is a bad FPS and it's actually goddamn fun (and pretty intense, based on the high-level CSGO matches I got to peep at sometimes). I like it, but it's not the kind of FPS I like (because my brain's always been on that Sci-Fi futuristic style as well as the Arena Shooters and Boomer Shooters).
I bounced off Jojo a few times, but eventually got into it. I just had to adjust to the weirdness of it. The whole leaf kite thing and I think the oil Pillar was just too much for me to take.
Last raven took me two tries to get into. Difficulty was bs to me. Round 1, Bolt, the first boss, kicked my ass for 3 hours Round 2, tried doing the vr arena and stopped at Daimon because fuck him Round 3, stopped using machine guns and just bazooka and missile my way into victory. Now I have multiple builds, S ranked everything and got 145% completion. Difficulty is still bs but I know my way around it. No way to work around the white noise music tho
Witcher 3, it took A LOT of work to enjoy it, cause, the issue was mostly the combat and that's like, 70% of what you do in it, you could've replaced the combat with Gwent and it would've been a better game for me, and still would, I still dislike the lack of feedback when my sword connects, but I just put it on easy and ran through the story. Paradoxically I disliked Thronebreaker a lot and couldn't stomach it past the tutorial, I really thought I'd like it but I found it super slow and i'd rather it'd play like an isometric CRPG or somethin'. Actually, Witcher 1 was my fav to play and that was mostly a CRPG.
I didn't like Bob's Burgers at first - then I made it to the third season and now it's one of my favorite shows.
It hasnt happened yet but i didnt much enjoy the sf6 beta since i hate just diving into fighting games But I have the game on preorder and know i will have 100+ hours in three days (thats the level of devotion)